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Editor’s note: This story is part two of a three-story series on Ruth Phillips and her journey to becoming a birth mom of four, adoptive mom of six and a foster mom of over 65. The Phillips family resides in Story City, but Ruth works in the Ames area. Pick up Wednesday’s Daily for the third and final part of the series.

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By Jennifer Dryden Special to the Daily After declaring her conclusion to the tainted foster care system in her mind, Ruth Phillips and her then-husband Donnie began their own family with their first son, Tatton, in late 1988.

Any children Ruth would care for, she claimed, would only come biologically.

Phillips had graduated with a bachelor’s degree in family environment from Iowa State in 1987, just a year before meeting the 13-year-old girl with the plastered hair who eventually ended up the same as before — a dropout surrounded by drugs at home with her biological parents.

Despite what the National Organization for Victim Assistance training instructed, Phillips had grown attached to that troubled teen.

She was starting her own family now where she could grow attached and no one could disappoint her by taking him away.

The phone rang the first week of December about a 15-year-old boy who was at a boys’ ranch in South Dakota needing a placement.

Phillips turned to her then-husband and he reassured her this was her calling.

Phillips accepted wearily, anxious of what was to come.

“DHS blankly said, ‘He has been failed by everybody,’” Phillips remembers about John, her second foster child.

“He came with a juvenile record probably as long as your arm.”

Looking past the blunt attitude this young man carried, Phillips says John taught her things all foster parents should know.

“How to deal with an angry person, how to deal with somebody who doesn’t want you in their life, how to persevere and break through and gain trust in a kid ... It was a constant tug of war for three years.”

Tatton, being a three-month-old infant, innocently took to this angry young man.

Whenever Tatton would drool, roll over or look at him, John would scowl, “It’s looking at me … It drooled … It moved.”

John — shown here with Tatton Phillips, the oldest of the biological Phillips children — was the second foster child taken in by Ruth Phillips. Ruth said John’s surly demeanor was softened by the then infantTatton’s attention. Ruth, who has fostered 65 children and currently has a family of 12, said when John went away to college he asked to take Tatton with him. Courtesy photo: Ruth Phillips

Tatton was merely an object, not a person, in John’s eyes.

Tatton started crawling like every baby does around six months, and once Tatton was mobile, he followed his favorite friend John around — ev-

erywhere.

John again scowled, “It’s following me.”

Phillips simply shrugged her shoulders while silently smiling, “I don’t know why ... It likes you.”

“It took Tatton — that baby, unconditional

love-hero worship — to break through John’s cold heart,” Phillips said smiling, probably picturing the two in her mind.

“The first person that John allowed himself to love was that baby that wouldn’t leave him alone, that would follow him no matter where he went.

John would walk about as fast as he [could] and then look back to see if [Tatton] would follow.”

After the three years with John as her foster child, Phillips had been “sucked” back into the foster care system she had once disowned due to heartbreak.

She would never quit again.

Before John left Phillips’ care, he had his high school senior pictures.

Phillips asked him if he wanted to take along props — such as his skateboard — to have in the pictures.

John thought about it for a while and formed the perfect answer. “Can I take Tatton?”

“That’s pretty much what kind of sucked us in to 65 kids later, and still, it’s watching those moments … they are so incredible, to see that heart open up and say, ‘Alright, I’ll try vulnerability one more time.’”

In the years that would follow, she vowed to foster.

Phillips became a social worker to help recruit, license and train foster parents 30 hours a week from 1991 to 1995 with the expanded NOVA program, which added six hours of adoption training and improved the foster care training simultaneously.

She resigned from her position at age 30 to pursue her master’s degree in family services at Iowa State.

During the pursuit of her master’s, she was fostering six daughters, teacher assisting at the university and maintaining a part-time job at Youth and Shelter Services in Ames.

She graduated in 1997 with the optimism needed to continue helping and healing foster teens’ lives.

Her next step was working for the Iowa Foster and Adoptive Parent Association changing legislation dealing with the foster care system in the state of Iowa.

With this, her voice would finally be heard.

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Government of the Student Body

President declines to sign theater bill

Candidates field questions

By Jessica Opoien Daily Staff Writer Government of the Student Body President Jonathan Turk has decided not to sign the bill passed by the senate to create a student-focused theater.

The bill, which calls for the Varsity Theater to be leased and converted into a student-run Cyclone Cinema, passed in a 28–2 vote at last Wednesday’s GSB meeting.

Turk’s decision not to veto or approve the bill means it will pass without his support.

“I’m supportive of what this project could do, and I believe that this project is a good idea,” Turk said. “Having said that, there are plenty of wonderful, great ideas in the world. That does not necessarily mean that it’s the proper time for those things to come into fruition.”

Turk cited concerns with the project’s business plan as a large reason for his decision, explaining that the proposal says, with “optimistic predictions,” the theater will have a $60,000 deficit.

“Whatever deficit that is ac-

crued by this theater ... is going to be [passed] down to the student organizations that receive student activity fee money,” Turk said. “I would rather see student organizations spend their money to do what they do, as opposed to us create a venture telling them how their money should be spent.”

Another reason behind Turk’s decision was his belief that not enough “objective student opinion gathering” had been done regarding the project proposal.

“I do not believe that we have done our job properly to ... accurately gauge, objectively, the student opinion on this campus,” Turk said.

Turk referenced the e-mails he had received from students since Friday, voicing their opinions in favor of or in opposition to the bill.

The number of e-mails against the bill outnumbered those supporting it.

“None of these individuals who wrote objections to this, to me, sounded like they were

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By Paige Godden Daily Staff Writer Questions asking Government of the Student Body presidential candidates why they chose to run for office and how they found their running mates opened the debates that took place in the Maintenance Shop of the Memorial Union on Monday.

Chandra Peterson, the current vice president of GSB, said she wanted to run so she could continue on goals she has already started.

“It’s hard to get all of the things I’ve started done in one year; this administration has laid a lot of groundwork for people to build off,” Peterson said.

Peterson said she and her running mate, Jacob Wilson, found each other.

“We were both looking at running for something — we shared a lot of the same goals — if we had the option we would be co-presidents,” Peterson said.

Luke Roling said running for GSB president was his dream since freshman year.

“We were two freshmen that, at the end of the year, said that the president looked like a pretty cool guy,” Roling said. “After our sophomore year, we knew we weren’t ready to run.”

Roling said after he decided to run, he did look at all his options for vice president, but kept going back to Nate Dobbels.

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Each pair was asked to name what made it stand out from the opposing ticket, and what its biggest weakness is.

Peterson said what sets her apart from her opposition was the relationships she has built throughout the community.

She also mentioned her work with Campustown and the city of Ames and founding the Green Umbrella Organization.

Peterson said her biggest weakness was her inability to say no, and she believes herself to be a perfectionist, which she sees as a fault.

Wilson said what makes his campaign stand out is that the platform lists goals he and Peterson have already accomplished.

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Wilson said his biggest fault is that he needs to focus on more obtainable goals.

“I’m one of those guys who sees a puppy in a shelter and comes home with five,” Wilson said.

Wilson said he needs to focus on what will help the future and not just act off of empathy. Roling said he and Dobbels are extremely well-rounded people.

“We have developed people skills and interacted with a large population of students,” Roling said. “Don’t take this as Nate and I have done nothing in the past — we’ve done plenty of things with Engineering Council that students probably don’t care about.”

Roling said his biggest weaknesses were he has an analytical mind, being an engineer, and a lack of creativity.

Roling said he can fix those things by surrounding himself with the right cabinet.

Dobbels said what sets him apart is

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Feb. 12 Vehicles driven by Katie Beeler and Cory Timm were involved in a property damage collision (reported at 1:45 a.m.)

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County Justice Center. (reported at 6:30 a.m.)

A vehicle driven by Gary Sleege struck a parked car. (reported at 1:42 p.m.)

