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Calendar THURSDAY

THURSDAY

Case study: Immigration When: Noon What: Case study of Sioux County, Iowa. Cornelia Flora, ISU sociology.

Where: 113 East Hall

Acrylic Painting When: 6 to 8 p.m.

What: Learn techniques such as monochromatic painting, glazing, and full color application.

Where: Workspace, Memorial Union

FRIDAY Gymnastics When: 7 p.m.

What: Iowa State vs. Oklahoma.

Where: Hilton Coliseum

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Softball When: 7:30 to 9:45 p.m.

What: Iowa State vs.

Western Illinois. The tournament field includes ISU, Creighton, Western Illinois, South Dakota State and Valparaiso.

Where: Bergstrom Indoor Practice Facility

Dance social When: 7:30 to 9:45 p.m.

What: Free Valentine’s dance social and party hosted by the ISU Ballroom Dance Club.

Where: 196 Forker

COMMUNITY: Student takes advantage of remote access Ahmed Hosny, graduate in mechanic engineering, works on his daily research and projects utilizing ISU remote access in the Schilletter and University Village community center. Photo: Yue Wu/Iowa State Daily

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ISU TV Wipeout 8 p.m.

ABC Community 8 p.m.

NBC Bones 9 p.m.

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NBC Smallville 8 p.m.

CW 20/20 9 p.m.

ABC Fringe 9 p.m.

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PBS Harry’s Law 8 p.m.

NBC NASCAR 8 p.m.

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CBS Hairspray 9 p.m.

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CBS The Simpsons 8 p.m.

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the show.

Guess we’ll find out when the Grammys air at 8 p.m. Feb. 13 on CBS.

wed, and their son Bronx Mowgli Wentz made his arrival that November.

to not be distracted away from negotiating and facilitating the optimal 2-D, radio, photographic, and online coverage of the day,” he continued.

Celebrity News Notes and events.

Grammys to feature A-list collaborations

FRIDAY The Vagina Monologues When: 9 to 11 p.m.

What: Eve Ensler’s award winning play Where: Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union

Correction An article published in the Daily’s Valentine’s Day tabloid, which was inserted in Wednesday’s paper, was incorrectly attributed to Amber Russell. The article was written by Amber Smith. The Daily regrets the error.

The 53rd Annual Grammy awards air Sunday night, and as usual, the show will rock, producer Ken Ehrlich told CNN. For starters, there’s a tribute Aretha Franklin featuring Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson, Martina McBride, Yolanda Adams and Florence Welch.

“Every one of these women can sing, and we wanted to keep it all women because Aretha broke so many barriers and so many boundaries for women that this is a little payback,” Ehrlich said.

That’s not the only collaboration happening that evening.

Gwyneth Paltrow and Cee Lo will perform with the Muppets.

While Ehrlich reveals that “fans’ jaws will drop” when they see Katy Perry’s music number, he won’t confirm reports that Britney Spears will appear on

Palace nixes 3-D broadcast plans for royal wedding

Ashlee Simpson, Pete Wentz split After two-and-a-half years of marriage, Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are going their separate ways, CNN has confirmed.

“After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to file for divorce,” the couple said in a joint statement. “ Simpson, 26, is rumored to have been the one to file for the divorce, with TMZ reporting that the singer/actress cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason.

The relationship rumors for Simpson and Wentz, 31, began in the fall of 2006 after they were seen kissing at a nightclub, according to People.

By May of 2008, the two were

Plans to broadcast Prince William and Kate Middleton’s April 29 wedding in 3-D have fallen flat, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The main problem? The enormous Westminster Abbey just isn’t big enough to accommodate the extra cameras.

“I’m afraid I have to say that we have decided not to progress with 3-D coverage of the service on this occasion,” Patrick Harrison, press secretary to Prince Charles, said in an e-mail to the BBC, ITV news provider ITN and Sky News.

“There are a number of reasons for this, most notably the additional camera footprint in the abbey, the relatively small audience for 3-D, and our desire

You can star in a Michael Bay movie, sort of Thanks to the Michael Bayifier, you can transform one of your ordinary photographs into something out of one of the filmmaker’s big-budget action flicks.

Go to bayifier.com, and the site begins to load with a countdown that references Bay’s many blockbusters, including “Armageddon,” “Bad Boys.”

Next, you are taken to a page where you simply upload your photo, adjust the level of dreamy color saturation, and add on clip art such as a sports car, an explosion, a gun, a bomb, a fighter jet and Shia LaBeouf.

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>>JOBS.p1 and is given a list of employee opportunities that would most likely suit them.

“I’ve looked at Cargill, Ruan and American Eagle,” Collier said.

Pete Scheurman, store manager of a Walmart in Ankeny, recruited potential employees at the fair.

“We offer a wide variety of opportunities,” Scheurman said.

“Any type of degree will apply to Walmart. Students can decide what position to apply for and can schedule an interview which will be done when we come back in the next few weeks,” Scheurman said.

Recruiters from Hy-Vee were also present at the fair looking for potential employees.

“We have three stores in this area,” said Haley Wheeler, Hy-Vee retail recruiting specialist. “We have gotten incredible people in this area. We have gotten great results with Iowa State.”

“We have a few internships open and we are offering positions in entry-level management,” Wheeler said.

“We are looking for future leaders for our company.”

Representatives of Cambridge Investment Research were offering parttime jobs that would eventually become full-time jobs for students.

“We have about 15 positions open,” said Renee Rich, Cambridge staffing coordinator. “Experiences and education are important. We’re looking for students who stand behind our core values such as integrity, flexibility, commitment and kindness.”

“The programs at Iowa State provide strong fields in business and MIS,” Rich said.

RIGHT: Cherann Boughton, senior double majoring in management and French, speaks with a recruiter for HNI Corporation during the Career Fair. Photo: Kendra Plathe/ Iowa State Daily BELOW: Up to 140 business set up booths for the Business, Liberal Arts and Sciences and Human Sciences Career Fair in Hilton Coliseum on Wednesday. Photo: Kendra Plathe/Iowa State Daily

>>CAFE.p1 Learning Community alike.

“We have been working with members and alumni to fire off ideas about what room layouts and floor arrangement we would prefer the most,” said Edward Shields, junior in biology and peer mentor for the Entrepreneurship and Innovative Learning Community. “We have had to take into account trade-offs for the different arrangements. For example, setting up multiple single suites or double suites would have the trade off of using more available space.”

In addition to living situations, the learning community also has to plan how the cafe will run within the house.

“One of the major problems that I have known that we are facing are how we will be running the kitchen,” Curtis said. “Are we going to run the Barista Cafe out of the same kitchen that students in the house will be using? How will we be splitting up seating space with students in the house and the Barista customers? So we are trying to decide what is the best way to structure the kitchen and eating area.”

This project will not come for free. The students of the Entrepreneurship and Innovative Learning Community are depending on alumni of Delta Upsilon to help fund the project, as well as collaborating to find areas of the house that need improvement.

While planning the move and renovations for the Delta Upsilon house, the learning community maintains its cafe in Buchanan Hall and participates in additional learning opportunities.

“We go learn about local companies, their owners and how they started,” Curtis said. “A lot of what we do is great experience. A few of us run the Barista Cafe, and attend the [Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization] conference.”

Right now, awareness of the community’s efforts are key for success, Curtis and Shields said.

“We are really trying to get people to know about the Barista Cafe, and know about our learning community and how it will be the first coed [group living in a fraternity house] on campus,” Curtis said.

“We imagine that if the move is successful that we will be able to reach out and inspire others to join the learning community,” Shields said.

Caitlian Hostetter, junior in psychology and Spanish, rehearses “The Vagina Monologues” part of the Valentine’s Day events at Iowa State on Feb. 8 at the Maintenance Shop in the Memorial Union. Photo: Phuong Thao Nguyen/Iowa State Daily

>>WOMEN.p1 Pham, junior in pre-business.

Every year “The Vagina Monologues” perform something new, exciting and meaningful for all ISU students, faculty members and for the Ames community.

“When you come to ‘[The] Vagina Monologues’ some of the scenes are hilarious and will make you laugh. Then on the

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other hand, some of the stories will make you cry,” said Christine Peterson, graduate assistant at the Margaret Sloss Women’s Center. “’[The] Vagina Monologues’ is a combination of comedy, drama and education all in one. You will really get pulled into all the stories,” Peterson said.

Just like the monologues told each year, the audience’s reactions vary with each

showing.

“The messages the women give out will open your eyes to something powerful and different no matter if you’re a man or a woman,” Peterson said.

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Sleep

Abortion

Late nights, early mornings bad for heart

By Saundra Young CNN Wire Service

An abortion doctor from Philadelphia, Pa., is being charged with killing a patient as well as seven babies. Photo: CNN Wire Service

Preliminary evidence hearing denied to doctor PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — A Philadelphia abortion doctor charged with killing his patient, as well as seven babies during illegal abortions he allegedly performed, has been denied a preliminary evidence hearing.

Attorneys for Dr. Kermit Barron Gosnell and his employees had requested an additional hearing, which Judge Renee Cardwell Hughes rejected Wednesday, setting an arraignment for March 2.

He is expected to enter a formal plea then.

Gosnell allegedly ran what the prose-

cutor called “a house of horrors,� and was charged with murder and other offenses related to illegal late-term abortions, said Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams.

The babies were born alive in the sixth, seventh and eighth months of pregnancy, but their spinal cords were allegedly severed with scissors, Williams said in a statement.

