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POLICE PREPARATION IN CASE OF CAMPUS VIOLENCE Sunday night’s mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in U.S. history, has left the country with a host of unanswered questions.
Why did Stephen Paddock, a seemingly normal man as described by relatives, open fire into a crowd of innocent concert goers? What, if anything, will change to help prevent the next mass killing? Perhaps more specifically, what happens if there’s a mass shooting at Iowa State? While only time, and many more hours of investigation, will provide answers for the first two, the Iowa State Police Department has plans and programs in place to help keep students safe in the event of a violent incident here on campus. Here is what to expect:
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“When we get a report of something like this we’re immediately sending a full law enforcement response to the area. Our first objective is to stop the threat,” ISU Police Chief Michael Newton said. “If somebody is still actively shooting, our officers are immediately going to try and engage that incident and stop any more killing or injuring that’s happening.” Dispatch would be swamped with calls, relaying relevant information to officers and working to get emergency notifications to campus. General patrol officers would be the first on the scene, Newton said. While Story County
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Racers to adventure through mud, water Thirty-two participants will race to the finish in this year’s intramural Adventure Race. The competition will be held Saturday, Oct. 14 at West Peterson Park, more commonly known as Peterson Pits. PHOTO COURTESY OF LINDA MARTICKE Participants in the intramural Adventure Race will canoe a half mile, bike three miles and run one mile at West Peterson Park on Saturday.
The race has been an annual event for 12 years. Jerry Rupert, the race coordinator, originated the idea, and the first race was held in April 2005. “We’ve helped with doing some other adventure races around the area of Ames,” Rupert said. “It just made sense to me that we within our recreation services department could do a cooperative event where intramurals could advertise it and put it on, and then we as the outdoor recreation program staff could actually run the race.” The race will be run in teams of two, and groups can be composed of men, women or coed participants. The teams will be split into three heats, and the winners of each heat will receive intramural champion T-shirts. The competition will include a half mile of canoeing, three miles of biking and a one-mile run to the finish line. Rupert said winning teams typically finish the race in approximately half an hour but some teams who are out for fun take a couple hours to finish. “The students who participate in the event
seem to love the challenge of it,” Linda Marticke, the intramural sports coordinator, said. Rupert noted that the biking section tends to be the most difficult. “Most people don’t have a lot of experience about how to ride a mountain bike,” Rupert said. “It’s on trails, it’s not on a paved road or anything. They have to ride through sand, mud, gravel and all kinds of different terrain. “It’s pretty challenging for people.” This year, 17 teams have signed up for the race. Marticke said this year’s participation has been similar to years past. Marticke also noted that Peterson Pits was chosen as the location because it met the criteria necessary; a small lake for canoeing and trails for biking and running. When the race began in 2005, Ada Hayden Park had not yet been built. However, because of the large amount of traffic Ada Hayden sees, Marticke said Peterson Pits remains a better location. However, the dirt trails at the park tend to present a problem. In past years, races have been rescheduled or canceled due to rain, as mountain bikes can ruin trails if the ground is wet enough. This year, the race was pushed back from Oct. 7 to Oct. 14. “We just don’t want to destroy the trails be-
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In early July, Iowa State University Division of Academic Affairs released the 2016-2017 Diversity and Inclusion Report. Among other action items listed in this report, one in particular aims to create diversity in the University Library, the residency program.
Over the last few years, a subcommittee made of Kim Anderson, Harrison W. Inefuku, Petrina Jackson, Rebecca Jackson and Hilary Seo of the University Library Committee on Diversity have been developing a residency program due to an outcry by diverse students for better representation in the Iowa State faculty. This program is aimed at attracting future librarians from underrepresented groups to seek careers in academic and research librarianship. The program includes a three-year plan to provide early career librarians from underrepresented groups with an opportunity to experience work in an academic and research library.
