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Students sound off about 2012 election as campaigning ends By Thaddeus.Mast @iowastatedaily.com This year’s presidential election is likely to be the only one students will experience while at Iowa State. “I like how everybody gets fired up,” said Adam Nelson, freshman in pre-computer science. “There’s a lot of political influence. It’s in our culture. We have our freedom of choice and the freedom to vote.” Taylor Smith, freshman in prebusiness, has a different reason for enjoying election season: “I like having the opportunity to have a new president of our country that could push America forward.” They agree, however, that political advertisements are disliked throughout the election. “I tend to ignore [ads] because I don’t know what is fact and what is fake or people trying to sway
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Photo: Jonathan Krueger/Iowa State Daily Christopher Jacobs, senior in chemical engineering, wrote his first novel,“Olympus Falling,” during his freshman year at Iowa State. The book borrows from Greek mythology and is the first in a trilogy.
College students liberate themselves in variety of activities between classes and schoolwork, but for Christopher Jacobs, writing alleviates all his frustrations in a self-satisfying way. Jacobs, senior in chemical engineering, wrote his first book, “Olympus Falling,” during his freshman year at Iowa State. The book, based off of Greek mythology, follows Paian Kairis, a well-known Grecian scholar, and his quest to find his missing friends. Magic, mystery and adventure shake up Kairis’s hum-drum life as he uses time travel and quick wit to search for his friends during the Golden Age of
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intoxication in the 300 block of Hayward Avenue (reported at 12:14 a.m.). Sidd Gupta, 20, 1209 Mayfield Drive Apt. 305, and Alexander Schultz, 20, 300 Stanton Ave. Apt. 409, were cited for underage possession of alcohol at Gray Avenue and Sunset Drive (reported at 12:49 a.m.). Damon Avila, 18, of Newton, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Chamberlain Street and Stanton Avenue (reported at 12:58 a.m.). Alexander Archer, 19, 7127 Buchanan Hall, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Chamberlain Street and Stanton Avenue (reported at 1:18 p.m.). Michelle Hunter, 21, 4525 Steinbeck St. Apt. 4, was arrested and charged with public intoxication Lot 59E (reported at 1:23 a.m.). An individual reported theft of footwear from a hallway in Friley Hall (reported at 1:27 a.m.). Officers assisted a 21-year-old female who had consumed to much alcohol in the 300 block of Welch Avenue. The individual was transported to Mary Greeley Medical Center (reported at 1:46 a.m.). Kurtis Vogler, 20, of Boone, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Knapp Street and Welch Avenue (reported at 2:15 a.m.). Adam Whitthauer, 32, of Boone, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Hoover Hall (reported at 2:30 a.m.). Curtis Guzman, 22, 3105 Woodland St., was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Hayward Avenue and Lincoln Way (reported at 2:48 a.m.). Alexandrea Beck, 18, of Urbandale, was arrested and charged with underage possession of alcohol and possession of drug paraphernalia in the 400 block of Hayward Avenue (reported at 3:37 a.m.). Two 17-year-olds were taken in custody and charged with underage possession of alcohol. They were referred to Juvenile Court System and released into parent custody in the 400 block of Hayward Avenue (reported at 3:37 a.m.). An individual reported the theft of a bike from Frederiksen Court; the incident occurred Oct. 26 (reported at 10:29 a.m). Taylor Tennapel, 18, 4280 Birch Hall, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Lot A2 (reported at 2:06 p.m.).
>>BOOK.p1 Athens’ history. “I spent a lot of time researching different aspects of Greek mythology,” Jacobs said. “When I was writing the book, I really didn’t want to break any of the existing myths.” Jacobs used original Greek myths throughout his book in connection with the plot. During eighth grade, Jacobs was assigned to write the first chapter of a book for his English class. Jacobs said he saw the potential for something great and continued to write the first eight chapters over the course of his first two years of high school until he hit a hard case of writer’s block. “I couldn’t even think about writing the book because I just had no idea where to go with it,” Jacobs said. “High school was just really overwhelming, and I just really needed to take a break.” Jacobs shelved the book as an unfinished project until he came to Iowa State and met fellow Greek mythology enthusiast Kaitlin McAbee. McAbee, junior in software engineering, encouraged Jacobs to finish what he had started.
