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Board considers requests

By Paige.Godden iowastatedaily.com The Board of Regents are considering the approval of the request by the Iowa Regent universities for faculty professional developMadden ment assignments for the 2012 fiscal year.

“Some legislators are questioning if faculty improvement leaves should be happening,” said Warren Madden, Kaufmann vice president of business and finance.

According to the uniform guidelines for Iowa State’s faculty professional development assignments, “The university recognizes that significant opportunities for professional growth and development are required periodically by faculty members and that the Faculty Professional Development Assignment Program is one of the best modes in which to

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VOLLEYBALL:

Upset loss ends postseason run Libero Ashley Mass reacts to a play against Creighton on Friday at the Minneapolis Sports Pavilion.

The Cyclones were defeated by Creighton in the first round of the NCAA tournament, the first opening-round loss in the program’s history. Photo: Bryan Langfeldt/Iowa State Daily

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By Paige.Godden iowastatedaily.com The ISU Ambassadors held an open forum, featuring three speakers who spoke about effective ways to lobby the Iowa legislature.

Sen. Herman Quirmbach, associate professor of economics, has served on the Education Committee for eight years.

“When you’re talking to legislatures, be polite, figure out what you want to say in advance and boil it down,” Quirmbach said.

When students are lobbying, they need to make sure they bring a visual impact, whether it be the same color of shirts or a stand for legislators to look at, Quirmbach said.

Each speaker told the audience the importance of speaking to their hometown representatives.

“Lisa [Heddens], me, Beth Wessel-Kroeschell. Don’t spend a lot of time with us because we’re pretty much in your corner,” Quirmbach said.

He said the Board of Regents aren’t just about three counties – Story, Black Hawk or Johnson – but about all 99 counties in Iowa.

“When you’re here you’re my constituents,” Quirmbach said.

“When you’re back home and your parents are back home, they are your representatives, and they effect your ability to get a quality education and quality faculty.”

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Cold, December weather often freezes sidewalks and damages asphalt on paths and streets.

Christopher Williams, associate Williams professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering, is head of a project that is testing bio-oil on asphalt in order to improve hot and cold weather performance of pavements. Williams has been working on the project for four years.

“We fractionate the bio-oil in five or six different fractions,” Williams said. “Those different fractions have different compositions.”

Williams and a research group have been working to test their data.

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Capitol for the smoking ban issues.

She said she received a couple emails and letters every day at home from the students who were trying to push for a statewide smoking ban.

“They kept their issue ongoing.

They continually kept their names out there and reminded us of what the issue is,” Heddens said. “We get

With all the research condoned for alternate biodiesel resources, Zhiyou Wen, professor of food science and human nutrition, partakes in a pecular alternative — microalgae.

Wen and a group of colleagues harvested algae and converted the oil from the algae into biofuel for alternative energy research.

“It’s about lipid separation from algae, so [Wen] is going to grow the algae for us, design the bioreactor, dewatering the algae and separate the lipid from the cells and the lipids used for biodiesel,” said Tong Wang, professor of food science and human nutrition.

Wen is working to create a better outlet for harvesting microalgae because it has several benefits including a high rate in productivity.

“The productivity is really high; growing soybean or corn, you need a whole season, a whole year to grow, algae is about seven to 10 days per crop, per harvest,” Wang said.

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Sen. Herman Quirmbach speaks about the importance of keeping young Iowans in Iowa on Thursday in Carver.

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reach to all 99 counties, Quirmbach said.

“It is much more effective, talking to a hometown representative or senator. If you’re registered to vote here, your parents are still registered to vote back there,” Quirmbach said.

House Representative Lisa Heddens said she is also pretty much in students’ corner.

Heddens emphasized the impor-

tance of introducing yourself to your senator through mail or e-mail.

“Build that relationship, tell them your story, why you chose Iowa State, what your goals are and what your struggles were so they get to know who you are as a person,” Heddens said.

Heddens said she remembers four or five years ago when students from Just Eliminate Lies were at the

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What: The Cyclones’ women’s basketball coach will meet with fans and answer questions about the season.

Where: Sun Room, Memorial Union

MUSIC: Marching Band celebrates successful season Nathan Bierl, senior in music, plays the saxophone before heading to the Marching Band Banquet on Sunday in Music Hall.

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What: The Cyclones’ men’s basketball coach will meet with fans and answer questions about the season.

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Britney Spears had a special treat for her fans on her birthday — the singer announced that she’s releasing a new album.

As she turned 29 Thursday, Spears tweeted, “I’m almost done with my new album and it will be coming out this March. I AM IN L-O-V-E WITH IT!” That’s not all she loves. The pop star added that she and

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Robert Downey Jr. as Lestat? Anne Rice digs it There’s been a lot of talk about breathing new life into Anne Rice’s “The Vampire Chronicles” book series for the big screen, and the author believes she’s found the ideal actor to play toothy Lestat: Robert Downey Jr. “That would be wonderful. He is a great actor,” she tells New York magazine’s Vulture. “He would bring the gravitas and the wit and humor and all of that to the part, and I don’t think he’s too old.”

A golden-locked Tom Cruise played the studly bloodsucker in 1994’s “Interview With the Vampire,” and Rice believes 45-year-old Downey could really sink his teeth into the role with a little help from the professionals.

“I think if he had a blond wig and makeup, he would be a wonderful Lestat,” explains Rice, who says there have only been talks about doing a movie reboot but no firm plans as of yet.

“Lestat has to have the gravitas of a 200-year-old man and Robert Downey Jr. can do it,” Rice said.

As for who could fill Brad Pitt’s fangs as the tortured Louis, Rice has a certain TV star in mind.

“Matt Bomer is a beautiful, beautiful guy,” she says of the “White Collar” actor. “He could play Louis.”

Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum to star in ‘21 Jump Street’ It’s official — Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill are heading to “21 Jump Street.”

Columbia Pictures confirms that the actors will both executive produce and star in a big-screen adaptation of the hit ‘80s cop series, reports Deadline.com.

“Jonah helped create a smart and funny vehicle that is tailormade for him and Channing,” Columbia Pictures president Doug Belgrad says of Hill, who wrote the film’s script. “They are a perfect duo for this film... We love how this movie has come together and are very excited to begin production this spring.”

While hunky Johnny Depp, 47, and chunky Peter DeLuise, 44, played two of the cops who go undercover as high school students on the “21 Jump Street” series, the Hollywood Reporter says that Tatum, 30, and Hill, 26,

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will not be taking over their roles but will be portraying completely new characters.

That’s not to say Depp won’t turn up in the film. Hill says he’s written a part for him in his script.

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Jim McBrayer, who retired as a history teacher and athletic director at Salem High School last year, earned 3,137 votes in Tuesday’s runoff election, reports the Rockdale Citizen.

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Filmmaker Christopher Nolan and his wife/producing partner Emma Thomas both deny that the deceased actor will be involved.

Ledger died of an accidental drug overdose in January 2008 — just six months before his heralded turn as “The Dark Knight’s” twisted Joker arrived in theaters.

