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Gathering in protest

By Matt.Wettengel iowastatedaily.com Unease and tension filled 302 Catt Hall on Friday, Jan. 27, as a group of about 30 faculty and staff members and a few students gathered for the second in a series of three meetings to discuss budget Whiteford proposals in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The college has given up $13.55 million over the past three years, according to a handout provided at the forum. Despite this year’s record enrollment, Michael Whiteford, dean of LAS, clarified that tuition dollars aren’t something that the college can use when planning its budget. “[Student tuition fees] are one-time dollars,” Whiteford said. “We get our budget cut ... by taking permanent dollars and we’re allowed to do certain things with one-time dollars, it’s a very interesting and strange thing. So we have a number of departments right now that owe us permanent dollars but are sort of awash

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Legislation

Bills would require proof of citizenship

By Tyler.Kingkade iowastatedaily.com Iowa House Republicans say they are aiming to stop fraud with bills drafted, which would require proof of citizenship be provided for voting and applying for financial aid for college.

Rep. Mark Brandenburg, R-Pottawattamie, sponsored House File 113, which would require proof of citizenship or lawful residency in the country to apply for federal financial aid for Iowa colleges.

Anyone who cannot provide proof would not be awarded student financial assistance by the higher education institution.

HF 113 directs community colleges and Regents universities to require proof for students applying for federal financial aid at public colleges. It would prohibit a university from providing scholarships or other aid to someone who cannot provide citizenship proof.

Republican lawmakers met this month with newly-elected Secretary of State Matt Schultz, who was elected championing that he would require an ID to vote. Less than a month into the 2011 session, a voter ID bill has already

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Anwar Muhammad, president of the Egyptian Student Association, spoke of the unrest in Egypt to a crowd of supporters Friday in the Free Speech Zone in front of Parks Library. Photo: Matt Wettengel/Iowa State Daily

Association speaks out against police brutalities in Egypt

By Katherine.Marcheski iowastatedaily.com A peaceful protest was held Friday, Jan. 28 in the free speech zone in front of Parks library to raise awareness of the political unrest that took place in Egypt this week.

The demonstration attracted a crowd of at least 50 people at any given time and encouraged outsiders’ participation.

Members of the Egyptian Student Association and local community supporters gathered in efforts to protest the brutalities and misconducts that were committed against the people of Egypt.

It was an act promoting peace and solidarity for the protesters in Egypt who were harmed by authorities for their demonstrations against the government. Citizens were shot at, tear gassed, beaten,

Watch it: Check out a video of the protest with this story online at iowastatedaily.com arrested and some even killed as a result of their activism.

Internet and phone services were disconnected in Egypt on Thursday, Jan. 27 and remain inaccessible, causing an uproar with civilians who are unable to make contact with friends and family.

Omar Manci, an Ames resident and Iowa State graduate, was one of the main speakers at the event. “[The authorities] put a lockdown on information coming in and out of Egypt”, Manci said.

“This was an effort [by the government] to stop people from organizing and coming out and protesting.”

Friday’s demonstration was to express the deep concern for the fate of Egypt and to bring awareness to Americans during this critical time. Americans have rights that Egyptians have been deprived of for years, Manci said. President Mubarak has been in power for

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over 30 years and the people want change.

“It is not about economics or power, it is about the human and political freedoms that are being deprived”, Manci said.

Citizens of Egypt have been struggling through unemployment, illiteracy and corruption with little positive support

from outside forces, said Anwar Mohamed, president of the Egyptian Student Association and graduate student in political science. Americans are fueling these tragedies through their taxes.

“Eighty million people live in

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Horticulture

EARTH program provides service opportunities

By Karen.Jennings iowastatedaily.com Students gathered at Frederiksen Court Community Center on Sunday to learn some new ways to spice up their Super Bowl parties.

A cooking class, offered by ISU Dining, took one of the program’s chefs and allowed 14 students to learn some new recipes. This was the second class offered this school year, but Nick DeGroote, chair of the cooking class, said they will be holding more classes on a monthly basis.

“Every semester the council meets to think of events for the semester, and someone said why not a cooking class,” said DeGroote, junior in biology and pre-medicine. “We contacted [ISU] Dining and they said they love doing it, so it was pretty easy on our part.”

The class featured many recipes, including main dishes, sides and appetizers.

“They came up with the concept for it,” said Jeremy Bowker, ISU Dining chef who taught the cooking class. “They looked for a Super Bowl theme, so I formulated the menu based on what I like to eat.”

As the instructor of the course, Bowker

People gather in the Free Speech Zone to support the protest held by the Egyptian Student Association on Friday. The demonstration attracted a crowd of at least 50 people. Photo: Matt Wettengel/Iowa State Daily

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A year-old horticulture program, EARTH, provides students with service opportunities. A group of ISU students spend a semester educating K-12 students about food production in the Virgin Islands. Courtesy Photo: Mike Reinert

Education and Resiliency Through Horticulture, otherwise known as EARTH, is a year-old program funded by a donor to the College of Agriculture.

The program takes a handful of ISU students each semester down to the Virgin Islands, St. John, to educate food production to the students of Gifft Hill, a K-12 school.

“There is a donor to the College of Agriculture who has been donating to Iowa State for years,” said Michael Reinert, assistant professor of horticulture. “He donates for other programs and lives down in this little school on St. John as well and wanted to find a way to put together these two programs, Iowa State and [Gifft Hill].

Through discussions through the Iowa State foundation, [they] came up with some initial ideas of how to potentially do that.

“This donor also wanted to build a sports field for the school, so he contacted ISU for help, which resulted with one of my colleagues designing the field. The school was so happy with the field, and the cooperation that the idea of trying to put the two schools together, led to the idea that we could bring Iowa State and Gifft together through horticulture,” he said.

St. John is an island with no flatland; its soils, which primarily consist of soft bedrock, can’t sustain the crops grown here in Iowa.

“The origins of the island are volcanic,” said Kevin Duerfeldt, graduate

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Police Blotter: Jan. 24 Aaron Schroder, 19, 2229 Friley Hall, was arrested and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. He was subsequently released on citation. (reported at 8:31 p.m.)

Francisco Sanchez, 19, 4534 Friley Hall, was arrested and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. He was subsequently released on citation. (reported at 8:31 p.m.)

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William Frantzen, 18, 3500 N. Grand Ave. unit 42, was arrested and charged with violation of drug tax stamp act, drug paraphernalia and manufacture of marijuana. (reported at 12:10 a.m.)

Hayli Bozarth, 1014 Oak Hall, reported the theft of change from a vehicle. (reported at 8:16 a.m.)

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Karinda O’Connor, 24, of Huxley, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated. She was transported to the Story County Justice Center. (reported at 1:05 a.m.)

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Brian Baumgardner, 51, of Madrid, was arrested and charged with driving while license denied. (reported at 5:23 a.m.)

Tia Hobbs, 25, 5616 W. Lincoln Way unit 26, was arrested and charged with criminal trespass. (reported at 8:42 p.m.)

OfďŹ cers initiated a drug-related investigation. (reported at 9:06 p.m.)

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Jan. 27 Amanda Kerper, 23, 4008 Phoenix St., was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated. (reported at 2:22 a.m.)

Chenbo Zhu, 22, 3021 Regency Court, was arrested and charged with probation violation. (reported at 4 p.m.)

Jan. 28 Beau Pickering, 20, 141 Campus Ave., unit 7, was cited for underage possession of alcohol (second offense). (reported at 12:16 a.m.)

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Eric Kruse, 19, 4816 Helser Hall, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 11:43 p.m.)

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College of Business

Undergraduate class sizes increase due to budget cuts

By Ben.Theobald iowastatedaily.com Enrollment has increased at Iowa State affecting the number of students in undergrad classes.

“Our average class sizes at the undergrad level are higher than anywhere else in the university,” said Danny Johnson, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs for College of Business. “They were at 69 students per class on average across all the undergraduate classes.”

“The biggest complaint we’ve had over the years is the size of those large class sizes, and part of that large class size was driven by the size of what we call our core business classes,” Johnson said.

Core classes are the courses every student in the College of Business must take in order to graduate such as marketing, accounting and finance.

“Those average class sizes until fall 2010 were running anywhere approximately from 210 to about 280 students per class,” Johnson said.

The cause for the increase in class size has been attributed to budget cuts.

“The budget reductions of the last several years have meant that people are looking at the education needs of students,” said Dave Holger, associate provost for academic programs and dean of the graduate college.

The budget is causing the administration to look at how to effectively provide the same quality of education with a higher number of students.

“One way we can do that is by increasing class size modestly where that is possible,” Holger said. “Another trend is we’re trying to teach those growing number of students with lecturers rather than permanent faculty.”

Lecturers are the first things cut when there are fairly major budget cuts.

“The only discretionary funds that we have where we can make a cut are unfortunately in the lecturers,” said Michael Crum, associate dean of graduate programs for the College of Business. “Because when you have your tenure and tenure-eligible faculty, those positions are being funded, and we have to pay utilities.”

Crum said, “If a college sees an increase in enrollment and they see that increase is going to persist, they will spend the money on a permanent position. It’s when you don’t know if the enrollment is going to persist.”

The reason for the budget cuts is based upon the lack of financial support from the state.

“The long term trend is pretty clear, and that is the state government is telling the region schools that they are not going to get any substantial increases of support from the state, and that we have to find ways to do more on our known,” Crum said.

There was a differential tuition policy proposed to students from the faculty which would be earmarked for three things.

“First would be to hire additional faculty to reduce the size of those core business sizes down to somewhere in the 75 to 80 student range,” Johnson said. “The second is that a portion of the money would go to fund a permanent communication center in the college of business. Third is a portion of that by a policy of Iowa State would go to fund financial aid for students.”

The differential tuition was put into effect in the semesters of fall 2009 and spring 2010.

“It was a three-year phase in plan where the students would pay an additional $250 a semester,” Johnson said. “In fall 2010 and spring 2011, it would increase to $500 dollars a semester and next year it would be $750 extra a semester.”

Johnson said, “That differential tuition would increase at the same rate as the overall tuition increase.”

Students were very supportive of the differential tuition because it decreased the core class size, Crum said.

Only students who are juniors or seniors can apply for differential tuition.

An increase in class size affects the learning environment for both faculty and students.

The size of those classes made it difficult to do writing assignments, give homework assignments and make grading overwhelming.

Students feel like they’re just a number with those large class sizes, Johnson said.

“By dropping those class sizes down you can get better discussions and interactions with the students,” Johnson said. “There are a lot of things we can do if we can get those class sizes down. All of that was part of the goal of using that portion of differential tuition to hire faculty.”

Another reason for these large classes other than enrollment is that elective classes are diminishing.

Elective courses that are not required for graduation and have lower enrollment just go away. If you’re not teaching as many of those classes then that automatically raises the average, Holger said.

Many students in the College of Business are feeling the effect of the increase in class size.

“I had Economics 101 in Curtiss Hall last semester,” said Yuan Yuan Ying, freshman in pre-business. “It was really a huge classroom.

I prefer small lectures because we are able to ask questions and the professor can be more specific.”

Wilson Ang, sophomore in supply chain management, is taking 200-level courses where there is a range of 30–40 students in a class.

“The higher up the level, the smaller the class,” Ang said. “I prefer small classes.”

with one time dollars due to a series of things, so the question is really an issue of what can we afford to do.”

Discussion covered a number of concerns from faculty and students, involving the suggestions published in the Blue Sky Task Force.

One concern addressed was why the focus has been placed on social science and humanities departments with the college.

“The cuts that have gone to the social science and humanities departments are actually statistically almost in all cases less then the cuts that have gone into the science departments, [which have] taken equally large cuts,” said David Oliver, associate dean of LAS. The fact that there are more small departments in the social sciences means that the loss of faculty lines has a more profound effect on those departments before they impact some of the larger departments, like biological sciences and physics, Oliver said.

This fact brought social sciences to the forefront and brought about questions of whether there is some sort of structural organization that can help the faculty within the social sciences.

