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Student fees set to increase By Michaela.Sickmann iowastatedaily.com State Gym has been under construction for more than a year, and students will be paying extra for it next fall. Currently each full-time student is paying $71 per semester to Recreation Services, but starting next fall the price will increase to around $161 per semester. “I didn’t even know we had to pay a fee in the ﬁrst place. I understand that the fee may go up, but I don’t know if it should be going up that much —

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Ismael Pinto, sophomore in psychology, hands out chips to students as they make their way down the walking taco line. For $5, students can purchase a Homecoming button that allows them to eat on Central Campus all week. Bryan Langfeldt/Iowa State Daily

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Food on Campus Planet Sub 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Food on Campus 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Pork Burgers 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Mass Campaniling and Fireworks Midnight Central Campus

Battle of the Bands 4 to 6 p.m. Central Campus

Pep Rally and Yell Like Hell ﬁnals 6 p.m. Central Campus

Saturday

Hickory Park Feed $2 Central Campus

ExCYtement in the Streets 8 p.m. Greekland

Seabird Concert 6 p.m. Central Campus

Pancake Feed 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Central Campus

Yell Like Hell Second Cuts 8:30 p.m. Central Campus

ISU Alumni tailgate and silent auction 10 a.m. ISU Alumni Center Iowa State vs. Kansas 1 p.m. Jack Trice Stadium

ISU students and staff who have heard female moaning noises late at night in the Memorial Union blame them on “Hortense Wind.” She was an ISU graduate who was the only woman to graduate from Iowa State and die in World War I. Her name can be found on the Gold Star Hall Memorial Wall, and she reportedly has been heard around the MU entrance. From witnessing ghostly faces in mirrors and windows to unexplained noises, ghost stories are not absent at

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Third place goes to ‘Beta Brownie Batter’ Former Cold Stone employee’s creation pleases By Taysha.Murtaugh iowastatedaily.com

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Editor’s note The Cold Stone Creamery Go Greek Scholarship Contest invited all ISU greek chapters to invent an original Cold Stone creation. The concoction that sold the most in the Ames store earned its creator a $500 scholarship. The Iowa State Daily will profile each of the top five finalists, releasing the winner and runner up on Thursday. Wednesday’s article highlights the third-place winner.

Abby Isaacson of Pi Beta Phi used her experiences as a former Cold Stone Creamery employee to her advantage and placed third in the second annual Go Greek Scholarship Contest. “I worked at Cold Stone for three years in high school [in Walnut Grove, Minn.],” said Isaacson, sophomore in nutritional science. “So I messaged my old coworkers about their personal favorites and which ones they thought would sell the best.” Stephan Siegel, manager of the Cold Stone Creamery in Ames, invited all sororities

Future of the economy Abby Isaacson, sophomore in nutritional science and member of Pi Beta Phi, shows off her Cold Stone creation, “Beta Brownie Batter.” Photo: Bryan Langfeldt/Iowa State Daily

and fraternities to nominate a contestant. Each nominee developed a signature ice cream and competed with other houses from Sept. 6 to Oct. 17. The inventor of the best-selling creation will win a scholarship of $250 and a free ice cream social for his or her chapter. Each participant will receive a Cold Stone gift bag. “This year, I think I’m also going to do something for the second-place winner,” Siegel said. He mentioned a $50 scholarship as a possibility. Isaacson’s creation, called “Beta Brownie Batter,” consisted of cake batter ice cream, brownies, caramel and graham cracker pie crust. She said she was chosen to represent her house based on her history and experience

with Cold Stone ice cream. Although she turned to her former coworkers for suggestions, she gave her Pi Beta Phi sisters the ﬁnal say. “A group of my sorority sisters went to Cold Stone and sampled them all and voted,” Isaacson said. She said most of the suggestions from her former coworkers included cake batter ice cream, which is the best-selling ice cream at the Walnut Grove Cold Stone. Isaacson’s brownie creation competed with seven other sororities and fraternities. Contestants earned points when customers purchased their ice cream. The number of points depended on the size of the order, ranging from one point for a

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President Gregory Geoffroy,left, speaks with Kazuhide Ishikawa before the Manatt-Phelps lecture Tuesday. Ishikawa’s lecture covered the future of a global economy with a focus on Japan’s economy. Photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily

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Ballot presents option of convention to Iowans By Kaleb.Warnock iowastatedaily.com This year’s general election presents voters with the opportunity to hold a constitutional convention, which would allow expedited and direct amendments to the Constitution and would give many failed bills a second chance. When voters ﬂock to the polls for this year’s general election, they will see a new ﬁeld on the back of the ballot that they may not be familiar with. It’s titled, “Shall there be a convention to revise the Constitution, and propose amendment or amendments to same?” This is an option that occurs every 10 years that gives voters the opportunity to vote for the

convention. A constitutional convention has not occurred during the entire 164 years since Iowa was admitted to the union in 1846 and has only been permitted by the Iowa Constitution since 1970. The last attempt to hold a convention was in 2000, and was overruled with a vote of only 32 percent in favor of the convention. This year could be Iowa’s ﬁrst constitutional convention. According to Article X, Section 1 of the Iowa Constitution, in order for a standard amendment to the Constitution to be passed, it must be presented to either house of the Iowa general assembly and pass through both houses with a

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Creator of Rocky and Bullwinkle dead at 90 Pioneering TV cartoon artist Alexander Anderson Jr., who created Rocky the ﬂying squirrel and Bullwinkle the moose, has died. He was 90. Anderson’s son Terry tells the Los Angeles Times his father died at a Carmel nursing home on Friday after battling Alzheimer’s disease. The elder Anderson was a longtime resident of Pebble Beach. Anderson teamed up with his childhood friend and former University of California, Berkeley, fraternity brother Jay Ward to make lowbudget TV cartoons.

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Fun Fact: funt On this day in 1988, low pressure brought snow gale-force winds to the Great Lakes Region. fac and Winds gusted to 47 mph in Lansing, Mich.

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Clare Blodgett, second from right, senior in political science, talks about ghost stories of Iowa State during Tuesday Tea at the Farm House Museum. The discussion precedes an upcoming Haunted Iowa State event, which will take place Wednesday. Photo: Yue Wu/Iowa State Daily

Spoon Jewelry with Jonathan Eimer When: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. What: Recycle silverware — even forks and knives! — into rings, earrings, bracelets and more. Where: Workspace at the Memorial Union

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Homecoming: Yell Like Hell When: 8:30 p.m. What: Second cuts for Yell Like Hell competition. Where: Central Campus

Homecoming: Battle of the Bands When: 4 to 6 p.m. What: Grand prize to top band based on audience response and performance ability Where: Central Campus

A vehicle driven by Brittany Long collided with a parked car. (reported at 12:45 a.m.) Derek Young, 25, of Ankeny, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 1:15 a.m.) Charles Cutler, 21, 2121 Sunset Drive, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 1:18 a.m.) Nuaj Arguello-Lopez, 21, 219 North Wilmoth Ave., was arrested and charged with public intoxication and ﬁfth-degree theft. (reported at 2:03 a.m.) Christian Fish, 21, 224 Ash Ave., was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 2:31 a.m.) Danielle Stuber, 22, 4118 Harris St., was arrested and

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Charles Cutler, 21, 2121 Sunset Drive, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 1:18 a.m.) Nuaj Arguello-Lopez, 21, 219 North Wilmoth Ave., was arrested and charged with public intoxication and ﬁfth-degree theft. (reported at 2:03 a.m.) Christian Fish, 21, 224 Ash Ave., was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 2:31 a.m.) Danielle Stuber, 22, 4118 Harris St., was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia. (reported at 9 a.m.) A staff member reported a private delivery truck struck a tree. (reported at 2:35 p.m.)

Kevin Costner will host CMT’s new celebration of country music’s artists of the year. “CMT Artists of the Year” will air Dec. 3. It will honor Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and the Zac Brown Band. Costner is best known as an Academy Awardwinning actor and director, but he also fronts a country band, Modern West. The ﬁve honorees make up a new wave of country artists and are among the genre’s top-selling acts. CMT compared the sales, country radio airplay, concert grosses and activity on the network’s website to determine its artists of the year. CMT plans to make the show a yearly event.

Madonna to open global chain of fitness centers Pop singer Madonna is opening a chain of fitness centers around the world to be known as Hard Candy Fitness global gyms. A partnership between Madonna, her manager and New Evolution Ventures plan to open the first gym in a posh neighborhood in Mexico City on Nov. 29. A statement by Hard Candy Fitness says gyms “will open in major cities around the world,” including 10 more locations in Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Europe and Asia.

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Massive windstorm howls across nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s midsection By Tammy Webber Associated Press

CAMPAIGNING: Romney speaks for Branstad Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney speaks in support of former Iowa Gov. and current Republican gubernatorial candidate Terry Branstad, rear right, during a campaign stop on Tuesday at the Grand River Center in Dubuque. Photo: Jeremy Portje/The Associated Press

State briefs Judge tosses lawsuit to stop Fewer pheasants expected contract to build new prison for annual Iowa hunt DES MOINES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A Polk County judge has dismissed a lawsuit aimed at stopping Iowa from signing a contract with an Illinois company to build a new maximum-security prison near Fort Madison. Master Builders of Iowa and Iowa contractor Orville Crowley argued the state ignored preference laws favoring local bidders in awarding a $116.9 million contract to a Chicago construction ďŹ rm. The Des Moines Register says District Judge Carla Schemmel ruled Monday that the plaintiffs failed to exhaust administrative remedies for their complaints. Master Builders attorney John Templer says his client is still pursuing the matter. Robert Bailey of the Iowa Department of Administrative Services, which has overseen the award of the contract, says officials are pleased with the ruling.

DES MOINES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; There will be fewer pheasants when the annual hunt begins in Iowa this year. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says the state had the lowest preseason survey ever recorded. Research biologist Todd Bogenschutz says Iowa should estimate a harvest of between 200,000 and 300,000 birds this fall. He says about 30 percent of the harvest will likely come in the ďŹ rst nine days of the season. Iowa usually sees hunters take a million or more birds. The department says a four-year pattern of extreme weather along with declining habitats have taken a toll. The department says northwest and north central Iowa are the better regions for pheasants. Officials expect between 60,000 and 70,000 hunters this seas

Sioux City apartment ďŹ re blamed on smoking

Secretary of state notes big early voter turnout for Iowa

SIOUX CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fire officials say smoking is to blame for a ďŹ re that damaged an apartment complex in Sioux City last week. According to KCAU-TV, authorities say smoking materials improperly discarded on a deck on the third ďŹ&#x201A;oor of the Glen Oaks Apartments started the ďŹ re Thursday night. When ďŹ reďŹ ghters arrived, ďŹ&#x201A;ames were visible in the second and third ďŹ&#x201A;oors of the threestory building. The ďŹ re was contained to half of the building, but 12 units were damaged. No residents were injured, but three cats died in the ďŹ re.

DES MOINES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Iowaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top elections official says interest in next weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s midterm election is high, with nearly a quarter of a million people already casting ballots. Secretary of State Michael Mauro says as of Tuesday, voters had requested about 345,000 absentee ballots, compared to 242,000 at this same point four years ago. Mauro says about 237,000 people have cast their ballots â&#x20AC;&#x201D; either absentee or through early voting. Mauro says one reason for the big turnout could be the race for governor between Democratic Gov. Chet Culver and Republican Terry Branstad, a four-term governor seeking a return to office.

Coin man sentenced for stealing Iowa womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coins Dubuque native marine COIN â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A man from the small city of Coin injured in Afghanistan in southwestern Iowa has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for charges stemming from the theft of a rare and valuable coin collection. Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that 25-year-old Devan Rodez Casteel was sentenced to 162 months in prison for car jacking and brandishing a weapon while robbing a Page County woman on her farm. Prosecutors say Casteel held the woman at gun point while stealing the coin collection that she received after her husband died. Casteel was found guilty during a November 2009 trial. Prosecutors say Casteel also was ordered to serve three years of supervised release and pay $200 to a crime victimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fund. The determination of restitution was delayed until the value of the stolen coins can be established.

>>FEES.p1A maybe like $40 more, but not by that much,â&#x20AC;? said Morgan Halupnick, freshman in kinesiology and health. Along with the fee increase, Mike Giles, director of Recreation Services, said there may be a 1 to 2 percent

DUBUQUE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The parents of a Marine from Iowa say he was seriously injured in an explosion in Afghanistan. Jim and Cheryl Billmyer, of Dubuque, say their son, Lance Cpl. Christopher Billmyer, was hit by a roadside bomb in the southern province of Helmand on Saturday. His parents told the Telegraph Herald in Dubuque that he sustained injuries that required the amputation of both legs. Christopher Billmyer, a 2007 graduate of Wahlert High School in Dubuque, enlisted in the Marines in 2007. His parents say he had been in Afghanistan just a few weeks.

increase, which could be around $3 more. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we have some of the most debt? I think that if we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have all these fees it would help with this,â&#x20AC;? said Lauren Meyer, freshman in agricultural studies. The Government of the Student Body-funded

Financial Counseling Clinic at 1331 Palmer Building is one way students can receive help with this problem. The clinic hopes to improve the ďŹ nancial well-being of ISU students and staff through education in the areas of home ownership, personal ďŹ nance and credit.

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rialized in a song by Gordon Lightfoot. The storm blew in from the PaciďŹ c Northwest on the strength of a jet stream that is about one-third stronger than normal for this time of year, Imy said. As the system moved into the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heartland, it drew in warm air needed to fuel thunderstorms. Then the winds intensiďŹ ed and tornados formed. Add to that the fact the storm was moving fast, 50 to 60 mph, and the winds became even stronger, Imy said. By Tuesday morning, sustained winds were about 35 to 40 mph. A gust of 81 mph was recorded in Butlerville, Ohio, and 80 mph in GreenďŹ eld, Ind., according to NOAA. At one point, more than 145,000 homes and businesses were without power in Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and the St. Louis area. A tornado touched down in Racine County, Wis., where two people were injured when a section of roof was torn off a tractor factory, and in Van Wert County, Ohio, near the Indiana border, where a barn was ďŹ&#x201A;attened and ďŹ&#x201A;ipped over a tractor-trailer and camper. A tornado also touched down in Peotone, Ill., where three people were injured when a homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roof came off, and twisters were suspected in several other states.

CHICAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A massive storm with wind gusts up to 81 mph howled across the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s midsection Tuesday, snapping trees and power lines, ripping off roofs, delaying ďŹ&#x201A;ights and soaking commuters hunched under crumpled umbrellas. Spanning from the Dakotas to the eastern Great Lakes, the unusual system mesmerized meteorologists because of its size and because it had barometric pressure similar to a Category 3 hurricane, but with much less destructive power. Scientists said the storm had the force of a blizzard minus the snow. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If it were colder, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have a blizzard with this system,â&#x20AC;? said David Imy, operations chief at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. The National Weather Service said the systemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pressure reading Tuesday was the lowest ever in a nontropical storm in the mainland U.S. If conďŹ rmed, that would be worse than the pressure that produced the Blizzard of 1978, the March 1993 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Storm of the Centuryâ&#x20AC;? or the November 1975 storm that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald freighter, memo-

>>CONSTITUTION.p1A majority of votes. The bill is then placed on the ballot for the next general or special election and voted on by Iowa residents. However, a constitutional convention is a very different process. The convention is made up of a committee of delegates who are appointed by legislature that discuss and amend bills before passing them onto voters in a general or special election. This allows approved bills to skip the long and difficult process of making it through both houses, which can take four years or more, and go directly to voters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You could presumably have voters say yes to the convention on the ballot,â&#x20AC;? said Richard Johnson, legal services director for the Legislative Services Agency. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If so, it could potentially be on a special election next fall,â&#x20AC;? he said in reference to bills approved by the convention. Although possible topics and bills for the convention have not yet been speciďŹ ed, many political and religious groups are hoping to give a few failed bills a second chance.

>>HAUNTED.p1A Iowa State. ISU University Museums will give the public a chance to explore these haunting and sightings Wednesday from 7 until 10 p.m. at Haunted Iowa State. The event will feature a self-guided, spooky, moonlit tour through campus, including locations with haunted and historical reputations. Sites featured will include the Campanile, ISU campus cemetery, Memorial Union, Farm House Museum and other locations that are reportedly haunted. The ISU campus is more

In the Indiana town of Wanatah, about 60 miles southeast of Chicago, a pole barn at a hydraulics company was destroyed, and two homes were severely damaged, though no injuries were reported. FireďŹ ghter John Sullivan said he saw a funnel cloud, but it did not touch down. In the Chicago suburb of Lindenhurst, a woman was injured when a branch fell about 65 feet from a large tree, crashed into her car and impaled her abdomen. She was taken to a hospital in fair condition, authorities said. Meteorologists said the stormâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s barometric pressure readings were comparable to those of a Category 3 hurricane but with winds only as strong as a tropical storm. Category 3 hurricanes have winds from 111 to 130 mph. The lower the pressure in a storm, the greater the winds. The higher the pressure, the calmer and balmier the weather is. If Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s low-pressure system had been over water â&#x20AC;&#x201D; where winds get higher â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it would have created a major hurricane, Imy said. Tom Skilling, a meteorologist with WGN-TV in Chicago, said the size of the storm â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 31 states were under some sort of whether advisory, from blizzards to thunderstorms to tornadoes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; also was unusual.