The first year allows residents to gain familiarity with the library’s different functions through rotations in different departments. The second year the residents work with their base department to learn more about the administration aspect of an academic research library and the diversity-related services offered. The third and final year, residents work to complete capstone projects and present their findings through presentations and publications. In this residency, there are three different departments that have been selected to mentor these residents, including digital scholarship and initiative, library instruction and special collections. “We turned to our librarians who are supervisors to ask for areas that would be of interest to hosting a resident but also we wanted to have a nice grouping so that a resident could select where they’re going to go,” Dean of Library Services, Beth McNeil said. Iowa State is not the only school to implement this type of program. Other universities including The University of Iowa, West Virginia University,
and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have implemented very similar programs. “While it is new to Iowa State, it is not a new idea, it’s almost a little bit like a postdoc in the library world”. While working with these universities to build the residency program, Iowa State became a member of Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Diversity Alliance. Starting the search for a resident in January 2017, They had over 50 applicants and in the end they successfully found one: Shaina Destine. On a student level, Destine said that the program is important because to her it seems like the university needs more diversity. She argues that every person benefits from being surrounded by a diverse community. “That means more than just getting more people of color in the door,” said Destine. She argues that every person benefits from being
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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CLEAN SNOWMOBILE CHALLENGE TEAM “We take a stock snowmobile and our goal is to make it more fuel-efficient and quieter, while also making it fun to ride,” project director Charlie Bootsmiller said.
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KATLYN CAMPBELL/ IOWA STATE DAILY A snowmobile built by the Clean Snowmobile team caught fire at a 2017 competition. The incident was then dubbed a “thermal event.”
After a “thermal event” that ended with their vehicle in flames, the Iowa State Clean Snowmobile Challenge team is heading back to the drawing board with big plans for next year’s competition.
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International association holds an annual competition each year that encourages college teams from around the world to redesign existing snowmobile technology to be more fuel efficient and quieter on the trails. In previous years, park rangers from popular national parks have gone to the competitions to give talks to the competitors about the importance of advancing cleaner and quieter snowmobiles. “We take a stock snowmobile and our goal is to make it more fuel-efficient and quieter, while also making it fun to ride,” said Charlie Bootsmiller, project director for the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge this year. The SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge is a competition that pits multiple colleges from around the world to create a better snowmobile. The competition is primarily an engine competition, team members said. However, that doesn’t prevent them from modifying other things on the sled. “You can touch literally anything you want on the entire snowmobile as long as it still meets the rules,” Austin Dewberry, project director for this year’s team, said, “There’s not many things that are against the rules, so anything you see on the snowmobile, or you can think of, you can do.” The team members also said that while you can modify most anything on the snowmobile, the majority of teams stay away from modifying the chassis due to the fact that the competition requires intricate geometrical analysis of a redesigned chassis for safety reasons. Other things that most teams modify are centered around the engine, tracks, suspension, skis and everything else that goes onto the chassis, Dan Zimmerman, engine team lead for the project, said. This year, the team will be running a backup snowmobile from a few years ago due to a “thermal event,” as the team called it, that saw their primary snowmobile catch fire during
the 2017 competition. The snowmobile is powered by a 800cc, 140 horsepower two-stroke engine. A two-stroke engine is different from the engine you would find in your car due to the number of strokes it takes to turn the crankshaft in the engine. For example, most modern cars on the road feature a fourstroke engine. The competition is primarily broken up into three classes, separated by type engine: internal combustion, diesel utility and zero emission. While the team said that the 2018 competition will not have a zero emission category, they will be competing in the internal combustion class. “We had a few team members in the past who wanted to put a diesel motor in our chassis,” Zimmerman said, “but we’ve decided against it each year due to resources and time.” For this upcoming competition season, the team has a few goals it hopes to achieve in terms of vehicle modification. “We for sure want to do a standalone ECU [engine control unit],” said Dewberry. An ECU is a device that controls how an internal combustion engine performs and allows for a user to tune specifically how that engine performs. “For most any vehicle, they have after-market applications that are just plug and play, but for a two-stroke application, there’s nothing like that exists currently,” Dewberry said. “We’re throwing a lot of ideas around,” Zimmerman said. “We might put in a 600[cc] two-stroke engine so it lowers our horsepower. If we run the 800cc, we’ll probably have to put a rev-limiter on it so we don’t go over the horsepower limit for the competition.” The team will be traveling to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in March 2018 to Houghton, Michigan, where they will be competing against other collegiate teams from around the world to develop and push the boundaries of the snowmobile industry. “I joined my freshmen year without really knowing anything about snowmobiles,” Bootsmiller said. “We have a slightly smaller learning curve than other SAE teams because we’re not building a vehicle from the ground up and I think that makes us a little more approachable.”
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Brain injuries are too important to ignore BY ISAAC.SINCLAIR @iowastatedaily.com
COURTESY OF GETTY IMAGES Columnist Isaac Sinclair urges people to understand the impact football has on its players. In 99 percent of deceased NFL players, all had cases of a degenerative brain disease.
The NFL season kicked off a few weeks ago, and as I’ve been watching the games, I’ve found myself having a harder time enjoying football.
