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February 14, 2011 | Volume 206 | Number 99 | 40 cents | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890. ™
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LAS dean retires Replacement search begins, interim dean to be appointed
With all the recent talk about LANE4 and the Campustown redevelopment project, there have been some misunderstandings about the current phase of the development planning Trip and upcoming actions the developer will take. The next step in the project will be LANE4’s return trip to Ames, where the developer will ask the Ames City Council to enter into a Memorandum of Harris Understanding. A Memorandum of Understanding is a formal agreement between two or more parties that defines each group’s roles and responsibilities in a project. Steve Schainker, Ames city manager,
When college of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean Michael Whiteford announced his retirement Wednesday, Arne Hallam, associate dean of LAS, said his jaw dropped. “I was just absolutely shocked. Mike is in extremely good health. Mike runs all the time. He’s very energetic. I figured he had at least another five years,” Hallam said. Whiteford and his wife will join their two sons and grandchildren in Oregon. He said he looks forward to spending time with his family and living in the city of Portland. “I have had a lot of really good memories being here. I keep thinking about the great people I have worked with and what I have learned from them,” Whiteford said. “The people have been great the whole time. I have good bosses. I wouldn’t trade [Executive Vice President and Provost] Elizabeth Hoffman and [President] Gregory Geoffroy for anything,” The Catt Center will miss the fun, relaxed and energetic attitude Whiteford brought to work every day. “We’re really good friends here. He’s tough minded but easy to work with. He never gets upset with people, which makes for a very comfortable work environment here,” Hallam said. Hallam said Whiteford will be missed, and the process of appointing a new dean can take up to a year. As of now, an interim will be selected. Hoffman will appoint an interim dean later this spring. Any nominations for the interims should be reported to Hoffman. Hoffman has appointed Jonathan Wickert, College of Engineering dean, and David Holger, associate provost, to co-chairman on the search committee for Whiteford’s position. Hoffman welcomes suggestions to fill any other spots on the search committee. There were two types of challenges for being dean for Michael Whiteford — personnel management and dealing with the budget. Arne Hallam said he believes these are three qualities the new dean should have, “appreciation for all the parts of LAS, a vision for what LAS can do and someone who really understands finances and budgets.” Hoffman, Wickert and Holger will host two open forums to discuss search committee membership, the search process and characteristics to be looked for in the new dean.
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Athletic complex
Location for new facility debated By Jake.Lovett iowastatedaily.com
Forum schedule When: 8 – 9 a.m. Feb. 23 4 – 5 p.m. Feb. 24 Photo: Bryan Langfeldt/Iowa State Daily
Food
Prices expected to rise, stay high Scarce resources cause grocery costs to jump worldwide By Mersad.Arapovic iowastatedaily.com Higher food prices aren’t just causing turmoil in Egypt — they’re causing a spike in prices in local grocery stores as well. Demand for scarce resources is the main reason behind higher food prices. The price of wheat, corn, meats and other staple foods are expected to rise and stay at high levels for some time. Due to inclement weather within the previous year, a number of problems arose: Russia — historic droughts devastated wheat crops; Australia — record flooding caused losses in sugarcane and wheat; Pakistan — monsoons washed away rice, grain and sugarcane. “Russia is a very large producer of wheat ... so to have them say, ‘You know what? We’re not going to have any to export, we’re going to shut our borders down, because we’re not sure we have enough for ourselves’ ... it was a dramatic impact on that [wheat] market,” said Chad Hart, assistant professor of
Project to be outlined at meeting By Kayla.Schantz iowastatedaily.com
By Carmen.Leng iowastatedaily.com
Where: 302 Catt Hall
LANE4
With Board of Regents’ approval in October, the ISU athletic department began planning a new sports complex to house the ISU softball, soccer and track and field teams. Madden The Cyclone Sports Complex comes as a replacement to the Southwest Athletic Complex — home to the ISU softball team since 1980 — and the ISU Soccer Complex, which lies in a flood plain east of Lied Recreation Athletic Center. The location of the new facility — east of the Towers residence halls — has been the cause of unrest in the communities along Storm Street and Ash Avenue. “There really aren’t any other open areas close enough to the core campus,” said Vice President of Business and Finance Warren
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Climate change economics. In particular, he said agriculture is a tricky market to predict. There are many factors that play into what exactly is driving up the cost of basic foods. “When we look at this issue, there are three main factors that contribute: one, the demand [for resources] overseas is growing; two, supply disruption [due to weather]; and a new player, the biofuels industry,” said Bruce Babcock, professor of economics. The dilemma at present is not only that a nation is faced with disrupted production, higher demand and newer uses for the crop, but also that there are many nations in the same predicament, making it more difficult for one to help the other, Babcock said. He added that increases in price of commodities will directly affect the prices of other products such as meats, eggs, dairy and poultry. Small increases in basic foods in the long run will carry over to familiar brands and exaggerate the initial increase. “When you’re looking at the price of corn in how it relates to the price of a box of Corn Flakes at the grocery store, it only contributes a small amount of that percentage,” Hart said. “So a relatively small price pressure from ag commodi-
$2.70 $1.72 $1.38 $3.98
Snow storms could become seasonal norm
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By Brandon.Hallmark iowastatedaily.com
$1.58 $3.98
Graphic: Kari Dockum/Iowa State Daily
ties ends up getting multiplied as it goes through each of those middle men [packaging, advertising, shipping] to reach the food shelves that we see at the grocery store.” The developed world is at an advantage regarding increases in price. “The average [American] consumer spends less than 10 percent of their income to purchase food ... or as we look at some places in
Africa, it may be [that] 50, 60, 70 percent of their income is devoted just to purchase food,” Hart said. The United States Department of Agriculture publishes projections for what will likely unfold in the years to come regarding agricultural commodities, trade, farm income and food prices. The predictions for this decade are deter-
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The Northeast has received much media attention during the last few months after being bombarded by a seemingly endless barrage of snow storms. These heavy snowstorms could become the norm, said William Gallus, professor of geological and atmospheric sciences. “Some scientists are beginning to think that the fact that the ice caps are melting away in the summer might make this start to happen routinely. I don’t know that this would happen every winter, but it seems logical that this might become the new normal,” Gallus said. Part of the reason for the cold weather is that the pole warms up. As it warms up, the cold is pushed south into the United States and parts of Europe. Similarly, the North Atlantic Oscillation has been in the negative since December. The North Atlantic Oscillation is a climate
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