One bill that is the subject of intense debate is a bill titled House Joint Resolution 6. It reads, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Marriage between one man and one woman shall be the only legal union valid or recognized in this state.â&#x20AC;? If this bill were to be passed, it would overturn the Iowa Supreme Court ruling that ruled in favor of same-sex marriage in the controversial court case, Varnum v. Brien. The bill, HJR6, was initially introduced to state legislators in February 2009. The bill was sent to committee, but failed to be approved and did not make it to the House ďŹ&#x201A;oor. It was resubmitted in February 2010 when the motion to address and amend the resolution failed once again. However, because the topics of the constitutional convention are not limited to exclude previously failed bills, it could return. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The contents of this resolution [HJR6] could be proposed in the constitutional convention as one of the results that could go to voters,â&#x20AC;? Johnson said. A constitutional convention is not limited to any speciďŹ c bills or issues and can address many possible amendments.

spooky than some realize. It is said there are no mirrors on one of the ďŹ&#x201A;oors in Linden Hall. Clare Blodgett, senior in political science and an undergraduate assistant employee of ISU University Museums, said that this is because â&#x20AC;&#x153;if you look in these mirrors, you will see two football players behind you.â&#x20AC;? The football players were reportedly killed in a car accident on the way home from a football game and still haunt Linden Hall. But haunted reports arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t limited to residence halls. Blodgett said a fellow employee of hers who was watch-

ing Farm House Museum one weekend reported a haunting while she was there. The employee reported she was upstairs closing up the rooms and heard voices downstairs seemingly having a pleasant conversation. However, when she went downstairs to investigate, she found no one. The doors were locked, so no one could have entered the building. One popular ISU ghost story is the haunting of Stephens Auditorium, Blodgett said. It is said that Stephens himself will send icy drafts and echoing footsteps throughout the tunnels of the auditorium.

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NC police: Stepmother of missing girl cooperating in investigation HICKORY, N.C. — The stepmother of a missing 10-yearold girl is cooperating with investigators who are searching in rural North Carolina for the disabled child or evidence in her disappearance, police said Tuesday. Elisa Baker, the stepmother of Zahra Clare Baker, has been talking with investigators after her lawyer approached police offering her help, said Maj. Clyde Deal, deputy police chief in Hickory where the child was reported missing Oct. 9. Police believe the girl is dead. She uses hearing aids and has a prosthetic leg because of bone cancer. Authorities in recent weeks have combed wooded areas and a landfill for evidence. Deal said Tuesday that Elisa Baker, 42, was taken this week to a home where she once lived. But he declined to elaborate. “We’re working with her attorney to see what information she has and what she is willing to share. We’re treating her like every other source of information,” he said. A telephone message left for Elisa Baker’s attorney, Scott Reilly, was not immediately returned. The stepmother has been charged with obstruction of justice. Police said she acknowledged to writing a bogus ransom note found at the scene of a fire in the family’s back yard on the day Zahra Clare Baker was reported missing. The girl’s father, Adam Baker, was arrested Monday on unrelated charges. He and his daughter are from Australia. He and his daughter moved to North Carolina in 2008 after he married Elisa Baker, whom he had met on the Internet. Adam Baker, 33, is facing one count each of assault with a deadly weapon and failure to return rental property, two counts of communicating threats and five counts of writing worthless checks, authorities said. The timing of his arrest raises questions because the charges against him were filed over the past few months. Hickory Police Chief Tom Adkins had said authorities delayed taking action because he was cooperating with police. Deal said investigators haven’t talked to Adam Baker since his arrest. He also said Adam Baker did not have an attorney. Adam Baker was being held in a western North Carolina jail on $7,000 bond. Elisa Baker is at the same jail. Police have not found the girl’s body and haven’t charged anyone with killing her. A three-day search of a landfill last week failed to turn up any evidence. The Associated Press

NYC officer gets promoted after stopping salon holdup, gunfire NEW YORK — A police officer who dodged gunfire and stopped an armed holdup in a salon where she was getting her hair done was promoted to rank of detective on Tuesday. She shrugged off praise of her actions, saying it was just part of her personality to keep calm under pressure. “I don’t fuss about much,” Feris Jones said after Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly pinned a detective’s shield onto her uniform at a City Hall ceremony with Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Jones was promoted days after she calmly exchanged fire with an armed robber in a Brooklyn salon, shooting the gun out of his hand and firing the handle off the door, delaying his escape. She and the other women in the salon were not hit. Kelly praised her “stunning marksmanship” and “steely courage,” while Bloomberg said she likely saved lives. “Her quick thinking and sharp aim stopped an armed robbery, or worse,” the mayor said. Jones was off duty on Saturday, having her hair done at Sabine’s Hallway Beauty Salon in Brooklyn, when the suspect burst in, brandishing a .44-caliber revolver. Police said he demanded the four women in the salon give him their valuables. After Jones identified herself as a police officer, the suspect opened fire. She fired back, shooting the gun out of his hand and the handle off the door. The suspect, whose hand was injured, fled but police later followed a trail of blood and arrested him early Monday. Winston Cox, 20, was arraigned in a Brooklyn court Tuesday on charges including first-degree attempted murder, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon and was held without bail. His attorney and family members declined to comment. Jones, 50, a Barbados native who has one adult child, had never fired a gun in the line of duty during her two-decade police career. Officials described her as a respected member of the force, most recently assigned to the crime lab. She said she was finally able to finish getting her hair done Monday night. Reporters at the City Hall ceremony repeatedly addressed her as “detective,” but she wasn’t used to the title yet. “Can you just call me ‘Jonesy?’” she asked. The Associated Press

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A bicyclist passes by costumed actors shambling along the Brooklyn Bridge while posing for pictures on Tuesday in New York. The stunt was part of a promotion for the premiere of the AMC series “The Walking Dead.” Photo: Seth Wenig/The Associated Press

‘Zombies’ invade Big Apple Promotion disrupts morning commute By Deepti Hajela The Associated Press NEW YORK — As if the morning commute wasn’t odd enough, intrepid New Yorkers trying to make their way to work on Tuesday had to battle past hordes of the walking dead. Two dozen zombies, their clothes spattered with fake blood, were staggering up and down the block outside Madison Square Garden. Downtown, others shufﬂed across the Brooklyn Bridge. Some pedestrians looked startled or amused by the ghost-white actors with

bruised-looking eyes. Some people ignored them entirely. Others whipped out their cell phone cameras. Horror movie fan Linda Emery was thrilled to see the creatures. “I’m into zombies, anything with zombies,” said the 58-year-old home care provider from Brooklyn. It made a change from her usual commute. “You see a lot of stuff, but not this stuff,” she said. Erik Machado, an audio engineer heading to work in New Jersey, was unfazed and calmly passed by the scene with nary a glance at the nightmares walking around. “Gotta commute, gotta go where I gotta go,” the Queens resident said. The stunt was part of a campaign

in 26 cities worldwide promoting the Halloween premiere of the AMC television series “The Walking Dead.” The show is being broadcast outside of the United States on Fox International Channels. At one point, about 15 zombies crawled on the roof, hood and trunk of a parked, offduty taxi. Taxi driver David Pollack managed to escape from the horde, scrambling out of the back seat, playing along with the drama of it all. “I think I’m going to be walking over the George Washington Bridge and heading over to Jersey, hopefully they haven’t gotten there yet,” he said. He added, “I’m a tough New Yorker, but I don’t mess with zombies.”

Florida

Free speech debate gets ‘Wild’ Plaintiffs want to keep their identities secret By Greg Bluestein The Associated Press ATLANTA — A lawsuit filed by four women against Joe Francis, producer of the “Girls Gone Wild” videos, has prompted a free speech battle over whether the identities of the four should be revealed. Attorneys for the women, who were between 13 and 17 years old when the footage was shot, asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday to allow them to press their civil suit without being named. The lawyers argued that keeping the identities private would spare the women, now in their 20s, from humiliation. The women filed suit in federal court in Florida in March 2008 using only their initials. The lawsuit claims Francis exploited them by filming them flashing their breasts and engaging in other sexual activities in Panama City, Fla., It claims the women were ridiculed and forced to leave school when videos were released. “Their names are going to be everywhere” if they are made public, attorney Rachael Pontikes argued before a judge in the Atlanta courtroom. “Whenever anyone types any of their names on Google, they will link to these sexualized images.” The free speech battle flared when a federal judge in Florida rejected the request to allow the women to file the lawsuit without using their name, prompting an appeal. That led Florida Freedom Newspapers Inc. and the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association to wade into the First Amendment fight. Their attorneys contend news organizations have the right to know the names of the plaintiffs in a case of wide national interest and that journalists should have

“Girls Gone Wild” creator Joe Francis, left, uses papers to block his face as he leaves the U.S. District Courthouse on April 12, 2007, in Panama City, Fla. Photo: Terry Barner/The Associated Press

the right to exercise their discretion whether to publish that information — including names — if deemed newsworthy. Francis has pleaded guilty to criminal charges of not having kept proper records

involving one of the plaintiffs, and he was convicted in state court in Florida of coercing another plaintiff into prostitution as a minor for paying her $50 to appear on camera.

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Arizona

State goes abroad for lethal injection drugs By Amanda Lee Myers and Andrew Welsh Huggings The Associated Press FLORENCE, Ariz. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Facing a nationwide shortage of a lethal injection drug, Arizona has taken an unusual step that other death penalty states may soon follow: get their supplies from another country. Such a move, experts say, raises questions about the effectiveness of the drug. But it also may further complicate executions in the 35 states that allow them, as inmates challenge the use of drugs not approved by federal inspectors for use in the U.S. Arizona said Tuesday that it got its sodium thiopental from Great Britain, the ďŹ rst time a state has acknowledged obtaining the drug from outside the United States since the shortage began slowing executions in the spring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This drug came from a reputable place,â&#x20AC;? Chief Deputy Attorney General Tim Nelson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all sorts of wild speculation that it came from a third-world country, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not accurate.â&#x20AC;? Nelson said the state revealed the drugâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s origins to let the public know that its supply is trustworthy and to dispel rumors. However, he did not name the company that manufactured it. Without assurances of the drugâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quality, many questions will be raised, including its effectiveness and how it should be handled, and would serve as a basis for lawsuits, said Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University. In lethal injections, sodium thiopental makes an inmate unconscious before a second drug paralyzes him and a third drug stops his heart. Hospira Inc. of Lake Forest, Ill., the sole U.S. manufacturer of the drug, has blamed the shortage on unspeciďŹ ed problems with its raw-material suppliers and said new batches will not be available until January at the earliest. There are no FDA-approved overseas manufacturers of the drug. The limited supply has also directly affected executions in California, Kentucky, Ohio and Oklahoma, and may affect executions in Missouri, which says its supply of sodium thiopental expires in January. California officials say they acquired a dos-

A corrections ofďŹ cer walks along a fence outside the Arizona Sate Prison on Tuesday in Florence, Ariz. An Arizona execution has been stayed pending appeal after attorneys ďŹ led a complaint about the use of sodium thiopental from a foreign manufacturing source. Photo: Matt York/The Associated Press

age of 12 grams in September with a 2012 expiration date. But there was some dispute about the source. Hospira said its remaining supplies expire next year and California could only have obtained it elsewhere. The state prison system would not address the discrepancy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The state obtained the sodium thiopental lawfully from within the United States,â&#x20AC;? Terry Thornton, a corrections spokeswoman told The Associated Press. Ohio, which spends about $350 for the drug for each execution, ran out of the amount prescribed by state procedures just three days before a May 13 execution. The state obtained

enough in time but wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say where. A few weeks ago, Kentuckyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s governor held off signing death warrants setting execution dates for two inmates because the state is almost out of sodium thiopental. The stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lone dose expired Oct. 1. Officials say they have tried unsuccessfully to get the drug from other states, and have gotten calls from states looking for it. The controversy could end if Hospira resumes making the drug next year as indicated, or states could switch to another drug. At least 15 states might be able to switch drugs without a new law or administrative pro-

cess, death penalty expert Megan McCracken said. In Arizona, officials say U.S. District Court Judge Roslyn Silverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s order should be lifted because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1985 that Food and Drug Administration approval isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessary for the drugs to be used speciďŹ cally for executions. The state ďŹ led a motion with the Supreme Court, and was awaiting word Tuesday on whether it can proceed. In recent years, lethal injections have run into high-proďŹ le problems, including botched executions.

Hawaii

Man arrested on terrorism-related charge CNN Wire Service Authorities have charged a 21-year-old Hawaii man with â&#x20AC;&#x153;making false statements in a matter involving international terrorism,â&#x20AC;? the U.S. Justice

Department said. The charge centers around a one-way ticket that authorities allege Abdel Hameed Shehadeh purchased from New York City to Islamabad, Pakistan.

Shehadeh originally told investigators that the purpose of his trip was to visit an Islamic university and attend a friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s engagement party. But Shehadeh later admitted to FBI agents in Hawaii that he bought the ticket in order to join a ďŹ ghting group such as the Taliban, according to a criminal complaint unsealed on Monday in New York. Pakistani officials denied his entry into the country in June 2008, the complaint said, and several weeks later Shehadeh attempted to join the U.S. Army at a recruiting station in New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Times Square. The complaint alleges that Shehadeh wanted to deploy to Iraq, desert and ďŹ ght against the U.S. military alongside Iraqi insurgents. Shehadeh -- who was born and raised in New York -- told

authorities that he wanted to enlist for career opportunities and beneďŹ ts, the Justice Department said in a news release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The real purpose, it is alleged, was not to join U.S. forces, but to wage war against them. Stopping one prospective terrorist can prevent untold numbers of casualties,â&#x20AC;? said Janice Fedarcyk, who heads the FBIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New York office. The complaint also alleges that Shehadeh â&#x20AC;&#x153;was the creator and administrator of multiple websites which advocated violent jihad against the west.â&#x20AC;? One of the sites contained photos of jihadist ďŹ ghters, a speech by an al Qaeda leader, an audio recording of YemeniAmerican cleric and militant Anwar al-Awlaki reciting a book on jihad, the complaint says.

To promote one of the sites, according to the complaint, Shehadeh posted on another site: â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is time for the Muslims to start practicing our freedom of speech. ... My brothers of revolution Islam, I am with you as long as you keep struggling. Trust me there are many brothers and sisters in America that are ready to speak up. They just need a push.â&#x20AC;? The complaint also says Shehadeh purchased an airline ticket to travel to Amman, Jordan, in October 2008, but was not allowed to enter the country by Jordanian authorities. The complaint does not say why authorities did not allow him to enter Pakistan and Jordan. In 2009, Shehadeh moved to Hawaii, and later attempted to travel to Somalia. But U.S. authorities informed him he

had been placed on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;no ďŹ&#x201A;yâ&#x20AC;? list and could not travel to Somalia, according to the complaint. In an April conversation with the FBI, Shehadeh said that if he had been allowed to enter Pakistan, â&#x20AC;&#x153;without a doubt, he would have joined the Taliban,â&#x20AC;? the complaint said. Shehadeh will be prosecuted in the Eastern District of New York, the Justice Department said. A cousin, Bader Suleiman, called Shehadeh â&#x20AC;&#x153;a nice kidâ&#x20AC;? and said he was surprised by news of his arrest. Shehadeh spent almost a year in a hospital recovering from a serious car accident three years ago, Suleiman said. Shehadeh moved to Hawaii to study after graduating from Tottenville High School on New York Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Staten Island, Suleiman said.

