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Women’s Center

CyRide

Intermodal hub receives grant

By Allison Suesse Daily Staff Writer

Christine Peterson, senior in child, adult and family services, reads secrets on the Secret Agent board Thursday in the Sloss House. Peterson, an intern at the Margaret Sloss Women’s Center, said they average two to three anonymous secrets every week. Photo: Karuna Ang/Iowa State Daily

Secrets to share Students post stories on Sloss House board

By Chelsea Davis Daily Staff Writer Everyone has a secret.

The Sloss House is giving students and faculty the chance to share their secrets anonymously on a board they like to call “Secret Agents.”

“One afternoon I was having lunch with my daughter and talking about Post Secret,” said Penny Rice, director of Sloss House. “She had a postcard that had been on the Web site on Father’s Day and she told me I should do something like that here.”

Rice’s daughter, Liz Mettille, senior in interdisciplinary studies and sociology, reflected on the project’s beginning in fall 2008, and the role she played.

“My dad died in Iraq in Feb. 2007. We had a non-traditional relationship and there was a lot left unsaid,” Mettille said. “I sent in that secret, along with several other secrets, because I felt like I was in a very unique situation that others couldn’t relate to.

“He passed away when I was almost 21, while others who have lost parents in the war have been very young, so they may

Anonymously share what you won’t tell.

Drop ‘em off or mail ‘em: ■■ 205 Sloss House Ames, IA 50011 ■■ isusecretagents@gmail.com not remember their mother or father.”

Mettille said there are no words to explain what it’s like to lose a parent, but the act of submitting the secret gave her a chance to “belt it out to the world” and to let others know they weren’t alone.

“Anyone you talk to won’t be able to explain it.”

So Mettille started Secret Agents, a play on words, she said, since everyone is an agent of secrets and the Women’s Center is often the agent of secrets.

“Some make you want to cry; some make you want to laugh your ass off,” Mettille said. “They gave you that feeling that other people know your situation. It helps to know that they stopped for a second during their day to read about my problem.”

The concept of “mattering,” connecting and fitting in with others, is a key concept in the project, Rice said.

“I was downstairs in a meeting with about 10 people one day. A young man

came in and went directly to the board,” Rice said.

“He grabbed a card, wrote his secret and put it up. The card said he had been sexually assaulted.

“If I had not seen him walk in and write it, I would have automatically assumed it was a female. What we used to do was to take a piece of yarn and connect the secret to [community resources] surrounding the board.”

Each card is a snapshot of the things that are going on in students’ lives. Many describe the loss of a parent — “The last thing I told my dad before he died was that I hated him” — or problems with sex — “I cheated on my boyfriend and now I think I might be pregnant ... with another man’s baby. What have I done?”

“There’s this assumption that college is the ‘best time of your life,’” Rice said. “After reading some of these, I hope not.”

But, Rice said, some of the secrets surprise her with their empowerment and hope. Secrets such as “I am pretty” and “I want to do little things every day to make this world my paradise” have shown Rice the complexity of students.

“This program connects students,” Rice said. “It shares what they can’t talk about with others and peeks into their heads and

see AGENTS on PAGE 3

The proposal for the intermodal transportation hub was a recent recipient of an $8.4 million grant. The proposal was selected from 14,000 applications for the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery — or TIGER — Grant.

There was a total of $1.5 billion allocated to 51 cities.

The proposal for the intermodal transportation hub competed with proposals from large cites and urban areas, said Warren Madden, vice president for business and finance.

“For Ames to be competitive demonstrates the quality of the community,” Madden said.

Madden was a member of a team with representatives from CyRide, the city of Ames and Iowa State, among others, that collaborated and requested a $39 million grant for the project.

The new facility will be developed on Hayward Avenue, where there is an existing parking lot with 250 spaces. Sheri Kyras, CyRide transit director, headed the initiative.

Kyras said the project proposal is intended to be a comprehensive facility that would encompass all city of Ames transportation functions.

This includes bus bays and waiting areas for systems including the Burlington Trailways, CyRide and Heartland Senior Services and Executive Express.

The transportation hub will also include 750 parking spaces, along with retail space envisioned as coffee shops.

For bike enthusiasts, the transportation hub will include 60 bike lockers and the construction of a path that would run from State Street through the facility, connect with a path in Campustown — yet to be constructed — and run into campus.

