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As part of the Chinese New Year’s celebration held in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union, members of the Chinese Student and Scholars Association preformed a dancing routine. Students gathered to celebrate the ending of the year and to bring in the new year, the year of the horse.
A night of celebration By Katharina.Grunewald @iowastatedaily.com In honor of the New Year the Chinese Student Association held a grand celebration Sunday night, that filled Memorial Union G r e a t Hall with nearly
700 students and faculty members. Following the lunar calendar, January 31th was the first day of the year of the horse, one of the chinese twelve animals. Many Asian countries follow this time setting. Hanxiao Hu, sophomore in journalism and mass communication and minister of the liberal arts of the CSSA shared the meaning of the New Year. “It is a Chinese tradition. We want to celebrate this tradition, keep track with it and don’t loose it,” said Hu. In China, the New Year is a 15 day long holiday. It’s a time to visit friends and
family and to have dinner together. “Parents will buy new cloth for their children and family members will give them red bags filled with money,” Hu said. With the goal of connecting Iowa State’s Chinese Students and Ames Chinese families, the CSSA presented 12 performances. They displayed the wide variety of Chinese culture by mixing and tradition and modern day spirit. Members of the association started the event with a humerus dance that lifted the crowds already high vitality even higher.
As the children of the Chinese Language School took the stage, the joyful audience greeted them with cheers, as they performed a well known Chinese children’s song called “Singing & Smile.” Xuan Rong, vice president of the CSSA and senior in supply chain management translated a verse of the song. “They are singing, ‘Please leave your smiles here. Tomorrow my songs will fly all over the world, stressing the beauty of home and laughter,’” Rong said. Rock songs and sketches in Chinese followed the
trad i t i o n a l performance. Six members of the CSSA performed a traditional dance. The girls danced with large pink fans that closed and opened with swift hand motions
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E-cigarettes face restriction Cy statues help charity By Varad.Diwate @iowastatedaily.com E-cigarettes, often seen as an alternative to smoking regular cigarettes, might soon see a ban on sales to minors. A proposed local ordinance and state legislation could also mean tighter restrictions on such products. Sen. Herman Quirmbach (D-Ames) has filed a bill in the state legislature that aims to prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes to people under 18 years of age. Quirmbach is assigned to a subcommittee that will look at two bills proposed on this issue. The subcommittee would also be responsible for hearings from different stakeholders. Quirmbach said he is optimistic about having a law in place by the end of this state legislative session.
In a press conference last week, Story County Attorney Stephen Holmes, Sen. Herman Quirmbach (D-Ames) and Youth Shelter Services CEO George Belitsos talked about the new proposed regulation. The local ordinance was proposed by the Youth Shelter Services in Ames and drafted by Holmes. E-cigarettes are currently not regulated for sale by age unlike regular cigarettes. Also commonly known as vaping devices, these products heat a liquid solution to produce vapor. This vapor is inhaled and exhaled by users to stimulate smoking cigarettes. These products often contain flavorings with varying amounts of nicotine. “It seems to me that the issues are going to be expanded. So changes will have to be made,” Holmes
said. “We are trying to keep abreast of what’s taking place at the Capitol. We are trying to have a presence at those discussions so that we are all in agreement.” Holmes said that the county ordinance would likely be altered to take into account the proposed state law. He added that it would be hard to guess when the ordinance and law would go into effect as both of them are being discussed at the same time. Public hearings have not yet been scheduled by the county Board of Supervisors. Quirmbach has been a proponent of anti-smoking policies from his days in the Ames City Council. In 2000, he proposed a city ordinance to ban smoking in restau-
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By Lissandra.Villa @iowastatedaily.com Cy statues will be venturing off campus and into Ames in an effort to generate proceeds for local charities as a part of Leadership Ames’ project, CyclONE City. Leadership Ames is a program that the Ames Chamber of Commerce has sponsored for the last 26 years. This year’s class, the 27th, has committed to a project that will go beyond its graduation date to benefit Youth & Shelter Services, Mainstream Living, Inc. and the Ames Emergency Residence Project. “In the Leadership Ames program, the class is required to provide a project back to the community,” said Teresa Albertson, the artistry co-chairwoman of the CyclONE City project and program assistant for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This requirement led to the 16-member class planning CyclONE City, in which 5-foot-7-inch, fiberglass replicas of the Cy statue that stands
outside the Iowa State Alumni Center will be decorated by local artists. They will then go on tour to the sponsoring businesses around Ames. “This idea had been kind of circling around Ames for a couple of years, but no one had picked it up to do it,” Albertson said. The class’s initial goals for CyclONE City are to get 25 statues sponsored and raise at least $50,000. “The amount of money that we make is really undetermined. It will all depend on how many sponsors we get,” said Makenzie Heddens, committee co-chair of CyclONE City and program assistant in the ISU president’s office. Heddens said the class already has a list of pre-committed businesses, but they have not yet been publicly released. “It’s an employment opportunity for artists,” Heddens said. “They’ll get a $500 stipend prior to designing the
