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By Daily staff The Ames City Council will adjourn this week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week for budget hearings and plans to approve the fiscal year 2012/13 budget in early March.

On Wednesday, the City Council will discuss community enrichment, utilities, public safety, utilities, transportation and miscellaneous public works.

The specific items will include wastewater control, traffic control, water maintenance, street systems and parking.

It also will be examining general services including storm disaster activity, economic development, communication services, parking violation collection and city council contingency.

The council will convene Wednesday to further discuss community enrichment and utilities and public safety.

Wednesday’s items will be recreational opportunities and electric utilities.

Finally, the public safety program will be law enforcement activities, animal control and fire safety.

Thursday, the Ames City Council will meet to discuss the transit system and general government and internal services.

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By Cory.Weaver @iowastatedaily.com When it comes to taking charges, there is no one on the ISU women’s basketball team better than junior forward Chelsea Poppens.

Just ask coach Bill Fennelly.

“She’s a highly competitive kid and — even though she’s a little undersized for our league — has the physical strength and competitive spirit that it takes to do those kinds of things,” Fennelly said.

“There’s no one on our team that even comes close when it comes to

taking charging fouls and things like that and she’s that way every day.”

At 6 feet 2 inches, Poppens said defense has always played a big part of her game.

“I’m not exactly a good outside shooter, so I just draw from my strengths and that is one of my strengths,” Poppens said of her defense. “Even if my shots aren’t falling, what I keep in mind is on defense, I’ve got to stop them because if we stop them, then every other one of my teammates has a chance to make it on the offensive end even if I’m not hitting it.”

Her father, Tony Poppens, said she has been drawing charges ever since she was little.

“She’s never really blocked shots per se, she is just going to take a charge,” Tony said.

Tony doesn’t take credit for teaching his daughter how to make one of the most exciting plays for fans and teammates alike in basketball. He said she started doing it on her own.

Once she started playing for Aplington-Parkersburg High School, Poppens said she started to develop her ability.

Now, Poppens leads the Cyclones

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By Tiffany.Westrom @iowastatedaily.com It’s something everyone can relate to: the feeling of really having to go to the bathroom, and relief of being able to go after “holding it” a long time. Total freedom.

Elizabeth Morton, junior in elementary education, is no exception. When her father, Dave Morton, an advertising executive asked her and the rest of his family what it meant to feel completely free, she said she gave him an honest answer that turned into a $3.5 million Super Bowl commercial.

“You know when you have to go pee and you can’t think of anything else because you have to go?” Elizabeth said.

“And when you finally get to, you just feel free and you can do whatever you want.”

Others gave their suggestions about what being totally

with 26 charges drawn this season.

The player next behind her? Senior guard Lauren Mansfield with nine.

“It’s just kind of one of my strengths and I’ve built off of it from high school and that’s just what I’ve been good at,” Poppens said. “I’ve been good at being able to get my feet in the right position and just being able to take that charge when necessary.”

Drawing charging fouls isn’t a very common occurrence in girl’s high school basketball. Tony said she didn’t always get the benefit of the

The Iowa Board of Regents will consider several construction projects at Iowa State and will discuss progress of several other projects — including the flood reconstruction and learning communities — in open session Tuesday in the Memorial Union’s Sun Room.

The meeting will begin with several oral reports, including one on the first meeting of the Economic Development Committee

by President Pro Tempore Bruce Rastetter and regents member David Miles, and an update on policies and procedures relating to the safety of minors on regents campuses from the institutional heads of the universities.

President Craig Lang will be presenting an oral report on regents activities preceding the consent agenda.

T h e Board of Regents also will be considering approval Lang of a $12 million project to install the fire sprinkler system in Friley Rastetter Hall.

T h e proposed project is to install a new fire sprinkler system on all the floors of Friley, a residence hall on the west end of campus that houses more than 1,200 students.

Iowa State also will be pursuing a budget increase for the Curtiss Hall Renovation Phase 1 project that is proposed to add additional exterior window

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I’m grateful, and humbled, that I make a living living out my ideas.”

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Inquiry: Perception, History and Making When: 7 p.m.

What: Brent Holland, associate professor of art and design, will be joined by Eric Cooper, associate professor of psychology, as they visually explore the past and the present, the imagined and the observed through art and the science of visual cognition.

Where: University Museums

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All those accused of violating the law are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

He was transported to the Story County Justice Center (reported at 2:39 a.m.).

Samantha Green, 2311 Friley Hall, reported the theft of a radio from a car in Lot 59F (reported at 8:59 a.m.).

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by Brittany Bakan and Sharon Connell were involved in a property damage collision in Lot 50A (reported at 10:20 a.m.).

Officers assisted a man who was experiencing emotional difficulties at the Memorial Union. The individual was transported to Mary Greeley Medical Center for treatment (reported at 2:29 p.m.).

Carl Hanson, 20, 716 Maple Hall, was arrested

Brett Jacobson, 21, 1320 Gateway Hills Park Drive unit 411, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Wallace Hall. He was transported to the Story County Justice Center (reported at 12:23 a.m.).

Shoma Chandra, 21, 3133 Greenwood Road, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated. She was transported to the Story County Justice Center in Lot 13 (reported at 1:45 a.m.).

Trevor Beardshear, 23, 1400 Coconino Road unit 116, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated (second offense) at Knapp Street and Lynn Avenue.

Jamie Lynn Spears is likely a name you haven’t heard in a few years, and that was by design.

The former Nickelodeon star tells Glamour magazine in its March issue that she intentionally stepped away from the spotlight after she got pregnant at 16.

Spears, who turns 21 in April, recalls that in 2007, after she finished filming Nickelodeon’s “Zoey 101,” she thought she’d go back home to Louisiana and finish school — but then she found out she was pregnant.

“I’d had one boyfriend,” she tells Glamour. “It doesn’t make it perfect or all right. But I was judged for something that probably most everyone does. I was young. I was in love ... And I made a decision that is forever my decision.”

and charged with underage possession of alcohol and providing alcohol to underage persons. Trisha Collins, 20, of 2132 Frederiksen Court, was arrested and charged with underage possession of alcohol (second offense) and harassment of a public official at the Alumni Center. They were both transported to the Story County Justice Center (reported at 11:10 p.m.).

Feb. 5 Nathan Fielding, 26, 1423 South Grand Ave. unit 107, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Chamberlain Street and Welch Avenue.

He was transported to the Story County Justice Center (reported at 1:32 a.m.).

