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GSB members applaud ‘creative’ idea, theater plan’s fate remains undecided By Paige Godden Daily Staff Writer The proposal to buy the old Varsity Theater and reopen it as the studentrun Cyclone Cinema came to be when Government of the Student Body Finance Director Tom Danielson went to GSB President Jon Turk with an idea. Turning the Varsity Theater into a student-run cinema was something new for GSB. Property acquisition isn’t something the GSB Senators look at often, Turk said. Danielson researched the feasibility of buying the theater, and eventually wanted to reach out to students and administrators, which is where the Varsity Theater Research Task Force came in. When Dione Somerville, dean of students, first heard of the project, she said she remembers thinking it was a very creative idea. “It’s unique, it’s creative, innovative. I commend our students for thinking up this project,” she said. “The students have done an admirable job addressing the issues students and senators have raised,” Somerville said. The task force was officially formed by Turk in November, and fulfilled its major task in its proposal presentation to the Senate at three GSB meetings, the first of which was Jan. 13. The proposal was originally slated to be voted on at the Feb. 3 meeting, but the vote was postponed. Turk said there were and continue to be some outstanding questions that still need to be answered, and he is hoping to see an all-inclusive business plan before the vote.
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Turk included a marketing plan as one aspect of the proposal that is still missing. In the past week, there has been some debate about having a board of directors for the theater. Turk said it’s still unclear who is will be responsible for the management of the theater, and what role the Senate will play. Turk said he has a balancing act to do. “I’ve been able to attend all the informational sessions and hear student feedback, which has been both positive and negative, but this really isn’t my decision at this point,” Turk said. If the bill passes through the Senate with a two-thirds vote at Wednesday’s meeting, Turk will have three options: to sign the bill, not sign the bill or veto the bill. “If I sign the bill, it says I give my consent,” Turk said. “I have six days to do that. If I chose not to sign, it means I have reservations or objections somewhere.” Turk added that a veto of the bill would mean he could not consent to the allocation of the money. If Turk chose to veto the bill, the Senate would have two weeks to override the veto. The override would take two-thirds of the entire Senate. All of the senators not seated when the override vote occurs would count as a “no” vote. Turk said he has not yet reached a decision as to what he would like to see happen to the bill. “I have to balance if this is a good expenditure,” Turk said. “I have to look at the economic times and political ramifications.” Turk addressed the issue that the City of Ames might not support the project in the way the task force had initially hoped.
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Where would the renovation and seed money come from? Renovation costs, the first year’s operating budget and the second year’s operating loss would be funded by the GSB Capital Projects and Investment accounts. ■■ The Capital Projects account accrues money that is unspent or misspent by student organizations. “Every year, GSB audits all of the organizations it funds on a line-item basis,” said Tom Danielson, GSB finance director. “At the end of the year, we reclaim all that money that is unspent.” Gail Ferlazzo, associate director of the Memorial Union, said that, in the past, about $100,000 has been swept into the account every year. A bill passed last semester, however, will direct half of the unspent money in future semesters — up to $50,000 — into a separate account to help fund events held by academic and pre-professional groups. Danielson said the capital projects account currently contains approximately $200,000. ■■ The Investment account was created when GSB sold its automobiles to the university, after deciding student organizations could use vehicles through Transportation Services. “When we sold those, we knew we were going to have a large amount of money,” Danielson said. The Investment account was opened in order to take advantage of a better interest rate and offer GSB a return on unspent dollars. In addition, the capital projects account is capped at $250,000, and once it reaches that mark, excess funds are transferred to the investment account. Danielson said the investment account currently contains approximately $300,000. How has the money been spent in past years? Capital Projects money is used primarily for physical investments that will last three years or more, according to Anthony Maly, senator for LAS and Varsity Task Force member. Maly said that, with a two-thirds vote, Capital Projects money can be spent elsewhere, and can supplement student organizations’ regular allocations.
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Budget reduction causes challenges By Matt Wettengel Daily Staff Writer The $50,000 budget reduction came as no surprise to the Veishea executive board. Having dealt with a similar-sized budget cut in 2009, the committee was fully aware that the planning of this year’s celebration would require creativity, modifications and some thorough preparation. “After the committees were selected, they looked at their budgets for this year and the budgets from 2009,” said Hallie Satre, senior in earth science and Veishea general co-chair. “They all had to look for ways to scale back or cut their expenses to fit this year’s budget.” “We took a look at the big picture and tried to evaluate every item to decide which were serving us well and which we could cut,” said Nicki Cor-
Veishea’s president’s allocation funding ■■ 2010 — $125,000 ■■ 2009 — $175,000 ■■ 2008 — $225,000 tum, senior in public service and administration in agriculture and Veishea general cochair. “Cutting doesn’t mean that we got rid of events, as much as adjusted the way we ran it to reduce costs.” Veishea’s funding comes primarily from the president’s allocation fund, which is a specific foundation account that is used at the discretion of the president of the university and is completely independent of the university’s operating budget. The fund comes from the Miller Endowment, which was established as a private
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By Jessica Opoien and Taysha Murtaugh Daily Staff Writers A strict adherence to parliamentary procedure provided a solid beat for Tuesday’s Faculty Senate meeting, held in the Memorial Union Sun Room. The Faculty Senate voted to revise its open meeting policy, eliminating many rules that they felt were not being followed. The new policy says the Senate promotes the principle of open meetings but doesn’t always require them. The senate also voted to discontinue the M.S. in Business program, but the focus of the meeting centered on Faculty Handbook
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from PAGE 1 intent of this.” Initially, it was proposed that the vote on the proposed changes be contingent on the passage of the Memorandum of Understanding. This document, developed jointly by the Faculty Senate and central administration, was created to be in effect until June 30, 2012. It gives detailed explanations of academic program membership, criteria and procedures for eliminating an academic program, good faith efforts to prevent loss of faculty and appeals in cases of transfer and termination. After some initial debate, Steve Porter, associate professor in educational leadership and policy studies, made a motion to postpone the vote on these changes until the March 9 meeting, when the Senate is slated to vote on the Memorandum of Understanding.
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gift a number of years ago. The fund supports many activities, including the university lectures program, student scholarships, graduate fellowships, the Ombuds Office, as well as Veishea, President Gregory Geoffroy said. “Just like everything else, the amount of funds available to be spent has been reduced because of the economy, and so we have had to reduce the allocations for programs like Veishea,” Geoffroy said in an e-mail. “The income for this fund comes from the earnings on the principal of the fund which is invested in stocks, bonds, etc., as part of the overall regents investment portfolio, and as you know, the earnings from all investments like those have been relatively low in the last few years because of the performance of the mar-
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“We’re giving up a lot of power here, and a lot of history ... in terms of what tenure actually means,” said Joel Geske, associate professor of journalism and mass communication. Geske suggested a “friendly amendment” to postpone the vote on Section 3.4 indefinitely, which sent the Senate into a debate about parliamentary procedure. Further debate focused on the element of time, as Geske pointed out that a decision need not be reached in the next year, since the Memorandum of Understanding would not go into effect until 2012. However, Porter stressed the importance of
making a decision that would provide a guideline for deans and administration as they faced the budget cuts. The standards for parliamentary procedure were clarified, and the senate voted on Porter’s original motion to postpone the vote until next month’s meeting. The senate then moved into the Committee of the Whole, which allows for free discussion without motions, votes or amendments. Most of the debate focused on Section 3.4.2.2 — “Termination of Tenured Faculty Due to Elimination of Academic Programs.” Questions from faculty
members revolved around what rights are being given up, and why there is a need to revise the current policy. “All of this smacks [to] the need to continue the institution, as opposed to the need to protect the individual well-being of its members,” Tony Townsend, associate professor of logistics operations and management information systems, said. According to Section 3.4.2.2, tenured faculty members could be eliminated if programs are discontinued “for academic reasons.” The proposed policy says that “before proceeding with termination, the university and faculty member are expected to make good-faith efforts to transfer the affected faculty member[s] to another college or department with an academic program where their professional services can be used effectively.” Townsend brought up the possible issue of departments
ket ... and that reduces the amount of funds we have available to spend.” Prior to the Satre 2004 Veishea riots, the event’s budget was to decrease intentionally from year to year, in an effort Cortum to make the celebration a self-sustaining event. In 2005, Veishea was suspended and a task force was formed to assess the underlying causes of the 2004 disturbances and to assure the success of Veishea and other studentcommunity celebrations. In 2006, when the celebration returned, the university took more of a role in funding the event as a result of suggestions given by the task force, mainly the suggestion that Veishea hold more on-campus events. “Even after the university’s increased involvement, the plan was still to decrease funding to Veishea so it would become a self-sustaining event,” Satre said. “This is not as apparent right now, the [current] drop-
ping of the funds are the result of budget cuts and the economy.” Along with the president’s allocation fund, sponsorship that is acquired by the Veishea sponsorship committee proves an important source of funding to the event as well. The committee has found it increasingly difficult to secure businesses’ sponsorship, given the economic downturn that the country is currently experiencing. “The main [challenge] is that people aren’t as willing to give money,” said Amy Peyton, junior in agricultural business and sponsorship co-chair. “This year we focused on contacting more companies and expected to get turned down, but hoped to acquire new sponsors. We went back to lists of sponsors from two years ago and found some businesses that didn’t sponsor Veishea last year, but were willing to this year. It’s just hit-andmiss process.” The sponsorship committee set a goal for this year of acquiring $25,000 from sponsors and recently wrapped up their first round of calling, which covered approximately 250 companies. Although they’re always searching for new sponsors, Peyton has observed that companies that have sponsored in the past are more likely to sponsor the event again.