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Michigan

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Ford rolls as income jumps

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Company’s earns $1.7 billion in 3rd quarter By Dee-Ann Durbin and Tom Krisher The Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford Motor Co.’s third-quarter net income rose 68 percent as it grabbed a bigger share of the U.S. auto market and buyers paid more for its highly-rated cars and trucks. It was Ford’s sixth straight quarterly profit and the company’s best third-quarter performance since at least 1990. Ford CEO Alan Mulally said popular new cars, such as the Ford Fiesta subcompact and Ford Edge wagon, and aggressive cost-cutting helped the company make money despite lower global sales. The automaker said it expects to end the year with as much cash as it has debt, a year earlier than it had previously forecast. Ford, which four years ago mortgaged its factories, blue oval logo and other assets to fund a huge restructuring, said it paid off $2 billion in debt in the third quarter and expects to pay off an additional $3.6 billion for retiree health care on Friday. Ford’s debt will stand at $22.8 billion after those two actions. It has $20.3 billion in cash. When Ford pays its debt to the United Auto Workers health care trust, it will no longer owe the trust any money. The UAW agreed to the trust in 2007, and it began paying health care benefits for 195,000 retirees and spouses in January. The automaker was paying a 9 percent annual interest rate on its obligation to the trust. Ford also said it is launching an offer to convert $3.5 billion in debt to common stock. The offer closes Nov. 23. Ford’s earnings of $1.7 billion, or 43 cents per share, beat Wall Street estimates. Without one-time items, which included a $102 million charge related to Ford’s sale of Volvo, Ford would have earned 48 cents per share. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had forecast earnings of 38 cents per share. Those estimates typically exclude one-time items. In the same quarter a year earlier, Ford earned $1 billion, or 26 cents per share. Ford’s quarterly revenues fell $1 billion, or 3 percent, to $29 billion for the quarter. But Ford said if Volvo’s 2009 revenues were excluded, revenues rose $1.7 billion. For the first three quarters of the year, Ford made $6.4 billion. The company also said it expects all of its regions to be profit-

NASHUA, N.H. — Prosecutors in a New Hampshire home invasion murder case said Tuesday that a woman who was hacked to death used her body to shield her 11-year-old daughter and died not knowing if her only child was alive or dead. Defendant Steven Spader, 18, stared passively as a prosecutor stood before him and called him a ruthless killer during opening statements in his murder trial. Spader is charged with killing Kimberly Cates and attempting to kill her daughter, Jaimie Cates, in their Mont Vernon home a year ago. Assistant Attorney General Peter Hinckley held up a long machete as he described the attacks he said were committed by Spader and co-defendant Christopher Gribble. “They hacked them, they stabbed them, they cut them apart, and this what this defendant used to hack that mother and daughter in their bed,” Hinckley said. The Associated Press

Authorities: All 3 dead in Washington small plane crash CHELALIS, Wash. — Authorities in southwest Washington state say they have found the crash site of an airplane missing with three people on board after a two-day search. Lewis County sheriff’s Chief Deputy Stacy Brown says ground crews spotted the site at about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday but have not been able to reach it because of the rugged terrain and snow. She says they do not yet know the condition of the three people on board. The pilot and two passengers took off Monday morning from Chehalis for Lewiston, Idaho, in a plane registered to Paciﬁc Cataract and Laser Institute in Chehalis. About 10 minutes into the ﬂight, the pilot of the twin-engine Cessna radioed that he was turning back because he lost power in one engine. Brown says the wreckage is about 9 1/2 miles northeast of Morton. Jim Farley, group vice president of Global Marketing and Canada, Mexico and South America, shows off the new Ford Edge at the 2010 Chicago Auto Show. Ford Motor Co.’s third-quarter income rose 68 percent Tuesday. Photo: Jim Prisching/The Associated Press

able in the fourth quarter and all of 2011. In the third quarter, Ford’s European operations posted a $196 million loss, compared with a $131 million proﬁt a year ago, but all other regions made money. Ford Motor Credit Co., the company’s auto loan arm, made $497 million for the third quarter and contributed $1 billion to the parent company. The Dearborn, Mich., automaker offered to convert $3.5 billion in bonds that pay 4.25 percent interest to shares of common stock. The notes, held mainly by hedge funds and other institutional investors, were due in 2016 and 2036. The company said it doesn’t know how many debtholders will take the offer, but if all of them do, it will pay them off with 372 million in previously authorized shares

that had not been sold. Treasurer Neil Schloss said there should be no dilution of the current shares since the shares being used to pay the debt are already on the books. Ford shares were down 2 cents to $14.13 in morning trading. Schloss said once Ford repays the UAW trust, it will have reduced debt this year by $10.8 billion, saving roughly $800 million in annual interest costs. The ﬁgure does not include the $3.5 billion in notes. Despite the repayments, the company still must continue to work on its balance sheet, paying down debt as it generates operating cash, Chief Financial Officer Lewis Booth said. He said the company is getting better prices for its vehicles around the world.

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Former Food Network chef pleads ‘no contest’ in murder plot LOS ANGELES, California — Former TV chef JuanCarlos Cruz faces nine years in prison after pleading “no contest” Tuesday to a charge of soliciting two homeless men to kill his wife, the prosecutor said. The former host of the Food Network’s “Calorie Commando” will be sentenced on December 13, but the plea agreement calls for a nine-year sentence, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said. One count of attempted murder was dropped as part of the plea settlement, the prosecutor said. The plea came just before his preliminary hearing was to begin before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge H. Chester Horn. Fertility issues were at the center of Cruz’s motivation in the murder-for-hire plot to kill his wife, according to sources close to the couple.

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Middle East

Daughter testifies in case By Melissa Nelson The Associated Press PENSACOLA, Fla. — The adult daughter of a slain Florida couple testified Tuesday about a frantic telephone call with a younger sibling who was unable to talk as their parents were being killed by armed intruders. Ashley Markham said the young boy with an unspecified disability could only scream into the phone. She told him to hand the phone to another of the couple’s nine adopted children with special needs, a young girl. Markham said she told the girl to run to the home of a nurse who lived on the property and call for help. “I had a missed call from my mom, I called back and Jake answered the phone. He wasn’t saying anything, he was just screaming. I was asking if he could just let me talk to mom and dad,” Markham said. Nurse Ashley Spencer sobbed as she took the stand and told jurors about how the young girl knocked on her door, begged her to come to the home where she found the bodies of Byrd and Melanie Billings. Spencer entered through a side door and discovered a trail of blood and bullet holes that led to the couple’s bedroom, where she found Byrd Billings face down in one pool of blood and Melanie Billings in another with gunshots through her face and chest. A sheriff’s deputy who was among the first to arrive at the sprawling rural home said officers went through each room and found the children, bringing them to the foot of the main staircase as they worked to secure the crime scene and make sure whoever shot the couple was no longer in the home. Earlier Tuesday, a prosecutor told the jury the ringleader accused of killing the couple was desperate for cash and hatched the plan in hopes of stealing millions from a home safe. State Attorney Bill Eddins said in

By Nasser Karimi Associated Press

The daughter of Byrd and Melanie Billings, Ashley Markham identiﬁes her parent’s home on a photo during her testimony on Tuesday. Leonard Patrick Gonzalez, Jr. is on trial for the murders of Byrd and Melanie Billings. Photo: Tony Giberson/The Associated Press

opening statements that Leonard Patrick Gonzalez Jr., 36, mistakenly thought Byrd and Melanie Billings kept millions at their home. Gonzalez faces a possible death sentence if convicted of killing the couple. Gonzalez, a karate instructor and father of six young children, watched witnesses on Tuesday and talked with his attorneys. He wore leg chains in court but security officers removed his handcuffs. He has been charged with assaulting another jail inmate with a pencil. Investigators say Gonzalez orchestrated the home invasion and required his partners in crime to dress in black, ninjalike garb. Gonzalez’s stepfather was a karate instructor and Gonzalez and his wife also ran a karate business. In testimony on Tuesday, witnesses said Byrd Billings donated $5,000 to a karate charity for children that Gonzalez and his wife ran. The Billings were known for adopting children with special needs. Markham and her husband are now raising the chil-

dren, who were between 4 and 11 when their parents were killed. Gonzalez’s defense attorney told jurors that Gonzalez was the victim of investigators’ rush to arrest someone. “This is going to be called a rush to judgment and arrest but thankfully not rush to judgment and a guilty verdict, that is why we are having a trial,” attorney John Jay Gontarek said. Among the evidence expected to be presented is surveillance video taken from the sprawling home the night of the killings. The shadowy, time-lapse video shows armed intruders dressed in black barging into the couple’s living room. Melanie Billings is seen protectively grabbing what appears to be a child. The Billingses were shot to death in their bedroom, where there were no video cameras. A safe that was taken from the family’s home contained nothing of value, but a second safe that wasn’t stolen had $164,000 in cash, court records show.

Robbery

Bizarre crime under dispute By Joe Mandak The Associated ERIE, Pa. — A woman on trial for a bizarre bank robbery plot in which a pizza delivery driver was killed by a collar bomb he was forced to wear said she ﬁrst saw the man when video of his death was broadcast on the evening news. Testifying in her own defense Tuesday, Marjorie DiehlArmstrong, 61, of Erie, said, “I

never met Brian Wells, and I never knew Brian Wells. I became aware of him on the day that he died.” That testimony clashed strongly with the versions given by other plotters, who claimed Diehl-Armstrong planned the heist and measured Wells’ neck for the bomb collar the day before the robbery, among other deeds. Diehl-Armstrong is charged with armed bank robbery and other crimes for her

alleged role in planning the Aug. 28, 2003, heist and faces life in prison if convicted of all charges. She is already in state prison for killing her boyfriend, allegedly because he knew about the plot. Prosecutors say Wells was in on the plot, at least at ﬁrst, and was forced to put on the bomb collar after ﬁrst being led to believe it would be a fake. He robbed a bank, but was cornered by police in a parking lot nearby. The bomb exploded

while he sat handcuffed, waiting for a bomb squad. Despite her legal predicament and Wells’ grisly death, Diehl-Armstrong had the jury and many spectators laughing during much of her 90 minutes on the stand. Her wit was in evidence even after recounting horriﬁc childhood sexual abuse that she said left her with bipolar and other disorders that sometime drive her manic moods and nearly incessant talking.

History

Rhode Island’s official name debated By Eric Tucker The Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. — This state’s official name — The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations — is more than just a mouthful. To many, it evokes stinging reminders of Rhode Island’s prime role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Voters next Tuesday will decide whether to change the name by dropping the words “and Providence Plantations.” The issue has been debated for years, but lawmakers last year authorized a ballot question for the ﬁrst time following an impassioned debate over race relations, ancestry and history. Supporters of the referendum see the ballot question as a chance to erase the state’s

Iran giving money to Afghanistan

links to slavery. But opponents, including Gov. Don Carcieri, note that the state name actually has nothing to do with slavery and that, in any case, changing it will do nothing to alter history. Michael Vorenberg, a Brown University history professor, said he understands the contemporary connotation of the word “plantations” but favors keeping the name because it provokes questions. “People might naturally say, ‘What does that word mean and why is it in the state name?’ And that may lead to a discussion of the role of slavery in the history of Rhode Island, in the history of New England,” Vorenberg said. The referendum’s prospects are unclear. The issue has been overshadowed by

a competitive gubernatorial race and congressional elections, and advocates of the name change haven’t run advertisements. The four leading gubernatorial candidates all oppose it. “The overall concerns right now are jobs and the economy, and I think that’s foremost in people’s minds, as opposed to altering the name,” Figueroa said. Many Rhode Islanders might not even know its formal name. It isn’t listed on modern maps, though it is on the state seal, is found in many

official state documents and can be heard in the courtroom when the judge is announced. The phrase “Providence Plantations” appeared in the royal charter granted in 1663 by King Charles II to the colony of Rhode Island. At the time, “Plantation” was a general term for settlement or colony. In this case, it referred to the merger of the Providence settlement, which was founded by minister Roger Williams following his banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and nearby towns into a single colony.

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran acknowledged Tuesday it has been sending funds to neighboring Afghanistan for years, but said the money was intended to aid reconstruction, not to buy influence in the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Karzai said Monday he receives millions of dollars in cash from Iran, adding that Washington gives him “bags of money” too because his office lacks funds. In Washington, President Barack Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, denied that. “We’re not in the big bags of cash business,” he said Tuesday. Earlier, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said some of the U.S. aid to Afghanistan is in cash. U.S. officials asserted the money flowing from Tehran was proof that Iran is playing a double game in Afghanistan — wooing the government while helping Taliban insurgents fighting U.S. and NATO forces. Iran denies that. “Iran has provided the country with plenty of help,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Tuesday in his weekly news briefing in Tehran. “Iran has helped construction of Afghanistan and the preparation of its economic infrastructure and it will pursue it in the future, too.” Mehmanparast said Iran’s help began years ago. He said peace and stability in Afghanistan is important for Iran. The acknowledgment prompted a challenge from seven Iranian lawmakers who demanded that Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki appear before parliament to clarify the payments, according to news site www.Khabaronline.ir. The call indicated that lawmakers — who have the power to impeach ministers — were unaware of the payments. Under Iran’s constitution, government funds sent abroad, including aid donations and loans, must get parliamentary approval. In a letter, the lawmakers demanded to know the amount of money sent over the past five years, where it came from, the way it was transferred and the legal basis for the payments. On Saturday, The New York Times reported that Iran was giving bags of cash to President Karzai’s chief of staff, Umar Daudzai, to buy his loyalty and promote Iranian interests in Afghanistan. The Times quoted unidentified sources as saying the cash amounted to a slush fund that Karzai and Daudzai used to pay lawmakers, tribal elders — and even Taliban commanders — to secure their loyalty. Karzai told reporters Monday that he had instructed Daudzai, a former ambassador to Iran, to accept the money from Tehran. Before Karzai spoke, the Iranian Embassy in Afghanistan dismissed the allegations that the Iranian government was making cash payments to Daudzai, calling them “ridiculous and insulting.” Iran publicly opposed the U.S.-led offensive that toppled the Taliban after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, though its relations with the Taliban regime had been frosty. Iran is believed to not want the Taliban to return to power. But it remains wary of a long-term U.S. military presence on its doorstep in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Editorial

Reach out to out-of-touch politicians

You’ll have to forgive us if our politicking gets a bit old. Fear not, Daily faithful — the end is near. We don’t blame you for not caring, we’d be awfully hypocritical if we did. It’s not that you aren’t concerned with what’s happening to the country, it’s just that we’re not sure what we can do about it. As a culture, we’ve been told our entire lives what precious little snowflakes we are and about the wonders of Democracy. Maybe it’s that we’ve grown accustomed to the round-the-clock coverage of our political quagmire —nonstop partisan bickering with no end in sight. We were just as jazzed to vote for Obama as the next person, that’s for sure. In retrospect, the prospect of one man bringing change to the upper echelons of the political elite seems like a naive, almost grade-school notion, but back in 2008, we couldn’t be stopped. Maybe it was the overwhelming discontent with the Bush policies on ... well ... everything ... but for a few measly months there, we were all doing it —we actually cared about the electoral process. It’s not that we don’t care, it’s just that politics have been so hyper-polarized lately we’ve become cynical about the process itself. In 2004, the only thing more difficult than voting to retain George W. Bush as commander-in-chief was voting for John Kerry to take the helm. In 2010, the same kind of indifference still exists. Asking a complete stranger we’ve only met through debates and TV ads to represent popular sentiment on a national level is always a bit of a stretch. There’s always been a substantial generation gap between career politicians and the college demographic, but in the era of YouTube and smart phones, it’s all the more apparent. It’s amusing, in a ha-ha funny sort of sense, to watch politician’s attempts at rallying the youth vote. Thanks to social media slowly usurping the last vestiges of our residual humanity, you’ll find most politicians on Facebook or Twitter. This says something about the sad state of interpersonal communication, but even more about just how out-of-touch your average politician is. We have the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips on a daily basis, and odds are most of us can’t name our Senator or Congressman. Do you have any idea who’s running for Iowa Senate in your district? Do you care? Probably not. Despite what John Q. Politician’s Twitter feed says, our political hang-ups will probably continue to fall on deaf ears. We’ll be told to shut up and enjoy our tuition hikes. We’ll probably be told it could be a lot worse, never mind that it’s increasing twice as fast as regular inflation. We’ll have a laugh at the Proposition 19 vote, even if it passes, but most of us know the federal government isn’t about to stand for that. People that want change — real change — in politics are labeled “radicals” and cast aside. Ron Paul has become the model candidate for a modern-day grassroots political movement, largely thanks to the Internet, yet was still given “fringe” treatment during the Republican debates. It’s out of our hands, folks. “Business as usual” might become a pejorative term during an election year, but politics has a long way to go before we can expect anything less. This is where you come in, the youth. If you aren’t happy with where we are headed, do what you can to change it. The first and foremost thing you should do is vote. The politicians didn’t reach you. Maybe it’s time for you to reach them.