Nine other people who worked in the west Philadelphia medical office, including Gosnell’s wife and sister-in-law, also were charged, Williams said.

The practice, called the Women’s

Medical Society, served mostly low-income minority women for years, he said.

Williams provided a grisly scenario of the shuttered abortion clinic: A search of the office last year by authorities found bags and bottles holding aborted fetuses scattered throughout the building. Jars containing the severed feet of babies lined a shelf. Furniture and equipment was blood-stained, dusty and broken.

Gosnell’s attorney, Jack McMahon, could not be immediately reached for comment.

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We all know that getting enough shut-eye is good for us, but now a new study suggests that getting too little sleep can increase the risk of heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular disease that can result in early death.

Researchers found if you sleep less than six hours, or have disturbed sleep you have a 48 percent chance of developing or dying from heart disease, and a 15 percent chance of having or dying of a stroke.

The study, published in the European Heart Journal, is a meta-analysis of 15 other sleep studies.

A meta-anaylsis integrates a number of studies into one study. Researchers followed nearly 475,000 adults from eight countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Japan and Israel for seven to 25 years. “There is an expectation in today’s society to ďŹ t more into our lives. The whole work/ life balance struggle is causing too many of us to trade in precious sleeping time to ensure we complete all the jobs we believe are expected of us,â€? said Professor Francesco Cappuccio of the University of Warwick Medical School in the United Kingdom and a lead author of the study. “The trend for late nights and early mornings is actually a ticking time bomb for our health so you need to act now to reduce your risk of developing these life-threatening conditions.â€?

Cappuccio said getting between six and eight hours of sleep regularly is optimum. “By ensuring you have about seven hours of sleep a night, you are protecting your future health and reducing the risk of developing chronic diseases. If you reduce your sleep below a certain level — ďŹ ve hours or less — you run into trouble,â€? he said. “Not just tomorrow because you are tired, but you build up a steady risk of developing a chronic condition late in life. Sleep is not a commodity that can be traded off.â€?

Dr. Michelle Miller, also from the University of Warwick and co-author of the study, said sleep deprivation actually causes a number of changes in the body. “Chronic short sleep produces hor-

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mones and chemicals in the body which increase the risk of developing heart disease and strokes, and other conditions like high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes and obesity.�

All of those conditions are also risk factors for heart attack and stroke.

Hormone changes can lead to glucose intolerance and insulin resistance — both markers that lead to type 2 diabetes and increases in blood pressure.

Chronic lack of sleep can activate a chemical in the body called cytokines, inammation markers that are the basis for atherosclerosis — or hardening of the arteries— also common in people who have heart attacks and stroke.

But getting too much sleep can also have negative implications.

Cappuccio said sleeping more than nine hours could be an indication of illness — including cardiovascular disease. “Long sleep rather than being the cause of disease is more likely to represent an early marker, the early stages of chronic conditions like depression.�

He said sleep deprivation has to be considered a lifestyle risk factor similar to smoking, alcohol and lack of exercise.

Sleep is under recognized as a potential cardiovascular risk factor, and while this study provides intriguing evidence of the relationship, there is still a lot that is unknown about sleep disorders and their connection to heart disease and stroke, said American Heart Association spokesman Dr. Ralph Sacco. “This is an association study that adds to evidence about an association but cannot determine mechanism or causation,� said Sacco. “We can’t make any causal claims yet based on this study that demonstrates an association but it raises suspicion about sleep disorder and cardiovascular and stroke risk.�

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Oil spill

Rescued male dolphin thrives after near death

By Kim Segal CNN Wire Service MIAMI — Five months after the Deepwater Horizon explosion unleashed a torrent of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, a male dolphin washed up on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast just barely alive.

“Other dead ones [dolphins] had exterior oiling on them,” said Michele Kelley of the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans.

“He was the first live oiled marine mammal.”

Oil covered the dolphin’s body, but little was found in his blowhole or mouth — a good sign. Rescuers noticed that the animal appeared to be underweight for his size and put his age at about 2 years old.

The rescuers also saw injuries and believe he was beaten by another dolphin.

“For an animal as young as he is, he has a stat of about a 5 percent chance of survival,” said Kelley, who oversees the rescue of stranded animals in Louisiana for the Audubon Nature Institute. “Him, I would have given him maybe 2 percent max. He had a lot of issues, oil was his final issue.”

The rescue team photographed him and recorded him under the name LA-405. He was later given the nickname “Louie.”

The rescue team took Louie to the Audubon Aquatic Center in New Orleans, cleaned him off, and began teaching him how to swim again.

A staff member had to be in the water with him around the clock to hold Louie above the waterline so he could breathe.

It took over two and half weeks until the little dolphin showed signs of improvement. Louie started eat-

ing fish on his own and started learning how to swim again by moving his tail up and down.

That was the beginning of an intense rehabilitation process. In the end it would take 700 hours of care over five months before Louie would be declared healthy. That was a bittersweet time for the Audubon Aquatic Center staff.

Despite his progress, it is too risky to release Louie into the wild because of his young age. So this week, with the help of the U.S. Coast Guard, Louie was transported the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys, a nonprofit organization that cares for rescued dolphins.

Having just arrived at his new home, Louie will eventually be integrated into a group of other dolphins at the facility. He will also have to get used to his name, which he received upon arrival in the Florida Keys.

Lunch

President Obama, Republican leaders find common ground WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Republican leaders in the House agreed Wednesday that their lunch meeting at the White House yielded some common ground.

Obama considered the meeting with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and his top two deputies “constructive” and cited general agreement with them on the need to reduce spending and the deficit, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters.

Vice President Joe Biden and White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley also attended the meeting, Gibbs said.

“It was a very good lunch and we were able to find enough common ground, I think, to show the American people that we’re willing to work on their behalf and to do it together,” Boehner told reporters.

Gibbs, in turn, noted that some outstanding issues needed to be resolved on the Colombia and Panama trade pacts. The White House is hoping the South Korean accord will be approved by Congress in the first half of 2011. Boehner’s top deputy, Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, said the lunch discussion was “fairly robust” and that

the meeting demonstrated general agreement on the need to seriously cut spending — a top priority of House Republicans.

Gibbs said both sides agree that “we have reached a point where we have to do something about what we take in and what we spend, and the great divergence between those two numbers.” But “this process is not going to be an easy one,” he said. “On each side we’re going to have to give a little even on things that are greatly important to us.”

Boehner said he told Obama the House intends to proceed Thursday with consideration of a spending measure that would include more drastic cuts than proposed.

The measure would extend the continuing resolution currently funding the government.

This time, though, House Republicans are proposing cuts that would reduce current government spending levels by more than $30 billion. The White House, meanwhile, is set to release its budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year on Monday.

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Recovery

Gabrielle Giffords regains partial speaking abilities U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, recovering from a gunshot wound to the head sustained Jan. 8, is regaining part of her ability to speak, her spokesman said Wednesday.

C.J. Karamargin would not divulge what Giffords has said, other than saying she asked for toast.

“It’s very good news,” he told CNN. Giffords is at TIRR Memorial Hermann rehabilitation hospital in Houston.

She was moved there late last month from University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona, where she was taken after the shooting at a “Congress on Your Corner” event at a Tucson supermarket.

Six people were killed in the incident, and Giffords was among 13 injured.

Authorities have said they believe Giffords was targeted in the shooting.

A 22-year-old suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, is facing federal charges.

Giffords’ office said she actually spoke her first words before Wednesday morning, but has been speaking more since then.

“The reason for choosing this rehab facility is because of their track record,” Karamargin said.

“They are doing a fabulous job and working with her language and speech exercise and the physical therapy part of it.”

CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta called it “a very important development” for Giffords.

He noted that Giffords was able to follow commands just after the shooting. One of her doctors told CNN Giffords was able to squeeze his hand when he asked her to just after her arrival at the hospital.

And doctors have also said she has been following commands — important, Gupta said, because it shows the ability to understand speech and then execute the command.

But speaking herself “obviously indicates her ability to communicate is there,” he said — meaning she can understand speech and also express

herself.

“It means a lot in terms of one’s overall brain recovery,” Gupta said.

Giffords was shot in the left side of her brain, where major language centers are housed.

Giffords’ husband, Capt. Mark Kelly, told the National Prayer Breakfast last week he was able to be in Washington to speak because her condition “Continues to improve. Every day she gets a little bit better, and the neurosurgeons and neurologists tell me that’s a great sign. The slope of that curve is very important.”

Through much of her recovery, doctors said Giffords was unable to speak because of a breathing tube in her neck.

Doctors at University Medical Center had said they believed she was trying to mouth words.

Kelly resumed training Monday as commander of the space shuttle Endeavour’s upcoming mission.

He announced Friday his plan to return to his crew and resume training, saying Giffords is making progress in speech, occupational and physical therapy.

Kelly spent the days after the shooting at his wife’s hospital bedside, and NASA had named a backup shuttle commander for the mission in case he couldn’t return in time.

But Kelly last week underwent a simulated week of training in Houston, where Giffords is in the rehabilitation hospital, and NASA officials said they were confident that Kelly would be able to resume command of the mission.

Kelly told reporters Friday that he expects Giffords to witness Endeavour’s launch, scheduled for April 19.

With NASA planning to retire the shuttle fleet, this is expected to be Endeavour’s last mission.

“I have every intention for her to be at the launch,” Kelly said.

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Egypt

Mubarak refuses to quit, riots continue CAIRO — Momentum kept up on the 16th day of protests in Egypt as massive crowds once again jammed Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Wednesday.

