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Bill passes for campus map installation By Paige Godden Daily Staff Writer Wednesday night’s Government of the Student Body meeting featured the passing of a single bill. The bill was originally written to allocate $7,000 to Facilities Planning and Management to update and install campus directory maps, which hasn’t been done since 2006. The bill was amended down to $3,000 after the group found they were able to fund $3,000 through other means. The goal is to have the maps up before this year’s Veishea. The Finance Committee report, given by Tom Danielson, mentioned that the ISU Sports Club Council will receive $5,000 extra in order to accommodate the 45 groups that asked for more than $200,000 from regular allocations. The University Affairs Committee report, given by Sagar Chawla, said the committee is still working to deal with bike safety on campus. Former Senator Jacob Johnston shared his thoughts on the Varsity Theater with the senate during open forum. After his calculations, he expects the Varsity Theater to lose about $500,000 in five years. Johnston said the negative of this project is that it will be losing money that could be spent on funding groups to go on trips and different activities, and the benefit would be to watch a movie and eat popcorn. “The benefits don’t outweigh the negatives ... you should show the student body you are still good stewards of public funds, and the words fiscal responsibility still applies at this institution,” Johnston said. During closing announcements, Vice President Chandra Peterson said that Second Annual Sustainability Symposium registration forms are due Feb. 19.
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$8.5 million grant to build transport hub The U.S. Department of Transportation announced this morning that it was awarding a grant of nearly $8.5 million to help build an intermodal transport hub in Ames. Sheri Kyras, director of CyRide, said that Ames was one of 50 applicants chosen from a pool of about 1,400. “We really are pleased,” Kyras said. “To be one of 50 around the natation that is seen to have a project in our community that is worthy of this federal stimulus money, I think, is awesome.” “It really is a good first step toward meeting some of the needs of the intermodal facility in Ames.” The grant, however is only a portion of the funds requested. “We had requested 39 million in federal funding,” Kyras said. Planners will consider building the facility in phases or scaling down the project because of the difference in requested allocated funds. “Probably over the next several months we’ll be trying to figure out exactly what the project will look like,” Kyras said. Kyras said the first step lies with understanding exactly which pieces of the grant were approved. “We don’t know how they came up with the number that they did,” Kyras said. “Were there parts of the facility that they wanted to fund 100 percent? If they only wanted to fund certain portions of the facility, then we might need to alter the project.” Due to the terms of the grant, the portions of project funded by stimulus money are required to be “substantially complete.” But with a smaller vision than before, the project will be less pressed for time. “It really does give us some time to kind of take a step back,” Kyras said. — Daily Staff
The screen that the Student Union Board uses to project its semester-annual outdoor film sits on the rooftop of the Memorial Union parking garage. This is the most attended film that the SUB hosts. Courtesy photo: Aerielle Smith
Critique continues Students, group leaders ruminate about potential future of finances, impact of Varsity Theater purchase for Iowa State By Alexander Hutchins Daily Staff Writer The proposal to reopen the Varsity Theater, which passes the GSB senate 28-2, is not without its critics. Jason Covey, president of the ISU College Republicans, said that money going into the project now will not create money for Iowa State in the future. “I don’t think we need to spend more of our tuition money on something that won’t turn a profit,” Covey said. Covey was displeased that the theater proposal did not seem to represent the student body of Iowa State. “Why are they voting at 2 a.m.?” Covey said, noting that his GSB Senator Bridget Wedemeier, had told him she would vote no on the proposal before voting yes. Wedemeier declined to be interviewed for this article. Covey said the GSB did ask students if they would like a theater on campus, but the method did not include explaining the costs of the theater project to those who were questioned. One projection has the theater running at a $60,000 deficit. Covey said the theatre is a fundamentally good idea, but that it won’t be properly implemented. He would rather see a program promoting ticket subsidies to the theatres currently operating in Ames. Eric Cooper, associate professor of psychology at Iowa State and Libertarian party candidate for governor, said that presumably the GSB held hearings prior to the vote and thus gave students an opportunity to voice their opinions. “There will always be the other side of the vote,” Cooper said.
Cooper said that if the GSB thinks the theater is the best use of its funds then he supports the idea. “It’s why they have a budget,” he said. Corey Becker, executive director of the ISU College Republicans, did not feel the theater vote reflected the student body’s decision. “My concern is a financial issue,” he said. Becker said that for the theater to reopen it would mean the GSB would lose money and incur legal liability as a public institution running a business that competes with commercial ventures. Aerielle Smith, president of the Student Union Board and Connor Nolan, vice president of SUB, both supported the GSB’s plan to reopen the Varsity Theater. Smith and Nolan said the new venue would help SUB screen films in a better venue and would allow for greater options in movies for students on campus. SUB is currently funded by the Memorial Union and also receives funds from the GSB to gain the rights to show films Thursdays and Saturdays. This is the first semester SUB has received funding from GSB, Smith said. “I don’t see it as a big fundamental difference,” Smith said of the new venue for films. Nolan said that SUB would still be involved in selecting and promoting the films the Varsity Theater would show. He said SUB gave its support to the Varsity Theater project and that SUB would be doing much of the coordination for the new venture. Coverage of the issue in the Iowa State Daily was either informational or letters to the editor with little real discussion of the issue, Becker said. He agreed with the GSB’s goal of providing students entertainment options, but said that giving credits to businesses to open near campus or subsidizing ticket prices would be better options than opening a theater. Becker said that the wishes of the SUB films program to have a better venue for films could be better addressed by finding a way for the group to screen its movies in theaters in town. The GSB can still find ways to benefit the student body without taking on projects like this, he said.
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Faculty discusses policy By Taysha Murtaugh Daily Correspondent The typographical error in the Senate Faculty handbook’s new open meeting policy sums up the discrepancy the issue has generated among ISU faculty. This revision, approved at the Faculty Senate meeting on Feb. 9, stated that “although the university promotes the principle of open meanings, state law does not require that university committee meetings be open to the public.” The word “meaning” where “meeting” should be “is kind of hilarious, because in a way, what we’re arguing about here is that this policy could be open to lots of different meanings,” said Executive Director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition Charles Davis. “Three or four or five different people could read this document and come up with three or four or five different meanings for this docu-
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ment.” The new wording replaced a longer version that required all Iowa State meetings to be open to the public and the press unless a majority voted to close for confidential reasons. These reasons were specifically listed. The old policy also required university councils and committees to provide the Iowa State Daily as well as Iowa State’s University Relations Office with the date, place, agenda and minutes of each meeting. Some members of the senate considered
these requirements unnecessary and thought a revision was in order. Faculty Senate President-Elect and professor in agronomy Mike Owen said the previous language was confusing, and “the best answer is the simplest answer.” One of the framers behind the new policy was professor in civil, construction and environmental engineering Max Porter. “It was the combination of length and being out of date as well as being unmanageable,” Porter said. “And it wasn’t being followed. That’s the bottom line; it wasn’t being followed anyway.” This reasoning created tension among faculty members, and the majority of the opposition came from the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication. Although the new policy passed with a 38-20 vote, Joel Geske, associate professor of journalism
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Clarification To clarify Wednesday’s article “Turk vetoes SAE Club bill,” between last Wednesday’s GSB senate debate and GSB President Jon Turk’s decision to veto the bill, the time frame of the club’s funding was the most significant issue that was drawn into question. Members of the SAE executive board said Wednesday the Engineering Student Council pays out to member organizations on a by-semester basis. After the club used up the funds they had been allocated in the fall semester, student leaders approached GSB with the hopes of gaining funding for the spring semester through a senate bill. SAE members said they followed GSB’s rules and procedures for requesting the funds. The application of GSB’s bylaws were drawn into question during last Wednesday’s senate meeting. As reported Wednesday, the senate went on to approve the allocation. Turk said he vetoed the bill because he believes it violates GSB bylaws that prohibit the senate from funding pre-professional student organizations and organizations associated with a particular college, department or major. GSB Finance Director Tom Danielson said the GSB Senate might decide to take up the issue of whether the time of year a club makes use of funds from other sources is a factor in whether a club can apply for GSB funding at next Wednesday’s meeting.
2. The Problem of Evil - Peter Kreeft Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: Stephens Auditorium Description: Peter Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and the author of over forty books, including Making Sense Out of Suffering. His writings tackle questions related to the nature of suffering, the existence of God, and ecumenism. He is a regular contributor to several Christian publications, and his first novel, An Ocean Full of Angels, will be published next year. Kreeft earned a PhD from Fordham University.
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Danielson said the club doesn’t currently have funds from the Engineering Student Council to spend, as they spent what was allocated to them in the fall, which was the reason the finance committee “reported the bill favorably,” recommending the senate give its support, as well. Danielson and club members shared the sentiment that the policy is open to senators’ interpretation, in what the Finance Director referred to as a “gray area,” Wednesday night, and believe the senate could use the opportunity to clear up a vague aspect of the GSB bylaws.
Correction The photo associated with Wednesday’s article, “The more the merrier,” was incorrectly attributed. The attribution should have read, “Courtesy Photo: Rashah McChesney.” The Daily regrets the error.