Blogs have been abuzz that Nolan was planning to insert unused footage of Ledger into the blockbuster film’s follow up, but the director and Thomas have dismissed those claims to the Hollywood Reporter.

“I heard the rumor. We’re not doing that,” said Thomas.

Nolan backed her denial and added that the script for “The Dark Knight Rises” isn’t done yet and that Ledger’s work as the Joker should be contained to the 2008 flick.

Meanwhile, as Marquee reported, Nolan has said that “The Dark Knight Rises,” which is due in theaters in July 2012, will be his final Batman movie.

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Texas judge to hold hearing on death penalty law

By Juan A. Lozano Associated Press HOUSTON — In the deeply Republican state that has executed more convicts than any other and the county that has sent the most to death row, an unusual legal proceeding will begin this week: A Democratic judge will hold a hearing on the constitutionality of the death penalty in Texas.

State District Judge Kevin Fine surprised many Texans last spring when he granted what is usually a routine and typically rejected defense motion and ruled the death penalty unconstitutional. His ruling came in the case of John Edward Green Jr., who is awaiting trial on charges he fatally shot a woman and wounded her sister during a June 2008 robbery.

Following a torrent of criticism from Republican Gov. Rick Perry and other Texans, Fine clarified his ruling, saying the procedures the state follows in getting a death sentence are unconstitutional. Then Fine rescinded his ruling and ordered the hearing, which starts Monday, saying he need-

State District Judge Kevin Fine shows his sleeve of tattoos Nov. 14, 2008, at his downtown Houston office. Judge Fine will hold a hearing on the constitutionality of the Texas death penalty. File photo: Nick de la Torre/The Associated Press

ed more information before making a final decision. Most Texans consider the death penalty a fitting punishment for the worst kind of crimes, and Harris County, which includes the state’s largest city, Houston, has sent more inmates to the lethal-injection

gurney than any other in Texas. But, anti-death penalty activists have created serious doubt recently about whether two men were wrongly executed.

Fine is an unusual Houston jurist: a Democrat who sports dense tattoos

and has said he’s a recovering alcoholic and former cocaine user. He declined to be interviewed for this story, but he’s said that he’s taken notice of recent death row exonerations and his ruling will “boil down to whether or not an innocent person has actually been executed.”

Green’s attorneys say the hearing is not a referendum on whether Texas should have a death penalty.

“We don’t say a state doesn’t have the right to have a death penalty,” attorney Casey Keirnan said. “We’re saying the way we do it in Texas under our statute is unconstitutional.”

Green’s attorneys say they plan to bring up the Willingham and Jones cases at the hearing. They claim the state’s death penalty procedures violate the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which grants the right to freedom from cruel and unusual punishment. That’s because the procedures create a “substantial risk” that innocent people can be wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death, the attorneys argue.

Harris County prosecutors, who unsuccessfully tried to get Fine re-

moved from the case, declined to comment before Monday’s hearing.

But in a petition filed last month, they asked the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to stop the hearing, saying Fine doesn’t have the authority to declare the state’s death penalty law unconstitutional and higher courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have previously rejected Eighth Amendment challenges to capital punishment. Antideath penalty groups have lauded Fine, while those in favor of capital punishment call him misguided.

Harris County has sentenced 286 people to death since Texas resumed executions in 1982, and 115 of those have been executed.

Dudley Sharp, a death penalty expert from Houston who has worked with crime victims’ groups, described Fine as irresponsible and predicted that if he rules the death penalty is unconstitutional, the decision would likely be overturned on appeal.

“This is settled case law already,” he said. “It’s just going to be a worldwide kangaroo court for the antideath penalty folks.”

Proposition 8

California gay marriage foes rely on lack of burden of proof

By Lisa Leff Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — The defenders of California’s gay marriage ban took a pummeling during the first federal trial to explore the civil rights implications of outlawing same-sex marriages. They summoned only two witnesses, one of whom left the stand looking thrashed. Even the lead attorney was left groping for words when pressed to explain how allowing gays and lesbians to wed would undermine traditional unions.

If the courtroom had been a boxing ring, the referee would have called a knockout.

Yet lawyers for the ban’s sponsors say their side was on the ropes for a reason: They disputed that live testimony and reams of evidence were relevant to a lawsuit against the voter-approved Proposition 8 that reimposed a ban on gay marriage, so they did not provide it. In their view, the proceedings were a “a show trial,” and they were willing to invite the unfavorable verdict they eventually got while betting they would win in a later round where the ground rules would be different.

“Something that has been lost sight of is who has the burden of proof in this case,”

Andrew Pugno, a lawyer for Proposition 8’s sponsors, said at the 13-day-long trial’s close.

“The burden is not on the defendants and the people who voted for Prop 8.”

That strategy’s wisdom will be put to the test Monday, when a federal appeals court is set to hear arguments in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the landmark constitutional challenge to the gay marriage ban.

The coalition of religious and conservative groups that won Prop 8’s passage two years ago has asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the San Francisco judge who pointed to their “rather limited factual presentation” when he struck down the measure.

Despite the lopsided trial record, most legal experts agree the defense team’s reasoning is not far-fetched. They say the panel could discount the exhaustive trial evidence that Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker laid out in his August decision. In its place, the panel could substitute studies that were barely discussed in Walker’s court or, more likely, its own interpretation of relevant case law.

Walker made it clear he planned to assess the validity of hotly debated questions surrounding same-sex marriage based on what he heard

>>ALGAE.p1A There’s a large abundance of it, said Zhihwu Zung, professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering. Some people are working at a genetic level to increase the oil content.

“Single-celled microalgae in comparison to the growth rate is much faster, you try to grow biomass at a faster rate, algae can beat the rest out of all the plants,” Zung said.

In comparison to terrestrial plants like soybeans or corn, where one only harvests the plant once a season, algae can grow throughout the year if controlled with good conditions, Wen said. “There’s a lot of personal interest all over the world in making algae into biofuel,” he said.

A critical attribute to the algae is a possible alternative from our dependency on crude petroleum.

“Petroleum is from underground sources,” Zung said. “It’s not renewable. Eventually it’s going to use up and then you think about the car-

in his courtroom. Are laws limiting marriage to a man and a woman based on prejudice or religion? How does denying gays and lesbians the right to wed affect children?

Do people choose their sexual orientations?

Boston University family law professor Linda McClain said she thinks the decision “not to put on much of an evidentiary case” was an “imprudent litigation strategy.”

McClain nonetheless notes that it would only take persuading two of the panel’s members that Walker was wrong in concluding that marriage is a fundamental right under the U.S. Constitution for Proposition 8 to be preserved. If the 9th Circuit ends up agreeing that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to step into the case.

Lawyers who challenged Proposition 8 said the ban’s supporters were unable to mount a more vigorous defense because it is indefensible to deny one group of citizens equality if it doesn’t advance a legitimate purpose.

“If they had the facts on their side, if they had the law on their side, they would have brought experts in to testify,” plaintiffs attorney Theodore Boutrous Jr. said.

bon footprint that’s conveyed underground. You combust it to be converted into energy — you release carbon dioxide.