“Once they [sponsor] they realize that it’s a good cause and want to help the Iowa State and Ames community,” Peyton said. “It helps that they know Veishea and what their money is going towards.” Despite the ebb of university funds and the challenges it creates, the Veishea executive board continues to strive to provide the same celebration that students and alumni remember. The continuation of the event is something cherished by the ISU community and committee members all work to keep it going so that they can return as alumni and enjoy the celebration themselves. And despite the budget cuts, both Satre and Cortum feel that the biggest change students will notice to the event this year is the approach the board has decided upon to provide the daily lunches that are held on campus throughout Veishea week. “This year, as opposed to supplying the traditional five meals to students, which were usually pretty skimpy anyway, we chose to skip Monday and provide four substantial meals to students Tuesday through Friday,” Satre said. “We aren’t spending any less on the food than last year, but we’re reorganizing the event so that students get more from it.”
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preferring to hire new, more specialized professionals rather than a transfer from a discontinued program. “We were promised employment by the university, not employment by the department,” he said. “I think tenure means something greater than that. I refuse to believe that there’s anybody in this university that’s a tenured member of our faculty that can’t make a meaningful contribution someplace else on this campus.” Senate members and administrative officials both said they’d like to find a policy that they both could agree on. Geske suggested senators use the postponement to go back to their departments and gather more information and opinions in
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“It’s also been used, kind of, as an extension of the senate discretionary account,” Danielson said. Some examples of GSB bills from the past three years that have used Capital Projects funds: ■■ Replacing One Hundred Fifty Years of Oak Tree Tradition — tree, labor, watering and locates, at $4,800 ■■ The GSB Clean Water Act of 2007 — rerouted roof run-off to Lake LaVerne, at $2,000 ■■ Funding Furniture for the MU Terrace — umbrellas and tables, at $9,900 ■■ Funding ISU Groove Drumline Cymbals — cymbals, at $3,346.15 ■■ Funding the Waterski Club to go to Nationals — travel expenses and the entry fee, at $4,082 ■■ Funding the Russian-Speaking Students Association’s Samovar — Samovar, at $466.91 Where would funding to cover future operating losses come from? After generating revenue through ticket sales, concessions and building rentals, the theater would be required to go through the regular allocations process, like any other student organization, in order to fund projected operating deficits of approximately $60,000 per year.
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How would this affect other student organizations? Some senators have voiced concerns that funding the theater through regular allocations puts it in competition with other student organizations. “Essentially, you’re adding another competitor to the regular allocations list,” Ferlazzo said. GSB’s regular allocations process distributes approximately $1.3 million in student activity fees. Fully funding the theater’s $60,000 annual operating loss could commit approximately 5 percent of these funds. If the project were abandoned in the middle of the 5-year lease, the GSB would still
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What is the next step? Some senators have expressed concerns over whether the vote could be cast without knowing more of the details. Vice President of Business and Finance Warren Madden said Tuesday that GSB would need to decide — even within broad parameters — that they are interested in moving forward with the project before the university would begin formal negotiations, regarding the property’s lease. “We normally wouldn’t move too far along in formal negotiations without some indication that the University was serious about leasing the space,” said Madden. Where would the project fall in the University’s organizational structure? The proposal would place the theater under the oversight of the Memorial Union. “We are supportive of that, if that is what the GSB would like,” Ferlazzo said. Theater needs, such as cash handling, would likely make use of existing MU services. “We’re anticipating that would channel through the Memorial Union business office,” Ferlazzo said. Ferlazzo also said the idea is to minimize the impact of additional work on current staff members. “Our goal is that it really is a lot of responsibility on that grad. student,” Ferlazzo said. Since the pool of graduate student candidates varies in skill, however, the amount of time that theater operations demand from Memorial Union staff may change from year to year.
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Would the theater qualify for property tax abatement, since it’s owned by Iowa State? Danielson said city officials confirmed earlier this week that if the Champlin family didn’t earn a profit from the lease, the building wouldn’t be assessed property taxes. Would the property be covered under the University’s liability insurance? Tanaka said he isn’t sure whether the theater would even require additional liability insurance. He said he believes state law would cover building’s liability, as it does the rest of campus, but that the Champlin family might ask for additional coverage in negotiating the terms of the lease. If the theater were to require liability insurance above and beyond what the state provides, an additional budget line item would have to be added to the proposal. —Daily Staff
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Senate to consider further funding By Paige Godden Daily Staff Writer Six bills and the Varsity Theater bill are expected to be discussed at Government of the Student Body Senate at Wednesday’s meeting. The ISU Naval Drill Team is asking for $1,260 to compete at the Beale Street Drill Competition hosted by the University of Memphis. The group is open to all students, and is not named after the Naval ROTC on campus, GSB Senator John Schultz said. Schultz said the group did not anticipate the cost of the trip, but they will be funding most of the trip itself. Michael Weber, chair of the rules committee, said the committee reported the bill unfavorably because no members were present at the meeting to answer questions.
money ... Facilities Planning and Management will be here next week to give a presentation, I don’t think they will be crushed if this doesn’t pass,” Turk said at last week’s meeting. The ISU Aeronautical Society is looking for $735.69 because it is “in need of some unexpected items in order to keep its club running smoothly and accomplishing its mission,” according to the bill. Some items they are hoping to buy include electric wire, plexiglass and a battery charger. The Senate will be voting on transferring $35,000 from the capital projects account to the Memorial Union for Web development and maintenance costs. Last week representatives from the Student Activities Center gave a presentation on the benefits of using an electronic system. The representatives said if one sees a table
The Senate will also be voting on whether or not to allocate $3,352 to update computers and software in the YWCA Ames-ISU offices. The bill written by GSB Senator Anthony Maly claims the offices currently have four computers and valuable information is being lost due to people using their personal laptops. GSB President Jon Turk’s name is on a bill after he was approached to put a bill in asking for $7,000 for 14 campus directory maps. Turk said he asked Senators Maly and Brian Ryherd to sponsor the bill — and they did. According to the bill, “The existing campus directory maps are out of date, reflecting campus from 2006 ... These maps assist thousands of students, faculty and visitors who navigate around campus each year, and could be installed for Veishea 2010.” “It’s up to you if it is a proper expenditure of
set up outside the library, it has been through the events authorization process. The system will be developed from scratch by Web development, and will give students the ability to track events while they are in the approval process, plus tell groups on the list when they are on the agenda. The $35,000 will pay for 575 hours of development and should cover any initial development challenges and first year glitches. The final bill to go through is funding for ISU’s Society of Automotive Engineers Club. The club has “constructed a mini-Formula car for the purpose of participating in national competitions, and two of these upcoming competitions will be held in Lynden, Wash. and Fontana, Calif.,” according to the bill. The group is therefore asking for $6,041.28 for travel expenses for the two trips.
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Anthony Gervais, of Ankeny, clears snow Tuesday with a snowblower at Beardshear Hall. Photo: Karuna Ang/Iowa State Daily
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from PAGE 1 stantly since last Friday, facilities maintenance has had trouble getting anything else done. “We can’t get to the things we should be doing, like pruning trees or shrubbery,” Lawson said. “It doesn’t gain us anything preparing for summer.” Meanwhile, students and faculty have been slipping and sliding across campus for the past couple of months. Deborah Sunstrom, interim director, said that though no one has filed a claim to ISU Risk Management because of snow or ice injuries, there have been many instances of students either falling multiple times on their way to class or even breaking bones. Julia Kyser, sophomore in dietetics, was struck by a sheet of ice falling off of Legacy Towers, 119 Stanton Ave. “I was walking back from class and talking with my friends when we heard the sound of ice cracking,” Kyser said. “We looked up and saw a sheet of ice falling toward me, since I was the closest to the building. I put my hands above my head and put my head down. The sheet
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from PAGE 1 “The city has been supportive in helping with codes and taxes, but the theater isn’t going to be hosting student activity fee programs in the summer months — but the hope was for the contribution of programming and events, which hasn’t happened,” Turk said. Turk said he looks forward to the Senate’s debate on the bill, which, he said, will help him make his decision. If the bill gets through the Senate and Turk, then the next step would be to gain administrative approval in order to get the bill on the agenda for a Board of Regents meeting. Their next meeting will be telephonic, run from the board offices, March 24. Getting the Varsity bill on the March 24 meeting agenda is the task force’s goal, but “they don’t like putting big issues on telephonic meeting agendas,” Turk said. If the bill doesn’t pass, Turk said he has other issues to consider, such as looking at other non-alcoholic venues for students and rejuvenating Campustown. Turk isn’t the only member of GSB who hasn’t made a decision on how he or she will cast a vote. “I’ve received several emails from my constituents in Frederiksen Court — most of them not in support of the proj-
of ice shattered over my back. I wasn’t injured but it was really scary.” In regard to the university’s efforts to clear out all the snow, Kyser feels it’s doing its best, especially with the harsh weather Ames has had this winter. “It’s really hard to keep up with, but it would be nice to have a delay in the mornings so they have time to clear the snow or ice so we don’t have to struggle to class,” Kyser said. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people fall or fallen myself.” Robyn Engstrom, chief of staff at Thielen Student Health Center, said they do not specifically track for “slips or falls” or if they are triggered by ice or snow. Nonetheless some students have had severe issues because of the weather. “Thielen Student Health Center has had four cases of frostbite since Nov. 1,” Engstrom said. “There have been no cases of hypothermia.” Kyser’s advice to students is to watch out and tread carefully. “If I hadn’t seen [the sheet of ice] I probably would have gotten hurt,” Kyser said. “I’m sure someone could get hurt if they weren’t paying attention.”
