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February 18, 2011 | Volume 206 | Number 102 | 40 cents | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890. ™
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Educator loses fight with tumor By Elizabeth.Krugler iowastatedaily.com Ruth Glock, assistant professor in apparel, education and hospitality management, died Wednesday. After returning from a trip to China in the fall, Glock reported not feelGlock ing well. She was later diagnosed with a stage-four brain tumor, but continued to teach up until December. Glock obtained her master’s degree from Iowa State and became part of Iowa State’s faculty in 1977. For 30 years, Glock worked at Iowa State in the apparel, education and hospitality management department. Glock made drastic changes to the sewing laboratory, transforming it from a traditional, home sewing program to an industry-production-oriented program. “This was important to [Glock] because she thought that if her students were going to be working in industry, they need to be learning in an industrial environment,” said Sharon Wirth, teaching lab coordinator in apparel, education and hospitality management. Not only were the sewing labs important to Glock, but the department’s internship program was also something she dedicated much attention to. Internships were not always required for the program, but Glock always insisted students have internships. “[Glock] would help students one-on-one find a sucGLOCK.p3 >>
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House File 45 debated in Senate The Iowa Senate debated Thursday on House File 45, also known as the Taxpayers First Act. The Senate amended the education section. Instead of eliminating university leaves, it would limit the number of leaves to “not more than the equivalent of 3 percent of the faculty staff members employed at each of the institutions under the state board.” The amendment adds that “the board shall establish policies and oversight to ensure that the assignments enhance the core mission of the institutions.” The House rejected a bill that would limit tuition to no more than the equivalent to the higher education price index instead of putting a cap at 4 percent increase. The bill keeps general administration funding, for salaries, support, maintenance and miscellaneous purposes to the Board of Regents at $7,037,482. Daily Staff ™
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Claire Bassett shares the excitement of competition with Mackenzie Grewell and Courtney Pohlen at the State LEGO Leauge Championships Jan. 15 in Howe Hall. Courtesy Photo: Mike Murray
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Girl Scouts lp e h s t n e d Stu tic hand e h t s o r p e t a cre By Nichole.Smith iowastatedaily.com Danielle Fairchild, age 3, of Duluth, Ga., held a pencil and for the first time wrote to a research team based in Gilbert and Ames. This research team was not made up of typical scientists in white lab coats, but a group of 11- and 12-year-old girls who go by the title: Flying Monkeys. The girls who make up this Girl Scout troop had set their sights far beyond cookie sales when they entered the FIRST LEGO League Challenge. The challenge is a competition in which teams execute a research project relating to a theme and build and program a Lego robot.
T h i s year’s project was to focus on improving, healing and repairing the human body. The six cadets chose to create a prosthetic right hand device for Fairchild; a project that eventually earned them first place at the Regional FIRST Lego League Competition and the first place Innovation Award. The project, titled BOB-1, was flown 900 miles to Fairchild with a video from the Flying Monkeys on how to use their device. This project touches even closer to home for Claire Bassett, ISU alumna. She dedicated two years to coaching the Flying Monkeys. Bassett’s various connections with FIRST Lego League and Women in Construction Engineering chapter brought her to the local Girl Scout troop. “These girls taught me to have a new
perspective on life and that it is important to always see things through fresh eyes,” Bassett said. “No school project will remain with me like this has. I can truly look back on the influence and impact I had on these girls and know that we will stay in contact for years to come.” Bassett plans to continue to stay in touch with the Flying Monkeys as they dedicate more time to community projects, spend nights hanging out and working toward future awards. Zack Pachol, freshman in civil engineering, and Frank Sanchez, freshman in mechanical engineering, also offered their expertise and time to the Girl Scout group’s project. From building up funds by selling cookies, to assisting with programming the device, they worked closely with the girls during the development of BOB-1. “These are an amazing group of girls to
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University of Iowa
Bill proposes painting’s sale By Paige.Godden iowastatedaily.com Deaccession: The way a piece of art is usually removed from a museum’s collection. If House Study Bill 84 passes, a painting at the University of Iowa may be removed from its collection in a way that hasn’t been done before in Iowa. HSB 84, which was backed Wednesday morning by the House Appropriations Committee, would require the Iowa Board of Regents to sell a Jackson Pollock painting in order to use the proceeds for scholarship assistance. “Usage of the moneys in the trust fund is limited to providing scholarship assistance to undergraduate students at the university who are residents of this state and majoring in art. If sufficient funds are available, scholarship assistance is also required to be provided for such undergraduate students with liberal arts majors other than art,” according to the
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bill. horses and antelopes and buffaThe painting was appraised at loes. Everything is charging across $100 million in 2007, then at $140 that goddamn surface.” million in 2008. It was donated to Lynette Pohlman, director of the University of Iowa in 1951 by museums at Iowa State, said rePeggy Guggenheim, who was the moving a piece of art from a collecleading dealer of modern art in tion “isn’t that easy.” New York at Pohlman the time. said the best “[She] practice for recognized a museum the signifiis to look cance of the at pieces in University terms of aesof Iowa thetic value studio art to a collecprogram, tion, not when she financial. gave ‘Mural’ She said to the uni- Courtesy Photo: The Daily Iowan an example versity,” acof a colleccording to tion being the University of Iowa Museum of deaccessioned at Iowa State was Art website. a collection of dolls donated by The painting, which is simply Henry and Ann Brunnier. called “Mural,” was finished in The dolls in the collection 1943, and was described by Pollock spanned 400 years, but Pohlman as, “a stampede ... [of] every animal said, “Over time it became very in the American west, cows and apparent they it didn’t have an aca-
demic value [for Iowa State].” She said some of the best dolls were kept, and the rest sold. Usually after a piece has been deaccessioned, the proceeds go back toward the museum and are used to buy new paintings or to restore old ones. David Miles, president of the Regents, released a statement saying the sale of the painting is a “profoundly bad idea.” “It has taken decades for the University of Iowa to build an enviable art collection and outstanding art education programs. A forced sale of this painting by the Iowa Legislature would break trust with all who have contributed to the arts at the University of Iowa over the years, would chill any future donations and may well lead to litigation with the family that donated ‘Mural’ to the University of Iowa in the first place,” according to the statement. “Crippling an outstanding pro-
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