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Candidate refuses offer Search to continue for sustainable agriculture center director position By Bethany Pint Daily Staff Writer The candidate chosen to take over as the new director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture turned down the job offer last week and will stay in North Carolina. The search for the new director of the Leopold Center began in the summer of 2009 after Jerry DeWitt announced his retirement. When the candidate pool was narrowed to just two, the names of Frank Louws, a professor of plant pathology at North Carolina State University, and Ricardo Salvador, a program director of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, were submitted to ISU President Gregory Geoffroy who, as president, gives authority to the dean to offer a position. Wendy Wintersteen, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, offered the position to Louws after Geoffroy made his decision. Wintersteen then notified Salvador that he was no longer in the running for the position. The hiring process was considered controversial by some who thought Louws was chosen because of his connection with Farm Bureau. Despite multiple attempts to reach Wintersteen for comment about this accusation, the Iowa Sate Daily was unsuccessful. Laura Jackson, a biology professor at the University of Northern Iowa, is a member of the Leopold Center’s advisory board and a part of the search committee. When given the chance to comment on the situation, she declined, and said that it is “now water under the bridge.” Jennifer Steffen, chair of the Leopold Center’s advisory board, said she didn’t sit in on the interview with the candidates, but reviewed all the candidates’ resumes, including Louws’ and Salvador’s. “I thought each brought different qualities to the position,” Steffen said. “Obviously, Ricardo Salvador had a little more insight and a little more experience with mainstream agriculture. It doesn’t mean that he’s better qualified in that front, he just has a few more hours in the field.” Salvador was also a strong candidate because of his experience in mainstream agriculture and dealing with national funding organizations and grant providers, Steffen said. Steffen said Louws had “wonderful administrative abilities.” “He was an outstanding researcher,” she said. “He has a solid background in sustainable agriculture.” But there were some differences, Steffen said. “He didn’t have as many strengths when it
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comes to corn and soybean production that we experience here in the state of Iowa,” she said. “He hasn’t dealt with commodity crops like Dr. Salvador had.” Louws declined the job offer and in an e-mail to the Iowa State Daily, he said his decision wasn’t based on the controversy surrounding the hiring process. “Discussions about the hiring process did not affect my decision,” Louws said. “In the final analysis, I had to make a career choice between two outstanding opportunities and in the final days of the decision, it became increasingly clear that our family would be best served by staying in North Carolina.” Steffen said Louws was offered an incentive to stay at North Carolina State University. “It was indicated to us that they had upped the ante to keep him on staff,” Steffen said. Salvador has been invited back to campus for a second interview, Steffen said. When asked whether or not he would accept the job offer, Salvador said in an e-mail that it was too early to tell. “It would be premature to comment on this since there hasn’t been a second interview yet and therefore no one can know whether there might indeed be such an offer,” he said. Salvador, who was an associate professor of agronomy at Iowa State from 1996 to 2007, added, “My colleagues at the Foundation were very supportive of my initial interest in the Leopold Center, since they recognized the unique personal opportunity this represented. However, we all understood that this was now behind us. For this reason, my primary commitment and responsibility now is to the Kellogg Foundation. It would take something really extraordinary for all the stars to realign once again around the situation at the Leopold Center, but it is a sufficiently important opportunity that I must at least consider it.” Steffen is confident Salvador will be offered the position. “We certainly hope that they reach that conclusion with Dr. Salvador and the Center can go forward from this point,” Steffen said. “We think he would be a good director of the Center so we’re very optimistic that will, in fact, happen given the amount of time it takes.” In the meantime DeWitt, who was scheduled to retire at the end of January, will stay until the end of June. If the process doesn’t end with Salvador, Steffen said an interim director would take charge of the Leopold Center.
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and mass communication, was the only person at the senate meeting to speak openly against the change. “We’re coming at it from a perspective of the freedom of the press, and we have this real love and passion for the First Amendment here at the Greenlee School,” Geske said. “And other disciplines just don’t have that same understanding or concern, necessarily, of the freedom of the press to be able to help serve the public interests.” These interests would include the right of the public and press to be notified of and attend campus meetings, and the new policy doesn’t guarantee these rights. “Iowa open meeting law is on the books for a purpose,” Geske said, “and that’s basically that Iowa government should be open and transparent to the people who pay the bills, the taxpayers of Iowa.” Michael Bugeja, director of the Greenlee School, agreed that the new policy lacks transparency. His e-mail signature reads, “The absence of transparency implies the presence of incompetence.” Bugeja stressed that while he agrees the old wording could have been improved, “The issue is how they chose to simplify it, and I have a very simple way to simplify it: Follow the law. Chapters 21 and 22 of the Iowa Code. Problem solved.” This law, otherwise known as Iowa’s “Sunshine Laws,” provide guidelines as to when a meeting can be closed as well as which records are confidential. The Faculty Senate’s open meeting policy is still within the code, but Geske said the Senate has the freedom to
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close meetings by a simple majority vote whenever they want. “I think particularly in these budget times when we’re going to be possibly eliminating programs around the university, it’s even more important that we have open meetings,” Geske said. “So ... students, faculty, whoever wants to come and air their views, to speak, to find out what’s going on at the university should have that opportunity to.” Bugeja challenged the Faculty Senate to provide evidence of how they arrived at this particular wording. “The argument is not that it’s confusing and long. How do you intend to fix it, what research did you do, why can’t you simply follow the law?” Bugeja said. Owen and Porter insisted that a lot of research had gone into the process of composing the changes to the open meeting policy. Neither could recall what that research included specifically, but Owen said the policy has been “under discussion over the last couple of years and finally with some assistance from University Counsel, we put together what we believed was a very clear statement that provided everyone with an understanding of what our policy was.” Geske, Bugeja and Davis, however, all disagree, saying the new policy is very vague and open to different interpretation. “I don’t have an issue with the people that are making these decisions right now,
but we don’t know what the next administration [will do].” Geske said. “And if it’s in the Faculty Handbook, then it’s clear what the expectations are.” Davis agreed with Geske, saying that the original policy was “incredibly detailed, very easy to read, very easy to follow” and is being replaced with an “amorphous” statement “and then [left] to the student or the faculty member or the staff member to figure out what that means.” Owen and Porter also believe that meetings in general will continue to remain open, and they say the senate will continue to post the dates, places, agendas and minutes of their meetings on the Faculty Senate Web site for the public and press to see. “I really don’t see that it’s changed anything,” Owen said. “It’s just a little simpler, a little more specific.” Bugeja argued that although the information might be posted on a Web site somewhere, “The issue that the Iowa Newspaper Foundation has with that, which I share, is that we don’t spend our time looking for where meetings are supposed to be.” The old policy’s requirement of notifying the Iowa State Daily and the University Relations Office prior to any of the meetings is a major reason for the recent revision, Porter said. “It’s pretty hard with electronics and the way we do everything at such a fast pace,” Porter said. “That’s just one example of how it [was] becoming impractical.” As a result, he said, no one was following the old policy anyway. “The fact that they’re not following it to me is not reason to revise the policy,” Davis said. “It’s reason to follow the policy.”
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Alpha Sigma Phi returns to roots Fraternity searches for members seeking leadership, commitment to reestablish strong brotherhood By Tessa Callender Daily Staff Writer Silence, charity, purity, honor and patriotism. Those are the core values of Alpha Sigma Phi, a fraternity in the process of being refounded at Iowa State. Originally founded at Yale University in 1845, Alpha Sigma Phi is the 10th oldest fraternity in the United States, and the ISU chapter — or Phi chapter — was the 21st chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi to open, in 1920. The ISU chapter was never shut down, but numbers were too low and recruiting was not adequate to keep it going at full speed. Alpha Sigma Phi has had much success in the past. In 2000 and 2002 the ISU chapter was even awarded Alpha Sigma Phi’s Grand Senior President’s Award, an award given out every two years to recognize the most outstanding of the chapters of Alpha Sigma Phi in the nation. “Successful alumni, high chapter membership numbers, high standards for membership and receipt of multiple merits recognizing its quality made the Phi chapter one of the most well-known and respected chapters of Alpha Sigma Phi for many years,” said Will Frattini, part of the national staff of Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity based out of Carmel, Ind. Frattini came down for two weeks during January to inform students of the unique opportunity and get the process going. Because of the history of the chapter, the national staff felt it was important to preserve the chapter’s existence and a group of students at Iowa State are determined to bring ISU’s Alpha Sigma Phi chapter back to life and send it on a path to achieving the success it once knew. “This is an opportunity that provides a chance for men to become a part of an organization on campus, who may not have ever been interested in becoming a part of a fraternity,” Frattini said. “This experience is so much different than just simply joining an existing chapter of another fraternity on campus, because it allows for the men to forgo the myths and stereotypes and to help start an upstanding organization on campus that garners respect from their peers and the faculty and staff on campus.” Frattini is also the coordinator of chapter development on the national level and travels across the country to help start or refound various chapters of Alpha Sigma Phi. He assists in managing the 69 active chapters of Alpha Sigma Phi across college and university campuses. He maintains contact with the prudential committee — the name for the members they have appointed to the executive committee — and has left it with the tools it needs to continue to recruit and make its group grow stronger as each day passes. “Too often people think that being in a fraternity is all-consuming; however, becoming a part of Alpha Sigma Phi helps young men manage their lives better while in college, and also provides them with the skills needed to be prepared for the rest of their lives,” Frattini said. “Some of the outlets through which our men develop themselves and others are Ralph Burns Leadership Academy, President’s Academy of Leadership, Chapter Advance, Grand Chapter and working with our national philanthropic partner Livestrong, The Lance Armstrong Foundation.” So far, most of the men involved in the group at Iowa State actually received an e-mail from Frattini initially and decided to take advantage of the opportunity. “When I first came to Iowa State, I absolutely did not want to join a fraternity because of the negative [reputation] they sometimes have,” said Bryce Satterly, pledge president and junior in construction engineering. “Over the last couple years I had a slight interest in joining a fraternity, but I didn’t think I would fit in because I wasn’t an incoming