Ahead of her Super Bowl halftime show, singer Madonna promised there would be no “wardrobe malfunction.” What she didn’t guarantee was no obscene gestures.

Rapper M.I.A. provided a middle finger salute to network cameras Sunday night during the 12-minute extravaganza, when she joined Madonna during a performance of the latter’s new single, “Give Me All Your Luvin’.”

Apologies from the NFL and the broadcaster, NBC, came quickly — they blamed each other.

“There was a failure in NBC’s delay system,” said Brian McCarty, the league’s vice president of communications.

“The obscene gesture in the performance was completely inappropriate, very disappointing, and we apologize to our fans.”

“The NFL hired the talent and produced the halftime show,” NBC said. “Our system was late to obscure the inappropriate gesture and we apologize to our viewers.”

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Troxel Hall to provide more space for science

By Kelly.Madsen @iowastatedaily.com The 400-seat Troxel Hall is expected to allow undergraduates to “get off to the right start” in getting a degree by providing more space for prerequisite classes.

Construction for the building began in late October last year and is tentatively scheduled to be completed in March 2013.

Troxel Hall will not only provide Iowa State with a state-of-the-art science auditorium, but also an increased opportunity for many students to graduate in four years.

“Troxel Hall will offer more space for large chemistry lectures,” said David Holger, associate provost of academic programs and dean of the graduate college. “It will provide additional seats so students don’t have to wait an extra semester to take chemistry.”

Almost all ISU students majoring in engineering and physical sciences will be able to utilize the entry-level chemistry classes taught in Troxel Hall, Holger said.

“Because of the recent enrollment growth and the majors in which that growth is occurring, it is more apparent that we needed more room for entry-level chemistry and other physical sciences,” Holger said. “Ideally this will allow undergraduates to get the classes they need to graduate

Photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily Troxel Hall will be the newest auditorium on the ISU campus and will seat 400 people. Construction on the building will be completed approximately in March 2013.

in four years.”

Along with allowing more students to get into prerequisite classes, Troxel Hall is specifically designed for teaching science.

“Troxel Hall will have the equipment and space for live

instructor demonstrations,” said Keith Woo, professor of chemistry. “In addition, it will have the space for students to work in groups.”

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“Troxel Hall will make the learning experience more effective and fun — if it can be fun,” Holger said.

Holger said Iowa State has recognized for a long time the need for additional high-

quality, large lecture halls.

Currently, most high-quality lecture halls are being used at all available hours.

“Troxel Hall will free up space for other courses that chemistry courses are currently taking the place of,” Holger

said, “specifically in Hoover Hall and MacKay Hall, which weren’t built with the intentions of teaching chemistry.”

Troxel Hall will be located on the east side of campus between the greenhouses of Horticulture Hall and the Landscape Architecture Building.

“As far as I know, construction is progressing well, especially because of this mild winter,” Holger said. “The contractors are taking full advantage of this winter.”

In addition to being a stateof-the-art science classroom, Troxel Hall is expected to be one of the most sustainable buildings on campus.

Plans for Troxel Hall incorporate high-performance sustainable strategies including zero run-off, natural daylighting and energy recovery. This will ideally result in a LEED platinum building status.

The Change Happens Foundation of Honolulu, Hawaii, provided the lead donation for Troxel Hall.

The building will be named for ISU alumnus Douglas D. Troxel, a 1967 graduate in mathematics, who is the president and chief executive officer of the private family foundation.

The $5 million donation by the Change Happens Foundation matched some of the university’s highest needs and will allow for growth as a university, Holger said.

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Alumni profile

Architecture alumna awarded for accomplishments

By Tiffany.Westrom @iowastatedaily.com The Campanile, the Four Seasons fountain, the Friley arches and Curtiss and Beardshear halls are all staples of Iowa State.

Students are surrounded by the work of architects every day on the ISU campus.

“We have a huge and exciting responsibility as architects to create these cities and build environments and determine how they are going to affect how we live, work and play,” said Katie Harms, alumni of Iowa State’s architecture program. “That is pretty darn cool.”

Harms was recently declared a recipient of the American Institute of Architects 2012 Young Architects Award. Harms, who graduated in 2003, went on to excel as an architect for OPN Architects in Cedar Rapids, and she will travel to Washington,

D.C., to receive her award at the AIA National Convention and Design Exposition.

She is the first woman from Iowa and only the third Iowan to be awarded this prestigious distinction.

“I can’t tell you how many people told me when I was younger that I would never become an architect and as a woman that I should look for another career.

Well, I guess I showed them,” Harms said. “There is amazing talent and dedication in our profession and I’m very honored to be recognized as one of them.”

The award is given to architects who have been in the profession for less than 10 years yet have made significant contributions to the trade.

Harms has worked on such projects as the new Federal Courthouse in Cedar Rapids, as well as the new Cedar Rapids Convention Complex that will

become the second largest convention center in Iowa at around 435,000 square feet.

“I think the jury rewarded Katie for three major accomplishments: outstanding leadership on significant architectural projects, her engaged and vocal service to the American Institute of Architects and a personal commitment to the mentoring of young professionals,” said Steven Knierim, principal of OPN Architects. “Katie brings a passionate drive and positive energy to every activity she engages in.”

Harms has worked on projects that range from $600,000 to $180 million, and she is an active community member who takes part in groups such as ImpactCR, Junior League of Cedar Rapids and Habitat for Humanity. Her colleagues admit she goes after things where she can make a difference. Harms built her basis for client relations and project man-

I can’t tell you how many people told me when I was younger that I would never become an architect and as a woman that I should look for another career.

Well, I guess I showed them.”

Katie Harms agement during her time at Iowa State.

“She excelled in my class, performed very well and was well liked by her classmates,” said David Block, her former professor. “The latter item is paramount to success because working with people and getting them to have confidence in you is extremely important in architecture.”

Photo courtesy of Katie Harms Katie Harms, an ISU alumna, was recently declared a recipient of the American Institute of Architects 2012 Young Architects Award.

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doubt from the referees for that reason.

“I don’t think they had ever seen anybody who could quite move like she did and get in front of people, but it’s her thing,” he said.

This season, a focal point for Iowa State has been keeping up the effort and intensity the entire game and not letting close ones slip away. Poppens has been a player Fennelly has talked about as one who has put in the effort every game.

Anna Prins said that helps motivate the other players to do the same.