Andrew Maloney, 19, 3708 Helser Hall, was arrested on warrants, charging him with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

He was transported to the Story County Justice Center. (reported at 2:11 p.m.)

Vehicles driven by Mingyuan Zhu, Jeffrey Hageman and William Westphal were involved in a property damage collision. (reported at 5:32 p.m.)

Tommy York, 31, 2101 Oakwood Road, was arrested and charged with contempt of court. (reported at 5:53 p.m.)

Brian Minear, 41, of Maxwell, was arrested and charged with a controlled substance violation and possession of drug paraphernalia. (reported at 7 p.m.)

Daniel Rainsong, 53, 1916 Ferndale Ave., was arrested and charged with theft in the first degree. (reported at 7:30 p.m.)

Anthony Romero, 43, 822 Carroll Ave., was arrested and charged with serious domestic abuse and third-degree harassment. (reported at 7:31 p.m.)

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Feb. 13 Paul Knosby, 24, 5309 Valley Road, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated. (reported at 2:30 a.m.)

Andrew Golay, 20, 528 Welch Ave. unit 14, was arrested and charged with striking fixtures upon a highway, leaving the scene of an accident and operating while intoxicated. (reported at 3:40 a.m.)

Mitchell Fadler, 20, 135 Dotson Dr. unit B26, was arrested and charged with willful failure to appear and

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Nicholas Wright, 23, 126 Welch Ave. unit 309, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief in the third degree. (reported at 7 p.m.)

Robert Green, 24, 115 State Ave., was arrested and charged with willful failure to appear and contempt of court. (reported at 8 p.m.)

John Blum, 20, 4709 Steinbeck St. unit 15, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief in the fourth and fifth degree, underage possession of alcohol and public intoxication. (reported at 10:36 p.m.)

Feb. 14 Clayton Nida, 18, of Boone, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 12:02 a.m.)

Mason Borich, 22, 4324 Westbrook Dr., was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 2 a.m.)

Joshua Lewis, 22, of Cedar Falls, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 3 a.m.)

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Ross Wasson, 19, 529 Maple Hall, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated, underage possession of alcohol and open container. He was transported to the Story County Justice Center. (reported at 10:31 p.m.)

A student reported an unknown man offered him a ride near the CyRide bus stop six hours earlier. The individual is described as being a white male, approximately 50 years of age, 5 feet 11 inches tall, driving a light-colored four-door car. (reported at 11:38 P.M.)

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College of Engineering

Campus Accident

Dean hosts town hall meeting

Traffic collision hospitalizes student, leads to citation

By Heidi Ebert Daily Staff Writer Tell me what’s on your mind. That was the theme of the first ever Undergraduate Student Town Hall Meeting.

The meeting was an open forum hosted by Jonathan Wickert, dean of the College of Engineering.

Engineering administration and departmental chairpersons also attended the forum to help answer students’ questions and concerns, as well as gather feedback about how the students feel about their university education.

“Students are the most important part of the college. It’s the reason we come to work everyday,” Wickert said.

“This is just part of my philosophy that I want students to be involved and informed.”

Topics of the forum included budget cuts, differential tuition, changes in the college’s teaching structure, possible improvements in evaluation policy and ideas for improving the quality of an engineering education at Iowa State. The discussion was organized by the Engineering Student Council.

Cody Lindemann and Shane Smith, both juniors in mechanical engineering, came to the forum because they had questions about differential tuition.

“What is the real justification [behind differential tuition]? How do you find us more expensive?” Smith said.

His question was answered by Diane Rover, associate dean for Academic and Student Affairs; Theodore Heindel, interim departmental chairman for mechanical engineering; Tom Rudolphi, interim departmental chairman for aerospace engineering; Arun Somani, departmental chairman for electrical and computer engineering; Surya Mallapragada, departmental chairwoman for chemical and biological engineering; and Gary Mirka, departmental chairman for industrial and manufacturing systems engineering.

Each took turns with the microphone explaining how differential tuition had been used in the departments to raise the education’s quality.

“There was a pretty good analysis done a few years ago when it was approved and that was presented to the board. It comes down to looking at the cost of education,” Rover said. “Engi-

By Nathan Winters Daily Correspondent

Jonathan Wickert, dean of the College of Engineering, held an open forum in Hoover Hall on Monday night, covering various issues and questions that students had about the college. Topics ranged from WebCT knowledge among teachers and budget cuts within the college to bettering certain teaching styles. Photo: Rebekka Brown/Iowa State Daily

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Some of this higher cost of education is due to lab equipment and engineering faculty salaries.

Engineering faculty get paid higher salaries compared to faculty in English or history.

Differential tuition is also used to keep the student faculty ratio rela-

tively low. New faculty were hired in industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, aerospace engineering, chemical and biological engineering and mechanical engineering.

Part of the differential tuition gets allocated for scholarships, but Lindemann was concerned these scholarships were not being directed back toward juniors and seniors who were paying the tuition.

The 15 percent is above any of the scholarship program and it does get directly applied to juniors and seniors with need, Rover said.

Students also shared other concerns like the teaching quality of the faculty, different class structures and supplements to classes like podcasts and videos.

“For the most part, they answered my questions,” Smith said.

Wickert was happy with the turn-

A traffic collision last Wednesday involving two ISU students left one hospitalized.

A car driven by Joshua Bruegge, junior in animal ecology, collided with My Sieu Tran, senior in statistics, last Wednesday afternoon on Beach Road near the Richardson Court residence area.

Neither could be reached for comment, but Julie Ferrell, freshman in journalism and mass communication, saw the scene after the collision occurred.

“I was on my way to a staff meeting and I saw an ambulance drive by,” Ferrell said.

“No one at the CyRide stop [at the corner of Lincoln Way and Beach Road] knew what had happened, but a few more cop cars came by.”

Tran was sent to Mary Greeley Medical Center for treatment.

Hospital officials could not be reached for comment about his condition.

ISU Police cited Bruegge for failure to yield to a pedestrian.

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out and gathered a lot of feedback from the students.

“You should have a big say in your education and this is a way for students to ask questions. Actually what I heard tonight was not so much asking questions, but offering ideas,” Wickert said.

This kind of informal gathering between the College of Engineering administration and engineering students has been a general theme throughout the school year.

In addition to this forum, Wickert also meets twice a month with students for brown bag lunches. He is also teaching a new class this semester in engineering leadership.

Another meeting for graduate students will be at 5 p.m Thursday.

The meeting is taking place in Kent-Stein Foundation Auditorium Room, 2055 Hoover Hall.

that he believes, “It’s not what you have done, it’s how you make people feel.”

Dobbels said his biggest weakness was he can’t say no to anyone and can get overwhelmed, but that can bring about big accomplishments.

Another question was brought up about how the teams planned to revitalize Campustown.

The Roling-Dobbels ticket said it would like to see a grocery store brought in, and Peterson-Wilson mentioned it has been supporting the CyRide Intermodal Facility, which would bring in more parking and hopefully attract more businesses.

Student debt was also addressed, to which both parties stressed the importance of lobbying and working with the administration.

Students are urged to come with questions.

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International Holiday

Carnaval celebration drops into Ames

By Leonardo Guaiquirian Rivera Daily Correspondent Picturesque costumes, tropical music and capoeira dancers permeated the city of Ames on Friday night at the Brazilian Carnaval. Guests continued to arrive in masses as the crowd loosened up and jammed to the rhythmic sound of the samba drums.

The vivid event took place in Ames’ new club Project 20/20, and was mainly organized by the Capoeira Association with the help of BrazilianPortuguese Association at Iowa State.

“Carnival is a way to keep our traditions going, even outside of Brazil,” said Mauro Valadão, president and professor of the Cordao De Ouro capoeira group, whose main concern was that everyone

had a great time.

“It took about a month to get everything ready for the event, and here we are tonight are having a party.”