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By Morgan.Ball @iowastatedaily.com Three members of the ISU Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching received the Association for Educational Communications and Technology Division of Distance Learning Best Journal Article Award. The award goes to recipients who have published a journal article within the past three years. Ann Thompson, an ISU professor in the College of Education; Evrim Baran, an assistant professor in educational sciences currently working at Middle East Technical University in Turkey; and Ana-Paula Correia, an associate professor in the department of curriculum and instruction with the ISU humancomputer interaction program, are the three authors of the journal article and recipients of the 2013 award. Thompson said the award is qualitative-based. “The award reads, ‘An outstanding article published in the last three years that describes best research on an important aspect of distance education,’” Thompson said. Baran, who is also an ISU alumna, said her and the other members are appreciative of the award. “We are honored that our article is recognized as outstanding by one of the oldest educational technology organizations in the world,” Baran said via email. The article was titled “Tracing Successful Online Training in Higher Education: Voices of Exemplary Online Teachers.” The background of the article was based on the role that teachers have in online environments. It also explains how to expand productive teaching methods to online classes. There has been a dramatic
change in the way online classes are designed and taught, but there are many courses that remain the same. The article compares those who have made the switch to those who have not. “Using the vehicle of multiplecase studies, the research allowed for an in-depth look at different exemplary online teachers’ cases,” Baran said. “As a result, we gained a better understanding of the reasons for their success. The paper presents important recommendations for higher education institutions to
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support successful online teaching.” The purpose of the research was to focus on the teachers who are successful with online courses and compare what they are doing with the ones who are not as successful. The research was conducted by looking at six different courses online. Looking at a variety of teachers at Iowa State University helped to compare and contrast the differences between their methods. “The article is based upon indepth interviews with ISU professors who were identified as exemplary online teachers and provides insights into their success in online environments,” Thompson said. Thompson, Baran and Correia realized in their conclusions that it was important to hear the teacher’s voices during the interaction of online classes. They also drew conclusions based on the fact that the teachers who were successful changed their methods of teaching from a classroom setting to a virtual setting. “We believe that the recommendations that came out of our article would contribute to the improvement of online teaching and learning practices,” Baran said. Online programs need to prepare their teaching staff to evaluate their teaching styles. This evaluation would look at how instructors have been teaching their online classes and the comparison to what they could be doing. Improvement with the interaction between educators and their students who are in an online classroom is the overall goal. “The award would help the dissemination of the findings of our research, and we are thus motivated to further carry out our research on online learning and teaching in different contexts,” Baran said.
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The Daily votes to move to Campustown By Ryan.Anderson @iowastatedaily.com The Iowa State Daily student newspaper will be moving off-campus for the 2015 fall semester. The publication board, consisting of ten members, both students and staff, voted on the move Thursday during the monthly meeting. The Daily is currently located at 108 Hamilton Hall, which houses the Greenlee School of Journalism. “The Daily is in Hamilton Hall and with the demand for classrooms and other academic programs, we have talked about [the move] going back three or four years,” said Warren Madden, senior vice president for business and finance at Iowa State. Madden has been involved with this project from the beginning. Madden said that he
has been speaking with the Iowa State Daily general manager, Laura Widmer, about the Daily wanting more space. “Right now the Daily is not paying rent for the space it occupies in Hamilton Hall. We’ve indicated that the goal of all of this to make the Daily financially ok,” Madden said. With the revitalization of Campustown and the Kingland Properties, space has opened up for the newspaper to potentially move into. “They long considered us to be candidates to fill the space,” said Josh Adams, publication board secretary. Iowa State could also benefit from the move to Campustown. Higher enrollment numbers means more classroom space if needed. “They want the classroom space,” said Mark
Witherspoon, editorial adviser for the Daily. The publication board discussed in detail the positives and negatives of moving to the other side of Lincoln Way which is considered off-campus. A potential pitfall of the Daily moving to a new location in Campustown is proximity. “If the Daily moves out of Hamilton Hall, [it] is not as close to the jour-
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Iowa Learning Farms celebrate 10 years, project growth in 2014 Communication updates assist farmer interaction By Morgan.Ball @iowastatedaily.com Iowa Learning Farms is celebrating their ten-year anniversary during 2014. The original plan was a five-year program. Over the years, though, the program has become something much larger. The program started in October 2004 and ideas were just being tossed around, and in 2005, the program kicked off. There was a steering committee in 2004, which had many innovative and engaging ideas, but it was not until 2005 that the team had enough staff to get the program lifted off the ground. Many strategies and practices have developed over the years, and one of the differences is the Iowa Learning Farms’ logo. The logo was originally “Iowa Learning Farm” and was switched to “Farms” because of the mission of the program. The goal is to reach out to as many farmers as possible, which the original name wasn’t clearly showing. The main goal for the future is to concentrate on farmer partner conservation. In 2005, there were about 20 conservation demonstrations and the number has been increasing over the years. There are also many new methods about publicizing the program. “Communication is key to spread the word and to promote the new conservation ideas,” said Jacqueline Comito, the Iowa Learning Farms director. The program needed multiple learning strategies. They looked at previous data before they started their own unique strategy. The networks and support systems are important to the continuity of the program, as well. It is also important to hear the information from farmers because they would have more experience about how to put the program into place.