“The rest of them are in the next round of looking into reorganization once this is worked out to see how there will be potentially look at different organizations in the physical sciences and mathematical sciences,” Oliver said.

“So this is not a matter of being singled out for any reason, it’s just that the problem has become more acute in social sciences and humanities faster than [in other departments.]”

Faculty voiced many concerns about suggestions to consolidate departments, create synergies between departments, cut graduate student programs and reduce the amount of faculty employed by the college.

“It seems to me that there are disjoint issues,” said Harvey Lapan, university professor of economics. “One is how to handle the budget cuts: They’re coming. And the second is how to organize departments to maximize something. And I take it it’s a granted premise now that the reorganization by itself isn’t

going to save money. But in order to know how to reorganize departments, you have to know what’s going to be cut and at the end of the day that’s the job of the administration.”

Lapan called on the administration to make these budgetary decisions in order for the departments of the college to make their cuts appropriately. He also brought attention to the fact that some departments like economics have their best synergies with other colleges, rather than within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Whiteford noted that two priorities that the college has include highly-ranked departments that the university, the college and its external constituents expect to remain strong and student destinations — or what they will end up majoring in.

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences teaches about 60 percent of all student credit hours at the university, with courses that are required for majors from other colleges.

“We have to be responsible and responsive to student demand, not only within the college, but from [other colleges that want certain courses],” Whiteford said.

Arne Hallam, associate dean for budget and personnel for LAS, suggested everyone review the college’s strategic plan to look at where cuts will come.

“Say all these budget cuts happen, graduate programs go away, people are teaching more classes than [in] the past, is the best way to have happy, productive faculty simply having the current departments we have, current structures we have ... and that’s why we’re asking for input,” Hallam said.

Ian Ringgenberg, graduate student in interdisciplinary graduate studies, offered the suggestion to centralize student advising services, especially with interdisciplinary studies being a strong possibility in the future. This suggestion received some flack later on for targeting the most vulnerable employees and only potentially saving a small amount of money.

Anastasia Bodnar, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate and graduate student in agronomy, questioned whether cutting graduate student pro-

grams would result in faculty loss in the college.

“I just about guarantee there will be faculty loss,” said Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, chair of the history department.

“Having graduate students to work with you is a great luxury, but it also means that you can teach 300 student classes and maintain some sort of integrity in what the students take.”

Removing graduate students would eliminate any kind of student writing and would cause hardship for students as well as the relocation of faculty members, RineyKehrberg said.

Whiteford noted that graduate student lines are one place where cuts can be made with relatively little advanced warning.

Discussion participants also noted discrepancies between the strategic plan of the university and the college.

The one-time dollars, generated from student tuition among other things, are flowing to where the demand is within the college, Whiteford said, allowing departments to hire lecturers and add new sections of popular courses.

Record enrollments have made this possible, but if enrollment declines the changes that are possible now won’t be in the future.

Whiteford stressed the point that tuition increases, which are speculated to be anywhere between 0.9 and 7 percent for next year, shouldn’t have to make up for these potential budget deficiencies.

Bodnar raised concerns about whether the impact that restructuring would have on undergraduate and graduate students are being considered while these conversations are taking place.

“If an undergraduate or a graduate student has a degree that says interdisciplinary social sciences, does that even mean anything?” Bodnar asked. This concern was the addressed by faculty, who stated that faculty organization and departmental structures is not synonymous with program organization. “I guess ... I just hope that hirability is a factor that is being considered when we’re looking at merging things,” Bodnar said.

The final open forum discussion will take place from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in 302 Catt Hall.

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But Democrats have largely rejected it, predicting the Democratically-controlled Senate would not take up the bill.

“Voter ID legislation not only makes voting less accessible, especially among low income and minority populations, it’s an irresponsible economic decision,” Iowa Democratic Party Chairwoman Sue Dvorsky said upon the legislation passing the House. “Similar legislation has cost other states between five and six million dollars to implement.”

However, a cost-estimate has been produced for the proposed law in Iowa.

The Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement and the League of Women Voters have declared opposition to both bills, while the Iowa Minuteman Civil Defense Corps supports both.

The AARP Iowa also rejected the voter ID legislation via lobbyist declaration.

Democrats claimed the legislation would create barriers to voting for minorities, those with low-income, older and disabled voters. Schulte has said the voter ID bill is needed to stop fraud, which she claims no one will prosecute.

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Jeremy Bowker, sous chef at Seasons Marketplace, teaches a cooking class to a group of students from Frederiksen Court on Sunday, Jan. 30 at Hawthorn Community Center. Photo: Kelsey Kremer/ Iowa State Daily

>>COOKING.p1A cooked and prepared the food and shared his knowledge with the participants.

“The more we do for them, the more students will get involved,” Bowker said.

“Anything we can do as a food service to help students better, we do what we can.”

The event turned out pretty well for Bowker, and he has no problem returning.

“I would absolutely do it again, it’s something I love to do and it’s exciting to give experience to the students,” Bowker said.

DeGroote was satisfied with Bowker’s demonstration, and he also learned something new.

>>EARTH.p1A in horticulture, “So it’s volcanic material and uplift from the ocean floor, and then after it rose up out of the ocean, the rocks started decomposing and soils started to form.

Since the island is so young, there’s just a thin layer of what we would call bedrock, soft bedrock.”

“There’s about eight inches of top soil; it’s very old, decomposed clays and there’s not very much organic matter in the soil, and after that eight inches, it’s solid bedrock all the way down,” said Winston Beck, senior and one of the first students to participate in EARTH. Reinert and a handful of students flew over St. John to do an expedition of what needed to be done. The group outlined a program for EARTH that exists today.

Because everything is imported to the island, including food, Reinert’s goal for the program is to teach the students about food production and the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables.

“Taking students who were uninformed about their general surroundings and giving them a better understanding of

“Jeremy did a good job on showing us step by step,” DeGroote said. “He showed us how to cut an onion in a way none of us knew. [The items] were all easy to make.”

A student participant, Jessica Tekippe, senior in elementary education really enjoyed herself and thought the food was delicious.

“My favorite meal on the menu was the honey/orange and chipotle pepper-marinaded pork tenderloin tacos,” she said.”These may sound odd, but when it was combined with the queso fresco cheese and cilantro/lime onions, it was delicious.”

In between experiencing new recipes that were brought out, Tekippe thought the expe-

rience was well worth it.

“I felt that the chef was rather helpful because he told us different techniques that we could use,” Tekippe said.”He was also funny and tried to keep the mood light and conversational.

“I thought that the overall experience was very fun,” Tekippe said. “It was similar to what I could have anticipated, however the recipes were different than what I would have expected, with the theme being Super Bowl Appetizers,it was neat to be able to see different things that you could make that tasted delicious.”

For more information on the next cooking class, speak with the Frederiksen Court Council.

what’s happening and focusing on biological science in that capacity is the educational aspect,” Beck said. “It’s also the education of growing the fruits and vegetables, what’s required for the growth, plant biology, soil nutrient quality, all these different environmental qualities come behind the science of it.”

For ISU students, Reinert stresses a service learning opportunity, which can provide up to 12 credit hours for students who participate. “[ISU students are] providing a service, which is building projects and constructing, growing places for plants, but also learning in that, [ISU students] have the opportunity to learn a new culture and see food growing in a different setting and teaching classrooms and learn from that,” Reinert said.

Students will earn one credit for each week of the trip, which typically lasts 12 weeks.

Currently the credits are horticulture/elective credits, but Reinert encourages more students from different departments and colleges to apply.

“We can work with their department or college to see if some those credits can come through their college,” Reinert

said.

EARTH has already made significant progress with the island including completely renovating the school’s barren porch to a garden filled with growing produce and creating a synthetic turf soccer field for the students to play.

“Watching the produce growing excites the students, it encourages students to eat the produce,” Reinert said.

“We have teachers telling us some of the students get to school early now to run out on the porch just to check out the plants and document which ones need water, which ones have an insect problem. They put sticky notes on our office before we even get in, in the morning to tell us what needs to be done,” he said.

Another objective EARTH hopes to accomplish is to bring prospective students from the Virgin Islands to Iowa State.

“It’s a way to introduce their students to Iowa State,” Reinert said. “One of the things that our students do there because they’re ag students typically is they know how to physically work very hard, and so their students see these college students not only working with their brains, but working physically.”

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The Egyptian Student Association at Iowa State, along with other community members protested to convey a message of solidarity to the oppressed demonstrators in Egypt on Friday. Protestors stressed the importance of the situation in Egypt to the local community and the United States.

Photo: Matt Wettengel/Iowa State Daily

>>PROTEST.p1A Egypt, and $1.3 billion is sent from America each year to fuel them with weapons against their own people,” Mohamed said.

Americans need to be more aware of what is happening in Egypt and how to stop the oppression, Mohamed said.

“They will see something in the people of Iowa State, we are complaining of ignorance,” Manci said. “We need to ask them to side with freedom and democracy.”

A major fear with the Middle East and Egypt, more specifically, is that it will fall apart if the U.S. leaves physically and monetarily.

“Egypt has been a country for 7,000 years.

We built the pyramids,” said Eyman Fayed, another speaker at the protest. “The country is not going to fall apart. It is not just going to slide.”

The protesters in Egypt and abroad are driven by freedom, Mohamed said, not by politics or economy. It is the people’s job to convey a message of support and solidarity.

“That’s a really good message that the school’s really happy that we send that we are intellectuals, but we work,” he said. The program hopes to initiate a composting program to help create fertile soils towards food production for the following semesters.

“One of the main things that we’re looking at to build their soils is composting; there’s not a lot of composting on the island right now, but there’s a lot of material that

Nathan Kaloupek, sophomore in linguistics, came out to the rally in support of his teacher, Mohamed.

“I love the fact that this is going on here,” Kaloupek said. “We need to support what’s happening and like Anwar said, the whole Middle East could change. The students need to know, and more Americans need to see this and take part in the mission. Egypt is in the crossroads; geographically, economically and politically.”

“The protests that have been taking place are apart of years of corruption. Everyone is mad,” Mohamed said.

“I hope that people [in Egypt] will see we are supporting them and want to convey our voices in Iowa, and to Congress, to the White House and say what is happening is wrong.

American foreign policy is turning a blind eye to Egypt.”

The group hopes that their demonstration spread their message across campus and the state.

could be used for composting, and currently it’s shipped to one of the other Virgin Islands where it is thrown into a landfill without being compressed or anything,” Duerfeldt said.

With a new semester ahead for the program, Reinert said, “It’s not just about growing food, it’s the history of growing food. It’s artwork related to food, it’s the science, mathematics behind it.”

“We are conducting research about the program

to try to aide in developing other programs like this. For the undergraduates, it’s about the experience, but we have graduate students involved and faculty involved, where it’s about teaching but also about our own research and documenting what’s happening so that other researchers can learn and other programs can learn to try and duplicate or at least pull in parts of the pieces that we did somewhere else,” Reinert said.

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Suggestion of change is significant You’d be forgiven if your only perception of Egypt revolves around its storied archaeology.

Our posh, first-rate public education is wrought with tales of pharaohs, curses and the mystery surrounding the specifics of pyramid construction.

Everyone from the Bengals to Kanye West have used Egypt as subject matter, although we still fervidly believe Mr. Michael Bay has a lot of apologizing to do for copping such iconographic locales for the last three-hour GM commercial he directed.

What’s ridiculous, Daily faithful, is just how oblivious we are to the importance of Egypt as a key component in the puzzle of the Middle East peace process.

Until 1979, Egypt and Israel were officially at war with one another.

The peace agreement brokered made major headway in the Arab world: Egypt was the first Arab country to recognize the sovereignty of Israel.

Repercussions for Egypt included outright condemnation of the proposal from Palestine, a 10-year suspension from the Arab League, and a presidential assassination within the first two years of the agreement.

