Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014 | Volume 210 | Number 47 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
“Finding out was the weirdest thing because you have this preconceived notion of what cancer is. But you don’t really understand what it all entails until it happens to somebody you love.” - Jessica Parrott
Fighting back Student shares family experience about survival of loved one’s cancer struggle Breast cancer statistics
By Matthew.Rezab @iowastatedaily.com Sitting in the sanitized light of a conference room describing two-year-old events, the emotion behind Jessica Parrott’s brown eyes betray the steadiness of her voice when she describes one of the most harrowing events of her life — discovering her mother had breast cancer. As Breast Cancer Awareness Month winds to an end, the prospect of taking an out of sight, out of mind attitude toward breast cancer is a luxury thousands of families in Iowa and millions of families around the nation can’t afford. The Parrott family is one of those families. Parrott, a freshman in genetics, was in her junior year of high school in 2012 when she and her mother, Lee Parrott, were on their way from their home in Portage, Wis., to Thanksgiving dinner at her grandparents home in Milwaukee. Lee’s parents already knew she had cancer and Lee decided her daughter needed to know before they arrived. “I remember in the car, it was so weird because we were just driving, listening to music,” said Parrott. “She
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232,340 new cases of breast
cancer in women in 2013 39,620 estimated deaths in 2013 1 in 8 women diagnosed in their lifetime 77% of women diagnosed are over age 50 2.9 million breast cancer survivors are living in the U.S. 5-year relative survival rates when detected and treated early: 99% for localized breast cancer 84% for regional disease
Council discusses vendor background check By Molly.Willson @iowastatedaily.com The Ames City Council discussed the residential satisfaction survey and new municipal codes for vendors at last night’s council meeting. Each year the City of Ames administers a resident satisfaction survey to determine the opinion of residents and students about the city of Ames. The city received 530 returned surveys. Students make up 48 percent of those returned surveys. The city saw drops in satisfaction in law enforcement and Cyride services this year. They will look into these numbers and what the cause in these drops could potentially be. Overall, there was a 98 percent satisfaction rate. The city is currently looking at changing the municipal
codes for food vendors, including student favorites on Welch Ave. These changes include displaying of permit at all times. Other changes included not allowing “those with a felony in the last five years” to own a permit and permits may be used for a year with a renewal needed every year. Gartin moved to make the appeal process for a vendor permit 20 days, as opposed to 14, in order to give permit holders more time to appeal a denial of a permit. The motion was moved unanimously with Goodman abstaining due to conflicts of interest. Tim Gartin, a member of the city council, also made a motion to remove the background check on permit holders in order to allow an individual with a felony to own any type of vending cart, vehicle or person. Concerns were raised by many council members about removing this background check due to problems with registered sex offenders and vending
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Tim Gartin, a Ward Two representative, and Ames City Council moved to make the appeal process for a vendor permit 20 days in order to give permit holders more time to appeal a denial of a permit. The motion was moved unanimously.
vehicles in residential areas. Other concerns were raised about the workers of the vendor carts. It was discussed that a code may need to be put into place to ensure that felons, especially
those on the sex offender registry, cannot work at vendor carts. The new code will prohibit those with felonies in the past five years to
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EDITORIAL
Have a voice, attend GSB open forum By Iowa State Daily Editorial Board The concern of student enrollment has been something that students have been talking about since the beginning of the school year. CyRide, sidewalks and classrooms are more packed in with more students than ever before. The student body is growing at a rate that seems impossible to keep up with, and that is why tonight is more important to students than any other. We are finally getting the answers about student enrollment. President Steven Leath, Senior Vice President and Provost Jonathan Wickert, Warren Madden, Senior Vice President of business and finance, and Miles Lackey, Associate Vice President and Chief of Staff, will be attending an enrollment growth open forum meeting with the Government of the Student Body at 7 p.m. It has been requested in an email sent to all current students by GSB that as many students as possible attend this meeting, and that is exactly what should happen tonight. Students are the first people on campus to start complaining about the congestion that is happening on Iowa State’s campus, but now it is time to step up and speak to the people who are actually going to be able to make a difference. Because this GSB senator meeting is an open forum, any student who wants answers about enrollment or has specific questions on the topic is suggested to attend the meeting. Complaining to our friends on an overloaded CyRide is simply not enough. If we want to see a solution to the over enrollment crisis happening at Iowa State, we need to go straight to the source. This is the chance for students to speak up. “Everyone at this university is working every day toward these solutions,” said Khayree Fitten, GSB senator. “Part of the conversation then is making sure we have all of the information when we’re approaching those issues and solutions. Is that part of the solution — getting other people involved.” Student involvement, like in most issues on campus, is the key to fixing those issues. Attending this meeting means that you care about the well-being and future of this campus. Enrollment issues affect everyone on campus, whether you live in the dorms and on campus or if you have to take the bus or walk everyday. Things like dining centers, CyRide and classroom sizes are all things that are affected by the number of students on Iowa State’s campus. Administration at this school is realizing that enrollment is a real problem at this school, and they are asking students how to fix it. Make tonight’s meeting your priority. If you have something about this campus that you feel needs to be discussed with administration, then you should be in attendance. Let’s show our campus leaders that we are not all gossip and that when it comes time to step up to the plate on student issues, we are ready to go.