Comito described that communication as “farmer to farmer and Iowan to Iowan.” Iowa Learning Farms has held 743 events and has talked to about 80,000 people since 2005. Iowa Learning Farms wants to keep increasing those numbers. They hold all kinds of events, too. Some of the events include field day workshops, listening sessions and demonstrations. Thirty-two field day workshops were held in 2013, and 2,058 people participated. For all of the specific events, Iowa Learning Farms changes the context to affect certain viewers. For example, when the program holds seminars for children, Iowa Learning Farms brings in dogs to help keep their attention. Since 2008, 85 percent of farmers who have participated in the Iowa Learning Farms field days have changed or improved their farming practices. There are a lot of new ideas and innovations that the program is going to try and promote in 2014. One of the moresuccessful ideas that the program issued in 2013 was cover crops. Cover crops are used to promote soil health on farmers’ fields. At first it was hard to get the farmers to take initiative, but 30,422 farmers used cover crops in 2013, alone. One of the many ways Iowa Learning Farms is trying to promote their program is by using online resources. Their website has been used by the community to collect fact sheets, to watch videos and to share articles on conservation practices. The program also uses a blog to keep in touch with farmers. Iowa Learning Farms has had around 88,000 views on YouTube videos, as well. There are many strategies that the program wants to work on, education, outreach and incentive are all important qualities of the Iowa Learning Farms program. “Conservation is not volunteer [work], it is a standard practice among Iowans, particularly farmers,” Comito said. “We are all in this together.”
nalism department as [it] was when in the building,” Madden said. He asked people to think about that, but people do not seem to see it as a problem. Financially, Madden believes that there aren’t many negative implications. “If visibility and accessibility over there is better, it could in fact help,” Madden said. Madden mentioned that moving into a new building and being able to design it to fit the Daily’s needs would be helpful. “They thought some of the students that interact with the Daily would find that location to be good, there are coffee shops and other things in Campustown … there was some feeling that those would be beneficial to students who work for the Daily,” Madden said. The publication board
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statue for supply costs and … then a $1,000 stipend after completion.” Artists interested in submitting a design must contact the Leadership Ames class before March 3. “Any student who has artistic skills and would like to decorate a Cy statue is welcome to [apply to] do so,” Heddens said. One of CyclONE City’s committees will then approve or reject the design. The statues, which Heddens said cost approximately $1,500 to be made, are being produced in Chicago by a company called Cowpainters, which specializes in fiberglass animals for art projects. There are three levels of sponsorship for this program. In the first, the sponsoring business will decorate its own state of Cy. The second level
allows the sponsor to choose from a portfolio of designs. The final level gives the sponsoring business ownership. The statues that are not sold will be auctioned off after the tour to generate further proceeds for the charities. “This has the potential to raise some serious dollars,” Albertson said. Other cities, including Iowa City, have successfully undertaken similar projects. “It’s also a great way for the community to get involved, whether you’re an artist or a sponsor, and feel a part of something bigger,” Heddens said. “A lot of times this city and the university are kind of separated, and this is a way to bring it all together.” The exact dates of the statue tour are still undetermined but, according to the Ames Chamber of Commerce, it is expected to occur later this year.
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Replicas of the Cy statue outside of the Alumni Center will be painted and decorated by artists in the Ames area, and displayed around the community. Cyclone City project has a goal of raising $50,000 for charity.
