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West, Smith secure StuGov president, VP By Alex.Connor @iowastatedaily.com Cody West and Cody Smith will serve as the next Student Government president and vice president, according to preliminary election results announced Thursday evening. The two secured 54 percent of the overall vote and received nearly 1,000 more votes than opponents Conner Tillo and Rachael Barnes, who secured 41 percent of the votes. Write-ins for president and vice president received just 4 percent of the total votes overall with 321 votes. Those running an
announced write-in campaign included Anthony Chavez and Emeline Hanscel, who were hoping to bring a conservative voice to Student Government. West and Smith campaigned on four main issues they hope to tackle during their administration including building community, restoring tradition, reinventing residency and working toward purposeful outreach. West currently serves as vice president of Student Government with Cole Staudt, and Smith currently serves as the Student Government public relations chair and United Residents offcampus senator.
Noah Collins, election commissioner, said the voter turnout this year was fantastic, with nearly 1 in 4 students voting. This is almost a 10 percent jump in voter participation from last year, Collins said, and nearly double what the turnout was two years ago. On the win, West was speechless. “I have no words. I’m a busy student, and I can’t thank every other busy student who came out and showed their support. I truly can’t thank everyone enough. I can’t wait to do this for another year,” West said.
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Cody West and Cody Smith were elected president and vice president of Student Government, preliminary election results showed Thursday.
Morris on a mission
Students vote no to MU referendum
Senior flirts with triple-double in Big 12 quarterfinal victory
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By Luke.Manderfeld @iowastatedaily.com KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Donovan Jackson has never shied away from antics after making a big shot. But halfway through the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Championship on Thursday, Jackson found even more reason to celebrate. With just over 10 minutes remaining in the game, Iowa State had the ball up five points against Oklahoma State. Point guard Monté Morris soon found himself caught in the Cowboys’ well-known half-court trap. He called a timeout, but the play hardly stopped there. Oklahoma State’s Brandon Averette had a few more things to say to Morris. Jackson, Morris’ roommate, rushed to his aide. Morris gently pushed Averette, escalating the shuffle at mid-court. Then, Jackson and Averette got into it. After all was said and done, Jackson and Averette wound up with technical fouls. That was just the spark Iowa State needed. “I told [Morris] that it’s time to get it in mode,” Jackson said. “Because it’s time to put it on these boys. Because they took it to a whole another level that it shouldn’t have gone to.” Morris cooly hit a 15-foot jump shot on the next possession and laughed on his way down the court. Jackson followed it up with back-to-back 3-pointers with some showboating to boot. The Cyclones didn’t look back. Iowa State (21-10, 12-6 Big 12) went on a 10-4 run and made nine of its next 11 baskets to beat Oklahoma State (20-12, 9-9 Big 12) 92-83 in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Championship at the Spring Center. The Cyclones will play TCU, which upset No. 1 Kansas on Thursday afternoon, at 6 p.m. Friday. Morris, who was left of the Bob Cousy Award finalist list this week, much to the dismay of coach Steve Prohm, was
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Iowa State senior Monte Morris celebrates after draining a 3 against Oklahoma State on Thursday during the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Championship.
Announced Thursday evening, Iowa State students by an overwhelming 62 percent, voted no in supporting a student fee increase that would have funded part of the renovation and expansion of the Memorial Union. The Memorial Union has partnered with Invision Architects to reinvent the space, where the company recommended a nearly 24,000-square-foot addition. Renovations and expansions include: the repurposing of the 4th to 6th floors; an increase in the current Multicultural Center space; and an additional 200 dining and lounge seats adjacent to the Memorial Union food court. Additional renovations include an increased student organization and collaboration space by 55 percent; an increase to the size of the Veteran’s Center by nearly four times its current size and an improvement in the facility infrastructure by addressing about 40 percent of the current deferred maintenance needs. In total, the renovations are expected to cost $65 million. If students would have voted yes on the referendum, student fees would have increased by $72 over the course of two years to total $99.55 per semester. Corey Williamson, interim director of the Memorial Union, urged students during the Feb. 15 Student Government meeting to keep in mind that the referendum is intended to improve the student experience at Iowa State. Williamson said it is an obligation to maintain these services and facilities, as it a community project. According to the referenda introduced to the Senate, some of the potential funding sources have been identified and have committed a total of $10 million to the project.
Pakestani Chai works to inform others of country’s culture By Alison.Boysen @iowastatedaily.com
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Pakistani Chai, an event hosted by the Pakistan Student Association on Thursday, included free bowling, billiards, table tennis and authentic Pakistani deserts.
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Was Pakistani Chai your cup of tea? The Pakistan Student Association sponsored Pakistani Chai to inform people of their country’s culture Thursday night in the Memorial Union. The night consisted of snacking on traditional Pakistani foods, free bowling and billiards, dancing, music and learning about Pakistani people. Groups joined around billiard tables and bowling stations while Pakistani music blared overhead. Some members arrived dressed in traditional clothes, while others came in casual clothing. The event was not open to strictly students, as families were in attendance as well. Different Pakistani snacks were set out for guests to munch on throughout the night, including gulab jamun, pakora and fried samosa. Gulab jamun is a sweet dessert served with almonds that is com-
monly eaten in Pakistan. Pakora is similar to falafel and is fried, but it is not made with chickpeas. Samosa is also a fried dish that typically has a savory filling. Chai tea was also on the menu to quench the thirst of the eventgoers. The origins of masala chai come from India, but the beverage is consumed around the world, and prevalent in Pakistan as well. A sort of “crash course” of informational papers were placed at seating areas for those interested or curious in the Pakistani culture. Included in the papers was information of national monuments, fashion and celebrities. Vice President Mohsin Raza said the purpose of the event was to teach people about the positive side of Pakistan and their people. “The impression about Pakistan, especially in this continent is not that good,” Raza said. Raza’s main point that he wanted to show those who are not familiar with Pakistan’s people is that “terrorism doesn’t belong to us.” He also added that there are
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many positive things about Pakistan that people may not know because it is not shown in the news. He hopes that people will step away from the stereotypes of terrorists as Pakistanis. “We are very helping people, we are very loving people and culturally rich people, so this is what [we] aim to present our culture,” Raza said. Raza, along with other PSA members, is from the state Punjab. Members performed the dance bhangra, which is a dance for enjoyment. This dance is accompanied with a drum beat. There are two forms of bhangra — traditional and modern. Raahym Rasul is a member of the PSA and is also from Punjab. He said the event was hosted to “spread awareness about [Pakistani] culture.” Rasul said PSA has members from all six provinces of Pakistan, and some members are from Iowa. PSA hopes to host more formal cultural nights in the future and is currently planning an event for next semester.
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POLICE BLOTTER The information in the log comes from the ISU and City of Ames police departments’ records.