ect,” said GSB Senator Derek Grygiel, senior in chemical engineering. Another factor possibly preventing Grygiel from providing a yes vote is “looking at the numbers, — 1,600 people is quite a few to fill the 33 percent
Many studies suggest that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. With health benefits ranging from weight loss to improved mental activity, breakfast is the key to a successful day, researchers and doctors said. Many studies show that eating breakfast not only jumpstarts metabolism, but it also has many health benefits such as maintaining blood sugar, sustaining your energy levels and keeping a person from overeating later in the day. If an individual does not eat breakfast, the body is running on empty, leading to fatigue, hunger pains, mood swings and weight gain, according to Mayo Clinic. Eating breakfast makes one more likely to eat more vitamins and minerals, eat less fat and cholesterol, increase concentration in the morning, control your weight and lower your cholesterol which may decrease risk of heart disease. “Eating breakfast in the morning is very important because it breaks the fast so your body has something to work with and doesn’t go into deprivation mode,” said Judy Trumpy, a registered dietician at Iowa State. When a person skips breakfast, blood glucose, which supplies the brain with energy, starts to run low. Symptoms of this deprivation can affect memory and ability to retain information in the morning, Trumpy said. There are many excuses people use for not eating breakfast. The most common excuse, however, is time. Time plays a major role in the dayto-day lives of college students. For example, 8 a.m. class often means hitting the snooze button enough times to leave just in time to grab a school bag and run to the bus stop.
capacity.” “I was a bit surprised last week by the liability insurance. The idea behind it is good, but we have to look and see if this is economically feasible, make sure it’s not going to suck GSB dry,” Grygiel said.
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Sally Barclay, a registered dietician at Iowa State, said, “I think for students it’s sometimes an afterthought or it’s something that slides in the morning when they’re trying to get out the door in a hurry, but it’s so important and will benefit them all day long.” But there are many things one can do to get a healthy breakfast on the go. One simple thing is to plan breakfast ahead of time. Pack a lunch? Now start packing breakfast, too. One can put dry cereal in a baggy or put some fruit in a backpack. Have a plan on what to grab in the morning. Yogurt, toast with peanut butter or a granola bar are all easy items to grab and go. If there is no time to scramble eggs, then prepare some hard boiled so they can be eaten on the run. Milk is also a great addition to any breakfast, and you can take it with you to
drink on the way. A few breakfast examples from Trumpy’s “Break-yourFast by Planning Ahead” are: A Whole-grain mini bagel, apple and string cheese with water. A cereal bar that’s high in fiber and protein with a banana and milk Carnation Instant Breakfast added to 8 ounces of milk with a piece of fruit A person should try to choose foods that are whole grain, high in protein and low in sugar, Barclay said. For ex-
ample, a whole-grain English muffin with peanut butter is a great source of protein and fiber that will keep you fuller longer. If one does have time to eat something fast before running out the door, cottage cheese with fruit, oatmeal or wholegrain cereals such as Wheaties or shredded wheat, are good options as well. Making a smoothie with a protein base of milk or yogurt and adding fruit or a whole-grain tortilla with some eggs and cheese is also fast, filling and healthy breakfasts. “I don’t eat breakfast because I just don’t like breakfast foods such as pancakes, eggs and cereal,“ said Katie Griffen, sophomore in microbiology. Not liking breakfast foods is also another common excuse by people for skipping out on the most important meal of the day, but a person doesn’t have to eat breakfast foods for breakfast. One can eat leftovers or non-traditional breakfast foods in the morning as well. “The main thing is to get in about three food groups for a balanced breakfast,” Barclay said. “If a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or chicken and broccoli from the night before sounds good to you, then that’s just fine.” She went on to say the main thing is making sure your breakfast is balanced with about three food groups consisting of healthy fats, fiber, protein and carbohydrates. Trumpy can be contacted at jtrumpy@iastate.edu.
GSB Senator Dan Finnegan, senior in aerospace engineering, said he has been receiving e-mail from engineers, all uniformly negative. “Those have been weighing heavily on my decision,” Finnegan said.
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Google, Facebook social network clash By Michael Liedtke AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. opened a new social hub in its e-mail service Tuesday, leaving little doubt that the Internet search leader is girding for a face-off with Facebook. The new Gmail channel, called Google Buzz, includes many of the features that have turned Facebook into the Web’s top spot for fraternizing with friends and family. It comes less than a week after Facebook made changes of its own. Among other things, Facebook now shows a list of friends available for chatting on the left side of the page, similar to where Gmail now displays its chat feature. The Google Buzz features won’t reach all of Gmail’s estimated 176 million users worldwide for several more days. A link to the service will appear on the top left of the page, in a prominent position just under Gmail’s inbox tab. Like Facebook, Google Buzz will let Gmail users post updates about what they are doing or thinking and share those with the rest of the world or with only a select group of people. Gmail users also will be able to track other people’s updates and instantly comment on them for everyone else in the social circle to see. And, just like Facebook, Google Buzz can serve as a showcase for video, photos and Web links to interesting stories. A mobile phone application of Google Buzz is particularly Twitter-like: It allows people to see the public updates of other people in the same vicinity. Some of Google Buzz’s features mirror social tools already available in instant-messaging services and other Web-based e-mail, including Yahoo Inc.’s and Microsoft Corp.’s. Google Chat, which is incorporated into Gmail, already has limited ability to display status updates. Google launched a social
President Barack Obama gestures Tuesday while conducting the daily press briefing in the White House press briefing room in Washington. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/The Associated Press
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network called Orkut six years ago, just a few weeks before Facebook began in a Harvard dorm room, but Orkut has gained little traction outside of Brazil. Meanwhile, Facebook has emerged as a cultural phenomenon with more than 400 million users worldwide. Google co-founder Sergey Brin seemed confident that Google Buzz will enjoy broader success. “Every couple years something new and revolutionary emerges and thanks to the Internet it can really emerge very quickly and affect many people in a short period of time,” Brin
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WASHINGTON — Signaling he’d meet critics part way on health care, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he’s willing to sign a bill even if it doesn’t deliver everything he pursued through a year of grinding effort at risk of going down as a dismal failure. The Democrats’ massive health overhaul legislation is stalled in Congress by disagreements within the party and the loss last month of their 60th Senate vote, and with it, control of the agenda. Republicans suspect that Obama’s invitation to a televised health care summit Feb. 25 is a thinly disguised political trap. The president tried to change the dour dynamic Tuesday, indicating he could settle for less in order to move ahead. “Let’s put the best ideas on the table,” Obama said to reporters after meeting with congressional leaders of both parties. “My hope is that we can find enough overlap that we can say, this is the right way to move forward, even if I don’t get every single thing that I want.” Obama’s overarching goals are to rein in medical costs and expand coverage to millions of uninsured. Specifically,
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litical risks if they just say no. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll found that most Americans want Congress and the president to keep working on a comprehensive health care overhaul. Two-thirds supported the goal in the survey, released Tuesday. Nearly 6 in 10 said Republicans aren’t doing enough to find compromise with Obama, while more than 4 in 10 said Obama is doing too little to get GOP support. Obama said he’s not interested in starting over on health care, with five congressional committees holding new rounds of hearings and billdrafting sessions. “What I don’t think makes sense — and I don’t think the American people want to see — would be another year of partisan wrangling around these issues,” he said. But he said he’s open to “starting from scratch” as long as three major goals are met: reducing costs, curbing insurance company practices such as coverage denials and expanding coverage to millions of people who buy their own policies or work for a small employer. “I will be open to any ideas that help promote these goals,” Obama said. If lawmakers can’t overcome partisanship and policy differences and the health care bill dies as a result, Obama said the alternative is not good. He pointed to a 39 percent premium hike just announced by California’s largest for-profit seller of individual health insurance policies, Anthem Blue Cross. Insurers say part of the problem is that healthy people hit by the economic downturn are dropping coverage, raising premiums for everybody else left in the pool. “If we don’t act, this is just a preview of coming attractions,” Obama said. “Premiums will continue to rise for folks with insurance, millions more will lose their coverage altogether, our deficits will continue to grow larger.” Although Republicans have cast the Obama’s approach as a big-government power grab, a report by government economic experts last week found that even without health care overhaul, government programs will soon be paying slightly more than half the nation’s health care tab. The reason? Private insurance coverage is shrinking because of the economy, while Medicare and Medicaid are growing. Some Republican activists worry that the summit is designed to portray their health care proposals as thin. A shaky GOP showing could embolden congressional Democrats to make a final, aggressive push to overhaul health care, with or without any Republican votes. The House’s top two Republican leaders have openly questioned Obama’s sincerity and hinted they might skip the meeting. Others in the GOP sounded more positive. “It could be a serious, constructive endeavor and hopefully it will be,” moderate Sen. Olympia Snowe, RMaine, said Tuesday. “Before Christmas I recommended to the president taking ... time out and regrouping for a broader bipartisan group to see what could be achievable in developing a consensus on some modest, practical proposals. Associated Press writers Ben Feller and Erica Werner contributed to this report.
