FRIDAY FEB. 17, 2012
SPORTS
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Health care reform protects women’s rights OPINION
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Tournament raises cancer awareness By Katelynn McCollough Daily staff writer The “Protect Your Balls” Dodgeball Tournament will take place from 12:30 to 4 p.m. on Sunday at the Lied Rec Center. “Protect Your Balls Dodgeball Tournament is one of the events we put on every year in February to raise awareness for testicular and prostate cancer,” said Emily Haselhoff, member of Colleges Against Cancer. Colleges Against Cancer is a student organization that works to raise money and awareness for the American Cancer Society. Haselhoff, senior in community and regional planning, said that the organization plans events throughout the school year to fight against multiple types of cancer “in the hope that one day we can live in a world without cancer.” There are currently 29 teams signed up for the single elimination tournament. Teams of six people still can register up to 12:30 p.m. on the day of the event, though they are not guaranteed a T-shirt. The cost at registration is $60 for each six person team.
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Basketball
AN ANXIOUS VOICE White speaks out on mental illness By Jeremiah.Davis @iowastatedaily.com Royce White hears it. He hears all the chatter in the stands. He hears the good and the bad on Twitter. His openWhite ness about his anxiety has become — apart from his talent on the basketball court — what people know about him. Truth be told, he does not mind a bit. “It’s been real fulfilling for me personally, just the amount of people that contact me and say that they have anxiety,” White said. “The amount of people from all ages and spectrums that say that I’m doing something they find inspirational and motivates them.” On Jan. 26, ESPN.com published a story highlighting White’s battle with anxiety disorder, and the story that sparked it all. White witnessed a teammate collapse during a practice in the fourth grade with a valve defect in his heart, something the boy had from birth. That triggered the anxiety White still has today. White does his best to handle his anxiety on his own, not wanting to “burden” his coaches or teammates with struggles he might be having. One of his closest friends on the team is guard Chris Babb, who said he does his best to look out for his friend and teammate. However, Babb also said White knows how to handle himself well. “I think he’s handled [the attention] well for the most part,” Babb said. “He’s kind of a guy that wears his emotions on his sleeve, whether he knows it or not. I hang out with him a lot. I’ve learned a lot [about mental illness] just by being around him.” Babb said while White has not ever explicitly explained the details of the disorder to him, what he has learned by osmosis has translated into what they do when they hang out outside of practice. “I think it’s a great experience to have a friend like that, a teammate like that, to know to be careful [about] the situations you put yourself in,” Babb said. “For instance, [we] don’t go
Photo: Kendra Plathe/Iowa State Daily Royce White talks about overcoming anxiety on Wednesday at the Sukup Basketball Practice Facility.
out. I don’t take him to Welch [Ave.]; I don’t take him to places where it’s outside of his element.” It has been well-documented the struggles the sophomore from Minneapolis has dealt with. Since
the ESPN — and many other — stories came out, White has been active in social media and traditional media letting people know a mental illness does not have to negatively affect all parts of people’s lives.
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Students ‘Up ‘til Dawn’ for kids
Correction An article in 247 Wednesday said Terry Allen’s display included “neon art pieces.” The exhibition only includes one neon piece, “Heaven Now What,” while the rest displays Allen’s drawings of his work on the public neon art in the State Gym Expansion. The article also said the Live Talk with Allen was on Feb. 29. The lecture is on March 1 at 6 p.m. in 2019 Morrill Hall. A reception will follow from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in 1017 Morrill Hall.
“How we talk about anxiety is risky, and it has to be dealt with carefully,” White said. “Because it’s such a new thing and it’s growing and so un-
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new reality series, “Sorority Girls.” The series ventures into the lives of five American sorority women as they head to the United Kingdom to bring the “traditions of exclusivity and glamour,” to start the first
St. Jude may be the patron saint of lost causes, but that hasn’t stopped Philip Christensen and Torry O’Brien, juniors, from spreading hope. In an effort to “start something of [their] own” on campus, these two accounting majors teamed-up last April and approached St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. After nearly a year of planning, partnering with the Delta Delta Delta sorority and the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, Christensen and O’Brien are bringing St. Jude’s “Up ‘til Dawn” fundraiser to Iowa State. Up ‘til Dawn is a student-run event that raises awareness and funds for the Children’s Research Hospital
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File photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily Members of the sorority Alpha Delta Pi sell Coldstone ice cream Sep. 9 on Central Campus during their annual philanthropy event. Iowa State’s sororities celebrate serving others by giving back to the community.
Break down greek ‘myths’ By Kayla.Kienzle @iowastatedaily.com
The MTV show “Sorority Life” followed the lives of women in sororities. The series ran for just three seasons, but during its time, it gained attention, especially from
those curious about sororities. In fact, it was so popular it gave way to the Facebook “Sorority Life” application. Shows like “Greek” and movies like “Sydney White” have also explored the lives of Greeks. Most Recently, TLC has created its own
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