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Paint Pushers encourage individuality By Alexandra Smith Daily Staff Writer Paint Pushers, a group of people from Des Moines, were at the Memorial Union Wednesday to give artists their opinion. Paint Pushers is an art enthused group of people that meet on the first Wednesday of every month. They come together with their work and everybody gives them critiques whether good or bad. Artists appreciate getting the advice of other people to improve their work. All the Paint Pushers and students met and showed the artwork they had been working on and accepted the comments from each individual. Charlotte Redman, president of Paint Pushers, said, “When critiquing a piece of artwork, I like to get to know the artist, where they’re going, and where they came from.” Charlotte heard about Paint Pushers through a professor at Grandview College in 2001. Kristine Clemons, the show director, said, “The background of an artist influences the individuals art a lot.” For this reason, when students put up a piece of artwork, they stand up and say who they are influenced by and what their art represents. “It takes a lot of courage to stand up and do this without knowing anyone,” Redman said before the critique started. The paintings from the Paint Pusher group will be up in the Gallery Room of the Memorial Union until Tuesday. Students are encouraged to make their way over to the Gallery Room to check out the artists’ work.

‘The Butterfly Effect’ Comference promotes Midwest LGBT pride By Mary-Kate.Burkert @iowastatedaily.com Rainbow pride will envelop Ames this weekend as Iowa State’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Student Services hosts the 20th Midwest Bisexual Lesbian

Gay Transgender Ally College Conference. The conference theme, “The Butterfly Effect,” symbolizes the idea of “a butterfly flapping its wings, resulting in ripples of change around the world. Similar to the butterfly, our socially just and positive actions have the ability to work together and create a more unified world,” said Christine Peterson, co-chairwoman for 2012 conference.

Iowa State held the first conference in 1993 and again in 2004 and will be the only institution to have hosted it a total of three times. Iowa State is the smallest host site for the conference, which consists of undergraduate and graduate students, professors, volunteers and allies from the Big 10 and Big 12 schools, community colleges and private universities from across the country. Roughly 20 to 30 active members

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in LGBTSS at Iowa State have been involved in the three years of planning, which included putting in a bid to hold the conference in Ames. “The MBLGTACC will be full of positive, encouraging and prideful energy. It is our hope that this energy will last a lifetime for participants,” said Brad Freihoefer, coordinator for Iowa State’s LGBTSS.

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ISU professor stands ‘Silly out in field of chemists love

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By Kelly.Madsen @iowastatedaily.com Malika Jeffries-El, assistant professor of chemistry at Iowa State, is among the first class of chemists to receive the WCC Rising Star Award presented by the Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society. Jeffries-El was nominated and chosen based on her research accomplishments in plastic electronics. Last March, Jeffries-El and the other inaugural WCC Rising Star Award recipients will be acknowledged during a symposium at a national ACS meeting in San Diego. The WCC Rising Star Award recognizes the accomplishments of 10 exceptional mid-career women chemists and promotes retention for women in science careers. “There are more women chemists than there used to be, but not as many as there should be,”

By Megan.Swindell @iowastatedaily.com

AWARD.p3 >> Photo: Emily Harmon/Iowa State Daily Malika Jeffries-El showcased her students’ work at Hach Hall. She is an assistant professor in organic chemistry and polymer chemistry. Her research emphasis is the design and synthesis of conjugated polymers.

“Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs,” and the Iowa State Singers, producers of the Singing Valentines, is a group after Paul McCartney’s own heart. Students can be a part of the phenomenon and what Kate Tindall, freshman in music and a member of the Iowa State Singers, called “a longstanding tradition.” James Rodde, director of choral activities, said the Singing Valentines were well-established by the time he began working here in 2000.

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The Beginning Farmers Conference will be an educational opportunity for many students. The event will be held on Friday at the Scheman Building at Iowa State. “I think that this conference is important for students to attend that

have the desire to farm after graduation, but may not have a guarantee that they will have the opportunity to do so from their family,” said Tyler Reimers, senior in agronomy and the Beginning Farmers Network president, the campus organization that has put on this event for the past seven years. “In the past, the conference has

pulled in around 120 attendees, but we are expecting higher numbers this year. The attendees are not all Iowa State students; some are family members, high school students and students from other universities,” Reimers said. Chad Hart, assistant professor of the agriculture economics, explained that farming is “not an easy business”

and can present many challenges for new comers. “The conference is set up to help ease the start-up process for beginning farmers and let them know about a number of programs and policies that exist to help them in their new endeavor,” Hart said.

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