“Whether it’s going after loose balls or rebounds that are totally out of her area, she is all over the place,” Prins said. “I look at that and it is motivating for me and I know there’s other girls on that team that feel this way.”

Poppens said she always tries to lead by example and that defense is always a priority for her because it has helped them pull out some close contests.

“It’s what keeps us in the games and what has kept us in the games these past few games and it’s just key,” Poppens said.

The outcome of a game often relies heavily on which team gets the biggest swing in momentum.

Prins said Poppens’ aggressiveness on defense helps give the team just that.

“I think when that does happen in games that it definitely changes the momentum, it gives us confidence,” Prins said.

“Just knowing that one of my teammates is there to step in and take charges and put herself out there, sometimes I don’t even know how she does it.”

Besides helping her team get the opponent in foul trouble, Poppens leads Iowa State in both points and rebounds with

free meant to them. Emily Morton, senior in dietetics, said she did not take her younger sister’s suggestion very seriously.

“I laughed when she said it.

The rest of our answers were more serious and her’s was just kind of out there,” Emily said.

The commercial, which debuted on NBC’s “The Today Show” last Friday, also had a 30-second spot during the first quarter of Super Bowl XLVI. J.W. Morton and Associates, a Cedar Rapids advertising agency, created the commercial for TaxACT focused on its Free Federal Return.

The commercial is the first Super Bowl advertisement for both TaxACT and J.W. Morton and Associates.

“It’s a pretty big deal, but I didn’t think of it that way. I was just saying what I thought of and someone else was able to use that,” Elizabeth said. “I think it’s really cute and people will probably chuckle at it.”

The advertisement, emphasizing the fact that TaxACT’s Federal Returns are entirely free, follows a little boy futilely trying to find a place to use the bathroom, seemingly unable to escape the tempting sights and sounds of running

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Photo: Tim Reuter/Iowa State Daily Forward Chelsea Poppens leads Iowa State in both points and rebounds per game with 14.9 and 11.3. She also leads the team with 26 charges drawn this season.

14.9 and 11.3.

Fennelly said it’s because she does the “dirty work.”

“She rebounds, she scores around the basket, she takes charges,” Fennelly said. “She’s a kid that, to her credit, has really maximized what she has.”

Even with difficulties from nagging bumps and bruises, including a knee injury at the beginning of the season, Poppens continues to make the hustle plays Fennelly talked about every game. She even has “Next Play” written on her shoes to help her move on after a fall or missed shot.

“You do what you have to, like the hustle plays, [and] just keep moving forward,” Poppens said. “Move past the mistakes and just stay positive.”

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In desperation, the boy chooses to relieve himself in the family’s swimming pool and then delights in his total freedom.

Dave, also a co-owner of the agency, said he was soliciting ideas during the creative process and turned to people nearby.

“I think the best ideas are real. You find out what everyday people think or feel, and sometimes you get a hidden truth,” Dave said. “They’re not thinking about taxes, they’re just thinking about feeling free. I asked a lot of people, including friends and family. I get a wide range of honest answers when people don’t know it’s for a commercial. Plus, sometimes youth is less constrained in their thinking.”

A major difficulty in advertising is catching the audience’s attention, making a point and selling a product all in one spot.

This is why TaxACT and J.W. Morton’s decision-makers said they liked Elizabeth’s idea and thought it had the potential to be funny and memorable.

“Sure, a number of spots have pretty elaborate productions and budgets to go with it,” Dave said. “But this simple little story stands up to the event.”

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Finally, there will be an update on the reconstruction efforts and flood recovery following the flooding during the summer of 2010.

ISU learning community co-director Doug Gruenwald will give a presentation on learning communities and their impact on student success at Iowa State. The presentation also will include a student speech about his experiences with learning communities.

The regents will vote to submit an annual diversity report as part of the consent agenda. The diversity report explores the changes in minority and female percentages of university positions including administrative, professorships and tenure track positions since 2001.

According to the report, Iowa State is currently lowest in the percentage of female full-time tenured and tenure track as compared to Northern Iowa at 41.2 percent and University of Iowa at 30.8. However, it has the largest minority percentage at 19.5 percent while Northern Iowa has 14.2 and 17.2 at Iowa.

The meeting will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union. There will be a break for lunch between noon and 12:45 p.m.

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Legislators: Pay attention to main issues The U.S. Constitution guarantees our right to keep and bear arms, but is there even a slight role for government regulation or monitoring of gun possession? That is the question Iowa House Rep. Matt Windschitl and 36 other House Republicans want their colleagues to debate this session.

They want an amendment to the Iowa Constitution guaranteeing the right to bear arms because, as they assert, Iowa is one of six states where the right is not constitutionally protected. The remedy to the problem is House Joint Resolution 2005, which — according to Chris Rager, a lobbyist for the National Rifle Association — would give Iowa the strongest gun rights in the country.

The bill may go too far. As written, it explicitly prohibits “mandatory licensing, registration or special taxation as a condition of the exercise of” Second Amendment rights in addition to placing any existing restrictions under the strictest kind of legal scrutiny. This language exists despite Windschitl’s assertion that “the intent is to protect Iowans’ Second Amendment right” rather than cause a controversy about gun control.

The right to bear arms is already protected by the federal government and the Supreme Court. The Second Amendment and the U.S. Supreme Court case McDonald v. Chicago, which extends the right to bear arms to all citizens in the states, render the Iowa bill unnecessary. The right to bear arms is already guaranteed by the federal government.

Currently Iowa has other issues to resolve. Issues of whether the gas tax should be raised to pay for road maintenance, property tax on commercial property, and Gov. Terry Branstad’s proposed education reforms are still before Iowa legislators.

Those issues have a stronger impact on the lives of Iowans than a potential amendment protecting gun rights, and constitutional amendments like this one distract from issues that closely affect Iowans, regardless of their political colors.

Before we turn to new, superfluous, even luxurious debates, we should resolve the issues on the floor.

If the amendment is a serious one offered in good faith, legislators should also consider its effects.

Eliminating qualifications on gun ownership may not be the best policy for Iowa. Safety courses ensure that carriers of guns have at least a minimum standard of know-how about using guns safely. Requiring background checks for some guns helps ensure that guns are in legally responsible hands.

If the Iowa General Assembly is actually interested in improving the lives of Iowans, its members should focus on the most pressing issues, not on redundantly protecting rights already articulated in the federal Constitution and case law.

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olatility defined my first year at Iowa State. Not only had I transferred into school late, but I was coming from the Citadel Military Academy. I was insecure, but my old high school friends on campus helped integrate me into my new environment.