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freshman. When I received the e-mail from [Frattini] explaining that they were going to start a chapter, I was all over that opportunity. The idea of starting a chapter, becoming a founding father and making it my own while molding it the way I want is what intrigued me the most. This truly is a rare opportunity, and I think I am going to be able to look back in 20 years and be really glad that I did it.” Others have felt the same way. “Even in the short time that I have been involved with Alpha Sigma Phi, I can already see how I am reaping benefits. As a person who never thought about joining a fraternity, and even had negative ideas about what it meant to be in one, I must say that I am very pleasantly surprised with the experience,” said Sam White, education director of the chapter and junior in psychology. “I said I would not ever join a fraternity. There are a lot of stereotypes for ‘frat’ guys, and that’s something that I wanted to stay away from, but this is a unique opportunity,” said Max Perkins, pledge vice president and junior in mechanical engineering. Perkins also said the group is stressing that it’s not a “frat,” but a fraternity, a brotherhood. There are currently 20 pledges, and the group hopes to double that by the time it has its initiation ceremony, tentatively scheduled for March 25 and 26. Normally, the process to become a full member takes about 15 months; however, this situation is unique due to the fact that members only pay a one-time national fee and the colonization process does not have to be completed. Currently everyone is pledge. Becoming a member will be crunched into a one six- to eight-week procedure. “Just the uniqueness of the situation makes it something special that you’re not going to find in another fraternity,” Perkins said. Perkins believes that getting involved in this venture is making something out of nothing and, in turn, will create a lasting impression. “We stand out from the rest because we are so new, and the members that get involved now have a direct impact on where the chapter goes from here,” Satterly said. “You are not going to find that in any other chapter on campus. By joining a chapter that is so new you have the opportunity to build something from the ground up instead of coming in and joining the club.” The men who join Alpha Sigma Phi even get the chance to redo the constitution and amend it the way they want to, in addition to setting all of the rules again. “We get to choose how the group operates, functions and the destiny and future of the chapter is in our hands,” White said. “We get to mold this group to fit our perfect definition of what a lifetime of brotherhood means to us.” While secrecy keeps some from joining fraternities, it isn’t a problem with Alpha Sigma Phi. “Fraternities in general are known for their secrecy and rituals. When you join a chapter you really don’t know anything about it
until you are initiated as a member,” Satterly said. “What if you get in and decide that this isn’t for you? Alpha Sigma Phi is not like this. Sure, we have rituals and traditions that are held secret by the initiated members, but for the most part we are completely open about who we are and what we stand for. In fact, our core values are even listed on our national Web site and our mission is plastered all over everything related to Alpha Sig. I don’t know of any other national fraternity that is as open about their organization as Alpha Sigma Phi is about theirs.” One key factor that is up in the air, however, is the status of the original Alpha Sigma Phi house on Sorority Circle. Due to the low number of members, the chapter could not afford to keep the house, and it is now owned by the alumni. It is currently on the market, but there hasn’t been much interest due to how expensive it is. The group is hoping that if it gets enough members — it would need 30 to live in the house to break even with the cost — it will be able to get the house back. There are no guarantees, however, and there is a good deal of uncertainty as far as the housing situation at this point. “One of our goals is to secure a house in the most timely manner in which it is economically possible, whether that be the traditional location or otherwise,” White said. The group is willing to accept the fact that it is without a house for the time being and is approaching the situation as if it would be living without one. “The most important thing for us right now is not to be preoccupied with the idea of a house, but rather to act upon and live upon the values of Alpha Sigma Phi,” White said. The group’s main focus at the moment is recruiting more quality men to join the fraternity. “It’s a social fraternity and anyone can join,” Perkins said. “There are no GPA requirements or anything like that. We’re looking for guys who are committed and organized and really try to get this going and be dedicated to it.” Although it’s hard recruiting without a budget to work with, they are doing the most with what they have. They currently plan to participate during Greek Week and are currently holding weekly events that anyone interested in Alpha Sigma Phi can attend, like bowling at the Memorial Union, pool tournaments and movie nights, for example. “I think it’s a really great leadership opportunity, way to meet people and way to leave the mark at Iowa State,” Perkins said. “I think more of the interest from what I’ve seen of the guys comes from the challenge — they want to really make it something great again.” The group is hoping to make a presence on campus and continue to let people know that Alpha Sigma Phi still exists. “This is an opportunity to start your own fraternity, not just join one, and to make it what you want it to be,” Frattini said. “Although Alpha Sigma Phi has a history at Iowa State, the majority of the current undergraduate population is not familiar with Alpha Sigma Phi at all. This is excellent for our new members, and potential new members as it allows for them to create their own standards, their own goals and their own reputation on campus,” Frattini said. “There are no shoes they have to fill and no one to prove anything to. Ultimately, the men who become a part of this re-start effort will be leaving a legacy at Iowa State that will last for years and years to come, and will be able to share in an experience that the smallest percentage of undergraduate men will ever have access to.” Taking on this endeavor is something they all agree involves lots of hard work, dedication, motivation and will continue to be a challenge, but they wholeheartedly believe, in the end, it will all be worth it. “Our slogan, ‘To Better the Man,’ describes perfectly what Alpha Sigma Phi is all about,” Satterly said. “By joining our chapter you have the chance to start new traditions, make new friends and be part of a nationwide brotherhood that will stand behind you for the rest of your life.” Those interested or having any questions can go to the chapter’s Facebook page: Iowa State - Alpha Sigma Phi, or e-mail Satterly at bsatterl@iastate.edu.
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Ed Thomas Trial
Mother testifies of defendant’s mental history By Nigel Duara Associated Press Writer ALLISON — The mother of a former football player accused of fatally shooting his high school coach testified Wednesday that her son suffered from severe bouts of depression and occasionally violent episodes. Joan Becker said her son, Mark Becker, was hospitalized for mental issues three times before he was accused of gunning down Aplington-Parkersburg coach Ed Thomas in June. The first episode, in September 2008, began when Mark Becker began calling her “horrible, horrible names” and threatened to kill himself, she said. “There was lots of swearing, which he did not ever do in front of me,” Joan Becker said. “It went on for hours and hours. He kept asking, can’t you see, can’t you see? “He thought he was being turned into our coon dog, Chief — just extreme, bizarre behavior.” Mark Becker, 24, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Thomas and has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. His attorneys have said that they will try to show he is a paranoid schizophrenic who had not taken his prescribed medication the night before the shooting. Assistant Iowa Attorney General Andy Prosser asked Joan Becker whether her son’s apparent delusions ever focused on Thomas. Joan Becker said that during the first episode, Mark Becker tore down a poster of Thomas in his brother’s room. Later, she said during an episode that Mark Becker claimed Thomas was in his room and trying to sexually assault him. There has been no suggestion that any of what Mark Becker said during the episodes his mother described Wednesday ever took place. “He said ‘Coach Thomas is behind me, get him off me, he’s raping me,’” Joan Becker said. “He would refer to it during episodes, [saying] ‘Get them off me, get them off me.’” The Thomas and Becker families attend the same church. Joan Becker said after high school, Mark Becker only interacted with Thomas “in passing” at church. The most recent time Becker was hospitalized
Defendant Mark Becker listens to testimony Wednesday at the Butler County Courthouse in Allison. Joan Becker says she was unable to reach a mental health counselor when her son was released from a hospital the night before the shooting. Courtesy photo: Cliff Jette/The Associated Press
came after he threatened a Cedar Falls man and damaged his garage, then led police on a highspeed chase on June 20. Joan Becker said she wasn’t able to reach a mental health counselor when her son was released from the Waterloo hospital the night before the June 24 shooting. Defense attorneys showed a videotape Wednesday of Mark Becker in a Butler County sheriff’s office interrogation room after the June 20 chase. Becker is shown sitting for more than an hour and only speaking for a few minutes. “What did you do to me, God?” Mark Becker
said on the video. Without specifying who he was talking about, he said “He’s forcing me to be evil and I’m not. I work for God, I don’t work for Satan.” Some of the comments Mark Becker made to Butler County Sheriff Jason Johnson in the video were similar to those he made after the shooting four days later, when he told police he shot Thomas “for you cops.” “I want to work with you,” Mark Becker said to Johnson in the video. “Everyone’s hypnotized right now. None of it’s real.” Johnson responded, “This part’s real.”
In a controlled voice, Joan Becker described her son’s descent from an outgoing child to a severely depressed and withdrawn college student who didn’t recognize his parents during his episodes. While testifying about his change in personality, she looked at her son and gave a tight smile that lasted several seconds. She said her son suffered a second episode in November 2008, when he was arrested after a fight. Joan Becker said she picked him up from jail and was driving him home when he began to shout at her, grabbed for the steering wheel and broke her cell phone in half. She forced him to get out of the car. “He showed up at the house, apologizing, crying, saying ‘It wasn’t me, it wasn’t me, Mom,’” Joan Becker said. “He explained to us that in these episodes, he would be up in the air and he would look down at his body and have no control over it.” Dr. Mark Lassise, a Mason City psychiatrist who treated Becker in September 2008 and November 2008, said Becker experienced intense hallucinations that seemed to worsen between episodes. “Mark felt he was receiving telepathic messages,” Lassise said. “He was mad at his parents, I think he felt like he was receiving messages from them.” Lassise and a fellow doctor diagnosed Mark Becker with “psychotic disorder,” a catchall term for the various possible psychiatric disorders from which he could have been suffering. Lassise said Mark Becker tested positive for amphetamine in a urine test, leading doctors to believe he could have been suffering from methamphetamine-induced psychosis. “It can give a picture similar to schizophrenia,” Lassise said. Each time Mark Becker was released, Lassise said he prescribed him medication. Joan Becker said her son took the medication “sporadically.” Assistant football coach Jason Key said he coached Mark Becker in football and attended the same church. Key said Mark Becker never exhibited any animosity toward Thomas, a one-time National Football League high school coach of the year, in church or on the football field.
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Board unanimously recommends for marijuana legalization By Molly Hottle Associated Press Writer DES MOINES — The Iowa Board of Pharmacy unanimously recommended Wednesday that the Legislature legalize marijuana for medical uses. In a 6-0 vote, the board also called for lawmakers to change the classification of marijuana to a Schedule II drug. Such drugs have the potential for abuse but also have accepted medical uses. The board’s action makes it the first state pharmacy panel to take such a stance before either legislators or voters took steps to legalize marijuana. There are currently 14 states with laws concerning medical marijuana, although regulations in New Jersey haven’t yet taken effect. “One more time Iowa provides leadership,” said board member Peggy Whitworth. The recommendation calls for the Legislature to create a committee that would propose how to administer a medical marijuana program in Iowa.
The panel would be made up of people that use marijuana for medical reasons as well as representatives from the Board of Pharmacy, other health boards and various public safety organizations. “What the Board of Pharmacy feels is important is that this isn’t just a one-group issue, but that we need to bring in all other disciplines and the patients,” said Susan Frey, a board member and pharmacist. The recommendation came after the board held four public meetings last year and spent several months studying scientific research on the drug. Board members don’t expect the Legislature to take immediate action during a shortened session that likely will end by late March. “The probability [of immediate action] is not great,” said Edward Meier, another board member and pharmacist. “But it’s in the Legislature now.” It wasn’t clear whether Gov. Chet Culver would support a legalization effort. A spokesman said Culver wouldn’t make a
statement on the issue Wednesday. Medical marijuana initially came before the pharmacy board in 2008 when the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa and Carl Olsen, co-founder of Iowans for Medical Marijuana, petitioned the board to remove the drug from the Legislature’s Schedule I classification.
The board rejected the request, then took up the matter again in 2009 at the order of a Polk County judge. The judge was responding to a petition filed by the ACLU and Olsen, ruling that the board must review the classification and decide whether or not marijuana has an accepted medical use.