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Media

TV companies need to think about their consumers when making decisions about what to put online. Graphic: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily

Rethink TV strategy

By Rick.Hanton iowastatedaily.com

21st century viewers expect instant access

ews corporations and television studios need to stop trying to dictate what I watch and when I want to watch it. It seems that the media industry is fighting the transition to digital media at every turn and has been doing so for more than a decade. Cable companies and news stations make big bucks by charging you for the 100plus channels normally available on cable or satellite TV and then charging companies to advertise to you. It makes sense that they don’t want to give up their big paychecks as the world slowly realizes that structured television programming isn’t necessary in today’s digital age. But they need to realize that they must adapt to the new viewing environment or be left behind. I know that, personally, I see very little difference between going online to play back an episode of my favorite shows and sitting on my couch and watching them on TV. Heck, if I wanted to watch the shows that stream from the Internet on my TV, there are a multitude of devices that will allow me to stream the shows to the TV from the Internet like the Roku box. If I have a choice between paying $80 and $100 per month for cable television and paying $50 per month for only Internet access, I would pick Internet-only hands down. I’m sure that considering the options, you would probably do the same. You could even throw in a subscription to Hulu Plus or Netflix for an extra $10 or $15 per month and still save money. Years ago, it all began with the networks laying out their battle plans against consumers who could decide to make digital copies or backups of their digital media. Those battle plans turned into legislation known as

the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which criminalized any measures of circumventing digital privacy protection software, which they then proceeded to add to all digital media. So, while I can grab two VCRs and copy VHS tapes as much as I want, it is technically illegal for me to make similar copies digitally with DVDs or Blu-Ray disks. Over time, media companies slowly allowed their creations to percolate online through Amazon, iTunes and Hulu, where they can still be carefully controlled — not by you, the purchaser, but by them, the creators. Should they decide to no longer let you re-download the content or should they no longer support that service after you lose your copy, there is no getting it back — a good reason to still buy physical disks. You may also run into the issue that some services like iTunes won’t let you display the shows or movies you paid for if you are not using devices with High-bandwidth Digital Copy Protection, another DMCA lockdown for digital media. The latest salvo in this battle happened the other day when News Corp, the owner of Fox Networks, forced Hulu to remove Fox content from Hulu, but only for customers of Cablevision, a large East Coast cable telecom company. Why would News Corp want to selectively remove the content flowing to users of one utility provider? To show Cablevision it meant business, as the two companies negotiated over the increased rates that News Corp wants from cable companies for the Fox Networks channels. Hours later News Corp turned back on the Fox shows on Hulu as it changed tactics in the battle for higher fees, but it demonstrated that a service we consider “free” or “ad-supported” on the Internet is really only free as long as our Internet service provider is paid up with the right people. My other problem with the current digital distribution model is that while Hulu

and broadcasters’ websites — Fox.com, CBS.com, etc. — let me watch TV programs online, some shows appear for online viewing while others don’t, and some shows appear the next day while others take more than a week. Yes, maybe I was busy during the one hour that “House” was on last night and missed the new episode, but then I am forced to wait a week to catch the episode? This just seems like a massive annoyance and from what I see online, it is based on the fact that cable and broadcast TV companies are paying a premium for the fact that you can only see each episode on TV for a week before it appears on the Internet. Then, of course after giving the networks this exclusive right, the producers complain when people share the episode online over video-sharing services because the producers provided no ad-supported alternatives. It seems like those show producers are digging their own graves by not listening to their end-customers. If the problem is money, I think the producers, networks and cable companies need to figure out how to make the amount of money they feel like they need online or take a pay cut. They are just going to alienate viewers by blocking access to shows online while complaining about viewers who download illegal digital copies of their shows when given no other legal option. I think a lot of people would be happy to watch ad-supported versions of their favorite shows online rather than pirate ad-less content from a file-sharing service on the other side of the world, but with no options to catch up on their favorite show, they simply take the only option available. I hope the media companies grow up and realize that times are changing and generation Y is not tied down to its old scheduled programming model. Working against us will only hurt them in the long run.

Random

Everything you care about By RJ.Green iowastatedaily.com

Vuvuzelas, AXE, televangelism, and much more I think the likelihood of you becoming eskimo brothers with someone you know increases exponentially each year you’re in college together. I typed that last sentence for the sole purpose of having a few hundred people look up what an eskimo brother was. California is in the throes of the worst whooping cough outbreak in 60 years. Part of that blame is going to Jenny McCarthy being an idiot and throwing a fit about the mercury level of the antiseptic that used to be used in vaccines — Thiomersal. Apparently posing on the cover of Playboy doesn’t make you privy to the knowledge that the trace amounts of ethylmercury found in Thiomersal is chemically different form the methylmercury found in fish, which is toxic in huge doses, but still not responsible for autism. Then there’s the part where the author of the study linking Thiomersal to autism rates fiddled with the data, but let’s forget that part. I guess if you’d rather have your child drown in their own snot based on your opinion of junk science, that’s awesome. I don’t go to school or know about these things.

RJ’s one-word movie review of the week — “Jackass 3D”: Wieners. This thing about hard hits in the NFL is antithetical to football. I can understand the helmet-to-helmet contact being frowned upon, and concussions suck, but hitting hard is part of the game. If you want to slow the game down, get rid of the pads. Holding would be blatantly obvious, everyone would have to wrap their tackles and nobody would pull half the crap they’d try decked out in gear. I still think hockey is probably the most badass of the big organized sports. The amount of coordination alone is commendable, but the fact that they’re doing it all on ice skates is ridiculous. Most of those guys don’t even wear face guards. They might as well put spikes on the pads and set the goals on fire, and maybe put alligators somewhere? The best part about that last sentence is how tame their implementation into hockey seems compared to almost any other sport. Although, if there is one sport that does need pads, it’s soccer. Maxipads. Did you watch the World Cup? You can try to hate on football, but at least they’re trying to run into each other, not prancing around like a bunch of sissies in a contest to see who can pretend to fall

down first. I’ll tell you where you can stick that vuv ... er ... vulva ... valulv ... vbzfbrthbp ... I’M GOING TO BEAT YOU TO DEATH WITH IT IS WHAT I’M GONNA DO! Vuvuzela. RJ’s one-sentence book review: If you haven’t been sad lately, read Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.” AXE body fragrance dropped T.I. from promotional campaigns thanks to violating his probation stemming from federal weapon charges. Apparently, dudes in Ed Hardy shirts have strong opinions about these things, especially when it comes to deodorant. I don’t understand the rule about soccer kicks in American MMA. How is kicking someone in the face while they’re on the ground worse than doing it while they’re standing? I get the “no stomps” rule, but it’d definitely change the sprawland-brawl tactics. The Japanese love the soccer kicks, and they don’t ever cheer during the match. They also have a “no elbows” rule, not because of safety, but because they don’t want cuts to stop fights. Why? The Japanese are awesome, that’s why. North Korea is detonating a third atomic bomb — atomic as in “fission” — isn’t that cute? The last test those

crazies did was 15 kilotons of TNT — the equivalent of the Hiroshima blast. We blew up the first hydrogen bomb in 1952. We have single-shot nukes in the 1,500-kiloton range strapped to fighter jets, sure, but allow me to tell you the kind of awesome our grandparents spent their tax dollars on: Single-shot nukes are old and busted. Our submarines carry missiles with MIRV warheads. These can rain up to 12 500-kiloton explosions, but we pinky-promised we’d only shoot five at a time in the latest nuke treaty. I condescend to our nuclear arms treaty, because MIRVs were our way of getting around the first treaties to reduce the number of missiles. Go America. There’s a Facebook algorithm that doesn’t show photos of your exes in that stupid memories thing you forgot existed on the top right-hand side of pages. Seriously. Things exist thanks to the gullibility of people: herbal supplements, vitamin suppliments, GNC, televangelism/Fox News — they’re the same thing, astrology, this column, chiropractic, D.A.R.E., scientology, political correctness, undergraduate science degrees, this column, half of all children, intelligent design, marriage, the TSA, Cracker Barrel, the recession and congress. Oh snap.

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010 | Iowa State Daily | OPINION | 11A

Voting

Politics

Absentee ballot requests

Consider third parties By Curtis.Powers iowastatedaily.com

By Jason.Arment iowastatedaily.com

How to fulﬁll your duty even if you’re not an Ames native

oday I realized I wont be able to vote here in Story County because I’m registered to vote in Polk County. I’m guessing this applies to quite a few students here at Iowa State, given our proximity to the Des Moines area and its surrounding suburbs. If you need to request an absentee ballot, look up this column on the Iowa State Daily website. It will be under the Opinion tab, and you will also be able to find it by searching the word “absentee.” There will be a PDF attached that you will need to print out and fill out. Once it is filled out, fax it to 515-286-2099. If you don’t know how to send a fax, don’t be embarrassed to ask someone for help. After you fax it, mail the printed out PDF with your signature on it to the address on the PDF. You need to do this because they need to have the document with your original signature on file. You should get your absentee ballot in a day or two. You need to get this ballot mailed out by Nov. 1. As long as it is postmarked Nov. 1, it’ll be OK if it gets to them after that day. This doesn’t, however, mean that you can wait until Thursday or Friday to send for your absentee ballot, as you may not receive it in the mail in time if you wait that long. Please fulfill your duty as a citizen to vote. Do yourself a favor and vote to keep the current Iowa Supreme Court justices. Also be sure to vote yes for Iowa’s Water and Land Legacy.

Alternative groups need party status

merica needs third parties, fo’ real. It strikes me odd that we don’t want politics as usual, and yet, we still are a two -arty system. Really? If you don’t want politics as usual, you need new parties. You need the Green Party, the Libertarian Party, and you most deﬁnitely need The Rent is Too Damn High Party. Haven’t heard of that last one yet? Well, let me enlighten you. It was founded by a guy named Jimmy McMillan and he is currently running for governor of New York. He has also run for the Senate and New York City mayor in the past. He became a YouTube sensation last week after the New York governor’s debate which featured all seven of the candidates, including the madame who hooked up former New York governor Eliot Spitzer and a former Black Panther. Even with such a diverse audience, McMillan stole the show. His campaign centers around the issue of rent. In his mind, the rent is too damn high. In an ironic twist then, the New York Times discovered that McMillan hasn’t actually paid rent since the 1980s when he fell behind on payments because he was disabled and away from his job as a postal worker. Once his landlord learned of his decorated service in Vietnam — he won three bronze stars — they made arrangements for him to work for

his rent. Entertainment aside, third parties should be able to play a vital role in the political arena. If you watched the whole governor’s debate, you saw Republican Carl Paladino outmatched by many of the other third party candidates. It’s no wonder then that he now trails in polls by an astounding 37 points. His anti-LGBT comments probably didn’t help either. And that means the media needs to be open to the idea. After the New York debate, you saw headlines like “Fringe 5 spice up N.Y. Debate” and “Farcical Five Faceoff Among Gubernatorial Candidates.” Major TV networks had people asking why the debate featured candidates who couldn’t win. To which I respond, they have no chance because you don’t give them a chance. As you can see, the media plays a major role in elections. Face time on television, newspapers, etc. plays a huge role. If candidates don’t get an opportunity in debates like that then they have no chance because voters don’t know who they are. And if voters don’t know who they are, then candidates can’t raise donations for their campaigns. Well, unless they’re rich. In that case though, they’d probably already be a Democrat or Republican. Without campaign money, they can’t campaign as much and put ads on television and in various publications. So when you consider who to vote this election season, consider

Jimmy McMillan, candidate for Rent is 2 Damn High party, makes a point during the 2010 New York State gubernatorial debate at Hoftstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. on Oct. 18. Photo: Kathy Kmonicek/The Associated Press

third-party candidates. Give them a chance. Sure, your vote may not elect them this cycle, but if enough people vote for one, then that party might gain major party status. That’s what Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Eric Cooper is doing. Once that happens, a party can gain momentum and may become viable in future elections to the point where its candidates are winning elections. Think of it this way. It’s kind of like the David vs. Goliath story

you hear a lot about, especially in reference to sports. David’s this little guy going up against a giant because no other Israelite wants to ﬁght him. He has no shot. All he has are a few stones and yet, he kills Goliath. With a throw of stone, it’s over. Third parties are like David with no stones. They just need an opportunity. Give them a shot. They can fail, but what if they don’t? Wouldn’t it be worth knowing that?

Technology

Consumerism

The Apple trap

Killing craftmanship

By Heath.Verhasselt iowastatedaily.com

Don’t trade functionality for ease of use

ust the other day in Cupertino, Calif., Steve Jobs was giving a keynote to a packed room of journalists, bloggers and other media personnel. Things started off as usual, with Jobs sharing statistics with the audience and then starting the parade of developers to help show off the new software they were releasing. Apple iLife ’11 was talked about the most with its new features and how it makes editing movies and music all that much easier. It was after this iLife ’11 announcement that Jobs got into the nitty gritty. It was at that point he revealed the identity of Apple’s next OS, the Mac OSX Lion. He revealed the name and then started to talk about some of its amazing features with his “We really

think you’re going to love it” attitude. He started talking about how the company is trying to combine the iPad and its Mac computers as much as possible. At ﬁrst, I remembered a rumor about how there was going to be a touch-screen iMac coming out, but as he got further into it, I dismissed that idea. This was something more, this was something earth-shattering. This was the Mac App Store. It’s as plain as it sounds, an App Store for your Mac. This sounds like a logical step in the right direction; however, this is just a signal of what’s to come. Apple is famous for making both consumption devices such as the iPod, iPhone and the iPad, as well as content-creation devices with its MacBooks and iMacs. But by giving its computers the App Store, too, I’m sure you can see where this is going. Apple makes way too much money by selling you music, movies and apps to

not put those three things for sale on your computer system, too. The overall functionality of your computer will be limited to what you can buy from the App Store, and although this will make it easier to use, it will severely limit the use of the machine. Now, of course people who create the content Apple will sell you will still need to able to create such things on some sort of special-edition Mac, or you can still use your PC. But this just points out the direction Apple would like to take the industry — with a walled garden, total control, limited functionality computers and other devices. This keynote will be forever known as the day the modern operating system as we know it came to an end. Consumers get a say in this as well: If you don’t want a locked-down machine, don’t buy a Mac. With bad numbers from quarter to quarter, Apple could have no choice but to change its model. Only time can tell

Letter:

I will vote yes for natural resources For a state whose lifeblood is our rich soils, Iowa’s natural resource record seems short-sighted. Iowa currently ranks 49 out of 50 states in public lands, and 47 out of 50 states in natural resource spending. The Department of Natural Resources cannot adequately maintain our state parks. Farmers alone cannot afford to fund voluntary conservation measures. Currently, our state is losing a staggering average of ﬁve tons of topsoil, per acre, per year. Half of Iowa’ s topsoil has already washed away. We have 500 impaired waterways, and our excess nutrients are contributing to creating an enormous dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Major ﬂood events are increasing, at great human and economic cost. Song-bird and other wild-life populations continue to decline as their habitat is degraded. Fortunately, on Nov. 2, every Iowan will have an

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unprecedented opportunity to weigh in on these concerns. On the back of the ballot is Question 1, known as Iowa’s Water and Land Legacy, to create a constitutionally protected Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation Trust Fund. This will be ﬁnanced through a small percentage of any future sales tax increase. In Missouri and other states, similar dedicated funds have worked well to increase the share of state funding going to natural resources. IWILL represents a state-wide commitment to a sustainable future. It will help maintain Iowa’s legendary agricultural productivity, preserve habitat and create jobs linked to outdoor recreation. A majority vote is needed to have this measure pass. I will turn over my ballot and vote YES for IWILL, and I hope you will, too.

By Micheal.Belding iowastatedaily.com

Mass production destroys quality, think long term

hen was the last time you bought something made in the United States? If you asked me, I wouldn’t be able to tell you. But American factories do exist. We build airplanes, high-tech machinery, furniture and generally well-made products. I’m not trying to say we should buy only American goods, or that we should try to attract more manufacturing jobs to the United States. I do, however, believe that the way products are made in the world today should change. Mass production kills craftsmanship. I’m sure that some of you have heard the story that the original working incandescent lamp, produced by Thomas Edison, is still lit somewhere in what is now the Rust Belt. The signiﬁcance of this story is not grounded in its truthfulness or untruthfulness. Its signiﬁcance is in that it illustrates how different manufacturing was in the 1880s from subsequent decades. The anecdote shows how, in decades past, we took pride in the quality and endurance of our products. I’m sure you’ve heard of planned

obsolescence. This is the idea that companies deliberately produce goods that they are planning on improving later on. It seems like most electronic products are made to be thrown away after a year. I cannot tell you how many people I’ve met who have said their DVD player, VCR or even their television set or computer died shortly after the year-long warranty expired. I’m not sure I believe that corporations are evil and want to take your money with strict regularity. For the most part, they are probably trying to make reasonably durable goods at a cost lots of people can actually afford. There are two activities by which we sustain and improve our physical lives. They are labor and work. Labor is subsistence. Work is craftsmanship. Work is the third pig building a house of brick and mortar instead of straw or sticks. The house of brick will stand indeﬁnitely; the houses of straw and sticks will have to be rebuilt repeatedly. Mass production is more like labor. The goods have to be reproduced regularly and do not endure. Works, on the other hand, survive their use much longer. The phrase “they just don’t make them like they used to” is true. It seems like we no longer pride ourselves on creating quality products

that will last. Roads in particular come to mind. I understand that this is Iowa and the weather here is volatile and harsh on human constructions. But there has to be a better way of building our infrastructure. And if we would take the time to engineer roads that needed to be resurfaced only once each decade, we would save money both on upkeep and on wear to our cars and trucks. Designing and constructing things to last is in our self-interest. Medieval guilds used to restrict entry into certain professions with legal authority. Admission required a certain sequence of training and education. Guilds also regulated standards of production. The result, however unfree employment was, was that quality products were produced. Certain objects, sophisticated in nature, should never be mass produced. Computers, cars and watches come to mind. They all have intricate components that must work in sync for the complete object to be useful. Mass production compromises the integrity of the products’ sellers. Anything worth doing is doing well, no matter how long it takes. I agree with the Roman Emperor Augustus: “Whatever is done well is done with speed enough.”