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Administrators pull student paper due to confidentiality BETTENDORF — Administrators at Bettendorf High School have pulled copies of the student newspaper, The Growl, off shelves because of an article that reportedly revealed confidential information about student behavior. Bettendorf Community School District Superintendent Theron Schutte said the article contained potentially libelous information about student violations of the school’s conduct code. Schutte says the code specifies that students who use drugs or alcohol, on campus or off, violate school rules. He said the article contained student accounts of violations of that portion of the conduct code. Schutte says the problem was not that students talked of their own violations of the conduct code, but because some of them were accusing others of violating the code. Teacher Connie King, who serves as the paper’s advisor, was unavailable for comment. — The Associated Press
Safety Barbara Kalbach, a farmer from Dexter, reads a letter to be delivered to Gov. Chet Culver on Jan. 26 outside the governor’s office. Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement activists rallied at the Iowa Capitol in support of a number of issues they say are being ignored. Photo: Charlie Neibergail/The Associated Press
Republicans fail to amend Constitution for marriage ban By Mike Glover Associated Press Writer DES MOINES, Iowa — Republicans failed Tuesday in their effort to start the process of amending the Iowa Constitution to ban gay marriage — meaning it will likely be 2014 at the earliest before voters could decide on the issue. The Republican lawmakers tried procedural moves to pull measures out of committees and force a vote, but they couldn’t get enough votes in either the House or Senate. “There are a lot of folks out there who say they support traditional marriage,” House Minority Leader Kraig Paulsen, R-Hiawatha, said. “This is an opportunity to back that up.” Democrats, who hold majorities in both chambers, responded that lawmakers have their hands full with budget problems and don’t have the time deeded for a gay mar-
riage debate. “We’re not going to get bogged down this session with divisive social issues,” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Des Moines, said. At issue are resolutions calling for a vote to amend the Iowa Constitution, overturning an Iowa Supreme Court decision last April that struck down a state law banning gay marriage. Amending the constitution is a lengthy process requiring approval in two consecutive General Assemblies before a proposed amendment can go before voters. If the measure isn’t approved during the current legislative session, its next chance would be getting approved in the legislature elected in November and then the one elected in November 2012. That means the 2014 general election is the earliest that voters could be asked if they want to amend the constitution. The resolutions have languished in leg-
islative committees and face a deadline Friday to remain eligible for debate this year. In the 50-seat Senate, supporters couldn’t reach the 26 vote threshold needed to force a vote. In the House, gay marriage opponents used a rare procedural step to force all members to be present for a vote on pulling the gay marriage ban out of committee. The vote failed by a 54-45 vote largely along party lines, with Rep. Dolores Mertz, of Ottosen, the only Democrat who supported the move. Some Republicans said they’ll now focus on using the Democrats’ vote against them in November elections. “While our bipartisan effort fell short of gaining the 26 votes needed to proceed, the voters this November will have an opportunity to decide if they are content with the continued Democratic obstruction and inaction,” Senate Minority Leader Paul McKinley, R-Chariton, said.
House committee approves motorist texting restriction By Mike Glover Associated Press Writer DES MOINES — A House committee approved a limited ban on motorists using their cell phones to send text messages while driving Tuesday. Rep. Dave Tjepkes, R-Gowrie — a retired Iowa State Patrol trooper — said he narrowed the measure to address only texting because of the dangers in sending such messages while driving. “When you think of all the distractions that drivers face, texting is the worst of the worst,” Tjepkes said. The House Transportation Committee approved the measure on a 20-1 vote, sending it to the full House where supporters predict it will be approved. Tjepkes said he focused on texting to improve the measure’s chances of passing. It doesn’t address talking, and it makes clear that a driver must be traveling to fall under the law. Motorists wouldn’t be prohibited from reading text messages, and would prohibit other levels of government from enacting stricter restrictions. If it becomes law, the measure would delay enforcement for a year, requiring officers to only hand out warnings. When it takes effect, violators would be fined a minimum of $65. In cases where texting can be linked to crashes causing serious injury, the fine would climb to $500 and includes loss of license. If texting causes a fatal crash, the fine goes to $1,000 and the penalty includes a longer license suspension.
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PAGE 8 | Iowa State Daily | Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Editor Sophie Prell | opinion@iowastatedaily.com | 515.294.6768
Politics:
Editorial:
Senators need to take a stand on our behalf Tonight the Government of the Student Body senate will discuss, for the fifth time, the Varsity Task Force proposal for the Cyclone Cinema. The proposal sparked some controversy within the GSB, and some have suggested that a student referendum may be in order. We’d like to tell you why that’s the wrong move. First, the proposal is complicated, and in order to fully dissect and understand it, a substantial understanding of GSB funding processes is required. We don’t for a moment doubt students’ intelligence, but the information doesn’t boil down easily. Case in point: The first hour of our editorial board discussion wasn’t spent on arguing about the merits of the proposal itself; rather, it was spent describing, explaining and understanding how the funding for the project would work in the first place. Essentially, money from three different GSB sources — the investment account, the capital projects account and regular allocations — would be used to fund the theater. Each source accrues money in different ways, and each has specific rules on how the balance can be disbursed. More importantly, however, is understanding that these pools of money are filled by student activity fees for the purpose of funding student activities, such as events, movies and concerts and student organizations. These funds are separate from your tuition money, from the money that pays your professors and builds buildings on campus. Admittedly, the Varsity proposal comes at an awkward time — smack dab in the middle of university budget cuts. But the funds are from separate sources with separate purposes. Logic dictates that each be considered in isolation. Referendums, though, tend to become emotional decisions. With only a few sentences to describe a project and a “yes” or “no” checkbox, referendums often boil down to the interpretation of a few key words. If the Cyclone Cinema project is to succeed or fail, it should succeed or fail for the right reasons — because GSB Senators, as our elected representatives, with a full understanding of the project, have carefully weighed the benefits of the investment against the risks. If the project succeeds or fails because of PR, the wording of a referendum question, misunderstanding of funds, accounts or student fees, emotional or political reactions to spending during a time of budget cuts, or any one of a myriad reasons unrelated to the project itself, then the decision will have been poor, regardless of the outcome. The project should be evaluated based on its merit. The people who are in the best position to do that are our GSB senators. They have read, debated and questioned every aspect of the proposal. More importantly, they have the context to understand how spending GSB money on the theater has the potential to affect other GSB-funded projects — from the biggest student organization to the smallest event — in the future. That doesn’t mean students can’t have their say. On the contrary, many senators have sought out and expressed opinions they’ve heard from their constituents, and we’ve printed the letters we’ve gotten about the project in our opinion section — and will continue to do so. But it’s called representative democracy for a reason. So, represent.
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Some members of Women for Stronger America believe that the United State’s problems are largely related to a broken political system. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images
‘Strong women’ inspire Politicians manage like beaurocrats rather than act, lead remarkably
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ast Wednesday I had a chance to eat breakfast with about 50 women at a Dong Restaurant in Des Moines. The Women for a Stronger America is an outgrowth of a group that supported Sen. John Kerry for President. After the president, Nancy Bobo, introduced me I gave a short overview of the political landscape. I was more interested in hearing them out. America’s troubles are the result of an aging and largely broken political system, I opined. Without a focused, robust, speedy and functioning political system, businesses cannot flourish and will degenerate into largely non-productive money making schemes. When businesses lose their business ethics and moral compasses they destroy the society that depends on them. California is the best example of a stated blessed with every natural resource imaginable but a filed state that is crumbling into itself because of the completely broken politics of Sacramento. The same is true of the U.S. Senate where the veto proof majority of 60 votes has now become the rule on any bill. This means that a minority in California and the U.S. Senate can hold the majority hostage. Voters have also paralyzed state governments with balanced budget laws that make it impossible for states to think boldly or to finance their way through downturns. Could you live without borrowing?
Steffen Schmidt is a professor of political science and chief political correspondent for www.insideriowa. com
At the same time both liberals and conservatives share their dislike of fast and efficient government. Any new initiatives such as a new power plant, wind generated power facilities, railroads or other major futuristic projects are put through a meat grinder so Draconian that many simply never get done. I am a big supporter of people’s input into policy. However, I reminded the “Stong Women,” that the reason China is quickly building a high speed rail system and will finish it on time is because once the government decides there is a need for a rail system or a wind generating facility it is launched and done. There are no environmental impact statements, no labor disputes, no endless law suits about private property rights. It is simply done. The generally liberal,“strong women” at the breakfast were shocked to hear this because Democrats are the most committed to all of the obstacles I mentioned above. Still, I saw heads nodding in approval. There is no doubt that in many cases this obstructionism has cost us. The opposition to new and modern nuclear power plants, for example, left us dependent on the much less environmentally friendly coal. The continuous paralysis in the building of an offshore wind farm by Cape Cod is a
theatre of the absurd. The latest opponents are American Indians who say the whole area is sacred ground. The fighting, screaming, and disgraceful behavior by a small number of grieving families against a new World Trade Center is a sign of a failed political system, which can be held hostage. The “strong women” then overwhelmed me with interesting questions and comments, especially about the failures of the Democratic Party and the disappointing performance of President Barack Obama. There were also some revealing questions about the perceived lack of leadership in Iowa. One of the frustrations was clearly that with a majority in both Houses; Obama was not a focused or decisive leader in steering healthcare reform and other priorities through congress. There was also amazement that the Democrats were not willing to use parliamentary rules to the minority Republican opposition. This basically put the Republican minority in control of the House and Senate agendas. They were also in agreement that there was a lack of passion and fire in the belly of Democrats. These passionately political women craved some leadership, outrage at the state of the nation, and demanded leadership with strength. Many politicians have become more like bureaucrats. They don’t inspire. They try to manage. The Democrats have become so frightened by Rush Limbaugh and the Tea Party they think must hide their progressive beliefs. I want to thank the Women for a Stronger America for the opportunity because it always keeps me honest to get away from the university and hang around with real people.