“[McAbee] was really intrigued with it, and I was really excited because this was the first time I’d really let anybody else read it,” Jacobs said. During the month following, McAbee helped Jacobs brainstorm ideas and story lines to continue the book. “Some of his ideas were a little out there, but we worked on where he wanted the book to go.” McAbee said. When spring semester started, Jacobs set a goal to write 1,000 words per day. “This was kind of my way to escape a little bit, a way to relax,” Jacobs said. “As a chemical engineer, I was trying to juggle my engineering classes with physics and organic chemistry. If this book was going to add a lot of extra strenuous work, I probably wouldn’t have done it. “It was really cool watching it go from something I had in my head to writing it down on paper.” Jacobs finished “Olympus Falling” at the end of his freshman year but continued to rewrite and work on different chapters during the summer. Before he even officially finished the first book, Jacobs had written the entire second book, “The Battle for Egypt,” during the course of the winter break during his sophomore year.
>>PASSION PIT.p1 tickets for members of the Passion Pit fan club go on sale Wednesday and Thursday of this week. “I inquired about [Passion Pit] for Veishea, and the agent said it was going to be a fly-in date,” said George Micalone, director of student activities and assistant director of the Memorial Union. “They were doing a tour in the spring and the dates that they wanted were home basketball games. So then they asked ‘what about the 28th?’ … [And] it worked out.” Passion Pit is an alternative band out of Massachusetts and its newest album, “Gossamer,” — released earlier this year — received an 8.4 out of 10 from the website Pitchfork and has been featured as “Best New Music” on its site. “‘Gossamer’ is an overwhelming album about being overwhelmed, a bold and ultimately stunning torrent of maximalist musical ideas, repressed anger, and unchecked anxiety,” wrote Ian Cohen, staff writer for Pitchfork. After the success of last year’s Lupe Fiasco concert at Hilton Coliseum and more recently that of Brantley Gilbert,
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Passion Pit, an alternative band from Massachusetts, will play Feb. 28, 2013, at Hilton Coliseum. Tickets go on sale Dec. 1 and cost $32 for floor seats and $25 for stadium seats for students.
the Student Union Board continues to strive to improve. “We had a few hiccups [with Lupe Fiasco], but we worked through those in the second round [Brantley Gilbert]” Micalone said. “Five years ago, Hilton left SMG [a worldwide event and venue managing firm] which manages Stephen’s, Fisher and Scheman. … With that came
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for this type of program regardless of who was managing Hilton.” SUB and Micalone are looking forward to this event next semester and urges students to buy tickets. “They’re looking to sell out,” Micalone said. “I saw them at Lollapalooza, and there were 50,000 to 60,000 people around the stage.”
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“Over winter break, I averaged around 6,000 to 7,000 words a day — I just sat down, and I wrote,” Jacobs said. I had no writer’s block, and it just streamed out; I don’t know where it came from.” With the first book, “Olympus Falling,” published and available on Amazon, the second book, “The Battle for Egypt,” being edited, and beginning the writing process for the third book of the trilogy, Jacobs tries to balance his life as both a student and as an author. “I don’t want to let other areas of my life falter and fall to the wayside, but I’m still keeping [the third book] in my mind, and I still come back to it a couple times a week,” Jacobs said. Writing the third book, “Legends Collide,” from his Friley dorm room has created a buzz among student residents and friends. McAbee suggested that those who love the “Percy Jackson” series by Rick Riordan should consider reading Jacobs’s book trilogy. “It’s just something I’ve become really proud of through seeing how much other people enjoy it,” Jacobs said. “It’s really rewarding to see something I’ve worked on for such a long time in the hands of other people reading it and enjoying it.”
