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Scaring up a spooky time ISU fraternity hosts its own haunted house
OCT. 27, 2011
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Photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity’s Gorevile Manor will be open from 7 p.m. to midnight Thursday through Saturday. Fraternity members will perform Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” every hour.
ISU students and the Ames community can test their bravery while being philanthropic at Lambda Chi Alpha’s annual Gorevile Manor haunted house from 7 p.m. to midnight Thursday through Saturday at 203 Ash Ave. Tickets will be sold at the door for $5 and all proceeds go to ChildServe, a convalescent home that helps families with disabled children in Johnston. “The Gorevile project was created in the late ‘70s and was originally set up in a church gym with hanging sheets. Since then, it has relocated to our actual house featuring a working drawbridge, moat, gallows and five skit rooms every year,” said Brad Drennan, co-chairman of the philanthropy and junior in history. “Also, every hour on the hour, we have a mock witch hanging.” The construction of Gorevile Manor is time consuming but significant, said Nick Studer, co-chairman and junior in interdisciplinary studies and psychology. “Each room is generally headed by one person that has an idea of what they would want to use to creep out or scare people; this year I had been brainstorming ideas for the maze two weeks prior
By Katelynn McCollough Daily staff writer Carolyn Cutrona is one of five finalists for the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and she will make a presentation and answer questions at an open forum Thursday. Cutrona received her bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University in 1973. She continued on to get her master’s in counseling and guidance in 1974 from the University of New Mexico and her Ph.D. from the University of California in clinical psychology in 1981. In 1992, Cutrona began her career at Iowa State as a professor in the department of psychology. She is currently the chairwoman of the department of psychology, as well as the director of the Institute for Social and Behavioral Research, a position she has been in since 2003. At Iowa State, Cutrona has focused her research interest on coping with stress, social support, close relationships, health psychology and marital relationships. Cutrona will speak at an open forum Thursday. The forum will begin at 3:30 p.m. in 1951 Food Sciences. Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend and ask questions. One dean finalist, Albert Boggess, was on campus earlier this week. The other three finalists will present next week, each with a separate open forum.
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to building and then started heading up a small skit room incorporating the boiler room,” Studer said. “This will be a surprise for the people going through.” Besides the shrieks and squeals, Gorevile Manor hopes to raise funds and awareness for a commendable cause. In the 1980s the fraternity started fundraising for ChildServe. “To date, we have raised over $99,000. This year we are hoping to break the $100,000 milestone,” said Sean Van Osdale, president of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. “The money that we raise buys wheelchairs, funds events, supports physical therapy sessions and takes care of the children’s specific needs. This allows them to not worry about struggling to overcome something; rather it lets them have that covered so they can focus on what’s really important — being a kid.” The event also give members of the fraternity a deeper idea of what children at ChildServe go through. Drennen said, “An element of the partnership [with ChildServe] includes us making a trip to Johnston to participate in their ‘Welcome to our World’ program where the guys get a feel for what it is like to have a disability of sorts, and how it affects a person’s everyday routine.” “This leads into the building phase of Gorevile and gives us the motivation to turn our house into a castle
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Cystainability
Student groups celebrate in green By Meg.Grissom @iowastatedaily.com Various shades of green lined a semi-circle of tables, all staffed by people brought together for a common cause. The green color scheme was probably enough to clue in the casual passer-by of just what the
cause was: the environment. Nearly 20 student organizations and local businesses gathered Wednesday to educate their peers and raise awareness in honor of National Campus Sustainability Day outside of Parks Library. The day is observed all over the country in different ways. At Iowa
State, student organizations and local businesses were invited to set up a booth to inform visitors of their green practices and projects. “Sustainability is easy to forget about,” said Kelsey Pieper, public relations director for the student organization Green Umbrella. “So this event is a good way to remind stu-
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dents why sustainability is beneficial for everyone.” Students who decided to explore the event were given a slip of paper and a mission — to visit five booths and ask them a question about their sustainable practices. Once their
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Awareness
Dorsett presents programs to GSB Welch bars drink pink for cancer
By Charles.O’Brien @iowastatedaily.com James Dorsett, head of the International Students and Scholars Office and interim dean of students, spoke to the Government of the Student Body at its meeting Wednesday night. Dorsett spoke mostly about international students and the challenges they face. “International students coming to Iowa State have a variety of issues they have to deal with,” he said. “The three main problems they face are cultural stress, academic stress and immigration regulations and requirements.” To help counter these problems, the office has set up a student services program to help international students adapt to life in the U.S. “We help international students learn how to buy a car, lease an apartment, adjust to the cold and teach them how to write American-styled papers,” Dorsett said.
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Photo: David Babayev/Iowa State Daily Government of the Student Body members wear pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month at Wednesday’s meeting. James Dorsett addressed GSB about international students and the challenges they face in the U.S.
Besides teaching international students how to adapt to living at Iowa State, the offices offers students a welcoming environment and immigration policy advising. “In the last three years, we have
had a record numbers of international students here at Iowa State,” Dorsett said. “Currently there are 3,424 international students at Iowa State and the majority of them are from China.”
Colleges Against Cancer and Welch Avenue bars are partnering to raise awareness that there is hope in the battle against cancer by hosting the Drink Pink Bar Crawl on Thursday. Proceeds raised by Colleges Against Cancer go to the American Cancer Society to find a cure. “The idea for Drink Pink Mug Night actually fell into my lap through friends and contacts I had made last year as I fundraised like crazy in honor of my mom’s 10th year cancer-free,” said Jill Wedeking, team recruitment co-chairwoman for Colleges Against Cancer and senior in dietetics. “I got a call one night from a friend who manages Cy’s Roost, Melvin Evans Jr.,
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