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The board again declined to reclassify marijuana but agreed to hold hearings and consider making a recommendation to the Legislature. Olsen said he sees the recommendation as a victory. “If you’re a medical patient and you use marijuana for medical purposes, and you get arrested, your jury is going to be Page 1
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Industrial output raises for seventh straight month By Daniel Wagner and Martin Crutsinger AP Economics Writers
A small plane crashed Wednesday in a residential neighborhood shrouded in heavy fog and killed all three Tesla Motors employees aboard, igniting fires and scattering debris onto a house where a children’s day care center is operated, authorities said. Photo: Paul Sakuma/The Associated Press
Lucky day care lives through plane crash By Brooke Donald and Sudhin Thanawala Associated Press Writer EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. — A twin-engine plane carrying three employees of electric car maker Tesla Motors struck a set of power lines after takeoff Wednesday and crashed into a fogshrouded residential neighborhood, raining fiery debris over homes, sending residents running for safety and killing everyone aboard. But the crash somehow caused no injuries or deaths on the ground despite a wing slamming into a home where a day care center operated. The seven people inside the house, including an infant, all escaped moments before the home went up in flames. Menlo Park Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman said the Cessna 310 either struck a 100-foot electrical tower or clipped its power transmission lines and broke apart, dropping debris throughout the working-class Silicon Valley neighborhood. It was not immediately clear if the dense fog played a role in the crash. The city of Palo Alto said most of the city and surrounding area — about 28,000 customers — had no electricity for most of the day because of the crash. A spokeswoman for Palo Alto-based Facebook Inc. said its offices were without power but the outage was not affecting the Web site.
Hewlett-Packard Co.’s corporate headquarters also were dark, and employees were asked to find other places to work Wednesday, a spokeswoman said. A wing fell onto the house where a children’s day care operated, and the rest of the plane struck the front retaining wall of another house down the street before landing on two vehicles on the street, Schapelhouman said. Debris also struck two neighboring houses, he said. Pamela Houston, an employee of the day care, said she was feeding an infant when she heard a loud boom that she initially thought was an earthquake until she “saw a big ball of fire hit the side of the house.” Houston said she screamed to the others in the house — the owner, the owner’s husband and their three children — and the group safely escaped before the home went up in flames. “There are not even words to describe what it felt like,” she said. “I am very thankful to God that he allowed us to get out.” The occupants of the homes have been accounted for, although authorities can’t be completely sure of the fatality count until crews begin clearing the wreckage, Schapelhouman said. “Either by luck or the skill of the pilot, the plane hit the street and not the homes on either side,” he added. “That saved people in this community.”
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save cash. A separate sign of strength came in a Commerce Department report on housing construction. Home building posted a better-than-expected increase last month. Construction rose 2.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 591,000 units. That was better than the 580,000 annual pace economists were forecasting. Applications for building permits, a gauge of future activity, fell 4.9 percent to a rate of 621,000. That followed two months of sharp increases. Also Wednesday, Federal Reserve policymakers forecast that unemployment will stay high over the next two years. They said it will take “some time” for the economy and the job market to return to normal. The policymakers did not spell out how long that would be. Previously, they suggested it could take five or six years for economic conditions to return to full health. In its updated projections, the Fed said the jobless rate this year could hover between 9.5 percent and 9.7 percent and 8.2 percent to 8.5 percent next year. The Treasury Department,
meanwhile, said the federal budget deficit through the first four months of the budget year is running at a record pace. The red ink reflects the continued fallout from the recession and financial crisis. It highlights the challenges President Barack Obama faces in trying to get the deficit down to manageable levels. In the meantime, U.S. manufacturers are benefiting “across the board” as companies rebuild inventories, creating especially robust demand for metals, chemicals and paper, said Thomas Duesterberg of the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI, an industry group. Still, companies will eventually let their inventories fall again unless consumers — who account for about 70 percent of the economy — spend more. Unlike past rebounds driven by the spending of ordinary shoppers, this one appears to hinge on spending by businesses, foreigners and — until it runs out — government stimulus. Last month’s gains in home construction add to evidence that the industry is starting to sustain its recovery from its worst slump in decades.
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Republicans observe chance for gain in health care summit By Erica Werner The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans see a chance for political gain in President Barack Obama’s televised health care summit next week, even though the president will be running the show. Obama and the Democrats are certain to highlight a crucial element of their health care plan — extending coverage to more than 30 million Americans — at the one-of-a-kind event. By comparison, a Republican plan would only help 3 million more. But during a time of ballooning deficits, the GOP figures reining in rising medical costs — not coverage — could resonate with voters in an election year. The Democratic health overhaul plan is estimated at some $1 trillion over 10 years, and Republicans will contrast their financial approach with that of the Democrats. So even on Obama’s turf, the GOP thinks it can score a few political points. “I think what we have to do is keep it on the policy and really continue to describe that we have listened to the American people, and anyone listening to the American people would say scrap this bill and begin again, and let’s begin again by focusing on lowering costs,” Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan, who will be attending the summit as the top Republican on the House Ways and Means
Committee, said Tuesday. Republicans know they go into the half-day event Feb. 25 with built-in disadvantages. Obama dominated when he debated House Republicans at their retreat in Baltimore last month, and the White House would like to recreate that dynamic, capitalizing on Obama’s speaking skills. The president has already said he’ll moderate the forum, and the location and staging at the Blair House guest residence are of the White House’s choosing, giving Democrats home-court advantage. But Republicans say they have a different advantage: Polls show Americans side with them on the substance. All they have to do is remind viewers that’s the case, and they could chalk up something like a win that could make the going even tougher for the Democrats. In a New York Times/CBS poll released this month, 56 percent said they preferred “a smaller government providing fewer services” to 34 percent in favor of “a bigger government providing more services.” Some 27 percent named jobs as the most important issue confronting the nation while 25 percent said the economy. Thirteen percent said health care, fewer than the 16 percent who said “other.” Republicans say all that argues in favor of their approach: taking smaller steps toward reform, not a comprehensive remake like the Democrats prefer. They’ll continue to argue that Democrats should scrap their existing bills and start over.
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An Afghan man comes out of a building Wednesday as U.S. soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, sit during a foot patrol in the Badula Qulp area, West of Lashkar Gah in Helmand, Afghanistan. Photo: Pier Paolo Cito/The Associated Press
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Human shield Taliban ‘Buy China’ policy alarms Troops unable to shoot forces due to civilians By Alfred de Montesquiou and Rahim Faiez Associated Press Writers MARJAH, Afghanistan — Taliban fighters holding out in Marjah are increasingly using civilians as human shields, firing from compounds where U.S. and Afghan forces can clearly see women and children, Afghan and U.S. troops said Wednesday. The intermingling of fighters and civilians also has been witnessed by Associated Press journalists. It is part of a Taliban effort to exploit strict NATO rules against endangering innocent lives to impede the allied advance through the town in Helmand province, 360 miles southwest of Kabul. Two more NATO service members were killed in the Marjah operation Wednesday, the alliance said in a statement without identifying them by
nationality. Their deaths brought to six NATO service members and one Afghan soldier who have been killed since the attack on Marjah, the hub of the Taliban’s southern logistics and drugsmuggling network, began Saturday. About 40 insurgents have been killed, Helmand Gov. Gulab Mangal said. During Wednesday’s fighting, Marines and Afghan troops “saw sustained but less frequent insurgent activity,” mostly small-scale attacks, NATO said in a statement. NATO spokesman Brig. Gen. Eric Tremblay told journalists in Brussels that most of the objectives have been achieved. “Perhaps the pocket in the western side of Marjah still gives freedom of movement to the Taliban, but that is the extent of their movement,” he said. This is the biggest offensive since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, and a test of President Barack Obama’s strategy for reversing the rise of the Taliban while protecting civilians.
As Marines and Afghan soldiers press their offensive, they have been forced to hold fire because insurgents are shooting from inside or next to mudwalled compounds where civilians are present — and restraint slows their advance. Brig. Gen. Mohiudin Ghori, the brigade commander of Afghan troops in Marjah, said in some cases women and children may have been ordered to stand on a roof or in a window of buildings where Taliban fighters are shooting. Ghori said troops have to decide between firing on insurgents among civilians, or advance much more slowly to keep women and children out of the crossfire. “They are trying to get us to fire on them and kill the civilians,” he said. Journalists embedded with the Marines have seen such cases: a neighborhood is alive with children, then the next minute the streets are empty and gunshots ring out. As the troops advance, children reappear, peering and grinning through half-closed doors.
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The move reflects Beijing’s growing assertiveness as it tries to make Chinese industry more autonomous after depending on foreign money, markets and technology for three decades to drive its economic boom. Trade groups say it violates the spirit of China’s World Trade Organization free-trade commitments and its pledges to avoid protectionism that might harm the global recovery. Washington and the European Union have complained, but Beijing retorts that it has yet to sign a treaty that would apply WTO rules to government purchasing. The impact on companies is unclear because no details of how it will work have been released. But the government is China’s biggest software buyer and a key customer for other technology. Losing that market might hurt companies including Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp. and Motorola Inc. Suppliers worry the rules could be extended to purchasing by major state-owned companies in power, telecoms and other fields. Some companies would consider pulling out of China if they conclude the loss in sales will be too great, U.S. and European trade groups say.
By Joe McDonald AP Business Writer BEIJING — Beijing says it wants to spur Chinese inventions with a “Buy China” policy that gives preference to domestic technology companies. But the tactic has provoked an outcry from Washington and business groups that say it will choke off access to the massive market for goods from software to clean power equipment. Foreign companies have been alarmed by the government’s announcement it will favor technology developed in China when buying computers and other goods on which it spends billions each year. The plan, part of a decade-old effort to promote “indigenous innovation,” would channel money to Chinese companies and add to pressure on foreign technology creators to shift research work to China and know-how to local partners.