It also garnered quite a bit of political favor to Egypt from the United States, including economic and military aid, along with support for subsequent governments.

This history lesson comes to you to provide some semblance of context in regard to the Egyptian protests against their seated government. Tensions have been increasing steadily for the better part of a week, with 5,000 protestors taking up residence in Cairo’s Tahrir Square since Friday afternoon to voice dissent with the government of President Hosni Mubarak.

Political turmoil in Egypt has implications throughout the Muslim and international communities.

F-16 aircraft, a gift from the United States, have been flying over the streets of Egypt’s capital in a display of force opposition groups contend is designed to stifle further public outcry. While it’s not clear whether a regime change is in the cards for the Egyptians, what has become abundantly clear is the significance of the suggestion.

Former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made rounds among the major talk shows, suggesting the U.S. is particularly concerned with an ideologically-charged coup taking precedence over the more pragmatic, democracy-establishing tilt of the current backlash. As she told NBC’s Meet the Press, “I want the Egyptian people to have the chance to chart a new future ... It needs to be an orderly, peaceful transition to real democracy — not faux democracy like the elections we saw in Iran two years ago.”

Naturally, such sentiments aren’t sitting well with an Egyptian public whose cries for reform are being drowned out with United States military hardware.

The best we have right now, folks, is that we hope the good guys win, whoever they are.

Cross your fingers.

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President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Columnist Blue felt the address was largely borrowed and uninteresting. Photo: Pete Souza/The White House

State of the Union bores

By Brandon.Blue iowastatedaily.com

Obama’s address proves to be just as typical as ever

F

rom the time I saw my first Wonderbread truck I’ve felt that plowing into the back of one going 70 mph would be the gentlest car crash ever. But even that wouldn’t be nearly as soft as Obama’s remarks Tuesday in his State of the Union address.

Yet somehow the three major networks managed to conjure up the ghost of Ronald Reagan, one of the hardest-hitting presidents of recent memory, simultaneously comparing the Gipper to the Messiah in all three strains of post-speech coverage.

Did I watch the same State of the Union? Obama and Reagan, in the same sentence? “We do big things” is now just as powerful as “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall?” That’s like saying Glenn Beck is this generation’s Edward R. Murrow. Sure, both have legs and are on TV, but that’s pretty much where the similarities end.

Even so, presidential historian and 9/11 Commission chairman Alvin Felzenberg might’ve agreed with the comparison; both bor-

rowed from other sources on occasion. But where Reagan would quote a movie line here and there, Obama’s “borrowing” is more akin to reading the entire script through his teleprompter.

That’s right, Felzenberg said our first post-racial president is not a post-plagiarism president.

He claims that Obama crammed words from Wilson, Cuomo, Thatcher, Eisenhower, JFK and FDR into an hourlong speech.

And it was still dry as sandy toast.

Well, I took it upon myself to watch the whole speech as sporadically and disinterestedly as most Americans, and I feel that I got a pretty objective grasp of what it all was.

Perhaps the most profound point I gleaned from the entire thing was that Boehner got shorter as the night wore on. He ended up somewhere in height between hobbit and OompaLoompa, though I’m not sure what effect this will have on his tenure as Speaker of the House. Was I watching a metaphor play out before me? Are the Republicans going to shrink away?

When the GOP say they’re going to work with the Democrats on something, I immediately

think of Charlie Brown trying to kick a football. Anybody using eyeballs could see that the Democrats knew if they could spread the Republicans out over the floor, it would seem like the whole legislature was cheering Obama on when they stood to clap while simultaneously masking Republican gains. You’d have to be one of those guys from the “Home Alone” movie to wander into such an obvious trap.

But, as lemmings rush to hurl themselves from windswept cliffs, the freshly minted Republicans in the House and Senate clambered over one another to sit beside Democrats that they’d viciously battled only months before. I voted for these guys. Time makes fools of us all, no?

Eric Ostermeier of Smart Politics has a fascinating point about Obama’s State of the Union — it was only written at an 8th grade level. So was the last one, according to the Flesch-Kincaid test, designed to measure readability of written work. In context, last week’s address is the second-lowest since Bush’s in 1992.

Compare that to Conrad Black’s evisceration of Obama on the National Review Online.

Calling the speech a “groaning farrago of clichés and unlikely undertakings,” Black scored a 152 grade on the Flesch-Kincaid test for knowing what “farrago” means.

To be fair to the president, I like to think that I myself write above an 8th grade level, though some copy editors at the Daily might disagree. I’m also a broadcast student and we only put one idea in each sentence, so I probably write closer to the grade level children are at just after they learn to walk.

I get that short sentences result in a lower reading level.

“We do big things” is not exactly the title of a doctoral thesis. But really? On the Flesch-Kincaid scale it pits Dubya against Obama in oratory and Bush wins? No offense to the former president, but how many grade levels does the Flesch-Kincaid test set you back if you make up a word?

Of all the post-address chatter, I felt that the only responses free of talking points were those of Biden and Boehner, whose respective fidgeting and yawning during the speech itself seemed to say it all.

Why am I sitting through this?

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Why the Super Bowl is super

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t’s once a year. It’s an excuse to sit around most of the day with your friends, gorging on whatever beer and grill food was on sale at Hy-Vee. There are the celebrities, the next batch of the year’s funniest commercials ... oh yeah, and there’s the two ‘best’ teams of the year playing for the championship in America’s favorite spectator sport.

This year’s Super Bowl features an awesome matchup of ‘old school’ teams: the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Rothlesburger and company owe Mark ‘Dirty’ Sanchez and the New York Jets taking the first half off versus the Steel for their shot at the title. Meanwhile, the Packers beat the Bears on their home field, which is barely playable in the winter months, putting it nicely.

The Pack basically dominated the whole game, even with a twoscore last gasp from the Bears that still left them a deficit seven points. If you didn’t catch the NFL Playoffs this year, you missed out on a great postseason that leaves us with one final, awesome

matchup between two very talented teams led by two extremely talented quarterbacks.

The Packers and Steelers have a combined nine Super Bowl titles, making this a matchup between arguably the two best franchises in the NFL, although Dallas and San Francisco each have two Super Bowls on the Pack.

The Packers are good because of their passing game and a stout defensive front.

The Pittsburgh defense is just as good, with safety Troy Polamalu and his forty-three inch vertical jump leading the way. Polamalu has been playing injured during the postseason, but you’d be hardpressed to tell any difference.

Honestly, I don’t know how any professional football player makes it through a season without two or three nagging injuries. Not that I feel bad — a team physician and multimillion dollar contract is a pretty swanky deal.

Both teams play 3-4 defenses — three defensive linemen and four linebackers. Ironically, Green Bay’s defensive coordinator was formerly employed by Pittsburgh,

with formerly in this case meaning over 15 years ago. Pittsburgh also has a sex offender at QB, hence the nickname.

Ben Roethlisberger deserves every bit of crap people give him.

He’s had brilliant moments on the field, but I’ll leave it up to you and a few Google searches to form an opinion about his off-the-clock pastimes I think the only important thing I left out is that you’ll notice two distinctly long-haired men, but these aren’t glam rock pretty boys.

The Packers have Linebacker Clay Matthews, whose hobbies include eating rocks when he’s not burying quarterbacks.

The Steelers’ long-haired wonder is the aforementioned Troy Polamalu, who you’ll recognize from Head & Shoulders endorsements.

I can forgive watching the Super Bowl for the commercials — Football isn’t everyone’s thing, even if it should be.

Commercials range from ‘suck’ to ‘awesome’ depending on the year. I don’t mind it, but when

you have little kids barraged with scantily-clad women every commercial break, it’s awkward.

Food is probably the best part of the Super Bowl — and having another excuse to drink.

I recommend nachos, pigs in a blanket, those cocktail sausages with some Cookies’ BBQ sauce and a good bowl of chili. If nothing else, having good food to soak up the alcohol is a great way to avoid the next day’s hangover.

Lastly, I’ve made no secret of my aversion to NFL Commentators. Hit the mute button, they don’t really say anything interesting anyway. When it comes down to it, this is still a four-quarter football game.

To be honest, it’s overhyped — there’s a lot of yearly glitz and glam as of late trying to elevate the significance of this one football game second only to the apocalypse.

Everything else about the day?

Awesome. You owe it to yourself and those around you to kick back and enjoy the show. After next Sunday, it’s another eight months until football season.

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Sex

Losing your virginity is a fact of life

By Abby.Barefoot iowastatedaily.com

Unhealthy obsession based on judgments of an old society

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o you regret giving away your “special gift� of virginity to that boy who refused to call you back again? Do you wish you could go through the pain of your hymen tearing again for your wedding night? Well for $6,000 you can!

There is a new procedure in which the fragments of the broken hymen are made raw again using a laser, which cuts and cauterizes simultaneously. Then the fragments are pulled together and stitched, leaving only the small vaginal opening associated with virginity.

Women are going through this painful surgery, paying thousands of dollars only to have more pain and be deowered in a matter of minutes.

Seems like a waste of money and a bad idea to me.

While this is a relatively new procedure, some of the known side effects of having plastic surgery on your vagina can involve trouble reaching an orgasm and painful scarring or nerve damage that could result in loss of sensation or hypersensitivity, according to Vaginismus Awareness Network.

Considering sex is all about pleasure (or babies, depending who you ask), it would suck to not enjoy sex, especially if you went through the pain to be a virgin again.

But this surgery makes me wonder, what is virginity and why is it a big deal to lose it?

Sure there is the obvious answer of virginity is never having sex, but

let’s break it down.

Since when is virginity just about hymens? What happened to genital contact equals sex? Is it not sex if a guy doesn’t break it? What about the emotions and mentality of sex?

You can’t just forget you had sex just because you’re stitched up, you will always know.

What about the fact that hymens can break from bike riding, tampon use or exercising? Are we not virgins if we use tampons and it breaks?

In one survey only 43 percent of women reported bleeding the ďŹ rst time they had sex; which means that in the other 57 percent of women the hymen stretched enough that it didn’t tear.

So roughly half the people who were “virgins� didn’t meet the breaking the hymen requirement, so were they really virgins to begin with?

Then we have the issue of oral and anal sex, and if it counts as losing your virginity.

It seems that people everywhere seem to disagree on if you are a virgin if you go down on someone. The meaning of virginity varies from person to person.

Some argue if you can get as STI from it, then it is sex, others say penetration is sex, everything else is just foreplay. But if sex is penetration of a vagina, where does that leave lesbians and homosexuals?

Why are we so obsessed with virginity, and why is there such an urge to undo what has already been done?

I think the answer lies in how we treat virginity and the act of losing it.

While I agree completely that having sex for the ďŹ rst time shouldn’t be a decision to take lightly, I think it is taken to an extreme to the point

where you are a bad person if you do the deed outside of marriage. If you have sex, you are considered dirty, loose and have low morals. This may seem outdated, but it still rings true today.

Take the language for example.

Virginity is a “precious giftâ€? and we use words like “deoweringâ€? or “popping the cherryâ€? to refer to having sex for the ďŹ rst time.

I like to believe I am more than the status of my v-card, and I have more precious gifts than what is in between my legs.

If the most important thing I can give a man is my virginity and he cares that much about my sexual past because I could be “damaged goods,� I don’t want him.

Terms like deowering make it seem like we are losing something, becoming broken and will never be complete again, even though sex is a natural part of life. I am not damaged if I had sex, and I refuse to believe people magically change the ďŹ rst time they have sex.

On the other side, if you don’t have sex you are “pure� regardless of how much of a jerk you might be in other parts of your character. Of course if you do have sex with your partner after marriage, this “pure� idea vanishes. Even today people seem to take you as a good girl if you are virgin and a bad girl if you have sex.

Then there is how we teach about sex in school. Take these common use analogies used in sex class.

You have a classmate stick a piece of tape on their skin and rip it off and show the class the tape ďŹ lled with hairs and skin particles.

The teacher says that is what you are like after sex. You are a dirty, un-

sticky piece of tape and can never go back to being the clean piece of tape.

