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By Mary-Kate Burkert Daily staff writer One fraternity hopes noodles can cook up support for a cure.

Phi Delta Theta will be raising money for the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Foundation in support of the fight against Lou Gehrig’s disease by selling Noodles & Company to the Iowa State and Ames communities on Nov. 15.

Tickets can be purchased for $4 from any Phi Delta Theta member prior to the event or for $5 at the door. On the menu for the event: spaghetti and meatballs, Wisconsin mac and cheese, Caesar salad, and lemonade.

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“Lou Gehrig was a famous baseball player and fellow Phi Delta Theta alum,” said Shane Gerkin, philanthropy co-chairman. “It is important that people attend in order to raise awareness about this disease and to be able to provide support to this organization which goes to help provide research for a cure and to provide assistance to people battling ALS.” Many of the fraternity’s members said Noodles & Company, a recent addition to Ames this fall, has been a big help with this philanthropic event.

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We encounter them every day, passing between classes, on the bus or even out on the weekends. It is not easy being an international student.

Adapting to university life can be difficult, especially when it is in a completely new world. They have all got an interesting story.

Muhammad Aurang Zaib is one of them. He goes by Zaib with his friends, and he has come here all the way from Pakistan. He is one a select few of his peers who were given the opportunity to study in the United States.

He is sharply dressed and immediately friendly. His dark brown eyes betray a smile, even during the rare moments when there is not one on his face.

He studies agronomy, and he does not like the cold. He is one of the 3,424 international students of the 29,887 students at Iowa State.

Zaib will be graduating with a master’s degree this spring and hopes to find an assistantship so he can get his Ph.D. He is a successful student but getting here was not easy. Not everyone takes education for granted, especially Zaib.

Photo: Kaleb Warnock/Iowa State Daily Muhammad Aurang Zaib is a second year graduate student in agronomy who has come all the way from Pakistan, to study at Iowa State. Zaib is part of a large number of international students currently studying in Ames.

“Sometimes I think of how lucky I am, studying at Iowa State in the agronomy department — one of the top departments in the US,” Zaib said.

“I personally studied in a school in Pakistan with no walls.”

Zaib attended a small school in the Punjab region of rural Pakistan.

His school was different from schools here in the United States. His school had no walls, floors or even rooms; class was held outdoors. As a matter

of fact, in summer, students sat in the shade under a tree while it was well over 100 degrees. In the winter, they huddled together while they studied.

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Ames Library hosts global event

By Cristobal.Matibag @iowastatedaily.com A coalition of local groups is inviting women of all nationalities to attend the International Women’s Festival, which will be held Wednesday in the Ames Public Library. Running from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Library’s Farwell T. Brown Auditorium, the event will give attendees a chance to meet other women and learn

about Ames-area businesses and services.

“This is not only for the students,” said Jingtao Wang, YWCA Ames-ISU global outreach volunteer. “We are also for the international spouses.”

Wang, whose husband works at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Lab, said that upon coming to Ames in 2007, she did not know which buses to take on campus, where to volunteer or

what to do for fun. She hopes that after attending this fair, women new to Iowa State will be spared her struggles to adjust.

“I really hope many spouses can have help,” she said.

Mary Logsdon, information services coordinator for Ames Public Library, underscored the event’s social nature.

“It’s an opportunity for all gathered to just have friendly

communication,” she said.

“It’s open to everyone in the community.”

Tea provided by the India Cultural Association and cookies provided by Friends of International Women will be served at the event, Wang said. Organizers will also order food from New China Restaurant for those who attend.

The festival is sponsored in part by the YWCA Ames-ISU.

Organizations who will be represented at the event include:

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By Erin.Coppock @iowastatedaily.com

Iowa State students came dressed to impress on Monday at the modeling tryouts for the spring 2012 fashion show. The annual Textiles and Merchandise Fashion Show will be held on April 14 and this year marks its 30th anniversary. The event is a student run, and each year brings new apparel, guest designers and models.

Hopeful models arrived in the LeBaron lounge from 6 to 9 p.m. and waited for their opportunity to walk for the judges.

Each audition lasted approximately five minutes. Each model tried out in a group of four to five others, walking first with the group and then alone. Music was on as each model

walked, and the judges sat at the front watching and evaluating each model.

Models of all shapes and sizes were in attendance, and according to Brittany Guzek, junior in AMPD, anyone who is willing to put in the effort is encouraged to try out.

“We look for models of all types.

There is no one specific look,” Guzek said. “They need to have a positive, hardworking attitude, be willing to learn, and be excited about the show.

This year we are really looking for upbeat, fun and smiling models. The only requirements of the models is that they need to be an Iowa State student and in good academic standing.”

Anna Schowe, junior in apparel, merchandising and design, attended

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Photo: Brianna Buenz/Iowa State Daily Students of all ages audition for the 2012 spring fashion show on Monday.The models ranged in age and experience.

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>>ZAIB.p1 “How should I describe the color of the water in my hometown?” he chuckles as he remembers his hometown and what his life was like growing up. “There was no drinking water. There was no medical facility, no transport. We used to walk a lot to school.”

He did not let that stop him. He still studied 18 hours a day he joked, even though his home was provided with electricity for less than six.

Zaib is one of four children in his family, he and his two sisters and brother were raised by his parents, both of which are teachers. According to Zaib, although teachers are held in high regard in Pakistan, they do not make a sufficient amount of money, and his family struggled greatly. However, his parents worked hard to educate him and put him through school.

“I feel proud for my parents,” Zaib said. “Even though they were school teachers and did not have enough earning for food, for clothing or for education, but they did a very good job.”

Despite the fact that his school did not have adequate facilities or textbooks, he continued to work hard until he made it to college, where he interacted with a computer for the first time.

The state of universities in Pakistan are in a steep decline given the current economic and political situation within the country.

The weak central government is exacerbated by frequent bombings and overpopulation within the cities, further devouring the already thinly spread resources.