“In this case, algae absorbs the pollutants, they fix the carbon dioxide from atmosphere,” he said. “They convert that into the oil content and then also it’s renewable.”

Petroleum-based products are in limited supply so people need to look for an alternative source, Wang said. Some don’t want to put all the soybean oil or corn oil into algae, because then there’s a limited supply for human purposes like animal feed and food, Wang said.

Wen’s research is still in the early stages and with the help of his colleagues, they hope for a breakthrough.

“People are all doing different things and its pockets here and there,” Wang said. “Eventually when you have a critical breakthrough everything comes together and the process will be optimized. Right now it’s still relatively infancy stage.”

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Economy

Lane4 renovation must consider all residents’ interests

Who keeps the tax cuts?

The ongoing discussion of Campustown renovation is exciting and promises new experiences for students should the city of Ames, Lane4 and the university all come to an agreement. At the same time, we must not forget to be inclusive in our ideas of Campustown, and to provide opportunities for those with less representation and a slimmer pocketbook.

Many students are excited about bringing a wider variety of services and businesses to Campustown. An area that has been dominated by bars, cheap food and late-night shenanigans would do well to incorporate more daytime activities, retail variety and alcohol-free entertainment. Additionally, many of the Campustown properties are in sore need of better maintenance, renovation and, in some cases, likely demolition.

At the same time, we must be conscious of how much diversity is encompassed in the four blocks that make up the commercial section of Campustown, and hope this diversity is embraced by all the stakeholders involved. Where else in Iowa can you find an Indian restaurant, a karaoke bar, an urban clothing store and a nonprofit concert venue and community center? While the renovations to Campustown have the potential to bring in chain restaurants, a grocery store and a movie theater, we worry about the potential of driving off the diversity that already exists. Bringing in large suburban chain stores will appeal to those students coming from suburban backgrounds, but what about the local businesses and international appeal of current establishments?

Getting a commitment from Walgreens or Smash Burger on bringing a franchise to Campustown could certainly excite investors, but may not be the best for the community. Wheatsfield Cooperative has a history of selling groceries and snacks in Ames while providing good jobs, community activities and an inclusive governance process. Cafe Beaudelaire makes a great burger, a strong cocktail and provides a place for international — and internationally minded — students to watch soccer.

Finally, the cheap rents of Campustown, while not good for property owners, have probably contributed to the emergence of a number of low-cost entrepreneurial ventures. From the Ames Progressive’s pass-the-hat revenue model to The Singer Station’s beginnings in a location that makes dorm rooms look large, Campustown has nurtured a number of organizations with a low cost of entry and a large base of students.

Campustown needs improvement.

The political will that has been generated through years of GSB lobbying, public concern and City Council interest should not be tossed to the wind due to the necessarily complex interests of developing an area.

However, current plans leave concerns as to whether or not everyone’s interests are being represented in a new Campustown.

Residents from all backgrounds should have their interests represented in the future Campustown. Creating a retail, chain-based commercial zone with more parking appears to cater toward a suburban mentality. A nicer appearance and higher occupancy doesn’t have to come at the cost of gentrification, defined by dictionary.com as “the buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, thus improving property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.”

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f you haven’t been paying attention to politics as finals draw near, you probably haven’t realized that the big issue facing Congress this December is end of the Bush-era tax cuts. Way back in 2001, when most students at Iowa State had not yet entered high school, tax cuts were enacted to, in effect, give back the budget surplus generated during the Clinton years.

The cuts enacted in 2001 were fairly minor and resulted in about 1 percent lower tax rates for many Americans. In 2003, President Bush convinced Congress that small business owners needed further cuts to boost the economy, providing another 2 percent in cuts across the board, with slightly higher cuts for the highest and lowest tax brackets.

This means that an individual living in poverty during the last decade making $6,000 per year saved $300 due to the Bush cuts, while an individual making $350,000 per year saved $16,100 in taxes thanks to the cuts. On the other hand, an individual making approximately $20,000 per year would not have seen a change in tax rates during the last decade.

Congress is currently fighting over what to do when the cuts made between 2001 and 2003 expire at the end of the year. Democrats have proposed making the tax breaks for all but the highest tax bracket permanent, while allowing the highest bracket to return to a 39.6 percent tax rate from 35 percent in recent years. A second proposal last week from Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-NY, instead would make the breaks permanent for anyone earning less than $1 million, while forcing those 1 percent of Americans that earn more than $1 million per year to pay 4.9 percent more of their income in taxes — their rates would rise from 35 percent to 39.6 percent. That extra income would be specifically allocated toward programs like Head Start, school construction and child nutrition programs around the country.

Personally, if I had the financial skills to make more than $1 million a year, I’d probably take the extra $46,000-plus I get from the current tax cuts and invest it to make more money rather than spending it on a new American-made car. If I could invest that one year’s gain at a 5 percent annual growth rate, the amount would double in less than 15 years. Actually, if I kept making $1 million per year and investing the money at 5-percent interest, I’d have gathered enough for a Tesla Roadster in 16 years.

Tax cuts would do much more immediate good when given to those who would benefit from extra money to spend on essential items like food and clothing.

I would say millionaires don’t need the windfall from the Republican party. They should consider themselves lucky at their 35

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to 40 percent tax rate when their predecessors in the 1930s through the ‘70s paid tax rates at 60 percent and up to 90 percent at times.

Perhaps this drop in tax rates over the past four decades has led to the rising disparity between the super-rich and the poor in the United States. While 90 percent tax rates are amazingly high, rates of 40 percent, 50 percent or even 60 percent would not cause those in the highest tax bracket to starve by any means.

An even bigger reason the rich can easily get richer while the poor stay poor is the capital gains tax rates, which have steadily dropped during our lifetimes. Back in 1990, the long-term capital gains tax rate investors must pay on sales of securities was the same as the rate they paid on income. It was later changed to a flat 28 percent and slowly lowered to 15 percent for those individuals above the poverty level.

It is no wonder many corporate executives are mostly paid in stock options and stock. While President Barack Obama has recently worked to raise the capital gains rate back to 20 percent, that rate can still provide substantial savings to the richest Americans, who pay nearly 50 percent less taxes on securities than on normal income.

This lets many extremely rich

Americans technically pay net tax rates that are on par with families that earn around $100,000 per year and save a lot of money.

Republicans need to stop pushing their agenda to give more money to the rich. Is arguing over a 4.6 percent increase in taxes for the rich important enough to stall Congress and possibly allow the tax deductions to expire for all Americans? Maybe Democrats should suggest bumping rates for the rich by 10 percent. That would really get the Republicans mad.

I believe that if our government is spending more money than it receives in taxes, it should increase taxes accordingly.

Otherwise, Americans see only the benefits of higher government spending without being forced to pay for the spending increases.

It’s not fair to simply pawn off your debts onto your children and your grandchildren.

If our country raised taxes slightly and managed to balance its budget, I would see that as a good thing. A budget surplus would be even better, allowing us to pay off the national debt.