Fueled by anger at the regime’s incremental concessions and a denunciation of demands for President Hosni Mubarak’s immediate exit, the rowdy demonstrations again drew thousands, many even from other cities and towns.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on PBS NewsHour on Wednesday that the military would be forced to intervene in a political vacuum.

“Do we want the armed forces to assume the responsibility of stabilizing the nation through imposing martial law, and the army in the streets?” Aboul Gheit said.

He urged the protesters to adopt “some rationality” and said the self-proclaimed Council of the Wise, a group of prominent Egyptians from various walks of life, should determine a logical course of action.

Mubarak’s interest was to protect the stability of the nation, influential in the region and the most populous in the Arab world.

“He thinks that it would entail chaos and it would entail violence and it would entail also opportunities for those who would wish to act in a manner to threaten the state, the stability of the country and society,” Gheit said.“He has a constitutional responsibility to defend the constitution and to defend the national security of Egypt.”

But out on the streets of Cairo, the people showed no signs of relenting. They chanted, “Mubarak is a thief.”

Their expanded protests from Tahrir Square forced the government to move parliament to another building, state television said.

The embattled president, meanwhile, went about business as usual Wednesday, meeting

Protestors continue to call for Egyptian President Hosni Mabarak’s resignation. Human Rights Watch has been able to document 302 deaths as a result from the unrest and protests in Egypt. Photo: CNN Wire Service

with his foreign minister and Russia’s deputy foreign minister, state-run television showed.

Two people were killed and others were wounded in clashes with police in southern Egypt, state TV reported. A journalist said the hostilities stemmed from complaints about a member of the police force in Kharga.

In the northern town of Port said, protesters attacked the governor’s building over a land and housing dispute, according to state TV. The protesters returned in full force Wednesday, galvanized the day before by the

tears and words of a Google executive who was seized by security forces and released Monday.

Perhaps the reluctant face of the movement, Wael Ghonim, told CNN Wednesday that “this is no longer the time to negotiate” with the Egyptian government — not after hundreds of lives have been lost over the last two weeks.

Human Rights Watch has been able to document 302 deaths so far since protests erupted on Jan. 25.

“If you are true Egyptians, if you are heroic Egyptians, it’s time to step down,” Ghonim said,

delivering a message to Mubarak’s regime.

Wael Ghonim, a Dubai-based marketing executive, is the administrator of a Facebook page called “We are all Khaled Said,” named after an Alexandria activist who was allegedly beaten to death by police. The page is widely credited with triggering the first protest Jan. 25.

Monday evening, Ghonim’s tearful interview on an Egyptian television channel struck a chord with protesters. The next day, he addressed the crowds at Tahrir Square, inspiring Egyptians to keep up the fight.

“This country, I have said for a long time, this country is our country, and everyone has a right to this country,” he said. “You have a voice in this country. This is not the time for conflicting ideas, or factions, or ideologies. This is the time for us to say one thing only, ‘Egypt is above all else.’”

Another Facebook page created to authorize Ghonim to speak on behalf of the protesters has 150,000 fans.

Mubarak’s regime said Tuesday that it had discussed a number of reforms with leaders of various opposition groups and appointed a panel to look into amending the constitution. But its insistence that the strongman’s immediate exit was a recipe for chaos prompted a public show of frustration from the Obama administration.

A short White House statement on U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s telephone conversation with Vice President Omar Suleiman used the word “immediate” or “immediately” four times.

Biden “urged that the transition produce immediate, irreversible progress that responds to the aspirations of the Egyptian people.”

The statement also hinted the White House harbors doubts as to whether the Egyptian government is seriously committed to reforms, referring to the regime’s statements as “what the government is saying it is prepared to accept.”

Demonstrations

Arab governments implement violent crackdowns

By Josh Levs CNN Wire Service Numerous Arab governments have used violence to quash demonstrations in the wake of mass protests in Egypt, a leading human rights group says in a new report.

Human Rights Watch, which says it conducts “rigorous, objective investigations,” issued the report Tuesday alleging clampdowns by Palestinian leadership, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

“Images of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt have mesmerized the Arab public but have terrified their rulers,” Sarah Leah Whitson, the group’s Middle East and North Africa director, said in a statement. “They have responded with their usual mix of repres-

sion and intimidation to nip the buds of any wider democratic blossoming.”

Human Rights Watch said the Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank, “used violence against peaceful demonstrators” during a rally last week in which people

were supporting the Egyptian protesters.

“Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that regular police and ‘special forces,’ identifiable by their uniforms, punched, kicked and detained participants, as well as at least two journalists and a Human

Rights Watch research assistant,” the report said.

The report added that on Jan. 30, the Palestinian Authority shut down a solidarity demonstration.

Hamas, which controls Gaza, “quashed a solidarity demonstration on Jan. 31,” Human Rights Watch said.

“The police arbitrarily arrested six women and threatened to arrest another 20 people, who had responded to a call on Facebook for a demonstration, as soon as they arrived at the Park of the Unknown Soldier in Gaza City.”

Later, both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas allowed some events supporting solidarity with Egypt to take place.

On Saturday, Palestinians demonstrating in support of Egyptian anti-government protesters, at an approved event in Ramallah, were forcibly dispersed when a few dozen men in civilian clothes disrupted the protest.

A spokesman for the Palestinian Authority security services, Maj. Gen. Adnan Dmeiri, told CNN that that demonstration “had all the permits needed, and it is our duty as the Palestinian security to protect the demonstration, which the police and the security did. Our duty is to protect and serve the people.”

Human Rights Watch said that in Syria, security services briefly detained five young demonstrators at three different protests, and that on Feb. 2, “a group of 20 people in civilian clothing beat and dispersed 15 demonstrators who had assembled in Bab Touma in old Damascus to hold a candlelight vigil for Egyptian demonstrators. Police nearby failed to intervene, one of the gathering’s organizers told Human Rights Watch.

“When demonstrators went to the local police station to file a complaint, a security official insulted and slapped Suheir Atassi, one of the main organizers, and accused her of being a ‘germ’ and an agent of foreign powers. Syria’s security services had summoned more than 10 activists to pressure them not to demonstrate.”

Syria had no immediate public response to the report on its state-run news agency, SANA. A representative of the Syrian Embassy in Washington had no immediate response.

In the United Arab Emirates, Human Rights Watch said, state security arrested Hasan Muhammad alHammadi, who “had spoken out publicly in solidarity with the Egyptian demonstrators” during a mosque sermon. “He remains in detention.”

UAE officials did not immediately respond to a call from CNN.

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New passport for Haiti’s exiled president

By Moni Basu CNN Wire Service

Jean-Betrand Aristide has been exiled for more than seven years. Aristide left Haiti on a U.S. jet in 2004 after a bloody revolt. Photo: CNN Wire Service

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Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti’s ďŹ rst democratically elected president, who has been living in exile in South Africa for seven years, has been issued a new passport to return home, the Haitian Interior Minister said Wednesday.

Paul-Antoine Bien-Aime said the diplomatic passport was handed over to Aristide’s U.S. attorney Ira Kurzban, who picked it up in Port-auPrince Tuesday evening.

That removes a major obstacle that has prevented Aristide from making the journey back. However, Kurzban said last month that Aristide would still need the cooperation of South Africa and the United States to make the journey home.

Kurzban also said last month that Aristide had no intention of re-entering politics. But Washington has already signaled its displeasure. “We do not doubt President Aristide’s desire to help the people of Haiti. But today Haiti needs to focus on its future, not its past,� State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said last month. “This is an important period for Haiti. What it needs is calm, not divisive actions that distract from the task of forming a new government.�

The former Roman Catholic priest, who became a voice for Haiti’s impoverished, remains a polarizing ďŹ gure but commands a large following in his homeland.

Jacob Francois, coordinator for Aristide’s Fanmi Lavalas party in the United States, predicted crowds

would greet Aristide upon his return. “It will be the greatest party of this decade,� Francois said. “Once again the world will see that President Aristide is the most revered politician in the history of Haiti.�

Aristide left Haiti on a U.S. jet in 2004 after a bloody revolt by street gangs and soldiers. The leftist former president said he was shuttled out by Western powers.

Aristide has long expressed his desire to go home. He reiterated that wish just days after former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc� Duvalier returned to Haiti in January. “Once again I express my readiness to leave today, tomorrow, at any time,� Aristide said in a January statement. “The people of Haiti have never stopped calling for my return to Haiti.�

Investigation

Prosecutors seek trial of prime minister Review of the harmful effects of drywall denied

By Hada Messia CNN Wire Staff

By Rich Phillips CNN Wire Service MIAMI — An extended study of the long-term effects of exposure to defective Chinese drywall on people whose homes contained it is not necessary, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has determined.

That decision was made, according to the CDC, because the symptoms that people are suffering from are self-reported and too general and exposure levels are not available. “...The best scientiďŹ c evidence available to us today does not support undertaking a long-term health study,â€? said Bernadette Burden, CDC spokeswoman.

Residents of 42 states, Puerto Rico and America Samoa have complained that Chinese drywall, imported into the United States, have made them sick with chronic sinus and upper respiratory problems, nosebleeds, migraine headaches and other ills. Their sickness, they say, appears to go away once they move out of their homes.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has determined that the drywall emits extraordinarily high levels of hydrogen sulďŹ de, which gives off a pungent rotten-egg smell inside the homes. The sulfur inside the drywall has corroded metallic objects in homes and has caused electrical wiring, appliances and air-conditioning systems to mysteriously fail.