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>>VOTE.p1 most important part,” said Kyle Etzel, president of the College Republicans and junior in pre-business. In Iowa, voters may register to vote on the day of the election. They will need to bring a valid ID that is not expired and proof of residency. Anyone who has voted in a previous election but has since moved will only need to bring a valid form of identification. “Registered voters who have not moved do not need to bring anything but themselves to the polls, “ Martin said. “However, it’s always a good idea to have an ID.” Martin stated that voter turnout for Story County is about 65 percent, but that turnout in “student-heavy” precincts is usually lower. “We’re hoping to see a pretty enthusiastic turnout from those who haven’t voted yet,” said Abhishek Vemuri, president of the College Democrats and senior in elevtrical engineering. Both Etzel and Vemuri were excited about the enthusiasm they’ve seen from students so far. Martin explained that 32.4 percent of the county has already voted via absentee ballots. “We’re hoping that students appreciate how important voting is,” Vemuri said. “Their vote matters.” Voters can not simply vote at any location, but must go to the correct precinct based off of where they live in Story County, which they can find
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using the Story County polling place finder. “[The polling place finder is] set to work so that if students enter ‘Helser Hall’ or ‘Delta Delta Delta’ or ‘University Village,’ it will find their precinct,” Martin said. “Street addresses also work.” The College Democrats will host an election results party at the Maintenance Shop beginning at 10 p.m. with free food. Alcoholic beverages will be available to anyone of age. The College Republicans will
>>OPINION.p1 me,” Nelson said. “They piss me off. I go to change a song on Pandora, and [Barack] Obama’s preaching to me. I know it keeps it in everybody’s mind, but to the nonvoters, it’s just annoying.” Alex Cosby, freshman in mechanical engineering, thinks that ads have both good and bad sides. “They give you an opinion, but you don’t really know if you can trust it,” Cosby said. “Most of them bash on the other candidate. It does make you want to vote, but you don’t know for whom just by listening to the ads. ... If they are going to advertise stuff, it should be about the debates they had, not just one sentence about the candidates.” Smith voiced a similar opinion: “Specific ads don’t
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persuade me as much as a debate would. ... Ads with all of these statistics may not be completely true, so I don’t rely on those.” There are other things people do not like about the elections. “I don’t like how you
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be also hosting an election results party beginning at 7 p.m. in room 5 of Physics Hall. Etzel and Vemuri are hoping they will know the results of the election sometime early Wednesday morning. “I’m hoping we know,” Etzel said “I’m not expecting to sleep till we
[have to be] either a strong Republican or a strong Democrat,” Smith said. “There’s no moderate person that has a chance of winning.” And Nelson also sees the rise of social media in the election process as frustrating. “People who complain on Facebook, who have no idea what they are talking about, are annoying,” Nelson said. Specifically on campus, the political groups that have been setting up in front of the library seem to have the same effect as television ads. “It’s good to see people out there trying to get people to vote,” Cosby said. “But when they are there, it’s usually right before class, and I don’t have the time to listen or talk to them. ... Usually when I’m on campus, I have something important that I’m doing, and I’m not looking to get stopped
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and have to listen to all of the things they have to say.” Nelson also said he doesn’t have the time to stop but said that if people do, the groups
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Make your own choice when voting We have grown up with the lesson that it is wrong to give in to the temptations of others. Something nags at our consciences when we combine vice giving in to peer pressure rather than making informed decisions that take responsibility. The concern we have with peer pressure is a concern with tyranny. “Tyranny” describes a situation in which a person is subject to some arbitrary, oppressive force. To the extent we do any action simply because others do it or expect us to do it, we have subjected ourselves to tyranny. Tyranny is most often a political concept. Aristotle named it as one of his five deviations from the most perfect government; we have grown up with history lessons expositing the Declaration of Independence was written protesting British tyranny. Various forms of independence — a college degree, entrepreneurship, home ownership, a nest egg on which to retire and others — are such a part of American culture they have come to define the “American dream.” In keeping with the connection between tyranny and politics, it is worth noting one blatant attempt to use peer pressure in politics — even though the presidential election is here and most of us have probably already voted. This time, rather than coming from 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean or from myriad regulations and laws from our own Congress, the tyranny comes from our television sets. A recent ad from the Obama campaign asks viewers, if they do not register to vote, what they will tell the same-sex couples who cannot get married or the women who cannot make decisions about their own bodies? Will nonvoters say they were too busy or didn’t think it mattered or that their vote didn’t count? But while we may vote a certain way because we want to help of be kind to groups we do not belong to, at the end of the day politics — including voting — is about making our own decisions, individually. The “conversation” the ad advised us to open up requires us to give our own reasoning, not that of someone else. Voting is one of many acts of citizenship. It is, for most of us, the culmination of our acts of citizenship throughout the past several years. For the acts of citizenship to be ours, though, or for the act of voting to be ours, we must do so out of our own motivations, not the expectations of others. We have previously lamented the fact voting is done in secret, behind the voting booth’s curtain. The silver lining of that is in the privacy of voting, we can keep our decisions to ourselves and preserve the independence our country was founded to safeguard.
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Photo courtesy of Flickr/Alesa Dam Trauma to the head can have severe and long-lasting consequences, such as impaired cognitive ability, difference of sensation or difficulty with speech. To prevent death in an accident, columnist Gabe Garcia-Merrit believes Iowa needs to adopt laws requiring the wearing of helmets.