March 8 An individual reported the theft of a bicycle at the Food Sciences Building at 1:25 p.m. An officer initiated a drug related investigation at the Armory Building at 2:15 p.m. An officer initiated an assault related investigation between two individuals at Gerdin Business Building at 3:29 p.m. An individual reported the loss
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Discussion: Coffee and Crucial Conversations: 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. at 2030 Morrill Hall. Coffee and Crucial Conver sations will provide an opportunity for faculty and staff to dialogue about teaching inclusively at Iowa State University. Panel: SOTL Scholars How to Design a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Project: 12:10 p.m. to 1 p.m. at 2030 Morrill Hall (face-to-face) or view on your own via Zoom (link below.) Sara Marcketti, Associate Director, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Professor, Apparel Merchandizing and Design, will introduce you to faculty from a range of disciplines documenting their teaching effectiveness for promotion, tenure, and professional development. Participants will leave this session with ideas for implementing SOTL projects in their own teaching and ready to apply for the SOTL Scholars program. Cost: free. Planetarium Show: Solar System Astronomy: 6:30 p.m. at ISU Planetarium, Physics Hall. Are you curious about space? Do you wonder about what you can see in the night sky? If so, bring your questions and come to the ISU Planetarium and join us for an evening under the stars.
Whether it’s on a long car ride or a rainy day at the beach, spring break is the time to binge watch a new show to pass the time. Find some shows to view online.
Justin Rolf, 19, of 221 Beyer Court Apt. 2679, Ames, Iowa, was arrested on a warrant for two counts of disorderly conduct at Helser Hall at 9:58 p.m.
LIFESTYLE
March 11 Paint Your Own Clay Lotus Wall Hanging: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Reiman Gardens. Paint pre-fired clay bisques in the shape of lotus leaves created by Ogden artist Pam Dennis in this simple, hands-on workshop.
March 12 Walk-in Argentine Tango: 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Workspace at the Iowa State Memorial Union. This Milonga (dance party) is a multi-level class with lots of time to enjoy the music and dance. From 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., moves for beginners are intro-
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Iowa State and Oklahoma State players watch for the ball as they stumble over one another Thursday.
Check out what several Iowa State students are doing over spring break that are atypical from the usual destinations online at iowastatedaily.com.
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Behind the Scenes: 11a.m. to 12 p.m. at Reiman Gardens. Join staff each month for an interactive, behind the scenes look at Reiman Gardens.
Iowa State gymnastics had its best start of the season through the first three events last Saturday on the road against Iowa. Find the full story online.
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Storm clouds roll through the Iowa State campus late Monday afternoon. The city of Ames found itself under wind warnings and tornado watches throughout the day.
March 17 R e i m a n G a rd e n s A fte r Hours: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Reiman Gardens. Celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day by sitting back and enjoying an eclectic array of melodies, with an extensive Celtic music repertoire.
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IOWA STATE SOFTBALL The Iowa State (8-11) softball team certainly has had its moments this season. Check out our story online at iowastatedaily. com.
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Students join together Sunday to sing Mawtini, the national anthem of Iraq, which is a poem written by Palestinian poet Ibrahim Tuquan.
March 21 I S U Fa c u l t y R e s e a r c h Day:1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Great Hall, Memorial Union. Faculty from all disciplines are invited to present a poster, deliver a talk, display an exhibit, meet new colleagues and discover connections within Iowa State’s interdisciplinary grand challenge research areas. All ev ents and descript i o n s c o u rt e s y o f t h e Iowa State events page at event.iastate.edu.
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Celtic Fire: 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Stephens Auditorium. An evening of songs, stories, tunes and dance from the heart of the Emerald Isle, featuring Michael Londra, one of the greatest Irish singers of all time. World champion dancers will entertain with brilliant flashes of speed, youth and exuberance.
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An officer investigated a property damage collision at Firemanship Training at 5:14 p.m.
Youth Program: Caterpillar Club: 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Join us weekly this winter for our popular Early Childhood Development program featuring stories and creative activities around a nature-based theme.
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An individual reported damage to a bicycle at Larch Hall at 5 p.m.
duced with a different figure each week along with techniques for dancing better. From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., the dance floor is yours for dancing under the guidance of Valerie and working with different partners. An intermediate level figure will also be introduced during this time.
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WOMEN’S TRACK HEADS TO NCAAS So p h o m o r e m i d d l e distance runner Jasmine Staebler and junior Jhoanmy Luque will represent the Iowa State women’s track and field at the NCAA Championships this weekend. Follow @HeimKyle on Twitter for updates and coverage throughout the meet.
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Iowa State junior Jadda Buckley is cut off by Kayla Goth of Kansas State as she attempts to drive toward the hoop during the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Women’s Basketball Championship on Saturday.
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Profile: Paige Myers in Panama By Katlyn.Campbell @iowastatedaily.com Not many people can say that they participated in the Kalu Yaya internship in Panama and got robbed by two locals with a machete while on a cliff. Paige Myers, junior in global resource systems, can attest to this experience. During the 2016 fall semester, Myers interned in Panama, where she helped build a new village, Kalu Yaya, with people from across the United States. After the 10-week program, Myers set out to travel with a friend before returning to Iowa. Little did she know, this travel experience would be nearly as educational as the internship. Taking note that she was in a foreign place and alone on a cliff by the ocean when she was robbed, Paige thought rationally during this confrontation and gave the two men her money. With little cash left, Myers and friend Heidi Kalb, also a student in global resource systems and intern for Kalu Yaya, obtained enough money with help from the place they were staying at. On an island with no ATMs, the two received money from a local restaurant so they would have enough funds to leave the island. Luckily, the two men were only interested in taking cash and not passports. “It could have been a lot worse,” Myers said. Kalb laughs about it now, saying that only Myers would be put in a situation like this. During this experience, Kalb walked ahead of Myers to look off the side of the cliff to see the beach they were
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Paige Myers, junior in global resource systems, builds a living fence for a raised garden bed while interning at Kalu Yaya in Panama. The stakes will eventually regrow into small trees.
headed to. “I was on the edge of the cliff and [Myers] was like, ‘Heidi, can you come back here? I think I’m being robbed’,” Kalb said. Kalb said that during the situation Myers was assertive, as she refused to give the two men all the contents of her bag. “She wouldn’t let them have [her whole bag] and that was like classic [Myers],” Kalb said. “She was like, ‘I don’t think you need that.’ She knew what she had in her bag and she was not going to let them have everything.” The internship, a sustainable agriculture program,
focused on permaculture. The goal was to build agriculture so well that it would become a permanent part of the landscape. The implemented agriculture was sought to be helpful to the surrounding ecosystems while mimicking nature. “It’s a very holistic kind of framework,” Myers said. While at Kalu Yaya, Myers’ work largely consisted of manual labor. She spent time working to manage a greenhouse by organizing it, seeding, propagating plants and building up the stock of plants. She also helped build a fish pond and dug ditches to prevent flooding and to better direct water.