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PAGE 8 | Iowa State Daily | Thursday, February 18, 2010 Editor S. Prell | opinion@iowastatedaily.com | 515.294.6768
Editorial:
Reform:
GSB leaders should address theater questions
Citizens sit unheard
In yesterday’s editorial, we discussed the hard work that the Varsity Theater Task Force has undertaken, and applauded the efforts of the students who have helped the project get this far. Today, we’d like to take a moment to reflect on the hard work and challenges yet to come. The first major hurdle was cleared last week, when the Government of the Student Body Senate passed the initial Theater Bill 28-2-0, but the victory was blemished on Monday when President Jon Turk announced he would decline to sign the bill — allowing it to pass into law without his stamp of approval. In addition, GSB’s passage of the bill has sparked debate among students — some of which has been presented on these pages — and detractors have voiced strong concerns. There’s still a lot of convincing to do, even here at home. And if project skeptics here at Iowa State are critical, they’ll be doubly so when the proposal makes its way to the big leagues and is presented to the Board of Regents. There’s a lot of work to be done. To start with, take a look at the letters in the past week’s papers. If students have voiced doubts about the thoroughness of the financial assessment contained in the proposal, it’s likely that the regents will have similar concerns. If students question whether the money could be better used, it’s likely the regents will as well. If students are unsure of how a studentrun theater will affect local business and what response it will elicit from Cinemark, so, too, will the regents. The goal, then, is to answer all of these questions before the regents even see the proposal. Our support for the project stands, and we’ve discussed it so much that we know it by heart: There are benefits to bringing non-alcoholic entertainment to Campustown and giving students a stake in the area — benefits that go above and beyond what could be gained by leaving the money in the bank, distributing a few dollars to each student, or investing in new swivel chairs for student office spaces. But it’s not the Editorial Board the proponents of the project need to convince. The skeptics won’t be students this time around, but the state’s regents, who are tasked with ensuring responsible use of state and student money, and who may be spending-averse, because of the state’s recent cut in higher education appropriations. So double down, and make sure that all of the loose ends are tied up tight. Project proponents must be able to say that they left no stone unturned in the search for answers and information on which to build their case, because those who present the project to the Board of Regents represent not only the proposal and themselves, but Iowa State and the student leadership at our university.
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he health insurance reform bill waits for sentencing, but regardless of what happens, one thing is clear: Americans have had little say in how they feel about reform. In the face of errant misrepresentations, public opinion for this cost-cutting legislation has soured. Well-funded special interest groups, in their unique position to create and shape public perception, have played a large role in the faltering public opinion of HCR. The moderating force behind representative democracy is that citizens perceive the actions of their representatives through felt consequences and, in the following election cycle, repay the favor by ousting miscreant legislators. The problem with this model in contemporary society is that the most prevalent forum of public discourse is now television; a one-way conversation monopolized by the wealthiest of economic elites. The cost of entry is simply too high; a 30-second television commercial, run in 1999, cost an average of $343,000 according to the New York Times. The editorials that you write, the conversation that you have in class, the consequences that you feel from your government’s actions; all of it barely even ripples the ocean of national opinion any longer. The public’s capacity for leveraging its own political power to affect change relies on discussion, which rarely occurs when television dominates the conversation. Special interests, with their massive financial coffers and unique position to put messages out in the open for public consumption has hijacked our system of government – in this case, health insurance reform — and threatens to cripple the republic as our founders envisioned it: with unfettered public discourse contributed to by all members. Once these well-funded groups have secured television time, they report perception as fact in a way that serves their agenda, regardless of their authority. For example, on Sept. 11, the group Conservatives for Patients’ Rights ran an advertisement during peak television hours that contradicted each of President Barack Obama’s talking points in his speech the night before. The group stated each of its points without reproach, citing no facts or passages of the bill, yet many Americans accepted them as an authority, swinging public opinion polls against reform by playing to public fears of a government takeover. The strategy was well calculated, since 51 percent of Americans fear government above health insurance according to a Rasmussen poll. However, CPR’s credibility comes seriously into question when one examines the Department of Justice’s account of Rick Scott, CPR CEO, and his 14 felony allegations for Medicare fraud at a for-profit hospital chain. There is no doubt to anyone that health insurance reform poses a real threat to the record-breaking profits of health insurance and pharmaceutical companies. The most profound tragedy in the current discussion is that Americans, despite this conflict of interest, remain unconvinced that the opposition to health insurance reform stems from elite economic interests. From “death panels” to “socialized medicine,” each counter-attack claims to come from some unknown corner of H.R. 3200. The problem is that an alarming number of these
Health care reform in modern government faces an uphill battle against misrepresentation, like Sarah Palin’s assertion that her child may one day face a “death panel.” Courtesy photo: www. sarahpalintoday.us
attacks have been misrepresentations of the real bill. If one reads H.R. 3200, one wonders how Section 123’s Health Benefits Advisory Committee, for example, headed by the surgeon general who quote, “recommend[s] covered benefits,” became an example of a “government’s takeover of health care.” Certainly a representative, Democrat or Republican, could accurately interpret this language, but instead citizens have to dig into the bill themselves in order to determine the truth. Americans trust their representatives to make the best decisions for them. Our reliance on representative democracy has streamlined the process of legislating. However, it has also, via one-way political dialogue, removed citizens from the legislative process to a degree that prevents all but the most informed and educated from comprehending what our representatives perpetrate. So, in an effort to establish a connection between the economic interests involved and the message of the bill’s opposition, I present the following facts. Humana, one of the largest health insurance firms in the country, saw their stock hit a yearlong high the day of Scott P. Brown’s election in Massachusetts according to Google Finance records. Pfizer pharmaceuticals saw a year-high close on the exact
same day. In fact, the entire sector of stocks under the classification of “health care” saw a year-high (since January 2009) spike in closing stock prices the day of Brown’s election. Scott Brown ran on a platform promising to be the filibuster-breaking vote in the Senate debate on health care. The fact is that the savings of the proposed legislation are passed down to us; those of us on this campus who will soon take up the burden of skyrocketing health insurance costs and the astronomical price of prescription drugs. Despite this vested interest, our needs are not being heard while Humana’s are. If you wish to get involved, there are opportunities to make your voice heard. Call your representatives, write in to your local newspaper, call in to radio programs and saturate the local media with your opinions. It is only through the last bastions of public discourse that we can make our voices heard.
Ian Barker is a senior in chemical engineering from Des Moines.
Feminism:
Sexism controversy remains “S
exism,” I define as the overarching system of advantages bestowed on males. It is prejudice and discrimination based on sex, especially against females and intersexed people, and is founded on a patriarchal structure of male dominance promoted through individual, institutional, social and cultural systems. Throughout history, examples abound of male domination over the rights and lives of women. Men denied women the right to vote until women fought hard and demanded the rights of political enfranchisement. Strictly enforced gender-based social roles mandated, without choice, that women’s only option was to remain in the home to undertake cleaning and childcare duties. Women were by far the primary target of harassment, abuse, physical assault and rape by men; women were locked out of most professions. Rules required that female teachers relinquish their jobs after marriage; in fact, the institution of marriage itself was structured as a contractual transaction between the woman’s father and the groom on a foundation of male domination with men serving as the so-called “head of the household” and taking on sole ownership of all property, thereby taking away these rights from women. In other words, women have been constructed as second-class and even third-class citizens, but certainly not as victims, because through it all, women as a group have challenged the inequities and pushed back against patriarchal constraints. That was then, but what about now? I often hear some men and women claim that sexism is a thing of the past, that women have achieved the equality that was once denied them, that we live in a system of meritocracy where one’s success in life is based solely on merit, work ethic, motivation and
Warren J. Blumenfeld
is a professor of curriculum and instruction.
abilities, rather than on our social identities or the stations of life to which we are born. This was brought to light by a respondent to my editorial in last week’s Iowa State Daily, titled “Awareness Rewards,” in which I attempted to make visible the often invisible condition of dominant group privilege, for example, male, white, heterosexual and Christian. Responding to my claim specifically of male privilege, the respondent flatly rejected the notion by providing examples allegedly showing otherwise. The respondent said,“The idea that women are considered inferior is absurd in a nation where doors are opened for them from coast to coast, their meals and entertainment are paid by men eager to please them, they are the physical majority, they own the majority of wealth and control most of the rest, and they live longer because they have easier lives.” Yes, men continue literally to open doors for women, and they often pay for their meals and entertainment. While this can in certain settings be regarded as a sign of politeness and admiration, does it actually indicate a true respect for women and signify an equality among the sexes? Does it not represent, rather, a reification of socially constructed gender norms keeping a sexual hierarchy firmly in place, with men literally and figuratively on top, where men remain in control and where women are expected to take on a dependent role?
The respondent also claims that women are the physical majority. Yes, this is statistically true. I’m afraid, however, that the respondent confuses “majority” in terms of numbers with dominance in terms of social power. For example, though black Africans numbered as the vast majority under the corrupt apartheid system in South Africa, white South Africans held the social power to invoke and to maintain, for many years, their oppressive control. Though many women and men are fully aware of the continuing existence of sexism and male privilege, and they are working tirelessly for its eradication, many others, however, fail to perceive its harmful effects on themselves and others. This apparent invisibility of sexism and male privilege, in fact, not only fortifies but, indeed, strengthens this form of oppression and privilege by perpetuating patriarchal hegemony in such a way as to avoid detection. In other words, male dominance is maintained by its relative invisibility, and with this invisibility, privilege is neither analyzed nor scrutinized, neither interrogated nor confronted by many. Dominance is perceived as unremarkable or “normal.” Possibly those who make these accusations are not themselves sufficiently analytical. I have heard some people refer to our current times as a “post-feminist” era, where sexism and male privilege no longer impose major social barriers. They are referring to “feminism,” which can be defined as the cultural, political, economic and civil rights movement for the advancement of equality and equity for women. For me this brings to mind a cleaver and, I believe, insightful bumper sticker produced by the National Association for Women: “I’ll be post-feminist in the post-patriarchy.” Unfortunately, the patriarchy is still alive.
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Worker bill could void freedoms for Iowans Right to work status proves critical to economic progress At times, reading through the Iowa Code is a challenge. One section that is very clear, however, is the section on Labor Union Membership (Chapter 731). The section begins as follows: “It is declared to be the policy of the state of Iowa that no person within its boundaries shall be deprived of the right to work at the person’s chosen occupation for any employer because of membership in, affiliation with, withdrawal or expulsion from or refusal to join, any labor union, organization or association, and any contract which contravenes this policy is illegal and void.” The code goes on to deem “unlawful” any activities that deny employment to anyone not joining a union, deduct union fees from non-members or make union membership a prerequisite for employment. These are basic freedoms and rights of the Iowa worker … and they are under attack. Currently the Iowa House of Representatives is considering a bill that would not only void these freedoms for Iowans, but it would nullify Iowa’s “Right To Work” status that is so critical to continued economic development in our loved state. House File 2420 would require non-union member public employees to pay fees to the union even if they don’t want to join. Consider this additional fee of $250 to $400 taken out of salaries of those – like many ISU
Dan Culhane, CEcD
is the president and CEO of the Ames Chamber of Commerce and the Ames Economic Development Commission. merit employees – who have already been forced to take unpaid furlough days this year. Whose rights are those? The Ames Chamber of Commerce is encouraging everyone to contact our legislators representing Ames and Story County and strongly encourage them to vote in opposition of HF 2420: ■■
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Taking away a worker’s ability to abstain from organization membership is unconstitutional. Economic development efforts – including job creation and business expansion – are severely hindered for non “right-to-work” states. The public sector affected by this specific legislation may be a gateway to expanded union mandated fees for the private sector.