Nobody likes to pay taxes, but you must admit American tax rates are not unreasonably high. It’s better to pay for our current government spending and/or reduce spending than to simply allow the national debt to increase, don’t you think?

Technology

Wi-Fi more dangerous than ever

By Heath.Verhasselt iowastatedaily.com

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nternet, isn’t it lovely? All the games, videos, cool stories and things to do. The Internet provides for literally endless hours of entertainment.

If you don’t believe me take a trip over to Stumbleupon.com.

However, as we use the Internet more and more, we begin to put more of our information on it with Facebook, online banking and others.

Although giving your data to someone else normally causes privacy advocates to raise an eyebrow, it no longer is of concern to them. All focus has been turned to one of the biggest vulnerabilities in a long time.

It’s called sidejacking, and with a new Firefox plugin called Firesheep it has made hacking your Facebook account easier than ever before. Now, if you just read that intro and are confused, let me explain. When you use Wi-Fi at the library or a coffee shop and you’re logged into a website, such as Facebook, Twitter or even some online banking, other people using the Wi-Fi can temporarily — sometimes permanently — steal your account. This is done using what is called sidejacking. Normally when you log into a website, you give it your username and password. That website verifies that

you are who you say you are, and it sends your computer what is called a cookie.

This allows you to use a website without being forced to log in on every single page you go to.

So say you log into Facebook, your login is verified and you can browse all the pages. That creates an open session between you and Facebook. Someone else on the same Wi-Fi as you can tap into that open session and literally browse Facebook using your account and credentials — using that cookie I mentioned earlier.

Now here’s the thing. Anyone and their mother can do it. All you have to do is download the add-on Firesheep and set it up in Firefox, then go find an open WiFi and wait and see who logs in.

This in and of itself is the problem and here’s why. The Internet is assumed to be a dangerous place, and you should know what you’re getting into when you use it. The issue at hand is that sidejacking is too easy.

Usually hacking or penetration involves some level of skill, hence its appeal. Hackers like to find an exploit and see if they can get past it, sometimes to get something out of it or just to say they could do it. That’s the fun in it, and oddly enough most hackers are responsible people that

A new plugin for the Web browser Firefox has made it much easier for any average Internet user to hack into personal accounts over a Wi-Fi network. Courtesy photo: Wikimedia Commons

understand Internet security and are a lot of the times “White Hat” hackers that actually try to help make the Internet more secure.

Eric Butler, the guy who actually released Firesheep, is a “White Hat” hacker to some extent. Since sidejacking and Firesheep are now open to the masses, it makes sidejacking so easy that anyone can do it.

And who is anyone? The people on Twitter, the people playing Farmville all day, the people on YouTube.

Have you seen those ridiculous YouTube comments?

Those people can potentially get on your Facebook and write whatever they want on it. Great, just great. And you know what’s even better? For the moment, there’s no fix in sight — that is unless all websites start to force end-to-end SSL encryption.

So for now, use the same common sense you’d use anywhere else.

Watch your step, don’t talk to strangers and stay off public Wi-Fi!

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Reflection

Letters

2010 an intense year for politics, Iowa State

Post office article needed to offer more viewpoints

By Curtis.Powers iowastatedaily.com

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hank God this semester and this year are almost over. It’s been a tough one for many Americans and the ISU community.

While economists have declared the recession over, many are still suffering the effects of it, especially men as roughly 75 percent of the jobs lost due to the recession were male-dominated.

It is especially depressing for many workers who’ve been without jobs for more than a year. They see many corporations posting record proďŹ ts. They see that more than 25 percent of the 400 richest people in America come from the banking/ investment industry — the same industry that played a major role in the recession.

And all of that may have been possible due to our political system.

I haven’t read it yet, but WinnerTake-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer - -and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by elite academics Paul Pierson (UCBerkeley) and Jacob Hacker (Yale) may provide some answers to the “why,� if the Amazon reviews are any indication.

Our nation is also facing a ballooning debt caused by deďŹ cit spending from both Republicans and Democrats. I saw a recent credit report from a leading Chinese credit rating agency that downgraded the U.S. to an A+/negative from a AA/ negative bond rating.

They don’t think we intend on repaying our debt, which shouldn’t surprise anyone after the recent quantitative easing measure by the Fed. Quantitative easing means we’re printing money, money we don’t have — $600 billion of it — to artiďŹ cially inate our currency.

It is quite ironic that we accuse China of manipulating the yuan when we’re quite content on doing the same thing with the dollar. Do as we say and not as we do I suppose.

The only thing worse than that

news is that American people aren’t really taking this seriously.

They like the DeďŹ cit Commission recommendations so long as it doesn’t affect their favorite program.

That means it will be difficult to actually reduce the deďŹ cit because politicians generally lack the spine to make the tough decisions and face the fallout.

Therefore, high unemployment plus proďŹ teers plus systematic political aws plus massive debt plus lack of sacriďŹ cial spirit concerning the debt equals a time bomb of atomic bomb proportions.

And to add the cherry on top, the TSA — Touching Sensitive Areas as theologian Doug Wilson calls it — instituted new groping and molestation measures Nov. 1.

How this doesn’t violate the Fourth Amendment’s provision against unreasonable search and seizure, I have no idea.

As Benjamin Franklin once said, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.�

However, the whole TSA ďŹ asco does provide some good entertainment as Saturday Night Live demonstrated, “It’s our business to touch yours.â€?

It’s also been a tough year for the ISU community.

We’ve had eight student deaths.

We sustained massive budget cuts that cost people jobs and got programs cut. We had a record ood that destroyed peoples’ houses and caused countless damage to other property.

And I almost forgot about the whole Big 12 ďŹ asco. We were almost left without a conference, which not only would have affected our sports teams but the Ames economy and research efforts. Fortunately, the efforts of President Gregory Geoffroy and Athletic Director Jamie Pollard helped keep it together — and thank

you, Texas, for deciding not to leave, too.

But for as a bad as things have been, there is always hope for the future. Think about all the things that went right this year.

The Ames community showed remarkable resolve and did a great job in responding to the ood. The city government demonstrated that the famous quote by Ronald Reagan on government ineptitude doesn’t apply to all governments.

As noted before, the ISU administration has done a pretty good job as well.

As for the Feds? I’m not sure. I think the Health Care Reform Bill passing was positive. I’m not sure it’s the solution, but health care is by far the biggest problem facing the nation considering future costs.

And I’m not sure the Republicans have shown any ability to actually govern well and ďŹ x the health care problem outside of Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. So I’m hopeful that the bill passing will force the Republicans to actually deal with the problem instead of leaving it alone until it destroys our nation’s ďŹ nances. I’m also optimistic from Lisa Murkowski’s successful write-in campaign in Alaska beating the Sarah Palinbacked Joe Miller. It gives me hope that the American people are smart — most spelled her name right — and thus, we won’t actually elect Palin.

Maybe the GOP will even nominate someone who is somewhat intelligent, can actually govern and even ďŹ nish out their terms like former and current governors Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Tim Pawlenty or Mitch Daniels. Maybe even Ron Paul. We’ll have to wait and see on that though.