Then there is the lollipop example given in the wonderful book the “Purity Myth.� You unwrap a sucker and suck on it until it is gone, you then see the slimy, gross stick and say this: if you lose your virginity this is what is left. You are now empty.

Chewed up Cheetos, a half-eaten sucker and a piece of used tape, all these images show that sex is a dirty, unclean thing to scare teens away from sex, as well as reinforce that who you are is based on your sex life.

Of course this goes into the abstinence movement, the most popular form of sexual education; with funding increased from $73 million a year in 2001 to $204 million in 2008. Even though we know it has been proven that it is less successful than safe-sex education. But that is an article for another time.

We are taught to abstain until marriage, because of the risks and the religious view that it is wrong. Yet after marriage all the bad things we learned about sex being dirty are supposed to magically disappear and you will become a sex goddess on your wedding night.

Now I understand that there is a health standpoint too when it comes to sex being dirty.

If you have sex there is a possibility that you could get pregnant or an STI, but we have advanced in our civilization where we have condoms that are 97 percent effective.

I think there is a low risk of being dirty with an STI as long as you’re careful. Sex can be safe and clean.

And this virginity ideal is stretched to other aspects of life.

Why is it that when a rape victim is

cross-examined in trial, her past sex life is brought into play? If she is a virgin the rape is a horrible crime, if she isn’t then she was asking for it, or that is the angle used.

Also coming into play is HPV vaccinations and giving out condoms at schools, which some people wrongly think will make teens more sexually active.

Rather than give teens the tools to be safe where they might not get them anywhere else, some schools would rather believe if they push purity down student’s throats, they won’t have sex.

It keeps women from owning their bodies and embracing sexuality, because the world around them is telling them no.

Sex is bad, while at the same time, throwing hyper-sexualized images from the media of scantily-clad models and Playboy bunnies and being told that is what guys want.

Is it no wonder that these women are trying to get there hymens stitched up?

With all the cultural and religious resentment toward sex, women can feel pressured by society to ďŹ t the virgin role, even if they thought their decision was the right one.

What we need is a more open attitude about sex, and less of a focus on virginity.

If losing your virginity was a bad move in your mind, why not just make the statement that you are a born-again virgin, and leave it at that.

No need to get all technical about it.

Losing your virginity doesn’t make you a man or a woman, it’s a part of life. Should we really be judgmental of people trying on the pants before they buy them?

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‘Consider that we have all been deceived’ In response to your article, “Abortion on TV,� consider that perhaps we have all been deceived into thinking abortion is a viable option; that abortion is “the right choice.� “A 34-year-old California man, Aaron Ashley was convicted of two counts of murder in the killings of his pregnant girlfriend and her unborn child. Ashley ... wanted his partner to have an abortion.�

We live in a world that says it is OK to murder an unborn child as long as it is your own to kill.

We live in a society that tells us this is the “right choice�.

Aaron Ashley chose to murder his girlfriend and unborn child. Was that the right choice?

Few people would question the malevolence of his actions, and yet, for the last 38 years the lives of millions have been taken because of lies. We have been deceived.

Planned Parenthood’s website states, “Only you can decide what is best for you.

But we are here to help. A staff member at your local Planned Parenthood health center can discuss abortion and all of your options with you and help you ďŹ nd the services you need.â€?

Joshua Hunstiger, senior in aerospace engineering

Do they really discuss all the options; do they really discuss the truth about abortion?

In an article by Amy R. Sobie titled, “The Risks of Choice,� Sobie discusses the physical and emotional problems associated with having an abortion. Physical complications include: “...Uterine perforation, infection, excessive bleeding, embolism, anesthesia complications, convulsions, hemorrhage, cervical injury, endotoxic shock, fever, vomiting, and Rh sensitization ... infertility, problems with future pregnancies, certain types of cancer and lower overall general health.�

Sobie also states that, “legal abortion is reported to be the ďŹ fth leading cause of maternal death in the U.S.â€?

Among the physical, Sobie discusses the emotional complications of an abortion, stating: “Women abort for many reasons: fear of losing a relationship, fear of disappointing their parents or partner, fear of not being able to raise a child or fear of losing control over their lives. Often those around them send the message that if they sacriďŹ ce ‘just this one thing,’ they can hang on to everything else in their lives. Unfortunately, what many women don’t realize is

that they end up sacriďŹ cing part of themselves as well along with their children.â€?

If Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics around the world really do, “discuss abortion and all of your options,� then why is abortion even an option?

If they really wanted to, “help,� it would seem that the rights of the woman and her overall emotional and physical health should be of primary concern.

I am beginning to question what their primary concerns really are.

But what if this is a viable option, what if this is the “right choice�? If in fact this is the right choice, then I beg the question, “Why are there so many organizations throughout the country such as ‘Rachel’s Vineyard’ and ‘Silent No More,’ assisting women with the emotional and physical complications previously stated?�

The truth is that for many women the “right choice,� was the “only choice� because of the lack of information given

them. For many women the “right choice,� involved being taken advantage of during a very vulnerable time.

For many women the “right choice,� wasn’t the right choice after all.

Let us not forget that the women affected by abortion are just as much victims as their unborn children.

But, if the unborn are victimized, and the women of the unborn are victimized, where does that place you and me?

As Americans, we have allowed what is convenient to relieve us of responsibility.

We are a society that has made “choosing� an act of convenience in our lives.

What happened to the belief that our actions have consequences? What happened to being an adult?

What happened to taking responsibility? If we haven’t taken the time to understand what choice we are making, how can we ever make the right one?

Take responsibility, ďŹ nd the facts, learn the truth ... is it the right choice?

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One year after Iowa State handed Cornell a loss that “embarrassed” CU coach Rob Koll, the Big Red got its revenge.

No. 15 Iowa State (6-8, 0-3 Big 12) kept it close with No. 2 Cornell (7-1, 0-1 EIWA) before the Big Red pulled away with a 30-16 victory in Ithaca, N.Y., on Sunday.

The marquee matchup of the dual featured top-ranked 174-pounder Jon Reader for Iowa State and third-ranked Mack Lewnes, the runner-up at 174 pounds last season.

Reader lunged out to a 6-2 lead in the second period after a reversal from the down position. Lewnes managed to knot the score at 6-6 with a takedown with 1:35 left in the match, but an escape by Reader with 1:10 remaining gave him the winning point in a 7-6 decision.

Reader, a senior, is now 27-0 on the season.

In the 157-pound match, redshirt freshman Trent Weatherman pulled off the upset of the day, pinning No. 9 DJ Meagher in 4:36.

The victory was Weatherman’s first against a ranked opponent. Junior Jerome Ward lost a close match to No. 1 Cam Simaz at 197 pounds, hanging with the Big Red grappler until giving up two consecutive points for stalling before a takedown by Simaz made the score 9-4 with 21 seconds to go in the second period.

Ward, who has been battling an injury to his right knee, was unable to make a comeback, dropping the match by a 14-6 major decision.

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Gymnastics ISU gymnasts tie for first at quadrangular in Utah No. 20 Iowa State had a strong first road trip this season defeating No. 16 Southern Utah and Utah State, while tying for first with BYU at 194.925 points. Southern Utah earned a score of 194.725 and Utah State earned a 192.000. The Cyclones were behind going into the final event — the uneven bars — and earned a 49.200 in that category, which ranks amoung top five bars scores in ISU history.

“We walked into the last rotation thinking, ‘All right, let’s just take this from them,’” said ISU coach Jay Ronayne. “It was kind of neat that the team really took charge and did that.”

The duo of junior Michelle Browning and freshman Michelle Shealy tied for first in the all-around competition scoring a 39.100.

“That was our goal coming in here, and I told the team we’re not coming just to compete, we’re not coming here just to look good, we’re not coming here just to get a good score,” Ronayne said. “We’re here to win. They were all pumped up.”

The Cyclones improve to 4-1-1 on the season. Iowa State will travel to Raleigh, N.C., on Feb. 4 to compete against North Carolina State and George Washington. The triangular meet is scheduled to start at 6 p.m.

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Track and field Squads finish second in Bill Bergan Invitational Four Cyclones captured five individual titles Saturday at Lied Recreation Athletic Center during the Bill Bergan Invitational.

However, the men and women fell short in team competition as they both finished with distant second-place finishes.

The men finished with 64 points for the meet, 116 points behind Minnesota, who dominated the men’s side of the Invitational.

Golden Gopher competitors accounted for half of the victories. Although the women faired a bit better, they still finished 31.67 points behind winner Missouri. The women did provide the highlight of the evening for Iowa State as they placed three finishers in the top four during the 3,000-meter run. Betsy Saina edged teammate Dani Stack for first place, while Semehar Tesfaye was not far behind with a fourth-place finish.

Laishema Hampton won the women’s weight throw, and Kianna Elahi took firstplace in the 400-meter dash for the Cyclones.

Sprinters Ian Warner and Amara Sama were the lone bright spot for the men. Warner won the 60 and 200-meter dashes. Sama finished second behind Warner in both events.

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Oklahoma wins in OT Pledger scores 12 of 15 in overtime period

By Chris.Cuellar iowastatedaily.com By all accounts, Steven Pledger took over the game for Oklahoma at Hilton Coliseum on Saturday night.

Pumping in 38 points, including 12 of his team’s 15 in overtime, Pledger kept the Pledger Sooners in the game late by hitting clutch shots and frustrating Cyclone fans.

Even more frustrating than Pledger’s outburst to the boisterous Cyclone Alley was that he wasn’t the first player Iowa State has let light up Hilton Coliseum.

“It’s tough when you’re losing games, you find ways to lose when you go on a streak like we’re on right now,” said ISU coach Fred Hoiberg. “We need a win in the worst way, and we need to come out prepared.”

The sophomore matched last year’s output

by Oklahoma guard Tommy Mason-Griffin against Iowa State and overcame a rough shooting night by other usually-consistent Sooners.

“It took a great performance by Steven Pledger tonight, and we needed all of them,” said OU coach Jeff Capel. “Steve was in a great rhythm offensively, and I thought our guys did a great job of finding him.”

Even though the Cyclones held Oklahoma 10 points beneath what Texas Tech scored Wednesday, they let one player dictate everything. Before Pledger, it was Texas Tech’s Mike Singletary banging bodies around for 33 points.

A week before that, Oklahoma State’s Jean-Paul Olukemi poured in 29 points.

The week before, Kansas had players come

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Oklahoma guard Steven Pledger defends ISU guard Scott Christopherson on Saturday. Pledger scored 38 points in the Oklahoma victory. Photo: Bryan Langfeldt/Iowa State Daily

Freshman forward Ejim provides spark off ISU bench with 19 points, 12 rebounds

By Jake.Lovett iowastatedaily.com For much of the first half against Oklahoma on Saturday, the ISU offense was stagnant.

The first five minutes saw the Cyclones fall behind 14-3 to the Sooners, digging another deep, first-half hole in a game against a Big 12 opponent.

Around the 15-minute mark, first-year coach Fred Hoiberg

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brought freshman Melvin Ejim off the bench, hoping to spark his team. Ejim, normally a starter, made an impact right away by

helping the Cyclones climb back into the game.

“Melvin gave us great energy off the bench,” Hoiberg said. “He went in there and played without thinking.”

The 6-foot-6 forward had 13 points and six rebounds in the first half, easily outshining Iowa State’s leading scorers Jamie Vanderbeken and Diante Garrett, who combined for two points and three rebounds in the half.

By game’s end, Ejim held team highs with 19 points and 12 rebounds.

“Coming into the game I felt good,” Ejim said. “I was just trying to be aggressive like everyone told me to and crash the boards and do what I’ve been doing.”

The freshman from Toronto had been struggling in his last four contests, and made his first ap-

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Balanced effort brings victory Christofferson, Mansfield make up for Bolte’s shooting struggles

Poppens grabs 19 rebounds in Big 12 win over Missouri

By David.Merrill iowastatedaily.com On a night when senior shooting guard Kelsey Bolte struggled shooting the ball, her supporting cast showed that it can rise to the occasion.