But “the levels of sulfur gases found in environmental samples were generally in low parts-per-billion or parts-pertrillion levels,� Burden said. “It would be extremely difficult to tie [the levels] to health effects. The sample size would not give enough statistical power — at least 10,000 participants would be needed,� she said.

However, the news that the CDC will not investigate the health effects further does not sit well among some homeowners who have the defective wall product.

Eleanor Aguilar had to move out of her, townhome after she believed her walls made her sick with migraines, sinus trouble and nosebleeds . “I’m disgusted. This is something no one has ever had before. Are you gonna put your head in the sand?� she said.

ROME — Italian prosecutors Wednesday formally requested a fast-track trial of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for alleged abuse of power and sex with an underage prostitute, they said.

Judge Cristina di Censo has ďŹ ve days to make a decision on how to proceed now that Milan chief prosecutor Edmundo Bruti Liberati has ďŹ led the application.

She can accept the request, putting the fast-track trial in motion; or dismiss it, allowing investigations to continue to determine whether there is enough evidence for trial.

Berlusconi’s lawyers have argued that the Milan courts do not have jurisdiction — because of where the alleged crimes were committed — or the authority to try a prime minister.

Prosecutors are investigating claims that Berlusconi paid for sex with nightclub dancer Karima El Mahrough, who was 17 at the time of the alleged activity.

Berlusconi dismissed the accusations as “groundless�

Wednesday, saying the call for a trial was a “farce.�

There was no abuse of power, he said.

And he said he was “sorry because these [allegations] have offended the dignity of the country.�

The investigation began in December, after Berlusconi

called police and urged them to release El Mahrough, nicknamed Ruby, from jail, where she was being held on charges of theft.

Prosecutors say the activity took place from February until May 2010. Both El Mahrough, now 18, and Berlusconi have denied they ever had sex.

El Mahrough said she did not know Berlusconi well but that she did receive 7,000 eurosfrom him the ďŹ rst time they met, on Valentine’s Day 2010, because a friend told Berlusconi she needed help.

The young woman’s former roommate told investigators that El Mahrough conďŹ ded to her that she did have a sexual relationship with the premier.

Berlusconi’s party argued that he believed that Ruby was Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s niece and the phone call to the police station on her behalf was done to avoid a possible diplomatic crisis with Egypt.

The lower house of Italy’s parliament voted Thursday against allowing Milan prosecutors to search property belonging to Berlusconi, as part of the investigation.

The prosecutors asked permission last month to search Berlusconi’s offices used by Giuseppe Spinelli, one of the prime minister’s accountants.

Prosecutors suspect Spinelli of paying several young women with cash, jewelry or rent for apartments on behalf of the Italian premier for allegedly providing servic-

es, including prostitution.

Because he is the prime minister and a member of the lower house of parliament, Berlusconi enjoys partial immunity from prosecution. The Milan prosecutors are not allowed to search his property without the consent of parliament.

The parliamentary commission that handles such authorization requests ruled in January that Milanese prose-

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Please stay at home if you are sick

I should have stayed home today.

Were I not solely in charge of editing these wonderful opinions, I’d have spent the day hating life from the comfort of my cozy Tempur-pedic bed.

Instead, I’ve holed up under the opinion desk with my trusty sleeping bag, some Halls cough drops and a comical amount of chicken soup that seems hell-bent on leaving my system in a much more expeditious fashion than when it entered.

I’m a bad example. I can promise you that more than a few of my former microbiology professors are reading this, saying I should know better, and they’re absolutely right.

I’m very sorry, Dr. Cunnick.

Please, allow me the next few paragraphs of pontification and condescension to justify the, “Do as I say” adage: First, some of you are just downright filthy. For the love of all that is holy, do not cough into your hand.

There are two acceptable alternatives to this practice: pull your shirt collar forward then cough downward, or cough into your elbow.

Why? Because you’re not touching every damn thing on this campus with your elbow, that’s why.

Kudos to those at least bothering to cover their coughs. If you’re content to let your disease aerosolize throughout the classrooms and corridors of this fine institution then, on behalf of everyone in my condition, I think I hate you right now.

Wash your hands like a lunatic.

This is something that escapes most of my gender. Thank goodness for women carrying around hand sanitizers in their purses — use that stuff religiously, ladies.

Honestly, if you’re that sick, you can afford to miss class. If there’s a professor on this campus that’s apathetic toward that notion, please, let us know about it. Lord knows I don’t find enough people to holler at in a given week. The doctor’s note is a pipe dream, especially if you’ve got the flu. There’s nothing your doctor can do, and odds are Thielen Health Center can’t see you before it has run its course.

Viruses — the cold, the flu — are nasty little buggers, and treatments are designed to mitigate the symptoms, not the disease itself. That’s what your immune system is for.

Bacteria can pose a much bigger problem, especially nasty stuff like strep or staph.

But don’t be the hypochondriac begging for a Z-pack at the first signs of symptoms. Some bacteria have already found ways to evolve beyond the efficacy of our first-line antibiotics, and many microbiologists suspect it’s due to the abundance of antibiotic soaps and overzealous prescription-writing.

If that doesn’t scare you, Google “New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase.”

Stay home. Eat soup. Drink NyQuil. Don’t come to school.

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Pursue a better fullness of life through activity

W

alking to the checkout in any commercial grocery or department store in the United States, one invariably encounters a slough of scantily clad persons gracing the covers of fitness and lifestyle magazines.

Their faces hold placard smiles as their selectively posed physiques offer credence to the articles contained inside, offering new ways to “shed pounds and inches” and “get the body the ladies love” or “six easy weeks to your beach body.”

I, like any curious buffoon, dethroned several of these glossy tomes and took some time to read up on just what newly discovered fitness secrets could transform me from a lowly chemical engineering student into a muscle clad Adonis.

So, I read and read and read past numerous ads for chemical supplements and innumerous veins, and smiling over tanned women. I read programs for building bigger arms, for helping women lose weight in time for bikini season and for toning those tough spots.

I read men’s magazines, women’s magazines, bodybuilding magazines and health magazines; after all of the information I had gathered, I found the only consistent agreement among all of these authors was that their method was the best, and everyone else was wrong. “Where’s your data?” The answer I got was an ugly one.

Most articles in fitness magazines aren’t peer reviewed, and many of the programs in them are not even clinically tested.

Really? It hardly seems fair that a magazine can promise so much from a physical program based on so little information.

So, how does a person become more fit? Is it by dancing about in front of their Wii fit? Does it happen doing 200 reps in a minute with the shake weight? So, I decided to ask the fittest man I knew.

For three years I had watched my judo instructor — a tiny, Caucasian, 5-foot-2-inch, 160-pound medical salesmen — pull hundreds of pounds from the floor in the dead lift, do

handstand pushups in sets of sometimes 20 or 30, and throw around opponents easily twice his size on the mats.

But it wasn’t just his physicality that made me think he’d be the person to ask about fitness training, it was his method of teaching. In class he presented everything from chokes and leg locks to throws with an uncanny level of technical detail; yet, in spite of this he would always remind us that, “The goal is that the guy taps out. You’ve got to make the technique work for you, make it your own. Your judo won’t be the same as my judo.”

So, with this open minded, extremely knowledgeable mentor, I thought I would begin my excursion into real physical training, but often when I would put a question to him about physiology or exercise, his response would be the ever frustrating, “Get a book on it,” or “You just need to figure it out.”

So I did. I read about dead lifts and squats, devoured information about the Russian kettlebell and looked at physical training manuals as far back as the 1880s, and after a long while, began to become — at least in a meager sense — physically cultured. What I learned there, but I never saw in these fitness magazines, were the undeniable principles of exercise.

Firstly, form and technique matter. Learning exercise technique is to physical training what learning to read is to becoming educated: An utter necessity. This I cannot emphasize enough.

In “Starting Strength” by Mark Rippetoe, the chapter entitled “The Squat” is 56 pages long.

Last month, I saw the squat demonstrated in three picture boxes in a magazine under the heading, “Learn How to Squat.” A magazine is simply insufficient to teach you how to lift or run. A book is better, and a qualified coach is best. At a typical Russian kettlebell seminar, the trainer is so thorough that it will take several hours to explain and practice only two or three exercises.

Secondly, your body seeks equilibrium and changes in response to stimulus. If you don’t increase the stimulus on your body in any capacity, your body will not change. That is to say, if you’re not lifting more, running harder or longer or doing more work, you’re not going to improve. This seems painfully obvious, but I continually hear complaints from other men

and women in the gymnasium to the effect of, “I don’t understand why I’m not losing weight, I run two miles every day.” The simple answer is that their body has equilibrated with their daily two miles. Perhaps it’s time for that third mile or better yet, a set of squats.

Thirdly, lifting weight is not bad; in fact, it is necessary. As humans, we evolved from a species that exerted itself on a daily basis by chasing down it’s food, escaping predators and building shelters from their bare hands. Simply put, fulfilling our physical nature requires that we bear a load; a strenuous, awkward, ugly amount of weight.

Unfortunately, nature did not provide us with perfectly shaped rocks and sticks at low weights that we could pick up over and over again in intermittent sets with which to make our homes. We moved things with our muscles, and not just with our bulging biceps or our pretty runner’s thighs. We moved them with every muscle of our bodies from our toes to the very tips of our fingers.

Fourth, chemical supplements are not a substitute for hard work. Even anabolic steroids, if taken by a sedentary human being will have little effect in personal transformation.

Effort is the fuel for success, and there is no direct chemical substitute.