“I think this event will help promote both our club and diversity. Everybody that comes in tonight will get a little taste of Brazilian Carnaval,” added Jay Chen, owner of Project 20/20.

The president of the Brazilian-Portuguese Association, Pedro Maduro, made an appearance, and expressed that Carnaval is a very traditional event where people have the chance to express their liberty with bright colors.

“These events don’t happen often, and they’re unique chances for you to come, see a little bit of our culture and have a taste of it,” Maduro said.

Stephanie Pang, a very enthusiastic ISU alum-

na at the party, said, “Everybody always asks me what Brazil and Carnaval are like, and this is a good chance to show them.”

Another attendee, Alejandra Navarro, commented that “people need to be more open to different cultures,” and invited them to come to the event. Brazilian-Portuguese associate Juliana Nobrega was in charge of taking pictures of the event. “It’s cool that we get together to live a little bit of our culture, and also to show a little bit of it,” Nobrega said.

Traditional Portuguese and Brazilian music played as guests sang popular songs such as “Lambada” and “Brasil” in the heat of the night.

The highlights of the night were the capoeira dancers performance, and the crowing of the king and queen of Carnaval.

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Bayh exits Senate amid backlash

By Alan Fram Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON — Monday’s stunning announcement

by Sen. Evan Bayh that he’s retiring from a Congress he says he no longer loves makes him the latest to flee Washington as many voters seem furious about the country’s economic malaise and poised to take it out on incumbents.

The decision by the Indiana Democrat, who was in strong position to win a third term in November, gives Republicans a formidable chance to capture the seat in his GOP-leaning state.

It also compounds the problems facing Senate Democrats this fall as they cling to their majority in the chamber, where they now hold 59 of the 100 votes.

Bayh joins a growing roster of recent Democratic retirements that includes Rep. Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island and Sens. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota. Yet the congressional casualty list has a decidedly bipartisan flavor, with recent retirement announcements coming from Rep. Lin-

Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind. speaks in Denver on July 24, 2006.

Bayh, who has been mentioned in connection with White House sweepstakes in recent years, is ready to announce he will not seek re-election. Photo: Ed Andrieski/The Associated Press

coln Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., and other GOP House members from Michigan, Indiana, Arkansas and Arizona.

“Whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, you’ve probably had some very nasty town hall meetings lately, and most normal human beings don’t

enjoy being yelled at,” said Jack Pitney, a political scientist at Claremont-McKenna College in Claremont, Calif. “Democrats stand to lose more than Republicans because they’re the in party, but Republicans are catching some of this too.”

Democrats have a 255-178 edge in the House, with two vacancies from Democratic-held seats. But there are 49 Democrats from districts Republican presidential candidate John McCain won in 2008, placing them among the most endangered House Democrats.

With the public upset over job losses, spiraling federal deficits and spending, huge bonuses awarded to executives of bailed-out financial institutions, and Washington’s yearlong preoccupation with health care, one need look no further than recent polls to gauge the poisonous political atmosphere facing members of Congress seeking re-election: —In an Associated PressGfK poll in mid-January, just 32 percent approved of how Congress was handling its job, including just 4 percent strongly approving, though Democrats got higher marks than Republicans. People were split about

Cordao De Ouro took over the dance floor and entertained the crowd by presenting its show, which was a combination of martial arts and dance elements. Eight girls, who were dressed as leopards, were crowned queens of the carnival celebration.

“We’re so happy that we won because we made an effort to look good and have the best costume of the night,” said Nobrega, one of the leopard girls.

“We’re very proud of our culture, heritage, and we’re all immigrants in this country. So we take advantage of every opportunity that we have to showcase our amazing culture,” said Luisa Orticelli, the manager of the Latino-Native American center at University of Iowa, who was also one of the leopard girls.

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evenly over whether they wanted their own members of Congress to be re-elected, an unusually poor showing. And while nearly everyone named the economy as the most important issue, just one in five considered the economy in good shape.

—A CBS News/New York Times poll in early February found 81 percent saying it’s time to elect new people to Congress, with just 8 percent saying most members deserve re-election.

The departure of Bayh, 54, sent deeper shock waves than most. Telegenic and on the list of potential running mates for the past two Democratic national tickets, Bayh is known more for the moderate tone of his politics than for any particular legislative achievements, and his parting words had a notably plaintive tenor.

“To put it in words most Hoosiers can understand: I love working for the people of Indiana, I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress,” Bayh said in the statement he read in Indianapolis announcing his decision.

— Associated Press writers Ken Kusmer and Tom Davies contributed to this report.

ill-informed about the general project,” Turk said, adding that none of the opposition e-mails, except for one, were from GSB members.

The decision not to sign or veto the bill ultimately came from two things, Turk explained.

“I do have serious concerns, and do not feel comfortable putting my name to this project,” Turk said.

However, although he has chosen not to lend the bill his support, Turk said he is “choosing to pay deference to the senate.”

“This body has the ability to legislate and make law,” Turk said. “I disagree with the notion that enough information had been gathered ... however, it is their power to determine this money.”

Because of these reasons, and the large margin by which the vote was passed, “vetoing it would simply delay the inevitable,” Turk said.

The next step for the project is a bill based on the legal aspects of the lease.

Turk said when the lease is discussed in the senate, the debate could turn back to the project’s merits.

Should that bill be approved by the GSB, the proposal will be presented to the Board of Regents. Turk will join GSB Vice President Chandra Peterson and Finance Director Tom Danielson in the presentation.

“I do not feel that it is in the best interest of the student body, despite my own opinions, which I believe are supported ... to prevent this from at least getting the chance to be approved by the board,” Turk said.

Turk said he respects the work that was put into the proposal and the time the senate spent debating the bill.

However, when the board considers the proposal, Turk said he will present, in open session, all of the student feedback he has received.

The proposal would need to be finalized by mid-March in order to be submitted to the Board of Regents as a docket item for its April 29 meeting, Turk said.

“I do strongly believe that there are enough concerns that this project ... I don’t believe, at this state, is ready to occur,” Turk said.

“Having said that, I want it to be given a chance. And I think it deserves that chance.

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Death:

The outstanding achievements of Dr. Thomson In just seven short years as the dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. John Thomson will be retiring from this leadership role. However, in the brief amount of time he spent heading the College of Veterinary Medicine, he has left quite a legacy.

A graduate of Iowa State himself, Thomson will not be leaving his alma mater for good — he’ll transition into an ISU faculty member.

Back in 2004, the college was near losing its accreditation. In 2003, the American Veterinary Medical Association visited the ISU veterinary medicine school and did not grant the college full accreditation. Years ago, the facilities at the college were deteriorating. There was no air-conditioning in the large animal facilities, which could have potentially posed a problem to biosecurity.

If the College of Veterinary Medicine did not improve its facilities, it would be in danger of not being an accredited college.

In an interview with the Daily in 2005, Thomson mentioned he hoped to have plans finalized and the project finished within five years.

Now, in 2010, the College of Veterinary Medicine has secured full accreditation and has undergone the necessary renovations to the Dr. W. Eugene and Linda Lloyd Veterinary Medical Center that were required.

New staff was hired and allowed more research to take place at the college. None of it would have been possible without him.

Thomson’s leadership in rejuvenating a college on the brink of losing its accreditation is inspiring. In a very short amount of time, the college made a complete turnaround. Everything Thomson promised to be accomplished was carried through and now the College of Veterinary Medicine boasts a $48 million newly renovated facility for students and researchers. In 2012, the small animal hospital will also be revamped and expanded thanks to Thomson’s time spent securing funding for the endeavor.

The dedication it took to transform an entire scholarly entity is hard to ignore.

So, as the Editorial Board reflected on Thomson’s accomplishments, it is safe to say he has shown the kind of dedication to his career that we can only hope one day we’ll live up to. We talked about everything he’d accomplished and came to the conclusion that Thomson is a cool guy. We don’t mean to undermine his accomplishments by referring to him as such; in fact, it’s hard to describe how inspiring it is to see an ISU alum enact such positive change throughout his career.