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Weddings with an

Unusual

Twist

(just in time for Halloween!) By Wendy Sloan Daily Staff Writer It’s Halloween evening. You have decided to take a walk through a park before a night of trick-or-treating. During your stroll, you stumble across an intimate wedding ceremony. The closer you get to the ceremony, the more you realize this isn’t a typical wedding. All of the guests are fully dressed in Halloween costumes, but your eyes aren’t on the guests. You are drawn straight to the bride and groom. You don’t see the typical white wedding gown and tux. Instead, you see an attractive woman covered in silver body paint. The only “clothing” on her body is strategically placed leaves in all of the appropriate places. The groom appears to be dressed like a leprechaun. You might be thinking this would never happen, but it did. The fairy tale-themed Halloween wedding is one of the many unusual weddings Bonnie Rosa-Mosena has planned throughout the years. Rosa-Mosena, certiﬁed wedding planner of Perfect Events in Clive, said this particular wedding took place more than 10 years ago. “Everyone had to come in costumes to the wedding,” Rosa-Mosena said. “The bride and groom loved Halloween. They were really into fairies and fairy tales, so she wanted to look like a nymph. It had the ‘wow’ factor.” A wedding like this one isn’t going to be for everyone. However, if couples are looking to have a slightly nontraditional wedding, choosing a different venue might be a plausible option. Rosa-Mosena said that choosing an atypical location or venue is one way for couples to be a little different and show their personalities. “As a planner it’s my job to do whatever the bride and groom want,” Rosa-Mosena said. “Some people have the strangest requests.” Here’s a little taste of some of the more unusual venues and ways to get married. Have your ceremony underwater A rather nontraditional wedding venue for RosaMosena was underwater in the ocean. Seems impossible, doesn’t it? It’s not. “The couple loved the Bahamas and snorkeling. So we had the wedding in the Bahamas,” Rosa-Mosena said. A smaller bridal party waited on the beach, while the bride, groom and a pastor performed the official ceremony underwater. Tie the knot at a doughnut store Even though many of the more unusual wedding venues take place outside, that is not always the case. In Portland, Ore., a local doughnut store chain doubles as a wedding chapel. Voodoo Doughnuts’ employees work as wedding officiates and can perform legal weddings in all three of their locations in Portland. The stores offer a variety of wedding packages, starting at an “intentional commitment,” a non-legal ceremony without doughnuts or coffee. The remaining packages all include a legal ceremony and other extras from the use of their Chapel, doughnut centerpieces, catered doughnuts and coffee for guests, to full airfare to Portland with hotel accommodations and a tour. Sara Heise, executive wrangler and wedding coordinator at Voodoo Doughnuts, estimated that the stores perform between 40 and 60 weddings a year. And she says that Halloween is one of their busiest times for weddings. “We already have eight couples getting married on Halloween day this year,” Heise said. Every wedding at Voodoo Doughnut begins by the officiate “evoking the voodoo spirits” to see if the couple should be married. Heise said the store needs a sign from the voodoo gods above to approve the marriage. Next, each ceremony has the standard wedding vows. During the end of the ceremony, a broom is placed on the ground in front of the bride and groom, and the couple jumps the broom to start their honeymoon, Heise said.

Clockwise from top: Some stranger wedding locations include Hawaiian volcanoes, underwater, Prairie Meadows and a doughnut shop, said wedding planner Bonnie Rosa-Mosena of Perfect Events in Clive. Photo Illustration: Bryan Langfeldt/Iowa State Daily Even cats have been married at Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland, Ore. Courtesy photo: Sara Heise/Voodoo Doughnuts Unique destination weddings don’t have to cost a fortune, if the couple is willing to be creative and ﬂexible. Photo Illustration: Bryan Langfeldt/Iowa State Daily

Even cats can get married at Voodoo Doughnuts “There was a cat show in town and some customers requested their cats get married,” Heise said. She said the cats were even dressed up as a bride and groom. Who was the officiate for the wedding, you might ask? A Voodoo Doughnut employee that goes by Kat Meow.

the entire zoo, allowing them to walk around and view the exhibits on their special day.

Get hitched in Vegas, but not at a little chapel During her years as a wedding planner, Rosa-Mosena has planned two separate weddings in Sin City. She said one was an Elvis-themed wedding, where the couple had their ceremony at an Elvis convention. “There were multiple Elvis’ at the wedding, skinny and fat,” Rosa-Mosena remembered. “The bride was crazy about that stuff.” A more challenging wedding that Rosa-Mosena planned in Las Vegas was a Renaissance-themed wedding. She said that the couple didn’t want any part of their wedding to be modern, so Rosa-Mosena said she had to do lots of research. “Everyone had to dress in Renaissance clothing; I even had to rent a costume,” she said. Everything about the wedding had to be authentic to the Renaissance era, including the music, games, decorations and even the lack of silverware. Spend your special day at the zoo Maybe you don’t have the budget to travel to Portland or Las Vegas for your wedding, but you still want to do something a little different when you get married. You can always have your wedding at the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines. Couples can choose to have their ceremony, reception or both at the zoo during certain times of the year. Blank Park Zoo has both indoor and outdoor facilities, and offers couples different packages for their wedding. For example, the “lion package” includes a location for the ceremony, reception, dinner, dancing and a buffet. The more expensive packages give couples the option to use

Pulling off an unusual wedding Typically, these weddings involve extra planning and work. Rosa-Mosena explained that most of the destination weddings she’s planned consist of a small bridal party for the ceremony on location, and then a larger reception back at home. “It requires double planning,” Rosa-Mosena said. “I’m planning the reception at home with the friends and family, on top of the unusual request.” For the underwater wedding, Rosa-Mosena said she had to obtain rights to have the wedding at the location and ﬁnd a pastor willing to perform a wedding ceremony underwater. Another wedding that required some extra legwork for Rosa-Mosena was for a couple whose wedding wish was to be married on an active volcano in Hawaii. “They were geologists. Their ceremony was right on the edge of the volcano,” she remembered. This wedding was more difficult to plan because the volcano was in a national park, so the couple had to gain permission to be married there. It doesn’t have to cost a fortune Even though some of these weddings might have been fairly expensive, Rosa-Mosena mentioned that getting married in a special location doesn’t always mean extra money. “It depends on what the couple wants,” she said. “If you want to get married in the Bahamas, it might cost more.” However, she said there are plenty of cool things that couples can do without spending a lot of money. “We work with couples to create a budget and really focus on staying within the budget for the event.” Or, couples can always get married at Voodoo Doughnuts, where “The Whole Shebang” package — including a legal wedding ceremony, airfare to Portland, hotel accommodations and a tour — costs a total of $4,500. Not too bad for a destination wedding.

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Kayla Slycord, daughter of Mike and Kendra Slycord, and Brock Martin, son of Bob and Cindy Martin, are pleased to announce their engagement and upcoming wedding. Slycord, of Oskaloosa, is a senior at Iowa State majoring in apparel merchandising, design and production. Martin, of Oskaloosa, is a junior at Iowa State majoring in logistics and supply chain management. The couple will marry June 18, 2011.

Lindsey Loomer, daughter of Scott and Joni Loomer, and Trent Jacobson, son of John and Barb Jacobson, are pleased to announce their engagement and upcoming wedding. Loomer, of Maple Grove, Minn., is an alumna of Iowa State, graduating in May 2010 with a degree in advertising. She is currently employed by Prime Advertising and Design in Maple Grove. Jacobson, of Chanhassen, Minn., is a senior at Iowa State majoring in materials engineering. He is currently employed by the university as a research assistant at Ames Laboratory. The couple will marry on Sept. 24, 2011, in Chanhassen, Minn.

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Abbey Richardson, daughter of Donald and Laura Richardson, and Clint Luellen, son of Tim and Winette Luellen, are pleased to announce their engagement and upcoming wedding. Richardson, of Minburn, is a senior at Iowa State majoring in agricultural studies. Luellen, of Minburn, is a senior at Iowa State majoring in agricultural systems technology. The couple will marry Sept. 3, 2011

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Elyse Weed, daughter of Randy and Lori Weed, and Dean Sorensen, son of Brad and Sue Sorensen, are pleased to announce their engagement and upcoming wedding. Weed, of Charter Oak, is a senior at Iowa State majoring in elementary education. Sorensen, of Harlan, graduated in 2010 from Iowa State with a degree in agriculture studies, and is currently farming for Heartland Technology Solutions in Harlan. The couple will marry June 18, 2011, in Harlan.

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spiritual world and natural world are seen as combined in the pagan religion. Both are alive and honored in everyone. Many pagan weddings are held outside near the time of a full moon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The full moon is a time for new beginnings,â&#x20AC;? Davis said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and what better way to honor the goddess and god than to begin a new life with one that you love.â&#x20AC;? The wedding is usually set up in a circle format instead of an aisle and rows. A circle is made out of ďŹ&#x201A;owers, herbs and salt. Outside the circle is where the guests sit, and the only people who enter the circle are the couple and the priest or priestess. The groomsmen, or guides, are set up at positions called â&#x20AC;&#x153;gates,â&#x20AC;? which are located at the north, east, south and west sides of the circle. When the bride enters the circle, the priest will walk slowly around and pause at each â&#x20AC;&#x153;gateâ&#x20AC;? to call the elements: earth, air, ďŹ re and water. This action is called â&#x20AC;&#x153;casting the circle,â&#x20AC;? and it blesses the joining of the couple Next, a bell is rang three times to signal the most beloved part of the wedding, the handfasting. Davy said handfasting represents â&#x20AC;&#x153;commitment for a year, or as long as the love shall last.â&#x20AC;? During the handfasting ceremony couples bind hands in a ďŹ gure-eight form. Davy said this is an ancient symbol of joining man and woman. While holding hands, the couple whispers their vows. The priest gently binds their wrists with a red chord that symbolizes love. The knots of the chord signify bond of their commitment. Many other colored chords are used as well, and each symbolizes a different thing.

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Wedding planner explains bridal superstitions By Sarah Bougie Daily Staff Writer The day has ﬁnally arrived. It’s your wedding day and you have 1,000 thoughts running through your head. What if the cake gets ruined? Where are my ﬂowers? What happens if I trip? What if he doesn’t show up? Now, on top of all that, various family members are feeding your paranoia with crazy superstitions and traditions that will destroy your marriage if you don’t follow them correctly. Weddings have had centuries to accumulate customs and rituals meant to keep the

couple happy and in good fortune. If you’re worried about cursing your marriage before it even starts, Molly Henderson, a wedding planner in Minneapolis, has the solutions to three popular wedding superstitions. Why do brides wear veils? Henderson explains that brides have historically worn veils because it was said to hide their faces from evil spirits. “It was said that the veil disguised the bride’s face and evil spirits wouldn’t be able to recognize her and ruin her wedding,” Henderson said. She explains that modern

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brides usually do not wear a full veil that covers their face anymore. “Ironically, veils are used now more as an accessory for the bride to separate herself from the crowd and show she is the bride,” said Henderson. Why must the groom carry his bride over the threshold? A well-known superstition claims that before entering the room of a couples’ honeymoon location or ﬁrst home, the groom must pick up and carry the bride through the door. Henderson explains that this superstition also has to do with evil spirits. “It was believed that evil spirits follow the couple after the wedding, and if the bride tripped on the threshold, she would let the evil spirits overcome her,” Henderson said. She explains that the tradition has transformed into the groom showing the bride he’ll always protect her. “If the bride does trip or the groom doesn’t offer to carry her, it is said that their wedding will be doomed,” Henderson said.

What is the signiﬁcance of something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue? It is suggested that the bride wear or carry something old, new, borrowed and blue on her wedding day to recognize the past, look forward to the future, borrow happiness and ensure love and good fortune. “Something old represents the continuation of the past and moving into the future,” Henderson said. “Usually, it’s a family heirloom like jewelry or an item a past bride has carried like a handkerchief.” Henderson explains that the best way to get something old is to talk to parents, grandparents and other relatives to see if they have any ideas. “Something new represents optimism and the new life the couple is entering together,” Henderson said. She said that, because most brides buy a new dress for their wedding, something new is the easiest of the four to get. “Something borrowed is supposed to represent borrowed happiness or wisdom,”

A popular wedding superstition is that the woman who catches the bride’s tossed bouquet will be the next to be married. Photo illustration: Yue Wu/Iowa State Daily

Henderson said. “The bride should borrow an item from a happily married couple to borrow their good fortune.” She explains that the something borrowed can be from relatives or friends that are important to the couple. “The color blue symbolizes love, ﬁdelity and good luck,” Henderson said. “The bride is supposed to carry something blue to ensure all of these things.”

Henderson explains that brides are getting more and more creative with their something blue. She said that she has seen brides who carry a blue gem in their ﬂowers, wear blue nail polish, have blue-tinted jewelry or even wear blue underwear. “Ultimately, your wedding should be your wedding,” Henderson said. “Don’t waste time worrying about silly superstitions.”

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wedding planners and their clients often run into horrors on wedding days all year round. From police showing up to retain an unwelcome ex to the wedding dress bursting at the seams, many types of disasters can haunt a couple’s union. Midwest wedding planners have shared some of their most disastrous stories and frequent mishaps that haunt brides and grooms. Barb Krousey, owner of Barb’s Bridal & Wedding Services in Little Falls, Minn., had an outdoor ceremony as one of her first weddings. A couple planned the wedding at their home. The day before the ceremony, the groom fixed the trim on the house and fell off of his ladder. He ended up with a broken ankle and a broken leg and was taken to spend the night in the hospital. With the groom in surgery, the bride desperately called Krousey to tell her the bad news and told her how worried she was that the wedding would be canceled. However, they just decided to keep everything on task for the next day, Krousey said. Sure enough, the groom arrived in a cast ready to be wheeled down the aisle. “He was all drugged up, he barely knew where he was,” Krousey said. “But the ceremony went on and the reception began with the first dance in a wheelchair. They’ve now been married for 13 years and have three children.” Stories like Krousey’s prove that a happy ending is always possible, no matter how many calamities hit a wedding plan.

Another wedding planned by Krousey involved travel from the ceremony to the reception hall. The bride found out the day before that the reception facility had doublebooked the event. She called Krousey in a panic. Krousey calmed her down, found a supper club that they converted for the reception, ordered a dance floor and redesigned the layout and decorations. A sign was posted at the old place to direct other guests to the new location. During the whole situation, the bride was extremely upset and worried. During one conversation, Krousey told her, “The important thing is that you’re getting married. This fiasco will just be a story to tell for years to come and the moral of that story will be ‘we got married.’” Krousey, with six weddings to decorate that weekend, decided she could donate some time to help serve food at the couple’s reception. While she waited for the wedding party to arrive, a man in denim overalls was first to walk through the door. “I’m here for my free drink,” he said. Apparently, the bride and groom’s limo had broken down and the man had given them a lift to the reception hall. Krousey couldn’t believe it and waited for a frantic bride. The bride arrived, made a beeline to Krousey, gave her hug and asked, “Guess what?” Figuring she’d tell her about the limo breaking down, Krousey shrugged. The bride replied, “We got married!” While wedding planners

can often save the day, some situations are just too out of control to prevent. The most common problem for Brenda Lundorff of Bridal Boutique in St. Cloud, Minn., is brides insisting on ordering their gowns a size or two small since they plan to lose weight for the wedding. “This obviously doesn’t always happen,” Lundorff said. “And they often try to blame us when it doesn’t ﬁt.” A bridezilla or two has also visited Wedding By Design boutique owner Melissa Alger. A young bride came into Alger’s Des Moines store wanting a strapless gown, but her mother insisted on sleeves. “She locked herself in a dressing room, sat on the ﬂoor and bawled for an hour,” Alger said. “All while yelling profanities at her mother through the door.” While the young bride may have been the worst of the bunch, Alger recognized that every bride is different and has a different set of priorities. “Many girls are very organized and have it all settled weeks before the wedding,” Alger said. “And then you have the girls that are stopping on the way to the ceremony to pick up the dress.” Krousey, Lundorff and Alger have seen many wedding plans gone awry. Stories range from having a bride get so drunk she ran into her own chocolate fountain, to a bride getting her wedding gown stolen out of her car while grocery shopping. Nevertheless, the couple gets married at the end of the day and eventually has their happy ending.