The Department of Public Safety will also have headquarters in the facility.

CyRide, however, will not move its entire operation to the intermodal transportation hub.

Madden said he thought the project proposal stood out be-

cause CyRide is a very active transit system and would benefit from the intermodal transporMadden tation hub.

Kyras said the proposal fit in well with the purpose of the TIGER Grant: job creation and livability.

Kyras said criteria for the TIGER Grant involved whether a proposal would improve residents’ lives and make transportation in the city easier to access.

“This project, with all the elements combined together, does exactly that,” Kyras said.

Because the TIGER Grant is made up of federal stimulus funds intended for job creation, Madden said, the project will create construction jobs, but it is too early to determine the exact number.

Because the amount requested for the project was not entirely covered by TIGER Grant money, Kyras will need to have a conversation with the Department of Transportation to receive direction that will determine the next step.

Currently, CyRide, the university and the city have been discussing ways they could fit the project in the slimmer budget.

One option, Kyras noted, would be to scale down the project, but the team has not yet determined how exactly to do so, because Kyras has not spoken to the Department of Transportation.

Another option would be to begin construction on a “phase one” of the project with the amount of funds available currently and “compartmentalize” the project. No further decisions have been made.

Once the project is finished, the intermodal transportation hub will be one of the elements that could revitalize Campustown.

“Any time you can facilitate transportation into a commercial area, that’s going to help bolster the economic vitality,” said Steve Schainker, Ames city manager. “I think it’s a pretty important project.”

Earthquake

UN sends phones to aid Chile

By Edith M. Lederer Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations is sending 45 satellite phones to Chile for officials coordinating earthquake relief efforts and is prepared to send 30 tons of food and other aid if the government gives the green light, the top U.N. representative for Latin America said Monday.

The U.N. is also waiting to hear whether the government wants the world body to launch a financial appeal to help the country recover from the massive quake, as it did after the recent earthquake in Haiti, Alicia Barcena, executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, told reporters at U.N. headquarters from her base in the Chilean capital, Santiago.

Chile’s government is “well-organized to respond” to the crisis but has appealed to the U.N. and governments in the region and elsewhere for specific emergency needs, including temporary bridges, field hospitals, satellite phones, electric generators, damage assessment teams, water purification systems, field kitchens and dialysis centers, Barcena said.

She said the U.N. is sending 25 satellite phones from Geneva and 20 from New York which will arrive in

see CHILE on PAGE 10

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Victoria Hernandez cries outside her parents’ house in Dichato, Chile, on Monday. Hernandez believes her parents are alive though they remain missing. Photo: Natacha Pisarenko/The Associated Press

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Massiel Orellana, graduate student in agronomy, received a phone call from a friend telling her about the disaster. She immediately tried to call her brother, but the phone call could not be placed. Orellana then sent instant messages and e-mails, to which she finally received a response.

About 15 minutes passed between the moment Orellana learned of the earthquake and the moment she received an e-mail from her brother — 15

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Chile has a population of 15,116,435.

Until the last census, Chile was divided into 13 regions.

Saturday’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake mostly affected regions V, VI, VII, and VIII. The population of those regions is 10,371,477 — about 70 percent of Chile’s total population.

Concepción (the location of the epicenter) is the second-largest city in Chile.

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College Republicans on an issue of the day for the chance at the Caucus Cup. The winner claims the trophy for a year and will defend the Cup at the 2011 First Amendment Day celebration. This year’s issue is the definition of marriage in Iowa. The ISU Republicans are led by Jason Covey, president of the organization. The ISU Democrats are led by Nathan Bond, president, and Tom Beell, professor of journalism and communication.

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Feb. 26 A vehicle driven by Matthew McGrory collided with a stopped bus. (reported at 1:14 p.m.)

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and charged with criminal trespass. He was transported to the Story County Justice Center. (reported at 4:37 p.m.)

Poll Results : GSB elections From Feb. 22–28, we asked you who you anticipated voting for in the GSB Presidential Election. The results are below.

Voting is open until 11:59 p.m. Tuesday at www.vote.iastate.edu Results from the election are expected to be released Thursday night. Stay tuned to the Daily and iowastatedaily.com for the latest.