Myers’ interest in global travel came to her while still in high school. While attending the World Food Prize Iowa Youth Institute, Myers learned about issues from food security to resource use and realized that there were problems that needed aid in solving. At the institute, Myers heard from an Iowa State professor who presented on the global resource systems major and realized that was what she wanted to study in college. “[Global resource systems] has allowed me to apply for travel opportunities, to form relationships with people that are concerned
about the same issues, but approach them through a different perspective,” Myers said. After the Iowa Youth Institute event, Myers went to Tanzania with a service organization to help locals at a feeding center. Since high school, she has gone to Costa Rica twice, Colombia, Spain, Bangladesh and Panama. She hopes to travel to Nicaragua this summer for her global resource systems internship. Taylor Fah, junior in management information systems, met Myers through being community advisers and describes her as “adventurous” and “fearless.”
“When I first met her she had just gotten back from Bangladesh and she would tell these stories about how she couldn’t leave her room,” Fah said. “The way she told the stories was like it was no big deal. It didn’t even phase her.” Through all her experiences, Myers has achieved a global perspective about how different communities behave and interact. “It’s a global world and a global economy and [traveling] really changes your perspective,” Kevin Duerfeldt, global resource systems lecturer, said. “Lately, with some of the politics and current events people will say something about another group of people without having met with them or talked to them or knowing their perspective, and getting out into the rest of the world helps you broaden your world view.” Kalb described Myers as having a global mind, which helps her approach situations with sensitivity as people can have differing views on topics. “You never have to worry about her saying something mean to someone both because she’s kind and because she’s respectful,” Kalb said. Despite having travelled across the globe, Myers wants to start exploring the United States after college. “I’m thinking of doing a year of service after I graduate with AmeriCorp or FoodCorp,” Myers said. As a global traveler, mostly visiting places less wealthy than the United States, Myers has learned to live with the minimum. As long as Myers has room and board she’ll be fine with whatever life throws at her.
Professor gives award-winning presentation By Alison.Boysen @iowastatedaily.com An Iowa State professor spoke on how to solve problems in the world through the use of interdisciplinary research using statistics Thursday afternoon at Morrill Hall. Alicia Carriquiry, distinguished professor of statistics, has been involved in nutrition and dietary research, veterans’ issues concerning mental health and forensic science and fair administration of justice. Her presentation was part of the Award-Winning Faculty Series. When researching problems to solve with statistics, Carriquiry uses three focus points. First, the research should be relevant to our culture and affect many people. Second, the outcomes of the research should be science-based but should also give practical solutions to the problems people are facing. The final point that Carriquiry made is that the methods should be implementable. “If you’re going to be working on something that you hope people will adopt, you have to provide people the tools to adopt your work,” Carriquiry said. In Carriquiry’s professional life, these have helped her achieve recognition. Her work in nutri-
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Alicia Carriquiry, distinguished professor of statistics, presents during the Award-Winning Faculty Series on Thursday in Morrill Hall 2030.
tion has earned her a place in the National Academy of Medicine. The problem she worked on assessed the “adequacy of nutrient intake” and was designed to improve levels of nutritional intake. This “ISU Method” is now used worldwide and backs up programs such as the School Lunch Program, Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the Gates Foundation. The software created to use this information is public domain, and free training is provided. The second research area Carriquiry is focusing on
is veterans’ issues. This study was performed to understand if the veterans had access to mental health care and if they took advantage of it. Carriquiry said veterans have been deployed more frequently and for longer amounts of time, increasing the need for mental health care services. “The number of soldiers that have seeked mental health services in the VA (Veterans Affairs) increased by over 3 million,” Carriquiry said. Further findings of the research Carriquiry has
done will be published later this year and will include whether there are barriers that prevent veterans from getting help and what quality of services they are receiving. The research team will then give recommendations to Congress based on its findings. “Even though we hear all these horrible things about the VA … there is no better health care system in the United States,” Carriquiry said. Forensic statistics is also another area that Carriquiry is working in. She is the director of the Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE). CSAFE recently received a $20 million grant that will be put toward forensic statistic research. The center is at four universities, with Iowa State being the head university. The goals for CSAFE are to develop statistic foundations for patterns and cyber evidence and to engage forensic practitioners and transfer technology. This research would help make matches for crime scene evidence to evidence collected from a suspect. Carriquiry gave credit to Iowa State for helping students get involved in interdisciplinary work. “ISU has always provided a nurturing environment for cross-disciplinary activities,” Carriquiry said.
ROTC students forgo break for training By Tristan.Wade @iowastatedaily.com While many students are spending their spring breaks relaxing, the Marine-option Navy ROTC students at Iowa State will travel to Michigan to take part in Officer Candidate School (OCS) prep training. This OCS prep training is
meant to resemble actual OCS, which is the school that hopeful future officers go to and train to become a commissioned officer. “It’s supposed to emulate the type of environment we’ll see at OCS, it’s obviously hard to put the strain of six weeks into three days, but that’s what they try to do,” said Brian Bavlsik, sophomore Navy ROTC student
who will be taking part in the prep training for the second time this year. Roughly 20 Marine-option ROTC students will go to the prep training, which will take place March 16 through 18. “A lot of it is stress management,” Bavlsik said, adding that there is little time to sleep, a minimum amount of food and short periods of time to eat during the train-
ing. While the training covers topics that the students have learned through their schooling up to this point, the wrinkle is the added levels of exhaustion and stress. The participants are mostly looking at keeping their motivation as high as possible while going through the
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A committee of teachers in Ames are fighting for collective bargaining rights after legislation barred teachers from negotiating their contracts.
Ames teachers react to collective bargaining bill By Jessica.Enwesi @iowastatedaily.com As Aileen Sullivan, an Ames High School chemistry teacher, prepares for her next class, she finds herself wondering where things went wrong. Besides working as an educator in the Ames Community School District for more than 20 years, Sullivan has been a prominent advocate for the protection of teachers’ unions and rights across the state of Iowa. Sullivan, along with a committee of teachers, has dedicated her time and resources to fight for collective bargaining rights as the chief negotiation officer for her district. “We are the group in charge of negotiating,” Sullivan said. “There’s probably 370 or so contracts and people that we represent with our master contract.”