Freshman forward Hallie Christofferson and junior point guard Lauren Mansfield led the Cyclone attack in the 71-56 victory over Missouri.

Christofferson finished with 18 points, nine rebounds and three blocks. Mansfield contributed 14 points and two assists on 5-8 shooting.

Bolte managed to score 12 points, but was just 5-20 from the field, including 0-7 from behind the arc.

“I think we knew that we had to [help her out],” Christofferson said. “We took that as an option for us and really took advantage of that. Everyone helped out tonight.

Christofferson recorded 10 or more points for the ninth time this season. However, it was her first double-digit performance in conference play. Mansfield is now on a three-game double-digit point streak.

Missouri coach Robin Pingeton, who was an assistant on Bill Fennelly’s staff from 2000 to 2003, knew that Iowa State has some dynamic assets on its roster.

“On any given night, there is any player on the roster for Iowa State that can go off on you,” Pingeton said. “That’s a credit to [Fennelly] and his staff and the way he recruits. They are all very skilled, very fundamental and they all shoot the ball really well.”

Iowa State (15-5, 3-3 Big 12) held Missouri (10-11, 2-5) to just 19 points in the first half with one of the best first-half performances of the season. The huge lead was due in large part to the Cyclones starting the game on an 8-0 run.

Missouri made a small run toward the end of the game to make the scoreboard look a little less ugly, but was unable to catch up. Chelsea Poppens helped the Cyclones gain a 22-4 advantage on second-chance

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Forward Chelsea Poppens goes in for a layup against a Missouri opponent during the game Saturday.

Poppens scored 12 points and led the team in rebounds with 19. Photo: Tim Reuter/Iowa State Daily

points with a career-high 19 rebounds.

Iowa State has shown balance in its scoring for the second straight game, both resulting in wins.

Fennelly mentioned he has been holding Bolte out of some of the drills they run in practice, forcing the other players to get used to making plays.

Fennelly also believes that the balanced scoring is having a positive effect on the team chemistry and locker room.

“I think it shows that they trust one another and that they can count on each other to contribute,” Fennelly said.

C h e l s e a Poppens can’t explain it.

“I just like to rebound, I can’t really explain it,” Poppens said.

Poppens Bill Fennelly can’t explain it.

“I don’t know what happened to Chelsea Poppens, but I don’t know if I’ve ever seen someone get 19 rebounds and go after the ball the way she did,” Fennelly said.

The sophomore forward’s career-high 19 rebounds helped Iowa State control the paint as they beat Missouri 71-56. A Big 12 victory seems like enough of an explanation.

Poppens’ rebounding total, the fourth-highest in school history, was the highest of any Cyclone since Angie Welle grabbed 23 rebounds against Colorado on Feb. 9, 2002. The Aplington native is no stranger to pulling down doubledigit rebounds as Saturday marked the 11th double-digit performance of her two-year career.

Even more impressive about Poppens’ rebounding total was that 10 of her 19 boards came on the of-

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Schedules: Gymnastics

Men’s basketball

Women’s basketball

Track and field

Iowa State vs NC State and George Washington

Iowa State vs Colorado

Iowa State vs Oklahoma State

Husker Invitational

8 p.m. Tuesday Boulder, Colo.

7 p.m. Wednesday Hilton Coliseum

5 p.m. Friday 12 p.m. Saturday Lincoln, Neb.

6 p.m. Friday Raleigh, N.C.

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Lebler reaches milestone in overtime

Team splits weekend falling to Oregon, topping Montana

ISU senior gets 200th point of career versus CSU Rams

By Dan.Kassan iowastatedaily.com Two minutes into the third period, ISU sophomore David Elliston received a pass at the point from freshman Chris Cucullu. Elliston ďŹ red on net, and a seeing-eye puck found its way past the goaltender for a game-tying goal.

But the most memorable aspect of that goal was the secondary assist given to senior Mike Lebler.

For Lebler, that assist marked his 200th career point as a Cyclone. “It felt great, a nice milestone to get,â€? Lebler said. “My line-mates Cucullu and [Marcus] Malmsten worked all season for me, feeding me the puck. I can’t take all the credit there. DeďŹ nitely feels good though.â€?

On the night where a tenured senior reached a milestone, Elliston, a little-known sophomore, got his ďŹ rst goal. “I’m not a goal scorer, so it makes it even better when I notch one,â€? Elliston said. “It’s kind of opposite ends of the world there. It was pretty cool. I’ll never forget it.â€?

The goal tied a hotly-contested game at 2-2 in the third.

Colorado State came out with high intensity from the start and tested Iowa State. The Cyclones (19-14-0) had dozens of shots on net, but had one of those nights where the puck hit everything but the back of the net.

The inability to score led to opportunities for the Rams.

Iowa State fell behind three times during the game, including 3-2 early in the third, after Colorado State crashed the party with a goal to regain the lead.

But Jordan Pascale scored on a bad-angle shot to tie the game and eventually sent it into overtime.

And on a night where Lebler passed a milestone, he put the ďŹ nishing touches on an unforgettable game

Chris Cucullu skates against Colorado State during the game Friday at the Ames/ISU Ice Arena. Iowa State won 4-3 in overtime. Photo: Jake Lovett/Iowa State Daily

with a game-winner.

Shortly into overtime, the puck found its way behind the Rams’ net. Lebler gathered the puck and ďŹ red towards the net. And, as ISU associate coach Brian Wierson said, the goalie was out of position. “I saw Mike make a great play. That’s what I would call a very smart hockey play where you shoot it off the goalie’s pad and into the net,â€? Wierson said. “That’s a very heady hockey play.â€?

The crowd erupted and the Cyclone bench quickly cleared and rushed toward their senior points leader. Point No. 200 certainly will have a place in Lebler’s ever-expanding history book.

Point No. 201, however, is one that Lebler will probably remember best. “It’s a nice little thing I can say about my time here. One small thing about coming here, the big thing is the teammates,� Lebler said. “The big thing is the team accomplishment and being around the guys, the camaraderie, but it’s nice to have some personal goals and reach them.�

As for the goal, Wierson said, uke or not, the red light went off. “I guess we couldn’t get it past the goalie any other way, so we had to bounce it off his pad,â€? Wierson said. “So whatever it takes.â€?

Cyclones hold off Rams to extend win streak, look ahead toward weekend matchup against Kansas

By Clint.Cole iowastatedaily.com The ISU hockey team extended their winning streak to nine games with a 3-2 win over the Colorado State Rams on Saturday. With the win, the Cyclones completed the sweep of Colorado State at home.

The Cyclones refused to be the team playing catch up for a secondstraight night. They never trailed and were in control of the game.

“That was one of the messages,â€? said associate coach Brian Wierson. “We scored ďŹ rst in the ďŹ rst and second [periods], so you know when you do that, it puts the other team on their heels, and that was one of our goals coming into tonight.â€?

The power play turned out to be a game changer. The Cyclones capitalized twice on the power play. “Last night we gave up two power play goals, tonight they gave up two power play goals, and you can say both

nights that it was the difference in the game,� Wierson said. “It’s a big part of the game, and I’m glad we were able to capitalize tonight.�

One game after notching his 200th and 201st career point, Mike Lebler, who Wierson calls a consistent player, had another big game.

He scored both power play goals and is playing a big role in keeping the win streak alive as the regular season nears its end. “It’s huge. Every game from here

on out is going to be big going into nationals and our league tournament,�

Lebler said. “We’ve got Lindenwood coming up in two weeks here and they’re the No. 1 team, so we’ve got to keep rolling and keep our winning streak going, because every game from here on out is important.�

The Cyclone hockey team continues the home stand with two games against the Kansas Jayhawks on Friday and Saturday at the Ames/ISU Ice Arena.

The Cyclones fell to the Oregon Ducks on Friday after several well-fought matches.

Despite Macedo the loss, the Cyclone women played well and are continuing to improve early on in the spring season.

Sophomore Simona Cacciuttolo had a solid outing.

She and Erin Karonis teamed up as the Cyclones’ No. 2 doubles team and defeated the Ducks’ Julia Metzger and Rebea Stueckemann 8-4, the only doubles win for Iowa State.

Cacciuttolo then went on to defeat Stueckemann in singles play, 6-4, 7-5.

The Cyclones’ Maria Macedo bested Oregon’s Julia Metzger 7-6, 6-1, for Iowa State’s other singles win.

Many of the doubles matches were very close, but the Ducks were able to push through to a win in all but one match.

The No. 1 doubles match between the Cyclones’ Macedo and Tessa Lang against the Ducks’ Pavlina Smatova and Patricia Skowronski was a 9-7 loss for Iowa State.

The Cyclones had a better showing on the courts Saturday as they topped Montana 6-1. It was their ďŹ rst win against a D-1 team this spring season.

All three of the doubles pairs won their matches. Cacciuttolo and Karonis beat Montana’s Heather Davidson and Ashley Mackey 8-1.

In singles play Iowa State’s Marie-Christine Chartier shut out her opponent, Mackey, in two 6-0 games.

It was a key win for the Cyclones, as they have found new double pairs that work well as they prepare for Big 12 conference play to start.

The team will face Marquette on Feb. 11, and Western Michigan on Feb. 12.

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fensive end.

“Offensive rebounds in the women’s game is about effort, it’s not above the rim, you’re not going to out-jump someone,” Fennelly said. “I always tell our players that a missed shot should be a pass to you, and Bolte missed a lot of them today so she gave Pop[pens] a lot of opportunities for offensive rebounds.”

On a night when senior guard Kelsey Bolte shot only 5-20 from the field, Poppens’ presence on the offensive glass helped the Cyclones register a season-high 22 secondchance points.

“To just shoot the ball and then here comes Pop out of nowhere, it’s awesome,” said Emily Wiltsie, freshman on the Cyclone swim team, competes against Kristin Strecker, freshman on the Nebraska swim team, in the 200-yard breaststroke event Saturday afternoon at Beyer Hall.

Wiltsie pulled ahead and beat Strecker by 1.43 seconds. Photo: David Derong/Iowa State Daily

Senior day, atmosphere highlight weekend meet

By Nate.Ryan iowastatedaily.com The Iowa State swimming and diving squads fell to Nebraska on Saturday 174-126, in front of an electric ISU Senior Day crowd.

“It’s such a neat, nice group of young ladies,” said coach Duane Sorenson. “They may not be the most talented senior class we’ve ever had, but they’re the most determined senior class.”

Nebraska coach Pablo Morales said it was exciting to bring his team to Ames in front of the atypically boisterous swimming crowd.

“It was a wonderful atmosphere and a great tribute to their seniors,” Morales said. “We’re sad to see them go, but we’re glad as well because we don’t have to face them anymore.”

The crowd really came alive at Saturday’s meet and helped athletes and coaches stay excited.

“It was fantastic,” Sorenson said. “It was a fun crowd to be in front of.”

Senior Jeli Nixt stood out in her last home meet. Nixt helped the 200 yard medley relay team to a second place finish.

Nixt also took first as a part of an event sweep by the Cyclones in the 100 yard breaststroke with the large crowd erupting in cheer.

At the time, the sweep brought the Cyclones within one point of Nebraska.

“When I finished and I looked up at the

board and saw we went one, two, three,” Nixt said, “I don’t know how to explain it — it was a cool feeling.”

Having all of her friends and family there for her final home meet and with the atmosphere of Beyer Hall, Nixt realized her expectations weren’t great enough for the weekend.

“It was better than what I thought it was going to be,” Nixt said. “It was really cool.”

Emily Wiltsie has looked up to the seniors in her freshman season and received valuable advice.

“They’ve been really helpful and welcome you with open arms,” Wiltsie said. “They like to not just lead us, but to be our friends too.”

This senior class has had their effects on their coaching staff.

“They’ve always been on time, worked hard and always do what we ask them to do,” Sorenson said. “It’s been a great four years and it’s amazing how fast it’s gone by.”