In the new college environment, my old hometown friends were recognizable. Most had declared engineering majors by the time I transferred, and although I wanted to declare political science, I was around engineers most of the time. As a result, I found myself continually hanging around engineers, studying with them and seeking their advice on homework and academic decisions.

I consider myself lucky to have engineering friends. Their influence is one of the best things that could have happened to me at Iowa State. Even though I was studying political science, my friends were — and still are — engineers. They taught me to see the world through a different lens, one I might otherwise have missed without their influence.

Even now we continue to debate over political, historical and philosophical issues. As engineers and social scientists, our interaction helps each of us see the world in a new light.

For me, their empirical insights helped put political questions in more definite material dimensions.

The interaction between our disciplines required a mutual respect. My friends and I know each other and respect each other, but it could have been just as easy to immerse myself among friends of my own beliefs.

If I hadn’t intermingled with other majors, I would have lost the potential benefits they offered me. The respect for their study, the new information about their discipline and the challenges they have presented me have contributed more to my education than any class.

Over the years, I’ve come to see stereotypes accompanying each major. Political scientists

By Ryan.Peterson @iowastatedaily.com are egotistical, historians live in musty collections, design students are ditzy and engineers are antisocial nerds.

As political scientists, we debate over which issue is most important: public policy, international relations, theory, American politics or law? Engineers divided themselves between aerospace, materials, electrical and many others. Philosophers divide between epidemiologists, logicians and metaphysics. Every study is divided into specific niches.

When I imagine my own discipline, I cannot help but deconstruct the others. I am forced to exclude the virtues of other methods, without even knowing what it is the other departments do. I negate them and define my position as different from them. I am fairly confident there is an injurious rivalry between majors. It’s unfortunate; by developing more cross-education among disciplines, we could advance our own studies.

The insight into the methods of engineering students helped make me more analytical, and I know the discipline of design could have made me more spatial and symbolic in my thinking. History has trained me to think in “rational” terms, pursing historical facts and links to create the most valid inferences on the past. Art would have trained me to see more dimensions to historical issues; perhaps I have missed important links between historic facts due to my lack of symbolic reasoning.

I know many students who entered the social sciences to avoid math and physics.

However, natural science can benefit the social sciences. Engineering insights made it easier for me to read analytically, process precise laws and issues in legal courses and find important

historical proof in piles of information.

I find myself using the methods of philosophy and math together in order to solve political questions of game theory, political poling and political speculation.

I’ve concluded that our studies are not as narrowly tailored and separate from one another as we make them. In fact, I think they interlock. An engineer may not need political science, but interaction with his or her peers is unavoidable.

He or she will have to negotiate and debate in a world of literature majors and design students who think in their own respective ways.

The ability to share insights into the methods of one another will not only help the engineer express his or her ideas but discover new potentials in engineering.

I think education requires a diversity of studies, and diversity can come from friends as well as classes. Political science is just an example.

I depend on the events of history to explain the present, and I use statistics as an everincreasing influence in political models. Even seemingly distant subjects such as physics and philosophy share a common link.

The classical philosophy of Thales, Aristotle and Plato was largely a matter of physical questions concerning the world, and even today it is hard to study the physical world without considering what we ought to do with the knowledge or what experiments are ethically sound.

Without my friends, I would have missed an entirely different world. As a student, I didn’t have time to take engineering courses or learn advanced math, but I didn’t need to.

Education is not restricted to the classroom. The friends we associate with and the private activities we pursue often teach us more than what we learn in class.

Ryan Peterson is a senior in political science, history and philosophy from Northfield, Minn.

Athletics

Campus faces hidden fee epidemic Charging students to print tickets is unfair, vexing

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few years ago, when I first learned student basketball tickets were going electronic, I was a little wary. I questioned the ease of selling tickets but was reassured you could transfer your tickets to another student or print them out. This is true.

However, three years later, I find myself wanting to actually do this for the first time. I got onto cyclones.com and logged into my account. As I was about to hit the print button, however, I noticed the disclaimer asking for my approval for a $2 charge to my account for the transfer.

Wait, didn’t I already buy this ticket? Why should I be paying another $2? At first I thought the charge was only if I were electronically transferring the ticket to another student’s account. But no, there is actually an additional $2 charge to print out MY ticket with MY paper and MY ink.

So what is the purpose of

By Jessica.Bruning @iowastatedaily.com this charge? Well, I emailed the athletic director, Jamie Pollard, to find out.

Pollard said the money is charged to the university by the company that handles the electronic ticketing and the cost is then transferred to us. He went on to say that part of the reason student tickets have not gone up for the past four years was due, in part, to the costs saved from not printing paper tickets.

However, I do not feel Pollard’s reasoning on not raising ticket prices is only due to the savings they have gained from the electronic system. For years, the $99 season tickets have been available to the public for men’s basketball games. The Kansas game was the season’s first “sold out” basketball game, even though large sections of Hilton weren’t even filled. This past fall is the first time Iowa State

has had attendance of more than 50,000 at every home football game, and part of that was most likely due to the huge marketing push and reduced ticket prices for multiple games.

Iowa State is not a huge school with a nationally known program.

We will not sell out every game year after year. Until that happens, unless the athletic department wants to see attendance suffer, ticket prices will not go up.

Finally, Pollard said he received an overwhelmingly positive response to the electronic ticketing and my complaint about the additional fee is the first he has received.

Personally, I do like the electronic tickets. Without paper tickets I have one less thing to misplace or forget. However, the problem of additional hidden fees seems to be a bit of an epidemic for this university.

After spending about $900 on athletic tickets during my time here at Iowa State, it is vexing that I should have to pay an additional $2 when I was just trying to give away a women’s basketball ticket.

The fact that my complaint was the first he has heard isn’t

surprising. Most students, understandably, see the charge, grumble about it and click the approve button. We all have busy schedules and, in the scheme of things, $2 isn’t much.

While it isn’t much, we still shouldn’t have to pay it. When I asked for my friends’ opinions on the matter through my Facebook account, I received multiple replies expressing their dislike of the practice within minutes.

So, fellow sports lovers, I would encourage you to send Pollard an email at jbp@iastate. edu. I know we’re all busy, but student feedback is necessary to truly gauge the success of the new program, and if we only grumble to ourselves and our friends, it can’t change. Considering the athletic department has found the money to add on to the football training facility and build a new athletic facility, I think they can find a way to absorb the cost of the transfer fee.