According to Zaib, the Pakistani government has to spend significant amounts of resources in counterterrorism and security rather than internal development projects, specifically education.

It is the students who suffer when the funding imbalance affects their education.

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cation, the schooling system, the lucky few of his friends the medical, everything is that made it abroad to study.

“There were hundreds disturbed,” Zaib said. “They don’t have the funding to spon- of students from my universor the students for higher sity, a lot of my friends really wished that they could have education.”

There is little money for got admission and a visa for individuals like Zaib to pur- the U.S.A. or Europe,” Zaib said. “A lot of sue their edumy friends cation, and did apply, but not only are they were students sufHe’s really outrejected.” fering with going, and he’s Fa s t the burden, sort of a sponge forward a Pakistani unifor new cultures few years versities are and people. He to Zaib’s struggling not has an amazing time at Iowa just to gather funding but capacity to get to State, where to keep their know people and he is studying agrondoors open. meet people.” omy and “When – Emily Heaton currently you don’t working on have money, what will the progress be?” adapting different types of Zaib said. “How much will corn to Iowa’s climate.

He even has his own field people be interested actually?

To teach? To do the research? of crops.

Zaib made a life for himSo when you don’t have the money, there’s nothing good self, and despite struggling at first, has overcome the chalgoing on.”

The Pakistani government lenge of beginning a new life has little money to sponsor and is doing well.

International students students for graduate schools or studying abroad, especially have lots of problems to deal those with the humble back- with.

Not only do they have ground like Zaib. However, he continued to work hard. Zaib trouble wading through apgraduated from Pakistan in plication forms, visa restric2007 and began applying for tions and the logistical nightmare of moving across the graduate schools.

He spent some time work- world to study, it is not always ing and after several years was easy to adapt to a completely new life in a different world. accepted to Iowa State.

Ali Soltanshahi is a pro“It’s hard for a student, a guy who’s studying in a school gram coordinator for internaor college or university, and his tional students at Iowa State dream is to get a higher educa- and is in charge of helping tion as my dream was, because them get to Iowa State while I’m not from a very developed guiding them along in their city.” education.

Despite his rural backAccording to Ali, one of ground and education, he was the most significant probaccepted. It was not easy for lems for students is culture him, dealing with immigration shock, which can be detrifrom a country like Pakistan mental to their education. can be difficult, but he was “Basically, the idea is that soon off to the United States. students will go through cul“If you want to go out of ture shock,” Soltanshahi said. your country, you have to face a “They’re excited at first, but lot of problems,” Zaib said. “So then they realize that here, all of these things, the screening test makes it harder for Pakistani students.”

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they have different values than their home country.”

It can be extremely difficult students to deal with a new life at ISU. Being thousands of miles from home can be disorienting, and college is difficult enough when becoming lost among a sea of students.

“Often times, they don’t find a mentor that validates them — a mentor that hears their story,” said Soltanshahi.

Fortunately for Zaib, he has found a mentor and a friend.

“When I met Zaib I don’t think I really got to know anyone from Pakistan, and there’s so much that I want to learn from him, but I can say that we could all benefit from meeting Zaib,” said Emily Heaton, assistant professor in agronomy “He’s a great ambassador for his country, I wish more people knew him.

We need to be more open to hosting students like him” Emily oversees his work and works directly with him in his graduate studies. Zaib is currently trying to identify specific new varieties that are better suited to Iowa’s environment, hoping to bring what he has learned here back to Pakistan to improve the conditions and increase farmers’ crop yields.

“He’s a lot of fun to work with,” Heaton said. “He’s really outgoing, and he’s sort of a sponge for new cultures and people. He has an amazing capacity to get to know people and meet people.”

What can he take away?

Well, he is going home to teach agronomy and improve the conditions for farmers.

“He’ll be training a new generation of scientists, and the skills he learns will be going to workforce development in Pakistan,” Heaton said.

Zaib is not just a successful student; he successfully adapted and made a life for himself here in the United

States. He even branches out to help others adapt also.

“He’s a very helpful individual,” said his friend Umair Ilyas, senior in electrical engineering. “That’s the case with me, and that’s the case with his other friends as well and that’s irrespective of which background they come from. Whether that’s from the United States, whether they’re an international student from some other place, whether they’re fellow Pakistani’s, he has a helpful attitude toward them.”

Ilyas described Zaib as “like a big brother,” who has helped him with everything from learning to cook, coming up with better study habits, and he even advised Ilyas when purchasing a car.

“He’s a really good friend.

I look up to him for difficult matters,” Ilyas said.

Zaib continues to be outgoing and make friends, and is not intimidated by new experiences or people.

“I have a couple of very, very good American friends here now,” Zaib said. “I think that if I could have a lot of Pakistani students, I could not have maybe stayed away from those people. I now have a lot of American friends.”

He did not let cultural or social barriers stop him. As a matter of fact, he is happy now and is proud of his ability to adapt.

“This was the only way I can get settled, I can come out of the culture shock I had. I think I did a good job,” he said.

Now, he is just looking forward to graduating, continuing on to his Ph.D. and returning home.

“I really want to do something in agriculture,” Zaib said. “Do something for my people. That really inspired me.”

But first, he has some work to do.

“Still, I need to work a lot to develop my skills here.”

the tryouts in hopes of being picked to walk in the show a second time.

“I got the opportunity to walk in the show my freshman year, which was the 2010 show, and I had a lot of fun,” Schowe said. “I wasn’t too nervous to try out because I’ve already done it.”

Kari Sindelar, senior in elementary education and a past model for the show, was disappointed by the fact she will not be able to be a part of it again.

“I’m so bummed I can’t model this year,” she said. “My favorite part of the entire modeling experience was meeting so many new people, from the other models to all the directors and committees. I made a lot of new friendships, and I loved being around such creative processes that I’ve never been a part of before.”

Models that are chosen not only get the opportunity to meet new people and gain experience in runway modeling, they also receive one academic credit. This is in large part due to the commitment required of the models.

