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Sorority kicks off Literacy Week By Amelia Thorne Daily Staff Writer Lambda Theta Nu sorority will kick off Literacy Week with Literacy Week: Bring It Back to Childhood at 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday in 202 Carver. The sorority will be encouraging people to bring their favorite children’s book to share for this year’s Literacy Week. Refreshments and cupcakes will be available at the event for $1. After sharing books, there will be a chance for students to share their college experiences by creating a children’s book about them. Anyone who is interested in supporting Literacy Week and Lambda Theta Nu is encouraged to attend.

By David.Bartholomew complicated for the average American to under@iowastatedaily.com Not one to shy away from the spotlight, Minnesota Sen. and Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann hosted a town hall meeting on economic policy Thursday in the South Ballroom of the Memorial Union. After a short introduction by the president of the ISU College Republicans, Bachmann was welcomed to the podium with an applause and began to lay out her discontent with the current economic state of the country and her plan to fix it. Drawing on her experience as a former federal tax attorney, Bachmann said, “The problem is an individual tax code with 3.8 million words that’s too

stand and a corporate tax code that makes America hopelessly uncompetitive at almost 40 percent when you add the federal and state taxes.” Drawing heavily from her perception of the principles of the Founding Fathers, Bachmann stressed the importance of keeping the federal government as small as possible, stopping the overspending and devolving many agencies to state governments. Additionally, Bachmann highlighted her proposed tax plan that she said, despite shying away from specifics, was based off of the tax plan under former President Ronald Reagan. Bachmann then

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Pets

Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily Students Helping Rescue Animals leaders Michelle Thomas, Zach Flickinger, Allie Bender and Andrea Birkeland pose with a dog named Ike. The organization helps homeless animals.

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ISU security warns campus of threats By Daily staff Campus security notified the faculty and staff of the department of animal science via email that several locations on campus have been named as potential threat targets. The locations are the: meat lab, rodeo, Office of Responsible Research and Veterinary College. According to the email, Capt. Carrie Jacobs of ISU Threat Assessment and Management has rated the threat as a five on a scale of one to 10. The email said the threat should not be ignored. In a phone interview, Jacobs said there have been no direct threats toward Iowa State, but faculty and staff should still be on guard because Saturday is the 10th anniversary of animal rights activist Barry Horne’s death.

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Photo: Emily Harmon/Iowa State Daily Michele Bachmann discusses the significance of economic policy to students’ futures and her presidential campaign platform at a town hall meeting Thursday at the Memorial Union.

File photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily Classical Indian dances, such as ones performed at past Diwali Nights, will be part of the event hosted by the Indian Student’s Association this Saturday.

See talents at Diwali

By Cristobal.Matibag @iowastatedaily.com

Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, may have ended more than a week ago, but the Indian Students’ Association will still try to evoke its spirit Saturday. The association will host its annual Diwali Night — an evening of traditional dance, music and food — from 5:30 to 10 p.m. this Saturday. The format of this year’s program will mimic that of “India’s Got Talent,” a reality show that pits performers against one another in a talent competition. For association members, the event is less a traditional Diwali observance than a chance to celebrate the unique arts of their native land.

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Student group assists abandoned animals By Carly.McKinney @iowastatedaily.com Students Helping Rescue Animals is a student organization that was started on Iowa State’s campus in February 2010. Allie Bender, senior in animal science, founded the club due to an interest in homeless animals she has had since adolescence. “We always had animals from shelters, so I wanted to do something to help them,” Bender

said. Rather than waiting to get involved, Bender wanted to make a difference now. She started the club with a vision of three pillars: volunteerism, fundraising and education. She and the club’s current president, Andrea Birkeland, junior in animal science, both agree that these three pillars are the most important ways to aid animals in shelters.

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Center provides therapy By Amber.Hovey @iowastatedaily.com Lily is 5 years old and goes to rehab Monday through Friday. She suffers from a history of disease involving an issue with the discs that sit between the vertebrae. Partly because of this, Lily cannot walk by herself. The unique characteristic

about Lily, and other patients at this rehab clinic, is that they are furry with wet noses. Dr. Mary Sarah Bergh, an orthopedic surgeon and director of Canine Rehabilitation at the Small Animal Hospital located at the College of Veterinary Medicine, said canine rehab is similar to human rehab in that the dogs “can’t talk, but

they certainly let us know what’s wrong in other ways.” At the Canine Rehab Center, dogs of all sizes and conditions are rehabilitated, giving them a chance for a speedy recovery as well as an “improvement in the quality of recovery and function,” Bergh said.

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