This type of dedication requires passion, and it is obvious that Thomson displayed it throughout his career. Prior to coming to Iowa State to serve as a dean, he was in private practice for more than 20 years and has been named “Veterinarian of the Year” in Iowa, Mississippi and South Dakota. In 1997, the governor of South Dakota declared June 13 “Dr. John U. Thomson Day,” according to a press release from the Iowa Farm Bureau.

We were lucky to have such a positive role model take on a leadership position at Iowa State and prove that passion, hard work and dedication are the most important components of success. While the College of Veterinary Medicine will miss his leadership, we’re lucky he won’t be leaving Iowa State for good.

So here’s to Dr. Thomson. Thank you for being an inspiration to not only veterinarians, but to all students with goals and drive. ™

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David Kumaritashvili, father of Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luge athlete killed on an Olympic training run, grieves after talking about his son in Bakuriani, Georgia, on Monday. Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, died during Friday’s practice when he lost control of his sled and slammed into a trackside steel pole at nearly 90 mph. Photo: Shakh Aivazov/The Associated Press

Some things need be censored Access to information should not be offered to everyone in all situations

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nternet-provided videos run the gamut of emotions and incentives. Whether simply meant to entertain, such as that of a cat endlessly playing a piano, or to inform, such as that of an MIT class on thermodynamics, the Web world is a Google searcher’s oyster.

Yet while one can find — or shoot and post — almost anything one’s heart desires, only the most entertaining, dramatic or aweinspiring videos rise to the top of the ever-sodemocratic “most viewed” list that viewers’ millions of clicks, or essentially votes, create.

For better or worse — I’d argue for worse — a large chunk of these videos are violent.

A recent heavily viewed video, for example, is that of the death of Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili, killed Friday at the Vancouver Olympics after crashing into a steel girder at 90 mph.

Despite NBC’s and the International Olympic Committee’s attempts to censor the free release of the video, which they jointly own, the graphic footage already has millions of views on the Web. The question is why.

While many on the internet have apparently taken the move by NBC and the IOC as straightforward, undemocratic censorship — and the World Wide Web’s best quality is in-

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deed its function as a free marketplace of ideas — there is simply no reason for it to be made available to the public.

Though the public’s “right to know” is inarguably one of the most fundamental features — perhaps the most fundamental feature — of democratic society, this does not fit the mold. It offers the general public nothing that they have a right to, but simply the gratification through graphic violence that is now expected when watching everything from fictional horror movies to the 10 p.m. local news.

Of course that’s not to say none have a right to view the video. For starters, professional luge athletes should have access to the video because they need to recognize how violent their sport is.

While it’s likely they already know this, the video is a stark reminder, and it might very well cause some to reassess their participation in the sport.

The IOC, and specifically its course designers, undoubtedly have a right and need to view the video as well so they can figure out what went wrong and can be done to prevent

any future deaths from this sport. Of note, they’ve already taken the seemingly obvious action of padding the steel girders that surround the course and are considering repositioning the posts farther away from the track in the future. If such outcomes are proven unavoidable, the IOC might even consider dropping the sport — who knows.

Lastly and most obviously, Kumaritashvili’s friends and family have a right to view the video so that they can see how he died and hopefully gain a sense of closure.

But that’s it, because unlike videos of violence in Iraq and Afghanistan or photos of dead civilians and American soldiers killed there — which I fully support being shown unedited and often in the United States — this video has nothing to do with us.

Yes, we have a right to know what is being done in our country’s name with our tax dollars, how our soldiers are both killing and dying and, in the most basic sense, what war really looks like.

If we are to form opinions about the wars we are waging, we need to see those videos and images.

But we do not need to see the video of Kumaritashvili’s crash and death. The media that show or make it available do nothing but prove their own lack of respect and economic interest by pandering to the morbidly curious.

Because so many media are making it available, it’s valuable to conclude by reminding that those who make the choice to watch it prove the same about themselves.

Thank You:

Students make career fairs possible

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ll the career services offices on campus would like to send a big “thank you” to all students that have recently participated in the College of Agriculture Career Fair and the colleges of Business, Engineering and Liberal Arts and Sciences combined career fair events. Last Tuesday’s fair brought in more than 3,300 students despite the snow and windy weather. The day before the Career Fair, students viewed more than 140,000 pages within the ISU Career Management Services system researching the companies and searching for jobs. Without student engagement in their professional development, there would be no career fairs.

“Wait a minute. What did he just say?”

Stop for a second and think about what was just said from the employer’s point of view. Imagine the college relations recruiting team sitting down at the corporate offices talking to the vice president about which schools they are going to recruit from this year. They have a limited budget, limited staff, limited time, yet many intern and full-time positions. They start to list off the positives and negatives of all the

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regional universities from which they could possibly recruit.

When they get to Iowa State on their list, they see many positives of the institution and its students: excellent academic reputation, strong work ethic, great career fair venues, large number of fair attendees and excellent preparedness by the students when they attend the fairs. There is nothing more important to a company than hiring the highest quality talent, and when they come to ISU fairs and see the thousands of students dressed up, smiling and with robust resumes in hand, they know they made the right choice of school to recruit at. This is their perspective and is the reason they keep coming back semester after semester to recruit high-quality students.

Career services managers consistently hear that ISU students have solid GPAs, good work experiences, they get involved in volunteering, they take on leadership roles in their housing

or clubs and they are not afraid to have professional conversations with recruiters in the booths.

These companies want to hire active students that have gotten involved and had opportunities to practice and develop their professional skills.

They value skills such as written and oral communication, initiative, planning and project management. If you did not have the high-quality skills these companies seek, then they wouldn’t come to Iowa State for recruiting. That is a thing to be proud of, but it is also a fact that needs to be analyzed, as you may quickly come to the understanding that it is students that have the responsibility to continue this cyclical business relationship.

Career services offices can only continue our hard work on partnering with more companies if we have a great product to sell. We will continue to foster internship arrangements with companies, building curriculum that features career and professional skill development and hosting thousands of jobs on the ISU CMS account. But ultimately, students are the product companies seek.

Don’t just excel at the fairs;

continue to show excellence in business etiquette by following through on thank you e-mails to the people met at a career fair.

Most human resources departments now keep any interactions with recruiters in a database.

Keeping the professional network alive with these recruiters could be the difference if budgets change and positions need filled.

At the very least, you’re set up well for the next career fair, because the same recruiters come back to the same schools, so you can pick up old conversations right where you left off and the recruiter already has a great memory of you to work with.

Once again, the career services offices and employer community thank you for your continued commitment to your professional career. From freshman to graduate student, it is never too late to invest in your future. We also want to encourage student participation in the Design Career Expo 2010 from 1–5 p.m. March 4 in the Memorial Union.

For more information about this event or other career development opportunities, please contact your career services office at www.career.iastate.edu

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There is more to life than TV

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mericans love TV. Most of us love to come home after a hard day of work and sit down to watch our favorite TV programs. In fact, “the average American watches more than four hours of TV each day [or 28 hours per week, or two months of nonstop TV watching per year]. In a 65-year life, that person will have spent nine years glued to the tube,” according to the A.C. Nielsen Co. That’s a lot of TV. And what’s even crazier is the kind of TV programs we are watching. These days, many Americans go nuts over reality TV shows like “American Idol,” “Jersey Shore,” “The Real World” and “The Bachelor,” just to name a few. Americans are so in love with reality TV shows that in the 2009 season of “American Idol,” nearly 100 million votes were cast for the final winner, according to the show’s Web site.

But we don’t only watch a lot of reality TV. We are also absorbed in shows like “Family Guy,” “South Park,” “Reno 911.” Although these shows are often funny and entertaining, are they really what we should be focusing our time on?