But the list of responsibilities concerning Sullivan’s position seemed to have shrunk overnight, when on Feb. 16, the passage of House File 291 and Senate File 213 effectively barred teachers and their respective unions from negotiating their contracts. It’s been more than three weeks since the controversial collective bargaining bill swept through the General Assembly and was signed into law by Gov. Terry Branstad. Yet, Sullivan is still bewildered by its contentious amendments. The bill, which would install a wage cap in arbitration meetings and scrap overtime pay, vacation days and health care plan negotiations, was highly contested by public service workers, who accused GOP lawmakers of attempting to “profession
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IRHA funds leadership banquet By Talon.Delaney @iowastatedaily.com The Inter-Residence Hall Association passed a bill and discussed Iowa State’s use of prison labor during their meeting Thursday at the Memorial Union. The bill was proposed last week and allocates IRHA funds from multiple accounts to finance a leadership banquet this March. In the past, the Department of Residence (DOR) has essentially split the cost with the IRHA concerning the banquet. This year, the funding the IRHA set aside for the banquet was not enough to hold the event. The account proposed to contribute to the banquet was previously used for the Parliament Bonding and Training Fund. IRHA con-
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Today’s Birthday (3/10/17)
Focus on your joy this year. Play with partners, family and friends, as creativity abounds. Sort, organize and strengthen infrastructure at home and work. Schedule a vacation to take advantage of high romance this summer. After August, a career boost amps the activity level. Healthy exercise, diet and rest practices keep it balanced. Partnership remains key. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
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(March 21-April 19) Now the fun really begins. Find alternative solutions to a problem, and hidden value appears as a side effect. Your holdings quietly grow. Invite guests to celebrate. Use what you’ve been saving.
Taurus - 8
(April 20-May 20) An amazing development solves a problem at home. It involves teamwork and collaboration. Check out an interesting suggestion from a brilliant friend. Apply inspiration to beautify.
Gemini - 8
(May 21-June 20) There’s more work coming in. The very idea you were looking for shows up, from far away. Accept a creative challenge. Plan to travel light. A barrier gets overcome. You’re worth it, others agree.
Cancer - 9
(June 21-July 22) A brilliant solution to a romantic dilemma appears. Ask deep questions. Improve your comfort level by getting your concerns addressed. Intuition inspires your creativity. Venture farther out.
Leo - 9
(July 23-Aug. 22) You’re on a roll, personally and professionally. Take notes, to remember what worked best. Heed the intuition that arises in contemplative silence and meditation.
Virgo - 8
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Friends offer good advice and apply their technical perfectionism to your project. Find a generous, thoughtful way to express thanks. Consider someone’s fantastic scheme. Share your talents
Libra - 7
(Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Accept a creative challenge. Collaboration adds fun and value to the project. Iron out disagreements by finding the common vision. Love finds a way. Amuse yourself.
Scorpio - 8
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You’re especially attractive and charismatic. Ask for what you want. It could get playfully romantic. Cherish a loved one. Gather strength and inspiration from someone else.
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Smith backed this sentiment. “You can’t do this without a team. I want to thank everyone who supported us, all our family and friends. It was awesome running with this other campaign, they did a great job. The turnout was great, and that’s due to us and the other campaigns,” he said. Outside of the executive slate, students cast their vote for all 37 senate seats available. Other candidates elected include: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences senators • Kelly Culbertson, 588 votes • Cody West, 784 votes College of Design senator • Jonathan Kirner, 160 votes College of Engineering
cluded the funds were better spent on the banquet. Residence hall students fund all these accounts. The bill was passed with no objections after 20 minutes of debate. The leadership banquet will be held March 30. IRHA will be hosting their own elections in light of the closing Student Government elections. Campaigning will begin March 27, and voting will be held April 10. Information about running for IRHA office is available at www.irha.iastate.edu. Iowa State’s use of prison labor was discussed for clarification reasons. DOR representatives detailed exactly how Iowa State employs prison labor to create furniture for residence halls and other buildings throughout campus. Workers can earn as senators • Rachael Barnes, 1,155 votes • Rachel Origer, 617 votes • Kathryn Paszkiewicz, 654 votes • Connor Theisen, 751 votes Graduate College senators • Colton Kreber, 111 votes • Humair Nadeem, 123 votes • Izak Christensen (writein), 9 votes College of Human Sciences senators • Logan L. Maxwell, 1,075 votes • Wyatt Scheu (write-in), 6 votes College of Business senators • Scott Moss, 1,048 votes • Hunter Kuta (write-in), 42 votes College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senators
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The Inter-Residence Hall Association debates over a Leadership Funds transfer on March 9. The bill passed.
little as 15 cents an hour. No motions were made on the topic, but further action can be expected at future IRHA meetings. A bill was proposed to amend IRHA bylaw 3.3.9.4. The bylaw stated the director of leadership activities may also be a community advisor. The amendment
would otherwise remove this bylaw, as it contradicts the executive board bylaws on this subject. The bill was passed unanimously. The next IRHA meeting will be held Thursday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union.
• Hannah Scott, 616 votes • Zoey Shipley, 623 votes • Conner Tillo, 837 votes College of Veterinary Medicine senator • Holly Salzbrenner (writein), 7 votes • Mattie Hogg (write-in), 7 votes • Campustown residence senator • Steven Valentino, 193 votes Collegiate Panhellenic Council residence senator • Natalie Pellegrino, 569 votes Frederiksen Court Apartments residence senator • Caroline Warmuth, 288 votes Interfraternity Council residence senator • Riley McCloskey, 42 votes Inter-Residence Hall Association residence senators • Cody Woodruff, 1,402
votes • Jacob Zirkelbach, 1,147 votes • Aaron DeJoode (writein), 50 votes • John Hoelzer (write-in), 33 votes • Juan Bibiloni (write-in), 33 votes Off-campus residence senators • Isaiah Baker, 1,275 votes • Kelsey Culbertson, 1,445 votes • Samuel Freestone, 1,213 votes • Austen Giles, 1,205 votes • Aleeza Mian, 1,200 votes • Kathryn Neilson, 1,421 votes • Samuel Rankin, 1,240 votes • Cody Smith, 1,820 votes • Jack Utterback, 1,237 votes University student apartment community senator • Joonghyun Park, 191 votes
MISSION p1 just an assist shy of a tripledouble, finishing with 21 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists. It was just nine days after he finished a rebound shy of a tripledouble against Oklahoma State at Hilton Coliseum. Forward Darrell Bowie also stepped in and made an impact, racking up 13 points and four rebounds. But the team may not have been able to pull way if it wasn’t for the spark midway through the second half. “I was just using that as energy, you know,” Jackson said. “I thought the technical was kind of a bad call, honestly. So I just used that as fuel, and the team used that as fuel to just blow them up.” While the game was close from start to finish, the Cyclones were in the lead for much of it. They were ahead for nearly 36 minutes Thursday and fended off the few threatening Oklahoma State runs. Iowa State extended its winning streak to 10 against Oklahoma State, dating back to the 2013 season. “I mean, [Oklahoma State] is a good team,” said guard Naz Mitrou-Long, who had 14 points on 5-of11 shooting. “Everybody from top to bottom. We knew [a run] was coming.