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remember a phrase my high school driver’s education teacher had about unhelmeted motorcyclists: “Do you know what I call a motorcyclist without a helmet?” — pause for effect — “An organ donor.” This dark joke of sorts stuck with me, and I have been seeing quite a few “organ donors” By Gabe.Garcia-Merritt lately. I have noticed recently, to my surprise @iowastatedaily.com and dismay, the number of people who don’t wear helmets while on bicycles or motorcycles laws, and Iowa has no system of fines that around Iowa State and Ames seems quite is used to police any sort of helmet-related high, especially when compared to my native legislation. Arizona. So why isn’t there legislation to support Why people don’t wear helmets is pretty rider protection by requiring helmets? There easy for me to understand; after all, I didn’t are arguments against mandatory laws from wear a helmet when I went biking until I got certain segments of the motorcyclist commuto Ames. Helmets can make the wearer feel nity, arguing that helmets, while beneficial to sweaty and hot, uncomfortable or claustropho- safety, do not actually provide that much of an bic. They can also save the wearer’s life, or keep increase in safety, especially for motorists at him or her from severe injury. highway speeds. Trauma to the head has severe and longI find this kind of argument to be somelasting consequences to the victim. Impaired what flawed; it ignores the recognized benefits cognitive ability, difference of sensation or difof helmet wearing, and stands in the face of ficulty with speech are just a couple examples existing literature that supports the safety of that can severely affect a person’s life as a result helmets. of traumatic brain injury. Wearing a helmet The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is important because it minimizes the risk of points out that un-helmeted riders are three traumatic injury or death. times more likely than helmeted riders to sufAccording to the Centers for Disease fer traumatic brain injury. The CDC also points Control, motorcycle-related fatalities have inout that helmets are estimated to prevent 37 creased by 55 percent during the past 12 years; percent of fatalities for riders and 41 percent of in the year 2010 alone, 4,309 people died in the fatalities in passengers. United States as a consequence of motorcycle Doesn’t it stand to reason that taking crashes. precautions on a metal machine traveling at Iowa and Illinois are the only two states high speeds would be something instinctive? that do not have any sort of motorcycle helmet Apparently not to everyone.
Yet the machine doesn’t even have to be traveling at a high speed to cause injury. Bicyclists are everywhere in a college town, particularly on campus. Yet, there is a sense of reticence about wearing helmets on bikes; this I can understand. After all, they mess up your hair; they make you feel hot and sweaty if worn for prolonged periods of time; they’re bulky to carry around while not riding; and they can make the wearer feel self-conscious about their image. Yet, wearing a bicycle helmet might be even more crucial than a motorcycle helmet; lower speeds and less visibility on the roads mean that bicyclists are more likely to be involved in an accident with a motor vehicle with lethal consequences than a motorcyclist. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has a study comparing fatal accidents between helmet wearers and nonhelmeted riders, and the results are quite astounding. In 2009, the most recent year that data was compiled for, helmeted riders accounted for only 8 percent of all bicycle collision fatalities, while unhelmeted riders accounted for 91 percent. So, doesn’t it make sense to wear helmets? To me at least, it does. My hair might be a bit unruly, and it’s a bit of a pain to carry my bike helmet with me around, but I’d rather have messy hair than a messy head. And so I wear a nice blue helmet, even if it makes me look a bit silly.
Gabe Garcia-Merritt is a graduate student in anthropology from Tempe, Arizona.