Teens:
Education is the anwser Honest family communication leads to safer sex
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f we talk to teenagers and young adults about sex and birth control isn’t that going to encourage them to have sex or condone sexual experimentation?” I hear this question or some variation of it at almost every presentation I make to civic organizations in Iowa. In sharp contrast, when I talk with students on college campuses, I ask what message they think I should tell their parents and grandparents about sexuality issues for young adults. They say, “Tell them that we left home without the information we needed to make wise decisions about intimate relationships.” Some tell of good sex education in their schools. Others talk about parents and grandparents who speak openly with them about sexual intimacy. Most, however, tell stories of teachers, parents or faith leaders who use scare tactics or keep silent on the subject. To quote Strother Martin’s prison farm captain in the movie, “Cool Hand Luke:” “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” Talking about sex at ageappropriate levels doesn’t cause promiscuity or encourage young people to engage in sexual intimacy sooner than they might otherwise. In fact, a study conducted by the National
Christie Vilsack is an executive director of The Iowa Initiative to Reduce Unintended Pregnancies Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy found that young people armed with information put off their first sexual experiences. You can review the complete study at www. thenationalcampaign.org. What is the best and most reliable source of information? How do we assure ourselves that our children will not be influenced and corrupted by individuals, organizations or companies who have only their own self-interest in mind? The first answer lies in the family. Another study of teens by the National Campaign found that 47 percent of teens say their decisions about sex are influenced by parents, compared with 18 percent who stated they were influenced by friends, 7 percent who cited religion leaders and 5 percent who identified siblings. Only 4 percent said their decisions about sex were influenced by teachers or sex educators and only 3 percent said their sexual decisions were influenced by media. Just as parents are their children’s first and best teachers as babies and toddlers, they continue to teach even when their teenager stomps out of a room and slams a door in frustration. We have a precious opportunity to talk with our children about relationships like “falling in love” or sexual attraction. Studies also tell us that most of us don’t want
to talk about sex with our adolescent children because we don’t want to talk about our own sexual behavior at their age, our own insecurities, conquests or perceived mistakes. We also know that parents who didn’t have medically correct sex education classes or didn’t grow up in families who talked about sexuality openly, lack the confidence to talk to their children using medically correct terminology or communicating about subjects considered taboo. This is understandable. Many of us simply wish someone else would take care of this for us. It’s not easy to have “the conversation” but it doesn’t have to be so hard, and it needs to be multiple conversations. If parents started talking correctly about basic body parts — the ones we can’t see — when children are very young, they could learn right along with their children. Our health care professionals and daycare and preschool teachers can help us with this. We can also share stories as they grow older, so they can understand our personal values. Parents who share stories during meals, before bed or in the car on the way to athletic practice, also have chances to share relationship stories from their own lives or the lives of our friends and family members as well. For Janice, the opportunity presented itself unexpectedly when her seventh-grade daughter interrupted dinner preparations to ask Janice if she would answer some questions for a class. Janice, an involved parent,
in small-town Iowa, immediately agreed. First question: “Tell me about your first sexual experience.” The question caught Janice completely off guard. “Whose class did you say this was for?” she asked. The teacher was someone she knew well and she immediately conjured up an image of the teacher’s late night reading of her daughter’s report and having to face her at parent-teacher conferences or at the grocery store. As a school board member, Janice had been part of approving this life skills class as part of a community effort to reduce teen pregnancies and improve the district’s graduation rate. With a few questions of her own, Janice realized this survey was meant to stimulate conversation, but wouldn’t be turned in. She breathed a sign of relief, reminded herself to encourage her daughter to also ask her father the question and proceeded to consider an appropriate response. At a Kiwanis meeting in Dubuque one day when I was asked the question again, I got some help from a young woman in her early thirties in the back of the room—a new Kiwanian. “I grew up here. I just had my first child — a daughter,” she said. “I’d like to lock her away in a closet for 18 years to protect her, because I know what you say about sexually transmitted diseases and unintended pregnancies are true. So, while we’re working to make the world a better place, I think we still have to deal with the way the world is.” I couldn’t have said it better.
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Cyclone Cinema:
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Editor’s Note: You’ll notice we’ve got two letters below that respond to each other. We received Tom Danielson’s letter on Monday and it was published online, but not in the paper. Corey Becker saw this letter and wrote his response, which he sent to us Tuesday. We’ve included both here, presented in chronological order with Danielson’s letter and Becker’s below that.
We hope that by seeing both of the views sideby-side, you’ll be better informed about the Varsity Theater proposal. We also hope this will give you and your fellow students inspirations to make your voices heard in GSB. Check out the letters and, if you’ve got something to add to the conversation, send your thoughts to letters@iowastatedaily.com or drop them off at 108 Hamilton Hall.
Opportunities await Theater proposal not a failed business plan
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would like to take this time to address a few concerns that have arisen regarding the Government of the Student Body’s proposal for the Cyclone Cinema. The project being proposed does run an annual deficit, that is correct. Last week we even had a former chief justice of GSB call this “investing in a failed business plan.” By this standard, nearly every student organization that receives GSB funds is a failed business plan. The inherent purpose of the student activity fee is to subsidize student activities and services to make sure that students have ample resources and activities to enhance their experience at Iowa State. We pay into groups like Veishea, the Student Activities Center, the Financial Counseling Clinic and Student Legal Services all to provide services, resources and entertainment for students. Are those failed business plans? This proposal would be subsidizing a student cinema that would play movies at a lower cost to students, offer a venue for student organizations to show films that relate to the mission of their organization and provide another space for academic and entertainment-type lectures. Nothing failing about that plan, especially if you look to the successes of this type of venue on other campuses across the country. Another opinion article stated that this was a pet project of a few
Tom Danielson is a senior in civil engineering at Iowa State University. GSB members and wouldn’t reach enough students. That argument is laughable. This project was started by a few students who proposed it to GSB — there was no GSB money or resources that went into this proposal — and the notion that GSB shouldn’t be looking to their own projects to benefit the university is even more absurd. GSB’s job is to reallocate unspent or misspent monies reclaimed from student organizations on projects that enhance the student experience. Don’t simply hate a project because of its magnitude. That is ignorant. This project actually has the potential to reach every student at Iowa State. It provides an alternative entertainment option for those students not looking to binge drink on the weekends. It provides a place for student organizations to host events and expand their impact on the campus community. It provides a space for the students, city of Ames and Iowa State to come together and invest in an area of significance to all parties. And lastly it would show films costing only $1 with very cheap concessions, neither of which is provided by the North Grand theater anymore. Still don’t see it? Try looking at the survey data collected. Eighty-five percent of students said they go to a movie in Ames at least once per
year, and more than 50 percent go more than once per month. That is a lot of students affected. When asked what students wanted to see in the Campustown area, the number one response was a movie theater. The argument of dollar amount per word in the legislation is completely irrelevant. Try looking at the project as an opportunity. The annual cost of running this theater would be less than we pay for legal services, financial advice, lectures, therapy services, performing arts programs and, ironically, less than half of what it costs to run GSB every year. This proposal would create student job opportunities, provide student engagement and ownership in the Campustown region, provide a safe entertainment venue for minors in Campustown, provide a recruitment tool for the university and give families another option for entertainment on campus visits — and it would be a great space for student organizations for events and collaboration. The notion that no project can touch every student may be true, but I can guarantee that almost every student would feel some positive impact of this theater should the proposal go through. I ask that any student with questions or comments regarding the project read the documents on the GSB Web site to educate yourself, and send any questions or comments to tommyd@iastate.edu. I don’t have a vote on the GSB Senate, but I’ll make sure the educated voices get heard.
GSB losses are guaranteed W hile I respect Tom Danielson’s service to the Government of the Student Body and his opinion regarding the idea to purchase the former Varsity Theater, I still am not convinced by his logic. Danielson said in his opinion letter published Tuesday that, “The inherent purpose of the student activity fee is to subsidize student activities and services to make sure that students have ample resources and activities to enhance their experience at Iowa State.” He also said that giving money to student organizations is like investing in a failed business plan. I vehemently disagree with this. When a student group makes a proposal to acquire funds from GSB, it is bound by what it asks for. There can be no additional costs or expenses needed to complete their proposal because they are only eligible for what they request. Since giving
Corey Becker is a senior in political science at Iowa State University.
money to student groups is only done when a group can provide information that that group will use the money to advance their group, it cannot be said that its business plan is flawed because they are accomplishing what it sets out to do. There is no guarantee that students will attend a movie theater owned by GSB with all the other options in Ames but there is a guarantee that student groups who receive money from GSB will use it to complete a set goal — a goal that GSB pre-approves. That is the difference. This now turns to the idea of buying the Varsity Theater. Danielson, I do not simply “hate” the idea of buying the Varsity Theater because of its “magnitude;” I am op-
posed to this idea because you are guaranteeing that student organizations will have less money available to them for at least five years, when the proposed lease runs out. You are guaranteeing that GSB will become the arbiters of a project that, in your own words, is designed to lose money. You are guaranteeing that the university will be liable for any and all problems that come with running a business. If indeed the students have voiced their opinion to you and to other GSB officials that the main problem on their minds, with faculty being let go and programs being cut, is to have a new place to watch movies, I call upon you to spend the money that would have gone to the purchase of the Varsity Theater for other things. Instead of subsidizing an entire movie theater business, instead subsidize tickets for students to preexisting movie theaters in Ames. Help clear the
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way for ISU groups to rent theater space from businesses in Ames or even help to update the current facilities so that they can benefit the students even more. These options will cost less money and not have the possible pitfalls of owning an independent business. I did at one point serve as Chief Justice on GSB Supreme Court but I do not speak in this letter as a former officer, I speak as a student who is concerned for my school’s future. I feel as though there is a reason that this project has been relegated to the back pages of the Daily during its discussion. The students that have reached out to me since my last opinion piece was published have been overwhelmingly opposed to this project. Maybe being against the purchase of a business by the GSB, with guaranteed losses for the entirety of its life, is the educated opinion after all.