Being that this is my last column before the break, I will wish you a happy holiday season and hope that your 2011 is better than your 2010.

Your recent article “Memorial Union post office decreases hours,� from Nov. 29, offered the view of only a single student when assessing the impact on ISU students and faculty from the U.S. Postal Service’s recent decision to change the operating schedule at the Memorial Union Postal Station.

It’s no secret that the Postal Service is struggling to match declining mail volume and work hours.

The combination of an extremely weak economy and the virtual explosion of electronic communications alternatives leave the agency little choice but to devote our limited resources in the most efficient way possible.

That is why the Postal Service offers online services, such as our popular Click-N-Ship — where customers can print postage and shipping labels from a work or home computer — as well as free package pickup and free Priority Mail Flat Rate shipping

Larry Jordison is an Ames Post

Master.

supplies.

There are also postage discounts available when a customer ships online at usps.com.

What’s more, in addition to the nearby Welch Postal Station and the Ames Main Post Office on Kellogg Avenue, the USPS offers our products and services at several local Contract Postal Units, including Carver Ace Hardware at 615 24th St. and the HyVee Stores located at 3800 Lincoln Way, 640 Lincoln Way and 500 Main St. And, of course, we’re still operating the Memorial Union Station three days a week.

And even though the Postal Service doesn’t use a single penny of tax money, independent measurements of our delivery service, customer satisfaction and trust among the American public are higher than ever.

All part of God’s plan?

True Christians cannot conceive young deaths as ‘part of the plan’ “When death calls, then Heaven becomes your home,� claims the Christian writer of the letter printed in the Iowa State Daily on Dec. 2.

At the end of the feature story on Bible studies, on the front page of the Iowa State Daily of Nov. 16, a Christian student claims that “...God’s plan is bigger than anything I can imagine for myself.�

Does that plan include premature death?

No one who views himself as a marionette of God, as a Christian views himself, his life being in God’s hands, is capable of conceiving that His plan for him may encompass premature death.

Tom C. Walker is a lecturer for the Intensive English and Orientation Program.

Was it God’s plan by which the student Jonathan Brown, a professed Christian, was struck and killed by an automobile on Oct. 8?

For believing in God, die-hard Christians die easily, but can they accept God’s plan for them if it means dying young?

If we are all in God’s hands, then to die young is to have slipped through His ďŹ ngers, for God is not so omnipotent that he can ensure longevity for every one of our billions.

How might God welcome to His kingdom those people who have died young?

He might say, “I didn’t call you home, I dropped you.� He might even say, “Death has called, and death is out of my hands.�

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Technology

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Ag Leader releases new farm application

By Micaela. Cashman iowastatedaily.com Ames-based Ag Leader Technology, Inc., announced more new products Friday, proving their position as leader in the development of precision farm solutions. This new product is the fifth the company has announced in less than a month.

Advanced Seed Monitoring, an application available through the SeedCommandTM system, will officially be released in February 2011. Advanced Seed Monitoring will be available on the INTEGRATM display, which is a full-featured touch-screen display that offers year-round precision farming control. The application provides monitoring for seed meter singulation and skips/ doubles and spacing quality. It will also give population and spacing information during corn planting.

“Growers looking to eliminate yield-robbing planter problems such as poor seed spacing, and singulation will find this system extremely valuable and easy to use,” said Roger Zielke, SeedCommand product manager. “The INTEGRA display’s 12.1-inch screen provides the industry’s largest view of the performance of all rows. Problematic rows stand out with one glance at the screen.”

Ag Leader is constantly coming out with new hardware and software for farmers and has played a huge hand in the farming revolution over the last 28 years.

Ames Tribune sold to Stephens

An ISU Dining employee serves up ice cream Aug. 20 at Conversations Dining. Several students are hired on campus each year to become managers. In order to achieve these positions, students must show their ability to communicate with other student workers as well as full-time employees. Some of their responsibilities include training new student employees, being able to finish tasks when needed, as well as being in charge of student employee payroll. The student managers are an essential part of the ISU dining centers and help lighten the load for full-time managers. File photo: Ryan Damman/Iowa State Daily

By Micaela. Cashman iowastatedaily.com

ISU managers, assistants follow extensive training

The Ames Tribune was sold last week to Stephens Media, a Nevada-based company.

Previously owned by Midland Newspapers Inc., which is a subsidiary of the Omaha WorldHerald, the Tribune was purchased along with several other area newspapers, including the Boone News-Republican, the Nevada Journal, the Tri-County Times and Dallas County news.

The Tribune also announced the hiring of a new publisher.

The previous publisher, John Goossen, reportedly resigned from his position to pursue other interests. His successor will be Tom Stallbaumer, 51, who is currently the publisher of the Morning News in Springdale, Ark. Stallbaumer will also be publisher of all other newspapers Stephens Media purchased.

All employees of all purchased newspapers will keep their jobs, and publication and distribution will not change.

Stephens Media used to own the Oskaloosa Herald, where Stallbaumer was publisher, and the Clinton Herald.

Stallbaumer said he was excited to get back into the Iowa newspaper community.

Omaha World-Herald Chief Executive Officer Terry Kroeger wrote that he and his company were “fortunate” to have worked with the Tribune and the area newspapers.

He added that as Ames is outside their primary market area, it made good business to cash in on their investment and sell the papers.

Students assist with hiring

By Mindy.Dickerson iowastatedaily.com A variety of job opportunities for students are available on campus. Some even provide the opportunity to lead peers in the workplace by assisting with hiring and training other students.

One area where this occurs is the dining centers.

“I work with students in a professional, yet friendly manner,” said Stephanie Thode, student assistant manager of Seasons Marketplace and senior in hotel, restaurant and institution management.

Student managers are able to help student employees and work with them more closely than fulltime managers might be able to.

“I am able to identify with the students, which is often the factor that allows for student employees to feel comfortable speaking to student managers about problems or conflicts that they may be having,” Thode said.

To obtain student manager positions, students need to have significant experience within the din-

ing centers and a sense of responsibility.

“I had to prove that I could communicate effectively with other student employees, as well as full-time employees. I also needed to show that I was reliable,” said Katy Miller, student assistant manager of Seasons Marketplace and senior in pre-advertising.

These responsibilities included always being on time, finishing tasks assigned and being able to step in whenever needed.

Although students need to meet many requirements to even be considered for the job, they also have several responsibilities to fulfill as a part of their job.

“With every shift, I ensure that all policies and procedures are being followed by all employees,” Thode said.

“I ensure quality, safety, sanitation, and I help in any venue that is in need of help. I am also in charge of student employee payroll and ensure that student employees receive proper training for their positions.”

The student managers are an essential part of the dining centers and help to lighten the load of full-time managers.

“Between the 35 full-time employees and 250 to 300 student employees, I assist the managers in

every way possible,” Miller said.

“Student managers are trained in a way that if anything happened and a manager could not be present, then myself or another student manager steps in to take the position of manager. So we, as student managers, are trained in everything there is to know about the business.”