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Colorful dresses for modern weddings By Danielle Gibbons Daily Staff Writer Wedding color schemes change from season to season, but one thing that was always thought to be a no-no was using the color black. Well, that has definitely changed throughout the years, and black is becoming a much more common color in weddings. Spring and summer weddings usually include bright colors such as greens, pinks and purples. Remember to think about the flowers, location and other things that would look good or bad with the color scheme. Fall weddings usually include browns and oranges to match the leaves on the ground. Winter weddings usually include colors such as blues and silvers to go along with the winter themes. But one color that can be used during all seasons is black, so don’t count it out. Another new trend in the world of wedding attire is having the bridesmaids wear all different dresses. Some wear the same color, but different styles. Some wear the same dress, but different colors. According to Bridesmaid 101.com, A-line dresses — which look great on all different body shapes and sizes — are very popular. The hottest styles right now are two-tone, two-piece, floor-length styles, mostly sleeveless. Also very popular are column-style dresses, floor length, halter top or straps crisscrossing over the back and sleeveless. Another big trend is having a shawl accompany the dress, particularly the barer styles. If one were to use black for the bridesmaids dress colors, they could spice it up with colorful bows, or have the groomsmen in a different color that works well with black and the theme. It has also become trendier over the years to add more color to the wedding gown itself. More brides are choosing to wear ivory or champagne versus the traditional white dress. Also, if they chose to wear white, they might spice it up with a colorful bow or sash. This colorful scheme for brides is actually a tradition in many other countries. Some brides wear colors such as red, pink and green and it is common where they are from. According to Bukisa in “Wedding Traditions Around the World,” in Chinese cultures, many brides wear bright colors such as red to their wedding. Traditional Indian brides wear pink and red saris on their wedding day, adorning themselves extravagantly with as much jewelry as possible. According to Your Wedding 101.com, during Japanese wedding receptions the bride will change into her second outfit, a silver, gold and red kimono detailed with images of cranes, the symbol of fidelity; tortoises, the symbol of long life; and plum blossoms, the symbol of perseverance. These colors are becoming more and more commonly used in the United States. It’s not out of the ordinary these days to want to add some color to the wedding dress or even have the entire wedding dress a color besides white. When choosing colors for the big day, don’t rule out colors like black for the bridesmaids and adding colors into the bride’s gown, such as reds, pinks, etc. This is becoming more and more popular and accepted in the United States.

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Lee, Wilson for Texas in World Series, Vlad in RF By Stephen Hawkins The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Ace left-hander Cliff Lee will be followed in the Texas Rangers’ rotation at the World Series by C.J. Wilson, Colby Lewis and Tommy Hunter. Manager Ron Washington had already confirmed Lee as the Game 1 starter, but didn’t give his expected order until arriving Monday in San Francisco. He said he expects Hunter to remain the fourth starter. There had been some thought that lefthander Derek Holland — 1-0, 2.61 ERA in four postseason appearances — who has been solid out of the bullpen in the playoffs, could take over the starting spot for Hunter (0-1, 6.14 ERA). “Holland has done a great job out of the bullpen,” Washington said. “He can go against left-handers or right-handers. He fits good out of the bullpen.” Washington also said slugger Vladimir Guerrero, the Rangers’ designated hitter, will start in right field for Game 1 on Wednesday in San Francisco, and could start in Game 2 as well. Nelson Cruz moves to left field with David Murphy and Jeff Francoeur available off the bench. The pitching matchup for Game 1 involves both 2008 Cy Young winners, Lee vs. Giants right-hander Tim Lincecum. Another Rangers left-hander goes against another Giants righty in Game 2 when Wilson faces Matt Cain. That puts Lewis and Hunter, the Rangers’ right-handers, in line to start Games 3 and 4 in Texas this weekend. This will be the first World Series for Guerrero in his 15 major league seasons. Guerrero was chosen Monday the AL comeback player of the year in the Players Choice Awards conducted by the Major League Baseball Players Association. The Rangers signed the 35-year-old Guerrero after the Los Angeles Angels showed little interest in retaining the former American League MVP and eight-time AllStar — he made it nine with Texas — after he had two stints on the disabled list for a torn right pectoral muscle and strained left knee during the 2009 season. Guerrero got a one-year contract with the Rangers that guaranteed him $6.5 million and includes a mutual option for 2011. He had the joined the Angels in 2004, two years after their World Series championship.

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Finding the rhythm Straube on a tear as Iowa State continues mid-season grind By Travis Cordes iowastatedaily.com Two weeks ago, ISU volleyball coach Christy Johnson-Lynch noted that the health of her middle blockers might continue to be somewhat of a problem during the teams’ mid-season conference grind. But recent matches have proved her initial thoughts to be anything but prophetic. Instead, it appears as if she placed a reverse jinx on middle blocker Jamie Straube, who has been nearly unstoppable since then. In her last four matches, Straube has recorded a blistering .467 hitting percentage and has been a part of nearly half of all the blocks the Cyclones have registered in that span. “She has really improved a lot,” Johnson-Lynch said. “We’ve been asking more of her, especially offensively, and we’ve been working a lot on getting her the ball more. Part of it is conﬁdence, and I think we’re in a better rhythm offensively, which helps tremendously.” The No. 12 Cyclones (15-4, 8-3 Big 12) will face the team that Straube started her hot streak against when they head south to face Kansas State on Wednesday night. Holding Kansas State to a dismal .085 hitting percentage highlighted Iowa State’s sweep of the Wildcats (9-13, 3-8)

on Oct. 13, when the Cyclones also notched a Big 12 season-high of 11 blocks. Outside hitter JuliAnne Chisholm, Kansas State’s leading Straube offensive weapon, was held to an embarrassing -.227 hitting percentage with 0 kills on 22 attempts in the match. “We’ll be doing a lot of similar things to try to shut down their outsides while still limiting the Johnson-Lynch middle,” Straube said. “But a lot of it will be just working on our game, because our transition and blocking is going to be big.” Saturday’s sweep of the Kansas Jayhawks was as close to the solid allaround performance that has been hard to come by so far this season for the Cyclones. While still searching for that elusive complete match, Johnson-Lynch saw many improvements over the last week. “I was pretty pleased with how we played against Kansas,” Johnson-Lynch said. “I felt like we hadn’t been playing that well lately and that was the ﬁrst time in a few weeks where I saw a lot of progress. We were in a lot better rhythm and I was really excited about that.” Wednesday night’s match against the Wildcats is scheduled for a 7 p.m. start at the Ahearn Field House in Manhattan, Kan.

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Where: Ahearn Field House, Manhattan, Kan. When: 7 p.m. Wednesday Notes: Iowa State won the last matchup with Kansas State 3-0. In the win, the Cyclones held the Wildcats’ top hitter JuliAnne Chisholm to a -.227 hitting percentage on 0-of-22 hitting. Iowa State has won its last four matches, losing just two sets over the four-game stretch. The Cyclones face rival Nebraska on Saturday. Earlier this week, ISU libero Ashley Mass was named Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week for the 14th time in her ISU career.

Mass earns second Big 12 honor of the season For the 14th time in her illustrious career, libero Ashley Mass was named the Defensive Player of the Week by the Big 12 Conference. The senior registered 36 digs in two matches against Colorado and Kansas last week for an average of 5.14 per set. On Oct. 16 Mass, became the Big 12 leader for career digs, passing former Kansas State libero Angie Lastra’s previous record of 2,032. Mass has earned more weekly Big 12 awards than any other athlete in ISU history. Second to Mass is former men’s basketball player Marcus Fizer with 10.

Johnson-Lynch earns ISU Impact Award for transformative efforts toward program As a testament to the success she’s had with the volleyball program, Johnson-Lynch was selected as one of two recipients for this years’ Impact Award, given out annually by the Iowa State Alumni Association.

The distinction has been a part of the ISU Homecoming celebration since 2000, and is given to individuals, businesses, organizations and units whose programs have brought broad recognition to the university in the past year.

In 2005 Johnson-Lynch took over a team that was just 13-167 in Big 12 play in the nine seasons prior to her arrival. Since then, she has led the Cyclones to a winning record in each of her ﬁve seasons and ﬁn-

ished last year ranked sixth in the nation, the highest ranking ever for the program. She was also named Coach of the Year by the Big 12 Conference and Asics/Volleyball Magazine after the 2009 season.

Soccer

Cyclones split weekend games By Cory.Weaver iowastatedaily.com This season has been one of ups and downs for the Cyclones, but Iowa State got back on the winning track this weekend, winning one of its two games. The ﬁrst game was an afternoon match Friday against Texas Tech, who came into the game 3-3-1 in the conference, but the Cyclones kept it close despite the overtime goal by freshman Jessica Fuston that gave the Red Raiders the win. Despite the loss, senior co-captain Jordan Bishop said the team still did some things well. “They’re a fast-paced team, [and] they come at you with six or eight attackers, so with a pressure like that, being able to defend and also counter and get some good opportunities on

the offensive side was good,” she said. The game was back and forth after the seventh minute when Fuston scored the first goal of the Kucera game. The Cyclones answered back, however, first with a goal from freshman midfielder Caitlin Graboski, and then after another Fuston goal, Iowa State tied Dillinger it back up with a goal from freshman midfielder Theresa Kucera. “It started with a set piece. We played a short ball to Jordan Bishop who beat two defenders, opened up

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Midﬁelder Emily Goldstein tracks the ball against Texas A&M’s Alyssa Mautz on Oct. 15 at the ISU Soccer Complex. File photo: Samantha Butler/Iowa State Daily

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Hilton Coliseum selected as venue for ﬁrst- and secondround games of 2012 women’s NCAA Tournament

Cyclones fall short with ninth-place ﬁnish in Memphis Invitational, look forward to offseason improvements

Hilton Coliseum has been selected to host first- and second-round games of the 2012 women’s NCAA Tournament. “The NCAA has once again acknowledged Hilton Coliseum as one of the great venues for women’s college basketball,” said senior associate athletics director Calli Sanders in a news release. “This is a testament to our coaches, student-athletes, event staff and loyal fan base. We are extremely appreciative of this opportunity to showcase our community to the nation and for our fans to enjoy a significant portion of the NCAA Tournament right here in our own backyard.” Hilton hosted first- and second-round games in 2010 as well, and just like then, if the Cyclones qualify for play in the 2012 Tournament, they will be guaranteed to play in their home arena. Iowa State has hosted NCAA tournament games in Hilton Coliseum on six occasions, including the 2010 games. “Hilton Coliseum has provided some great memories for student-athletes and fans who have been here in the past,” said ISU coach

It’s safe to say, this was not the result Iowa State’s men’s golf team was hoping for. Being that the Memphis Invitational was the last tournament before their winter break, the Cyclones were expecting a better result than ﬁnishing in ninth place out of the 15 teams attending. “Disappointing ﬁnish to the fall season is probably the key word,” said coach Andrew Tank. “All around we underperformed, so it’s frustrating.” It looked to be a grind all weekend as junior Nate McCoy was Iowa State’s top performer with rounds of 73, 74, 75, compiling a score of 222 overall. That score was good enough to tie him for 13th overall. As for the rest of the Cyclones, it was rough the entire tournament, as no player cracked the top 25. “It was a frustrating week,” McCoy said. “It was a grind every shot, and none of us were able to break through. I couldn’t get any birdies to

Bill Fennelly. “Iowa State, Ames and central Iowa have become one of the nation’s favorite places for women’s basketball.” Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines was selected to host regional play in 2012. Northern Iowa will be the host university for the regional semiﬁnals and ﬁnals of that year. “We’re thrilled to be selected as one of only four host institutions for the 2012 Division I Women’s Basketball Regionals,” said UNI Athletic Director Troy Dannen. “Hosting the games in Des Moines at Wells Fargo Arena will provide our fans a chance to travel to central Iowa and for UNI to partner with the NCAA, Wells Fargo Arena and the city of Des Moines on one of the NCAA’s most celebrated events.” The last time Des Moines was a host for NCAA tournament games was 2008, when Iowa State lost in the second round to Rutgers. Wells Fargo Arena was also selected to host the 2013 NCAA Wrestling Championships.

drop, and there is just no excuse for it.” There was no specific aspect of the game that haunted the team, as Tank mentioned he “couldn’t put his finger on” what the problem was, it really just seemed to be a tough tournament all the way around. “It leaves a bad taste in our mouths since this was the last tournament before winter,” Tank said, “but we’re looking at this as a chance to go into the offseason and get a lot of work done.” For the Cyclones, Michael Wuertz finished with a total of 225, tying him for 28th. Senior Nathan Leary and sophomore Borja Virto both finished with a score of 227, placing them in a tie for 35th overall. Jacob Aaholm struggled to a 244, finishing in 77th. This was the last meet of the fall season, and the next time the Cyclones will tee off will be after the winter break, in Phoenix at the Big Four Match. By Dean Berhow-Goll

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Football

Undefeated Spartans face Hawkeyes By Noah Trister The Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich. — For the second straight season, an unheralded Big Ten team is undefeated in late October, its fans dreaming of a conference championship — and more. Last year, that team was Iowa, and this time it’s Michigan State, so perhaps it’s ﬁtting that the ﬁfth-ranked Spartans will put their perfect record on the line against the 18th-ranked Hawkeyes in Iowa City this weekend. “The next step is probably what we thought going into the season, one of our bigger challenges: going on the road to play at Iowa,” said Michigan

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State coach Mark Dantonio. “They win the right way. I think they win with execution.” The Hawkeyes started 9-0 last season, making a valiant bid for an unexpected conference title before dropping a pair of November games and ending up in the Orange Bowl. Michigan State’s rise has been an even bigger surprise. The Spartans (8-0, 4-0 Big Ten) didn’t receive a single vote in the preseason AP poll, but here they are, inching their way into the national title discussion. After this weekend, Michigan State plays two of its last three games at home. The Spartans are already alone in ﬁrst place in the Big Ten, and

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since Ohio State isn’t on the schedule this season, Michigan State would certainly have the inside track to the league title with a win over Iowa (5-2, 2-1). “We need to have fun with this, enjoy the ride a little bit,” Dantonio said. “In saying that, you know, continue to be enthusiastic in our own way and continue to try and put the next block up. That’s how we’ve tried to do it.” Michigan State provided one of the season’s most memorable highlights last month, beating Notre Dame with a fake ﬁeld goal in overtime. The Spartans also edged Northwestern last weekend after a successful fake punt in the fourth quarter.

more successful on those. “Instead of doing our normal fitness and strength training, we did a little extra practice in the morning last week and worked on our set pieces, which I think paid off,” Dillinger said. “Every corner kick is a goal-scoring opportunity, and we’ve had 90-something and just haven’t finished any of them.” Playing a back-and-forth game like the Cyclones did on Friday is something they’ve done several times this year, and is a rigorous thing to go through. “It sucks, it’s like ping pong,” said the freshman midfielder Kucera. “That game it was just really back and forth, but we did well and we deserved to win if we didn’t tie.” The success the Cyclones

Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz questions a call against his team during the second half of the football game against Wisconsin on Saturday in Iowa City. Wisconsin won 31-30. Photo: Charlie Neibergal/The Associated Press

had in the box, however, was another thing that they improved on from recent weeks despite the loss. “We get a lot of opportunities,we just don’t capitalize on them,” Kucera said. “We work it up the field through the defense to the [midfielders] and then to the forwards. Our first touches we’ve been working on those, and we just need to have a good first touch and put it away.” Fuston was the differencemaker for the Red Raiders, scoring the hat trick and causing the Cyclones the trouble they thought she would, but Bishop said she may have caught a break or two. “Two of the goals were within 6 yards from the goal line, so she didn’t have to do

much; she’s just in the right place in the right time, so I guess it was just unlucky for us,” Bishop said. After losing seven conference games in a row, the Cyclones finally got back on the winning track Sunday, defeating Baylor 1-0. The win didn’t come easy for the Cyclones, though, as flight troubles caused them to improvise their transportation to Waco, Texas, for the Sunday game. “We got to the airport at about 9:45 or 10 Saturday morning with a scheduled departure of about 11:30, and ended up sitting in the airport for six hours and finally got a good answer out of American [Airlines] that that flight wasn’t going to go,” Dillinger said.