Letters:
Peterson, Wilson possess passion I
have had the opportunity to work with Vice President Peterson and Vice Speaker Wilson this year in the Government of the Student Body. I am a member of Sigma Kappa and I am an LAS Senator on GSB. This was my first year on senate and both Chandra and Jacob were welcoming and helpful! I believe they both have the experience and passion to lead the student body. Jacob has done a lot of work regarding diversity efforts on campus. He has been a strong voice for the LGBTA community and has made himself a resource for International Student Council. Chandra has initiated many projects in Campustown with fellow students. She was able to restart the busi-
Christina is a sophomore of biology at Iowa State University.
ness association for Campustown and create ties with the city and the university. In addition, she has guided efforts for student designed banners and a new mural in Campustown funded through sources outside of student fee money. I am excited to show support for the Peterson/Wilson ticket and encourage you all to check out their other platforms, including managing student debt, at www.petersonwilson.com and see for yourself the impact they would have on our campus if elected.
Student support vital for cinema success
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he Government of the Student Body will vote Wednesday on the proposal to lease the old Varsity Theater and turn it into a student-run dollar theatre. This will jointly benefit the ISU and Ames communities. For the past six months, a task force of GSB and non-GSB members has been actively working on it, meeting with university administrators and residents of Campustown to discuss and shape the proposal. The bill to fund the dollar theater was first proposed to GSB four weeks ago and was supposed to be voted on last week. However, the bill was postponed because senators felt that another week was necessary to talk to more students as many may not be fully informed about the proposal. Thus, in a final effort, we are providing the reasons that we believe the proposal should pass. Over the last month, we have talked to our constituents about the proposal, and the responses we have received have been overwhelmingly positive. Not only will students be able to enjoy the convenience of having a theater across the street from campus, but also be able to enjoy it at subsidized prices. It will serve various other functions besides providing an alternative to the bars in Campustown. The theater will host speakers, university organization events, provide student jobs and be a much needed addition to Campustown. The dollar theater will be a service provided to students by students rather
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than a business. Although it will have concessions and a small fee to watch movies, the theater’s primary goal will not be to make a profit. The funding for this is an aggregate of student fee monies from past alumni — students that knew the Varsity Theater as a part of their college experience. Any investment of this scale will come with risks, but we believe that strong support from students and administration will make this endeavor a success. GSB has a unique opportunity when it comes to the dollar theater proposal. As members of GSB, we represent the students so that they can have an enjoyable college experience as a college student at Iowa State. It is not often that we are presented with a proposal with such great potential. Between passing funding bills and senate orders, GSB has few opportunities to affect such a significant impact the lives of students. This proposal gives us an opportunity to show the student body what their elected representatives can do for them.
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Sean Carroll, a professor of molecular biology and genetics and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wisconsin, is known for his ability to popularize molecular genetics and their explanation for the process of evolution. He is the author of three books, including Remarkable Creatures and The Making of the Fittest, as well as coauthor of two scientific textbooks. Major discoveries from his laboratory have been featured in such publications as TIME and U.S. News & World Report, he has been featured on such programs as NPR’s Science Friday, and he recently helped produce a PBS NOVA special marking the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s publication of Origin of Species. He earned his B.A. in biology at Washington University in St. Louis and his Ph.D. in immunology at Tufts Medical School.
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Women’s Basketball Stats of the week 102, 101 Mississippi came away with a 102101 victory in Baton Rouge for the first time in 16 years after a triple overtime battle against LSU.
Game to watch No. 14 Georgia at No. 18 Kentucky 7 p.m. Thursday
Far left: Junior tennis player Liza Wischer takes a swing during competition this year for the Cyclones. Courtesy Photo: cyclones.com Above: Wischer joins ISU coaches on signing day. Courtesy Photo: Jane Wischer Left: Wischer returns the ball in a high school doubles match. Photo: Sarah Voegele/Grand Forks Herald
AP Top 25 Poll 1. Connecticut (40) 23-0 2. Stanford 21-1 3. Nebraska 21-0 4. Notre Dame 21-1 5. Tennessee 20-2 6. Xavier 18-3 7. Ohio State 23-3 8. Duke 18-4 9. West Virginia 21-3 10. Florida State 20-4 11. Baylor 17-5 12. Oklahoma 16-6 13. Texas A&M 16-5 14. Texas 16-6 15. Oklahoma State 18-5 16. Georgetown 19-3 17. Kentucky 20-3 18. North Carolina 16-5 19. Georgia 19-5 20. Iowa State 18-4 21. Georgia Tech 19-5 22. Gonzaga 19-4 23. LSU 15-7 24. TCU 17-5 25. St. John’s 19-4
Big 12 Standings (through Monday) 1. Nebraska 21-0, 8-0 2. Iowa State 18-4, 6-3 3. Oklahoma State 18-5, 6-3 4. Oklahoma 16-6, 6-3 5. Texas 16-6, 5-3 6. Baylor 17-5, 4-4 7. Texas A&M 16-5, 4-4 8. Kansas 14-7, 4-4 9. Kansas State 11-11, 3-5 10. Colorado 12-9, 2-6 11. Texas Tech 13-9, 1-7 12. Missouri 11-11, 1-8
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Alumnus reflects time in program By Shane Lucas Daily Staff Writer Among the ISU wrestling team’s 1000 wins, the number 159 seems to stick. As a Cyclone wrestler, Sanderson remained undefeated throughout his career, finishing 159-0. Sanderson commented on Tuesday in regards to the Cyclone wrestling program’s latest accomplishment. “It says a lot about the consistency of Iowa State to be the first to 1000 wins,” Sanderson said. “It’s the standard of excellence of Iowa State wrestling. It’s just a special place.” Despite his iconic status at Iowa State and in the collegiate wrestling world, Sanderson reflected on his time as a Cyclone as business-first. “As a wrestler I just wanted to be remembered as someone who wrestled hard and represented the school with honor,” Sanderson said. “How I go down in history didn’t matter much to me, it was more about taking care of what I was doing at the time.” Sanderson said he has too many memories and achievements to decide on what his most memorable was, but he was able to narrow it down to a few. “Just being on a team with brothers and my last match stands out quite a bit, but all of my memories are awesome,” Sanderson said. “I had a great experience at Iowa State.” Although he came to Iowa State to wrestle alongside his older brother, Cody, Sanderson said he was well aware of the success Cyclone wrestling had achieved.
Liza Wischer’s fuses experience, drive for successful tennis career By Dan Tracy Daily Staff Writer Tennis is a sport of lines. A service line. A baseline. Hitting the ball down the line. As a 6 year old beginning to play tennis, ISU junior tennis player Liza Wischer hated lines, primarily the ones she had to stand in at tennis lessons. Wischer, who lived near a tennis center in her hometown of Grand Forks, N.D., began taking tennis lessons along with her three siblings after a flood closed the city’s YMCA. Wischer’s mother, Jane, dealt with a number of daughter Liza’s emotional outbursts, especially when the two would meet at the car after a lesson. “[Liza] would tell me she hated tennis and that she’d never play again,” Jane said. “I’d just tell her not until[her next lesson] you aren’t.” After a year of frustration and disputes with her mother about continuing her lessons, seven-yearold Wischer began to understand that the sport of tennis was not just about standing in line, but rather competing in matches. “When she actually realized what the sport was, it made all the difference for her,” Jane said. The lines began to subside as Wischer moved up
the playing levels at the tennis center and by the time she was eight she began competing on the United States Tennis Amateur circuit. Wischer would continue to play USTA tournaments across the country for the next 10 years, ranking nationally in both singles and doubles from the time she was 12 until she graduated from Grand Forks Red River High School when she was 18. Beginning her amateur career at eight years old is young, which made it no surprise that she started her high school career for the Rough Riders at the No. 1 singles position as a seventh grader. Wischer went 18-0 in her first season, qualifying for the North Dakota state tournament. Wischer received congratulations in the weeks leading up to the tournament, but didn’t recognize the significance. “I didn’t really realize that [the state tournament] was such a big deal, I just took it as another tournament,” Wischer said. Wischer won all four of her state tournament matches, becoming the youngest person to ever win a state singles title in North Dakota tennis history. “As the years went on, I kind of realized it was kind of a big deal but I still tried to treat it as another tournament,” Liza said. Her title in seventh grade was the first, but certainly not the only time that Wischer made high school tennis history in North Dakota. Wischer continued playing No. 1 singles for the next five seasons and never lost to a singles opponent, going a perfect 129-0 and winning six state singles titles throughout
her high school career. In Wischer’s time at Grand Forks Red River, the Rough Riders became the first team in North Dakota state history to win six straight team state titles as well. “[The competition] kind of fizzled out as I got older and I was the one playing younger players but at the beginning it was tough and I can’t believe I won those years,” Wischer said. Wischer received numerous accolades after her undefeated high school career, including North Dakota’s Senior Tennis Player of the Year Award and a Special Achievement Award from the North Dakota Associated Press. Wischer was featured in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces In The Crowd” as a high school sophomore and was featured in articles by USA Today, www.maxpreps..com and the USTA. More so than her individual accolades, however, Wischer feels that the most important characteristic of competitive tennis that she learned while in high school came through her time spent with her team. “Tennis is an individual sport but if you play high school tennis you get the team aspect out of it and you realize that you win as a team and you lose as a team,” Wischer said. Wischer met a number of players from around the country in her traveling to USTA tournaments, including two of her future amateur and collegiate doubles teammates. Whitney Taney, currently at Michigan, also went undefeated (166-0) in high school while at Edina High School in Minnesota and Alyssa Palen, a senior at Iowa State has been Wisch-