The diving team consists of seniors Abby Christensen and Justine Anders and diving coach Jeff Warrick said both had a solid meet.

Anders recorded a personal best on both 1-meter and 3-meter by almost 20 points.

“She just did an outstanding job and I’m real happy for her,” Warrick said. “They’ve just been a lot of fun to work with.”

The Cyclones next travel to Lawrence, Kan. to take on the Jayhawks. The meet takes place Friday at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 10 a.m.

freshman forward Hallie Christofferson.

Missouri forward Shakara Jones battled with Poppens all day and came away with only seven rebounds.

“She goes to the boards relentlessly, she doesn’t stop, she makes counter-moves.

So you might box her out one way and then she’s going the other [way],” Jones said. “She doesn’t let anybody stop her going to the boards.”

Another stat not always measured in the postgame statistics is offensive fouls forced.

Poppens took three first-half charges, which helped the Cyclones take a 39-19 lead at halftime. Poppens has now taken 21 charges on the season.

“Those are the things that I’m pretty good at, and

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pearance off the bench since the Nov. 21 matchup with Creighton.

In the Cyclones’ last four games, Ejim had averaged just 5.75 points and 4.75 rebounds.

“When I talked to him yesterday about changing his role, I just talked to him about getting back to doing what he was doing,” Hoiberg said.

“I thought it might take a little pressure off of him and just come off the bench and be our spark plug. I thought he was terrific.”

Ejim was one of the lone bright spots for the Cyclones in their 82-76 loss to the Sooners — their fourth-straight loss — and is now averaging 20.5 points and 11 rebounds in his two games off of the bench.

However, Hoiberg said it wasn’t a done deal that Ejim would continue to be the Cyclones’ sixth man.

“We’ll evaluate that over the next couple of days,” Hoiberg said.

Saturday was Ejim’s 13th game scoring in double digits, but his first since Jan. 8 against Nebraska, and was the freshman’s fourth career double-double.

Ejim’s 19 points was his second-highest total of the season, and was second only to his 22 in that matchup with Creighton.

up big in a tight game, but forward Marcus Morris got his own segment on SportsCenter for his 33 point, 13 rebound outburst.

“When good players get hot, it’s hard to stop them,” said ISU freshman Melvin Ejim.

“I think we were playing good D and [Pledger] was just making tough shots.”

In certain non-conference games, the Cyclones’ defense looked stout and ready for anything, keeping every opponent in games against Virginia, Dartmouth, Drake and Alabama State from scoring in double-digits.

The Big 12 schedule has imploded many of Iowa State’s consistencies, but allowing big outbursts might be a major hole in the ship.

“I was just going through my progression, I know I can always do things like that, it’s just about staying in the same mind frame,” Pledger said after Saturday’s game. “I guess I was in my zone.”

With Pledger and Oklahoma State’s Olukemi as each team’s third-leading scorers, it’s unclear how many more players the Cyclones will have to game plan for.

But with the aforementioned names shooting a combined 62.3 percent from the field against Iowa State, tightening down in crunch time may pull the team out of last place.

“I think Iowa State’s a good team,” Capel said. “They’re just in one of those spurts right now, which this league can do to you. If you look at it, they’re one or two possessions away from their conference season being completely different.”

Former ISU men’s basketball player arrested for assault Former Iowa State men’s basketball player L.A. Pomlee was arrested early Sunday morning in Davenport on charges of assault with injury. Pomlee was a highly recruited forward out of Davenport Central High School in 2008, leading his team to a runner-up finish in the Class 4A Iowa State Basketball Tournament. Full name Leonard Akeem, the 6-foot-7 Davenport native was released at 3:14 a.m. Sunday on a $1,000 bond.

Now 20 years old, Pomlee left Iowa State in Dec. 2009 after redshirting his first year and scoring seven points in eight games his second year.

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that’s what I work hard at,” Poppens said of her rebounding and charges taken.

Fennelly A f t e r S a t u r d a y ’s game, the team’s reaction to Poppens’ performance gave Fennelly a chance to see how his squad has come together as a team.

“When you really know you’re a team is when everyone in that room is so excited for Chelsea Poppens they can’t stand it and they forget what happened to them,” Fennelly said. “That’s where we’re headed, and when you see people have success, that’s a good thing.”

Sports Jargon of the Day: Scrum

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Jan. 29 vs. Oklahoma Steven Pledger 38 points, 3 assists 12/20 FG, 7/13 3-pt FG Average: 12.6 ppg

Jan. 26 vs. Texas Tech Mike Singletary 33 points, 10 rebounds, 6 assists 12/18 FG, 8/8 FT Average: 15.3 ppg

Jan. 19 at Oklahoma State Jean-Paul Olukemi 29 points, 8 rebounds, 4 steals 8/16 FG, 12/12 FT Average: 11.6 ppg

SPORT: Rugby DEFINITION: The way in which play begins, when forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; the ball is thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession USE: What happens in the scrum, stays in the scrum.

Jan. 12 vs. Kansas Marcus Morris 33 points, 13 rebounds 11/15 FG, 11/14 FT Average: 19.2 ppg

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Story County unemployment rate stays low Between November and December 2010, the unemployment rate in Story County remained steady, according to the Labor Market and Economic Research Bureau and Iowa Workforce Development. The total labor force dropped by 600 people, from 49,900 in November to 49,300 in December (figures are rounded to nearest thousand).

Also, the number of people employed in Story County dropped by 700 people, from 47,800 in November to 47,100 in December. This left unemployment at 2,200 in both months.

Story County stayed in the lower half of unemployment rates in the state at 4.5.

The highest in the state were counties Lee and Fort Madison-Keokuk with unemployment rates of 10.1 each.

The lowest in the state were Lyon County with an unemployment rate of 3.4 and Iowa City County, whose rate was 3.6.

Overall, the Story country’s unemployment rate was 9.1 in December.

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Harrison’s Sports

Sporting goods store relocates to Lincoln Way A popular Des Moines sporting goods store is relocating to Ames.

Harrison’s Sports, currently at 1111 East Army Post Road in Des Moines, will move to the Hobby Lobby strip mall next to the East Hy-Vee at the intersection of Grand Avenue and Lincoln Way in Ames.

The store will have a full line of sporting goods and will offer equipment, apparel and novelties.

Harrison’s Sports stocks NFL, MLB and NCAA items. Additionally, it will sell Iowa State, Iowa, UNI, Drake and other major college apparel.

Specializing in baseball, softball and soccer, they will be fully stocked with the gear and equipment for the upcoming season when they open. Their tentative opening date is set for Feb. 15. Harrison’s Sports has three other Central Iowa locations, including Indianola and Ankeny.

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Exports

Pork production in Iowa exceeds $1 billion mark Iowa pork exports exceeded the $1 billion mark within the first 11 months of 2010, according to the Iowa Department of Economic Development.

The data has not yet been released for December 2010. This is the first time Iowa has ever exported more than $1 billion of pork, the exact number being $1,005,022,505.

Iowa now accounts for 24 percent of all U.S. pork production; that number is five times greater than the 1998 statistics.

Gov. Terry Branstad said in a news release he is excited about the numbers.

“Market expansion is key to Iowa’s business and industry growth, and the more we can open overseas markets such as Korea and China, the more we can help our Iowa companies take advantage of export opportunities.”

Last year, Iowa exported pork to 43 countries, the most going to Japan, Mexico, Canada, China and Russia.

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Stocks take a hard hit Protests in Egypt possible cause of market downfall

By Hibah Yousuf CNN staff reporter NEW YORK — Stocks have been on a run since late August, and investment experts have been warning that the market is due for a short-term correction. With political unrest in the Arab world and the January jobs report taking center stage this week, the catalyst for a downward move may finally be here.

After rising to the highest levels since the summer of 2008 and crossing key psychological milestones — the Dow topped 12,000 and the S&P hit 1,300 last week — stocks took a hard hit Friday as investors watched anti-government demonstrations unfold in Egypt.

“We are worried about the developing geopolitical risk in the Middle East and North Africa,” said David Kotok, chief investment officer at Cumberland Advisors. “We do not know where it will spread, nor do we know how it will run its course.”

Protests in Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, Yemen and now Egypt, could continue to have a domino effect across the Arab world.

As such, Kotok said he raised the cash positions in his portfolios at the end last week to the highest levels since 2008.

While political instability alone will likely upset the market, the wounds could be deeper if the turmoil spills over to major oil producers like Iran. Amid the uncertainty, oil prices spiked more than 4 percent last Friday.

The week’s most closely-watched reading on employment is due Friday.

Employers are expected to have added 150,000 jobs in January after adding 103,000 jobs in December.

Despite the gains, the unemployment rate is expected to tick back up to 9.6 percent as some of the unemployed return to the labor force to search for jobs. The unemployment rate dropped to 9.4 percent in December.

Kim Caughey, senior equity analyst at Fort Pitt Capital Group, said the market can’t continue to rally “without a sustained recovery, which means we need to get people back to

Stocks took a hard hit Friday. Anti-government protests and demonstrations unfold in Egypt and possibly continue to contribute to market downward spiral. Courtesy photo: Emmanuel Tambakakis/CNN Wire Service

work.”

Last week, unemployment claims jumped back above 450,000, signaling that the roller coaster ride for the job market has not yet come to an end.

Though a bulk of companies have already posted quarterly results, investors will continue to watch as major players including Dow component Exxon Mobil open their books next week.

The oil giant will release results Monday before the opening bell, while fellow blue-chip Merck will post earnings Thursday morning.

More than 100 companies from the S&P 500 are also due to report, including Pfizer; media giants News Corp., Viacom and CNNMoney’s parent company Time Warner; and credit card giants Visa and Mastercard.

Of the 207 S&P 500 companies that have reported results so far, more than 70 percent have beat earnings and sales estimates, according to Thomson Reuters.

Earnings have climbed by 36 percent on average, while revenues have increased 5 percent from a year earlier.

Monday: A government report on personal income and spending is due before the opening bell. Economists surveyed

by Briefing.com expect income to have risen 0.5 percent in December after rising 0.3 percent the previous month. Spending is forecast to have edged up 0.6 percent after increasing 0.4 percent in

economic outlook, tax reform and challenges to the economic recovery.

Wednesday: A report from payroll services firm ADP is expected to show that employers in the private sector added 150,000 workers in January after boosting payrolls by 297,000 in the previous month.

Separately, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas issues its report on planned job cuts in January.

Thursday: The government’s weekly jobless claims report comes out before the start of trading, with 425,000 Americans expected to file new claims for unemployment, after 454,000 were filed in the previous week.

Factory orders are due from the Commerce Department after the start of trading. Orders are forecast to have dropped 0.7% in December after

By the numbers 425,000 Americans expected to file for unemployment this week.

454,000 Americans filed for unemployment last week.

Employers added an estimated 150,000 jobs in January.

increasing 0.7 percent in November.

The ISM services sector index for January is expected to have decreased to 57.0 from 63.5 in December.

Readings on unit labor costs and 4th quarter business productivity are also due.

Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, will address the National Press Club in Washington at 12:30 p.m.

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Ames partners with Des Moines

Neighboring cities join forces to lead business mission trip to Brazil

By Nicole.McIntosh iowastatedaily.com

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Thirty-five miles may separate Des Moines from Ames, but the businessmen of those cities don’t let that stop them from partnering together. The Ames Chamber of Commerce and the Economic Development Commission are joining with the Greater Des Moines Partnership to lead a business mission trip to Brazil this October.

The trip to Brazil is the second trip the two communities will take together. After a successful trip to China in Sept. 2010, the cities decided that another trip would greatly benefit the companies and businessmen around the area.

“We are part of the same economic region, and it is important for the Partnership and Ames Chamber to work together on really as many things as possible,” said Jay Byers, senior vice president of Government Relations for the Greater Des Moines Partnership.

Brazil has a similar economy and grows products that are found here in Iowa, as well.