Although the dining centers employ a great number of students, there are other jobs on campus that require hiring assistance from student employees, too.

“I’ve helped with interviewing a hall director, hiring Cyclone Aides and leaders for Destination Iowa State,” said Austin Henshaw, community adviser of Helser MacDonald and junior in psychology. “I really enjoy helping people.”

Henshaw was able to gain a variety of experience through his involvement on campus.

“I was the vice president of Maple for [InterResidence Hall Association], and I got to help interview a hall director [applicant],” Henshaw said.

“Current Cyclone Aides helped with Cyclone Aide [applicant] check in, promoting it, and we escorted people to their interviews,” Henshaw said.

“We [Cyclone Aides] also helped interview people for team leaders for Destination Iowa State later on in the year.”

Cyber Monday’s online sales rise 19 percent

By Micaela. Cashman iowastatedaily.com This year’s Cyber Monday proved successful to business as sales rose 19 percent compared with 2009.

The day made history as the biggest Internet shopping day of the year, signaling a slowly recovering economy.

Additionally, online sales rose 31.1 percent Monday from the online sales on Black Friday.

Liesl Eathington, economics professor at Iowa State, had predicted sales would be up. She especially

cited online sales, as she said people make more impulse buys on the Internet than in stores. These impulse buys, Smarandescu Eathington said, tend to be more personal purchases, not gifts. Laura Smarandescu, assistant professor of marketing at Iowa State and director of Iowa State’s Regional Economics and Community Analysis Program, added that impulse purchases are more

abundant because online sales often have time limits or limited inventory.

“In these scenarios, online shopping is more likely to result in a ‘buy now’ decision, as many Web sites have also adopted one-click shopping,” she said.

The average order made on Cyber Monday was $194.89, up nearly $15 from last year and $5 from Black Friday. Shopping via mobile also increased by an astounding 310 percent on Black Friday, according to PayPal. Some sales were so huge sites like Younkers and Express were forced

to turn customers away, with alerts saying, “We’ve reached our customer capacity. Please try back soon.”

Eathington stressed that while the economy is slowly recovering, the rise in sales is due more to a rise in customer confidence during the holiday season. She pointed out that more than 52,000 Iowa households received food assistance payments in October, an increase of 10 percent compared to 2009. Additionally, there have been more than 8,300 filings for bankruptcy since January 2009.

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Wrestling

Jackson wants his wrestlers to compete

By Jake.Calhoun iowastatedaily.com

Season ends

in upset

Libero Ashley Mass dives for the ball Friday night during the NCAA opening round at Minneapolis Sports Pavilion. During Mass’ final game, she posted 35 digs, a season high and is the Big 12 all-time career digs leader. The Cyclones lost in the first round to Creighton in a five-set match, ending the Cyclones’ season. It was the first NCAA opening-round loss in program history. Photo: Bryan Langfeldt/Iowa State Daily

Iowa State is ousted in NCAA first round in five-set match

By Dan.Tracy iowastatedaily.com MINNEAPOLIS — Entering its fifth consecutive NCAA tournament, Iowa State boasted the experience of a program that has made deep runs into the postseason. However, for the first time in program history, its run ended on the first night of the tournament.

Making their first NCAA tournament appearance, the Creighton Bluejays picked up their biggest win in program history with a fiveset, 3-2 (27-25, 16-25, 25-23, 19-25, 15-11) victory over the Cyclones.

“I think the world of the Iowa State program, I think we’re both blue-collar teams,” said Creighton coach Kirsten Bernthal Booth after the game Friday, “and I challenged our team to outwork Iowa State tonight, and I think they did a great job.”

The five-setter marked only the second time that Iowa State had gone the distance this season, while the Bluejays were playing in their fifth five-setter of the year.

“I thought they just played very aggressive when they needed to, especially at critical points and end-game, and in game five they just played very aggressive and didn’t act like a team that was here for the first time,” said ISU

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Creighton started the match looking like the more seasoned postseason squad as Johnson-Lynch it jumped out to a 9-4 lead. The Cyclones would battle back to take the lead at 16-15, but Creighton would not go away as it fought back to win the first set 27-25.

Senior outside hitter Alicia Runge led the Bluejays with six kills in the first as senior outside hitter Victoria Henson paced the Cyclones with seven. The Bluejays controlled the net in the first set, leading in team blocks over Iowa State five to one.

After hitting a mere .245 in the first set, Iowa State blazed out to a .447 hitting percentage with no attack errors as the Cyclones evened things up for intermission with a 25-16 win in the second.

Henson notched another five kills and sophomore middle blocker Jamie Straube pitched in with four. Averaging just less than 12 assists per set on the season, sophomore setter Alison Landwehr entered the third set already with 31 assists.

Although Iowa State had the

momentum heading into the locker room, Creighton exited motivated and ready to take back the lead.

Landwehr The Bluejays leaned on Swea City-native Runge as she swung for five kills in a 25-23 victory in the third.

Iowa State Jenson was able to capitalize on some poor hitting by Creighton in the fourth set as the Cyclones outhit the Bluejays .262 to .083 en route to a 25-19 win for the Cyclones.

In the final set, both teams were all square at six apiece until Creighton subbed in Runge.

Runge scored four of the next nine points for the Bluejays, and Laurel Sanford put home the final kill as the Bluejays celebrated with a 1511 final set win.

“I think definitely toward the end it came down to who wanted it more and you’re just playing with as much as you have and you’re fighting as hard as you can,” Landwehr said. “I think we did that, I just think some of the plays

just didn’t go our way in the end.”

Looking at the statistics from the match, the Cyclones’ performance looked eerily similar to a Nov. 6 match they played against Missouri in their return to Hilton Coliseum. The Cyclones had a higher hitting percentage, more digs, more blocks and more assists than the Tigers yet still lost the match 3-1 (25-19, 24-26, 22-25, 24-26).

“Even though the stats overall are pretty close, I think sometimes the way you play at particular times in the match in particular critical points — say in game one when it’s 24-all — how you play aggressive or not can mean everything,” Johnson-Lynch said.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re hitting .500 or .200, if you’re aggressive in those couple of points that can be the difference.”

On Friday, the Cyclones led the Bluejays in hitting percentage (.245 to .237) and assists (75 to 57) but the most staggering statistic was that Iowa State outdug Creighton 116-89. The 116 digs for the Cyclones is the 11th-highest total in ISU program history. Senior libero Ashley Mass played for the final time in an ISU uniform and she turned in one of the best performances of her career, finishing with a match-high 35 digs.

“I’m not sure how we won because usually we outdig people,” Bernthal Booth said. “I always think that the digs number shows

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Women’s basketball

Cyclones overcome slow start, knock off Michigan

By Kelsey.Jacobs iowastatedaily.com Iowa State’s trip to the Paradise Jam Tournament in the Virgin Islands over Thanksgiving wasn’t enough to keep the team warm as it returned to Hilton Coliseum on Sunday.

The No. 19 Cyclones were ice cold shooting the ball for most of their matchup against the Michigan Wolverines, but they managed to heat up in the second half to take the win 60-47.