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Full game needed to take Tigers Cyclones attempt to find way to end 2-game losing skid By Nate Sandell Daily Staff Writer The Cyclones showed they are capable of playing with the top teams in the Big 12 conference for about 32 minutes of Saturday’s game against No. 9 Kansas State. The other eight minutes, however, were a different story. Iowa State saw the Wildcats go on a 17-2 run to put the game just out of reach. Iowa State is back at the drawing board this week, trying to find a way to end its two-game losing skid. “We know we had some bad couple of minutes in that game, so we’re correcting it on the practice court, staying locked in the whole practice,” said junior forward Craig Brackins. “We know what we have to do. We’re now just trying to put it together.” The Cyclones will need to put things together quickly as they face yet another conference foe, Missouri, on Wednesday night in Columbia, Mo. At 5-3 in the Big 12, the fleet-footed Tigers (17-6 overall) positioned themselves for a run at the conference’s No. 2 spot — the nation’s top team, Kansas, is well in command of first place. Led by guards, Missouri, who is tied with Texas for third in the Big 12, motored its way to several key wins in conference play, including a victory over second place Kansas State. An average of 54.4 of the Tigers’ 81.3 points per game — the third best scoring average in the Big 12 — are contributed by Missouri’s six main guards. “They have a lot of guards on their team who can get up and down the court and get up under the ball,” said junior guard Diante Garrett. Missouri’s guard play is headed up by the sophomore duo of Kim English and Marcus Denmon — averaging
15.1 and 11.3 ppg — who contribute heavily to the Tigers’ average of 8.5 3-pointers per game. “Missouri presGarrett ents some challenges that we haven’t seen yet this year,” said coach Greg McDermott. “They are just a very capable 3-point shooting team, with a number of guys. Not often do you have, I think, seven guys who essentially have made one 3-point shot per game in conference play. That can be difficult to guard.” But apart from their potent offense, what separates the Tigers from other teams in the conference, is their rapid and in-your-face defense. “They are everywhere,” Garrett said. “They are like a pack of dogs, trapping everywhere. You think a pass is there, but it is taken away in a split of a second, so we’ve been working on that in practice.” The Tigers rank No. 1 in the NCAA in steals per game (12.0) and are second only to Houston in turnover margin (7.6). “It is still their defense that I think separates them with their ability to turn you over,” McDermott said. “That is where we have to zero in on and make sure that we don’t make those mistakes. I felt like last year we handled the press OK, but our turnovers came in the quarter court.” Instead of trying to keep pace with the Tigers, the Cyclones will attempt to slow Missouri’s tempo. “I think if you stay calm with Missouri that is your best bet, instead of trying to speed yourself up to their game, because I don’t think anyone is as fast up and down as Missouri,” Brackins said. “If you stay calm and get yourself together and just run your stuff, I think you can be successful.” After a promising start to the conference season — staying with then No. 2 Texas and a win at Nebraska — Iowa State has lost five of its last six
ISU junior forward Craig Brackins looks down the court on Saturday, Feb. 6 during the game against Kansas State in Hilton Coliseum. The Cyclones fell 79-75 to the Wildcats. Brackins led Iowa State with 29 points and 12 rebounds against Kansas State. Photo: Manfred Brugger/Iowa State Daily
games. However, as the Cyclones showed Saturday, with their late-game comeback against the Wildcats, Iowa State is continuing to work to improve where it struggles. “There were a bunch of guys in the gym shooting yesterday, getting workouts in on their off day, which is always a positive sign,” McDermott
said Monday. “Practice today was enthusiastic. They were focused.” Focus will be needed Wednesday in order for the Cyclones to prevent the momentary collapses that have plagued the team all season. “We showed [Saturday] that we can play hard,” Brackins said. “We just need to play hard for all 40 — not 31 or 32 — minutes.”
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Prins draws all eyes at center court Standing at 6 feet 7 inches, freshman center Anna Prins is used to getting a lot of attention. Lack of attention has never been a problem for Prins, whether it be the double teams opposing defenses run against her, the looks she generates around campus or even her plethora of awards and recognition received throughout her high school career. It seems wherever she goes, all eyes are on her. “I’m used to getting a lot of attention just from being tall,” Prins said. “It’s not only on the court but off the court, you get a lot of attention because you don’t see too many six-foot-seven-inch girls around, but I just handle it the way I always have because I know who I am and I’m confident in that.” Most recently Prins has been able to put together an impressive display against some of the Big 12’s tougher opponents including a 15-point performance during the victory over Oklahoma. Despite being a freshman, Prins has held her own against some of the tough defensive sets she has seen. This could be because she is used to seeing difficult defenses. During her high school career, Prins had to face quite a few double teams. However, double teams and tough defenses didn’t stop her from helping her team to a 106-4 record over her four years in high school, winning three state championships, a 2009 Colorado Gatorade Player of the Year Award or a 2009 Miss Basketball Award. Prins was still able to have some of her most
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er’s roommate for the past two years. Wischer stayed with Palen on her official recruiting visit when she realized she wanted to be a Cyclone. “I liked the school. It felt safe and I wouldn’t have to fly home, everything just seemed to click that’s why I chose to come here,” Wischer said. Wischer held down the No. 1 Singles position throughout her high school career but as
memorable performances when once again it was all eyes on her to deliver. “Obviously she was the focal point of every team that we played,” said Prins’ former high school basketball coach Mike Croell. “Her sophomore year, she didn’t have a ton of points but she did have 16 rebounds in the state championship game. Then her senior year when we had some players in foul trouble, I don’t think we took her out the entire game, she had to go the whole time.” For Prins, the prospect of playing college basketball had been right in front of her since her freshman year in high school. Schools such as Michigan State, Wisconsin and even Duke began inquiring about her before she celebrated her 16th birthday. “Colleges were calling on her from her freshman year on,” Croell said. “I had colleges calling when she was a freshman and they don’t even bother coming out and looking at her, they jumped right to the chase and say they’re offering. And when you say offering, that’s a full-ride scholarship.” Once Prins arrived at Iowa State it did not take long for her to build chemistry with her new teammates. Senior guard Alison Lacey described her as a “friendly giant” and “a sweetheart” off the court. However, once on the court, Lacey knew what the Cyclones had was a special player. “I’ve never played with a six-footseven girl, she’s a big presence,” Lacey said. “I like that she can shoot the ball from outside, she’s got some range to her game. It’s definitely a completely different player than I’ve played with before.” Injuries aside, Prins has developed
a Cyclone she has not always been in the singles line-up. Wischer earned seven victories as a freshman and went 22-12 in singles play last season, but has played in only three of the five singles matches this season. “I hope that whenever I get the chance to play that I can win and do better than I did last year,” Wischer said. Wischer is 2-1 in singles but made her mark this season alongside Palen; the pair leads the Cyclones with a 4-0 doubles record. Palen attributes their on-
her game well. Fennelly made the comparison to former ISU basketball player Nicky Wieben’s freshman year where she started and averaged 8.2 points and 5.3 rebounds per game. In contrast to Wieben’s freshman year, Prins is averaging 8.9 points and 4.1 rebounds in 22 games. “You look at someone like Nicky Wieben who contributed a lot as a freshman, she played minutes and played on good teams,” Fennelly said. “The thing we talk about with our team all the time is find a way to impact winning and I think she’s right on schedule as to what we think she can be.” It has been no secret the Cyclones have had a terrific history of post players. With names like Angie Welle to go along with Wieben, the question remains: With her raw talent and rare ability as an inside and outside scorer, will Prins be able to leave a lasting impact on the Cyclones like those two? “[Prins] has a chance to be as good as she wants to be,” Fennelly said. “I don’t think there’s any question she has a chance to be very special. Not just at Iowa State but in the term of how you look at Big 12 players, how you look at players nationally because she’s skilled, she’s committed. Now it’s just of matter of how good do you want to be? Do you want to be good or do you want to be great?” How good does Prins want to be exactly? When asked that question, she looked at the pictures of former players and banners that hang in the new prac-
court success to the relationship that they have off the court. “We’re such good friends off the court and on the court that helps us stay positive and support each other which is a big thing in doubles,” Palen said. Wischer continued her campaign with three wins, one in singles and two in doubles, last weekend in the Cyclones victories over Drake and the University of Illinois-Chicago. “She’s one of those players that you know exactly what you’re going to get out of [her],”
thing that the team has never done before.” It is still early in her career at Iowa State but there is still much to be excited for. Until the day comes where everyone finally gets to see how good she could be, one thing will remain the same as it has always been for Prins. All eyes will be on her.
tice facility. “I want to help this program become better, whatever that entails,” Prins said. “Just trying to make the most of every opportunity that comes my way and the team’s way and maybe do some-
ISU freshman center Anna Prins prepares to pass on Feb. 3 during the game against Texas Tech at Hilton Coliseum. The Cyclones won 63-48 against the Red Raiders. Photo: Tim Reuter/Iowa State Daily
said coach Armando Espinosa. Espinosa hopes that Wischer can continue to perform well when she gets into the lineup, especially with the Big 12 conference season less than a month away. “We know that she is going to be competitive no matter what position we put her at,” Espinosa said. Wischer, a communication studies major, hopes to pursue a career as an academic adviser to a collegiate athletic team after she graduates in May 2011.
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61 “__ be seeing things” 62 Nice walk? 64 Ship-finding acronym 65 Overhang 66 Folk singer Burl 67 Refuse 68 “__ in Rome ...” 69 Site of a Lincoln profile DOWN 1 Small songbird 2 Primo 3 Entered material 4 Eliciting feeling 5 Vikings running back Peterson who holds the NFL record for yards rushed in a single game 6 Unsound, as an argument 7 Relay race part 8 Asparagus unit 9 __ blocker 10 Umpteen 11 Privileged connection 12 Whole range 13 It began on viernes in 2010 18 Take in too little 22 One with a long face 24 Nice squad? 26 Cybertrash 27 “Return of the Jedi” green-skinned dancer 28 Govt. note issuer 29 “Dies __” 31 Full scholarship, e.g.