A found set of keys was placed into secure storage. (reported at 10:26 p.m.)

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Feb. 27 Corey Bluml, 22, 1300 Coconino Road, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 12:48 a.m.)

James Gisvold, 24, of Des Moines, was arrested and charged with contempt of court. (reported at 3:30 a.m.)

Stevens Glazan, 38, of Des Moines, was arrested and charged with prostitution harassment in the third degree. (reported at 3 p.m.)

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Conference

Black student communities connect

By Ayesha Massaquoi Daily Staff Writer Saviour Achilike stepped up to the microphone positioned in front of a giant Martin Luther King Jr. statue and the circle of black students around him fell quiet.

Their faces lit by the battery-operated candles they had held as they marched to this statue, they listened. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,� Achilike said. “Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.�

Achilike, a senior at the University of Texas and chair for the 33rd annual Big 12 Conference on Black Student Government, was quoting Marianne Williamson’s “A Return to Love,� the basis for this year’s conference theme, “Powerful Beyond Measure.�

This processional march was only one of two kickoff marches to statues of influential black leaders on the University of Texas at Austin’s campus, where this year’s conference was held. Later, the group would march to a statue of Barbara Jordan. Achilike was joined by student poets and singers in welcoming more than 622 conference participants to the University of Texas.

According to Achilike, the conference was originally designed to unite black leaders so that they might combat racism and discrimination at their respective, predominantly white institutions, but has progressed to simply

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Members of the Black Student Alliance were present at the 33rd annual Big 12 Conference on Black Student Government Gospel Extravaganza. The event took place on the University of Texas at Austin campus. Courtesy Photo: Eric Dishmon

creating leaders and sharing ideas for black student government.

Over the next two days, Achilike and his group of more than 90 registered volunteers worked with the Big 12 Council to provide workshops, a career fair, guest speakers, a gospel extravaganza, a fashion show and social events to black student government members from Iowa State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas State, Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Baylor, Texas, Texas Tech and Texas A&M. Workshop themes included “Pow-

erful Beyond our Story,� “Powerful Beyond Inspiration,� “Powerful Beyond Wellness,� “Powerful Beyond Finances and Leadership,�

Keynote speakers included Dr. Leonard Moore, a professor from the Ohio State University; Letoya Luckett, formerly of Destiny’s Child; Kyle S. Clark, a UT Student Affairs administrator; Joya Hayes, a motivational speaker and president of the Austin chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha; Bakari Sellers, the youngest black lawmaker in the U.S; and Dr. Gwendolyn Weldo-

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States may ban credit history checks ANNAPOLIS, Md. — It’s hard enough to find a job in this economy, and now some people are facing another hurdle: Potential employers are holding their credit histories against them.

Sixty percent of employers recently surveyed by the Society for Human Resources Management said they run credit checks on at least some job applicants, compared with 42 percent in a somewhat similar survey in 2006.

Employers say such checks give them valuable information about an applicant’s honesty and sense of responsibility. But lawmakers in at least 16 states from South Carolina to Oregon have proposed outlawing most credit checks, saying the practice traps people in debt because their past financial problems prevent them from finding work.

Wisconsin state Rep. Kim Hixson drafted a bill in his state shortly after hearing from Terry Becker, an auto mechanic who struggled to find work. Becker said it all started with medical bills that piled up when his now 10-year-old son began having seizures as a toddler. In the first year alone, Becker ran up $25,000 in medical debt.

Over four-and-a-half months, he was turned down for at least eight positions for which he had authorized the employer to conduct a credit check, Becker said. He said one potential employer told him, “If your credit is bad, then you’ll steal from me.� “I was in a deep depression. I had lost a business, I was behind on my bills and I was unable to get a job,� he said.

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hearts a little bit.�

Rice said it would be great if academic advisers or faculty, people who work with students, would come in and read through them. “One of the core values of student affairs is service, to challenge and support their thinking,� Rice said. “We try to let them know their strengths,

deserved because we took what we learned from last year’s conference and came back and now we’re doing everything right this year.�

Woodson said implementing lessons from the Big 12 Conference at universities is what it’s all about.