BARGAINING p3 bust” or union bust. “(This bill) goes further. It’s ‘profession busting,’” Tammy Wawro, president of the Iowa State Education Association (ISEA), told a hearing panel during the bill’s open forum. Wawro’s organization has been at the forefront of this legislation, working alongside public sector employees to provide legal support for educators in the state. “(Iowa legislators) have carved out the heart of what is important and vital to our profession and our ability to have a voice in the direction of our work environment,” Wawro told a packed room of protesters and lawmakers just hours before the bill was signed. The protesters’ chants,
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Iowa State head coach Steve Prohm argues a call during the Cyclones’ 92-83 win over Oklahoma State on Thursday in the quarterfinal round of the Big 12 Championship in Kansas City, Missouri.
We just wanted to weather the storm once it did and we were just embracing it and we just wanted to battle back.” Iowa State’s first half — at least the first 10 minutes of it — looked to be as complete of a period that it has played all season. The Cyclones took a double-digit lead about three-fourths through the second half. Oklahoma State, which entered the game off backto-back losses, battled back and pulled within three going into halftime. And out of the half, the Cowboys
continued to hold on until the midway point of the second half. Morris dropped 10 points, six rebounds and six assists to help boost Iowa State to victory. And after playing 16 minutes in the first half, he played all 20 of the second half. “This man is flawless,” Jackson said. “That’s my brother. He keeps doing this. He keeps succeeding or breaking records. His game is nice and I’m just trying to learn from him.” Now, Morris, along with
the other seniors, are focused on keeping the run going in their final Big 12 Championship. They will start against the Horned Frogs, a team that beat Iowa State earlier this season, Friday night. The Cyclones beat TCU at Hilton Coliseum 84-71 in the second go-around. “I’m just trying to win,” Morris said. “It’s my last go-around in college, and I don’t want no regrets. Last year I was hurt, so I’m trying to take full advantage of this moment and soak it all in and go three out of four here.”
rallies and overnight debate were futile, and Sullivan said the bill’s magnitude and reach sends a clear message to educators in Iowa. “(This bill) is saying that we are labors and we should only negotiate to get paid over the wage that we earn,” Sullivan said. The bill’s stipulations were not the only thing that surprised educators. The speed in which the bill passed both assemblies raised concerns. Coy Marquardt, executive assistant for the ISEA, has seen his organization tackle collective bargaining bills in the past but has never seen one move as fluid as the one recently signed into law. “In my years in this position, I’ve never seen a bill move that fast in under two weeks,” Marquardt said.
“But here’s the thing, there are a lot of educators who are still reeling from the decision made by lawmakers.” Although some teachers may feel rattled by the bill’s passage, they will still have a few years to help mobilize efforts to have it repealed. According to The Des Moines Register, the Ames Community School, along with 188 districts, moved to push hundreds of pending union contracts into their approval stages before the legislation could be passed. Tim Taylor, superintendent for the Ames Community School District, has also never witnessed a collective bargaining bill move so quickly but believes the district’s decision to push and freeze union contract could help protect educators. “We have already settled contracts for the next two
years, so we have a lot of security from teachers who are relieved,” Taylor said. “The advantage to this is that we have two years to change legislature’s minds and create new amendments to be made into law.” Sullivan said the farreaching bill has forced teachers and other citizens to pay attention to their state legislatures. “We don’t know what’s going to happen, but I think this helps us to keep track of what’s happening in other districts and who’s running for office and how we would want to be elected,” Sullivan said. “We are not the only districts disappointed with the collective bargaining bills, but it (helps us) say, ‘Hey, we elect these guys and look what they did to us.’ We are not voting for them again.”
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OPINION
Friday, March 10, 2017
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Cody West and Cody Smith were elected as the Student Government president and vice president, respectively.
Iowa State’s future after the election
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Iowa State University’s Reiman Gardens, located just west of Jack Trice Stadium, is a world class botanical garden. Columnist Felker argues that they are underutilized and underappreciated.
REIMAN GARDENS:
AN UNDERAPPRECIATED DESTINATION By Alex.Felker @iowastatedaily.com
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merica’s history of traditionallymanicured public gardens is a short, and mostly uninteresting one. We’ve not got the sort of appreciation and heritage for them that old Europe is so soaked in — no lords or lairds patron to sprawling acres of immaculately-groomed grass lawns, trimmed hedges or shaped trees. Most of our public gardens are actually just urban cemeteries — relics of the early 19th century, when our cities ran out of small churchyards to fill with graves. But here, right here in Ames, we’ve got a world-class botanical garden within a few minutes’ walk from campus. And I actually wonder how many Iowa State students really even know its scope and beauty — which is to say a full 17 acres (and another 1.25 coming in the near future) of lush verdure, 26 distinct garden areas, an indoor butterfly wing and conservatory, events plaza, herb gardens, rose gardens, courtyards, sculptures and even a small waterbody called Lake Helen complete with koi and floating lilies. This is to say nothing of the recently planned and approved “Sycamore Falls Project,” which looks to develop the garden’s northern hillside (over the next 20 years) into a tiered garden replete with seven 80-year-old sycamore trees, cascading pools of water and an eventual welcome center and
entry courtyard garden. Inscribed in Reiman Garden’s campanile is a stone that bears the following words courtesy of the garden’s founders Roy and Bobbi Reiman: “Let these gardens be a special place for students to come to quiet their minds, collect their thoughts, and find their futures.” I wish this were more of a reality than an appeal, but, unfortunately, the gardens are not overly attended by students. I think this is due to a few factors, but none of them are in my mind meaningful enough to discourage our attendance — I am a little disappointed by this. On my visits to the garden, it is rare that I’ve seen any other individual or grouped students. Most visitors are families and local residents. The real issue, I think, is in the garden’s presentation and isolation. Its main entryway is vista to an ugly corner of the Jack Trice parking lot, and there are no footpaths leading to or from the Garden’s entrance or exit to any place of any worth. To add, it is sandwiched in between a busy segment of University Boulevard and Beach Avenue. How wonderful would it be were there to exist a biking trail that ran from campus to the garden itself? Or even if it simply had a parking lot and entryway of its own — perhaps enclosed by a line of trees and foliage? Would it be too much to give the garden its own space, and some privacy? I know that I am too picky and
too critical, and I am certainly glad that more money is being spent on the garden on anything at all in the first place, but I myself would have addressed these other issues before expanding the grounds themselves. In any case, these are not excuses for the garden’s underappreciation, which is unfortunate. This is one of Iowa State University’s greatest assets and icons, and I wish that it were more of a feature for incoming students and those currently enrolled. Aside from the garden’s physical beauty itself, the grounds are home to a robust internship program (which makes space for students studying landscape architecture, horticulture, entomology, education, event planning and retail management), a series of “Brown Bag” in-house lectures, themed exhibits and displays and a variety of educational programs that really do substantiate its claim to be a “living classroom.” So why isn’t the garden utilized more by students? How could we get them there? Here’s my suggestion: take every incoming student to them for a visit. As part of Discover Iowa State, or some other orientation program, march each and every freshman and transfer student through the grounds in groups, and turn it into an experience. Provide lunch. Use the gardens as an attraction, as a destination. Many students, I am sure, do not even know that it exists or what it really amounts to. Show them.