Don’t get us wrong, these shows are fun to indulge in every once and awhile, but are they really the kinds of shows we should be watching day after day?

We could be spending our time doing much more than watching reality and comedy shows.

This column was originally published in the Northern Iowan, student newspaper at the University of Northern Iowa.

Think of all the other things there are to do with your time. You could do your homework, spend time with friends, make a nutritious dinner, be in class, volunteer, workout, read a book or even take an energy-boosting nap.

It seems that all these things would be a better use of our time and talents. Now, are you always going to choose these activities over watching a silly reality show? The answer is no, of course — and you shouldn’t always have to choose the “more productive activities.” The point is that sometimes you should.

We’re only human, so of course we are going to want to watch goofy TV shows, and we should to boost our mood. We just shouldn’t make it a four-hours-a-day routine.

And if you really feel the need to watch TV, try to make it something more educational every once in a while, like watching The History Channel, CNN or the local news.

Little changes in TV-watching habits could produce some changes to your life. You don’t need to cut the fun shows out of your life, just think about how much time you spend watching them.

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2010 Winter Olympics Tuesday’s Schedule: 11 a.m.–9 p.m.

Curling — men’s and women’s round robin tournament begins U.S. men vs. Germany — 11 a.m.

U.S. men vs. Norway — 9 p.m.

U.S. women vs. Japan — 4 p.m.

12 p.m.

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2–11 p.m.

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Duke Burk braces himself as Missouri’s Dorian Henderson attempts to flip him Sunday. Burk went into overtime to land the Cyclones’ only pin of the day, pushing the Cyclones to defeat Missouri 28–10. Photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily

Luge — Women’s Singles

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Cyclones split weekend play against Beavers

By Blake Schultz Daily Staff Writer With a week to go until the Central States Collegiate Hockey League tournament, the Cyclones had one final series to tune up.

Iowa State welcomed ninth-ranked Minot State into Ames this weekend and came away with a split with the Beavers.

The Cyclones came out strong in Friday night’s game, scoring three goals in the first and second period going on to win 6–1. On Saturday, a slow start allowed Minot State to take an early 2–0 lead. The Beavers would take advantage of that slow start from Iowa State and win 4–3.

“It’s definitely something we need to get better on,” said senior Brad Krueger about the slow start. “It was a good reality check for us coming into the tournament.”

Despite Saturday’s loss, the Cyclones remain upbeat about their play.

In both games this weekend, the ISU defense was able to shut down the Beavers in the third period, holding them to less than 10 shots both nights.

“There’s not many teams in the country that would be able to shut down that team in the third period and we did it two nights in a row,” said coach Al Murdoch.

In Saturday night’s contest, Iowa State attempted a comeback by scoring two goals in the second period, but Minot State was able to keep pace scoring two goals of its own in the period.

In the third, the Cyclones got within one goal when senior Derek Behrman scored on the five-on-three power play.

Iowa State was presented a great opportunity, with five minutes left in the game when Minot State received a fiveminute major penalty.

Two minutes later, the Cyclones nearly tied the game up on a play where everyone in the arena thought a goal was scored, but it was waved off due to the opposing goalie holding the puck in his glove. The game would end with the Cyclones losing 4–3.

“After beating a team 6–1, it’s kind of hard to bring it again on Saturday,” Krueger said.

Junior goalie Erik Hudson played in both games of this series, as he has done a couple of times already. After allowing one goal Friday night, Hudson finished Saturday saving 22-of-26 shots.

Both nights, Iowa State looked sharp on offense with a total of nine different players scoring in the whole series.

The Cyclones shot 45 times Saturday night, which about doubled the amount that Minot State had, but Iowa State was still unable to capitalize due to a few miscues.

Duke Burk defeats Missouri’s Henderson in tiebreaker period

By Jake Calhoun Daily Staff Writer Duke Burk was never known for wowing the crowd, but there is a first time for everything.

Last Sunday’s dual meet against Big 12 rival Missouri was the senior 174-pounder’s moment in the sun, pinning a ranked opponent in Dorian Henderson ­— a foe who had previously gotten the best of Burk at the Midlands Championships earlier this year. Henderson won by a sudden victory decision of 3–1 to put six points on the board for the prevailing Cyclones in the 28–10 victory over the Tigers at Hilton Coliseum.

“It was nice to get a win over a kid who had beaten me before,” Burk said.

Burk hit a skid of misfortune in the middle of the season, losing nine straight matches to drop from the top 20 rankings at 174 pounds.

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“We told him he better start winning,” chuckled coach Kevin Jackson when asked what he told Burk during his losing streak. “You better start winning here pretty soon or we’re going to be in trouble.”

After breaking his losing streak by placing second at the Grand View Open, and defeating Arizona State’s Eric Starks by a decision of 7–2 in the Cyclones’ 30–10 dual victory over the Sun Devils, Burk was back to his winning ways going into his bout with the 20th-ranked Henderson.

Burk’s bout with Henderson followed a popular trend of Sunday’s dual meet as both wrestlers went scoreless in the first period of action. Things began to pick up as Burk chose to start the second period in the down position.

With his legs literally straightened,

Men’s Track & Field

Distance runners display their depth Injuries and a mid-race fall kept three of Iowa State’s top distance runners from finishing their races in the final day of competition in the ISU Classic. Senior Kiel Uhl (foot) and sophomore Yonas Mebrahtu (Achilles) sat out the men’s 5,000-meter race as they rested up for the Big 12 Indoor Championships, which are only two weeks away.

“Both injuries are just due to the bad weather we’ve had; we just didn’t want to jeopardize two weeks from today,” said ISU coach Corey Ihmels. “I think those guys are coming around and I think they’ll be alright in a couple weeks.”

The injuries to Uhl and Mebrahtu meant that senior Guor Marial and freshman Joel Limo would be the lone ISU competitors in the first heat of the 5,000-meter run. Marial raced out to an early lead before being caught by Kansas City Smoke’s

single-leg finishing positions,” Jackson said. “Duke could have made that match a little bit easier on himself if he finishes his single-leg [attack].”

The sudden victory period looked scary for Burk as he soon found Henderson with control of one of his legs.

As he was yanked to a near defeat, Burk quickly retaliated by gaining control of one of Henderson’s legs, nullifying the potential takedown that would have led to the victory for Henderson.

“He had an opportunity to actually give the takedown [to Henderson in the sudden victory period],” Jackson said of Burk. “[Henderson] looked like he had him beat dead-to-right, and he was able to out-scramble him and get out of bounds and get a new start.”

A tiebreaker period ensued after both wrestlers failed to score in the sudden victory period. In the 30-second period, Henderson was again called for stalling in a similar situation from the second period with his entire body latched onto Burk, giving Burk a 2–1 lead and a possible victory.

Normally, this would have been Burk’s invitation to hold Henderson off with a

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Gymnastics Brandon Rooney competes in the mile run at the ISU Classic on Saturday in the Lied Recreation Athletic Center.

Rooney finished second in the event with a time of 4:05.69. Photo: Joseph Bauer/ Iowa State Daily

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Burk exercised any hopes of shaking himself from his opponent’s grip before catching a break after a warning for stalling was issued toward Henderson. After a caution on the reset

by Henderson, Burk began to gain momentum after being on all fours as Henderson’s entire body latched onto him like a leech, provoking the energized crowd at Hilton to urge the referees for a second stalling call on Henderson. Despite no call being made, Burk soon managed to escape Henderson’s clutches to go up 1–0.

Staring down the barrel of the third period with a 1–0 lead, Burk would have originally skated by to hopefully earn a close decision if he was lucky.

Henderson escaped from the down position to tie the match at 1–1 with 1:56 left in the match. Burk was able to get hold of one of Henderson’s legs in an attempt to bring him down, but Henderson quickly managed to draw both grapplers out of the ring as a loud string of boos quickly ensued from the crowd. Despite the valiant effort, Burk was unable to get the late takedown on Henderson, forcing the match to enter overtime.