For the 22 students from the University of Texas at Austin who attended the conference, this proved to be a challenge as soon as they returned to campus. According to the University of Missouri Police Department, an individual, or individuals, littered the area around the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center with cotton balls at about 1:30 a.m. on the first day of the conference. “The Big 12 Conference was created to address these kinds of issues,� said Nathan Stephens, Director of the Black Culture Center at Missouri, and adviser for the NAACP chapter there. “The support from the Big 12 Council and from students from various Big 12 and Big Ten institutions made a difference when we got back. It told us that we don’t have to deal with these kinds of things alone.�

Woodson agreed that participation in organizations and conferences that advocate black unity is helpful. “The conference is supposed to inspire us and motivate us to make a difference on our campuses so that we know how to deal with incidents like that,� Woodson said. “And that’s exactly the kind of unity we need.�

growth areas — and their identity and the exploration of their identity.�

Mettille encourages anyone and everyone to go to the Sloss House, take a look at the secrets on the board, and maybe even submit one of their own. “Keeping a secret is like pulling teeth,� Mettille said. “It kills you to not be able to tell anyone, whether it’s your secret or someone else’s. The individual [whom the secret is about] is not likely to see it anyway or know where it came from.�

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Government Spending:

Time sacrificed to vote minimal, has huge impact We met with both tickets. We talked with them and picked their brains, asked them questions about their vision of the future of the Government of the Student Body.

We’ve talked to each other about the pros and cons of each ticket. We talked to our friends about who we thought would make the best student leader.

We told you which candidates we thought would best represent Iowa State.

The polls are open, and now it’s your turn to let your voice be heard.

The 2010 GSB elections are underway, and the online polls opened early Monday morning — and will remain active through the end of Tuesday.

At your leisure — perhaps in between checking Facebook and tuning into the Shiba Inu puppy cam — you can log into the online voting and election system and cast your ballot.

We know you’re busy — so are we — but it’s really easy to vote, and it only takes about three minutes.

This year, we have two great tickets vying for the nomination. The amount of time they’ve put into their campaigns is evident, as is their passion for GSB. If you’re still on the fence about whom you’d like to vote for, both candidates have created their own Web pages to relay their platform issues. Just Google Peterson/Wilson or Roling/Dobbels to find information about each ticket.

That being said, the Editorial Board strongly encourages you to take two minutes out of your day to cast your vote.

Voting is just as much about supporting fellow ISU students as it is about supporting a campaign. Luke Roling, Nate Dobbels, Chandra Peterson and Jacob Wilson work hard and have goals, just like you.

They’ve taken the initiative to speak out on behalf of the student body about issues they feel are important.

It’s evident they all care about their school and want the best for their classmates. These students spend hours in the West Student Office Space creating bills and working with constituents, along with enduring long weekly meetings. On top of that, these candidates are students, too, spending extra hours working on GSB with the hope of enacting change; and that’s admirable.

Keep that in consideration if you feel apathetic about voting.

Or, think of it this way: Students on GSB are responsible for managing and allocating funds that come from your student activity fee.

If you’re part of a club or organization, chances are GSB has distributed a portion of this fund to your group. GSB handles a staggering amount of student money. It’s up to you to decide who is best fit to lead the organization that makes decisions on how $1.3 million are spent. Just think about the Varsity Theater project and how much money the project requires.

Have we convinced you to take just a few minutes out of your day to cast your vote?

We hope so.

The Editorial Board is excited about what these candidates could potentially do in 2010–’11.

They are all smart, hard-working students who deserve recognition for their involvement with student affairs.

So, if you haven’t already, GO VOTE. Good luck to both of the tickets. Your campaigns have proved that you have the potential be great leaders, and we’re looking forward to seeing what the newest elected officials have in store for us.

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A return to nuclear energy

ISU professors attribute Obama’s nuclear push to current conditions

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istening to President Obama announce his budget for 2011 last month, nothing seemed to suggest any paradigm-shifting changes in U.S. international or domestic policy. We would still commit nearly 5 percent of our GDP to the military, bleed billions in Iraq and Afghanistan and spend an ever-increasing amount of money on social security, Medicare and Medicaid. For the most part, the budget for fiscal year 2011 represented a government committed to the same fiscal irresponsibility as its citizens.

But my ears did perk up at one word: nuclear.