Please contact Representative Lisa Heddens (Lisa.Heddens@legis.state.ia.us), Representative Beth Wessel-Kroeschell (Beth.Wessel-kroeschell@legis.state.ia.us), and Senator Herman Quirmbach (herman.quirmbach@legis.state. ia.us) immediately and tell them to protect our rights, and our right-to-work status, by voting against HF 2420’s so-called “fair share.”
Support Peterson/Wilson I am writing today to express my support and appreciation for Chandra Peterson and Jacob Wilson, who are running for president and vice president of the Government of the Student Body. The reason I’m voting Peterson/Wilson is simple: They understand what students really need. Both Peterson and Wilson have been great supporters of the Sloss House and the many programs it offers to students, both male and female, here at Iowa State. I was very pleased to see that Wilson, as a GSB senator, voted to support the much needed repairs to the Sloss House. These updates and repairs allow for more students to use the space by adding additional seating and study space, additionally it creates a safe and comfortable environment for
Danielle Hundley is a first year student in veterinary medicine.
everyone. On Chandra and Jacob’s Web site, their slogan is, “A Voice for ALL Students.” I believe that, if elected, Peterson and Wilson will keep standing up for students’ interests, especially those of us who feel as if we are just one small voice in this large university setting, where sometimes students seem to be forgotten. I am very pleased with the many accomplishments that both Peterson and Wilson have attained for our campus, and I’m even more excited to see what they do if we students give them a chance to represent us in GSB. Please vote March 1 and 2 for Peterson/ Wilson.
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Comment of the Day: The following comment was left in response to “LETTERS: Genuine interest, creeping completely separate ideas,” on Feb. 17. Tyler, they call you creep because they can. They abuse men because it’s fun, but let a man abuse them and it’s an outrage! It’s a double standard, Tyler, and there’s not a damned thing you can do about it. It’s also a problem in social economics. Any really attractive woman is approached ten times a day by enthusiastic men with sex on the brain. They’re forced to fend them off with abuse, which is the cheapest and surest way to shoo the pests. Don’t take it personal. You’re just a statistic to her. They don’t even know your name. There are two strategies for dealing with this: 1) Turn the table; or 2) Embrace rejection. The Turn The Table strategy is to stay cool and not overtly hit on women. Say hi and smile but don’t pay too much attention. That drives women crazy. Women hate guys who want them and love guys who don’t. Do your own thing, something that you like something that competes with women for your attention. When you go to a party, dance with all the girls but don’t stick with any single one. Thank them politely and press on to the next one. Hang out with your male friends, have fun, and laugh a lot. Then you wait and see which girls come after you the next day. Be nice to them when they show up but not too nice. Talk a bit to them but not too much. After a few minutes, excuse yourself politely and say you have to go, but don’t say where. This drives women crazy because deep down they all lack self esteem, even the prettiest and most popular ones, and fear rejection more than you. The trick is to ration your attention and be unpredictable. Eventually, when you’ve pulled her into the boat and decide she’s a keeper, you can quietly abandon the games and adopt a normal relationship but never tell her what you were doing. It’s essential for her to think she won you in a grand romantic struggle. And every now and then, at random, zag instead of zig. Never explain. The Embrace Rejection strategy, by contrast, is an exercise in numbers: volume, volume, volume! This strategy was illustrated for me by a guy from my dorm in the Towers we called The Eagle, after the bowling ball of the same name. The Eagle looked like a blond Abe Lincoln. He wasn’t very good looking, he wasn’t very smart, he didn’t have any money, he wasn’t particularly charming, and he wasn’t a very good conversationalist. What he did have, was a date every Saturday night, usually with a pretty girl, sometimes a knockout. How did he do it? The Eagle’s great advantages were that he had absolutely no pride and relentless persistence. Whenever he saw a cute girl, he would ask her out right then and there. If he saw a pretty girl walking down the other side of the street, he’d cross the street, introduce himself, and ask her out. If he saw a pretty girl in the library, he’d say something stupid like “Is this your pencil?” and then ask her out. He would get rejected dozens of times in a week, the kind of rejection that would crush the spirit of lesser men. Yet he forged on to victory. Sooner or later, one of these pretty girls, for whatever reason, would say yes, even if he had to ask every female student on campus to find her. We called it The Way Of The Eagle. We respected its simple elegance, its ruthless use of brute force, and its stern discipline. And it’s demonstrated success. While few of us could perfectly emulate The Master all the time, the Way of the Eagle could get us through a party. Often, that was enough. The one strategy that will guarantee that you will fail with women is to be a Nice Guy. You might as well turn gay. The one thing women absolutely despise is a Nice Guy. They’ll plow through a wall of Nice Guys to meet Johnny Rotten, the Bad Boy that endlessly fascinates them and will be the subject of endless gossip among she and her friends as to how to tame his wild, wild ways. That’s because most women are moths to a flame. —“Not-Steve Gregg”
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2010 Winter Olympics Thursday’s Schedule:
11 a.m. – 9 p.m. Curling — Men’s and women’s round robin tournament continues U.S. men vs. Denmark – 11 a.m. U.S. women vs. Denmark – 4 p.m. 12:20 p.m. Biathlon — Women’s 15km Individual 2 p.m. – 11 p.m. Hockey – Men’s and women’s group play U.S. men vs. Norway – 2 p.m. U.S. women vs. Finland – 4:30 p.m. 3 p.m. Speed Skating — Women’s 1000-meter 6 p.m. Skeleton — Women’s run 1 and 2 7 p.m. Figure Skating — Men’s free skate 8 p.m. Snowboarding — Women’s halfpipe final 8:30 p.m. Skeleton — Men’s run 1 and 2
Downhill Skiing
Vonn takes gold despite bruised shin WHISTLER, British Columbia — If this is how Lindsey Vonn skis with a bruised shin, then the rest of the field has no chance. Vonn showed no signs of discomfort when she won the Olympic downhill by more than half a second Wednesday, with childhood rival and American teammate Julia Mancuso taking a surprise silver medal. “This is everything I’ve wanted and hoped for,” Vonn said, her voice choked with emotion. “I gave up everything for this.” Vonn hurt her right shin Feb. 2 during pre-Olympic training in Austria and had hardly skied over the past two weeks. Vonn’s sped down Franz’s Downhill in 1 minute, 44.19
— The Associated Press
Skiing, snowboarding club welcome winter By Jeremiah Davis Daily Staff Writer With all the cold and snow, many students are looking forward to it all being gone and for the warm weather to return. But one group of ISU students can’t get enough of the colossal amount of snow that has been dumped on Ames and every other part of Iowa. The ISU Ski and Snowboarding Club is definitely taking advantage of Mother Nature. “With all this snow, it makes riding at the parks here in Ames way more fun,” said Kevin Kresch, sophomore in geology. The club includes men and women who either ski or snowboard, and involves competitions, trips and other events. “Occasionally we have days where we’ll go to Seven Oaks [in Boone],” said club President and junior in mechanical engineering Paul Zunkel. Zunkel has been a part of the club since his first semester at Iowa State, and has seen a transition in the group. “When I first got [to Iowa State], the group was probably 70 percent skiers,” Zunkel said. “But Shawn White has promoted the sport some much, and more and more snowboarders are joining. It’s about half and half now.” With the X Games and his endorsements, it’s hard not to notice White. Club members watch him, along with other professionals, with fascination. “We more or less watch the pros in awe,” Zunkel said. “There’s no way anyone can do anything that’s on TV. We really aren’t in the same league as half those guys. We have some great skiers, but nothing like what you see on TV.” The professionals practice every day to pull off those amazing tricks, so it gives the appearance that what those in the club can do is far easier. “People might get the wrong impression and think it’s easier than it is,” Zunkel said. “People don’t realize how insane those guys are. Guys now can land a 1440 and even a 1620, and guys here couldn’t dream of that. We have some good skiers, but no one that could come close to that.” That doesn’t mean those in the club are slouches, it just means they
Cameron Vens, junior in finance, snowboards off a jump with the help from a Grinch Winch on Jan. 21 on Central Campus. Members of the ISU snowboard and ski club gave the Winch a test run before ISU RailJam. The club travels to Colorado several times a year. Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily
don’t have the access to places to practice. Part of being in the club that attracts most people to it is the trips the club takes during fall, winter and spring breaks. “We do trips every major break,” Zunkel said. “We go to Breckenridge [Colorado] every winter break, and this spring break we’re going to Crested Butte [Colorado].” They only downside to the trips, as it allows members to ski or snowboard on mountains and on terrain they wouldn’t get in Iowa, is the cost. The club charges $35 to join, which you can do by either going to the club’s office at the East Student Office Space across from Panda Express in the Memorial Union or by simply going to an event the club hosts. But, that fee doesn’t cover trips. Each member is responsible for things like lodging fees and ski-lift fees, which can add up. “The $35 covers T-shirts, advertising, events and stuff around here. They have to pay for stuff on the trips,” Zunkel said. The events, like the Rail Jam the
club hosted earlier this year, are things the club puts on itself. “Rail jam was really fun,” said Chris Brubaker, a senior in finance and treasurer of the club. “The [club executives] pretty much ran it, so we didn’t get to compete, but it was cool to watch some of the stuff guys pulled off.” The best trick Brubaker said he saw was seeing a guy who pulled off a front flip. “At the rail jam we had a guy throw a front flip off a really small kicker and landed it,” Brubaker said. “It was pretty awesome.” With the Winter Olympics in full swing, the club members get to see the professionals on the grand stage, and love to watch it. More than anything, the guys and girls in the club love to watch the progression of the sport. “Shawn White has progressed the sport so much,” Kresch said. White and sponsor Red Bull recently built a halfpipe out of avalanche snow, which is denser than regular snow. They put a foam pit at the bottom, and White was able to work on
new tricks, Kresch said. “Everything about the ramp was perfect. He was able to advance the sport two years in one day,” Kresch said. But just because White is the best doesn’t mean everyone in the club wants him to win. “We want to see other guys win, sure,” Zunkel said. “You want other guys to get recognized, but he’s just too good. And you can’t fault him for being better than everyone else.” Aside from just the snowboarding and skiing events, club members enjoy watching every winter sport the Olympics has to offer. “Curling is really fun to watch,” Brubaker said. “It’s a really cool competitive sport if you know what to watch for.” The hockey, luge and bobsled events were also popular responses from club members as favorite events to watch. But when the Olympics are over, they’ll get back to doing what they love by riding while the snow is still here. “It’s some of the most fun I’ve ever had,” Kresch said. “I just love doing it.”