“We still have to get better at our

Paul Heffron. Marial finished in second place with a time of 14:20.58, even without running alongside his teammates Uhl and Mebrahtu.

The top challenger coming into the men’s seeded mile, ISU junior Hillary Bor, fell at the 800-meter mark while he was attempting to make an outside move to the front of the pack. Bor, who was running in the first heat of the event, chose to not finish the race, but made his way to the starting line once again for the second heat. Bor ran the second heat of the mile as the rabbit, the runner who sets the pace at the front of the race, before bowing out of the race.

“I just had to get some work done with all that we have ahead of us,” Bor said.

With Bor’s mishap in the mile, ISU senior Brandon Rooney was able to move into second place and finish behind Minnesota’s Andy Richardson in a time of 4:05:69. Rooney, the

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Turnaround reaps season-high score

By Kelsey Jacobs Daily Correspondent ISU sophomore Michelle Browning’s performance was deemed the most beautiful when she placed first in the allaround competition Browning Friday at Oklahoma’s Beauty and the Beast event, where the Sooner gymnastics and wrestling teams competed simultaneously.

Coach Jay Ronayne described Browning earlier in the season as a “very special gymnast” whom he expects to be All-American.

Browning herself hopes to be AllAmerican, but not until later in her career. However, winning the all-around at Oklahoma, the No. 1 school in the nation, isn’t a bad start.

“I was really excited,” Browning said. “It was definitely an accomplishment, especially after this being my first year [competing in the allaround]. It kind of surprises me when I do as well as I did.”

Browning’s teammates say she is the hardest worker in the gym during the week. “[Her win] is nothing we didn’t expect,” senior Jody McKellar said. “She puts everything out in competition and she is a very consistent gymnast.”

Senior Ashley Kent said the team is proud of Browning and that her hard work is paying off, on a personal level, as well as for the team as a whole.

“She’s a bonus, definitely,” Kent said. “We go in as a team first, and then all those other things are just bonuses for us. If it helps her confidence, then it helps all of us in the end, so it’s definitely a good thing.”

Browning’s performance buoyed a team effort that resulted in a seasonhigh 196.225 for the Cyclones (4–5), which still wasn’t quite enough to beat the Sooners (8–0), who had a seasonhigh score of 197.250.

Not only did the Cyclones earn a season-high total score, but they also notched a 49.000 or higher in all four events for the first time this season.

This was especially meaningful for the gymnasts who were off their game at their meet at Pittsburgh last Friday due to some mistakes and an injury.

Compared to last week, Kent said, the difference this week was that the team knew it was going to do well instead of just going out and doing the routines.

“We had a really good week of practice,” Kent said. “We went into the meet feeling really good, even from warm-ups you could tell. We came in and we just knew we were going to hit it.”

The team managed its seasonhigh score without McKellar, who usually competes in the all-around.

McKellar was only able to perform on bars this week because of the ankle injury she sustained a week ago at Pittsburgh.

After the first rotation on bars, she looked on as her team continued on floor, vault and beam.

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Player ofthe Week

Matt Verdoni has been awarded Player of the Week for his play in this weekend series against #9 Minot State University.

•Verdoni had a successful series on special teams with a plus two average on powerplays and penalty kills.

•Week in and week out his determination and vision on the ice have been demonstrated.

•He is a Lindenhurst, Ill. native that came to the Cyclones via the Chicago Force of the CSCHL. •Verdoni is in his senior year at Iowa State University and is majoring in marketing.

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Don’t miss next week when Iowa State University hosts the C.S.C.H.L Hockey Tournament. Games are at 10am, 1pm, 4pm, and 7:30pm on Friday and Saturday. The Championship game will be played on Sunday the 21st at 1pm. The Cyclones play at 7:30pm both Friday and Saturday.

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The Cyclones bested in-state rivals Iowa and Drake en route to a 3–3 showing at the Metrodome Tournament this weekend in Minneapolis. The tournament held ups and downs for every team, as the best record, 3–2, was not all that far from the worst, 2–3.

The even competition throughout the weekend exposed the Cyclones to many of the situations they will face all year long.

“We played when we were ahead and had to keep the lead, we lost the lead and came back, we played from behind and came back, we even saw international tiebreakers,” said coach Stacy GemeinhardtCesler. “All those things are really going to help us as we go through the season.”

The ISU offense was strong all weekend long, hitting .307 as a team and averaging five runs per game. They were led by sophomore Heidi Kidwell, who hit .500, including 11 hits for the tournament. The highlight of the weekend was the pair of wins over instate rivals. Iowa State opened the weekend with a 5–2 victory over the Bulldogs.

The win was the first victory over Drake in more than a year. The Bulldogs also gave the Cyclones a loss in their last preseason game of the fall, 4–1.

After two straight one-run losses, the Cy-

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from PAGE 7 mere 23 seconds left to go with the lead, but Burk managed to get Henderson turned and pinned with four seconds remaining in the first tiebreaker period.

“Coach Jackson has been talking to me a lot about complete wrestling, keep wrestling like that in situations, and I think that continued to help me,” Burk said. “[Henderson] was just trying to hold on.

Sometimes maybe in that situation I would have just held on, too, but I kept wrestling and eventually got him to his back, and then he kind of gave up for a little bit once he went to his back; I didn’t feel much fight, so I figured I’d eventually get that pin.”

The surprise reversal and pin by Burk catapulted the crowd to its feet, pinning six points on the board and swinging momentum in favor of the second-ranked Cyclones.

Drake W 5–2 Minnesota L 5–6 (8 innings) Western Illinois L 4–5 Iowa W 8–2 Arkansas L 2–4 Minnesota W 6–5

clones jumped all over Iowa, taking a 4–0 lead after just one inning. Iowa State went on to beat the Hawkeyes 8–2.

The win over Iowa was the first such win for every player or coach since coming to Iowa State. Gemeinhardt-Cesler, now in her fifth year at Iowa State, was pleased with the in-state wins, but lukewarm about the weekend overall.

“It means a lot to us,” GemeinhardtCesler said of the wins over Iowa and Drake.

“I don’t think that they are satisfied with being 3–3 out of the weekend. I think that in hindsight, they know that they could have done better.”

The games that Iowa State did lose were hotly contested, as they lost all three games by a combined four runs. GemeinhardtCesler blamed early season mistakes in batting, base running and pitching for those close losses. She feels, however, that all those mistakes are fixable.

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“It was the highlight of the night,” Jackson said of Burk’s performance. “Just the way he fought the whole time allowed him to stay in the mix and get the win, but then not only getting the win, but continuing to wrestle and get the fall. He could have stopped once the referee awarded points, but he continued to put the pressure on [Henderson] and got the fall.”

Next week will bring a tougher challenge for the aspiring history teacher, as he will face Nebraska’s Stephen Dwyer, the fourth-ranked wrestler in the nation at 174 pounds.

“Obviously, coming off a win you’re always going to feel more confident, but just because I got the pin this week doesn’t make next week any easier,” Burk said. “Dwyer is still one of the best in the country and he’s obviously earned that. So, no matter what I did this week, I’m still going to have to work hard to get things done next week.”

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“Being aware of them early, I think gives us a better chance to fix them,” Gemeinhardt-Cesler said.

Iowa State also had a chance to show off a couple new players in freshmen Tori Torrescano and Erica Miller.

Torrescano will likely be the team’s second starter this season, despite struggling a little with a 5.25 ERA in her first college tournament. Gemeinhardt-Cesler thinks she’s shown improvement already.

“She still needs to work ahead of batters more consistently, just so she is not constantly digging herself out of a hole,” Gemeinhardt-Cesler said. “Her overall composure got better — even if someone was able to hit the ball hard, she was able to come back better as the week went on.

She was finishing her pitches better than she was in the beginning. I think there was a little bit of hesitancy on her part and that just comes from not wanting to get hit. That is pretty natural for a freshman, but it’s definitely something that she is going to have to get past.”