Part of the problem for the Cyclones was the Michigan defense that kept Iowa State off balance.

The Wolverines forced Cyclone players to take bad shots Michigan and run down the shot clock.

Iowa State “It was a little bit [hard to get in a flow],” said senior Kelsey Bolte. “I thought it was a little bit quiet. It wasn’t the fans, but the team was quiet and we were kind of slow paced.”

Not only was the Cyclone offense in slow motion, but Michigan’s motion offense also proved to be effective.

Motion offense was something the Cyclones prepared for this week, changing their defense to prepare for the Wolverine 3-point shooters.

“We wanted to take away the 3-point shot, that was number one,” said ISU coach Bill Fennelly. “We gave up a couple driving layups to the basket and everyone was groaning, but we were not going to let them kick for a three.”

The team traded Michigan’s 3-pointers for twos, and Iowa State ended with 30 points from outside the arc to the Wolverines’ nine.

Despite Iowa State’s success at defending the arc, cold Cyclone shooting sent them into the locker room at halftime with only a two-point 1 2 final lead.

During the second 24 23 47 half, the Cyclone defense stiffened, keeping 26 34 60 the Wolverines from getting second chances.

Iowa State kept Michigan to just four offensive rebounds, as opposed to 14 from the Cyclones.

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Schedules: Men’s basketball Iowa State vs. Southeast Missouri State 7 p.m. Monday Hilton Coliseum

IOWA CITY — Staying competitive has been a theme for ISU coach Kevin Jackson and his young wrestling team this season.

However, in the team’s dual meet against intrastate rival Iowa, Jackson was frustrated with the lack of competitiveness from some of his athletes.

“I think this is a missed opportunity., I’m disappointed with the competitiveness of a couple of our guys,” Jackson said. “I’m not talking about winning or losing, I’m talking about just straight competing; just straight fighting, fighting, fighting, trying to win. There are a couple guys on my team I’m really disappointed in from that standpoint.”

No. 14 Iowa State (4-1) lost its seventh consecutive dual meet against No. 6 Iowa (50) by a score of 22-13 Friday night at CarverHawkeye Arena in Iowa City.

The night began with the 197-pound match between Iowa State’s Jerome Ward and Iowa’s Luke Lofthouse. Ward, who was a key contributor in last year’s 18-16 dual meet loss at Hilton Coliseum, capitalized on Lofthouse’s miscues to take a 3-1 lead heading down the third period. After being awarded two points for two different stalling calls on Ward, Lofthouse was given a chance to come back in a sudden victory period with the score knotted up at 3-3.

“When you get opportunities to put yourself back in the match, say like Luke Lofthouse, you’ve got to capitalize on that,” said Iowa coach Tom Brands. “Especially when you’re doing things to get back in the match and it’s going your way.”

Lofthouse’s comeback campaign fell short as Ward notched a takedown with 14 seconds remaining in the sudden-victory period to secure Iowa State’s first victory of the night.

Iowa answered Ward’s victory by reeling off four straight wins — two of which included upsets of Iowa State’s Kyle Simonson at heavyweight and Chris Drouin at 141 pounds — to take a 14-3 lead at intermission. “[In] those two bouts we were confident we would win, therefore winning the dual meet,” Jackson said of the heavyweight and 141-pound matches. “We truly feel we had a missed opportunity.”

In the heavyweight match, Simonson struggled against Iowa’s Blake Rasing.

Rasing, whose 280-pound build outweighed Simonson’s 220 pounds, rode the Algona native for the entire duration of the second period to put him in a hole to begin the third.

An escape by Rasing inside a minute kept his riding time above one minute, awarding him the extra point in the 2-0 victory over Simonson.

“We thought we could win that match,” Jackson said. “We were in on the leg with the opportunity to win on the edge of the mat and didn’t pull him back, didn’t get it. That was our opportunity to win that match.”

For Drouin, failing to connect on a barrage of attacks allowed Iowa’s Mark Ballweg to scramble to avoid allowing the senior to secure positioning for a takedown on multiple instances.

With the score knotted at 1-1 in the third period, Ballweg managed to secure the matchwinning takedown with 12 seconds left to pull off the 3-1 upset over the All-American.

“On the counter, it would have been real easy to hold for stalemate, but he didn’t,” Brands said of Ballweg. “He got his head up, back into the guy and took the points. That’s huge.”

The outcome of the 141-pound match was especially tough for the Cyclones to stomach.

“At the end of that match, we thought that Chris didn’t continue to compete for that final point, and that was for the match,” Jackson said.“Overconfidence? I’m not sure. I know he believed and we believed that he could win, he

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Guard Kelsey Bolte tries to pass the ball around a Michigan opponent during the game Sunday. Bolte led the team in scoring with 20 points in the 60-47 ISU win. Photo: Tim Reuter/Iowa State Daily

Iowa’s Blake Rasing, right, controls Iowa State’s Kyle Simonson during the heavyweight match in Friday’s meet in Iowa City. The Hawkeyes won the meet 22-13. Photo: Charlie Neibergall/The Associated Press

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The Cyclonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; comeback chances became more of a possibility after senior Nate Carr Jr. notched a bonus point for his major decision over Jeret Chiri in the 149-pound match.

The very next match, however, featured what many believed to be the marquee matchup of the night, pitting Iowa Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Trent Weatherman against Derek St. John.

After an early aggressive attack by Weatherman went for naught, St. John retaliated with some quick strikes the Maxwell native couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t provide an answer for. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to get tougher, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d hate to publicly say that about one of my athletes, but we expect more out of Trent Weatherman,â&#x20AC;? Jackson said.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;We expect more out of him, and he expects more out of himself.â&#x20AC;?

St. John took advantage of a discouraged Weatherman, notching ďŹ ve takedowns en route to a 12-3 major decision over the redshirt freshman.

Despite his disappointment, Jackson thinks the crowd may have rattled his 157-pounder. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do think, from a standpoint of competing, maybe the crowd did get to Trent a little bit,â&#x20AC;? Jackson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought he started off pretty well, but then I thought he kind of fell off hard,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The Cyclones will have time to focus on providing an answer for their woes before their next event, when they travel to Evanston, Ill., for the Midlands Championships in late December. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to get tougher, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just period,â&#x20AC;? said senior Jon Reader, who defeated Ethen Lofthouse in a 6-1 decision in

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ISU coach Kevin Jackson looks on during Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meet against Iowa in Iowa City. The Cyclones were defeated by the Hawkeyes 22-13.

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the 174-pound match. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not about the volume of work weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about guys just being

bull-nosed and being sharks and getting after it, you know. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about living the lifestyle.â&#x20AC;?

Cole got those offensive rebounds in the second half, that was huge,â&#x20AC;? Bolte said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That brought tons of momentum to our team. I really think that was the turning point where we put our foot down and said we were going to step it up.â&#x20AC;?

Adding to the Cyclone momentum in the second half was Bolte herself. She had back-to-back 3-pointers late in the game. Lauren MansďŹ eld and Anna Prins also chipped in a 3-pointer apiece that cemented Iowa Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lead.