My outlook toward football began to change after hearing about the results of a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association [ JAMA] over the summer. It found cases of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy [CTE] in 99 percent of deceased NFL players. CTE is a degenerative brain disease caused by repetitive brain trauma. Symptoms include memory loss, depression, mood swings, impaired judgment and paranoia. This is an issue the NFL cannot escape. The reality is that every time a player puts his helmet on for a game, they are potentially inflicting irreversible brain damage onto themselves. Even after the results of this study, there will be many more years of football. Football has been, and will continue to be, a staple of American sports.
One of the primary reasons is profits. In 2016, the NFL made $13.3 billion dollars, and the average NFL player makes $1.9 million dollars. There’s simply too much money and popularity being poured into football. For young athletes wanting to play football professionally, I don’t recommend it. I’ve heard arguments that football is the best route for impoverished children to get out of poverty and I’m here to say that this simply isn’t true. Besides the almost guaranteed head trauma that comes with playing football, NFL players have the lowest salary out of the four major American sports. I am willing to bet that a professional athlete at the level of an NFL player can also play at least one other sport well. Playing basketball, baseball or hockey is a very real option for kids looking to play professional sports, and a more lucrative one as well. So, how does the NFL fix this? First, there needs to be less youth football. CTE only gets worse with head impacts starting before age 12, and children shouldn’t be put into a sport that will impair their mental health at such a young age.
Second, helmets need to do a better job at protecting players. Helmets aren’t perfect, and many companies like Riddell, Schutt and Vicis are working on improving them. After learning all of this, I have a harder time watching football games. They are still fun, and I do love watching the Vikings try to win, but it’s hard to fully enjoy the sport when you know that nearly everyone on that field is walking away from the game with head trauma. The argument that they are making millions somehow negates the fact that their mental capacities will be diminished is disgusting. They are still human beings who deserve to have their health — millionaires or not. CTE is a problem that is not going away, and I foresee it causing monumental problems for the NFL brand going forward. Football will struggle while other sports overtake it in popularity and success. But football will survive, so we must make sure that it is as safe as it can be going forward. We must ensure that children have the chance to develop healthy minds and that players go into each game as protected as they can be.
EDITORIAL
Breast cancer awareness saves lives October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which aims to improve public awareness regarding this deadly disease. According to the World Health Organization, breast cancer is the leading cause of deaths in women, after skin cancer, worldwide.
One in eight women in the U.S. are diagnosed with breast cancer. Every year, over 200,000 women are diagnosed and more than 40,000 don’t survive. Every two minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer and one woman dies every 13 minutes. Although, breast cancer is prevalent in women who are 50 years of age or older, younger women are also exposed to it. About 10 percent of all new cases of breast cancer in the U.S. are found in women younger than 45 years of age. Though not very common, men are also prone to breast cancer. More than 2,000 men are diagnosed and over 400 die of breast cancer each year. Despite its higher risk, lives can be saved
with timely and better screening, increased awareness, early diagnosis and continuous improvement of treatment options. Breast cancer is easier to treat at earlier stages and mammogram screening tests can help find it. This month gives us a chance to increase public awareness about breast cancer and emphasize the importance of early detection and treatment. The U.S. has 3.3 million breast cancer survivors alive today. Thielen Student Health Center at Iowa State does provide women’s health services which include clinical breast exams (CBE) and self-breast exam instruction. Recent studies found that CBE is a less expensive test that can aid in breast cancer detection and is highly recommended if one has a family history. In spite of the terrible statistics, breast cancer patients can become breast cancer survivors by changing the public mindset through education and improving awareness about the disease, timely screening tests for early diagnosis and better treatment options.
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SPORTS
Iowa State Daily Friday, October 6, 2017 FOOTBALL
Tough test awaits in Sooner land When Iowa State travels to Norman, Oklahoma on Saturday to face No. 3 Oklahoma, there’s one thing that will be on the Cyclones’ mind — containing No. 6, Baker Mayfield. EMILY BLOBAUM/ IOWA STATE DAILY Iowa State senior Jomal Wiltz dives at Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield in the first half of the game on Nov. 3, 2016. Oklahoma defeated Iowa State 34-24.