Miller got off to a fast start for the Cyclones. The freshman played in all six games, starting five of them as the designated player. She was productive at the plate, hitting .353, collecting five RBIs and belting her first career home run in the first inning against Iowa.

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winner of the mile three weeks ago at the Bill Bergan Invitational, was hoping to qualify for the NCAA meet but did not meet the provisional qualifying time of 4:03.50. Rooney will shift his focus to what he can do to help the team earn points at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in two weeks. “[Provisionally qualifying] was kind of the goal today, but I’m pretty confident in my ability to make finals [at the Big 12 Indoor Championships], so as far as time goes it doesn’t really matter; it’s more about competing,” Rooney said.

The team’s third secondplace finish in a distance race came from senior Jory Zunich, who ran a personal record 8:15.35 in the men’s seeded 3,000-meter run.

Sophomore sprinter Ian Warner continues to hover around the NCAA provisional qualifying time of 6.71 seconds

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Warner currently holds the fifth-fastest time, 6.72 seconds, amongst Big 12 runners in the 60-meter dash, putting him in position to score some points in two weeks.

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Incentives may be offered due to recent recalls

By Tom Krisher Associated Press Writer ORLANDO, Fla. — Toyota Motor Corp. may offer incentives or increase the length of its warranties as it tries to recover from an embarrassing string of safety-related recalls.

The company has not decided exactly what it will do after it gets past the recalls, which include more than 8 million vehicles worldwide, for sticky gas pedals, floor mats that can snag the accelerator and a software glitch in the brakes of its Prius gas-electric hybrid, said Group Vice President Bob Carter.

Carter told reporters at the National Automobile Dealers Association Convention in Orlando, Fla., that it is focused on repairing customer cars and restoring their faith in the brand, which has had a reputation for bulletproof reliability for years.

Toyota already is offering zero percent financing for 60 months in some of its regions, as well as cash to dealers to help sweeten deals, and Carter said the company may do an incentive campaign once it gets through the recalls.

“We’ll be very confident that we will give our dealers a very good competitive program,” said Don Esmond, Toyota’s senior vice president for automotive operations in the U.S. Dealers, Carter said, have fixed more than 500,000 of the 2.3 million cars and trucks covered by the sticky gas pedal recall, and they are repairing about 50,000 cars every day.

He also said the company has only 13 reports of sticking pedals in the U.S. and Canada out of the 2.3 million cars and trucks involved in the pedal recall.

“This is a very, very, very rare occurrence,” he said. “Thirteen is too many, we’ve got to take care of this.”

About 300 dealers met with Carter and Esmond Monday to talk about their business. Several said afterward that customers have the mistaken impression they are not selling cars because of publicity about Toyota stopping sales of models in the pedal recall.

Toyota suspended sales of some of the eight U.S.-made models covered by the recall until dealers could fix them.

But dealers are free to sell the cars once they are repaired.

Carter says 88,000 of the 112,000 recalled cars on dealer lots have been repaired.

“We’re a quality brand and we stumbled. It’s our fault,” Esmond said. “We’ll correct it.”

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Taurus 2010 sedans sit at a Ford dealership in Lakewood, Colo., on Dec. 27, 2009. Ford Motor Co. said Feb. 2 that sales rose 25 percent in January, buoyed by a stronger economy and Toyota’s decision to halt U.S. sales because of a gas pedal system problem. Photo: David Zalubowski/The Associated Press

Research options before financing

By Ben Sloan Daily Staff Writer One of the largest expenses for college students, other than their tuition, can be the financing for a car.

While owning a car will make a student’s life a little easier, it comes with some inherent risks.

Doug Borkowski, director of the ISU Financial Counseling Clinic, explained many of these dangers in a simple manner and provided resources for further research. One larger problem today is that people can end up owing more money on a car they are financing than the car is actually worth, creating negative equity, Borkowski said.

This issue is further exacerbated if the owner of the car needs to sell the car to pay off other expenditures, but they come to find out even if they sell the car they still owe thousands of dollars.

Car dealers, though, can offer enticingly low payments on cars, but Borkowski showed that though a student may end up paying less per month, they would pay much more than the car is worth when the car is completely paid off.

The Financial Counseling Clinic offers calculators that can help students understand the total cost of the car instead of purely viewing the cost as one monthly payment. Borkowski illustrated that the effect of interest rates and length of financing can add thousands of dollars to the overall cost of the vehicle.

Borkowski said several times that students need to do their homework before even stepping foot onto an auto dealership.

The first step needs to be for the buyer to contact their local bank or credit union to obtain an interest rate for financing.

Students should call their bank or credit union first because they tend to offer lower interest rates than the finance departments of auto dealerships.

Finding out what interest rate can be offered is as simple as a phone call.

A representative at Wells Fargo on Main Street said that the bank’s interest rates range from 6 to 16 percent with the increase of rate purely as a function of credit score. The Greater Iowa Credit Union offers rates from 5 to 12 percent.

Completing this type of research could end up saving thousands of dollars on the total cost of the car, as Borkowski showed with the Financial Counseling Center calculators. Borkowski said the two most important qualities of a car for a student should be reliability and gas mileage. JD Power offers reports on all cars that analyze their reliability.

If considering a used car, students should demand a Carfax report to ensure that the vehicle has never received any severe damage.

Borkowski said knowledge and homework are the most powerful tools at a student’s fingertips and will enable them to receive the best rate and length of financing possible, and as a corollary save them the largest amount of money in the end.

Workers repair a hole in the track during the second red-flag delay in the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race Sunday at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. Photo: Russell Williams/The Associated Press

Potholes cause racing delays

By Jeremiah Davis Daily Staff Writer Anyone who’s ever driven over a pothole on a city street knows how annoying and even harmful it can be to your car and tires.

Imagine hitting a pothole at 190 mph.

That’s what NASCAR drivers had to deal with in the 52nd running of the Daytona 500 on Sunday.

A race that started at noon ended at just after 7 p.m. Sunday night due to two delays of the race lasting a total of 144 minutes for a pothole in the middle of turns one and two at the famed Daytona International Speedway.

The six-inch gap of missing asphalt was attributed by track officials to the unseasonably cold temperatures in Florida, as well as large amounts of rain that fell on the track earlier in the week.

The first attempt at fixing the hole came on lap 122 after four-time and defending Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson cut a tire after running over the hole. Track officials tried using an asphalt-like mixture to fill it, which took nearly an hour and a half.

The asphalt mixture only lasted another 39 laps, however, as the hole was dug out again by lap 161. This time track officials used a substance called Bondo — normally used for sheet metal work on cars — to fill the hole.

By the time of the second delay, many viewers at home were becoming restless, and fans at the track had gotten fed up with the delays and left. Those who did missed a wild finish.

The race itself — when not stopped due to the pothole — was one of the best in recent memory. The lead changed hands 21 times over the course of the race, a new record for the “Great American Race.”

Drivers complained throughout the day about handling issues with their cars, as the temperature at the start of the race was higher than at any point during the week when they practiced.

With the delays, the race ended after sundown, which provided cooler temperatures and therefore better handling for the drivers. The better handling allowed the drivers to make some spectacular moves and provided a great finish.

Throughout the day, Jamie McMurray, who used to race go-karts in Iowa as a kid, hung around the front of the field, but couldn’t quite make a push for the lead because his car wasn’t handling the best for him. When the sun went down, that all changed.

A new rule regarding the green-whitechecker finish scenario, where the drivers would be given three chances at a greenwhite-checker finish — as opposed to just one attempt before — was implemented for the first time, and in grand fashion.

On the first attempt at a green-whitechecker finish, it looked as though the dominant car of the day, Kevin Harvick, was going to beat out teammate Clint Bowyer and Greg Biffle for the win. But a caution changed all that, and McMurray saw his chance.