Fifth, set a quantifiable goal. How the opposite sex responds to your scantily clad presence is not a quantifiable goal. How much weight you can squat, how fast you run or how many kettlebell snatches you can do in 10 minutes are all examples of goals that can be measured. The measurement is proof of your improvement and your methods, or proof that you need to alter your program.

Lastly, and most importantly, learn to listen to your body. Learn to distinguish pain from injury, good fatigue from over exertion, too much training from too little. Learn to heed the voice of rest when it calls you to bed, and learn to ignore the temptation of fatigue as it begs you to quit your run a mile early.

Perhaps the most valuable result of physical training is the integration of the body and the mind, resulting in a completely healthy human being. Pursue a better fullness of life through physical culture rather than that ever evasive six pack abdomen.

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or those of you who haven’t yet taken an interest, Valentine’s Day is coming up fairly quickly; Monday, Feb. 14, to be exact. Last year I wrote about the history of this event. Although there are a few conflicting theories about the origin of Valentine’s Day, the general idea is for lovers to swap “valentines” to openly express their love to one another in a gesture of courtly love.

Nowadays, Valentine’s Day is been more of a corporate holiday than anything else. Aboutflowers.com estimates about 198 million roses were produced for the occasion in 2010. “Chocolate and candy sales reach profits of $1,011 billion during Valentine’s Day,” according to allbestideas.com. Consumerism at its best.

One-hundred-ninety-eight million roses and $1,011 billion, and for what? To tell someone you love them? Our school systems start us out young, making each and every one of us to cut out paper hearts and decorate paper bags so our parents can spend money on candy and cards to pass out to the entire class. It seems so ridiculous when you see the numbers in black and white. What could America have done with those billion dollars if not for valentines? I don’t even want to think about it.

On the bright side, we can still continue to celebrate Valentine’s Day. After all, who doesn’t want one day where men can serenade their crush with a song they’ve been making up all year and look romantic and not stalkerish; or dress up and go out to dinner, just because.

For that one day, the world slows down just a little bit. Couples think about the hardships they may have overcome. Maybe someone finds the right moment to pop the question, or finally ask his or her crush out on a date. For that one day, that one moment, nothing matters but the two of you.

OK, so maybe I sound a little obsessed, but I’m tired of people who keep telling me they don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day because it’s a corporate holiday. Who said it was a requirement to spend money?

There are plenty of fun and fairly inexpensive options to celebrate the day in Ames and Des Moines.

Free options are, of course, the traditions of kissing under the Campanile at midnight or walking around Lake Laverne. Bowling at the Memorial Union is always a cheap option, especially if you use your student discount. Ice skating that the Ames/ ISU Ice Arena isn’t too expensive and could be cute.

What about going sledding and creating snowmen, then sharing steaming mugs of hot cocoa?

It might be snowy outside, but Reiman Gardens still has plenty to look at inside and is free to ISU students that show their card. Plus, it’s a good place to take pictures. The cheap theater inside North Grand Mall is a decent theater, but still remember to bring your own snacks.

Now for dinner, this is the part I like. I am a fan of either going out to nice restaurants on date nights or staying in and making something together.

Restaurant.com offers a $25 gift card to Legends in Ames for only $10, as long as the bill is at least $40.

The site offers many discounts to restaurants closer to Des Moines as well. Perhaps the weekend before, as a couple, you could spend a day or the whole weekend in the “big” city. Browse Jordan Creek Mall, visit the Science Center of Iowa, get a discounted gift card to a restaurant, go ice skating at Brenton Skating Plaza; the ideas are limitless.

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ebruary 12, 2011, marks just more than 200 years since the birth of a man who revolutionized our understanding of the natural world.

This year is the 202nd birthday of Charles Darwin, whose work is now considered the most fundamental concept of biology.

The scientific community has made Darwin’s birthday into an occasion honoring scientific achievement and knowledge.

The International Darwin Day Foundation states, “Darwin Day is a global celebration of science and reason held on or around Feb. 12, the birthday anniversary of evolutionary biologist, Charles Darwin.”

The first public celebration of Darwin Day was sponsored by the Stanford Humanists and the Palo Alto Humanist Community in California in 1995.

Despite the fact intellectuals around the world will be throwing birthday parties, hosting events, lectures, discussions and debates to illuminate the impact evolution has on modern science, evolutionary theory and the workings of natural selection are concepts drastically misunderstood by the average American.

The Pew Research Center reports that 97 percent of scientists will agree humans and other organisms have evolved over time. In spite of overwhelming consensus among the most educated minds in our country, only 32 percent of the public will admit that life on Earth has evolved through natural processes and selection. Another third of the public rejects evolution outright, claiming humans and other animals have always existed in their present form, while 22 percent will say that evolution was a process guided by a supreme being.

It is almost pitiful, this lack of public acceptance about such an integral scientific concept. In comparing public acceptance of evolution among 32 European countries, the U.S. and Japan, only Turkey lags behind the U.S. in the acceptance of evolution. It truly baffles me how otherwise relatively intelligent people can blatantly refuse to acknowledge the scientific basis and evidence for evolution.

Just a few days ago, I was having a casual conversation with a classmate about the subjects covered in my Anthropology 202 course, one of which is human

evolution. The young man stated his belief that fossils found of early humans or primate ancestors were either apes or humans, but not intermediates or hominin.

I can pull out my anthropology textbook and point to entire chapters dedicated to tracing our human roots back to earlier forms. There is abundant fossil evidence dating back millions of years of skeletons that are neither apes, nor man, but some distant relative of both in their evolutionary history — the fossils Ardi and Lucy, to name a few — not to mention the vast amount of genetic evidence from DNA sequencing, and a host of other supporting facts.

One question I am then faced with is, “What does this young man think he knows, that he can disagree with respected experts in an entire branch of science?”

Please, share your evidence with the scientific community that shows the fossil record is completely misinterpreted.

To assume that one first-year college student has more insight into the fossil record that those that have dedicated their life to it seems presumptuous in the extreme. Just because the scientific support for evolution does not mesh with your personal belief doesn’t mean the evidence is wrong.

With that said, let’s take a look at some of the scientific advancements and discoveries we have made with our understanding of biological evolution — the change in genetic frequencies over time in populations.

What do we owe to Darwin and those that followed him? For one thing, we owe that lovely jab we get each flu season to the constantly evolving flu virus. Our knowledge of how viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens adapt to avoid our vaccines and antibiotics comes from understanding evolution.

This is also why agricultural pests seem to inevitably find a way around pesticides and sprays. Those corn borers that have a natural resistance to pesticides will live to reproduce, passing on their resistance to offspring. This ever-changing natural world demands that we adapt and change with it.

As much as I would like to go into an in-depth explanation of evolution, natural selection and their evidences, an opin-

Charles Darwin’s birthday is Feb. 12. It marks a day to remember the great work he did in biology. Courtesy photo: Wikimedia Commons

ion article is not the place to give a lecture on concepts that span textbooks. Nor could I do so as eloquently and clearly or as credibly as some of the great scientists of our time. However, I will recommend a few books for inquiring minds.

The book “Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul” by Kenneth R. Miller provides a thorough refutation of intelligent design, and a succinct explanation of evolution. I have also heard “Why Evolution is True” by Jerry A. Coyne is quite good, though I have yet to read it myself. For those of you that want a briefer version, there is always the Internet.

Despite the multitude of books on the subject and the undeniable scientific consensus, the fact that a significant portion of the American public turns a blind eye to evolution and re-

fuses to accept its validity and significance is a tragedy.

They not only proceed through life with a false view of our rich evolutionary heritage, but they commit the larger crime of simply refusing to acknowledge scientific thought, reason, and fact.

Do yourself a favor and do the rest of us a favor: Take this Darwin Day to talk to a biology professor, an anthropology professor or read an acclaimed book on evolution. Be open to changing your impression if the facts presented are valid.

Evolution is a wonderfully simple concept when understood correctly and is overflowing with support. Natural selection guides the changing of organisms into vastly different species, and understanding this leads to a true appreciation of our world and all of our relatives that it contains.

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Second straight loss in overtime bout

By David.Merrill iowastatedaily.com Iowa State suffered its second straight loss Wednesday night against Kansas in Lawrence, 86-85 in overtime.

This loss marked another road loss in heartbreaking fashion.

Senior shooting guard Kelsey Bolte hit a three-pointer with 35 seconds left to tie the game at 78-78. That shot eventually forced overtime.

Iowa State (16-7, 4-5 in Big 12) was down by 15 at one point in the second half and battled back.

Iowa State held an 85-84 lead and had possession of the ball with seven seconds remaining in the overtime, but Bolte received the inbound pass and lost the ball out of bounds off her foot.

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Davis missed the free throw, but Iowa State was unable to get off a shot before the final buzzer sounded.

ISU coach Bill Fennelly felt execution is key down the stretch in close games such as these.

“It comes down to making the plays that you have to make in tough times,” Fennelly said

during a post-game interview on 1430 KASI. Davis had an excellent game for the Jayhawks, as she posted 31 points and eight rebounds. She shot 11-of-17 from the field and 9-15 from the free throw line. Monica Engelman and Angel Goodrich chipped in 12 and 11 points for Kansas.

As a team, they had one of their better shooting performances of the season. The

Jayhawks shot 54 percent from the field and 50 percent from behind the three-point.

Bolte finished the game with a team-high 26 points to go with her six rebounds.

Sophomore forward Chelsea Poppens finished with 21 points, 14 in the first half, and six rebounds. Freshman forward Hallie Christofferson had a solid performance with 21 points and eight rebounds.