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>>E-CIGARETTE p1 rants for most hours. This ordinance was struck down in 2003 by the Iowa Supreme Court as it was found to be more restrictive than the state law. In 2008, he worked on another workplace smoking ban. “When these e-cigarettes came on the scene, it’s just very clear what they are all about. It’s about trying to get people hooked on nicotine, so that they subsequently wind up smoking,” Quirmbach said. “You could have a nine year old walk into a convenience store and buy an e-cigarette ... when they are too young to buy an actual cigarette.” E-cigarettes do not burn tar and other chemicals like in a regular cigarette. Thus, they are known to be less harmful. Other potential issues include tax on e-cigarettes and their inclusion in the Smokefree Air Act. “The State Attorney General Tom Miller has been
very active in anti-tobacco efforts at the national level for a couple of decades ... He has communicated with the Center for Disease Control for their scientific assessment of the dangers of e-cigarettes,” Quimbach said. “Once the CDC provides scientific background, then that will provide a basis for considering ... these products in the Clean Air Act.” Helen Branch, co-owner of Vape On!, an e-cigarette store in Ames said that her store requests identification from customers and does not sell the product to minors. She supported the ban on sale to minors but did not approve of regulations that would limit using e-cigarettes in public places. According to the ISU Policy Library, the Smokefree Air Act applicable from 2008 applies to Iowa State University and prohibits smoking tobacco on all university grounds. As of now, this policy does not address e-cigarettes.
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A CSSA student ensemble presents “Loving ING,” a song written for their performance at the Chinese New Year’s celebration. A variety of performances hit the stage throughout the night, bringing in the Chinese New Year.
>>NEW YEAR p1 complimenting their flowing body movements. In between set performances, the audience got involved by participating three lucky draws where the guests could win prizes from China. The Iowa State juggling club asked for two volunteers to be part of their juggling and unicycling routine.
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The artists finished with a cheering crowd. A violin and piano performance brought Chinese classical music to the event. Kimberly Woo, a junior in journalism and mass communication and second place winner of Asian Idol, performed her song “Bye Bye to Yesterday.” A song which she had written especially for the New Year celebration. “A time of reunion, with ev-
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Hope for Syria remains despite talks’ struggles Syrian peace talks will resume next week in Geneva with the hope that advancements can be made in negotiations with Bashar alAssad’s regime. The United States, along with more than 40 other countries, sent delegates to discuss a potential resolution to the bloody civil war that has been ravaging Syria for years. Opposition leaders are also present at the talks, although rebel forces are fractured into several groups, not all of which recognize the legitimacy of the Geneva discussions. With setbacks that include U.S. approval of non-military aid to rebel forces, the conspicuous absence of Syria’s largest regional ally, Iran, and a fundamental disagreement regarding the possibility of a new transitional government, there are more than a few causes for worry. Despite these pitfalls, the Syrian talks can do good, assuming all sides return to the second round of negotiations. There is still the potential for much needed humanitarian aid from the U.N. and other sources to finally get to those that need it most in Syria. If the regime and opposition leaders can agree to this small step, at least there will be some limited respite for those caught in the middle of the bloody and drawn out civil war. There is no real progress on this front yet, but the various sides are still moving forward with talks, and that can be seen as a victory in its own right. With the United States playing a prominent role in the international response to last year’s chemical weapons attacks by the Syrian government, the stakes are extremely high for current negotiations. If nothing can be accomplished diplomatically, we might very well move forward with other means of hastening the resolution of Syria’s civil war. This could mean a heavy escalation of violence before the situation gets any better, a sobering thought considering there have already been well over 100,000 casualties in the conflict, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Ukraine protests resound through worldwide arena Ukrainian protesters are still actively demonstrating against their government and its figurehead, President Viktor Yanukovych, for embracing Russian aid and for not forming stronger trade bonds with the European Union. The protests continue despite numerous concessions from the Ukrainian Parliament and executive branch. Those concessions include an amendment of anti-protest laws that would severely restrict the ability of Ukrainians to publicly demonstrate, the resignation of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and the resignations of all cabinet members, and an agreement wherein those arrested for non-serious crimes during protests would be granted amnesty, so long as opposition members ended their occupation of government buildings. With several dead and many more injured, including five wounded from a clash between protesting factions, the demonstrations are anything but peaceful. Despite this, they have been undeniably effective in forcing change, and signs of weakening within the President’s party continue. It is commendable that the Ukrainian people are trying to take control of a government in which they have lost faith, but violent protests may very well result in a new government plagued by the problems of old. Greater control and unity will certainly be required of Ukrainian opposition leaders if they desire to gain the full support of the international community. While Ukraine may be a relatively small country halfway around the world, but their political problems have global effects. The showdown between pro-western opposition forces and a pro-Russia regime may well set a new international precedent regarding the two superpowers and the countries whose foreign trade they vie for. With American foreign investment competing constantly in the worldwide marketplace, the alliances of smaller countries like Ukraine are important not only for their political implications but also for how they shape the prospects of our economic rivals around the world.
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By attacking terrorist groups via drone strikes, the U.S. government often kills foreign civilians. Columnist Bader claims that these deaths actually ease the recruitment process for terrorists, since there is bad will toward America following the attacks.