Apparently, the Obama administration planned to address the touchy subject of nuclear power, requesting $36 billion in guaranteed loans for advanced nuclear power plants. By contrast, the budget only included $3–5 billion in loan guarantees for other “innovative energy efficiency and renewable energy projects,” such as wind and solar.

The question that arose in my mind, however, was, “Why now?”

In tapping some of Iowa State’s many resources, the consensus emerged that the present is ripe for a nuclear power renaissance and, perhaps more importantly, the way that the Obama administration is framing it. As the social and hard-science professors at Iowa State whom I talked to see it, what was once faux pas is now considered politically and publicly palatable — for both psychological and economical reasons.

Kevin Blankenship, assistant professor of psychology, says nuclear power now seems a rational option for America’s energy future because the tragedy of Three Mile Island has been largely forgotten and most citizens and politicians now believe the economic benefits of nuclear power outweigh the risks.

“I believe the United States’ clean track record over the last 30 years has helped most people forget Three Mile Island,” Blankenship said. “And if the public is more comfortable, it’s likely due to the economic benefits nuclear

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power provides relative to the technology used in other energy sources such as wind and solar power.”

Blankenship said that President Obama clearly made a conscious effort to focus on the economics of nuclear power when making his budget announcement.

“Framing the issue as an economic one rather than one to flex the country’s muscle helps nuclear power sound more palatable,” Blankenship said. “Building a plant ‘because we can’ seemed to be the argument 30 years ago, but building one because it saves money and creates jobs is a much stronger argument for the current times.”

Norio Nakagawa, physicist at the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation and adjunct professor of aerospace engineering, agrees.

For while he acknowledged a shortage in qualified personnel exists, he said federal funding will undoubtedly lead to a consistent increase in demand for, and subsequently the creation of, high-paying, long-term jobs in nuclear construction and operation.

Nakagawa also pointed out the environmental justification for nuclear power.

“Current U.S. nuclear power generation is just 10-11 percent of overall power generation, and most estimations indicate this is insufficient to meet the greenhouse gas reduction standards that are global consensus,” Nakagawa said. “The strength of nuclear power is that it is an environmentally clean energy source with no greenhouse gas emissions.”

Carol Heising, professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, and James Vary, professor of physics and astronomy, made clear that many others in the scientific community see an increase in nuclear power plants and production as an environmental necessity as well.

“While nuclear power development has been held off for decades primarily because of the United States’ overreliance on fossil fuels

such as coal, oil and natural gas — which have all harmed the environment in causing global climate change — nuclear power is the only viable solution for addressing global climate change,” Heising said.

“We are far behind many countries, such as France and Japan, in terms of percent of electrical power generated by nuclear power, and it is the only feasible source we have to dramatically reduce our carbon footprint in the next decade or two,” Vary said.

Even Blankenship alluded to the environmental benefit of nuclear power. He said some people may have little faith in nuclear power’s economic benefits, yet are unlikely to mount much of an inter-psyche argument regarding its effect on the environment. He was also quick to point out that Georgia — the location of Southern Company, which on Feb. 16 was awarded $8.3 billion in loan guarantees for the construction of two nuclear reactors — is a state that knows the environmental implications well.

“Georgia is in the top ten states in terms of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide emissions,” Blankenship said. “While these are both by-products of burning coal and oil, neither is a by-product of nuclear power. So, nuclear power may seem safe to places that could use not only the energy and the money, but also clean air.”

Well aware of this, Obama lauded the fact just one new nuclear plant would cut carbon emissions by 16 million tons each year compared to a coal plant, and added such a cut equated to permanently taking 3.5 million cars off the road.

So while Southern Company, the first loan recipient of what are surely many to come, will not actually commence construction until late 2011 or early 2012 ­— the earliest its license to build and operate the reactors could be approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission — Obama has put the United States on the road to a nuclear renaissance.

“Not in My Back Yard” politics could slow the process down, and the issue of nuclear waste will always be an overarching issue.

Whatever the eventual outcome, we’re going nuclear or, as good-old President Bush would say, nucular”. But whichever way you say it It’s about time.

Letters:

Taxing the rich is certainly not theft In his column opposing progressive taxation, Blake Hasenmiller is missing the point, and he’s doing something far more serious and far more problematic.

But first, for missing the point: His editorial frames progressive taxation as a mechanism designed to either punish the wealthy or to redistribute wealth.

It is neither.