The country is one of the state’s big competitors in the global market.

The trip, potentially to the cities of Sao

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December.

The January reading of Chicago PMI, a regional manufacturing index, is due shortly after the start of trading.

Economists expect that it slipped to 65.0 from 68.6 in December. Any index reading over 50 indicates expansion.

Tuesday: The Institute for Supply Management’s index of manufacturing is due after the start of trading. Economists forecast the index to have increased to 58.2 in January from 57.0 in December.

Construction spending, also due after the opening bell, is forecast to have dropped 0.5 percent in December, following a rise of 0.4 percent in November.

Auto and truck sales for January are due throughout the day.

The Senate Budget Committee kicks off three days of hearings on the

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The Fighting Burrito will benefit Adventures Preschool on Monday.

Monday The Fighting Burrito will donate 10 percent of all cash profits and seven percent of all credit card profits to Adventures Preschool.

The school is the only cooperative preschool in Ames. Here, teachers plan curriculum and lead activities, and parents serve as classroom helpers. Each class has two teachers and two parent helpers, making the adultto-child ratio one to five.

The give-back will be from 5–9 p.m. and applies to in-store, carry-out and delivery orders.

For more information visit eatfightingburrito.com.

Unrest in Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, Yemen and Egypt could continue to have a domino effect on the Arab world. Courtesy photo: Emmanuel Tambakakis/CNN Wire Service

Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, will allow them to see firsthand how the businesses and markets are run.

“The synergy between Central Iowa and Brazil, we think, is a good fit,” said Dan Culhane Culhane, president and CEO of the Ames Chamber of Commerce.

The benefits of the trip are more than just checking out the competition.

With Brazil having such a large agricultural market, Iowa’s bioengineering, research and other products have the opportunity to expand to a new market.

“It’s a real growth opportunity for certain industries to expand their international sales of both goods and services,” Byers said.

The Partnership and the Chamber will also be talking to companies that may want to relocate from Brazil to Central Iowa. Iowa’s resources and presence in the United States may be a good fit for some of those companies, both of which mean job growth in Iowa.

Learning the culture will also be a part of the trip. Ron Hallenbeck, vice president of Existing Business and Industry with the Chamber who is coordinating the trip from the Ames side, is working with the ambassador to Brazil and the travel agency arranging the trip to make sure things go as smoothly as possible.

Iowa State has a presence in the trip as

well. The university, along with the research park, sent four people on the last business trip to China. Ties back to students helped the Chamber with their connections to China.

Iowa State brings a great deal to the table for the Chamber and the Partnership. The work being done at the research park, the studies being done on campus and the involvement of the university with the community are beneficial to all parties.

“We have been able to continue the relationship with China because of students,” Culhane said. “We would have never had some of the opportunities without them.”

Along with members of Iowa State, both the Chamber and the Partnership extend the invitation for the business mission trip to companies in the area for several reasons.

Hallenbeck says the other goals for the trip are to “familiarize, provide a service to our members, engage with companies located in Brazil and see the opportunities that exist there.”

The agenda for the trip is still being set, so registration will be open in the near future for companies to take the opportunity to go along to Brazil.

The Chamber and the Partnership are holding a forum May 19 to give information, answer questions and familiarize the culture for anyone interested.

For more information, visit http://www. ameschamber.com/.

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By Joy.Wessels iowastatedaily.com With the opportunity to meet potential employers or seek out internships once a semester at the career fair, agriculture-related majors have to ďŹ nd new ways to stand apart from their fellow classmates.

There are many ways that students can do this, such as studying abroad, taking part-time jobs to gain experience or even taking a class that will give them a global perspective on the agricultural world.

Though these are all options students can look into at Iowa State, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a class unique to the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering curriculum that can greatly beneďŹ t students of any major. The course offered is one that focuses primarily on Brazil and its advances in agricultural development. The professors for the class, Thomas Brumm and Brian Steward, split the course into two parts: A class is taken at Iowa State and following that semester, students travel to Brazil for a hands-on experience.

Andrew Edson, a junior in agricultural business took the course last spring. Edson said besides having to apply through ISU Abroad to get enrolled, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a normally structured class. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We met once a week with Dr. Brumm,â&#x20AC;?

Edson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The main focus was to learn the basics of Portuguese and what to expect when we actually got to Brazil.â&#x20AC;?

After ďŹ nishing up the course, Edson and other students traveled to the country they had spent a semester learning about. Besides seeing variations in the sizes of farms, Edson also got to see what other crops are planted in Brazil. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the U.S., we predominately grow corn and soybeans,â&#x20AC;? Edson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But in Brazil they

grow coffee and sugar cane, so we saw a whole new side to the agriculture industry.â&#x20AC;?

Steward said being exposed to different agricultural practices is the main goal of the course. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope that the students will learn about how agriculture technology is being developed and adopted in Brazil,â&#x20AC;? Steward said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In addition, students have the opportunity to experience Brazilian culture as well as people.â&#x20AC;?

While getting to spend time abroad and furthering their knowledge of the agriculture industry, students are also adding something great to their resume. Edson has experienced ďŹ rsthand the beneďŹ ts of taking the course. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having the course on my resume creates a great talking point for interviews,â&#x20AC;? Edson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s come up in every interview Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had since going on the trip.â&#x20AC;?

Dr. Steward also sees advantages in taking the course. Having a wider knowledge of other countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agriculture development can prove to be a great advantage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brazilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy is developing rapidly and offers huge potential for businesses, particularly in the agricultural sector,â&#x20AC;? Steward said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So having experience in Brazil will certainly be of interest to employers.â&#x20AC;?

Just as the agriculture industry is developing at a high rate, students are also expected to be as dynamic and experienced in the knowledge they acquire in college. Not only is a course like this a great resume builder, it might also give students an edge that potential employers are looking for.

More online: For more information on this course, go to www.agstudyabroad.iastate. edu/travel_courses.htm

Higher world food prices spark global unrest, hit developing countries hard

By Annalyn Censky CNN Wire Service NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Food prices have been rising worldwide, as the cost of raw materials and agricultural products surge, contributing to political unrest around the globe.

In December, international food prices broke an all-time high when they rose 25 percent for the year, led by rising costs for staples like rice, wheat and maize, the United Nations reported.

The sharp rise in food prices, in particular, has become â&#x20AC;&#x153;a source of political instability,â&#x20AC;?

New York University economist Nouriel Roubini, told CNNMoneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Poppy Harlow, at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland this week.

Roubini, nicknamed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dr. Doomâ&#x20AC;? for his famously bearish predictions, said spiking energy and food prices pose one of the greatest global threats â&#x20AC;&#x201C; especially to emerging market economies.

Why prices are rising: Bad weather in Australia and Russia over the summer severely diminished wheat crops, partially fueling the latest commodities surge.

Rising incomes in emerging markets like China and India also play a role, analysts at the Eurasia Group say. The

growing middle class in those countries has prompted a shift from a grain-based diet to one consisting of more meat.

And a push toward biofuels has also led to rising demand for corn and sugar, pushing up commodity prices.

Where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hitting: The pinch has been felt most in rapidly developing countries like China, India and Russia, which still have large portions of population living in poverty.

Food inďŹ&#x201A;ation in China was recently at 9.6 percent, while in India it surged at a staggering 18 percent.

Countries that depend on imports and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t grow a lot of their own grains, like many middle eastern nations, are also feeling the pain from price pressures. The recent zturmoil there, with outbreaks of riots and violent clashes with police and military forces, is partially related to surging food prices. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What has happened in Tunisia, is happening right now in Egypt, but also riots in Morocco, Algeria and Pakistan, are related not only to high unemployment rates and to income and wealth inequality, but also to this very sharp rise in food and commodity prices,â&#x20AC;?

Roubini said.

In Egypt alone, food prices soared 17 percent â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in part be-

cause of the worldwide surge, but also because of local supply imbalances.

How itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing out: Many countries in North Africa, including Egypt, subsidize the costs of basic staples. Citizens there pay about 1 cent for a small serving of bread, said Hani Sabra, research analyst with the Eurasia Group.

But that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean citizens there are completely insulated from price pressures.

About 40 percent of Egyptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s citizens live off less than $2 a day, so any price increase hurts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty expensive food subsidy system in Egypt,â&#x20AC;? said Richard Fox, head of Middle East and Africa sovereign ratings at Fitch Ratings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having said that, deďŹ nitely high inďŹ&#x201A;ation has been squeezing peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incomes.â&#x20AC;?

Plus, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a thriving black market that often drives up the prices poor households are paying for foodstuffs, Sabra said.

Meanwhile, the bigger problem lies in the fact that when citizens are unhappy, they have little opportunity for political recourse.

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Many students have brought the job search online. Iowa State offers resources for students searching for jobs, including the ISU Career Management System, or CMS. Photo illustration: Kelsey Kremer/ Iowa State Daily

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Abundance of options simpliďŹ es career hunt

By Katherine.Klingseis iowastatedaily.com With the assistance of several online resources, students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences can now look for jobs quicker and more efficiently than ever before.

Mike Gaul, career services director of career placement for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, helps students every day with building their resumes, preparing for interviews and searching for jobs or internships. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We help students with anything to do with careers,â&#x20AC;? Gaul said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We see a lot of students, which is good.â&#x20AC;?

Many students visit his office because they need help searching for jobs.

When this occurs, Gaul always asks students if they have visited ISU Career Management System, the online database that helps users connect with employers.

ISU CMS is available for current students and alumni. The system enables its users to create proďŹ les, upload resumes, search for jobs and schedule interviews.

The system also helps students by sending emails notifying its users whenever new listings are posted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re nuts not to use it,â&#x20AC;? Gaul said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right at your ďŹ ngertips.â&#x20AC;?

The database also has a search feature that allows users to narrow down the results by majors or concentrations.

For instance, if users are interested in agricultural business, they can narrow their

search results to just jobs involving agricultural business.

Once users ďŹ nd a job they are interested in, all they have to do is click on the listing and then click another link to send their resume. The database currently has thousands of job and interview listings. Gaul said more than 13,000 companies use the database. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our problem is not with the companies [using ISU CMS], itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s with the students,â&#x20AC;? Gaul said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a push to get students to use it.â&#x20AC;?

If students cannot ďŹ nd suitable job listings on ISU CMS, or are not interested in using ISU CMS, Gaul recommends using Agcareers.com.

The site works similarly to ISU CMS in that it allows its users to search for job listings and upload resumes.

However, Agcareers.com is just for agricultural jobs. The website also allows companies to search through resumes to ďŹ nd appropriate applicants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Agcareers.com] lets companies search for applicants, which is something ISU CMS doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do,â&#x20AC;? Gaul said.

Usajobs.com is a useful site for students interested in working for the government, Gaul said. The website enables its users to search for jobs in a speciďŹ c location.

Gaul also recommends for students in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences to visit company websites. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of companies list jobs on their websites,â&#x20AC;? Gaul said.

Whichever tool students prefer to use, Gaul stresses the importance of using these resources to ďŹ nd jobs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just because you have a degree, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re entitled to a job,â&#x20AC;? Gaul said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to get out there.â&#x20AC;?

Applications accepted for grant program The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Practical Farmers of Iowa and the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture are accepting applications for ISU On-Farm Research and Demonstration Grant Program.

A total of $25,000 will be awarded to ISU faculty, staff

and student researchers.

Topics relating to conservation and sustainability are preferred, as well as projects that promote on-farm research.

Projects accepted in 2010 included one focusing on women and Latino farmers in Iowa, improving the quality

for the Iowa wine culture, restoring grasslands, improving soil quality and many other projects.

Applications will be due Feb. 23. More information can be found at www.leopold. iastate.edu Daily Staff

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Career Day provides several opportunities Event shows it’s not too late to land internships

By Kendra.Alley iowastatedaily.com It’s not too late to land a summer internship in agriculture and related fields.

The Ag Career Day is expecting about 90 businesses to attend, and many are still looking for internship applicants. Although, this is a smaller number of companies that attend than in the fall there are still plenty of opportunities for summer internships.