“There is definitely a time commitment for the models chosen for our show,” Guzek said. “We have practices to help teach choreography, which take place every other Sunday in the evening. Along with the practices there are dress rehearsals, a fit night, judging day and then the actual show.”

The models who try out are informed of the time commitment beforehand, but some find it to be a little overwhelming.

“Personally the time commitment is fine for me, but I know from when I did the show my freshman year, some models found it to be a lot. There is a lot of practice that goes into it, and the day of the show is very stressful,” Schowe said.

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Work first, enjoy play afterwards If you watched or listened to the news on Nov. 8, you may have noticed that a lot of attention was given to the release of “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.” The game’s publisher, Activision, proceeded to sell 6.5 million copies of the video game in the first 24 hours in the United States and United Kingdom alone.

To be clear, the $400 million they brought in during the first day of sales is more than has ever been made by a movie during its opening weekend.

The best opening weekends recorded by movies include the last “Harry Potter” movie and “The Dark Knight,” both of which brought in approximately $160 million over a Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The game is set to beat the sales figures from its predecessor, which brought in over $1 billion in the first 60 days of sales. So why, when we should be studying vigilantly for finals and trying to get homework done, are millions of young adults and teenagers flipping on their Xboxes instead?

There are two competing priorities at work here. One is the need to study, learn, and work to eventually make a living for yourself. The other is the video game company’s objective to keep you occupied and entertained by a story that you take part in so that you will buy more of their games.

Disappointingly for teachers and professors everywhere, the tug of a shiny new videogame is usually too great for young people to overcome.

We know that even in a studious town like Ames, Iowa, hundreds of you waited at midnight for “MW3” or at least stopped by the bookstore after classes. You just wanted to stop and take a break from your studies, right?

Are our priorities misplaced?

Aren’t we the generation that needs to fix the U.S. debt problem, stop terrorism, end world hunger? How are we supposed to do that when we are busy playing the latest “Modern Warfare” game with our friends?

Many of us at the Daily like to play a fun video game from time to time too. But we need to remember that even though the realism in video games is increasing exponentially, the virtual game world is not the same as the real world and your ability to make a stupendous amount of headshots in a first-person shooter will not help you with your Econ 101 test next week.

So we recommend you put down your game controller, get your work done for class, then maybe hop on Xbox LIVE for an online game with friends. At the very least make sure you take time to get up, stretch your legs, eat something healthy and sleep well. Games are fun, but do not let them take over your life.

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Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily Chess is an ageless game with countless moves and countermoves to be made. But the greatest game of all could be the one we don’t even consider a game: our own lives, where there are even more moves and countermoves and even more pieces in play than in chess.

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love the game of chess. The parameters are fixed, the rules are set, and the play is grounded by 64 squares. You can see it all set right before you; there’s no imponderabilia, no surprises, there is only checkmate. The total number of games is almost unpredictable, but it always ends the same: checkmate. You win and you lose, but you always know the moves that got you there.

Chess serves as a calm against the uncontrollable complexity of life. Chess is clean where life is messy. Life is unpredictable and unbound by any dimensions. We act simultaneously; the most distant actions drastically affecting one another. Between the least significant actors across the greatest distances there is some level of connection which we cannot ignore if we wish to master life.

In chess there are two players with one connection between them, but life is “played” with millions at a time. We hold endless connections through technology and our daily confrontation. Chess is played against one and either we win or lose; life forces us to work with countless opponents in pursuit of ever-changing goals. Checkmate looks relatively simple compared to the complications of life.

Chess has a single goal held constant through the game. In life you don’t have one goal and your aspirations are anything but constant. Our goals and conceptions change constantly, when we fail they make shrink and after accomplishment they grow. Mastery of the game and general contentment are your only avenues for overall success, and you’ll always need teams to help you achieve it.

In life there are teams which provide support and share common concerns. Teams are never fixed but exist in constant flux of size and composition. Your opponents today on this issue will be your allies tomorrow on another.

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By Ryan.Peterson @iowastatedaily.com class might be the individual you’re paired with for a project. You might find that you share larger concerns than you think.

President Teddy Roosevelt was a champion of the game, saying that “the most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” They help you get that job, study for a class, and get through hard times, but only as long as they hold respect for you.

Engineers I know have learned this lesson well in regards to networking, and as a runner I’ve found that no great man or woman did anything without support of others. In this game you can’t afford to play alone and you can’t bear to isolate allies. Even in your day to day activities it helps to have the support of friends, family and professors. Work with people, and they’ll help you when you need them.

Chess is a zero-sum game, you can’t work together. Your gain is directly proportionate to your opponent’s loss. In life there are immediate and detrimental consequences for this view. You may innately dislike individuals, but you don’t have enemies per se. Conquest may seem like the best strategy, but it’s far better to convert an individual than to destroy them.

Life is threatening enough; daily work, class and drama alone can exhaust you. Not to mention infamous events of trauma, accidents and abuse which can be devastating. You don’t need to exhaust yourselves further by rambling against your potential allies.

Life doesn’t have sixteen pieces set aside to help you. By your actions millions may be will-

ing to help you, but you may be left completely alone when challenges arise. You can’t predict the varying strengths of individuals as easily as the kings, bishops and rooks of chess. You must learn people by playing with them. Don’t underestimate them: move, adapt and play the game alongside them.

People can retreat, advance, sacrifice and deploy any method as they see fit. As you play you’ll learn how individuals operate. This is a game that we can continue forever, pass it to our kids, change the rules and forever learn from. Unlike the pieces on a board there is no determined way we must precede. We can act, think, deceive and create endless possibilities as opposed to chess’ permanent and predetermined patterns.

Every day you have new chances to play and innovate; life is never done. There is no checkmate. As pieces are removed from the bored others come on. You graduate from college: now what? You got a job: now what? What is the measure for success and completion in life? Through the best and worst of conditions life continues. We’re forced to encounter cancer, bankruptcy, death, and uncertainty, but everyday life continues. Gain leads to loss, we love and we lose, we win then we inevitably face a defeat. Time keeps going if we want it to or not.