Jessica Bruning is a senior

in political science and apparel merchandising design and production from Castana, Iowa.

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Activism

Letters to the editor

Students lead the charge

Evil of greed drives us closer to end of world

Administrators feel accountable to uphold policies

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ollege students across the country have organized boycotts and petition drives to terminate their schools’ relationship with the national fast-food chain Chickfil-A because of the restaurant’s direct connection to organizations dedicated to restricting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

Chick-fil-A’s charitable division, WinShape Foundation, works with and supports such groups as the National Organization for Marriage, the Ruth Institute, the Pennsylvania Family Institute, Focus on the Family and Exodus International among others, all fighting to ban marriage for same-sex couples and some advocating for the “curing” of homosexuality.

Students at Indiana University South Bend successfully lobbied their school to dissociate from Chick-fil-A as a vendor, and students at other campuses are taking their lead, including students at the University of New Orleans, Texas Tech University, Mississippi State University, University of North Texas, Gainesville State College, Florida Gulf Coast University and Duke University.

By petitioning administrators, students are sending the clear message that discrimination in any form cannot be supported on their respective campuses.

According to one of the schools’ petitions: “Mississippi State should be a place that supports equality for everyone — where all students, staff and community members feel welcome. We should not be allowing corporations to do business on our campus if they are using their profits to strip fundamental civil rights from gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans.

Please join me in calling on our

Warren. J. Blumenfeld is an associate professor of curriculum and instruction. school’s leadership to remove Chick-fil-A from campus — unless and until the restaurant chain withdraws its support for anti-gay organizations.”

Dan Cathy, president and chief operating officer of Chickfil-A, issued a news release in an attempt to counter the boycott by stating, “While my family and I believe in the biblical definition of marriage, we love and respect anyone who disagrees.”

He went on to define Chickfil-A’s corporate purpose as “to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us, and to have a positive influence on all who come in contact with Chick-fil-A. ... We will continue to offer resources to strengthen marriages and families. To do anything different would be inconsistent with our purpose and belief in biblical principles.”

Bishop E.W. Jackson Sr., founder and president of Staying True to America’s National Destiny, accuses these student leaders of hatred against devoted Christians. Though students involved in these actions represent all sexual and gender identities, Jackson argued in an interview with Christian New Wire that “this is further proof of the insidious and dangerous hatred by homosexual activists of any Christian who dares try to live out their biblical values.

The problem in society today is not hatred of homosexuals, but hatred by homosexuals of anyone who refuses to say ‘amen’ to their sexual behavior.”

Jackson goes on to accuse members of the “homosexual community” of attempting to demolish the faith foundations on which our country is based, since “it is an affront to them, and they want a sexually amoral society remade in their image.”

Jackson argues that the oppression toward Christians, which he terms “Christo-phobia” and

“Biblo-phobia,” is so extreme and extensive that now “may be the time to make Christians a protected class.”

Rather than reverting to a boycott, Jackson is calling for a “buycott” of Chick-fil-A, in support of the company’s defense of marriage and protection of family and Christian values.

Over the years, similar boycotts to those currently underway against Chick-fil-A have been waged against companies.

For example, some have boycotted Domino’s Pizza when it was discovered that its founder, Tom Monaghan, supported a number of anti-abortion groups such as Operation Rescue.

Some people do not shop at Hobby Lobby, a chain of craft stores, because it actively promotes (proselytizes) a form of Christianity in its ads, especially around Easter, and often plays Christian music over the airwaves in its stores.

With the recent actions taken against Chick-fil-A, however, a critical question must be addressed. While private companies like Chick-fil-A most certainly and clearly have the right to support organizations and causes of their choice, should public tax supported institutions such as universities maintain connections with those companies that expressly violate campus nondiscrimination policies?

While conservative Christian theologians like Jackson pose as victims in this drama, most campus nondiscrimination politics now include sexual identity and gender identity and expression as enumerated categories. By opposing the basic civil rights of LGBT people, Chick-fil-A and its allied organizations clearly fall under the definition of discrimination according to campus policies.

Current events clearly show that students nationwide are taking the lead in raising critical issues, and they are holding campus administrators accountable for upholding their stated policies.

I feel a great discomfort in being told that greed is good. It is not just from my upbringing, but as I understand it, greed drives unethical, immoral and dishonorable human behavior. The word should not be mixed with survival, or disguised as a euphemism for survival.

Without a doubt, greed is an evil.

So is selfishness the “basis of all human labor and effort” then? Do we respect the captain of the sunken liner, Costa Concordia, for greedily seeking his own survival?

No. We call him a coward for saving himself and abandoning ship with pas-

Abraham Sanogo is a junior in mathematics.

sengers still aboard.

Where do you find brave men unafraid to die for their country, if everyone simply wished to save their own lives? Where do you find parents to raise infants, if greed dictates them to save their own resources? Where would you find love, if greed blinds you to anyone’s needs but your own?

Arguably, one can say that new phones and new iPods are produced out of greed. However, one cannot say that the scientists, engineers, mathemati-

cians and developers who toiled in their efforts to make such technology possible — those who receive little to no credit for their work and accumulate trivial wealth — persevered because greed drove them on.

In my thoughts, the evil of greed drives the ending of the world, society and all sensible order when the individual would willingly sacrifice others to save himself in the misguided belief that he will “survive.”

If you exist today to read this, it is because someone in the past pushed greed aside and had you in mind.

Iraq, Iran present different situations to government The Jan. 31 editorial “Does another war loom on the horizon?” compares the invasion of Iraq and the search for weapons of mass destruction to the potentially looming conflict in Iran.

This editorial disregards the fact that the situations in the two countries are vastly different.

While Iraq was not found to have nuclear weapons, the United Nations is aware of and even recently sent representatives to visit Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities — uranium is, of course, a key ingredient in the creation of nuclear weapons.

In an effort to force Iran to abandon its nuclear program, NATO has placed an embargo on the oil supplies of Iran to Europe.

This has been met with a reply from the Iranian government threatening to block the Strait of Hormuz, an important channel between the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea that one-fifth of the world’s oil supply travels through.

The U.S. government has returned the volley, indicating it will take military ac-

Daniel Aggromito is a resident of Urbandale, Iowa.

tion if this strait is blocked by Iran. Thus, while the United States and NATO are worried about Iran’s nuclear program (as they should be), they will only take action if the Strait of Hormuz is blocked by the country.