Speedskating
Davis claims second gold by a skate
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RICHMOND, British Columbia — This time all that mattered was the color of the medal, not the color of his skin. With a furious kick on the final lap Wednesday, Shani Davis stuck his skate across the line and won his second straight gold medal in 1,000-meter Olympic speedskating. Four years ago at Turin, he became the first African-American athlete to win an individual gold at the Winter Games. This time, he simply wanted to be known for his skating. “It’s always nice to go out there and do it again,” Davis said. American Chad Hedrick also claimed a surprising bronze.
— The Associated Press
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Russians take gold, silver in men’s sprint WHISTLER, British Columbia — Nikita Kriukov and Alexander Panzhinskiy clutched the Russian flag between them, bolting past the race marshals for a victory lap. Appropriate, considering they raced around the 1.6-kilometer crosscountry course to cruise to a 1-2 finish Wednesday in the men’s classic sprint. By pushing the pace so ferociously from the outset, the pair negated Norway’s notorious closers, including Petter Northug, who took the bronze a whopping 9.2 seconds after the Russians zipped across the finish line in 3 minutes, 36.3 seconds. “I really didn’t agree upon a strategy with him,” Kriukov insisted. “It’s just that our coach warned us that there were going to be three Norwegians racing with us, and we really needed to get ahead. And then I saw Alexander speed up at the first elevation, and I tried to keep up.”
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Iowa State’s Anna Prins and Nebraska’s Yvonne Turner go for a loose ball Wednesday during the second half of the Cornhuskers’ 60–50 win over Iowa State. With the win, Nebraska moved to 24–0 and remained in first place in the Big 12. Photo: Dave Weaver/The Associated Press
Huskers’ perfect record stands, Iowa State falls By Jordan Wickstrom Daily Staff Writer With only six games left in the regular season and only three games separating No. 3 Nebraska (24–0, 11–0 in Big 12) and 13th-ranked Iowa State (19–5, Big 12 7–4), the Cyclones entered Wednesday’s game in Lincoln needing a victory to stay within reach of first place. But, if playing in front of a raucous Nebraska crowd of 10,988 was not enough, Iowa State was dealt a much bigger blow when it found out a concussion suffered during Tuesday’s practice would sideline leading scorer and team captain Alison Lacey. “It was a huge loss, as you can tell by our turnover numbers,” said coach Bill Fennelly. “Nebraska’s defense took advantage of those bad decisions by us. I
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think we have to play better as a group and every single person has to touch the ball at least once if not more. As a team when you’re facing pressure defense and your primary ball handler is not involved, you’re going to struggle.” The Cyclones missed Lacey’s leadership during some of the game’s most crucial moments and lost their fifth game of the season, 60–50. Fennelly was forced to shuffle point guard duties between Denae Stuckey, Whitney Williams and Chassidy Cole.
see NEBRASKA on PAGE 11
Former ISU assistant coach Bobby Elliott was named the football team’s new secondary coach and recruiting coordinator, the team announced Wednesday. Rhoads Elliott was hired to replace Chris Ash, who departed for the same position at Wisconsin after serving at Iowa State since 2000. “Our family is excited to be coming back to Iowa State and working for Paul Rhoads,” Elliott said in a news release. “All of our family is in the state of Iowa, where the instate rivalries make it unique in college football. I can’t wait to get started.” This will be the third time Elliott has been an assistant at Iowa State after stints under then-head coaches Donnie Duncan (1981– ’82) and Dan McCarney (2000–’01). Elliott served as the defensive coordinator and assistant coach at San Diego State from 2006 to 2008 before working in a different capacity inside the SDSU athletics department in 2009 — he served as a defensive coordinator for 11 seasons for four different teams before being hired at Iowa State. “I am thrilled that we were able to make this happen,” ISU coach Paul Rhoads said. “He possesses everything I was looking for in a coach. Bobby is a great teacher on the field, builds strong relationships with his players and is a tenacious recruiter with extensive experience recruiting in California.” Elliott first coached the secondary at Iowa State in 1982, and coached current ISU quarterback Austen Arnaud’s father, John, in the Big 8’s leading pass defense. He then coached at Iowa from 1987–2000 when he joined McCarney’s staff at Iowa State. In Elliott’s two seasons under McCarney, the ISU defense intercepted a combined 28 passes and he coached three All-Big 12 performers in the secondary.
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Cyclones can’t shut Cowboys down By Chris Cuellar Daily Staff Writer
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down the Big 12’s leading scorer, James Anderson, who had 15 points in the first half and was held to five in the second period. It was that kind of night for shooters on the floor, and even ISU forward Craig Brackins, after leading the Cyclones in points in four out their last five games, struggled to a 3-for-17 night from the floor. “It’s just going to be tough when Marquis [Gilstrap] and Craig go 5-of-27,” McDermott said. “Those are two guys we really count on, and giving them 27 shots is what we need to do. Tonight, unfortunately, they didn’t get into the hole.” McDermott’s crew showed they were more than seven men deep on Wednesday, with freshman Alex Dorr getting a bit of playing time in relief of the benched LaRon Dendy, but with four players logging more than 30 minutes on the score sheet, Oklahoma State’s guard-heavy line-up wore out the Cyclones. “I didn’t feel like we practiced with quite as much focus and energy the last few days — there’s no excuse for it,” McDermott said. “We certainly have shown at times what we’re capable of, it’s just not consistent,” Center Justin Hamilton played another solid game for the Cyclones, and even though his foul trouble put him on the bench for extended periods of time, the sophomore finished with 11 points and nine boards. “I felt like we didn’t have the focus that we needed to have. It was really tough, we were lucky to fight back,” Hamilton said. Iowa State has now dropped five straight in conference play, dropping to seven games under .500 in conference play. Texas A&M comes to Hilton Coliseum on Saturday, as the Cyclones try to right the ship at 3 p.m.
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lead. Moore scored 15 of her 18 points in the second half, taking over the scoring load for the Big 12’s third leading scorer Kelsey Griffin, who had just 11 points.
“All of [Moore’s] points were my responsibility,” Fennelly said. “She came into the game averaging four a game and shooting 18 percent from beyond the arc. So we felt we had to double off of her and help on Griffin and some of the other players. Great teams have people step in to different roles and play well and to her credit, she did that.” Even though the game did not end the way the Cyclones
ISU guard Scott Christopherson shoots a 3-pointer against Oklahoma State on Wednesday. Christopherson led the Cyclones with 19 points but Iowa State lost 69-64 to the Cowboys. Photo: Rashah McChesney/Iowa State Daily
would have hoped, they still received strong efforts from guards Kelsey Bolte and Jessica Schroll. Bolte led the team with 15 points, including four 3-pointers, while Schroll had 14 points and four assists. With no indication as to how long the Cyclones will be without Lacey, the team will need performances like the ones they got from Bolte and Schroll for the rest of the season.