The team rented five vehicles and drove the seven-hour drive from Lubbock to Dallas, arriving at their hotel at 2 in the morning. But like the other struggles the Cyclones have had to face this season with the flood and not having a field for a month, Dillinger saw a positive side to it. “It was good team bonding time for the players, and everybody in all the cars had a great time and had a lot of fun, which was good after that loss to Texas Tech to kind of relax, have some fun and get focused for Sunday,” Dillinger said. Freshman midfielder Emily Goldstein scored the lone goal against Baylor to snap the seven-game losing streak. “We should have scored a lot in the first half and we controlled the game, but we just couldn’t finish, so [Brittany Morgan] got it, she headed it back to [Jennifer Dominguez], Jen crossed it, and when she crossed it I was like, ‘I’m scoring this or I’m getting off the field,’ so I just headed it in back post and it was a really good feeling,” Goldstein said. Goldstein also said the win was much needed and they were able to do so by putting everything together. “We’ve just been so close in all these games, and it’s been overtime when we’ve lost and we’ve checked out for five minutes, so it finally felt good to put a whole game together and win,” Goldstein said. On the defensive end, Bishop said playing more positive was key. “When we had the ball we were pressing with our outside back to try to get more people in, so we were playing a lot more attacking role from the back. [For] our outside backs, [Mary Kate McLaughlin] did great on working the players and clearing up any bad touches that they had and tackling hard,” Bishop said. She also noted that the win will be something the underclassmen can use to their advantage in the years to come. “I think it’s just a booster knowing that we can win the games that we’re in, and we’ve been in every single game but maybe one this year, but we just haven’t clinched that final step, and doing it against Baylor just shows that going into next year for all of these freshmen and sophomores and juniors know that winning can happen,” Bishop said. Friday is senior night at the ISU Soccer Complex, and the Cyclones will take on Missouri at 6:30 p.m. for their final game of the season.

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Middle East

Iran loads fuel into 1st nuclear plant By Azadeh Ansari CNN Wire Service The United States has no problem with Iran’s nuclear energy plant in the southern city of Bushehr, but it is concerned about work that may be happening at other facilities, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday. Her comments came the same day Iran was reported to have begun loading fuel into the core of its ﬁrst nuclear reactor, according to state media. “Our problem is not with their reactor at Bushehr. Our problem is with their facilities at places like Natanz

and their secret facility at Qom and other places where we believe they are conducting their weapons program,” Clinton told reporters at a meeting with Austria’s foreign minister, according to remarks provided by the U.S. State Department. “Iran is entitled to the peaceful use of civilian nuclear power. They are not entitled to a nuclear weapons program,” she added. The United States and other world powers fear Iran is developing a nuclear program for military purposes. Iran has denied those allegations and says the Bushehr plant will be used to

generate electricity. “Iran’s peaceful nuclear programs and activities are going on as scheduled,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters. “The Bushehr nuclear power plant is one of the major projects of Iran which will help produce alternative forms of energy,” he said. Tehran says the electricity produced by the plant will add to the national power supply. Over the next two months, 163 fuel rods will be injected into the fuel reactor before it becomes fully

operational. Iranian officials, including the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Ali-Akbar Salehi, and Senior Iranian MP Alaeddin Boroujerdi, visited the Bushehr nuclear plant Tuesday morning. “Today we witnessed a milestone in the launch process of this plant,” Salehi said on state-run TV. “We have succeeded under the heaviest pressures.” Boroujerdi added, “Americans have mobilized all their resources around the world to ratchet up the pressure on Iran.”

In a news conference with reporters later Tuesday morning, Salehi gave reassurances on the safety of the Bushehr plant, and Mehmanparast reasserted Iran’s “inalienable rights to peaceful use of nuclear technology.” “We will continue our longterm programs in that regard,” Mehmanparast added. The plant is expected to produce 1,000 megawatts of electricity once all the fuel rods in place in the core of the reactor. Officials estimate the reactor could become fully operational and produce energy as early as 2011.

Haiti

World briefs

Island nation faces new killer

Mexico to investigate corruption allegations against ex-ofﬁcial

Children hit hardest by recent cholera outbreak By Richard Allen Greene CNN Wire Service Battered by a devastating earthquake, left for nearly a year without real homes, promised aid that failed to arrive, the people of Haiti now face a new killer, and the littlest children are among the hardest hit. “The heart-wrenching piece of all of this is the children, who we have seen are suffering the most,” aid worker Roseann Dennery told CNN from the desperately poor Caribbean island nation. She doesn’t ﬂinch in describing the effects of cholera, the water-borne disease has claimed at least 259 lives so far and is spreading quickly. Children “are coming in with hard-tocontrol diarrhea and vomiting. Their little lives are frail, weakened. And so scared,” she told CNN in an iReport. “Robens Jeune and his 2-year-old son came into the clinic. His little boy looked up with wide eyes, and sat on the cot, scared and suffering. We started an IV and sat with him and his father to quiet his crying,” said Dennery, who is with a Christian aid organization called Samaritan’s Purse. “Today, he just started throwing up,” the boy’s father told Dennery as he placed his hand on his son, Frantzley. “I was on the way to the Saint-Marc hospital and someone told me that there was a clinic here, closer to home. So we came. And he has perked up, he is feeling better. I am hopeful he can live through this,” Jeune told the aid worker at a rehydration clinic her group set up in Villard, near the center of the outbreak. Cholera should not be hard to control or treat — which is why organizations are racing to tell Haitians how to avoid it. “First of all, drink clean water — bottled, treated or boiled water,” said Abdikadir Hassan, head of the Mercy Corps office in Mirabalais, downriver from the center of the outbreak. The aid agency is telling people to “wash their hands every time they do something — go to the toilet, eat. If you

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A boy carries bowls ﬁlled with water at a camp set up for earthquake victims in Portau-Prince, Haiti, on Tuesday. The cholera outbreak has killed more than 250 people in a sweep through rural Haiti. Photo: Ramon Espinosa/The Associated Press

have enough water, wash the food before you eat. We’re trying to give them soap and water treatments.” Mercy Corps is not waiting for Haitians to come to them for help. “We put speakers on a van,” Hassan said. “We’re going out to the community, we’re at the market, we’re at the schools.” They don’t get to everyone in time.

When Hassan got to the local prison, he found it had 50 cases of cholera, of whom two had already died. Next he went to the local hospital, where there were 800 cases, of whom 10 have died, he said. “It started with children and then adults,” he said. “In the past few days we have seen more children.”

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Mummies show signs of cancer in ancient Egypt Hippos, snakes also posed threat to Nile neighbors By Ben Wedeman CNN Wire Service CAIRO — Just imagine: a world without cancer. It’s a tantalizing thought, recently ﬂoated by researchers at Manchester University in the U.K. That world may well have existed, but in the distant past, according to their survey of hundreds of mummies from Egypt and South America. The British researchers found that only one mummy had clearly identiﬁable signs of cancer. The study suggested that industrialization, pollution and the ills of modern life are to blame for the epidemic of cancer now seen sweeping around the globe. But top Egyptologist and head of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawwas, never at a loss for words, said the Manchester University study focused on non-royal mummies and left out the people who lived the good life. “If you were a pharaoh,” he said, “you would get lots of diseases, because you ate well, you ate meat all the time, it’s fat food, and you never took care of your health.”

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities will investigate allegations that a former state attorney general worked for a drug cartel and was involved in ordering assassinations, the federal attorney general’s office said. The accusations against former Chihuahua state Attorney General Patricia Gonzalez Rodriguez were made by her brother, who was abducted last week and is shown in a video surrounded by hooded armed men. An off-camera questioner interrogates kidnap victim Mario Gonzalez Rodriguez about whether he and his sister were involved with the Juarez cartel. Mario Gonzalez identiﬁed himself as working for La Linea, a gang affiliated with the Juarez cartel. He said he worked as a liaison between the cartel and the attorney general’s office. Patricia Gonzalez, who left her post this month, told the Milenio newspaper she is “convinced” that corrupt police and others are trying to exact revenge on he. In the recording, Mario Gonzalez accuses Patricia Gonzalez of ordering assassinations for the cartel and protecting gang members. At the prodding of his interrogator, Mario Gonzalez names several people he said are employed at the attorney general’s office but work for the cartel.

He pointed to the desiccated mummy of the famed Queen Hatshepsut — ca 15081458 BC — who masqueraded as a male pharaoh due to popular prejudices at the time. Poor Queen Hatshepsut suffered from arthritis, diabetes and bad teeth, and is believed to have died of bone cancer. Ancient Egyptian physicians were renowned for their skill, but those skills only went so far. Cancer or no cancer, the Grim Reaper came often and came early to those living in ancient Egypt. Although the pharaohs and others at the top of Egypt’s social pyramid tended to live longer lives, the average life expectancy for men was less than 40, and women tended to die even younger because of childbirth. The common folk survived on simple fare, Zahi said. “It was a good diet because they were eating bread and garlic and drinking beer, beer all the time,” he said. Which to some might sound like an attractive set of staples, but as Salima Ikram, an Egyptologist at the American University in Cairo, points out, the lot of the ordinary Egyptian was hardly idyllic. “They suffered from all kinds of parasitic diseases, including schistosomiasis [a water-borne disease still

common in Egypt]. And you can see it depicted in tomb decorations, because the men, particularly men who deal with water, particularly ﬁshermen and collectors of reeds, you see them with distended bellies, enlarged penises and receding hair lines.” There was little regard for workplace safety. Back then, you worked, then you died. “If you’re working in a tomb, for example, all that dust is going to get to you — as you grind down limestone, as you carve statues, as you inhale the smoke either from cooking ﬁres or little lamps that help illuminate your work as you build temples or decorate them,” Ikram said. “So all these things were real killers for the ancient Egyptians.” Other hazards, she said, included venomous snakes and stampeding hippos, the latter reincarnated in the taxi drivers of modern Cairo who, I suspect, have a higher kill ratio than their four-legged antecedents. So, yes, cancer may not have been a common cause of death in Ancient Egypt. There were plenty of other fatal options. And as much as I’d like to jump into a time machine and see what life back then was really like, I think I’ll take my chances with modern Egypt, taxi drivers notwithstanding.

LONDON — The British bobby is about to go ballistic. Faced with growing terror threats involving urban areas, British police are receiving new weapons and specialized training from the SAS, the elite military unit. The hope is that the training and equipment will help if Britain ever faces an attack similar to the 2008 Mumbai shooting spree that killed 166 people and paralyzed India’s business capital for days. Tuesday’s announcement comes amid an active European terror threat being tracked by U.S. and European officials. The U.K.’s terror threat rating remains at “severe” — the second highest tier — which means an attack is likely. News of a possible Mumbai-styled small arms attack emerged last month after the CIA increased strikes in Pakistan to ﬂush out al-Qaida operatives suspected in the plot. Some of the plot’s details came from a terror suspect arrested in Afghanistan, intelligence officials have said. British officials have refused to comment on whether the plan will arm more of Britain’s some 144,000 police officers — a fraction of whom are in armed response units. But they praised the new training. “We are in a much better place than ever before, with dedicated counterterrorism units based within our regions,” a spokeswoman for the Association of Chief Police Officers said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with departmental policy. “This new training and equipment will put us in an even better position.” The Associated Press

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Do Haunted Iowa State Wednesday at 7 p.m. Near Beardshear Hall

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Halloween Pub Crawl Wednesday at 9 p.m. Welch Ave. 12-bar pub crawl starting at Chasers

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The Wood Brothers Wednesday at 8 p.m. M-Shop Tickets are $10 for students We the Kings Thursday at 6 p.m. House of Bricks in Des Moines $16 advance tickets, $18 at the door T-Galaxy Fashion Night Thursday at 7 p.m. T-Galaxy Fashion show and 20 off all store merchandise.

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Sleepy Hallow Haunted Scream Park Thursday through Saturday at 7 p.m. Des Moines Three haunted houses with live music. Dance Social Halloween Party Friday at 7:30 p.m. 196 Forker Free dance social hosed by the Ballroom Dance Club. Entrance is free for students.

Do ďŹ nish your look with makeup. Add a fun lip stain and faux lashes.

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rewind the clock to your younger years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; get inspiration from your favorite childhood idolsÇ¤

Do raid your closet for some neon and spandex. Add a sweatband for a easy â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s rocker lookÇ¤

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ruin your hair with spray paint â&#x20AC;&#x201D; buy a colored wig instead.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no such thing as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;naughtyâ&#x20AC;? Disney princess.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fall into the cliches.

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Homemade Halloween Get glam, BY Lindsey Marvin & Katharine Ulick ISD STYLE WRITERS

ǀĞƌǇŽŶĞ ůŽǀĞƐ Ă ĐŚĞĂƉ͕ ůĂƐƚͲŵŝŶƵƚĞ ,ĂůůŽǁĞĞŶ ĐŽƐͲ ƚƵŵĞƐ ƚŚĂƚ ǇŽƵ ĐĂŶ ĮŶĚ ŝŶ ǇŽƵƌ ŽǁŶ ĐůŽƐĞƚ͘ dŚĞƐĞ ŝŵƉƌŽŵƉƚƵ ĐŽƐƚƵŵĞƐ ĂƌĞ ƐƵƌĞ ƚŽ ŐĞƚ Ă ĨĞǁ ŐŝŐŐůĞƐ ĂŶĚ ŵĂǇďĞ ĞǀĞŶ ǁŝŶ ǇŽƵ Ă ĐŽƐƚƵŵĞ ĐŽŶƚĞƐƚ͘ &Žƌ ŐŝƌůƐ ƚŚĞƐĞ ĐĂŶ ďĞ ǁŽƌŶ ƐŽůŽ Žƌ ĞǀĞŶ ǁŝƚŚ Ă ŐƌŽƵƉ ŽĨ ǇŽƵƌ ŚŽƩĞƐƚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚƐ͗ ϭ͘ ŝƌƚǇ ŵŽƵƚŚ͍ ůĞĂŶ ŝƚ ƵƉ ǁŝƚŚ ǇŽƵƌ ďĞƐƚ ƐŵŝůĞ ĂŶĚ ďĞ Ă ďĞĂƵƟĨƵů KƌďŝƚƐ Őŝƌů͘ 'ƌĂď ƐŽŵĞ ƐŽůŝĚ ĐŽůŽƌĞĚ ĚƌĞƐƐĞƐ ƚŚƌŽǁ ŽŶ Ă ŶĞĐŬ ƐĐĂƌĨ ĂŶĚ ĚŽŶ͛ƚ ĨŽƌŐĞƚ ƚŚĞ ƉĂĐŬ ŽĨ ŐƵŵ͘ Ϯ͘ dŚĞ ĮĞƌĐĞ ũĞůůǇ ĮƐŚ͘ WŝĐŬ ŽƵƚ ǇŽƵƌ ĨĂǀŽƌͲ ŝƚĞ ĐƵƚĞ ŽƵƞŝƚ͘ ^ĐƌŽƵŶŐĞ ǇŽƵƌ ĐŽŽůĞƐƚ ƵŵďƌĞůůĂ ĂŶĚ ĂƩĂĐŚ ƐƚƌĞĂŵĞƌƐ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ ĞĚŐĞ ŽĨ ŝƚ ĨŽƌ ƐŽŵĞ ƚĂŶƚĂůŝǌŝŶŐ ƚĞŶƚĂĐůĞƐ͘ DĂŬĞ ƐƵƌĞ ƚŽ ŚŽůĚ ƚŚĞ ƵŵďƌĞůůĂ ĂďŽǀĞ ǇŽƵ ĨŽƌ Ăůů ƉŝĐƚƵƌĞ ƉƵƌƉŽƐĞƐ͘ &Žƌ ďŽǇƐ͕ ŵĂŬĞ ƐƵƌĞ ǇŽƵ ƚŽ ǇŽƵƌ ƉƵƐŚƵƉƐ Ͷ ƚŚĞƐĞ ĐŽƐƚƵŵĞƐ ĂƌĞ ƐƵƌĞ ƚŽ ĂƩƌĂĐƚ ƐŽŵĞ ĂƩĞŶƟŽŶ͗

&Žƌ ŐƌŽƵƉƐ ĂŶĚ ĐŽƵƉůĞƐ͕ Žƌ ĐĂŶ ďĞ ǁŽƌŶ ƐŽůŽ͗ ϭ͘ tŚŽ ĚŽĞƐŶ͛ƚ ůŽǀĞ Ă ůŝƩůĞ & ĐĞŶƐŽƌŝŶŐ͍ >ĂĚŝĞƐ͕ ŐƌĂď Ă ƐƚƌĂƉůĞƐƐ ďƌĂ ĂŶĚ ŵĂŬĞ ǇŽƵƌ ŽǁŶ ĐĞŶƐŽƌ ƐƚƌŝƉ͘ dĂŬĞ ĐĂƌĚͲ ďŽĂƌĚ ĂŶĚ Ă ďůĂĐŬ ƐŚĂƌƉŝĞ ĂŶĚ ĞŶŐƌĂǀĞ ͞ E^KZ ͟ ŽŶ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ ďŽĂƌĚ͘ dĂƉĞ ŝŶ ĨƌŽŶƚ ŽĨ ǇŽƵƌ ĐĞŶƐŽƌĞĚ ƉĂƌƚƐ ĂŶĚ ĚŽŶ͛ƚ ĨŽƌŐĞƚ ƚŽ ůŽŽŬ ƐƵƌƉƌŝƐĞĚ͘ 'ƵǇƐ͕ ǇŽƵ ĐĂŶ ĚŽ ƚŚĞ ƐĂŵĞ ƚŚŝŶŐ͕ ũƵƐƚ ŐĞƚ ƐŽŵĞ ƐŚŽƌƚ ƐŚŽƌƚƐ͘