It’s critical to get into action and seize the moment; the time clock is ticking. You can wait without making a move while life continues or you can take the field. You can try to isolate yourself, but life will automatically pull you in.

We cannot avoid life, unlike chess it’s a game you have to play. We spend endless hours playing other games but we neglect the greatest “game” of them all, our own life.

Ryan Peterson is a senior in politi-

cal science, history and philosophy from Northfield, Minn.

Politics

Conflict of interest in Rastetter T

here seems to be an emerging top donor in Iowa Republican politics, and he also happens to be the president pro temp of the Board of Regents. This is a very powerful position in a state like Iowa, because he is charged, in part with the rest of the Board, with overseeing funding and other critical actions taken by the three public universities of Iowa. If you have not guessed as to whom I am talking about, it is none other than Bruce Rastetter.

Rastetter was appointed as a member of the Board of Regents

by Gov. Branstad earlier this year and bumped up to president pro temp of the Regents in July. He was appointed mere months after Branstad was elected governor in 2010.

What many people may not know, however, is that Rastetter was heavily involved in donating to Branstad’s gubernatorial campaign.

Records indicate that over $160,000 was made to the campaign of Terry Branstad on behalf of Mr. Rastetter, making him Branstad’s biggest single contributor. Moreover, every candidate that Rastetter donated to in Iowa statehouse races in 2010 won their campaign. So either Rastetter knows how to pick winning candidates, or they were bankrolled by him, and the

By Jacob.Witte @iowastatedaily.com airwaves were saturated with campaign ads bought by Rastetter.

Also, when Bruce’s brother, Brent Rastetter, who owns a company that constructs hog confinements, donated $31,000 to Branstad’s 2010 campaign, Branstad rewarded him with a position on the Iowa Environmental Protection Commission.

The activity just described is known as patronage, which is the act of donors receiving government jobs from the candidates they supported during a campaign. This activity is not always unethical, as when an elected official appoints supporters to implement a policy, but other times it can be unethical when the newly appointed officials are either incompetent or have an ulterior motive.

So as the new high-ranking member of the Board of Regents, one must believe that this position requires a very substantial career in education administration, right? Well, not in this case.

Reading the biography that is given of Rastetter on the very website

of the Board of Regents, not one word is mentioned that implicates any work in education administration. Ever. You mainly see the words “CEO”, “co-founder”, and “donor”; nowhere does it say how qualified he is to oversee the state’s public universities. In fact, the only activity Rastetter has had with the public universities before becoming a regent was vast donations to the University of Iowa football program and Iowa State’s Agriculture Entrepreneurial Initiative. Hardly the stuff of administrative experience.

Does anyone else see a problem with this? Not only, in this short biography, does it say nothing about administration, the only sphere in which Rastetter has devoted his life is in business, and more specifically, agribusiness.

Whether it be hog production, ethanol or other forms of agricultural infrastructure, Rastetter has been in agribusiness his entire life, the very same agribusiness that Iowa State specializes in satisfying.

Hawkeye Energy Holdings Co., of which Rastetter is a co-founder, at one point owned four very large ethanol plants in Iowa, and quickly became one of the largest producers of ethanol in the country. However, when the industry went through hard times several years ago, the plants filed for bankruptcy. After the filings, when they finally reemerged, a subsidiary

company of Koch Industries purchased the ethanol plants.

Koch Industries, you may know, is owned by the famous Charles and David Koch, who have donated millions toward right-wing, business-friendly causes, including the Cato Institute, Americans for Prosperity and many other think tanks.

So to sum up, here we have a man that is appointed as a member of the Board of Regents who has never worked a day in education in his life. He is appointed to this position after donating vast sums of money to the gubernatorial campaign of Terry Branstad.

All his life, he has worked in agribusiness and has accumulated an immense amount of wealth, and it so happens that one of the three public universities in Iowa heavily specializes in sustaining agribusiness.

There is a word that describes the activity in which someone uses his or her influence to get involved in governance to manipulate the system in order for personal gain: corrupt. And, in such a dire time for higher education in the state of Iowa, we need Regents who are interested in the betterment of all.

Jacob Witte is a senior in

political science from Callender, Iowa.

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Grammar

Words, language don’t erode, but evolve “A

in’t ain’t a word, and I ain’t going to say it.” This charming chant has been around for as long as I can remember to discourage young students from using this forbidden contraction. According to many, the word “ain’t” is not proper. But who really decides what is and is not proper in the English language?

In France they have the Académie, a group of people who are considered the authority on the grammar and vocabulary of the French language. One of their specifications is eliminating English words from their lexicon. But does this mean that French speakers never use taboo English words when speaking to their peers? Of course not.

Trying to keep language from changing with the times or trends is impossible. When technology, fashion and popular television shows change, language is right along with them.

After all, twenty years ago the people our age would have no idea what “texting” meant, but now it’s a word that we probably use every day. It’s true that slang words come and go, but whether or not they are considered proper really depends on how you view language and grammar in general.

Two views are used when describing how language is viewed: prescriptive and descriptive. Prescriptivists like grammar to be by the book and want to avoid slang words. Descriptivists, on the other hand, do not try to correct the language of a person but describe how it is used in society and how it changes over time.

By Meg.Grissom @iowastatedaily.com If you look at language change from a descriptivist viewpoint, language does not erode, it merely evolves. If you, as a modern English speaker, were to hold a conversation with an Old English speaker you would not be able to understand each other. The grammar, the vocabulary and the slang would be totally different from the language that we use today.

Does that mean that Old English is better than Modern English? No, it has merely evolved (and trust me, if you have ever studied the grammar of Old English you would be grateful for the change). And 1,000 years from now, would we be able to understand the new, Modern English speakers? The answer most likely is no.