On the final restart of the day, McMurray took the green flag in second. He also took the white flag in second, but by the back stretch, was pushed into the lead.

It was then that out of nowhere, Dale Earnhardt Jr., who had run at the back of the pack most of the day after starting second, came roaring to the front.

“I looked in my mirror and saw the 88 — I’ll be honest, I was like, ‘Crap, this guy has won a lot of races here. His family has an incredible history here,’” McMurray told The Associated Press. “I believe everything hap-

pens for a reason. I just was like, ‘I hope this isn’t his turn to win the Daytona 500, I hope this is mine.’”

Earnhardt, who had come from 22nd position to second over the final two restarts, wouldn’t have enough momentum from the charge to take over the lead, and McMurray came to the finish line first — his fourth career Sprint Cup victory and first in what is known as “The Super Bowl of stock car racing,” the Daytona 500.

“I can’t really put it into words the way it feels,” McMurray said, who broke down in tears several times after the race. “I’m trying to be genuine and as sincere as I can and not sound cliche: As a kid growing up, this is what you dream of, of being able to win the Daytona 500.”

Earnhardt’s charge came up just short on his bid for his second Daytona 500 victory.

“It’s frustrating to come that close. But hell, we were running 22nd at the first greenwhite-checkered. I feel pretty good. I’m happy for my team. I didn’t know where I was, you know, till I really kind of got done almost wrecking down the back straightaway,” Earnhardt said of his charge. “Then I looked up — there’s just one car in front of me, ‘Jamie’s gonna win this damn race.’”

Earnhardt, who used to drive for McMurray’s team, congratulated him and his team after the race, saying they deserved the win.

As for the pothole that nearly ruined the day, Daytona International Speedway President Robin Braig apologized for the hole and the delays.

“We’re the World Center of Racing. This is the Daytona 500. This is not supposed to happen, and I take full responsibility,” Braig said. “We can come back from this. We know how to fix it. This is hallowed ground. We understand that. We accept the responsibility.”

Racing

Patrick’s race performance disappoints

By Jeremiah Davis Daily Staff Writer With millions of people across the country keeping tabs on Danica Patrick’s progress of her foray into NASCAR, Saturday’s Nationwide Series race was figured to be the most watched ever.

What millions tuned in to see, though, might have been a disappointment.

Patrick, who made her stock car debut a week earlier, finishing sixth in the ARCA race, was fifth fastest in final practice leading up to the race.

However, the race didn’t turn out as well.

Patrick lost touch with the lead pack early in the race, and was put a lap down. She took advantage of the “Lucky Dog” rule at the first caution, and was put back on the lead lap.

It was after she got back on

the lead lap that things got sort of hairy.

“I wish I would have run up there at the beginning and felt more comfortable, but I just didn’t,” Patrick said to The Associated Press. “And that just proves how hard it is out here, and how much there is to learn, and how good all these drivers really are.”

Looking at her Speedweeks overall, Patrick said she was satisfied. But that didn’t stop the outcome of Saturday’s race from being disappointing.

“It’s important to have realistic expectations,” Patrick said. “There’s going to be spikes in performance, I don’t doubt that. But there’s also going to be tough days.

And today, I would say, was more of a tough day.”

Patrick’s popularity isn’t lost on ISU students, either.

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Does anybody who uses LOL in their text messages really mean it anymore? Are they REALLY Laughing Out Loud? ··· To my annoying freshman lab partner, you make me want to spend another semester here just so i dont have to hear you ask me, “Did I do this right?” EVER AGAIN! im just sayin! ··· To the girl in my organic chemistry lecture who insists on saving the entire front row of seats.. really? ··· To my Econ Professor, contrary to popular belief Africa is not a country it is in fact a continent. ··· To the demonic girl in the leather trenchcoat.

Jesus loves you. ··· To all of the people who feel it is necessary to crowd the sidewalk by a bus. Please stand somewhere else.

People do need to get by for classes. ··· To the guy who walks around campus belting out songs at the top of his lungs, you should transfer to a college where people might actually enjoy your terrible singing. Try Iowa City. ··· To the girl who wears the tightest pants known to man kind, they are not complimenting your hail damage. ··· To the guy interested in breakfast- any day works for me as well.

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Men’s Basketball

Team excited to return to Ames Coaches, players await home play, crowd’s support

By Chris Cuellar Daily Staff Writer Coach Greg McDermott walked into Monday’s weekly press conference in a pleasant mood.

Even with Iowa State’s (13– 12, 2–8 Big 12) schedule since the start of the 2010 calendar and a beat up, depleted roster, the towering coach is staying positive about the prospects of his squad and the good things they can take from last week’s two losses.

“We’re really excited to come back home,” McDermott said.

“Last week, I thought we played some very good basketball at times. They have to know that we, as a coaching staff, believe in them, and we do.”

Through 10 Big 12 games, Iowa State has traveled away from Ames for six, and in four home games against conference competition, three of the

opponents have been ranked in the top 10 at game time.

The players aren’t resigned to losing in the middle of a four-game losing slide and are looking ahead to Wednesday’s home matchup against Oklahoma State, rather than in the rear view mirror at No. 1 Kansas at the rowdy Phog Allen Fieldhouse.

“I’m glad we’re at a span where we can try and win some games at home and the crowd’s on our side,” said forward Craig Brackins.

Iowa State wasn’t at the lead of roster shake-ups around the state this weekend.

Northern Iowa’s center Jordan Eglseder was suspended Monday from the Panthers for a suspicion of drunk driving arrest, and the Iowa Hawkeyes’ leading scorer from last season, sophomore Anthony Tucker, was released from the program Friday after a tumultuous twoyear career.

Despite this news taking attention away from the Cyclones for a weekend, there remains transition in the program in Ames.

Hamilton’s Rise Iowa State’s competition has been top-tier since the start of the Big 12 schedule, and sophomore center Justin Hamilton has been one player on the depleted roster that has risen to the challenge.

A role player in McDermott’s system, the 6-foot-11-inch starter has taken advantage of the increased playing time and game-planning around Craig Brackins, averaging 8.6 points and 9.2 rebounds in his last five games.

“I just really want to do my best and hopefully give the fans what they paid for,” Hamilton said. “It’s been a lot of fun out there.”

That mindset has shown up on the stat sheet, as Hamilton has totaled 7.9 points and 7.1 rebounds per game in conference play, a drastic increase from the 4.1 points and 3.1 rebounds he was snagging as a freshman in his 14 Big 12 starts.

“Justin Hamilton’s progress is off the charts — he’s just really elevated his game and continued to work,” McDermott said.

“There’s a level of confidence

there that has never been there.

I couldn’t be more pleased.”

Hamilton didn’t play competitive basketball early in school in Park City, Utah.

A start Wednesday against Oklahoma State would mark number 43 in a Cyclone uniform.

“I said early in Ham’s career that the bad news was that he didn’t have a lot of basketball instinct because he hadn’t played a lot,” McDermott said.

“The good news was that he didn’t have bad habits. It’s gotten to the point where he doesn’t have to think about it.”

Gilstrap’s Appeal Guard Marquis Gilstrap is still working toward coming back to Iowa State for another season, despite his transfer from Gulf Coast Community College.

He is listed as a senior for the Cyclones this season, but with his basketball career in jeopardy after a leg injury back in his days in Florida, McDermott and his staff are working to appeal to the NCAA for what would be a sixth year.

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“We’re still waiting to make sure we can supply all the information they need. It’s an ongoing process, something we’re working on every day,” McDermott said.

Gilstrap is averaging 14.7 points and 9.2 rebounds per game in his first year in Ames, and his highlight dunks are something Hilton crowds are

getting used to seeing.

“I think we can state a good case,” McDermott said.

“Having said that, when there is a sixth year granted, often times it’s because of injury.

For Marquis, that’s not the case, but there are some other factors, family factors. Whether the NCAA will look at that favorably or not, I don’t know.”

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