Hopefully, Iran succumbs to the demands of the United States and NATO before conflict is necessary.

If conflict is necessary, then this will not only infer that Iran has continued with its nuclear program but can also potentially force a rise in oil prices due to the blocking of the strait, causing a ripple effect on the still-fragile economies of the United States and various NATO countries.

While I can understand the concerned tone of the editorial in regards to creating more Middle Eastern conflict, the risks to the economy and, more importantly, world security are too great to discount by the allied forces.

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Patriots say they aren’t pointing fingers after Super Bowl FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The Patriots say there’s no finger-pointing after their Super Bowl loss, even if supermodel Gisele Bundchen won’t abide by that code.

The wife of New England quarterback Tom Brady was caught on camera complaining that dropped passes doomed the team to a 21-17 loss to the New York Giants on Sunday — the Patriots’ second loss in the NFL title game loss in five seasons.

Late in the game, usually dependable receiver Wes Welker dropped a pass that went off his hands; Aaron Hernandez and Deion Branch also had trouble coming up with catches.

Bundchen was caught on video by TheInsider.com responding to a pro-Giants heckler after the game by saying, “My husband cannot (expletive) throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time.”

Brady was not available for comment Monday, when the team flew back from Indianapolis and arrived at Gillette Stadium on buses.

Asked if the team had any comment, Patriots spokesman Stacey James pursed his lips together and shook his head from side to side.

But defensive back James Ihedigbo said Welker was a big reason the Patriots made it to the Super Bowl, and he’s not to blame.

“You can’t point fingers at anybody. Wes made amazing plays all season,” Ihedigbo said. “You win it as a team; you win it and lose it as a team. And we lost to a good football team.”

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By Mark.Schafer @iowastatedaily.com All student-athletes have five years to complete four year’s worth of college athletic eligibility. For some, they use all their eligibility along with their regular course of college, playing on the court from their freshman to senior year.

Others use a redshirt — which is when a student-athlete sits out a year of competition in order to build up skills for their sport — which, in effect, makes those studentathletes have to stay in school for another year.

“In Division I, [a studentathlete’s] clock starts as soon as [they] enroll fulltime in college,” said ISU Assistant Athletics Director of Compliance Dustin Gray.

“The rule is a student-athlete has four years to compete in a five-year window.”

Even though the athletes have potentially five years to compete in college athletics, if a student-athlete chooses to redshirt a year in athletic competition, they still have to stay in school and make prog-

ress toward their degree.

Following NCAA rules Since a student-athlete who is redshirting has an extra year to compete and they have to be enrolled full-time in college to do so, according to NCAA rules, he or she has to make plans to stay in school until their athletic eligibility clock runs out.

“Once [a student-athlete] enrolls, they have to follow the same rules that the NCAA prescribes as far as progress toward degree, all the same rules apply to them,” said ISU Associate Athletics Director of Academic Services Tommy Powell. “So as we are working with them, it’s such a huge benefit for academics of the student-athlete because they are making the same progress, but they also get an extra year to be able to compete.”

For some, the extra year student-athletes spend in school is used to work on a second bachelor’s degree, but others move from undergraduate to graduate school work.

One of the students who moved on from undergradu-

Redshirt athletes make big choices

ate school to graduate studies is redshirt senior wrestler Andrew Sorenson.

Woody “I never really planned to go to grad school, it just happened out that way,” Sorenson said. “The fifth year is great because you don’t have to take as many credits as a normal student would.”

With two more years left in his eligibility, redshirt sophomore football player Jeff Woody is weighing his options on what to do after he finishes his degree.

“We have to meet certain academic standards as student-athletes. Just because we are sitting out a year of competition doesn’t mean we get to sit out a year of school,” Woody said. “You have to look at your life goals and decide what you want to study in that fifth year.”

Woody is considered a senior academically at Iowa State.

To help athletes decide

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on what they might want to study in the future, the top floor of the Hixson-Lied Student Success Center is full of staff that help student-athletes progress in school while playing collegiate athletics.

Since it can take a while for the academic services to learn that a student-athlete is redshirting, Powell said every student-athlete is put on the same four-year plan that nonstudent-athletes are put on in terms of the classes they take for their degree.

“The redshirt year is a huge advantage for a studentathlete because they are not subject to the traveling in the first year, so they can focus on their academics a lot more,” Powell said. “That allows them to have that extra year, which they can use to finish up their degree or work on a second bachelor’s degree or work on graduate school if that’s what they choose.”

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Women’s basketball

‘Dominant’ post trio key for Cyclones

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derstanding roles right now, and accepting those roles. And that all plays a part.”

Guard Chris Babb, who went 4-of7 from 3-point range en route to 12 points against Oklahoma on Saturday, said Iowa State has done its best to “keep improving.”

Babb said he too has seen the Cyclones come together as a group and understand where they each fit.

“I think everybody’s buying into their roles and buying into the concept of what we need to do to win,” Babb said.

Any overconfidence or boasting waned during the Cyclones’ nonconference schedule, when Hoiberg of-

Coach Bill Fennelly made a fist and tapped the wood table in front of him.

Fennelly was talking about junior Anna Prins’ health and felt the need to “knock on wood.”

“The biggest thing for [Prins] is we’ve got to keep her healthy,” Fennelly said.

This is the first time since Prins has played for Iowa State that she has not missed a practice due to ailments, Fennelly said.

“There’s been a little ailment or sickness that’s always hindered her development,” Fennelly said. “She’s a kid that needs the work and practice and she’s been able to get it.”

Prins is one-third of the dominant post trio for Iowa State (13-8, 4-6 Big 12) this year.

The other two post players are sophomore Hallie Christofferson and junior Chelsea Poppens.

“I don’t think there’s any question that one of the big reasons our team is playing better is we’ve been fairly consistent with our interior kids,” Fennelly said. “[Christofferson] and [Prins] have really gotten better and Poppens continues to put together consistent efforts all the time.”

Against Oklahoma State last Wednesday, Prins tallied 16 points and eight rebounds, well above her season averages of 10 and four.

Christofferson scored 20 points in the same game and 17 against Texas on Saturday.

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File photo: Jordan Maurice/Iowa State Daily ISU forward Royce White goes up for a lay-in during Iowa State’s game against Texas on Jan. 4. White will travel with the Cyclones to take on Oklahoma State at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Stillwater, Okla.

Confidence surges as team hits road

By Jeremiah.Davis @iowastatedaily.com Fans and observers may think confidence hasn’t ever been an issue for the 2011-12 ISU men’s basketball team.