By a nearly 1,000 vote margin (per preliminary results), the Cody 4 ISU (Cody West and Cody Smith) campaign won the Student Government presidential election. To add, the proposed Memorial Union renovations and student fee referendum did not pass (nearly 62 percent of students having voted “no”) and Campustown constituents were voted to fall under UROC by a more than 4,000 vote margin. The ISD Editorial Board chose to emphasize four key points of discussion in our endorsement. As such, we would like to make a few comments to lead the discussion on these issues moving forward. We hope that these points remain topics of debate and action so long as they are present on our campus — not only for the winning campaign itself, but for all of our StuGov senators and the greater ISU community. Transparency: In light of university President Steven Leath’s recent criticized use of university aircraft, as well as funding cuts and other potential budgetary issues the university faces, the ISD Editorial Board hopes that a more transparent administration will be in all of our futures. We urge the new StuGov administration to champion this cause for Iowa State’s administration as well as the organization they are leading. Diversity and inclusion: The ISD Editorial Board feels that more voices need to be in on our campus’ discussion. As such, we hope that the new administration and the StuGov Senate continue and redouble their efforts to voice the concerns and opinions of all their constituents — not just their own. Sexual assault prevention: As sexual assault and harassment continue to be prevalent issues on our campus, the ISD Editorial Board feels that our focus needs to turn to proper knowledge about consent. This is where and how our education needs to happen, and it needs to be a more worthwhile and direct education than what it currently is. Enrollment growth: With growing freshman classes enrolling year after year, the ISD Editorial Board hopes that the new administration will consider university resources and services from the perspective of a continually increased demand; not only for currently enrolled students, but for the Cyclones-to-be. Students also voted on proposed Memorial Union renovations. As previously stated, the ISD Editorial Board hopes that this referendum was an exception and not a rule. We do not believe student fees are the way forward in funding projects similar to this. Each new university investment should not result in a new student fee or even increased tuition. There are other funding avenues that need to be considered before directly passing the buck to the students. And, last, for the new president and vice president, new senators and all new members of the Student Government, we hope that you reach out to your constituents and to the greater Iowa State community and incorporate a diverse array of voices. Iowa State is nothing without its students, and it is its students who deserve a say in the university’s future.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Iowa Energy Center transfer deeply troubling By Matt Kuhns, ISU alumnus in graphic design, 2000 An open letter to President Steven Leath’s administration: As an alumnus I strongly protest your intent to transfer the Iowa Energy Center to the state’s Economic Development Authority. Both this concept and the process by which you are pursuing it are deeply troubling. As one of the authors of the law which created
the Energy Center has noted, it was created thus — by proper and public legislative proceedings — to permit independence from political manipulation and industry lobbying pressures. Events of recent years have made plain the wisdom of this, as these forces have made attempts to curb the Energy Center’s independence. Yet now, Iowa State is inexplicably proposing to surrender that independence lock, stock and barrel.
At the same time, you have attempted an end-run around legislative authority by suspending key administrative activities at the Energy Center and announcing its transfer before even notifying lawmakers. The responsibility of Iowa State University, regarding the Iowa Energy Center, is to operate it as directed by Iowa law. It is scandalous that you have attempted to turn this responsibility inside out, via an illegitimate fait accompli.
As a parting piece of advice, I would like to point out that on multiple occasions in Iowa’s history, consolidation in the interests of alleged efficiency would have prevented a university in Ames from existing at all. I suggest you rediscover the vision of James Hilton, et al., of a university that delivers the best programs possible for Iowa’s people, rather than cravenly abdicating that responsibility to curry political favor.
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BOWIE BREAKS THROUGH AT BIG 12S
Friday, March 10, 2017 Emily Blobaum/Iowa State Daily
Iowa State senior Darrell Bowie dunks the ball against Oklahoma State in the first round of the Big 12 Championships on Thursday.
Forward records 13 points, four rebounds off bench in win By Ryan.Young @iowastatedaily.com KANSAS CITY, Missouri — All eyes were, once again, on point guard Monte Morris on Thursday afternoon. The senior put up 21 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and had nine assists — one away from a triple-double — in No. 23 Iowa State’s (21-10, 12-6 Big 12) 92-83 win against Oklahoma State (2012, 9-9 Big 12) at the Sprint Center in the quarterfinal round of the Big 12 Championship. The recognition is well deserved, and he’ll get a majority of the credit for the win. Yet it was an unfamiliar face that shined behind Morris on Thursday: forward Darrell Bowie. Bowie put up 13 points, going 5-of-7 from the field, and had four rebounds. He shut down Oklahoma State inside, recorded a block and threw down three dunks — one of which Donovan Jackson said added a lot of momentum during Iowa State’s late run. “He was arguably the MVP besides Monte’s stat line, which is insane,” senior Naz Mitrou-Long said. “He really did that for us. He was creating opportunities for us on the glass, playing defense. He was finishing in the lane, making free throws. I don’t know what he didn’t do tonight.” Bowie’s chance came when forward Solomon Young, Iowa State’s freshman center, got into foul
trouble early. Young was struggling inside, so Prohm gave Bowie a chance. “Just when I saw [Solomon Young] — he’s a good player — but when he got into foul trouble and everything and seeing how the game was going … I just wanted to stay open and come in and do what the team wanted me to do,” Bowie said. Bowie, who transferred to Iowa State this season from Northern Illinois, has had an untraditional season. He’s played in 28 of Iowa State’s 31 games — sometimes a lot, sometimes a little. He’s started in nine of them during a random stretch this season. He averages just 5.5 points per game, and plays an average of 17.3 minutes per game — although it’s hardly on a consistent basis. Yet Bowie said it didn’t deter him, and his night on Thursday won’t either. “I just knew that my time was going to come back around,” Bowie said. “I’m just going to stay hungry and humble and just take it game by game. I’m just going to prepare for either TCU or Kansas. I’m not really worried about myself.” Bowie’s role on the team has had to change multiple times this season, and finding a comfortable groove when playing time is so inconsistent is no easy task. Keeping Bowie committed and engaged while in an untraditional role is something Iowa State coach Steve Prohm has been focused on
all season. Now they’ve found their rhythm. “It’s a tough sell to anybody,” Prohm said. “If I’m telling Monte, ‘Hey, go, go, go.’ That’s probably not even a tough sell. But when you’re telling somebody you have to change for the good of the team, that is a tough sell. Your character, your toughness, your selflessness, how much you really care about winning, that’s what we had to ask ourselves. “Because we weren’t playing to win for a while. Too many seniors were playing for the wrong reasons. So while many Iowa State fans — and most of the college basketball world — will be drooling over Morris’ near triple-double performance, they shouldn’t sleep on Bowie. After all, it’s going to take players like him stepping up for the Cyclones to make a true run in postseason play. “You don’t win tournaments in March or April if you don’t play like this,” Mitrou-Long said. “Look at our last Big 12 [tournament] win. If Bryce [Dejean-Jones] — rest in peace, Bryce — if Bryce and [Abdel Nader] don’t come in and have the games that they have, we don’t win. We don’t win this tournament. “You need the whole team. You need unexpected guys to step up and do what they do.”