Hockey

Cyclone represents America Hudson, Murdoch travel to Turkey for international event

By Dan.Kassan iowastatedaily.com Eight hours time difference in a foreign country and being served fish with the head and eyes intact doesn’t sound like a dream getaway. But for ISU senior goaltender Erik Hudson, the trip meant much more than bizarre cuisine. It meant he would represent his country on a worldwide stage.

Hudson joined coach Al Murdoch and traveled to Erzurum, Turkey, for the World University Games, a showcase of some of the best college athletes from around the world. Hudson was named the starting goaltender for Team USA, and Murdoch was general manager.

“It was an honor,” Hudson said.

“It gave us a lot of motivation during the game, you know, playing for each other and playing in an international country we’re not used to being in.”

Team USA included players Hudson is used to seeing, such as a couple players from rival Lindenwood University. Team USA played a few exhibition games before departing for Turkey and beginning the tournament.

In the preliminary round, a 7-3 victory over Slovakia on Jan. 30 avenged an opening-game shutout to Kazakhstan two days earlier. Team USA finished the preliminary round with a win over Spain. Murdoch acknowledged the level of competition.

“There was no fear on the part of any USA hockey player,” said Murdoch. “I think in the past they were maybe a little bit in awe. Now the players on Team USA know we’re as good as any team in the world and if we just played to the best of our ability, everything else would take care of itself.”

Murdoch stayed in the arena most of the day, watching his team and oth-

Goalie Erik Hudson stops a shot by a Lindenwood opponent during the match Dec. 3, at the Ames/ISU Ice Arena. Hudson has been the goalie for Team USA at the World University Games in Turkey. File Photo: Rebekka Brown/Iowa State Daily

er teams practice, as well as the games itself. As general manager, Murdoch made sure the coaches had everything necessary, as well as providing accommodations and meals for the team. Erzurum rests more than a mile above sea level, so Murdoch also had to make sure players like Hudson adjusted properly to the thinner air.

“It’s harder to breathe out on the ice,” Hudson said. “We adjusted pretty quickly. We got there Tuesday or Wednesday, and by Friday we were ready to go. It was definitely an interesting experience.”

In the quarterfinals, Team USA and Belarus were tied 3-3 after two periods. But Belarus scored three unanswered to put away the Americans.

That put Team USA into a battle with Japan in the classification round Feb. 4. Team USA had never beaten Japan at the World University Games.

Hudson stood between the pipes as the boys in red, white and blue in front of him gutted out a 5-3 victory

ISU goalie Erik Hudson, left, stands with coach Al Murdoch in Turkey. Hudson played goalie for Team USA at the World University games held in Turkey.

Murdoch was the team’s general manager. Courtesy photo: Erik Hudson

for Team USA, with Hudson stopping 36 of 39 shots.

“I think I played one of my best

games all season,” Hudson said.

“Japan was a good team. They were fast, one of the fastest teams I’ve ever

seen in my life and it was a good time.

I thought I played pretty well but obviously I had a pretty good team in front of me to help me and support me.”

Murdoch described the game as his best memory of the whole tournament. “[Hudson] was the big reason we won that game,” Murdoch said.

“They’re becoming a world power in hockey. They played exceptionally well and I was really proud of Erik Hudson beating Japan for the first time. There are certain goals that you want to achieve, sort of a bucket list type of thing — that was one of them.”

The victory over Japan assured Team USA of its best finish ever at the Games. They ended their run in the fifth-place game with a tough 4-3 defeat at the hands of Slovakia. It’s a sixth-place finish for a team not expected to finish higher than the 2009 ninth-place team.

“Hudson played really well. I thought he was one of the best goaltenders of the tournament,” Murdoch said. “I was real proud of Team USA. I’ve been doing this since 2001, and every year Team USA has gotten better.”

Twelve countries sent hockey teams to the tournament, including powerhouses like Russia and Canada, as well as lesser-known teams like the host, Turkey. The athletes stayed in a designated village, much like the Olympics. From the Opening Ceremonies in a 40,000-seat stadium to the diversity of the athlete’s village, Hudson tried his hardest to soak it all in.

“It really hit me when I realized how many countries were there and how we can all get together for a hockey tournament,” Hudson said. “It was an honor. Two and a half weeks went by super fast. I would give up, I would sacrifice a lot to do it again and hope I get to.”

As for the fish glaring off the plate?

“That kinda threw me off, because they were looking right at me,” Hudson said. “It broadened my horizon, as far as cultural diversity. I guess you could say that.”

Softball

Home invitational will test new roster

By Zach.Gourley iowastatedaily.com For the first time in the Stacy GemeinhardtCesler coaching era, the ISU softball team will get to play their first game of the season at its home field.

The Cyclone Indoor Invitational will be held at Bergstrom Indoor Training Facility from Friday to Sunday. The Cyclones will face teams from Creighton, Western Illinois, South Dakota State and Valparaiso.

“What a great opportunity for us to play at home,” Gemeinhardt-Cesler said. “We haven’t played at home probably ever as a weekend opener.”

For exactly half of the Cyclones’ 20-player roster, the team’s Friday match-up against the Creighton Blue Jays will be their first collegiate softball experience.

“Being a freshman, it’s kind of an ignorance is bliss type situation,” Gemeinhardt Cesler said. “All they have to do is just go out and play.”

The Cyclones have an experienced duo of seniors, pitcher Rachel Zabriskie and outfielder Carleigh Berry, to lead the team with the help of several of last season’s returners.

Zabriskie ran up a 20-17 record as junior, registering 255 strikeouts and had an ERA of

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Cyclone Indoor Invitational Where: Bergstrom Indoor Training Facility When: Friday, Saturday and Sunday Notes: Iowa State will host its first openingweekend tournament under coach Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler. The Cyclones will play six games.

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Berry, a speedster with a .288 batting average last year, currently needs 10 more steals to pass the ISU all-time record of 48 held by Adi Blackmon, who played for the Cyclones from 2000 to 2003.

“Last year, we had five seniors so none of us had to be in leadership roles, not even Carleigh [Berry] and I. Transitioning to that is kind of difficult,” Zabriskie said.

“But this is the best mesh of a team that I’ve been on since I got to Iowa State. I don’t want to say this is a coachable group, because I’m not a coach, but they have been very willing to learn

ISU outfielder Carleigh Berry takes a swing during the game against Drake on April 6 at the Southwest Athletic Complex. File photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily

and get better.”

Gemeinhardt-Cesler has also pointed to junior Heidi Kidwell as one of the leaders of the team, calling Kidwell, who will bat the lead-off position, a “leader by example.”

Zabriskie, Kidwell, Berry and sophomore

Erica Miller are the only players taking the field this weekend for the Cyclones who started more than half of the 55 games last season.

Gemeinhardt-Cesler said she thinks her team is ready to “just have a good time and let it rip.”

Sports Jargon of the Day: PR

SPORT: Track and field

DEFINITION: An abbreviation normally used to indicate when an athlete reached

a personal record in a race or competition.

USE: It seems like every time Usain Bolt hits the track, he goes out

and gets another PR.

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Tennis

Team locks in dynamic doubles pairs, sets roster Puebla settles in as assistant coach, adjusts to indoor play

By Dan.Martin iowastatedaily.com The ISU women’s tennis team will be in Milwaukee this weekend to take on Marquette on Friday and Western Michigan on Saturday.

The Cyclone women have gone 2-3 against Division-1 opponents so far this spring, as have been in the process of adjusting their lineups trying to ďŹ nd the most dynamic doubles pairs.

The coaches said they are now close to ďŹ nalizing the lineups and this weekend should be the last of the testing. “We are pretty close to ďŹ nalizing the partners,â€? said coach Armando Espinosa. “We have two of the three

teams decided for sure. We’re still kinda ďŹ guring out the third one.â€?

Maria Macedo and Tessa Lang along with Simona and Erin Karonis are the two double duos locked in.

Marquette will be a good test for the Cyclones as they try to continue to improve their game and teamwork. “It’s going to be tough, they have a very good team, and are very competitive,� Espinosa said. “We played them last year and we beat them 4-3 so it was very close. They have very good doubles and we are expecting to play some very tough games.�

The Cyclone women have already seen Western Michigan this season as they competed against them in the Western Michigan Super Challenge in November. Western Michigan got the better of the Cyclones in that matchup. “We’ve already had the opportunity to play them once this year already in the fall so we kind of know what

to expect,� Espinosa said. “We didn’t have everyone there last time, and we will have everyone there this time so that will be good for us. It should be another tough fun match for us.�

As the players have been using the opening matches this spring to get used to the level of competition and playing with new doubles partners, they have also been adjusting to the change of assistant coaches.

A month after ďŹ lling the void left

by Chris Williams, assistant coach Rodrigo Puebla feels that things are settling into a comfort zone. “When you see someone every day you get to know them pretty well,�

Puebla said. “It’s been different coaching here, especially the change from outdoor play to almost entirely indoor play, but it’s been a lot of fun. We are getting better at ďŹ nding ways to do things better on the court. We are learning to make the quick adjustments we have

ISU senior Erin Karonis sends the ball over the net during a meet against Nebraska. The Cyclones travel to Milwaukee for meets with Marquette and Western Michigan. File photo: Rebekka Brown/Iowa State Daily

to during games.�

The team has tended to start off slow so and then ďŹ nish very strong this spring. If they can start off well and then keep it up they should be in good shape.

“We have to try to get off to a good start,� Espinosa said.

The competition will kick off at 4 p.m. Friday as Iowa State takes on Marquette. The Western Michigan match will start at noon Saturday.