34 With 53-Down, French toon who would be right at home in this puzzle? 36 Have heated words 37 Two tablets, say 40 It doesn’t cover much of a 48-Across 45 Ill-fated vessel 47 Maxima maker 49 Cleanup hitters, briefly 50 Actor Jannings and pianist Gilels 51 South Pacific island nation 53 See 34-Down 56 Periodic table fig. 57 Peace symbol 58 Put away 59 “East of __” 60 Means of determining proficiency 63 Cheer syllable
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Daily Horoscope : by Nancy Black & Stephanie Clements
Scorpio: Choose independence. Today’s Birthday: Who has time this year for consistent, diligent effort? You do! The surest way to reach your goals is through practical planning. Controlling your feelings is no easy task, but when you manage to moderate your expression, you gain the trust of the very people you seek to convince.
settle a disagreement. No need to walk away.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Speak out loud and clear on issues that challenge your independence. Principles are hard come by and could be cherished -- or discarded as old business.
Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 6 -- Don’t be surprised if folks change their minds, big time. Don’t be quite so conservative; take an independent direction. You may need flexibility to adapt.
Solution: INSTRUCTIONS: Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every number 1 to 9. For strategies on solving Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 5 -- Listen and learn. While you may not hear what you expect, you definitely get the information you need to move forward tomorrow. Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 5 -- Other people notice that you’re focused on independent thinking and action today. Use this awareness to
Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Uncomfortable around others, you don’t want to adapt at all. Even tiny changes feel revolutionary to your sensitive soul. Do take at least one step.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 5 -- Change your tune where team effort is concerned. Switch between “leader” and “follower” roles. Forward momentum continues with little strain. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- You could begin the great American novel today. If the plot development allows, add a character who muses over loves lost and found. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Wherever you start out in
the morning, you’ll end up somewhere very different by the end of the day. Choose independence over acquiescence. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -Today is a 5 -- Don’t forget to grab the material you need first thing in the morning. Later today someone asks you to share. Go ahead, but don’t cramp your own style. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 5 -- Your thoughts are already on to the next project. But you still need to clean up details from the last one. Cost overruns are possible. Check before spending. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 6 -- Spend most of your energy today talking about the future. Insights emerge even from casual comments. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Don’t think you have to get your way on everything. Someone has a bright idea. It doesn’t change everything, but it brings excitement.
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Crazy feats for food
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By Hanna Johansen AmesEats Flavors Writer “My mom and I were craving pickles so bad during a snow day that we ventured out in the horrible blizzard to get some from the grocery store. It took us thirty minutes just to get across town, but it was well worth the wait.” Ashley Clark, Freshman
By Emma Partridge AmesEats Flavors Writer
Along with sushi, there is a spicy condiment known as wasabi, which can give some sushi an extra kick. Some spicy sushi varieties include spicy tuna roll, spicy crab meat roll and spicy yellowtail roll.
With the cold weather not going away for a while, here are a few ideas to spice up your meals and warm you up from head to toe. All of these ideas can be altered to your taste, depending on how spicy you enjoy your food.
“I stood in the snow with no shoes on for five minutes to win a bet and a whole Jeff’s pizza.” Megan Bartholomew, Freshman
Along with the chili, another pot dish is jambalaya. This dish is traditionally served in the South and can be made very spicy. For its spice, it has Andouille Sausage, a flavorful and spicy sausage that is made with peppers. In addition to the sausage and red pepper flakes, you can add any of the same spices such as chili powder and ground cayenne.
If you enjoy eating stir-fry, this simple dish can be made by cooking shrimp and vegetables and adding chili oil and then serving with rice to help cool down. For added spice add some chili paste to this dish. It’s very fast and easy, yet still delicious.
The powers of food By Kelsey Bulat AmesEats Flavors Writer
For a meal that can be left alone, but seems like you have been cooking all day, is chili. To make spicy chili, add hot peppers such as jalapeno, serrano or habanero, Also, you can add more chili powder or red pepper flakes. Just make sure to take out the seeds and mince. Not only is this dish served piping hot, but by adding the peppers, your body will be warmed with each spoonful.
Have you ever compared the feelings you get when eating a decadent chocolate to the feelings of being in love? If this is you, there is some science that suggests why these two unrelated situations evoke such similar emotions. Chocolate has the ability to release the neurotransmitter, phenylethylamine also known as the “love drug.” Phenylethylamine causes your pulse rate to quicken, which results in a feeling much like falling in love. While chocolate may be the better known aphrodisiac, there are other foods that bring out that feeling we know.
One of the most common hot and spicy dishes is chicken wings. These tend to range from mild to extra hot depending on your tolerance level. These are very easy to make. You can either make your own sauce by combining hot pepper sauce and butter or use your favorite store brand. The spice is determined by how the hot sauce to butter ratio. Simply pour your sauce of choice over fried chicken and serve with blue cheese or ranch dressing.
A cold but still spicy dish is sushi. Sushi is a nice balance that is both spicy and refreshing. There are many varieties of sushi that can be considered spicy. Most of the spicy sushi will be labeled as spicy. If you do not know how spicy some sushi will be, do not be afraid to ask.
Hopefully these dishes will warm you up, and keep your mind off the cold winter weather. Whether it reminds you for a warmer time, or just fills your hungry stomach, these meals can be enjoyed all year round.
nBananas
This fruit helps release serotonin in the blood stream which then lifts your mood and calms your nervous system.
nChili
Peppers This feisty little pepper contains the chemical capsaicin, that warms up your blood and gets your pulse racing.
nCaviar
These coveted, salty fish eggs are packed with iron which stimulates the formation of testosterone.
nAsparagus
The marvels of chocolate
It contains vitamin E, which stimulates the production of sex hormones.
Are you one of the Americans that contribute to the $13 billion spent on chocolate each year? The cacao beans that lend themselves to the sensational delight of chocolate originated in Central and South America, and are now primarily exports of Africa. From the bittersweet flavor of dark chocolate, to the sweet, melt-in-your-mouth flavor of milk chocolate, just about anyone can enjoy this treat coming from the cacao tree. Here are some ways you can treat yourself to both the sweet and savory characteristics of chocolate that are enjoyed around the world:
nAvocados
It is also known as the “testicle fruit” by the Aztecs for the way this fruit hangs from its tree in pairs. Spanish priests once found this fruit’s traits so insulting that they forbade people from consuming them. Avocados contain the vitamin B6, which is a building block of testosterone.
nWalnuts
Instead of rice, the Romans once tossed this nut at newlyweds as a symbol of fertility.
nFigs
With its distinguishably similar shape to the female private area, this fruit has long been associated with love. It’s written that Adam and Eve used fig leaves to cover their privates.
1. Start with a chocolate caliente or hot chocolate. This is a popular way to enjoy chocolate in Mexico and many other places around the world. It is also a comforting drink on a snowy day, which being in Iowa, presents itself often. 2. Experiment with the traditional Mexican Mole sauce, a rich thick sauce often served with chicken or turkey. It combines a variety of chilies, onions, garlic, cumin, coriander, cinnamon, cloves, sesame seeds, other nuts and chocolate. This is an adventure for a committed chef if starting from scratch!
All you need to know about truffles By Linda Berlakovich AmesEats Flavors Writer
Chocolate truffles are really easy and cheap to make. You don’t believe me? The ingredients are few and simple, and it’s more cost-effective than spending $12.99 on a bland box of chocolates from the Valentine’s Day aisle. The biggest perk of making homemade choco
By Katie Paulson AmesEats Flavors Writer 3. Did you say dessert? Truffles, soufflés, cakes, mousse and brownies, need I continue? If you need chocolate dessert ideas, ask the Swiss. They are the leading consumers of chocolate at 23 lbs. per person per year. With chocolate staring for dessert, you can’t go wrong. I suppose Homer Simpson summed it up when he said, “Mmm... chocolate.” Also, check out Wheatsfield this month to take advantage of its chocolate sales, the flavors to choose from are delicious.
Dark and White Orange Truffle
late truffles is that you can add any flavors or mix-ins that you would like: mint, orange, cinnamon, Oreo cookies, almonds, spicy peppers, any type of liqueurs or any other inventive idea. All you need is the base, ganache, which is the creamy filling of truffles Then add in whatever you want, dip in cocoa powder or chocolate and then enjoy!
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oz. package semi-sweet chocolate chips n ¾ cup heavy cream n 2 teaspoon of orange flavoring n 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring n 4 oz. white chocolate Melt chocolate over a double boiler. Once melted, add cream and stir until smooth. Add flavorings. Chill for about 3 hours or until it’s firm. Quickly scoop out ganache and shape into balls. Melt white chocolate, dip the truffles quickly into the white chocolate, place on wax paper, and then chill immediately. Keep truffles in the refrigerator until ready to serve. Courtesy of Linda Berlakovich
Ingredient of the week: chocolate Here are a few interest- nThe explorer Hernan Cortez ing facts about this sweet first combined cocoa with treat: sugar and other spices to create a version of today’s nThe Mayans are believed hot chocolate. to have discovered drinking chocolate more than 2,000 nThe first modern chocolate years ago; writings refer to bar is credited to an English cacao as the “food of the company in the mid-1800s. gods.” nIn the United States, the nFor the Mayans and the first chocolate factory began Aztecs, cocoa beans were in the late 1700s in New used as a form of currency. England.
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