The fabulous collection for any style this Halloween season BY Lauren Lindeman ISD STYLE WRITER

Ϯ͘ >ŽŽŬŝŶŐ ĨŽƌ Ă ƐĐĂƌǇ ĂƉƉƌŽĂĐŚ͍ dƌǇ &ƌĂŶŬĞŶƐƚĞŝŶ ĂŶĚ ŚŝƐ ƌŝĚĞ͘ 'ŝƌůƐ͕ ƉĂŝƌ ĂŶ ĂůůͲǁŚŝƚĞ ĞŶƐĞŵďůĞ ǁŝƚŚ ƚĞĂƐĞĚ ŚĂŝƌ ǁŝƚŚ ďĂďǇ ƉŽǁͲ ĚĞƌ ĂŶĚ ĚĂƌŬ ŵĂŬĞƵƉ ĂƌŽƵŶĚ ƚŚĞ ĞǇĞƐ ĂŶĚ ŶĞĐŬ͘

Photo By Lauren Lindeman

'ƵǇƐ͕ ŐĞƚ ĂŶ Ăůů ďůĂĐŬ ƐƵŝƚ ĂŶĚ ƉƵƚ ƐŽŵĞ ĚĂƌŬ ϭ͘ 'Ğƚ ǇŽƵƌ ƉŽƉ ƐƚĂƌ ǁĂƌĚƌŽďĞ ĨĂĐĞ ŵĂŬĞƵƉ ĂƌŽƵŶĚ ůĂŝĚ ŽƵƚ ďĞĐĂƵƐĞ :ƵƐƟŶ ŝĞďĞƌ ƚŚĞ ĞǇĞƐ ĂŶĚ ŶĞĐŬ͘ zŽƵ ŝƐ ĐŽŵŝŶŐ ƚŽ ƚŽǁŶ͘ tĂƚĐŚ ŽƵƚ͕ Photos by Lindsey Marvin & ĐĂŶ ĞǀĞŶ ŬŝĐŬ ŝƚ ƵƉ Ă Katharine Ulick ďĞĐĂƵƐĞ ŵĞƐ ůĂĚŝĞƐ ĂƌĞ ŬŶŽǁŶ ŶŽƚĐŚ ďǇ ƉĂŝŶƟŶŐ ǇŽƵƌ ƚŽ ŚĂǀĞ Ă ůŝƩůĞ ŝĞďĞƌ &ĞǀĞƌ͘ ĨĂĐĞ ŐƌĞĞŶ ĂŶĚ ĂĚĚŝŶŐ ƐŽŵĞ ŶĞĐŬ ďŽůƚƐ͘ Ϯ͘ &ŝŶĚ ŬŚĂŬŝ ƐŚŽƌƚƐ ĂŶĚ ǇŽƵƌ ĐŚĂŵďƌĂǇ ƐŚŝƌƚ ĂŶĚ ŐĞƚ ŽŶ ƚŚĞ ƐĂĨĂƌŝ͘ ZŽůů ƚŚĞ ŬŚĂŬŝ ƐŚŽƌƚƐ ƵƉ ĂŶĚ ŐƌĂď Ă ƐƚƵīĞĚ ĂŶŝŵĂů Žƌ ŵĂƉ͘ ŽŶ͛ƚ ŐĞƚ ůŽƐƚ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ũƵŶŐůĞ ŽĨ ,ĂůůŽǁĞĞŶ ĨƵŶ͘

go goth!

ϯ͘ dŚĞ dǁŝƐƚĞƌ ďŽĂƌĚ ƚƌŝŽ͘ 'Ğƚ Ă ǁŚŝƚĞ ƐŚĞĞƚ͕ ǁƌĂƉ ǇŽƵƌƐĞůĨ ƵƉ ĂŶĚ ƚĂƉĞ ĨŽƵƌ ǀĞƌƟĐĂů ĐŝƌĐůĞƐ ĚŽǁŶ ƚŚĞ ĨƌŽŶƚ ŽĨ ǇŽƵƌ ďŽĚǇ͘ ǀĞƌǇ ƉĞƌƐŽŶ ǁĞĂƌƐ Ă ĚŝīĞƌĞŶƚ ĐŽůŽƌ ĂŶĚ ǁŚĞŶ ǇŽƵ ůŝŶĞ ƵƉ ŝƚ ĐƌĞĂƚĞƐ Ă ĨƵůůͲƐŝǌĞ dǁŝƐƚĞƌ ďŽĂƌĚ͘

tŚĂƚ ďĞƩĞƌ ǁĂǇ ƚŽ ŐŝǀĞ ǇŽƵƌ ŶĂŝůƐ ƚŚĂƚ ĞǆƚƌĂ ŇĂƌĞ ƚŚĂŶ ďǇ ĐŚĂŶŶĞůŝŶŐ ǇŽƵƌ ŝŶŶĞƌ ŐŽƚŚ ǁŝƚŚ KW/͛Ɛ 'Ž 'ŽƚŚ ĐŽůůĞĐƟŽŶ͘ KW/ ŐŽĞƐ ďĞǇŽŶĚ ƚŚĞ ŶŽƌŵĂů ďůĂĐŬ ĂŶĚ ƌĞĚ ƉŽůŝƐŚĞƐ ƚŚĂƚ ĐŽŵĞ ƚŽ ŵŝŶĚ ǁŚĞŶ ƉĞŽƉůĞ ƚŚŝŶŬ ŽĨ ,ĂůůŽǁĞĞŶ ďǇ ŝŶƚƌŽĚƵĐŝŶŐ ƚŚĞƐĞ ƵŶŝƋƵĞ ĐŽůŽƌƐ ƚŚĂƚ ǁŝůů ŐŝǀĞ ǇŽƵƌ ŶĂŝůƐ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ ůŽŽŬ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ŚŽůŝĚĂǇ͘ dŚĞ ĮƌƐƚ ĐŽůŽƌ ŝŶƚƌŽĚƵĐĞĚ ŝƐ ^ĂŶŐƵŝŶĞ͘ /ƚ ŝƐ Ă ĚĂƌŬ͕ ǀĂŵƉǇ ƌĞĚ ƚŚĂƚ ŝƐ Ă ŐƌĞĂƚ ƚŽƵĐŚ ƚŽ ĂŶǇ ĐŽƐƚƵŵĞ͕ ĂŶĚ ĞǀĞŶ ůŽŽŬƐ ŐƌĞĂƚ ĨŽƌ ĞǀĞƌǇĚĂǇ ƵƐĞ ƚŚŝƐ ĨĂůů͘ EĞǆƚ ƵƉ ŝƐ Ă ĐŽůŽƌ ĐĂůůĞĚ EĞǀĞƌŵŽƌĞ͘ /ƚ ŝƐ Ă ĚĞĞƉ͕ ƐƉĂƌŬůǇ ďůƵĞͬƉƵƌƉůĞ ƚŚĂƚ ŝƐ ŶŽƚ ǇŽƵƌ ƚǇƉŝĐĂů ,ĂůůŽǁĞĞŶ ƐĞĂƐŽŶĂů ĐŽůŽƌ͘ ŶŽƚŚĞƌ ŶĞǁ ĐŽůŽƌ ŝƐ ĐĂůůĞĚ hŶƌŝƉĞŶĞĚ͖ ŝƚ ŝƐ Ă ďůĂĐŬ ďĂƐĞ ǁŝƚŚ Ă ƚĞĂůͲďůƵĞ ŐůŝƩĞƌ͘ dŚĞ ůĂƐƚ ĐŽůŽƌ͕ KďƐĐƵƌŝƚǇ͕ ŝƐ ŽŶĞ ŽĨ KW/͛Ɛ ŵĂƩĞ ĐŽůŽƌƐ͕ ŵĞĂŶŝŶŐ ŝƚ ĚŽĞƐŶ͛ƚ ŚĂǀĞ ĂŶǇ ƐŚŝŶĞ Žƌ ƐŚŝŵŵĞƌ͘ /ƚ ŝƐ Ă ĐŽŽů ĐŽůŽƌ ĨŽƌ ĂŶǇƟŵĞ ƚŚŝƐ ƐĞĂƐŽŶ͕ ŶŽƚ ũƵƐƚ ĨŽƌ ǇŽƵƌ ,ĂůůŽǁĞĞŶ ĞŶƐĞŵďůĞƐ͘ ǀĞŶ ƚŚŽƵŐŚ ŶŽƚ ĞǀĞƌǇďŽĚǇ ĞŶũŽǇƐ ƚŚĞ ŵĂƩĞ ĐŽůŽƌƐ͕ ĚƵĞ ƚŽ ƚŚĞŝƌ ůĂĐŬ ŽĨ ƐŚŝŶĞ͕ ƚŚĞǇ ĂƌĞ ĚĞĮŶŝƚĞůǇ ǁŽƌƚŚ ĐŚĞĐŬŝŶŐ ŽƵƚ ďĞĐĂƵƐĞ ŽĨ ŚŽǁ ƚŚĞǇ ĚŝīĞƌ ĨƌŽŵ ĂŶǇ ŽƚŚĞƌ ƚǇƉĞ ŽĨ ƉŽůŝƐŚ͘ ůƚŚŽƵŐŚ ƚŚŝƐ ĨƵŶ ĐŽůůĞĐƟŽŶ ŝƐ ũƵƐƚ Ă ŵŝŶŝ͕ ůŝŵŝƚĞĚ ĐŽůůĞĐͲ ƟŽŶ͕ ŝƚ ŝƐ ǁŽƌƚŚ ƉƵƌĐŚĂƐŝŶŐ ƚŽ ŵĂŬĞ ǇŽƵƌ ,ĂůůŽǁĞĞŶ ůŽŽŬ ĨĂŶͲ ƚĂƐƟĐ ďǇ ŐŝǀŝŶŐ ŝƚ ƚŚĂƚ ĞǆƚƌĂ ƚŽƵĐŚ ŽĨ ƐƚǇůĞ ǁŝƚŚ ǇŽƵƌ ŶĂŝůƐ͘

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Editors Note: A spcial thanks to The Salon in Ames, which completed all make-up looks with Smashbox cosmetics.

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World briefs Guinea elections to be Sunday, prime minister says CONAKRY, Guinea â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Guinea will go to the polls on Sunday, the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prime minister said in a special meeting Tuesday. The date must be made official by presidential decree, which is expected later Tuesday evening. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No human work is perfect. ... We are going to elections on the 31st,â&#x20AC;? said Prime Minister Jean-Marie Dore after a proposition by the new head of the electoral commission. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After deep consultation, I proposed the date of October 31, 2010 to the transitional authorities,â&#x20AC;? said Siaka Toumani Sangare, the retired Malian general who was named head of the National Independent Electoral Commission, or CENI, in a presidential decree last week. The favored candidate, Cellou Dalein Diallo, who took roughly 44 percent of the ďŹ rst-round votes, rejected the date, saying his voters were being threatened by ethnic and political violence that has spread around the country since Friday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There have been violent atrocities committed in Siguiri, Kankan, Kouroussa, Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;zerekore, Kissidougou, and people have been kicked out of their homes in these places. They cannot today where they have been resettled. No steps have been taken for their reception nor for their votes,â&#x20AC;? Diallo said to reporters on Tuesday. Dialloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rival, Alpha Conde, who took 18 percent of the votes cast in the ďŹ rst round, held in late June, accepted the new date without hesitation. CNN Wire Service

Paramedics carry a villager who was injured in the Mount Merapi eruption into an ambulance to be brought to a hospital in Pakem, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Tuesday. Indonesiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most volatile volcano started erupting Tuesday. Photo: The Associated Press

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WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The United States is looking at the possibility of shifting some U.S. forces from combat roles to security roles if President Hamid Karzaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s effort to force out private contractors succeeds, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday. So far, the military has not seen any disruption of development activities, Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan told reporters at the Pentagon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But we would be looking ahead to see, if they could no longer have private security, how we would either continue those using other means, or those activities would have to be either stopped or curtailed,â&#x20AC;? Lapan said. Asked about using U.S. troops in place of private security contractors, Lapan replied, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s certainly one of the possibilities.â&#x20AC;? The Afghan governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan to ban most private security contractors has been a matter of concern between the U.S. and Afghan governments. The ban could jeopardize millions of dollars of U.S.-funded aid projects that are part of the American strategy to degrade the Taliban inďŹ&#x201A;uence not just through military means but also by strengthening the Afghan governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to provide infrastructure and services to its citizens. The move could leave groups operating U.S.-funded aid projects exposed. One group, Maryland-based DAI, has said it is in the process of shutting down more than 300 projects around Afghanistan because of concern over how it would handle security without private security guards.

The Associated Press MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Indonesiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most volatile volcano erupted Tuesday after scientists warned that pressure building beneath its dome could trigger the most powerful explosion in years. A 2-month-old baby reportedly died as panicked villagers ďŹ&#x201A;ed the area. Smoke poured out of Mount Merapi, obscuring its cone, according to footage from the private station, MetroTV. Up to 20 people were injured by the hot ash spewing from volcano, said an AP reporter who saw them being taken away for treatment. One burn victimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skin was coated in the gray powder, which also blanketed vehicles in the area. Some 11,400 villagers who live on the 9,737-foot-high mountain were urged to evacuate, but only those within 4 miles of the crater were forced by authorities to do so. Most of those who ďŹ&#x201A;ed were the elderly and children. Some adults said they de-

cided to stay to tend to homes and farms. There are fears that the current activity could foreshadow a much more destructive explosion in the coming weeks or months, though it is possible, too, that the volcano will settle back down after a slow, long period of letting off steam. As they contended with the volcano, Indonesian officials were also trying to assess the impact of Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 7.7-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, about 800 miles from Merapi. The temblor caused a tsunami that left hundreds dead or missing on a string of islands. MetroTV reported that the baby died when a mother ran in panic after the eruption started. Its report cited a local doctor and showed the mother weeping as the baby was covered with a white blanket at a hospital. Subandriyo, the chief vulcanologist in the area, said the eruption started just before dusk Tuesday. The volcano had rumbled and groaned for hours.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was a thunderous rumble that went on for ages, maybe 15 minutes,â&#x20AC;? said Sukamto, a farmer who by nightfall had yet to abandon his home on the slopes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then huge plumes of hot ash started shooting up into the air.â&#x20AC;? Scientists have warned the pressure building beneath the dome could presage one of the biggest eruptions in years at Merapi, literally Mountain of Fire, which lies on the main island of Java, some 310 miles southeast of the capital Jakarta. The alert level for Merapi has been raised to its highest level. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The energy is building up. ... We hope it will release slowly,â&#x20AC;? government volcanologist Surono told reporters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Otherwise, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking at a potentially huge eruption, bigger than anything weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen in years.â&#x20AC;? In 2006, an avalanche of blistering gases and rock fragments raced down the volcano and killed two people. A similar eruption in 1994 killed 60 people.

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Students top off their walking tacos with different ingredients at Food on Campus on Central Campus. For $5, students can purchase a button to allow them to eat every day during Homecoming week. Photo: Bryan Langfeldt/Iowa State Daily

Alex Menard, senior in anthropology and Spanish and Homecoming general co-chairwoman, right, checks for Homecoming buttons as patrons enter the food tent Tuesday on Central Campus. Students can buy their Homecoming buttons for $5 at the front of the tent, and it is good for one lunch each day of the week. Photo: Bryan Langfeldt/Iowa State Daily

Amanda Stecker, right, junior in dietetics, and Kate Garfin, junior in psychology, buy Homecoming buttons from Bridget Halbur, sophomore in accounting and agricultural studies and member of Homecoming Central Committee. Homecoming buttons can be purchased for $5 and allow the buyer to eat lunch at Food on Campus for the entire week. Photo: Bryan Langfeldt/Iowa State Daily

Hunter Jones and Sierra Chelsvig, freshmen in elementary education, make buttons for Homecoming on Tuesday in the Memorial Union. Photo: Yi Yuan/ Iowa State Daily

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Kendra Murphy, junior in advertising and member of Sigma Kappa sorority, goes for first place in Mario Kart during the Nintendo 64 tournament Tuesday. Pairings from the greek community participated in the tournament as a part of Homecoming week. Photo: Tim Reuter/Iowa State Daily

Austin Bamrick, left, senior in marketing, and Bill Edwards, senior in chemical engineering, both from Delta Tau Delta, compete against sophomore Reid Youngdahl and freshman Logan Kraft, from Sigma Phi Epsilon, during the Nintendo 64 tournament on Tuesday in the Reiman Ballroom of the ISU Alumni Center. The tournament is a part of Homecoming week, and different houses of the greek community competed in Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. Photo: Tim Reuter/Iowa State Daily

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