We all hear people using the word “like” between every other word. We usually attribute this quality to being ditzy, but is that a

fair generalization to make? No, it’s just the way that people talk; it’s part of their culture. Culture shapes how we speak, and as our culture changes so will our words and manner of speaking. It’s safe to say that some of our current slang words won’t be around even a year from now, but that doesn’t mean they are poisoning our language. They reflect our culture. They add flavor to our language.

You don’t need to worry about the proper way of speaking, it will resist change for a while longer. It will be preserved through writing and is considered standard in the professional environment.

While you can talk to your friends and other peers using slang, employers probably won’t appreciate you being in tune with your culture in this way, so it definitely does not hurt to know the prescriptivist rules.

There will always be prescriptivists and descriptivists in our world. But no matter what your opinions are on language usage, the important thing to remember is not to judge how others speak. Whether you want to take pride in speak with eloquence or milk the newest slang words dry, it’s up to you. May we converse in peace.

Meg Grissom is a junior in linguistics from Carlisle, Iowa.

Letters

Education not in decline Controlling birth control stands unjust for women This editorial is about the quality of education at ISU. The second paragraph begins, “Our education is poor. It doesn’t matter how much your degree costs when it’s valueless.”

I reject both assertions regarding the education of our students and the value of the degrees Iowa State confers.

1. The sole source of the statistics for the editorial was an unpublished PowerPoint presentation that was not peer-reviewed.

This is hardly a legitimate source of statistics.

Competent journalists obtain multiple confirmations of their facts from reliable sources.

2. The editorial states, “Classes bloated beyond 400 students make engagement impossible.” This

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statement is false and misleading. I have 570 students in my Physics 221 class Introduction to Classical Physics, in three consecutive lectures. We use clicker questions extensively, where the students solve basic questions. These are valuable for feedback both for me and the students. I ask for questions frequently during lecture.

The students meet in small recitation sections once or twice a week. Our Physics 221 Help Room is staffed by competent TAs 38 hours per week to help individual students. I hold office hours two hours per week and also

meet with many students by appointment.

3. The editorial stated, “You may be ... a third-year engineer who can’t identify Newton’s three laws. These were things once required of a high school education.”

I reject the assertion. I have recently spent four semesters teaching engineering majors about Newton’s laws and their applications in my Physics 221 class. This is a rigorous and demanding five-credit course that the students appreciate according to my student evaluations.

4. The Editorial Board refused my request to retract the editorial, apologize to the faculty and students, explain what went wrong and why, and outline steps to prevent a future recurrence.

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As a student on a budget, this decision is huge.

House Republicans are pushing to undermine this provision by allowing Catholic hospitals and schools to be exempt, even though these organizations employ and serve individuals of different faiths and backgrounds. This would mean millions of workers and their families would lose access to affordable birth control, and so would students at some faith-based universities.

The school you attend or the company you work for should not dictate whether or not you have access to birth control.

lives, and the reality is that women of all faiths, including Catholics, use birth control and would benefit from the HHS decision.

Instead of focusing on jobs and the economy, they are spending their time trying to take affordable birth control away from women. On this issue, House Republicans are dead wrong.

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NFL:

QB Schaub could be out for season HOUSTON (AP) — Houston quarterback Matt Schaub is out indefinitely with a “significant” right foot injury and will miss at least the Texans’ next game in two weeks.

Coach Gary Kubiak said Monday that Schaub was injured on a quarterback sneak coming out of the end zone late in the second quarter of Houston’s 37-9 victory over Tampa Bay on Sunday.

Schaub stayed in the game, but threw only three passes in the second half.

Kubiak said the team was bringing in a specialist from Indianapolis to evaluate Schaub, and the quarterback would fly to Charlotte, N.C., later this week to undergo further examination.

Joby Branion, Schaub’s agent, did not immediately return a phone message.

“He’s got a significant foot injury, he’s going to miss some time,” Kubiak said. “But we’re going to do everything we can to get it evaluated correctly and see if can get him back on the football field.

“It’s disappointing,” Kubiak said, “but we’ll go to work and try to do the right thing by Matt.”

The Texans (7-3) have won four in a row and share the AFC’s best record with Pittsburgh heading into their bye week. Kubiak said sixth-year veteran Matt Leinart will start at Jacksonville Nov. 27.

NBA:

Players still fight back in lockout NEW YORK (AP) — NBA players delivered a resounding but risky response to one more ultimatum from NBA Commissioner David Stern: See you in court.

The players’ association rejected the league’s latest proposal for a new labor deal Monday and began disbanding, paving the way for a lawsuit that throws the entire NBA season in jeopardy.

Negotiating went nowhere, so now the union is going to go away.

And Stern said “nuclear winter” is coming.

“We’re prepared to file this antitrust action against the NBA,” union executive director Billy Hunter said. “That’s the best situation where players can get their due process.”

And that’s a tragedy as far as Stern is concerned.

“It looks like the 2011-12 season is really in jeopardy,” Stern said in an interview aired on ESPN. “It’s just a big charade. To do it now, the union is ratcheting up I guess to see if they can scare the NBA owners or something.

That’s not happening.”

Hunter said players were not prepared to agree to Stern’s ultimatum to accept the current proposal or face a worse one, saying they thought it was “extremely unfair.” And they’re aware what this battle might cost them.

“We understand the consequences of potentially missing the season; we understand the consequences that players could potentially face if things don’t go our way, but it’s a risk worth taking,” union vice president Maurice Evans said. “It’s the right move to do.”

Sports Jargon: Lisfranc Fracture SPORT: Football DEFINITION: The Lisfranc fracture is a fracture of the foot in which one or all of the metatarsals are displaced from the tarsus USE: Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub will miss the rest of the season with a lisfranc fracture in his foot.

ISU coach Paul Rhoads announced Monday that redshirt sophomore wide receiver Albert Gary has been charged with robbery stemming from an incident involving the ISU Police Department that occurred in June.

Rhoads also said Gary was suspended for the first three games of this season.