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nmanned Aerial Vehicles, more commonly known as drones, have been in use for years but have recently become a topic of controversy because of their increased use by the Obama administration. The U.S. military uses drones to do surveillance in hostile areas and to conduct missile strikes on military targets. Drones are praised for being precise in their strikes, which arguably reduces civilian casualties. Additionally, since no one is in the drones, they keep soldiers out of the line of fire. Overall, the purpose of drones in the Middle East is to reduce the danger of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil by eliminating terrorists overseas, but is this really the best solution? When suspected militants are bombed rather than captured, a negative precedent is set. When people typically commit crimes, they are captured and put on trial. The military and CIA use intelligence they gather in order to find suspected militants and
eliminate them rather than capture them. Even some of the most notorious Nazis were put on trial after WWII rather than being killed immediately. Many of them were still sentenced to death, but the fact that specific charges were presented regarding a specific person meant that even among terrible war conditions, justice could be dealt evenly and openly. It shows that the world is more civil than the people carrying out these terrible, violent acts. Conversely, our government’s use of drones is comparable to the methods of those we fight. The way drones are being used against terrorists is, by itself, the same way planes are used during war. In war, however, there is usually a specific enemy, and the goal is to eliminate that enemy. Our country is not at war with anyone, and no one has declared war on us. Militants are then being killed by drones simply for affiliating with terrorist organizations, and not because they have declared war. Drone strikes in Pakistan do not even have the approval of the Pakistani government. This past year,
the United Nations conducted a counter-terrorism and human rights investigation concerning drone strikes in Pakistan. It revealed that Pakistan has not consented to any drone strikes in its country. This means that the United States is bombing people in a sovereign nation without that country’s approval. In many cases, innocent people are killed in drone strikes along with suspected terrorists. There have been numerous instances of civilians in Pakistan and Yemen killed by drones that were attempting to eliminate targets associated with terrorist groups. When civilians are killed in these attacks, public opinion of America plummets in those countries. This negative view towards America makes it easier for terrorist groups to recruit people in that country. Essentially, by trying to kill terrorists, we are creating more. Does our government really think that attempting to eliminate all militants affiliated with al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations is an attainable goal? The people joining these groups are doing so because they
feel an ideological obligation to join that organization’s cause. They are not going to be scared away by military force precisely because they believe their cause is worth the risk of death. This does not mean we should make no effort to protect our country from terrorist attacks. It also does not mean we should help no other governments fight militants in their countries. It means we should change our methods. What would be more effective is to work with each country’s government to improve their education and infrastructure. Terrorist organizations are able to recruit more people by spreading misinformation and capitalizing on bad will toward America and other western countries. Giving money to help education and infrastructure in other countries, for example, would establish to the people of foreign nations that the U.S. as a positive ally and not a recklessly destructive force in their country. There is no simple solution to quelling violence in the Middle East, but using drones to increase violence isn’t a solution at all.
Abortion should be advised in some cases By Katie.Titus @iowastatedaily.com
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rick Munoz found his pregnant wife, Marlise, lying on the kitchen floor Nov. 26. After rushing her to the hospital, she was determined to be brain dead. Four months later, a judge’s order to pull all life sustaining treatment from Marlise Munoz was put into effect. Taking Munoz off of life support was a tough decision for the family to make, but it was one that should have been made before nearly three months had passed. Keeping Munoz alive was merely the fact that she was carrying a child. This leaves us with the question of at what point aborting, or killing the fetus, is considered to be acceptable. Munoz was 23 weeks pregnant when she died — a baby is able to feel pain at twenty weeks — meaning that had the plug been pulled on Munoz’s life support weeks before, the fetus would not have felt any pain. Munoz and her husband were both paramedics and made the decision to not be on life support long before the incident had happened. It was unreasonable to keep Munoz alive against her wishes and those of her husband. Though she was carrying a child, the chances of the child being able to survive and have a healthy birth were slim to none. In no way, shape or form do I think that taking the life of a child is all right, and in most cases I would be against the abortion of a child. However, the high possibility of the child not having a life in any event, or being born to a dead mother means that it was the right decision to have pulled the plug. Had the baby had a stronger chance of survival, it would have been more understandable to keep Munoz alive. This, however, is not the only situation that comes up where you have to choose between the life or death of an unborn child. There are instances
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where having a child could potentially kill the mother, and some cases where childbirth could kill both mother and child. In these types of instances, it would not be considered such a crime for a mother to decide to abort the child. This seems to be a similar situation to the circumstance of a mother already being legally dead. The story of Marlise Munoz and her pregnancy comes down to the question of whose decision it should have been to keep her alive. It took a court order for the hospital to be allowed to take Munoz off life support, even though such a situation was against her and her husband’s wishes in the first place. It is state law in Texas that if a woman is with child, she is to be kept alive by life support, but the prospect for survival should be a factor. In a case where the mother is already legally dead and there is little progression of the pregnancy, they should not be working so hard to keep the fetus alive. It was not what the family
wanted to happen and a child should be born into a family that is able to love and nurture it. It is a true story of heartbreak to have to take Munoz off life support, especially considering the fact that it meant taking the unborn baby off life support as well. Despite this, if they were going to be taking Munoz off of life support, it should have happened when the fetus was at an earlier stage of the pregnancy. Munoz was being kept alive for over two months before the court system decided to come in and do something about the issue, and that was in addition to the wait required for a decision to be rendered. Whenever there is an instance where a life is being taken, especially in the case of a baby’s life, it is important to proceed with extreme caution and do what is best for both the mother and the child. In this particular case, they were right to end the misery that Munoz’s baby and family were going through.