“When you look at [Oklahoma], everything revolves around two things that elite offenses have and that’s an elite quarterback and offensive line,” coach Matt Campbell said. Mayfield’s the quarterback that is likely to be in New York when the Heisman Trophy is awarded to the nation’s top player. He’s also the quarterback that tore through the Iowa State defense last year for 328 passing yards and four touchdowns en route to a 34-24 win. “It’s a different team; they’re a different team and we’re a different team,” defensive coordinator Jon Heacock said. “You just try to build off of the things that you’re doing. You look at last year’s tape, but again they’re a completely different football team than they were a year ago and really so are we.” However, Iowa State has a defense in its arsenal that held Texas to seven points last Thursday, which is an impressive feat considering the Longhorns put up 24 points against then-No. 4 Southern California. Thus far, the Iowa State defense has held the opposing offenses to an average of 24 points, with the one outlier being the Iowa game where it allowed 44. However, the Cyclones haven’t faced a team like Oklahoma, who can dismantle a team on both sides of the ball. Iowa State does match up with the Sooners at nearly every skill position on offense.
At wide receiver, both teams feature five players with at least 100 receiving yards, but the Sooners have four over 200 yards, compared to Iowa State’s two. Oklahoma is led by tight end Mark Andrews. The redshirt junior has accumulated 305 receiving yards in just four games and is averaging nearly 19 yards per reception. Flip to Iowa State, and it’s Hakeem Butler leading the Cyclones with 296 receiving yards for three touchdowns. Then move to the running back position, where both have juggernaut backs that can change the course of a game with one run. In the Sooners’ case, they have three guys that have over 100 rushing yards, which is unheard of in football. One key piece for Iowa State will be Jacob Park. Park is coming off of a performance where his completion percentage was under 50 percent and three interceptions, a game high this season. “I saw some really good things and I think we saw certainly some opportunities that we perhaps missed,” offensive coordinator Tom Manning said on the play of Park. Quarterback is the one position at which the Sooners clearly outman the Cyclones. With Mayfield under center, the Sooners boast one of the toughest offenses in the Big 12, which they showed when they hung Baylor for 49 points. “There is really no weak link from where you’re at structurally,” Manning said. “[Oklahoma] is extremely sound and talented and obviously that defense is a big reason why they’ve had so much success over the years.”
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HOCKEY
Cyclone hockey to face biggest challenge yet BY SPENCER.SUCKOW @iowastatedaily.com
Record-wise, Cyclone hockey is off to a perfect start to the 2017-18 season. However, they’ll face their toughest challenge when the 20th ranked Oklahoma Sooners come to town for the Cyclones’ Alumni Weekend series.
Coming off a sweep of Illinois State in their first series of the season, the Cyclones were able to dispatch Waldorf in back-to-back games with relative ease. Iowa State was able to take advantage of what was an undermanned Warriors squad to the tune of nine goals in two games, and goalie play was once again stellar for the Cyclones with the tandem of Derek Moser and Matt Goedeke closing the door on all but one shot throughout the weekend. This weekend, however, the Cyclones will face the Oklahoma Sooners, a team that has finished near the top of the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) standings in past years.
While Oklahoma’s 2-3 record to start the year may look pedestrian upon first glance, this is due to the fact that the Sooners have played a tough schedule to start the season. All three of the team’s losses have come to Top 25 teams. Cyclone hockey coach Jason Fairman is well aware of this fact and notes that if the they don’t bring their best this weekend against the Sooners, things could go south. “The meat of our schedule is going to start now this weekend against Oklahoma,” Fairman said. “Our deficiencies will be exposed this coming weekend if we’re not on top of it and right now we have a lot of deficiencies.” Among these deficiencies, Fairman said, is that the team hasn’t been up to his standards defensively or on the penalty kill. Additionally, the Cyclones got caught up in playing a chippy game last weekend against Waldorf, which resulted in the team being on the penalty kill for the majority of the third period.
Fairman said, based on past experiences, Oklahoma will likely try to play a similarly chippy style and the Cyclones can’t get sucked into it this time. “It took us out of the game,” Fairman said. “We were dominating the first part of that game and the third period we were killing penalties all the time. We want to avoid that trap this weekend against Oklahoma.” The Cyclones haven’t played the Sooners since the 2015 playoffs and haven’t played them in the regular season since 2014. The Cyclones won the game in 2015 and split the series in 2014, but many players on the roster today weren’t around for any of those games. One player who was on the 2015 national tournament team is current defenseman and team captain Kody Reuter. “It’s pretty cool,” Reuter said. “I don’t think I’ve played them since freshman year in the national tournament, so it’ll be pretty cool to play a bigger school like that, a Big 12 school. We definitely want to represent for Iowa State.”