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Life goes on, no matter who wins R ick Santorum, former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, recently visited Ames to express his support for Congressman Steve King. Depending on the results of Election Day, King might be the new representative for Iowa’s 4th Congressional District. Santorum expressed his support clearly: “If we lose, and Obamacare is implemented, it’s over.” Santorum said that implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would spell the end of American prosperity. “We will no longer hear a candidate get up and talk about 47 percent of the people — at a moment when nobody was supposedly recording — and talk about 47 percent of the people living off government benefits because everyone will be,” Santorum said. We do indeed have a choice — just like we have a choice every election. One of the benefits of living in a country where our Constitution says, “The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states,” is that we have a biennial opportunity to completely change part of our government. Similarly, one third of the Senate is up for re-election every two years, and presidential elections occur every four years. No matter who wins office, life will go on. The United States as a country and America as an idea will not die off, as Santorum asserted when he painted an apocalyptic vision of contemporary politics and added that “President
By Michael.Belding @iowastatedaily.com [Barack] Obama wants to change [the] vision” of America. That’s what politics is. We take what we have agreed upon in our Constitution as our book of rules, and we decide from there what should be done about our own modern problems. Since it is us, not the signers of the Constitution, who now breathe the air and see the sunlight on this earth, it is us who get to define what our priorities are and should be. Politics is a function of the present, not the past. Regardless of what we decide to do, though, overnight change does not happen. Say what you will about slippery slopes, but we do not — in a republic like ours, with a constitution like ours — suddenly wake up one day to see churches locked up by policemen, government liaisons in our homes monitoring what we feed our children and panels of doctors tellings us whether we can receive medical care. Obama’s own success (or lack of it) since his Inauguration Day demonstrates that. Armed with “Hope” and “Change,” his administration has significantly delivered on some of the biggest themes from his 2008 campaign. Climate change seldom converges with politics; Guantanamo Bay is still a prison camp. The
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post-partisanship Obama hoped to usher in? No matter how intractable congressional Republicans have been, it seems like it wasn’t more than a few days before Obama rushed home to the “They’re not playing fair” rhetoric. Santorum’s fear of waking up to the manifold results of what Thomas Jefferson called “a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object” of reducing us “under absolute despotism,” requires just that — a long train. Losing elections is like the breakup of a relationship. No matter how much it really sucks at first, it’s not the end of the world. What is important is what we do with the electoral result. Will the losers stay bitter for two or four years and completely retire until they can win? They shouldn’t dare to do so. Offering American voters an alternative in the next election requires good-faith efforts to govern even during their minority — it requires what Walter Lippmann called the indis-
pensable opposition — rather than sitting at home waiting for things to get so bad the electorate looks to them in desperation. Elections do not add laws to our codes; that comes later. All it takes to learn that is three minutes of Schoolhouse Rock. In fact, elections have nothing to do with the political process. If Santorum is right, and America really is at the divergence of two roads, one more and one less traveled, then he and all the people who agree with him will continue their political involvement throughout the time between today and Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2014. Losing an election is no time to step back; it is a time to step forward. If it is the public world of government that stands ready to deprive us of our rights, it is in the public arena that those rights need to be defended.
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Domniguez is named All-American College Sports Madness awarded junior forward Jennifer Dominguez another honor Monday for her 2012 season. The former walk-on has been named to the College Sports Madness All-American Second Team. Dominguez is the first Cyclone ever to receive an AllAmerica honor for ISU soccer. The honor is in addition to being named the website’s Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year and to its All-Big 12 First Team last week. Dominguez was also named to the second team All-Big 12. Dominguez netted 14 goals — four of which were game winning — for the Cyclones this year. She is second all-time in goals scored in a season and tied for first all-time in game-winning goals in a season at Iowa State. Dominguez led the Big 12 in goals at the conclusion of the regular season. — By Daily Staff
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By Dan.Cole @iowastatedaily.com The ISU wrestling team is coming off a 4-13 season dual record, but this season’s preparations have wrestlers and coaches optimistic. The Cyclones did not meet expectations in coach Kevin Jackson’s third season at Iowa State, but preseason events this year have given reason to believe positive steps are being taken. “I feel better about where we are now as opposed to last year,” Jackson said. “I don’t think they handled it well last year; we never really had the chance to take a deep breath.” Iowa State has four NCAA qualifiers returning, including redshirt senior Matt Gibson, the reigning Big 12 heavyweight champion. Gibson attributes last season’s shortcomings largely to mental lapses and a lack of experience. “Honestly, everybody has their good days and their bad days, and I think mentally our team might not have been there yet,” Gibson said. “We didn’t lose too many people from last year, so all the starters that came back definitely remember how it feels to have a season like that.” The Cyclones’ other returning NCAA qualifiers include redshirt junior Boaz Beard (184), and redshirt sophomores Ryak Finch (125) and Luke Goettl (141). Finch, ranked No. 16 at 125 this season, was adamant that this season is not a rebuilding year, especially in terms of individual expectations. “This is my sophomore year; I’ve got to come; I’ve got to show up,” Finch said. “Last year’s over. We’ve just got to look to the future and see what we can do to get that national title.” Aside from Finch and Gibson, this season’s roster touts three more athletes ranked nationally. Goettl is ranked 17th at 141, Beard is ranked 17th at 184 and redshirt sophomore Kyven Gadson is ranked 16th at 197. The impact of last season’s experience is going to go a long way for the Cyclones’ young roster in 2012-13. Jackson said the rigors of going
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through a freshman season can sometimes be too much for young wrestlers to handle, and that there was some of that last season. This season is a different story. “The important aspect of it is that there’s no surprises,” Jackson said. “They’ve wrestled everybody in the country, basically, and they’ve wrestled the best guys in the country. So I think based on that and them recognizing that they did not probably wrestle to their full potential sometimes makes them understand that, ‘All I have to do is go out there and compete and my skills will take over.’”