This was the team with the four hyped transfers, after all, and NCAA tournament talk started before the season began.

But, coach Fred Hoiberg said, confidence that the team could play as one and grind out wins in the Big 12 is just now starting to hit its stride.

“We’re playing with a different level of confidence right now,” Hoiberg said. “Our focus has been great since we started conference play.

“Guys are doing a better job of un-

Photo: David Duprey/ The Associated Press Tom Brady walks off the field after being sacked by Giants DE Justin Tuck during Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday.

Don’t put all blame on Brady In the day and age of social media, blogs and the everincreasing need for rapid reaction to sports events, what has happened to Tom Brady following the Patriots’ 21-17 loss to the Giants in Super Bowl XLVI is astounding.

As we watched the final Hail Mary pass flail to the ground, just out of reach of the stretched arms of Rob Gronkowski, Brady’s legacy took a hit.

Sure, the man is the owner of three Super Bowl rings, a supermodel wife and multiple endorsement contracts.

But on the biggest stage, he failed for the second time to beat Eli Manning’s Giants.

An interception, an intentional grounding call that put two points on the board for the Giants via a safety and several missed chances in the late stages that forced the aforementioned Hail Mary.

And despite all that, we’re here to tell you why it was not Brady’s fault the Patriots lost Sunday.

Without Brady, the Patriots aren’t the Patriots.

The man may very well be the greatest quarterback of all time, even with two straight Super Bowl losses.

Brady carried a dreadful Patriots defense this season and, within the game itself, brought New England back when it looked like New York had all the momentum.

At one point, Brady went 16-for-16 in a stretch in the middle of the game, including two touchdowns in that time that had the Patriots up 17-9 before the eventual downfall.

As his wife Gisele Bundchen pointed out angrily after the game, his receivers didn’t help him out late in the game either. Wes Welker, Deion Branch and Aaron Hernandez each dropped passes on the final drive, plays that most certainly would have put the Patriots in position for a better play at the end.

For people to put all the blame on him — or any one person, for that matter — is absolutely ridiculous. Twitter and Facebook blew up after the game, and even professional journalists knee-jerk reacted to his performance postgame.

Eric Wilbur of the Boston Globe penned one the most ignorant, idiotic columns that may have ever been written about a player’s performance.

Wilbur wrote, essentially in a message for Brady himself, “You blew this Super Bowl. You denied your coach No. 4. You let down your teammates.”

Last time we checked, 22 men are on the field at one time. No one man can do everything. Brady doesn’t make tackles, block or catch the football.

If he’s to blame for something, it’s this: Without his play, the Patriots never would have reached the Super Bowl at all.

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File photo: Grace Steenhagen/Iowa State Daily Coach Fred Hoiberg reacts to a call during Iowa State’s game against Kansas State on Jan. 31.

Hoiberg said at his Monday news conference that the Cyclones are playing with confidence.

>>STILLWATER.p8 ten talked of the team’s need to come together in adverse situations and understand what they need to do when the game’s on the line.

Forward Royce White said Monday in a news conference that he thought the confidence turnaround began when conference play started and Iowa State got a win against Texas at home. “I would probably say when we got to conference play,� White said when asked when the turnaround began. “Beating Kansas always helps.

Playing them the first time was a confidence booster. Playing Missouri the first time was a confidence booster. And after that, we knew we could play with anybody, it was just a matter of going out and executing the game plan and getting a win.�

While Hoiberg agreed the team’s recent confidence surge started with conference play, it was the game right before the Big 12 season started, he

>>REDSHIRT.p8 student-athlete’s choice to redshirt in the first place — it is usually a decision coaches make. Once the coaches decide, it is then the student-athletes’ job to figure out what to do after their initial bachelor’s degree has been awarded. “I took all the classes that I needed to and I had a year left.

So I was like, ‘What am I supposed to do?’ Either I could take a full year of classes that I wouldn’t complete the degree in or move on to grad school,�

Sorenson said. “I just thought it was a smart choice to move on to grad school.�

Being in graduate school has set more refined career goals for Sorenson, and he said he’ll stay in school because that is what is important for his future after his collegiate athletic career is over. “Someday I want to be a head strength coach and to do that I have to have a master’s degree,� Sorenson said. “If there wasn’t redshirting, I would have lost a year of eligibility. I think it just gives kids a year to grow and figure out what they want to do and start taking advantage of their life.�

Getting student-athletes to start to think about their life outside of athletics is a goal of Powell and his staff. “Freshmen coming in with the more high-profile sports

said, that sparked the overall turnaround.

The 67-65 win against Mississippi Valley State on Dec. 31 was the wakeup call Hoiberg said his team needed. “The Mississippi Valley State game was a very important game for this team, in the meetings we had and the talks we had leading into conference play,� Hoiberg said. “We’ve learned from losses.

We’ve done a great job learning from wins, even though sometimes it’s hard to learn from a win because guys are satisfied.�

For White specifically — the team’s leader in points (13.5), rebounds (9.3), assists (4.2), steals (1.2) and blocks (1.2) per game — his passing and getting teammates involved has been something fans have wondered about, given his 6-foot-8-inch, 270-pound frame and ability to score.

White, though, said, “I like assist better than points. I’d rather help a basket out than score myself,� and his coach praised his ability to get team-

mates involved.

Along with the confidence and guys accepting roles, that kind of unselfish play has been something the Cyclones have hung their hat on recently. “It comes from a camaraderie thing,� White said. “Chemistry is just real high on our team. It starts with the leaders, and the lead guys are unselfish, and it trickles down.

It’s a program thing; it’s from top to bottom.

The Cyclones carry that confidence and “camaraderie� into a matchup with Oklahoma State, a team that very nearly left Hilton Coliseum with a win on Jan. 18, had it not been for a Scott Christopherson buzzer-beater. “They’re playing very good basketball,� Hoiberg said of the Cowboys, who beat No. 4 Missouri after the loss in Ames. “Even though they don’t have a lot of depth, it’s a team that plays very hard and will always have a chance because of the way they play.�

Iowa State tips off against Oklahoma State at 6 p.m.

Tuesday in Stillwater, Okla.

are always thinking professional, and that’s what we want them to aspire to, but over the course of time it’s me and my staff’s job to help them see life beyond athletics,� Powell said. “I think we really do a re-

ally good job in here with a lot of, just reality, there is only a certain percentage of Division I football players that go on to be professional players and the same thing with basketball and the other sports.�

Photo: Tim Reuter/Iowa State Daily Center Anna Prins fights to the hoop in Saturday’s game against Texas. The trio of Prins, Chelsea Poppens and Hallie Christofferson are helping the Cyclones with strong post play.