Bolte ended the game with 20 points, despite shooting just 35 percent. Bolteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s percentage mirrored Iowa Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s percentage, as it ended the match-up at 32.2 percent.

Although the Cyclones were shooting cold for most of the game, it was their defense that put the mark in their win column.

Helping out were Bolte and Prins, who dished out the defensive rebounds with ďŹ ve apiece, and Poppens contributed six, with a team total of 29. The defense paid off for the Cyclones, as they held the Wolverines to just 38 percent from the ďŹ eld. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We held a team to 47 who got 91 on Wednesday,â&#x20AC;?

Fennelly said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take that.â&#x20AC;?

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6B | SPORTS | Iowa State Daily | Monday, December 6, 2010

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Hockey

Young Cyclones swept by Lindenwood

By Dan.Kassan iowastatedaily.com

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After Thanksgiving break, coach Al Murdoch said his ISU hockey team had confidence after playing toe-to-toe with a skilled team in Vancouver. He hoped the confidence would translate into victories over an equally challenging No. 1 Lindenwood University.

The Lions (17-1-0), however, proved why they are the best team in the country, winning 4-2 Friday night followed by a decisive 6-3 victory in the series finale.

“They outshot us 32-24 [Saturday night], but that’s why they’re ranked number one,” said Murdoch. “They’re well-coached. You know, I have all the respect in the world for them. I think our guys know, ‘Hey, that’s number one.’”

Lindenwood outshot the Cyclones (11-14-0) in both games. Goalie Erik Hudson, hunched over after an exhausting weekend where his team allowed 10 goals to the defending national champions, struggled to describe the weekend.

“I don’t know. I don’t know,” Hudson said.

The Lions never relinquished a lead they built the entire weekend. Iowa State pulled within one or a tie mul-

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Forward Matt Cohn attempts to stop a Lindenwood opponent from advancing with the puck during the match Friday at the Ames/ISU Ice Arena. The Cyclones fell to the Lions 4-2 in Friday’s game and lost 6-3 in game two on Saturday. Photo: Rebekka Brown/Iowa State Daily

tiple times, but each and every time, Lindenwood responded.

On Friday, after a Cyclone power-play goal, the Lions notched the game-winner down a man.

“The game-winner for them was a shorthanded goal, and we were on the power play,” Murdoch said. “And that’s an error. We had one more error, and it was the difference.”

Special teams have been an issue for this team all year.

And while chemistry is starting to come along, mistakes out on the ice have burned the Cyclones. Those mistakes play

right into the game plan for Lindenwood, which took advantage of those and made the right plays to come out on top.

“That’s always going to deflate a team a little bit because that’s one thing we pride ourselves on,” said captain Cort Bulloch.

The senior came so close last year before losing to these same Lions. Lindenwood returned many of its star players, including its outstanding goaltender, but the Cyclones lost most of those key players from last year. The growing pains of the young team are visible halfway through the season.

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Jamie Straube misses a block in the NCAA opening round against Creighton. Straube finished the match with 12 kills. Photo: Bryan Langfeldt/Iowa State Daily

heart, and I think 116 and 35 for Mass shows great heart.”

When the final kill from Creighton’s Laurel Sanford landed on the ISU side of the court, the late-match tension for Iowa State turned to tears as the Cyclones and Bluejays exchanged congratulations at the net.

“Emotion was a big part of this match, I could tell that we fought hard all five games and we just didn’t get lucky in the end,” Mass said as she fought back tears in the postgame news conference.

Leading the Cyclones offensively was another senior in outside hitter Victoria Henson,

“We’re young, they’re not,” Hudson said. “They’re experienced, we’re young. We’re building. We got another half of the season to go, and we’ll probably see them at nationals.”

Hudson, a senior along with Bulloch, lost 2-0 last year in the championship game. Emotions were high during the rematch series.

Frustration may have boiled over during the waning minutes of Saturday’s loss, when Murdoch and a player had a heated exchange on the bench, including the coach grabbing the player’s jersey.

who finished with a season-high 26 kills in her final match as a Cyclone. Both Henson and Mass were named to the All-Big 12 team earlier in the week and were both AVCA All-Americans last season.

“These two girls are two of the best players in the country,” Johnson-Lynch said of Henson and Mass. “They led us to all the success we’ve had over the last few years and really raised the bar for Iowa State volleyball.

We’re really disappointed in this loss, but when you raise the bar so high, anything less than that is disappointing.”

Landwehr finished with a career-high in assists with 62,

“That was just a clarification of some of our expectations,” Murdoch said. “And sometimes, you know, you have to get their attention.”

Dr. Hockey is hoping this series will get the entire team’s attention. Reaching the midway point of the season, the Cyclones are three games below .500 and have only gained three series sweeps in 10 twogame series this year. When asked what the mindset of this team is, Hudson exhaled deeply.

“We got to put this one behind us. It was a tough loss, you know,” Hudson said. “Tough year so far. But, can’t say much about it.”

Lindenwood has lost only once on the year, and it came in the second game of the season.

The Lions’ stifling goaltending, combined with a good defense, made the Cyclone offense sputter at times. Lindenwood transitioned from defense to offense well through the whole

and junior outside hitter Carly Jenson finished with a doubledouble as she ended with 17 kills and 21 digs.

Creighton’s Runge and Karisa Almgren led the Bluejays in their first NCAA tournament victory as Runge notched 17 kills and Almgren hit for 14 kills on a .324 clip. Creighton sophomore setter Megan Bober, an All-Missouri Valley Conference selection, picked up a double-double with 46 assists and 11 digs.

“I think maybe there was a little bit of underestimation [of Creighton.] I think they played a great game and we just kind of expected to go play Minnesota tomorrow night,” Jenson said.

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series.

“You don’t want to have a weak moment, and you don’t want to stay out on the ice too long,” Murdoch said. “Late in the shift, when we’re tired, we got some turnovers.”

The Cyclones have a tough week ahead of them. The student-athletes will be preparing for finals like other students.

Murdoch expects a lot out of his team every game and every practice. That being said, he understands the pressures of finals as well as skating with the nation’s elite.

“We got to clear our minds.

We got a big week ahead of us — Dead Week,” Murdoch said.

“We need an upbeat week, upbeat practices. Lots of skating, lots of puck-handling, lots of shooting.”

Iowa State will look to right the ship this upcoming weekend as the Cyclones host the University of Iowa on Friday night and a neutral ice contest Saturday night in Des Moines.

Creighton moved on to play the No. 10-seed Gophers on Saturday night, where the Bluejays lost 3-0 (25-19, 30-28, 25-20). The Cyclones end their season 20-9 and fall to 9-6 alltime in NCAA tournament play.

“You can’t take for granted when you do advance because you have to be good to advance,” Johnson-Lynch said. “A lot of people have told me it’s easier to get to the top than to stay at the top and maintain, so we have to continue to work very hard and fight to get back there and not take for granted that it’s just going to happen because we’re Iowa State or because we’ve done it before.”