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October 20, 2010 | Volume 206 | Number 42 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
WEDNESDAY
Election 2010
Student death
Satellite voting faces scrutiny By Kaleb.Warnock iowastatedaily.com Cornerstone Church is under scrutiny because of its decision to hold satellite-based polling during Sunday worship services this weekend. Early voting for the Nov. 2 general election will be held via satellite polling stations in eight locations in Ames, including five churches. Although churches are frequently locations for voting, this year’s election is creating controversy because two of the polling stations will be open during the regular church service. Polls will be open at Cornerstone Church this Sunday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., while there will concurrently be worship services at 9 and 11 a.m. This location is one of five churches selected by Story County Auditor Mary Mosiman, after a petition requesting satellite polling stations was submitted to the Story County
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Campus organizations
Groups allow students chance to voice opinion By Alayna.Flor iowastatedaily.com ISU students are taking a hands-on approach to the 2010 election. “We want to voice our concerns, but have fun doing it,” said Chase Hunter, treasurer of ISU College Republicans and sophomore in political science. “Getting students involved and making them want to vote; becoming aware of how the government decisions affect them.” There are more than seven organizations on campus that are getting involved with campaigns, including the ISU Democrats, ISU College Republicans and ActivUS, a student activist group. All share a common goal: Inform others
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Iowa Supreme Court
Vander Plaats clashes with justices By Tyler.Kingkade iowastatedaily.com WEST DES MOINES — Bob Vander Plaats, head of Iowa For Freedom, said Tuesday the Iowa Supreme Court discriminated against polygamists or people who wish to “marry their child” in their opinion in Varnum v. Brien — the case which overturned a ban on same-sex marriage in Iowa. Vander Plaats, head of Iowa For Freedom, went headto-head with former Iowa Supreme Court Justices Mark McCormick and Robert Allbee in a forum in West Des Moines discussing the retention vote co-hosted by Simpson College and the Iowa Independent. “If it’s about civil rights, why stop there?” Vander Plaats
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Sam Kruger, right, John Maust and Meredith Gibson at Maust’s birthday this year. Kruger and Maust had been roommates since their freshman year, before Kruger’s death Oct. 8 after an automobile accident. Courtesy photo: John Maust
Roommate remembers
Friend shares Kruger’s interests, life story By Kaitlin.York iowastatedaily.com The late-night drives to McDonald’s and Walmart won’t be the same for John Maust without his best friend and roommate Sam Kruger. Kruger, sophomore in engineering, was killed Oct. 8 in an automobile collision in O’Brien County. He was headed northbound on Highway 59 when he crossed the center line and was struck by a semi truck traveling in the opposite direction. Kruger was pronounced dead at the scene. “His best friend from home came into my dorm room and told me that Sam didn’t make it home,” said Maust, freshman in mechanical engineering. “I didn’t take it seriously at first — I was silent and he didn’t say anything, and that’s when I knew that I just lost my best friend.” Kruger and Maust met their freshman year when roommates were assigned. They had many similarities including their interest in sports, favorite movie genres, love for the Minnesota Twins and their relationships with Christ. “He got me closer to God and involved with Bible study,” Maust said. “We even started one in our room last
year.” already was.” Their Bible study group grew from Other than being a caring brother, five to 14 people within two weeks, Kruger was also a clean and outgoing Maust said. roommate. “We continued it this year, and now In his room you would find posters of it’s twice the size of last year’s with just his favorite baseball player, Joe Mauer, students on our floor,” he said. catcher for the Minnesota Twins, Kruger grew up in the small town and occasionally Mountain Dew cans of Sibley, and graduated from Sibley- spread out wherever he had left them, Ocheyedan High School in 2009. He Maust said. was a son, a brother and a friend. “He was one of the goofiest guys you He was involved in many ISU student would have ever met. He would change organizations including the American your life after one day of knowing him, Society of Civil it seemed,” Maust Engineers, E2020 said. “I felt like I Scholars program, had known him my He was one of the Navigators and ingoofiest guys you would whole life after the tramural football have ever met. He would first time we met.” and basketball. The two roomchange your life after “We lost our mates were also one day of knowing him, together first intramural when it seemed.” football game, they weren’t in the mostly because classroom. of his loss. Basketball is going to be difOn the weekends they would watch ferent, too, because he was always the movies or play basketball for more than guy that would shoot the final 3-pointer six hours. One of their favorite things to from half court to win the game,” Maust do was make late-night trips to Walmart said. and McDonald’s “just because,” Maust School was important to Kruger said. along with his relationships with his “He would always quote the movie family, Maust said. He was the youngest ‘The Hangover’ when we were in the to his brother and sister and was very Walmart parking lot about watching close with his parents. out for the mauling zebras,” Maust said. “He had pictures of them every- “And at McDonald’s the only thing we where and always kept in touch with ordered was medium fries.” them,” Maust said. “Every Valentine’s One of Maust’s favorite memories Day he would send his sister flowers KRUGER.p3A >> because he wasn’t sure if someone else
Entrepreneur Club
Alumnus shares experience By Mindy. Dickerson iowastatedaily.com
Race to the Top
Legislation assesses teacher performance in education system By Molly.Halferty iowastatedaily.com The Race to the Top legislation was passed in January 2010 as a way to reform the educational system of states as a section of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 — and affects ISU students preparing for future teaching jobs. This bill creates a competitive reward system for states, providing grants to states that meet a set of requirements and get a certain score on their checklist for grading created by the federal government. This list of requirements includes data systems to support instruction, great teachers and standards and assessments. The grants are given out in two phases: one that is applied for in January and rewarded in April and one that is applied for in June and rewarded in August. The state of Iowa applied for both phases. Iowa did not get
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When you rid your life of everything that annoys you, you might just be denying yourself money, too — at least that was what David Sly was told in his college years. Sly, professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, took this message to heart and began his first business while he was a graduate student in industrial engineering at Iowa State. Now Sly has created six different businesses, and has sold two of them for millions. Sly began his first high-paying job when he was just 20 years old and still enrolled at Iowa State. “I made three bucks an hour working at TGNY, and I was offered $7.50 as a computer monitor [at Iowa State],” Sly said. “I always had a job; my parents didn’t have money.” In addition to his 20 hours working as a computer monitor, Sly picked up other PCrelated jobs in addition to class. “To be completely honest with you it was luck,” Sly said.
Dave Sly, senior lecturer in industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, speaks to the Entrepreneur Club on Tuesday in Curtiss 108. Sly is an ISU alumnus and has created and ran several companies in his time since college. Photo: Bryan Langfeldt/Iowa State Daily
People called asking if they had anyone who knew anything about PCs, and fortunately Sly did. He agreed to go help callers with their PC problems.
At first charging about $10 an hour, Sly eventually raised the price for his valuable skills and time to $100 an hour. By his senior year of college, he was making approximately
$40,000 annually. Upon graduating, Sly went to his first job interview with Texas Instruments, hoping to
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