Track and field

Cyclones look forward to hosting Iowa State Classic Ihmels continues to improve, Thorgaard ready for challenging races

Lied Recreation Center will house tough competition

By Sally.Donlin iowastatedaily.com

By Sally.Donlin iowastatedaily.com

The ISU women’s track team is preparing to host the Iowa State Classic held at the Lied Recreation Center on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Coach Corey Ihmels looks forward to seeing great things from freshman high jumper and Cyclone volleyball player Hannah Willms. “She’s competed well each weekend and continues to do a great job,� Ihmels said. “I anticipate her to just keep doing what she’s doing and continue having fun doing it.�

Willms came in fourth place last weekend at the Husker Invitational with a jump of 5 feet, 08.75 inches. She is looking to improve her score from last week by an inch. “I’m excited for it,� said Willms. “There’s a lot of competition so it should be fun.�

Freshman Kersten Thorgaard did well in the mile last weekend placing ďŹ fth overall in addition to scoring a new personal best. She won her heat with the time of 5:08:54. “I think Kersten is going to have a better experience running in a more competitive race,â€? said assistant coach Kristy Popp. “She hasn’t had the opportunity to run the 800-[meter] for a few weeks so I think getting her in a fast, competitive heat I think she’ll have the chance to do some big things.â€?

The ISU men’s track and ďŹ eld team is looking forward to hosting the annual Iowa State Classic on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, which will take place in the Lied Recreation Center.

After having a successful road meet last weekend, the team is working to keep up the good times and scores when facing some Big 12 competition in this meet.

ISU distance runners stayed back from the Husker Invitational last weekend, but now the entire squad is looking forward to having a good race the home meet. “It’s a big race but I’m mostly focusing toward the Big 12’s than this race so I’m just excited to run this race and see how I do,� said distance runner Hillary Bor. “Last week we were able to do a lot of good work outs so it was good to get some good

Taylor Petersen competes in the distance medley relay Jan. 21 during the ISU Open. File Photo: David Derong/Iowa State Daily

The ISU track and ďŹ eld teams will face competition from in-state rivals Iowa, Northern Iowa and Drake, as well as Big 12 North rivals Kansas, Kansas State and Missouri. Also arriving to Lied will be No. 9 Auburn. Action will begin at 12:30 p.m. with multi-events. “It’s a lot of work,â€? Ihmels said. “We have great officials that volunteer their time. If it wasn’t for a great staff and great officials, the week would be a lot harder than it is.â€?

Men’s basketball

Basketball recruit withdraws from school 2011 ISU basketball signee Elgin Cook has withdrawn from Milwaukee Hamilton High School.

The 6-foot-6-inch high school senior is no longer attending school in Wisconsin, his coach told the Milwaukee JournalSentinel on Wednesday. Cook had been averaging 19 points a game for the Hamilton Wildcats before leaving school for what the Journal-Sentinel reported were personal reasons. “Elgin is a decent kid. He’s safe. That’s the most important thing,� Cook’s coach, Tom Diener told the Journal-Sentinel.

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Hilary Bor, running in second place, competes at the Bill Bergan Invitational Jan. 29 at Lied Recreation Athletic Center.

Bor and the Cyclones will compete in the Iowa State Classic starting Thursday. File Photo: Rebekka Brown/Iowa State Daily

training in and rest over the weekend.�

Coach Corey Ihmels is expecting positive improvement from the men’s 4x400 relay. The team of Ian Warner, Elphas Sang, Clint Martin and Alvin Garnett placed second with the time of 3:14.42 at last week’s Husker Invitational. They came in just .04 seconds behind Colorado’s relay team.

Ihmels has mixed feeling about hosting this giant event. “It’s one of those weeks

where you love it and you hate it,� Ihmels said. “You love because it’s at home and it’s one of the best events in the country, and you hate it because it’s a lot of work.�

The ISU men’s track team will be facing some tough competition from No. 1 Florida and No. 11 Auburn; in-state rivals Iowa; Northern Iowa and Drake, in addition to Big 12 North rivals Kansas, Kansas State and Missouri.

Multi-event action will kick off the Iowa State Classic at 12:30 p.m. Thursday.

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Tyler Roney (left), Sam Edster,and Brittany Konradi, all meteorology majors, use Google to find answers to random questions in six minutes. They, along with other agronomy majors, were part of team “Don’t Choke Under the Weight of the Column of Air Above You,” which was laughed at during the dodgeball game. File Photo: Rebekka Brown /Iowa State Daily.

The members of “The next 26 hours are the only time every year that Google’s DNS server gets more access than your mom.” Search for an answer during Kaleidoquiz 2010, on March 5 and 6, 2010. Kaleidoquiz is a 26-hour event that pits teams against one another to answer questions put out by KURE, the student-run radio station.

File Photo: Yue Wu/Iowa State Daily

Event tweaked to meet needs 2011 Kaleidoquiz will include more hands-on games, on-air notification information

By Allison Suesse Ames247 Writer Iowa’s longest running trivia, games and montage radio competition is prepping for its 45 year. Throughout the years, the event has been tweaked slightly to suit current students’ needs, and this year is no different.

The Kaleidoquiz 2011 will include more hands-on games than in previous years. For example, the KQ committee boosted the number of scavenger hunts to three. Trevin Ward, KQ director, said he wanted to focus on events in the competition that included group participation. As a former KQ competitor, Ward mentioned group events were most memorable.

“Those were the events I remembered most fondly,” Ward said. “Where people felt a sense of inclusion.”

Also in place this year will be a shift from sending notifications to teams via e-mail or Twitter, to broadcasting those messages on the air. Since its inception in the late 1960s, KQ has been first and foremost a radio contest. Past KQ competitors said they wanted more focus on the radio and less information disseminated online.

“We want to ensure that someone on a team can listen to the radio and get an idea of who their team is doing, even if they’re not at team headquarters,” Ward said.

In addition to changes teams, the KQ committee also implemented a new behind-the-scenes producer position, which Ward anticipated will make the competition run more smoothly.

Kaleidoquiz is, essentially, exactly what it sounds like: a whirlwind 26- event broadcast over 88.5 KURE that features trivia, games and montages. Teams of about 20 members compete by participating in events such as a scavenger hunt, which includes searching for obscure items like “Gary Gygax’s favorite platonic solids.”

Kaleidoquiz examples Throughout Kaleidoquiz, teams must answer a new question every six minutes. Here are three samples of the more than 200 that were asked last year: 10 points Question: Gum was first made from extract of __ __ __ which was used as a base in chewing gum?

Answer: Birch bark tar 30 points Question: If not read carefully you might think this 2010 album is encouraging flings when really its about monogamy. What is the name of this artist?

Answer: Hot Chip 50 points Question: In the second season of the original “Star Trek,” how many times does Bones say “He’s dead Jim?” Answer: 10

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Team Scavenger Hunt List Team Scavenger Hunt List Here are some items that you will need for Kaleidoquiz 2011. Though you may not need all of them, you’ll certainly be asked to find more.

Liz Suess, leader of the agronomy team “Don’t Choke Under the Weight of the Column of Air Above You,” celebrates a correct answer to the question, “What time did Tom’s alarm clock go off?” The question was one of many from the movie “500 Days of Summer,” along with other questions about ISU professors and forgotten TV shows. File Photo: Rebekka Brown /Iowa State Daily

“There are a million and a half aspects for this 26hour event,” said Rachel Johnson, assistant director of Kaleidoquiz and senior in literature and political science.

Johnson, along with other members of KURE, began official preparations for the event in November. The committee is working on creating a schedule of events and is in the process of reserving equipment and rooms for the event, which takes place March 4 to 5.

Those interested in registering a team for KQ may do so prior to Feb. 18. The fee is $30 per team and $35 for late registrations. The last day to sign up is March 2.

“This is a highly competitive event, but it’s a lot of fun,” Johnson said, adding that teams should stay hydrated and delegate responsibilities.

“Make it more of a team effort and pay attention,” she said. “We’re notorious for throwing curve balls.”

Laura Anderson, freshman in meteorology, helps answer random questions such as, “819 is a gillig, what’s 994?” during the Kaleidoquiz 2010 event held 5 p.m. March 5, til 6 p.m. March 6. Photo: Rebekka Brown /Iowa State Daily.

Events

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

“The Vagina Monologues”

ISU Honor Orchestra

When: 6 p.m.

Where: Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union Cost: $12 for students, $15 for the public

When: 3 p.m.

Where: Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, Music Hall Cost: $2 for students, $4 for adults

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Someone(s) older than 21 Full production film crew Three drivers Runners Music guru Movie guru Dancers Ability to reach the Koprulu Sector in the most modern of craft Someone with a face (and voice!) for radio.

Twister Seven brooms, Nimbus 2000 not required An MP3 Player Gary Gygax’s favorite platonic solids Douglas Adams’ Complete Works A first class chef Your favorite time traveler A personal appeal from Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Two people who have taken SafeFood 101

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Nathan Gogo, (floor) freshman in meteorology, sleeps clueless to his surroundings, as his peers laugh and take pictures in the Map Room in Agronomy. File photo: Rebekka Brown /Iowa State Daily.

SATURDAY The Blend w/ Lazlo Supreme and Toussaint Morrison When: 10 p.m.