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From left, Eric Fogltanz, Roshon Roomes, Jaymes Dennison and Ben Kelly make up the ISU 4x400-meter relay team.
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Jasmine Staebler runs to a second-place finish at the Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championships on Feb. 25.
Men’s 4x400-meter relay Staebler, Luque chase titles team reaches biggest stage at NCAA track championships By Mike.Burvee @iowastatedaily.com It’s been an up and slightly down season for the men’s 4x400-relay team, and now comes the biggest stage. This weekend will be the culmination of the indoor season with the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships taking place in College Station, Texas. The relay team won’t compete until the last event of the meet Saturday evening. It wasn’t easy for the Cyclones to get this far, despite seeing continued success with each passing week during the season. Three weeks ago the relay team ran its fastest time of the season, which has ultimately led to a chance at winning this weekend. It came out with something to prove after a heartbreaking finish the week before at the Iowa State Classic. The Cyclones didn’t improve their time in the Big 12 Indoor Championship and had to wait out the next few days to see if they would still be running at nationals. After the dust settled, the Cyclones were listed with the 11th fastest time in the event out of 12 teams. Ben Kelly has been part of the success that the relay team has seen. “After Big 12s we realized we need to bring it every single meet,” Kelly said. “We’re going up against the best competition each time, and we need to do our best.” One advantage the four men on the team will have is rest. In other meets this season each guy ran in more than one event, taking some fuel out of the tank. Not only will they only be competing in the one event, but they also will have had two weeks to prepare and rest their bodies coming into nationals. Despite the rest, the energy
level has remained high among the four. “We’re definitely prepared,” Kelly said. By Kyle.Heim “We’ve been working at this all year and now @iowastatedaily.com we’re ready to go.” The team, which includes Eric Fogltanz, Jasmine Staebler’s run to the NCAA InKelly, Roshon Roomes and Jaymes Dennison door Track and Field Championship wasn’t will be the only men to represent Iowa State. supposed to be this simple. In addition, Derek Jones has been slated to Yet, the sophomore middle-distance runrun as an alternate. ner has expedited the development stage, “It means a lot to not only represent Iowa securing a school record, one of the top-10 State, but also our friends and families,” Kelly fastest 800-meter times in the nation and a said. “We just want to make them proud.” ticket to nationals in less than two months. Despite not achieving one of the fastest And she won’t be going times, the team is still confialone. dent and hopes it can make Junior Jhoanmy Luque a run. The host team, Texas MEET INFO owns the fourth-best marks A&M, owns the fastest time in the nation in the long in the event. jump and triple jump, “Anything is possible on NCAA Indoor sending her back to the inany given day for any team,” Track and Field door championship for a Fogltanz said. “We’re just Championships second straight year. hoping that our team will be The pair is approachone to have a good day.” Friday | Noon ing sacred territory, as only The four men on the team five Iowa State women’s hadn’t run together in this track and field athletes have event before this season. College Station, Texas qualified for the meet in the Some of them hadn’t even last three years. run in the relay at all. An unexpected debut “If someone would have Staebler’s ticket to told me at the beginning of NCAAs wasn’t expected heading into the the year we’d make it this far, I would have season. She didn’t set any lofty goals for called them crazy,” Fogltanz said. “We didn’t herself, instead “just hoping that some of think it was possible.” my strength can carry over from last year.” As the season has progressed the men have Competing at nationals never crossed her continued to gain confidence as their times mind. Of the 48 women who have qualified have dropped. for the 800 at the indoor championships That confidence will be put to the test this over the past three years, only 14 were freshweekend in front of a national audience, men or sophomores. against the best college runners. But the strength was evident from the “We need to treat it like any other meet,” start of the season, as she set a personal reFogltanz said. “Just need to keep calm and cord in her first meet at the PSU National on run hard.”
Jan. 28, crossing the finish line in 2 minutes and 4.81 seconds. The time was more than a second and a half faster than her previous career best. Just when it appeared like she may have peaked, she repeated with another personal best her next race, dropping her time to 2:03.08 at the Iowa State Classic and securing a spot at NCAAs. “Coming in I never thought that nationals was even a possibility just because it’s so tough to make,” Staebler said. “So I was just really excited to make it and compete for Iowa State.” An expected return Luque’s qualification didn’t come as a surprise. She entered the season as a three-time All-American. She showed improvement right out of the gate to start the indoor season, leaping to a personal-best mark in the triple jump, 44-6¼, at the Black and Gold Premier on Jan. 28 in Iowa City. While she was satisfied with the result, she knew there was more in the tank. And less than a month later on Feb. 24 and 25, Luque was back on the runway setting more personal records. This time, however, they led to her first Big 12 titles in the long jump and triple jump. She will enter the indoor national championships with a Big 12 Performer of the Year award, a Midwest Region Women’s Field Athlete of the Year award and the same goal she set out to accomplish at the beginning of the season: a top-three finish. “I just [want] to keep doing what I’m doing,” Luque said. “I know I have been working really hard and I know I can show that at [NCAAs].”