“You know that’s what’s really great about the spring event, a lot of these companies are actually coming because they are looking for people rather than just coming for face time, which some do, but the bulk are looking for people,” said Michael Gaul, director of career placement in agriculture career services.

The spring career day has fewer companies attend because of the competitive job market — companies are starting to recruit students earlier in the year.

This is why there is so much emphasis on attending the fall career fairs and why the career fairs in the fall attract more attention from both students and companies.

“One of the trends we’ve seen is what we call frontloading where companies and organizations are really looking to do the bulk of their hiring during the fall months even for summer interns and as well as for May graduates there,” Gaul said.

“They’re trying to get the best talent they can as early as possible, and put the whole recruiting thing to rest really,” Gaul said.

However, some companies and organizations are not ready to hire in the fall and prefer to hire students during the

The Ag Career Day is expecting around 90 businesses, most of which are still looking for internship applicants. Photo illustration: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily

spring career day.

Some of the businesses that look to hire more in the spring are natural resource positions such as the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, the Army Corp of Engineers and zoos.

“Natural resource side of things its just about timing — they’re just not ready to go with things. Maybe because budgets aren’t realized until Jan. 1, so they’re just not ready to go until spring time,” Gaul said.

A key ingredient to making a successful trip out of the Ag

Spring Career Day is to come prepared to the event.

“I have improved my resume as well as looking on CMS, researching what companies will be at the career fair, so I can do my homework and know everything about that company before I approach them on Ag Career Day,” said Zachary Boss, sophomore in agricultural business.

It is important to figure out beforehand which companies interest you and will fulfill your needs.

It is wise to create a speech about yourself and the things

How to research companies through the ISU CMS system: Go to Iowa State Homepage http://www.iastate.edu/ Click on “I” in the Index located on the top of the page.

Go down to ISU CMS (Career Management Service) for Students/Alumni.

Login with username and password.

Look under Attend Events and click on Ag Spring Career Day 2011.

Research companies that interest you.

that are necessary for the business to know about you.

Companies are interested in hiring interns that are going to be confident and be able to express their talents.

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companies that will be attending is by using the ISU CMS system.

The ISU CMS system directly links to all of the companies’ websites.

“The spring event has a lot

of great success stories that come out of it, there really are,” Gaul said.

“There’s just a great opportunity to get in front of people that are coming to campus to recruit you,” Gaul said.

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Internships regarded as entry-level in job market

By Natalie Avon CNN Wire Service Ani Kevork has interned at seven companies since she graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2009. She’s trying to get a fulltime job, but there’s just nothing out there.

“It wasn’t really a choice,” she said. “It’s just the reality of the job market today.”

No. 7 proved lucky for Kevork in that her current internship at a film studio in London is paid, unlike her six previous internships. Still, she has no benefits, no job security and no idea where she’ll be in a few weeks.

Kevork and two of her former classmates started a blog, The Eternal Intern, about the struggles of the current job market for other college grads with the same plights.

“I want to do what I studied, and I don’t want to settle,” she said. “I’m still applying for full-time positions, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon for me.”

Like Kevork, a growing number of college graduates are forced into internships after graduation because of the lack of entry-level jobs.

For now, it’s important to take those internships, said Phil Gardner, director of Michigan State University’s Collegiate Employment Research Institute.

“In this environment, if a young person gets an internship, I’d tell him to take it,” Gardner said. “Not because he needs another internship, but because he needs to stay engaged in the labor market so that when jobs open, he can switch to a full-time position.

“You can’t go home and sit and whine and wait for something to happen. This is one way to be proactive.”

A growing movement Full-time employment has dropped 9 percentage points among 18-to-29-year-olds since 2006, leaving only 41 percent of millennials with full-time jobs, according to “Millennials: A Portrait of Generation Next,” a report released by Pew Research Center in February.

These statistics hit home for the 1.5 million students preparing to graduate with a bachelor’s degree.

“Last spring, there was a lot of anxiety among a lot of the students,” said Andrea Lipack, associate director of Employer Relations at Stony Brook University and organizer of the school’s career fair.

“The companies that used to come for both (full-time and

internship positions) dropped coming to campus for full-time hiring and only came to campus for interns.”

When the economy was good, Lipack said Stony Brook would see 150 companies coming to their career fairs.

At the low point, only 80 or 90 companies were visiting campus.

Lipack said she thinks this year will see changes from last year. “I’m hoping, anyway.”

With fewer jobs available and about the same amount of students graduating each year, the entry-level job market has gotten increasingly competitive.

It’s no longer enough to get a degree. Employers expect a certain skill set of those they consider for a job post-graduation.

“Evidence suggests that the internship now replaces the starting job as the place college students actually begin their journey into the workplace,” Gardner wrote in a paper he intends to publish this month.

Students must make smart choices when selecting an internship, as their decisions will directly influence employment opportunities when they graduate, he said. It’s the quality of your internships, not the quantity, that matter to a future employer.

But sometimes it’s both.

How they’re coping Claire Brooks, an New York University senior now on her ninth internship, has taken very calculated career moves since her sophomore year in high school. She wants to be an independent producer and said she heard stories about kids dropping out of school and moving to Los Angeles to pursue their dreams.

She did the next best thing that her parents would allow during the summer between her sophomore and junior years of high school.

“I knew early on that I wanted to be a producer,” she said. “When I got my first internship, it was just to figure out what working was and what being a producer meant.”

The next summer, Brooks took a marketing internship at HBO. Since, she’s interned in public relations, magazines, corporate communications and now again at HBO. It’s her third time interning with the company.

“It was a very roundabout way to get to the same place, but I think it was really important,” Brooks said. “Maybe if somebody looked at my experience, they would say, ‘Oh my God, why did she do this to herself?’ But I really see the con-

nections to everything I do.”

Like Brooks, Northeastern University senior Jennifer Gorden is doing all she can to ensure a job after she graduates.

Northeastern combines a five-year plan with a strong coop program, where students take time off from classes to work full-time for a company, something that Gorden has done three times, supplementing her three internships.

“I now have a much better idea of what I like and what I don’t like,” Gorden said.

She hopes that her abundant experience will prevent her from having to get another internship after she graduates.

“I do believe that the harder you work, the more that will come to you,” Gorden said.

“I’m confident that the future is bright for me ... that I worked hard enough to get somewhere, and I don’t want to settle.”

Similarly, Brooks’ nine internships have instilled her with the confidence to enter the work force.

She plans to utilize the spring for producing two films at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and applying for jobs.

This will be her first semester of college as simply a student – not an intern.

“I don’t really want to take another internship,” Brooks said.

“I feel like I’ve done so many of them, and I do feel very ready for an entry-level position or beyond.”

A brighter future For recent and soon-tobe grads, there is a light at the end of the tunnel: Hiring at the bachelor’s level is expected to surge by 10 percent in the next year, according to Michigan State University’s “Recruiting Trends 20102011” survey.

This might have an impact on the number of students getting internships after graduation instead of jobs, but it should not affect the number of students getting internships during their formal education.

It’s important to have a few internships under your belt no matter what the field, said Brian Eberman, CEO of StudentAdvisor.com, a website for college students and their parents.

StudentAdvisor’s guide to getting an internship has double the readership of the loans and the scholarship guides.

“We’ve seen a lot of demand for internships, and it’s sort of risen to record numbers,” Eberman said. “The number of internships doesn’t matter.

It’s that they’re engaged in the process.”

Leopold Center lobbies Iowa Legislature for plan to increase local food usage The Leopold Center has proposed a plan to the Iowa Legislature to increase opportunities for local food.

Currently, it is estimated that only 14 percent of the $8 billion Iowans spend annually on food goes to Iowa-raised

meat, poultry, eggs, dairy, fruit, vegetables and other crops.

“Iowa has the potential to grow the local food economy with strategic but modest investments, incentives and better coordination of existing resources,” said Rich Pirog, Leopold Center associate director, in a news release.

Two of the 34 recommendations in the Iowa Local Food and Farm Plan would require state appropriations.

They are to hire a statewide coordinator of a local food

program for one year, and to provide two years of support for Iowa’s Farm-to-School program.

Other recommendations focus on business development, incentives for supporting local food, training and education, food safety programs and data collection to track growth of local food sales.

The plan hopes to impact both direct-to-consumer sales and retail sales.

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Eastern Iowa Precision Farming Specialist

Sustainability is a hot area in public discourse, but that may not translate to the career fairs.

Mike Gaul, director of Career Services for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, said a lot of companies that focus on sustainability and ethanol cropped up very quickly over the past couple of years.

Because of this, they may not always have a lot of structure to their human resources departments or recruiting efforts.

“Sometimes, it comes down to being in the right place at the right time,” Gaul said.

He advised that students not get frustrated if a person

or company they would like to network with is not attending the career fairs.

Gaul said there are jobs out there, even if they’re not being advertised.

Students may just have to make an effort to get in touch with the company.

In contrast, Gaul said that popular areas that will be recruiting at the spring career fair are commodity training and merchandising, with at least 10 companies attending; food, especially quality control, sales and research and development; and agronomy, especially seed companies and co-ops.

Daily Staff

6B | AG CAREER GUIDE | Iowa State Daily | Monday, January 31, 2011

Editor: Sarah Binder | sarah.binder iowastatedaily.com

The following companies have confirmed attendance at the 2011 Ag Spring Career Day. The event will be on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the Memorial Union.

Pre-register through ISU CMS: https://ecms.eng.iastate. edu/students/

Advanced Crop Management Aerotek Scientific Ag Leader Technology Ag Partners, LLC Ag Processing Inc a Cooperative (AGP) AGCO Corporate Group AgReliant Genetics ALMACO American National AMVC Management Services Archer Daniels Midland Company Bartlett and Company Beef Products, Inc. Blank Park Zoo Cargill, Incorporated Central Farmers Coop Christensen Farms CNH America, LLC Community State Bank ConAgra Foods, Inc. Crop Production Services Crop Tech Services, Inc. Daybreak Foods, Inc. DeBruce Companies Dow AgroSciences, LLC Elanco Animal Health Farm Credit Services of America Farmers Cooperative Company Flint Hills Resources, LP Gavilon, LLC Genex Cooperative, Inc. Gold’n Plump Poultry Growmark, Inc. Harrisvaccines, Inc. Hawkeye Sow Centers Heartland Co-op Heartland Crop Pro-Tech HL Boustead Ag Sales Hormel Foods Corporation Indiana Packers Corporation Iowa Army National Guard Iowa Dept of Natural Resources Iowa Pork Producers Iowa Select Farms ISU Ag Study Abroad JBS Five Rivers Cattle Feeding LLC Jensen Farms Key Cooperative Kinze Manufacturing Kuhn North America, Inc. Land O’Lakes, Inc.

Companies attending Ag Career Day

There are still several companies looking for students interested in ag-related business. The large number of companies at the career fair gives students a chance to find the right place for them.

Photo illustration: Kelsey Kremer/ Iowa State Daily

M2P2, LLC Maschhoffs Inc., The Monsanto Company - Boone, IA location Murphy-Brown, LLC National Pork Producers Council Nationwide Agribusiness Nestle Purina PetCare Company NEW Cooperative, Inc. Niman Ranch Inc. North American Deer Farmers Association Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo Osborn & Barr Communications Peace Corps Pinnacle Pioneer Hi-Bred International Pipestone System / EMP SERV, LLC PMI Iowa Polk Cty Farm Bureau, Agriculture in the Classroom

Professional Swine Management Progressive Swine Technologies Rain and Hail L.L.C. Scoular Company, The Servi-Tech, Inc. Stuppy Greenhouse Mfg. Inc. Syngenta Seeds, Inc. Telvent DTN Titan Machinery Titan Pro SCI Tucker Consulting, Inc. Tyson Foods, Inc. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service VerticalXchange Water Street Solutions Wells’ Dairy, Inc. Wyffels Hybrids, Inc.

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