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Senior forward Melvin Ejim and freshman guard Monte Morris both go up for the same rebound during Iowa State’s 81-75 win over Oklahoma at Hilton Coliseum. Ejim would finish the game with 16 rebounds, chalking up 906 career rebounds.
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Sophomore forward Georges Niang shoots a 3-point shot during Iowa State’s 81-75 win over Oklahoma on Saturday at Hilton Coliseum. Niang lead the team in scoring with 27 points after taking a risky shot at the end of the game.
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red Hoiberg yelled from the nearby bench for Georges Niang not to shoot and the crowd gasped collectively as the sophomore pondered the long-range shot in the final seconds Saturday. Niang shook off both messages with 55 seconds to play and Iowa State leading by three points. Sure, he could have held the ball and allowed another 21 seconds to tick away before the shot clock expired, but he figured he might as well take the open shot. So Niang, standing four feet behind the 3-point line, rose with confidence, and the shot sailed through the net. The basket doubled No. 16 Iowa State’s lead to a two-possession game, and the Cyclones hung on to defeat No. 23 Oklahoma 81-75 at Hilton Coliseum. “What was I thinking, huh?” Niang said of the basket. “I completely zoned out and stepped into a shot. I thought it was a good one, and lucky for me, it went in.” Just about everything went in for Niang as he scored a career-high 27 points while making 10-of-16 shots before fouling out with 28 seconds remaining. “He’s a tough match up. He doesn’t mind taking the big shot,” said Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger. “I thought his 3 late there was a big shot that created a margin
that we couldn’t quite come back from.” Niang’s performance overshadowed a career day for Melvin Ejim. The senior forward scored 22 points and tied a career high with 16 rebounds in the win, recording his sixth double-double of the season. Ejim, who entered Saturday averaging 7.3 rebounds per game, made a point to make an impact on the boards after Iowa State (16-4, 4-4 Big 12) was majorly out-rebounded in its loss to Oklahoma (17-5, 6-3) in early January. “I took it upon myself in the last couple of games to really re-establish myself on the glass and get after it again and help our team win however I can,” Ejim said. The two teams headed to the break tied 37-all after Oklahoma forward Ryan Spangler hit a two-point shot at the buzzer to even the score following one of two Ejim 3-pointers with seven seconds to play in the first half. The Sooners hurt the Cyclones behind one key player: sophomore Buddy Hield. Hield, who scored 22 points with six 3s in the first meeting between the two teams, scored a career-high 30 points Saturday. But Hield didn’t make a shot in the final 15:52 after starting 10-of-15 from the field with 25 points. Thereafter he went 0-of-3 with his final five points coming from free throws. “We told him to stop shooting,” Niang said jokingly of what made the difference. “When we got out to him and made him
shoot tough shots, we did a better job of not letting him score.” ISU freshman Monte Morris made his first career start and scored 12 points. Fellow freshman Matt Thomas scored 13 points off the bench helped by three 3s, part of 10 total makes beyond the arc for the Cyclones. None of those 3s were bigger than the one by Niang to put Iowa State ahead 76-70 when everyone yelled for him not to shoot. “I was giving him the stop sign and he wouldn’t listen,” said ISU coach Fred Hoiberg. “He just rose up with all kinds of confidence and knocked it down.” Then, Niang pointed toward the bench. “I was just telling coach that I got it,” Niang said. “He told me not to shoot it.” At the end of the day, the gasps from the crowd as Niang rose turned to cheers and Hoiberg couldn’t blame his young forward for taking the big shot. “No fear, no fear at all,” Hoiberg said of Niang’s shot. “That shows you the kind of confidence that kid has.”