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Friday, March 10, 2017
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McFly’s owners to open BBQ joint By Grayson Schmidt, Staff writer Ames Tribune Less than two years after bringing the 1980s-themed McFly’s to the downtown Ames bar and restaurant scene, owners Steven Perlowski and Tanya Doyle are set to open a new restaurant for outdoor enthusiasts, just outside of Ledges State Park in Luther. “You wouldn’t think that there’s a restaurant out here in the country,” Perlowski said. “We’re trying to make it a destination, but also with the heavy traffic, just trying to make it a convenient place for a lot of people to stop.” Though he said they are still in the early stages, Perlowski said the restaurant, named Whatcha Smokin, will hopefully be ready to open by late spring or early summer. So far, he said the framing for the restaurant is almost finished, but the interior still needs extensive work. The location was once a gas station, which fits with the restaurant’s theme, described by Perlowski as an “outdoor enthusiast’s garage” or “man cave.” The 2,400-square-foot restaurant — located at the intersection of Iowa Highway 17 (S Avenue) and 270th Street — will feature traditional barbecue staples such as brisket and chicken, but because it is Iowa, it will lean heavy on the pork. “One, we’re in Iowa, so everyone loves barbecue,” Perlowski said. “We wanted to kind of do Iowa comfort food, and as people drive through Luther, they’re going to smell it, and they’re going to get hungry.” Perlowski said that the idea for the restaurant came from Doyle, who owns a motorcycle shop with her husband in Luther. Though Whatcha Smokin has a much more rural setting than McFly’s, Perlowski said he jumped at the opportunity to open a barbecue joint. “I was never hesitant,” Perlowski said. “I’ve worked with Tanya for a long time,
McFly’s Co-Owner Steven Perlowski poses at the restaurant at its downtown Ames location on Wednesday.
and she’s a smart business person.” According to Perlowski, about 4,600 vehicles pass the intersection where the restaurant will be located each day. In addition to the vehicle traffic, the location is also near bike trails, which he said will bring in an entirely new crowd that he doesn’t see at McFly’s. Though Perlowski said he has extensive experience in the food service industry, he said barbecuing and smoking has been a fairly recent fascination of his, and one in
which he has been focusing almost all of his time. Some of his recipes are already on the McFly’s menu, but Perlowski said he is excited to get them on at a restaurant that emphasizes the barbecue. “I’ve been spending a lot of my time learning the art of barbecue, and cooking and testing a lot of foods and recipes,” Perlowski said. “This new place is definitely going to be more of a restaurant than McFly’s. Yes we have food, but we’re more of a bar.”
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In addition to the setting and menu items, Perlowski said there is a staunch difference between McFly’s and Whatcha Smokin. However even with the differences, he said that he can still apply many of the same lessons he learned. “It’s all preparation,” Perlowski said. “(McFly’s taught me) the dedication it takes to get a business going, and keeping it going. It’s about taking care of your guests, listening to feedback, making changes when necessary.”
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U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst signs an autograph during the inaugural Roast and Ride event at Central Iowa Expo in Boone in June 2015. The Roast and Ride returns to the Expo this year. It’s set for Saturday, June 3.
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From left, Ames residents George Montgomery and Ron Heinen talk with Ames Police Community Outreach Officer Eric Snyder (standing) and Sgt. Mike Arkovich at the Lincoln Center Hy-Vee on Thursday March 9, 2017.
Roast&Ride returns to Expo Ames police provide By The Ames Tribune staff
The Des Moines office of U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst recently announced that a unique political event will happen for the third time. The Roast and Ride, an event put on by Ernst’s Jobs, Opportunity, and New Ideas Political Action Committee, was recently announced the date and location of the third annual event. The event will be held on Saturday, June 3, and will again end at the Central Iowa Expo in Boone. The ride portion will begin at Big Barn Harley Davidson, 81 NW 49th Place in
Des Moines. Last year’s event, held in late August, progressed from the Big Barn dealership to the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, where the speakers included then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The June 2015 inaugural event followed this year’s Des Moines-toBoone route, and featured seven candidates for the GOP presidential nomination. Tickets for the 2017 event will go on sale soon. Those who sign their name on the “save the date” page at www.jonipac.com will be among the first to know when tickets are available.
The Roast and Ride will feature family-friendly activities, entertainment, and an opportunity to hear from Republican leaders. In a news release, Ernst, Iowa’s first-term junior senator and a Red Oak native, said the event will be the chance for visitors to talk about the issues that matter most to Iowans. “Our third annual Roast and Ride is just around the corner,” Ernst said. “It’s a family-friendly day where we will pay tribute to our veterans, as well as hear from and visit with Republican leaders and hear from special guest speakers. I look forward to seeing everyone soon in Boone.”
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tips to prevent scams By Grayson Schmidt, Staff writer Ames Tribune In an effort to bring more awareness and provide tips to people regarding internet and telephone scams, the Ames Police Department held an information session at the Lincoln Center Hy-Vee Thursday morning, which Community Outreach Officer Eric Snyder said makes roughly 12 such events in the past few months. “This late winter/early spring, we’re doing a lot of targeted outreach to international residents, the elderly population, and then just any group that we can get in front of to inform them about these scams,” Snyder said. “The scammers are preying on a specific trait of a population.” According to Snyder, many of the scams targeting international students have to do with temporary visas, or registration, and because many of the students do not know how U.S. laws work, they often fall victim to the scammers and pay whatever amount so they can stay in school. For the elderly, Snyder said that scammers usually prey on the victim’s family, and make it seem as if a relative is in jail or the hospital. During every one of these talks, Snyder said he hears
from numerous people with personal stories involving internet and phone scams. “Every single time there’s at least a few people in the room that can tell you of either a scam that they were a victim of, a scam a friend was a victim of, or one that themselves or somebody they knew almost became a victim of,” Snyder said. “It’s amazing how far some of these scams out there can go before somebody will notice.” Snyder said the Ames Police Department receives at least two scam calls a week throughout the year, and during tax season, he said that number is usually higher. He said that doesn’t even scratch the surface of how many scams are actually out there that go unreported. “When you realize you’re not getting what you paid for, or after you calm down and find out that you’re not actually wanted by the IRS for not paying your back taxes, you realize that $200, $400, $500 you paid that person is gone, and you’re embarrassed,” Snyder said. “It’s pretty underreported, and most people know that there’s not a lot we can do about it, so they don’t report it.” Even the people who do file reports may not get to see the scammers brought to justice. According to Snyder, a majority of the time, scammers are out of state or even out of the country, and ask victims to pay in ways that cannot be traced, like Western Union, reloadable money cards, and gift cards. “Oftentimes, there’s not a lot that we can do,” Snyder said. “The scammers know our limitations, and know what can and can’t be traced.” This is why Snyder said outreach events like this are so important. Though he said scammers are often good at staying one step ahead of police, by talking with people and getting them to be wary and ask questions, it will hopefully limit the amount of scam victims in the area, Snyder said. “We’re behind the eight-ball with these; that’s why we do the preventative measures of getting out and talking with people,” Snyder said. “If we can just get people to not fall for the scam in the first place, then we don’t have to try to investigate or finish an investigation that probably isn’t going to end with any charges or convictions.”
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ROTC p3 training, Bavlsik said. The goal of the experience is to prepare the Marine hopefuls for the training they will endure in the future, so they know what they will face. “Being in that environment, it’s interesting to see how you react to the stress and see how others fail to handle it,” Bavlsik said. “There’s a lot of self-exploration.” Patrick Egan is a freshman who will participate in his first prep training. Egan said he has not been told much information in terms of specifics of what to expect at the training. “I’m definitely a little nervous, but I know it will help me prepare for the future, so I’m going in with an open
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