LIFESTYLE
Friday, October 6, 2017 Iowa State Daily
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COMEDY
TJ Miller to perform after 7 months BY EMILY.URBAN @iowastatedaily.com Known mostly for his time on “Silicon Valley” and “Deadpool,” TJ Miller has been a standup comedian ever since college. However, comedy wasn’t the clear path.
“It became clearer and clearer, specifically in college, that the best thing I could do, the thing that I would be best at, was either psychology or comedy,” Miller said. “The impact comedy can have on a greater number of people eventually won out.” No matter if it is a Mucinex ad or a show, Miller has always had the goal of brightening people’s days with laughter. “From the get-go, I was motivated by making people laugh and feel good,” Miller said. “That then translated into kind of this mission statement that didn’t really allow me to go, ‘eh, I am tired tonight. I don’t really need to go to open mic.’ That doesn’t fit in line with the idea of work your hardest to be able to make as many people laugh as possible.” Because of that initial motivation, Miller has not stopped expanding his career. He began learning in the Chicago comedy scene. Miller has moved through comedy, television and movies with an unstoppable work ethic. That same ethic has never left Miller. He has gone through television flops and success, ranging from pilots that never got picked up to the hit series “Silicon Valley.” All of which were accomplished under the motto, “Work
smarter than harder rather than harder than smarter.” Not only has his work ethic lasted his career. Miller still upholds traditions from his past. “This is what you do. This is what you are good at,” says Miller before every performance. Not only does Miller talk himself up, he also always has bologna in his shoes (yes, you read that right). Why have socks when when TJ Miller says you can have, “... this funny feeling all the way down to [your] toes?” When asked if he ever gets stage fright, Miller gave some advice. “You know what [stage fright] is? It is thinking too much about you and not enough about the audience ... I am just always thinking how can I help them? What can I do for them, you know?” Miller said. So what is Miller up to in the future? He has plans for a movie he wrote with his cousin, movies such as “Ready Player One,” “How to Train Your Dragon 3” and “Underwater,” as well as more stand-up comedy. Miller’s performance is coming after an initial delay which postponed an appearance at Iowa State from March to now. Miller will perform 8 p.m. today in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. Tickets are $20 with a student ID and $30 dollars for the public. Doors open at 7 p.m.
COURTESY OF THE STUDENT UNION BOARD TJ Miller to perform stand-up comedy routine at 8 p.m. today in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. “From the get-go, I was motivated by making people laugh and feel good,” Miller said.
NETFLIX
What to watch in October BY PARKER.REED @iowastatedaily.com BoJack Horseman: Season 4 (Animation/ Comedy/Drama) - Available Now
Even if you feel behind, there is never a bad time to jump into one of Netflix’s most underrated original series. Featuring the voices of Will Arnett, Alison Brie and Aaron Paul, “BoJack Horseman” is a surprisingly dark comedy series that continually pushes the viewer’s patience with the titular character, but in a way that keeps the same viewer wanting more. If you’re starting from season one, make sure to finish the entire first season before you decide whether to keep with it or not, as the best, most gripping moments happen in the second half. Foo Fighters: Back and Forth (Music/ Documentary) - Available Now
While this documentary was originally released in 2011, anyone interested in music would benefit from watching this excellent look into the history of the influential alt-rock group. Documenting everything between the fall of Nirvana to the making of their 2011 album “Wasting Light,” “Back and Forth” is a must-watch for anyone interested in the group, as their ninth LP “Concrete and Gold” just released in September and the group is sched-
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NEWS
POLICE
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does have a tactical team made up of officers from various departments in the county, including officers from Iowa State, it may take some time to mobilize. Oftentimes, these kind of incidents end before law enforcement can even arrive. As word spreads of the shooting, resources from other nearby agencies and the Iowa State Patrol would begin to pour into Ames. “If we were to call out that there’s a mass shooting situation or some kind of mass killing situation, we’re going to see a lot of resources start to head our way,” Newton said. “We would ask mutual aid from everybody in the county.” Only after the threat is eliminated will police be able to treat the wounded, something that may confuse onlookers. “There may be people injured and down and the officers aren’t stopping to care for them,” Newton said. “They need to take care of the situation. That’s confusing, sometimes, for people. But our first priority is to stop anything else from happening.” Once the threat is gone and the injured are cared for, a long and complex series of local, state and federal investigations will begin. The Senior Leadership Team at the Emergency Operations Center would look at the long term consequences, deciding when classes would start again, if any rooms or buildings will remain closed and what the vigil would look like. Police would also look at what lessons could be learned from the incident. Currently, ISUPD is waiting to synthesize any material from the shooting in Las Vegas to help them better prepare. “Unfortunately, there’s so many incidents, there’s a lot of lessons that we can take from those,” Newton said. What you should do