Where: Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union Cost: Free for students, $5 for public; tickets available at the door

play Songs to get you list prepped for this year’s Live @ VEISHEA concerts “How Far Do You Wanna Go?” Gloriana “The Way You Move” Big Boi “No One Said It Would Be Easy” Cloud Cult “Keep Your Head Up” Andy Grammer “Don’t Wake Me” Love and Theft “I Just Wanna Run” The

Downtown Fiction “Airplanes” The Ready Set “1983” Neon Trees “Wild At Heart” Gloriana “Daddy Fat Sax” Big Boi

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Cosplay on campus goes beyond anime

By Tim Greene Ames247 Writer Even with more than 800 student organizations on campus, Cosplay x Conflagration stands out from the rest.

Encompassing upwards of 35 students, this ISU club serves as an outlet for people to share their love of costuming and explore cultural aspects of international clothing styles.

Costuming as different characters from popular culture might seem like a strange way to pass the time. But then again how many costume or theme parties have you attended in your college career?

From “white trash” parties to the different themes at BOOTYTRONIC events, college students are no strangers to dressing up. And it’s not all in the name of ironic humor.

The uncanny resistance of the legions of Heath-Ledgerinspired Joker costumes during Halloween shows that people genuinely enjoy dressing up as fictional characters they admire.

Despite prior beliefs, cosplay is not all about anime, manga and Japanese characters and the organization openly accepts fans of all interests.

“Because cosplay is originally a Japanese concept, a lot

of people think that you have to play Japanese comic book or video game characters,” said Stefanie Dao, junior in integrated studio arts. “Actually it is open to anything and we encourage all different kinds of costumes. The phrase [cosplay] itself is short for ‘costume play,’ and there aren’t any limits.”

Nancy Acosta, Cosplay x Conflagration member and senior in linguistics, believes costuming as modern characters from pop culture are important in developing identities for new generations.

Making costumes of characters from mainly Japanese animation, comics or video games is just as valid and awesome as making costumes of historical eras, Acosta said.

“There are people who have become famous because of their cosplay and have even gotten high-profile jobs, like Alodia Gosiengfiao of the Phillipines and Francesca Dani of Italy.

For students looking to travel and network outside of campus, Cosplay x Conflagration voyages to different conventions and events around the Midwest.

“I have attended Anime Detour in Minnesota, Nakakon in Kansas City, Anime Iowa in Cedar Rapids, and

Richard Rojas, senior in electrical engineering (left), displays two of his handmade armor suits from the “Halo” video game series.

Photo courtesy: Richard Rojas

Nebraskon in Omaha. Each one is different in its own way,” said Richard Rojas, senior in electrical engineering.

“Everyone usually gets along pretty well from the start because you already have an ice breaker, liking anime or video games. Each convention you make a new list of friends and you get to see a lot of old ones.”

Students that consider themselves less than skilled at sewing or other forms of costume creation can make use of biweekly meetings and receive tips from senior members.

“Every other week we have an official meeting where one

of the members with experience will give a seminar about something in cosplay. Some of them were ‘how to do a cheap cosplay,’ ‘how to make props,’ and ‘lantern painting,’” said Kyle Mooney, freshmen in electrical engineering. “On the weeks we don’t have official meetings we have social meetings where we just get together, talk and watch anime.”

Cosplay x Conflagration extends Halloween throughout the year and is a great way to find like-minded individuals that believe one day of costuming is not nearly enough.

“Socially, this is a great way

Stefanie Dao, junior in integrated studio arts, poses as a character from the video game “Kingdom Hearts II.” Photo courtesy: Stefanie Dao

to make more friends and have a good time. Culturally, the cosplay aspect — of anime, manga, and video games — is a culture all its own and is vibrant with personalities, stories, and super-sweet costumes,” said

Jennifer Lambert, senior in anthropology.

For more information on the club, visit its website, http://www.stuorg.iastate. edu/cosplayx/ or check out their Facebook group.

MUSIC Calendar Friday

Dueling Guitars and Mason Jars w/ Brad Seidenfeld and Brian Congdon Classic covers 10 p.m. at Mother’s Pub $3, 21+

Joe and Vicki Price Country blues 9 p.m. at Mother’s Pub 21+

Snacks Eclectic piano rock 10 p.m. at Headliners 21+

MOVIE Calendar Movies 12, 1317 Buckeye Ave. North Grand 5, 2801 North Grand Ave., North Grand Mall

New in theaters “Gnomeo and Juliet” (G, 84 min.) Movies 12, animated “Just Go with It” (PG-13, 117 min.) Movies 12, comedy “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” (G, 105 min.) Movies 12, music “The Eagle” (PG-13, 114 min.)

Movies 12, action adventure “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1” (PG-13, 146 min.) North Grand 5, fantasy “Black Swan” (R, 108 min.)

Movies 12, drama “The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader” (PG, 113 min.) North Grand 5, fantasy “The Dilemma” (PG-13, 111 min.) North Grand 5, comedy “Gulliver’s Travels” (PG, 87 min.) North Grand 5, comedy “The King’s Speech” (R, 118 min.) Movies 12, drama “Little Fockers” (PG-13, 98 min.)

North Grand 5, comedy “The Mechanic” (R, 93 min.)

Movies 12, action “Megamind” (PG, 96 min.) North Grand 5, animated “No Strings Attached” (R, 108 min.) Movies 12, romantic comedy “The Rite” (PG-13, 114 min.)

Movies 12, horror “The Roommate” (PG-13, 92 min.) Movies 12, comedy “Sanctum” (R, 109 min.) Movies 12, adventure “True Grit” (PG-13, 110 min.)

Movies 12, western

SUB Film “For Colored Girls” (R, 133 min.)

7 and 9 p.m. Thursday at the South Ballroom, Memorial Union 7 p.m. Sunday at the Soults Family Visitor Center, Memorial Union

Hip hop/rock 9 p.m. at The Maintenance Shop Free for students, $5 for the public

House $5, 21+

Thursday

Maximilian Eubank Acoustic 9 p.m. at West Towne Pub Sovereign Sect Electronica 10 p.m. at DG’s Tap

Saturday Bright Giant w/ North of Grand Easy listening 10 p.m. at DG’s Tap House $5, 21+

Vivace Classic covers 9 p.m. at Mother’s Pub $5, 21+

House of Heroes w/ Minor Wits Powerpop 8 p.m. at The Maintenance Shop $8 for students, $10 for the public ($2 day-ofshow increase)

Monday Ingram Hill w/ Jerad Finck and Chamberlin Alternative rock 8 p.m. at The Maintenance Shop $12 for students, $14 for the public ($2 dayof-show increase)

Burnin’ Sensations Rock 9 p.m. at Brewer’s Pub

The Blend w/ Lazlo Supreme and Toussaint Morrison

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The show focuses on an egotistical director, Fred Graham, and his lead actress and ex-wife, Lilli Vanessi, as they attempt to put on a show of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew.� When one actor, Bill Calhoun, signs Fred’s name on a $10,000 IOU, two gangsters come to the theater to collect the money.

This year’s performance will feature Scott Hurst, junior in music, and Jacquie Evans, senior in music, as the two lead roles. Other principle cast members include Austen Naggatz, senior in music, Kelsey Kovacevich, junior in performing arts, Ben Millar, senior in music, and Joe Leon, sophomore in music. “Kiss Me Kate� was previously performed in 1964 and 1990 for Stars Over VEISHEA.

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Honor orchestra to perform

By Vincent Geerts Ames247 Writer After they meet for the ďŹ rst time Friday, the students from high school orchestra programs all over the region will spend the day working with the string instrument faculty from the ISU Music Department for their ďŹ rst performance, which will be the next day.

Students performing as part of the Honor Orchestra received their music at home, only a few weeks ago. After working individually on pieces by composers such as Tchaikovsky, Satie and Bizet, they will have one day together to practice before performing alongside the ISU Symphony.

Annually, the ISU director of orchestral activities sends a letter encouraging high school music directors to nominate their most gifted students for a trip to the university.

In November 2010, this letter was sent by Jacob Harrison, assistant professor of music. “We’re always trying to make sure that some of these people who are in great string programs around the state know that if they’re interested in Iowa State, that there’s orchestra to do,� Harrison said. “They can come here, they can take lessons, they can be involved in chamber music and they can play in a full-sized symphony orchestra with a great repertoire.�

Lissa Kelsey, concertmaster for the ISU Symphony and senior in child, adult and family services, started in the Honor Orchestra herself. She said the lineup for Saturday’s performance isn’t what you might expect to ďŹ nd in an orchestra’s repertoire. The music they will perform is surprisingly modern. “I like every concert we do, but this is one where I anticipate going to rehearsals. The music is less classical and more jazz-like,â€?

Kelsey said. “It’s not your traditional Mozart concert.�

Concertmaster Lissa Kelsey, left, and Amy Roggendorf perform with the ISU Symphony. Photo courtesy: ISU Department of Music

The performance features “An American Salute� by Gould; Bernstein’s “Three Dance Episodes� from “On the Town�; and Gershwin’s famous “Rhapsody in Blue.�

Though its name might not be familiar, you may have heard Gershwin’s work in Disney’s “Fantasia 2000.�

Kelsey expects that most people attending the concert will be thrilled to hear “Rhapsody in Blue.� William David, university professor of music and founding member of the Ames Piano Quartet, will play piano for the Gershwin piece. “It’s one of my favorite pieces, to play and to listen to,� Kelsey said, “All of us were so distracted at one point that we just forgot to come back in, it’s just such an intricate piano piece.�

ISU Honor/ Symphony Orchestra Performance When: 3 p.m. Saturday Where: Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, Music Hall Cost: $2 for students, $4 for adults For more information, please visit http://www.music.iastate.edu/orchestra

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