>>POSTS.p8 shoot extra shots,� Christofferson said on Saturday. “That’s helped me.�

The extra work is also paying off for Poppens, who boasts 14 points and 11 rebounds per game. “If Brittney Griner was not in this league, you’d have a hard time not making the case that [Poppens] is the player of the year in this league,� Fennelly said.

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By Elizabeth Hanson ISD Style Writer

All vixens of the past have been remembered for one seductive quality — long lashes. Elizabeth Taylor’s thick black lashes framed what many adored about her, those unique emerald eyes. Always classic Aubrey Hepburn coyly batted hers in “Breakfast At Tiffany’s” to charm her way out of sticky situations. It’s a fact, long lashes are classic, yet they seem so unattainable. But what if I were to tell you they’re only a Target stop away?

False lashes are your answer. False lashes are an easy, attainable and cheap fix to create dramatic lashes. Usually found near the nail polish section of any drugstore, brands such as Revelon, Kiss and Ardell usually can be found for less than $5. If you’re looking for more of a luxe fix, you can find false lashes at any MAC counter or online through Shu Uemura.

To an unexperienced user, they may seem intimdating, but practice makes perfect. Apply your eye makeup as usual then apply a thin line of lash glue to the lashes and apply as close to your natural lash line as possible. Let dry for a few seconds then apply mascara to blend your false and natural lashes together and curl. The trick is to make them look as natural as possible to make everyone wonder how you were blessed with such bold, beautiful lashes.

It’s finally arrived: The next big fashion line for Target. The Jason Wu line for Target offically hit stores nationwide on Super Bowl Sunday.

Wu’s limited-edition collection of affordable woman’s apparel, scarves and handbags are currently on the shelves of Target stores from now until March 6. The New Yorkbased fashion designer found his love for designing clothes at a young age and had his first collection in the fall of 2006.

Wu is excited to bring a whole new collection to Target, which was inspired by the vision of an American girl in Paris.

This much-anticipated

“The Jason Wu line will be even bigger than the Missoni line.” fashion line will bring out Wu’s distinctive design by merging current fashion with old-world sophistication. His line will bring a mixture of modern, sophisticated and bold pieces and a variety of patterns that every woman out there will love.

Wu’s attention to detail and style of combining current trends and looks from the 1960s is said to sell fast everywhere, mainly in the bigger cities. Wu has emerged as a leading designer in the fashion world and has even expanded his work to sunglass-

es, handbags and footwear sold at top fashion retailers and small boutiques.

Kalli Heimsness, store manager at the Ames Target, said this line is expected to sell out fast.

“The Jason Wu line will be even bigger than the Missoni line,” she said. “We’re expecting a line the night before and will sell out of the clothes very quickly.”

More clothes will be ordered after stores sell out. The Missoni line, which was released in Target stores on Sept. 13, sold out right away and resulted in a website crash, a rush to the shelves and a nearly completely sold-out inventory.

The Jason Wu line for Target is expected to be even bigger.

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Wu hoo!

According to thecut.com, the Jason Wu line for Target was almost completely sold out online as of Monday morning.

It is, however, still avalible in stores. On the plus side, the Target website is still up and running — no crash this time.

fans of Wu and have recently worn his clothes to events. His collection for Target will range in price from $19.99 to $59.99 for apparel and $19.99 to $49.99 for handbags and scarves, and will also be available for purchase online.

Don’t wait too long to get your hands on this new highend collection.

save the date While the fall shows in Milan and Paris are coming to an end, New York Fashion Week is only getting started.

Mercedes-Benz New York Fall 2012 Fashion Week: Feb. 9 - 16 Remember to check www.isdstyle.com during the week for updates on Fashion Week. Even vote for your favorite shows.

Photos courtesy of Target The Jason Wu line at Target was released Sunday. Compared to Wu’s main collection, the colorful, modern line offers apparel, scarves and handbags at affordable prices. The line is avalible nationwide at Target stores and online until March 6.

MEN’S FASHION

Capes, leather walk down European runways Designers propose bold looks for fall

By Ian Laughead ISD Style Writer

Seasonally, fall might be half a year away, but that didn’t stop European designers from showing off their wares for the later months recently on the catwalks in Milan and Paris.

Double breasted suits and all-over black leather showed up more often than not on the European runways, but fortunately for the college student, more than a few other trends are ripe for a more casual translation.

While classic black is ubiquitous during any autumn/ winter fashion week, more newsworthy were fewer staid and stodgy browns and greys and more jewel tones one rarely sees in menswear. Whether it was a dark teal velvet dinner jacket at Gucci or an amethyst fur scarf at Bernhard Willhelm, color suddenly came into a man’s winter weather ward-

robe. Christopher Bailey at Burberry Prorsum had a particularly fresh point of view, adding richly hued borders on otherwise conservatively colored outerwear.

Prints are the order of the day in several designers’ shows. Nicola Formichetti and Romain Kremer showed a collection of dark, shimmery suits, but their stand-out look was one printed lapel-to-toe with a modern paisley in a deep fuchsia.

Swooping in as a stand-out piece this season was the cape.

Less dramatic than Dracula’s favorite outerwear but heavier than Superman’s aerodynamic ensemble, Stefano Pilati drew up his version at Yves Saint Laurent in hunter green and burgundy.

Slightly easier to pull off than a cape, wide rugby-style stripes started to look less boyish and more sophisticated at Lanvin. Showing up at more than a few shows across Europe, this is one look that can be sported in anything from T-shirts to full-on threepiece suits.

Photo courtesy of Burberry Color-blocked outerwear, from tailored jackets to puffer coats, added a new dimension at Burberry Prorsum in Milan. The look with pops of color will be easy to translate into everyday wardrobes. Harder to wear are next winter’s capes and leather.

Photo courtesy of Lanvin Wide, rugby-style stripes that harken back to 19th-century prison uniforms were featured at Lucas Ossendrijver’s Lanvin.

This boyishly bold, sporty pattern was one of many featured on the runways in Paris for next season.

Photo courtesy of Mugler Monochromatic ensembles like this fuchsia suit at Mugler will continue to be a trend in the coming winter.

Bright, colorful pieces added spice to the menswear collections in Europe.

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