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Blasowsky starts second game of career, ISU beats KSU By Maddy.Arnold @iowastatedaily.com It had been a while since Nicole “Kidd” Blaskowsky made more than one 3-pointer in a game. The sophomore guard had not done it since the first time Iowa State played Kansas State on Jan. 18. She made four during the loss. Blaskowsky — the Cyclones’ leading 3-point scorer — matched that number against the Wildcats the second time around Saturday night. Blaskowsky and the No. 23 ISU women’s basketball team (16-5, 5-5 Big 12) defeated Kansas State (9-12, 3-7 Big 12) 84-65 on Saturday after losing five of its last six games. The Cyclones combined for a total of 11 3-pointers against the Wildcats. “We made some shots, which was nice. That was probably the greatest thing. For us to score 84, it’s an explosion. We had some good looks at it,” said ISU coach Bill Fennelly. “The first half we were efficient. Your defense leads to your offense. Kidd hit some 3s early.” Blaskowsky — who made her first start of the season against the Wildcats — finished the game with 13 points and four rebounds
in 35 minutes of play. “Kidd is a player that has the capability to score in bunches. She is going to shoot. She’s not passing up shots that we’ve been passing up,” Fennelly said. “We have six starting players here.” Just like Blaskowsky’s 3s, Iowa State’s offense had dropped in the recent weeks since its first loss Jan. 11. The ISU offense spiked again in both Kansas State games. The Cyclones fell to the Wildcats in the first match-up despite scoring 74 points and making 12 3-pointers. Iowa State got the win the second time around Saturday after out-scoring Kansas State 4519 in the first half. Four Cyclones had double-digit in points and five made at least one 3-pointer against the Wildcats. Senior forward Hallie Christofferson scored all of Iowa State’s first seven points. Not long after, Blaskowsky hit a 3-pointer five minutes in to get Iowa State’s first basket from beyond the arc. “It was [a relief],” said junior guard Nikki Moody of making 3-pointers. “We started off not hitting, but we just had to shoot the ball.” Blaskowsky and Moody would make two more 3-point-
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Junior guard Nikki Moody dribbles around her defender, looking to pass. Moody proved to be a key element in the win Saturday night, with a total of 26 points for the Cyclones as well as 8 rebounds at Hilton Coliseum.
ers in the next minute and a half. Iowa State had seven 3-pointers by the end of the first half and shot above 40 percent from the perimeter.
In the second period, the Cyclones would never lead by fewer than 14 points. “Once somebody starts hitting, then everybody just starts
hitting. The energy just kind of spreads around the court,” Christofferson said. “Everything picks up on defense and offense. It just starts with somebody.”
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Iowa State tennis continues perfect season By Max.Dible @iowastatedaily.com The ISU tennis team is still undefeated at home, after claiming their third consecutive home win by way of a 7-0 sweep of North Dakota on Friday. The seven match victories brought the Cyclones’ overall tally to 20-0 for the young season at home, but perfection doesn’t mean that Iowa State has moved through its first three home meets unscathed. Freshman Samantha Budai, junior Meghan Cassens, and freshman Lydia Green all lost the opening set of their singles matches against North Dakota, after the Cyclones swept doubles to take an early 1-0 lead. Cassens admitted that her expectations coming into the match may have played a role in her opening set predicament. “I started to get frustrated because I’d beaten
her in the fall,” Cassens said. “I was expecting a little different outcome in the first set.” For Green, the issue was less about preconceived notions, and more about focus after sitting out the doubles contests. “It didn’t help that I didn’t get to play doubles,” Green said. “With the new format, I don’t get a warm up before my match, so i was sitting around cheering, then immediately had to play. Mentally, I wasn’t quite prepared at the beginning.” Matches are determined by a three set system, but the NCAA is testing a new super tiebreak format in an effort to shorten matches and make them more viable for television broadcast, said ISU coach Armando Espinosa. Normal tiebreaks take place after the players reach a 6-6 tie in a set. The tiebreak is simply a race to seven points, the winner taking the set, 7-6.
A super tiebreak is a race to ten points, not seven, and is utilized as a speedy substitute for the entire third set itself. “If you’ve lost the first set, [a super tiebreak] can be really motivating because it is such an equalizer in the match,” Green said. “But, if you won the first set and start going down in the second, it is very scary. A super tiebreak is a complete lottery.” Espinosa said the super tiebreak is a format that generally favors the underdog because if a player can win one of the first two sets, then the match essentially becomes a toss-up. “This is the first year, and it’s one of those initiatives we just have to test,” Espinosa said. “It will be done for the next two weeks in February, then we’ll go back.” Iowa State thrived under the pressure of the experimental format, winning all three super
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Junior Meghan Cassens hustles to the ball during Iowa State’s 7-0 defeat of North Dakota on Friday at Ames Racquet and Fitness Center. The women’s tennis team has yet to lose a match.
tiebreaks and clinching the meet 7-0 over North Dakota. “We responded pretty well,” Espinosa said. “It
could have easily been a 4-3 win for us, or potentially even a loss.” Iowa State hits the road next week for its first
of four consecutive weekends away from home, traveling to Milwaukee to face off against Marquette at 4:00 p.m. on Friday.