Rhoads addressed the situation in his opening statement at a news conference Monday: “Albert Gary Gary has made me aware he has officially been charged with robbery from an incident that occurred this past June. Everyone involved in this case has cooperated fully with the in-

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vestigation and university officials were aware of the situation from the beginning.

“Because of the serious nature of this incident and the facts that I was able to gather, I thought it was imperative that I act swiftly, appropriately and proactively in the discipline of Albert. With that in mind, Albert has already served a threegame or 25 percent suspension on

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Men’s basketball

Photo: Seth Wenig/ The Associated Press Surrounded by NBA players, including New York Knicks’ Chauncy Billups, left, and Oklahoma City Thunder’s Russell Westbrook, right, National Basketball Players Association president Derek Fisher speaks during a news conference after a meeting of the players’ union in New York, Monday. NBA players rejected the league’s latest offer and have begun the process to disband the union.

NBA lockout could cost us 2011 season

File photo: Zhenru Zhang/Iowa State Daily Scott Christopherson attempts to drive the ball past Lehigh’s Mackey Kevin during the game against the Mountain Hawks on Saturday at Hilton Coliseum. Iowa State won 86 -77 against Lehigh.

Drake next on ISU basketball schedule

By Jeremiah.Davis @iowastatedaily.com

One up, one down.

Through one game, the ISU men’s basketball has one win over Lehigh, and now sets its sights on in-state rival Drake.

The Cyclones will travel to Des Moines for their first road contest of the young season and will face a team that head coach Fred Hoiberg knows will be prepared.

“I know they’ll be ready, I know that’s for sure,” Hoiberg said. “I know Drake will come out prepared.

We need to come out of the locker room ready to roll.

Coach [Mark] Phelps has done a nice job over the years of mixing up his defenses, so we have to be prepared for anything.”

In the win over Lehigh, Iowa State was led by forward Royce White, who ended the game with 25 points and 11 rebounds. The Bulldogs have a leader of their own in guard Rayvonte Rice.

Rice, who was Drake’s leading scorer and rebounder as a freshman with 13.8 points and 4.8 rebounds, was suspended for the first game of the season following an arrest for shoplifting. Now Rice is back, and the Cyclones must figure out a way to stop him like they did C.J. McCollum for Lehigh.

“He can make a play for himself, he can make a play for his teammates,” Hoiberg said. “It looks like he’s put on a lot of strength and looks to me like his shot has gotten more consistent. So he’s going to be a load for us.”

Forward Melvin Ejim, who averaged 10.3 points

and 6.7 rebounds himself last season, knows it will take a team effort to stop Rice.

“It’s going to be a collective team effort,” Ejim said. “Showing and helping and making sure he just doesn’t get on fire. We did a good job last game against McCollum, who’s a premiere scorer, so Christopherson we’ve just got to do the same thing we did, and we’ll be able to contain him.”

Aside from stopping Rice, the Cyclones are moving forward with Scott Christopherson as their point guard. After two games as the floor general for the team, Christopherson said he is getting more and more comEjim fortable with each time he steps on the floor at the point.

“I feel pretty good,” Christopherson said. “I definitely have embraced the role of being the point guard and am really excited about it because I think it gives us the best chance to win. It’s no different for me than it is for any other player; after every game you look back, and you find what did you do well, what can you work on for next game.”

Hoiberg also likes what he’s seen so far from Christopherson, but hopes for improvement moving forward.

“He’s getting more comfortable, you can tell that,”

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Women’s basketball

Cyclones breeze by Houston Improvements still to be made

By David.Merrill @iowastatedaily.com After breezing by Houston Baptist in the season opener, Iowa State prepares to take on in-state foe Drake University, which lost its season opener to Illinois-Chicago.

While the Bulldogs lost their opener, they are likely to provide more of a challenge for the Cyclones.

“They’re coached very well by coach [Amy] Stephens,” said assistant coach Latoja Schaben.

“She does a great job there.

They have a great player in Rachael Hackbarth.

She’s a great post player and is the focal point of that team. They have

some good guards coming back and are a pretty good team.”

Hackbarth led the Bulldogs with 17 points on 7 of 12 shooting in the loss to Illinois-Chicago.

She also grabbed nine rebounds.

Guard Brittnye McSparron helped out with 10 points and four rebounds.

For the Cyclones freshman Nikki Moody made an impact right away.

She scored eight points and dished out seven assists in her first ever NCAA game. Moody also got the start over senior point guard Chassidy Cole.

This will be an early road test for the Euless, Texas, native. While Drake is only 30 minutes from home court, Schaben said the environ-

File photo: Yue Wu/Iowa State Daily Forward Chelsea Poppens fights for the ball agianst the Rockhurst oppostion at the game on Nov 6. Poppens socored 17 points and had 6 total rebounds in her 23 mintues of play.

ment of a smaller gym will test Moody’s nerves.

“The most important thing for her is going to be controlling the ball,” Schaben said. “She needs to take care of the ball and understand that she isn’t just going to be able to pass the ball into

the wings. They do a very good job of guarding on the wings. She’s had a couple really good games, so we’ll see how she does on the road for the first time.”

For the Cyclones, taking care of the ball has

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Well folks, we can see a light at the end of the tunnel. Unfortunately that light is the final destination of no season.

The National Basketball Players Association took a giant leap toward that destination on Monday when they announced that they collectively rejected the owners’ most recent collective bargaining agreement offer.

Along with rejecting the owners’ latest offer, they also announced that they will be decertifying as a union.

The NBPA has never decertified as a union, which means only bad things for us fans. In 1995 the players, led by Michael Jordan and Patrick Ewing, started a decertification movement which was eventually out-voted 226 to 134 in favor to accept the new agreement rather than decertify.

Think about this: On Wednesday night the Boston Celtics would be taking their talents to South Beach to play the Miami Heat in prime time on ESPN. We mean, who would want to watch that? Not us, that’s for sure.