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Season outlook Returning 2011-2012 NCAA Championship qualifiers: ■■ Redshirt senior Matt Gibson reigning Big 12 heavyweight champion ■■ Redshirt junior Boaz Beard (184) ■■ Redshirt sophomore Ryak Finch (125) ■■ Redshirt sophomore Luke Goettl (141)
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Team improves with ‘narrow misses’ By Jake.Calhoun @iowastatedaily.com Paul Rhoads said he is not concerned as much about total yardage as he is with scoring. But the fourth-year ISU football coach’s team is 1-4 when it has been out-gained by opposing offenses, a stat that has seen gaps of at least 105 yards in those five games and an average of 206.2 yards per game. “You keep on trying to figure out ways to gain yards,” Rhoads said at his weekly news conference on Monday. “Whether you’re throwing or catching passes or figuring out a way to run the football.” Even though points are more important to Rhoads than total yardage — as was the case with Iowa State’s win at TCU on Oct. 6 — the Cyclones (5-4, 2-4 Big 12) have lost by an average of 13.5 points per game in their four losses, all of which they failed to out-gain their opponents in total offense. But Saturday’s loss to Oklahoma showed signs of
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Photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily Quarterback Steele Jantz runs the ball against defenders last Saturday at Jack Trice Stadium. Jantz gained 44 yards on the ground in the loss 35-20 to Oklahoma.
improvement for the ISU offense. “We’re getting better every week,” said running back Jeff Woody. “Those narrow misses that we had as far as playwise — where a ball will be short or a ball will be long or we’d drop a pass or something like that — those misses are getting smaller and fewer and far between.” Play-calling has not been a topic of unrest on the team, as Rhoads reiterated his trust in Jantz’s ability to make something out of
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There were a number of reasons not to run the historic New York City Marathon on Sunday, less than a week after Hurricane Sandy began its destruction of the five boroughs. But one reason to run the race, more important than any other, was to help a city get back on its feet. When Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the 26.2mile race was going to continue as planned, he made a bold statement reminding the nation, and more importantly New Yorkers, that the city is not going to take this devastation lying down. Two days before the race was scheduled to continue, he made an even bolder statement by canceling the race saying: “It is clear that it has become the source of controversy and division.” The idea to continue running the race may have had mixed feedback, but it is important not to ignore the impacts events like this have had on the healing process in past tragedies. Disaster is going to strike, we don’t know when or where, and the only thing we can control is our reaction. The mayor’s original decision was the right choice. Sporting events have been an avenue of hope after disaster in America, especially in this new millennium. The town of Parkersburg, Iowa, gained national publicity as the sport of football picked the town up by its bootstraps after a tornado destroyed numerous amounts of property, including the high school and almost everyone remembers the impact the Saints coming back to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This race would not have been about the runners, the race would have been a giant step forward on the road back to normal. Before the cancellation, the race had been dubbed the “Race to Recover” and the New York Road Runners, or NYRR, had created a fund that would donate at least $1 million to charities involved in relief efforts. With the money and encouragement the marathon would have created, canceling the race was a poor decision made too hastily. Bloomberg stated and continued to emphasize that the race would not have diverted resources, so the cancellation was solely based on the backlash the media and others had given the mayor. Canceling a 43-year tradition is not a step in the right direction. The race to recover is a marathon, not a sprint, and New York took a step away from the finish line. Although the race was canceled, a few thousand people still showed up, ran the marathon, and gave whatever clothing, supplies, and donations they could to help the hurting people of New York City. If something so minimal as a group of unorganized race participants running without a purse or time bonuses could have such an effect, imagine what the real thing would have offered the city.
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Photo: Adam Ring/Iowa State Daily The Main Street Cultural District has developed the East End Gateway Project, which strives to make downtown Ames more beautiful, such as by artfully painting its benches.