ISU women race top runners in “marquee” events By Chris.Wolff @iowastatedaily.com Before the Bill Bergan Invitational, ISU assistant coach Andrea Grove-McDonough said that she was racing all of her top runners, many of them for the first time in their “marquee” events, this season. The team hasn’t been at full strength through the first two meets of the season after sitting out certain athletes for training purposes, as well as giving them a break after cross-country season. When her athletes did race, often times they raced in events other than their “marquee” events, as a way to ease them back into the competition.
Coming into the meet this weekend, Grove-McDonough said her athletes would be going “all out.” After the meet had concluded, the coach said her athletes had delivered. “I thought we had really strong 3ks, obviously we had a good 800, and I thought the girls in the 1000 did a nice job,” GroveMcDonough said. One of the athletes making her season debut was AllAmerican Ejiro Okoro. Okoro finished the 800-meter run in a time of 2:05.78, breaking her own Bill Bergan Invitational meet record from last season. However, it turned out that Okoro didn’t even know she owned the record until just be-
fore the race began. “When I was at the start line someone said it, and I didn’t know I had broken it last year, so I had to get back into competition mode before the race started,” Okoro said. “I’m just grateful that I got the result I did. I just take everything and am grateful with what I have.” Okoro’s time in the 800-meter was the third fastest time in the nation for the event so far this season. Also racing in their “marquee” events for the first time this season was Bethanie Brown and Sam Bluske, who took first and third in the 3,000-meter run, respectively. Both runners worked their
way to the front of the pack, where they battled with a duo of Minnesota runners. “I just tried to hang in there and knew I just needed to have a strong finish,” said Brown, who also said she got a little nervous after starting towards the back of the pack. Kendra White also had a big day at the Bill Bergan Invitational, as the junior she set the program record in the 400-meter dash. She finished third in the competitive field, and her time was good enough for a top-20 time in the nation so far this season. Bluske summed up the attitude of most of the athletes, especially of those who haven’t been competing regularly.
“It’s just fun to be competitive again. We spend so many weeks just training, but it’s just really good to mix it up and let some of our competitiveness out,” Bluske said. Now that the team is into the full swing of the season and going “all out”, they will focus on building upon their training and working towards the Big 12 Indoor Championships, which are now only a month away. “I’m the kind of person who always wants to be better, but I’ve always felt that my teams have done a good job adjusting after their true openers … and seeing what went really well that we can build on and what we can work on,” Grove-McDonough said.
Sanderson breaks personal heptathlon record at Bergan Invitational By William.Byal @iowastatedaily.com Taylor Sanderson had a breakout performance for Iowa State’s track and field in the heptathlon at the Bill Bergan Invitational during the weekend. The redshirt sophomore from Bondurant, Iowa, beat his previous record by 200 points overall and finished second to Kansas State’s senior Devin Dick. Sanderson set personal records in five of the seven events — 60m, 60m hurdles, long jump, shot put and pole vault. “I think that I’m in a pretty good spot right now, but there’s definitely room to improve,” Sanderson said. Although Sanderson said he was happy with the score for the event, he hopes to improve in the 1,000-meter run and shot put moving forward to improve his heptathlon score, which is currently No. 15 in the country. “It shows where he is now, but certainly not
where he will be,” said assistant head coach, Fletcher Brooks. “He is still very young in this event, but has a tremendous passion, work capacity, work ethic, loves to train, has a very solid head on his shoulders. “All those qualities you look for in a combined event athlete, because there are so many ups and downs.” Focusing on one event isn’t ideal for this type of competition. In the heptathlon, the athlete must be able to compete in all seven events and overcome adversity, Brooks said. Sanderson’s work and determination have carried over from high school in Bondurant. A lot of his success as a multi-event athlete has to do with his work capacity and endurance. Iowa State has a new coaching staff this season after Martin Smith, director of men’s and women’s track and cross country, was hired following the departure of Corey Ihmels. The new staff includes Brooks,
who Sanderson has worked closely with. “I really enjoyed working with coach Brooks. We’ve changed up the way we train quite a bit,” Sanderson said. “We’ve worked a lot more on speed and power, and that’s helped me out quite a bit, I’ve learned a lot.” Brooks said as a heptathlete Sanderson is expected to be the jack of all trades, and the master of none, which isn’t ideal but is important to remain consistent in all events. Coming off this personal best performance puts Sanderson in the hunt for a top spot in the Big 12. “I’m definitely hoping to be in the top 3, there’s some pretty good competition coming back,” Sanderson said. “It’s pretty wide open.” The Bill Bergan Invitational and all other competitions leading in to the Big 12 and NCAA Championships are for evaluating points in the season. That helps the coaches
figure out where the athlete is and acts as a good bench mark, Brooks said. “There are only two
meets that matter to this program” Brooks said of the Big 12s and NCAAs. “These meets are just prep-
aration for the Big 12, and then for those athletes that can get to the NCAA level, fantastic.”
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