Who cares if LeBron and the Heat will be better this year after a year of playing together? Who wants to watch if the veteran Celtics still have what it takes to keep up with the young guns?

Not us.

We’d rather watch poker or some random MAC college football game.

Pardon the sarcasm, but the whole ordeal has us a bit sour. The season is being delayed over absolute nonsense.

After the players were holding out for a 50/50 split for a weeks, they finally surrendered to that bottomline number last Wednesday.

That means no matter what stuff they are haggling over, the players have still conceded to giving back $1.1 billion over the life of this collective bargaining deal and are not getting a penny more than 50 percent.

It’s no secret that even the Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan doesn’t care much about the players.

One Eastern Conference executive, who is close to Stern, told ESPN, “He cares about the $100 million [former Charlotte Bobcats owner] Bob Johnson lost when he sold the team. He’s thinking about the money he’s trying to make over the next 10 years. He doesn’t believe half the players in the league deserve the money they’re making.”

So now it’s coming to a nuclearwar type of situation. Both sides were trying to create leverage. The players acting like they’re the victims, the owners giving ultimatums.

If they were going to decertify, they should’ve done it this summer when they had time to fix it before the season.

They were like college students — procrastinating the huge 10-page paper until the night before it’s due, then not getting it done in time and blaming the professor for giving them a “totally unfair” paper.

Much like how doing that as a student would give you a poor grade, this is not only going to cost the players and the owners money.

It’s likely going to cost fans the entire season.

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Football

Seniors prepare for final home game

By Jake.Calhoun @iowastatedaily.com Six years has not been long enough for Patrick Neal.

The senior defensive end — who is the last recruit on the team by former coach Dan McCarney — will be playing his final game on Friday as Iowa State hosts No. 2 Oklahoma State at 7 p.m.

“Patrick committed to this season as his last because he was disappointed with what happened in 2010, both individually and collectively with our football team,” said ISU coach Paul Rhoads at his weekly news conference Monday.

Neal was a grayshirt recruit of McCarney coming out of Valley High School in West Des Moines in 2006, meaning he did not join the program until after the 2006-07 season had concluded.

Now weighing in at 250 pounds, Neal said he was about 210 pounds when he arrived on campus as a freshman.

After redshirting the 2007 season under then-new coach Gene Chizik, Neal played fullback, catching one touchdown pass in a loss to Missouri.

“The way I’ve always looked at it, you’ve just got to do what the coaches ask you and do it to the best of your ability,” Neal said. “Wherever I was needed, I was more than willing to play.”

Neal officially made the switch to defensive end in Rhoads’ first season as coach of the Cyclones in 2009, where he has played ever since.

“If you have a guy like that, it inspires everybody else around you,” said junior linebacker Jake Knott. “A guy that’s been going this hard for that many years, it’s really a big positive to

have on your team.

His work ethic is second-to-none.”

Neal accumulated 27 tackles and one sack in nine starts in 2009 and Rhoads totalling just two more tackles the following season in all 12 games last season.

This season, however, Neal has 32 tackles through nine games with 3.5 Neal tackles for loss and a team-high 2.5 sacks.

“I think he’s played really well this season, been a bright spot on the defensive front,” Rhoads said of Neal.

“I would expect him to continue to do that over the course of the last three regular season games.”

As for preparing for his final game at Jack Trice Stadium, Neal said it has yet to hit him.

“I really haven’t thought about [Senior Night],” Neal said. “It just feels like a normal week to me.”

Burris healthy; Tuftee, Leo expected to return

Right tackle Brayden Burris is back to practicing with the team but is not expected to be able to play on Friday, Rhoads said Monday.

Burris sustained a fracture in his leg on Oct. 1 in the Cyclones’ 37-14 loss to Texas and had surgery shortly afterwards.

Carter Bykowski and Kyle Lichtenberg have both rotated in at right tackle in Burris’ absence since the injury.

Rhoads said even though Burris will probably not play on Friday, he

File photo: Zhenru Zhang/Iowa State Daily Defensive end Patrick Neal barges into the pile up against the Kansas opposition on Nov. 5. Neal had a total of 3 tackles throughout the game and the Cyclones won 13-10.

expects him to be back by the end of the season.

Rhoads also said left guard Ethan Tuftee and running back Tyler Leo both underwent scopes on their knees last week. Both are hopeful to be back and active on Friday.

Cyclones utilize bye week

A week removed from its 13-10 win against Kansas on Nov. 5, Iowa State (5-4, 2-4 Big 12) spent the past week preparing for what Rhoads said, is one of the biggest matchups in Jack Trice Stadium history.

“We’ve got a lot of work,” Rhoads

said of the bye week. “We practiced Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of last week, got some early exposure to Oklahoma State, which allowed us to go into [Monday] as a regular Tuesday practice ahead of where we normally would be.”

The Cyclones’ matchup against No. 2 Oklahoma State (10-0, 7-0) will be the first game televised on a Friday night game on ESPN in school history, which Rhoads said will be great exposure for his program.

Running back James White said, “It’s a great experience to play against the No. 2 team in the nation.

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‘Best’ recruitment class

Hoiberg said. “I thought our spacing got cramped [against Lehigh] in the second half. We worked a lot on that [Sunday] and we’ll hopefully get another good day of that [on Monday].”

Whether it is Christopherson, White or guard Chris Allen — who Hoiberg said is improving from a hip pointer injury — what the Cyclones will try to do more of is push the ball in transition. Both Hoiberg and his players believe it is what Iowa State is best at.

“We’ve got different push-

Coach says new class has potential

By Zach.Gourley @iowastatedaily.com

The ISU volleyball team announced its seven-player 2012 recruiting class on Monday, the largest recruiting class in the Christy Johnson-Lynch era.

“I think it might be the best,” Johnson-Lynch said when comparing this class to her previous recruiting classes. “Sometimes you don’t know until they pan out, but it certainly has the potential to be one of our best.”

The Cyclones’ deep class is highlighted by two players that ISU recruiting coordinator Trudy Vande Berg said could have gone to any school in the country.