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NEBRASKA All three had big numbers to make up for, as Lacey is sixth in the Big 12 in scoring and first in assist to turnover ratio. However, the trio combined for just nine points and five assists while turning the ball over 10 times. “We don’t have a lot of other ball handlers who can handle that kind of pressure,” Fennelly said. “It was a major loss for our team. It was a big loss, she’s our point guard and our primary ball handler. When other kids have to do other things, that could create some problems.” One of the continuing themes throughout this game seemed to be Iowa State’s inability to gain any momentum. During the first half, the Cyclones were able to turn an early 12–5 deficit into a one-point lead. But at 19–18, that would be the last lead Iowa State would have the entire game. Nebraska scored the last nine points of the half and took a 27–19 lead into halftime. That — along with an 11–3 run during the second half — would be two of the biggest offensive runs Nebraska had during the game. Each of them would come when the Cyclones seemed to be climbing back into the game. “Offensively when [Lacey] isn’t in the game, we’re not a very efficient or smooth,” Fennelly said. “We missed some shots that we need to make. Nebraska’s a very good defensive and they guard us very well. At times we didn’t attack their pressure with some offensive pressure. We had opportunities to make plays and we didn’t.” Freshman guard Lindsey Moore was a big reason why the Cyclones could never regain the
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Inspired by a fiery showing from coach Greg McDermott and a comeback from 20 points down in the first half, the Cyclones still weren’t able to overcome a 31-point showing from Oklahoma State’s Obi Muonelo, and fell to the Cowboys 69–64. Iowa State (13–13) overcame a 36–16 deficit in the first half, and even took a lead with just less than 12 minutes left in the game, but Muonelo was too much to handle in front of a rowdy crowd at Hilton Coliseum. The 6-foot-5-inch Cowboy guard was 10-for19 from the field, and knocked down six 3-pointers, overshadowing Cyclone guard Scott Christopherson’s career-high 19 points. “Start of the game was a joke,” said McDermott post-game, almost inaudibly. “That’s all there is to it. It’s my job to get these guys ready and obviously they weren’t ready.” The Cyclones made things interesting with the crowd on its feet in the last minute of the ball game, closing the lead down to 67–64, and getting a shot with under 30 seconds left to tie from Christopherson, but the 3-point attempt rimmed out. “Felt perfect, thought it was good. It just came up a little short,” Christopherson said. The sophomore guard continues to battle through mononucleosis, and his four three-pointers kept the Cyclones close. “I don’t want to be sick, so I’m not going to tell myself that I’m sick,” Christopherson said. “Am I 100 percent? No — everybody is a little fatigued, everybody’s knees hurt, everybody’s body aches, so as far as I’m concerned I’m like everybody else.” On the inbound pass, freshman Chris Colvin missed a streaking Craig Brackins and the ball rolled out of bounds. McDermott covered his face, and the Cowboys closed out the contest from there. “It was open,” McDermott said. “I didn’t get a good enough look at it to see if it was a tough pass to catch or if Craig should have had it. They executed the play perfectly. Craig was going to have a look at it to tie — it just didn’t work out.” Struggling against a zone defense early in the game, Iowa State eventually slowed
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Ben Zelle, left, freshman in agricultural business, preforms Jan. 28 with his group, “Chaos in Candyland,” during a greek varieties tech rehearsal. Three skits — “Chaos in Candyland,” “Sibling Smackdown” and “Camp Ottowatta be Here!” — and five vignettes — “ISU Groove,” “Cassidy Maher & Dani Aceto,” “Sax Octet,” “All in Moderation” and “Cyclone Swing Society” — remain in the competition with the final round coming this weekend. The groups will put on two performances at 6 and 9 p.m. Friday in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. The Varieties Awards Ceremony will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. Admission is $8 for students and $10 for the public on both nights. Photo: Kelsey Kremer/ Iowa State Daily
Dinner Sequel sees struggles
Small cast sets up obsticals for director, show By Julia Ferrell Daily Staff Writer
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Most theatrical troupes praise originality in their entertainment and stray away from the difficulty that is commonly known as a “sequel.” ACTORS, however, is facing this challenge head-on in its latest dinner theater, “Caught in the Net,” by Ray Cooney. The show is the second part of the play, “Run for Your Wife,” which the troupe performed last year. The play follows a London taxi driver, John Smith, who has two different wives in two parts of the city. While trying to prevent the two women from knowing of the other’s existence, John finds a larger problem in the sequel. His two teenage children, a girl and a boy from each wife, find one another on the internet and are determined to meet. John will stop at nothing to keep them apart. “Net” consists of seven performers, but the small
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size never gave director and senior in agronomy Brian Parrish a break while casting. “It wasn’t the best time I’ve ever had. Not enough people tried out,” Parrish said. The casting process consisted of six veterans and one new-comer, David Detlefs. “I’d asked [David] to just come get a script to see what he thought of it and was able to persuade him to stay for tryouts,” Parrish said. “I think I may owe some favors now.” While Parrish and producers Dennis Lindeman, Marla Miller and Stan Rabe had the difficult task of creating a sequel, casting proved to be more work than the play itself. “It isn’t an issue if [the audience hasn’t] seen the last show,” he said. “I wrote up a little synopsis of what happened
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in ‘Wife’ so hopefully, they’ll get it,” Parrish said. “It tends to be harder to find people to fit certain characters twice, since you can’t always get actors to return to do the sequel,” he said. The casting was solved, but Parrish still had the responsibility of constructing the set. The script calls for two different houses to be on stage at the same time, as the play moves back and forth from each location and the characters share entrances and exits. “There are eight doors on the stage,” Parrish said. “That is almost unheard of in any given show, especially one done on the ACTORS stage.” After all the struggles of getting the show on a roll, Parrish and the crew are relieved and excited to begin their final weekend of “Caught in the Net.”
Faces in the crowd : What do you think of the Veishea bands?
Angels & Airwaves released a free digital album on Valentine’s Day entitled “Love.” The group will be touring with Tom DeLonge. The tour will be in Des Moines Val Air Ballroom on April 15. The tickets for the show will go on sale Saturday via Ticketmaster. Courtesy photo: Pamela Littkly/Owl City
Bands schedule tours Big name entertainment select Des Moines as stop By Tyler Kingkade Daily Staff Writer - After selling out People’s Court in Oct. 2009, Owl City announced plans to return to Des Moines on May 4 with female electronic singer Lights at the Val Air Ballroom. Owl City’s music has been featured in Nissan and CNN commercials and has even been covered on the latest Kidz Bop complilation. In addition, his music appeared on the “90210” soundtrack and “Almost Alice,” the new album of music inspired by Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland.” - Last summer Tom DeLonge reunited with Travis Barker and Mark Hoppus for a Blink-182 reunion tour. The band has been working on a new release which may or may not make it out this year. In the meantime DeLonge is back with Angels & Airwaves touring with the Say Anything. Angels & Airwaves released a free digital
album on Valentine’s Day entitled “Love.” The tour hits Des Moines’ Val Air Ballroom on April 15. Tickets for Angels & Airwaves and Owl City both go on sale Saturday through Ticketmaster. - One Republic has enjoyed a bit of success of its 2007 hit “Apologize” which was nominated for a 2009 Grammy. The group will be teaming up with the piano rock of The Rocket Summer for a spring tour, hitting People’s Court in Des Moines on March 22. Tickets are on sale Saturday through IowaTix. - Manchester Orchestra, the indie rock band that picked up a lot of steam in 2009, arrives in Des Moines with Thrice and O’Brother on April 25 at People’s Court. Tickets go on sale Feb. 25 through IowaTix. - Heard of the post-punk band 100 Monkeys? Neither had we until we found out they were booked at the Vaudeville Mews in Des Moines on March 2. 100 Monkeys features Jackson Rathbone of Twilight fame on bass. Rathbone plays Edward Cullen’s adoptive brother Jasper Hale in the film adaptations of Twilight.
Kaleidoquiz challenges By Anthony Capps Daily Staff Writer
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The famous 26-hour-long Kaleidoquiz will begin in just more than two weeks, but to participate in every event, participants will have to sign up early. Signing up must be done by Feb. 24, and those under 18 years — as of March 5 — will need a guardian’s signature to register and receive a wristband. Those that do not sign up by Feb. 24 will not be able to participate in all events — such as the traveling challenge — and cannot have participants under 18.
However, the event will still include montages, scavenger hunts, odd challenges, a traveling challenge and, of course, a question to be asked every six minutes. Organizers plan to change little from what has been built on during the past few years. The event is organized and put on by KURE, the local student-run radio station in Friley Hall. Trevin Ward, one of the organizers of Kaleidoquiz, said over the past few years, the event has been bringing back some older-style events that had been down-
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lighters will be seen, and only the clicking flints will make the music. “There are different ways to use the lighter,” Coley said, “I like to include novelty pieces, fun pieces in our concerts. They’re visually interesting in addition to being musically interesting.”
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Coley and the ISU Symphony Orchestra will perform a concerto composed for Coley by Berkhout, called “Tides and Riptides” on Feb. 25. Inspired by the movements of the ocean, the concerto will feature Coley, playing the marimba, as if he was adrift in the sea of the symphony. Finally, ISUPE will give a second performance of “Running on Empty.” In addition to working with ISUPE, Berkhout will give a clinic exploring Pink Floyd’s music, especially “Dark Side of the Moon.” Coley said Berkhout will compare the rock opera to both classical and pop music, striving to bridge the gap between the two.
that’s interesting.” He intentionally refers to his concerts as “shows” because they strive to include theatrical elements. For example, the concerts will feature a unique instrument — cigarette lighters. The lights in the recital hall will be completely extinguished, and eight performers will take a common cigarette lighter in each hand. Only the sparking and flames from the sixteen
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55 Cheshire Cat, notably 56 Bat head? 57 Wrap up 59 Savings plan for later yrs. 60 Larger-life link 61 Do over 62 Indian bread 63 Part of CBS: Abbr. 64 Hi-__ graphics 65 Bean holder 66 Antiquity, once DOWN 1 Cookout site 2 Responded to, as a stoolie’s tip 3 *Climber’s support 4 Concurs 5 Songwriter Jacques 6 Incite to pounce (on) 7 Bun-making site 8 Tugs’ burdens 9 Shore flier 10 Delayed 11 Large wardrobe 12 Star of “I’m No Angel” (1933) 15 Builder of tiny cities 16 Persistently bothered 21 Love personified 23 Corporate rule 25 One treating 28 Number of Sinbad’s voyages 29 Nautical “Hold it!” 32 Advanced exams 34 Australian exports
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Jokes of the Day The teacher wrote on the blackboard, “I ain’t had no fun all summer.” “Now Paul,” she said. “What shall I do to correct this?” “Get a boyfriend.” Paul replied.
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To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Both genders work well together today. All you have to do is allow them to choose the game, modify the rules and grab the appropriate prize.
Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 6 -- Both genders work together to get romance on track. This could be in the form of a play or some other dramatic presentation. Take extra care of your voice.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Teamwork allows all parties to throw ideas into the ring. Today’s project can use more than one set of eyes. By day’s end you all agree on the conclusion.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Love enters the picture and takes over your imagination. Use your talents to motivate your partner. Dare to dream sweeter dreams.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Your private thoughts don’t mesh with those of your co-workers. As long as the issues aren’t critical, this won’t matter. Differences of opinion sort themselves out.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Create the mood you want. Show that you’re passionate about your idea and want to see it through. A brief prayer or meditation couldn’t hurt.
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To Iowa State. Id like to thank you for the brush-mobiles you use to polish the ice before I walk across it!! Im just saying ··· To the kid I pushed into the snow, sorry I took off running and didn’t help you up, you weren’t who I thought you were. Hope we can be friends, just sayin’ ··· To the cy ride driver who talks more than drives idk about you but I have somewhere to be ··· Remember, no matter how hot she is or how perfect she seems, someone, somewhere, is sick of her ··· To the girl who waited 10 minutes to get on the bus to only ride a block..... Seriously?! I thought I was lazy... Thanks for the self esteem boost ··· To the lady talking about kangaroos on the bus at 6:30AM, it’s too early and no one wants to hear it...Just sayin’ ··· To the guy in Lago who wore zip-off shorts with plaid pajama pants underneath...I will never forget you ··· Thank you to the women’s cross country team that ran past me in their tights today. I was very impressed. ··· To my roommate who always thinks he has so much homework... STOP COMPLAINING! We’re all in college and we’re all busy
appreciation for family and associates.
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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- You feel like you’ve been there before. Creative ideas flow easily and inspire you to greater heights. Persuade yourself to let go of limitations.
Dear roomie, when you stop bringing random people home from the bars EVERY night, I’ll stop cleaning the toilet with your tooth brush
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 6 -- The thing about love is that it grows faster when you lavish it. No need to limit the extent of your appreciations, but you need to speak them out loud. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Speak about independent thinking today with co-workers. Encourage others to participate while sharing your ideas for a dynamic new sales pitch or marketing idea. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Take your time today with ideas that need quiet. No one expects you to express enthusiasm all the time. As the sun enters your sign, you want to retreat and regenerate.
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