The best way to stay safe during a mass shooting is to think about what you’re going to do before one ever happens, Newton said. ISU Police offers a Violent Incident Response Training ( VIRT) aimed at better preparing students for the possibility of a violence incident on campus. Students and
Iowa State Daily Friday, October 6, 2017 organizations can schedule a training with ISUPD and watch a brief video overview of the program online. “Thinking through this and getting training ahead of time is probably the key to your survival potentially in these situations,” Newton said. VIRT is broken down into three elements — avoid, deny and defend — however, the in-the-moment response will often boil down to personal preference. “First you should take care of yourself,” Newton said. “Get out of the situation, seek shelter. One of the things that we find is people tend to come to the incident when they learn about it. Stay away if you’re not in the area.” The first thing you should do when you hear gun fire is call the police, according to the training. Even if lines are busy, keep trying until you can get through. Any information could help law enforcement. If you can, avoid the situation. Get to safety as fast as possible and find nearby objects to use as cover. If leaving isn’t an option, deny the shooter access by locking and barricading any doors. Shooters will often take the path of least resistance, Newton says, something as simple as keeping quiet and out of the way could go a long way for your safety. The final, and most risky, option is defend. If you can’t leave or deny the shooter access, try to distract them by yelling or throwing objects. Swarm and subdue the shooter if you can. “You have to think about all three of those strategies ahead of time,” Newton said. “In the heat of the moment I don’t know if you’re going to do that. That’s why in law enforcement we rehearse things and we do training.” Newton expects to see a spike in people hoping to receive VIRT training. In order to consolidate police resources and provide as many people with training as possible, police are encouraging those interested to sign up with larger groups. VIRT is a free program offered at the request of a department or group on campus. Those who wish to schedule a training or find more information should contact Lt. Elliott Florer at (515) 294-4428 or Officer Anthony Greiter at (515) 294-3009.
RACE
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cause they’re used by walkers and they’re used by horseback riders. The trails are multi-purpose and we don’t want to destroy the trails for other people,” Rupert said. Sign-in for the race begins at 12:15 p.m. and the first canoeing group will start at 1 p.m. “I think the biggest thing is it’s different,” Rupert said. “Intramurals has a ton of different sports, but they’re pretty traditional sports like flag football and basketball and things like that. Where this is an event where people who didn’t grow up in competitive sports like that but do like to ride bikes and do run and do canoe this is an opportunity for them to be a part of intramurals too. I think that’s probably
LIBRARY
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surrounded by a diverse community. By being surrounded by different people, students and staff are exposed to multiple backgrounds and stories. “I am also getting the opportunity to be what I needed when I was a young bookworm growing up in the South Bronx,” Destine said. “I needed to see a librarian that looked like me and I never did. I get to be that for a young Cyclone at this institution.” Because this is her first year in the program, Destine is rotating through the different departments, currently she is based in Access Services. With the help of Petrina Jackson, head of Special Collections, and McNeil, the program is helping her shape her career so that she is more desirable among her peers after the residency. Through this program, she has also been able to work with students and help Iowa State Library become more diverse. “I’m more than a black librarian, archivist.
the biggest value is creating more diversity in our programing and getting a more diverse population of people to participate.” Students are required to obtain their own mountain bikes, helmets and transportation to Peterson Pits. Canoes and life jackets will be provided by Recreation Services. Bikes and helmets can be rented through the Outdoor Recreation Program. Teams will be required to remain together during the biking and running portion of the race. Students are cautioned against wearing their best athletic shoes as they may get wet during the canoeing leg of the competition. More information can be found on the Recreation Services website.
I am also a black woman who grew up on the East Coast and who has been places and seen things that people here may not have,” said Destine. “While I am learning, I am teaching. Every interaction is a lesson in growth for everyone involved.” As outlined by McNeil, the residency initiative is important to the university because it plays a role in increasing diversity in the library staff, supporting a specific university strategic goal, per the ACRL Diversity Alliance agreement. The university strategic goal in question strives for diversity efforts across Iowa State to give students, staff and visitors to the university a welcoming, safe and inclusive environment to share thoughts and ideas. To McNeil, the library should fit this description. “Anything we can do to further their academic success through library collections or services we are happy to do,” McNeil said.
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