Andie Malloy, a native of Allen, Texas, is both a setter and an outside who shows her diversity by averaging 4.20 kills, 4.70 digs and 6.10 assists per set this season.

Malloy, a three-time state champion in high school, is ranked as the 35th best player in the country

by PrepVolleyball.com and was the Lonestar Volleyball Player of the Year.

Mackenzie Bigbee,

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File Photo: Yue Wu/Iowa State Daily Head coach Christy Johnson-Lynch talks with the team at the end of the match against Baylor on Oct. 15.

a right side hitter from Williamsburg, Iowa, is ranked just behind Malloy at No. 36 by PrepVolleyball. com, She leads her Williamsburg Raiders by averaging 5.84 kills and 3.90 digs per set her senior season.

Bigbee was a member of the Pack Six club team that won the 2011 USA Volleyball 18U Junior National Championship.

“Iowa State doesn’t always get the blue-chippers just because of who we compete against,” JohnsonLynch said. “To be able to get a couple kids like that in a class, it’s pretty special, and I feel like it’s going to allow us to take another jump up in

terms of our ability to compete at the top of the country.”

Libero Caitlin Nolan and outside hitter Morgan Kuhrt will be the other two scholarship players next year, Johnson-Lynch said.

Katie Gallagher, Bria Rasmussen and Natalie Vondrak will be walk-ons in their first year at Iowa State, but Vande Berg said they all have the ability to make an impact as soon as they get on campus.

“We certainly didn’t plan on bringing in that many but we had a lot of kids who really wanted to play here,” Vande Berg said. “Athletically and volleyball-IQ wise, I think it has to be one of our best classes. Just complete players.”

the season for his actions and lack of judgment.

“Another step in the legal process is just now reaching its conclusion and that is where we are at. We will continue to allow the legal process to work and continue to cooperate fully as we move forward.”

ISU Police Lt. Aaron Delashmutt confirmed to the Iowa State Daily on Monday afternoon that ISU Police had filed a document to the

become an early area for improvement. Iowa State turned it over 14 times in the final exhibition against Rockhurst.

Junior forward Chelsea Poppens struggled, particularly in the first half, to finish around the rim.

She shot just 1-4 in 17 minutes of action and finished with 6 points.

Her other four points came

from the free throw line.

“I feel like I need to slow down,” Poppens said.

“Sometimes I feel like I just rush to get the ball up there

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That causes me to miss some layups.”

This is the Cyclones earliest road game since the 1989 season.

Getting a road game out of the way early on is something that the team is looking forward to.

“We have to do it sometime,” Poppens said. “It’s better to just get it out of the way and learn from that experience.”

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Keeping up the pace, they said, will definitely be a goal moving forward.

“I think every team thinks [being successful in transition] is important; for our team especially, we’ve got a lot of guys that can knock down shots and make plays and do different things,” Christopherson said.

“The more and more possessions we can get going, the faster the pace we can get the game.”

The Cyclones and Bulldogs tip off at the Knapp Center in Des Moines at 8 p.m. following the women’s contest.

courts regarding the charges, but as of Monday afternoon it had not yet received a judge’s signature.

The Ocala, Fla., native has played in six games this season, catching seven passes for 76 yards.

Gary was the Cyclones’ leading receiver two weeks ago as he hauled in five catches for 57 yards in a 13-10 win over Kansas.

Gary was not made available for comment Monday.

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When asked about Oklahoma State’s 66-6 pounding of Texas Tech last Saturday, however, Rhoads said he could not watch it in its entirety.

“I watched the first touchdown of that Oklahoma State-Texas Tech game, and then my boys and I went out and got on the four-wheelers and the dirt bikes, I didn’t want anymore a part of that football game,” Rhoads said. “It makes me shiver just as I think about it.”

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Kascsak tallied two goals in the Cyclones' 4-1 win over the ACHA Men's Division 1 tenthranked Minot State Beavers Friday night and was then credited with two goals, including the gamewinning goal, and an assist in Iowa State's 4-3 victory Saturday night over Minot State. After his five-point weekend, Kascsak now leads the Cyclones in scoring on the strength of 10 goals and 11 assists in 18 games.

The sixth-ranked Cyclones hit the road for games this weekend at the fifth-ranked Ohio University Bobcats.

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Recreation

Exercise equipment delivered to State Gym

By Kaleb.Warnock @iowastatedaily.com

Moving closer to finishing State Gym renovation Trucks delivered the first shipment in a series of deliveries of exercise equipment for the new State Gym athletic facility, which is currently still under construction.

Although one of the trucks was delayed in Colorado, the rest of the equipment is scheduled to be delivered throughout the remainder of the week.

The first truck brought off bikes and lockers and the remaining trucks will deliver ev-

erything else.

“This is just one step of getting everything in that building and getting it up and running for this spring,” said Garry Greenlee, associate director of recreation services.

Moving the exercise equipment is one of many tasks that must be completed before the opening of the State Gym, which is proposed to be completed early spring 2012.

“They’re bringing in the equipment, and it’s up to us to test it, and then we can get that part of the project checked off,” Greenlee said.

However, building construction is not yet complete.

Contractors still have painting to electrical work to panel installation that will take place

over the coming months and winter break.

“This is a good indication that certain aspects of the facilities are ready to go,” said Michael Giles, director of recreation services. “There’s still a good bit of behind the scenes stuff that has to be done.”

The next major task on the agenda for construction will be the hiring and training of staff to work in State Gym, which will begin after Thanksgiving break. Giles was unable to give an exact date for the opening of the gym but estimated completion to be sometime early next spring.

“There’s still a good number of things that have to get done, but we’re very confident that it will get done,” Giles said.

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Photo: Nicole Wiegand/Iowa State Daily Members of Recreation Services team help program the stationary bikes inside of the Recreation Facilities Expansion and Renovationof State Gym. The bikes feature touchscreen functions.

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