The Main Street Cultural District has started a threestep revitalization project to help make the area become more green. Currently in the second phase of the East End Gateway Project, an archway is being built above the 100 block of Main Street. Bill Malone, president of the Main Street Cultural District said: “The original idea came from the Ames Foundation as they proposed a Downtown beautification. The Main Street Cultural District has taken over the project and will hopefully carry it to completion.” The East End Gateway project began a year and a half ago, consisting of three phases separate phases. The planting of an evergreen tree in 2011 began the first phase of making the area
“green.” By including new plots to place and plant on Main Street, the plan is to make the downtown area become lively. The second phase, the building of the arch, is currently being enacted. “We went and asked the stakeholders and the public to submit feedback on the arch and pick a design,” Malone said. “We narrowed it down to three arch designs, and then we went back, asked those three designers to redo their ideas to make them better. The final arch was picked. Country Landscapes ultimately created the design for this.” The third phase will be placing sculptures in an area that Malone described as currently having “scrabbly trees.” The Cultural District is working with the Public Arch Commission, a government commission, on the designs. In raising money for the project, the Cultural District has been hosting fundraisers such as the Oktoberfest Celebration. Funds come in through individual donors, and bricks to be placed at the base of the arch can be bought. The
Current plan ■■ Phase One: Embellish green on Main Street including an evergreen planted in 2011 and a low brick wall ■■ Phase Two: Build an arch as an entrance to Main Street ■■ Phase Three: Place a sculpture to beautify Main Street and Duff Avenue intersection
bricks will include the names of the donors. Other projects in the Cultural District can also donate toward the Gateway. “The Downtown Sit-Down has to do with the benches getting painted,” Malone said. “The Main Street Cultural District is basically getting sponsorships for painting those benches, and those funds go to downtown beautification and could be used on this project as well.” The first phase cost about $6,000 to complete. The second phase of building the arch has about $20,000
committed and was quoted by Harold Pike to cost nearly $92,000. The final phase is estimated to cost about $60,000. Malone said the Cultural District has applied for grants in addition to the fundraising. “Harold Pike Construction will be the builder of the Arch. He is a long time Ames resident and done amazing work all over the state. On ISU campus he has done the Student Health center, Morrill hall’s renovation, and work at the Knoll to name a very few,” Malone said. As the MSCD continues, the next step is to see if the chosen area for the arch can actually support an arch. Malone hopes for the arch to be finished in three years. Terry Stark, current committee member of the Main Street Cultural District, said: “I think it’s going to be something that people will be talking about in other communities. It will have a pretty big impact on businesses and restaurants. “We really are excited for what’s going to happen. I really think it will be a benefit for all of Ames.”
Cultural District seeks new director after departure By Tracy.Robinson @iowastatedaily.com The Main Street Cultural District will see a new face as its director. The current executive director of the Cultural District, Tom Drenthe, will be resigning Dec. 15. He announced his leave in an email two weeks ago, and as of publication, he has not responded to the Daily on his resignation. In a statement made in his email, he said he is leaving with the belief the group will still be
able to carry out its goals. “I am leaving the Cultural District with a feeling of Drenthe enthusiasm and confidence that the district will continue as a model of success for downtown revitalization,” he wrote. The Cultural District’s board of directors discussed the process that would be taken to hire Drenthe’s replace-
ment in the time he had given the board. Bill Malone, president of the Cultural District board, believes the position will be easy to fill with a qualified candidate. “The Main Street Cultural District has always had great candidates apply and Ames is a magnet community for talented people,” he said. Hiring for a director is not a new concept. The organization has had to fill the director’s position several times in the recent years.
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But since the organization, it is hard to hire anyone for a long-term position with such a limited budget. Drenthe decided to give the board plenty of time to make a decision on finding a new director. Drenthe was hired in September 2011 by the Ames Chamber of Commerce. He has previously worked as the events coordinator for the Cultural District and as the
Ames Main Street Farmers’ Market manager since the beginning of 2011. Drenthe said he does plan to stay working with the community and with the Cultural District by volunteering in the future. The Main Street Cultural District was established in 2004 as a two-year local initiative to create an identity and to focus on downtown
development. Its mission is to promote downtown as a tourist destination. In November 2005, the Cultural District became an official organization by the state of Iowa Certified Cultural and Entertainment District. The district and its ideas have been embraced by many businesses as well as individuals.