It is simply a mechanism to make our contribution to government fairer. If you make more money, you pay a higher percentage of it in taxes.

Think of it this way: if I make $1,500 a month, asking me to contribute 35 percent of that to running the government would be pretty harsh. As a graduate student, I can report that $1,500 is not a lot of money to live on.

I can’t afford to contribute any more than I do now. But if I made $10,000 a month, I could handle it. If Hasenmiller can get Iowa State to work that our for me, I would seriously be happy to give 35 percent of it back.

Since the government does in fact need money to operate, it seems like asking for more from people who can afford it is fair.

You are perfectly free to disagree with this, but it isn’t designed as any sort of punishment. It’s just more fair. Since most governments are having a hard enough time balancing the books, I’d hate to see all the tax rates cut down

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Progressive taxation is a good way to generate revenue. One reason the deficit has grown so much during the past few years is that George Bush cut the tax rate for the wealthiest Americans.

(The Bush cuts kind of proved where we are on the Laffer curve, by the way.) That’s bad news if you care about the federal budget. Rich people can dislike paying taxes — just like the rest of us — but somebody has to pay them. It seems fair to ask more of people who have more.

As for the other side of the problem, Hasenmiller implies — but doesn’t say — that somehow progressive taxes funnel money from rich people to poor people.

To some degree that is true, since rich people probably won’t get every dollar’s worth of value they put in. But is our budget designed to “shift the wealth”? Taxes support infrastructure, defense, entitlement programs and everything else that government does. Some of that stuff is explicitly designed to help those in need. Most of it isn’t. The idea that progressive taxation is designed to redistribute wealth is silly. Rich people enjoy the protection our national defense industry provides just as much as poor people. Since the vast majority of federal income

taxes go to entitlements — which is another conversation, but at this point entitlements aren’t about charity — and defense spending, that’s pretty much the end of that conversation.

To borrow the tagline for the article, Hasenmiller argues that “the answer to the less fortunate’s economic problems does not lie in taking wealth from one group and giving it to another.” Boy, he sure beat the hell out of that straw man.

And for the more serious problem with the editorial: If you have a practical or even ideological problem with our tax code, groovy; but Hasenmiller conflates having a difference of opinion to making a principled stand.

That’s a problem. Pretty much every country on earth has some form of progressive taxation. So

by Hasenmiller’s standard, the whole world is engaged in theft directed at the rich. We should be outraged. Will the suffering of the rich never end?

Or then again, maybe it’s silly to talk about progressive taxation as though it were a moral issue.

Maybe it’s just a practical issue.

In the column, Hasenmiller argues that singling out the wealthy for higher taxation is analogous to passing laws to specially punish a minority. That’s pretty offensive and silly. From a legal point of view, this is just plain wrong — Google the phrase “protected class,” and you’ll see

why. As ridiculous as this argument is from a legal perspective, if we evaluate it from an ethical point, it’s pretty reprehensible.

Comparing the idea that people who benefit unequally from our economy should contribute unequally to our government to racial discrimination is, well, I’ll just say misguided and leave it there.

Hasenmiller writes, “don’t [encourage] the government to take money from one group of people and spend it on another.

That’s not altruism. That’s theft.”

By that standard social security, defense spending, highway construction, public support for education — like at Iowa State, for example — are all examples of theft. He also writes that supporters of progressive taxation are motivated by self interest. Well, some of them are. That’s kind of how democracy works. We get to advocate for ourselves. What’s cool is that through collective action and political work, we can advocate for other people, too.

Are taxes theft? Be serious.

That claim, because it attempted to shut down debate about something that is a practical rather than an ethical concern, is an irresponsible and absurd tactic. Comparing paying taxes to stealing or to racism is really rather extraordinary.

By the way, you know what book endorsed progressive taxation? “On the Wealth of Nations.”

Autos

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NASCAR

Darin Hinderaker, master Toyota tech and Radcliffe resident, measures the gap in part of a pedal assembly Friday afternoon at Wilson Toyota. Hinderaker has performed the adjustments required by the recall more than 120 times in the last three weeks. The recall, in part, requires technicians shaving the bottom part of the pedal assembly and also adding different sized shims, which vary according to the measurements of each individual pedal. The current recall will continue for the next 60 to 120 days. Photo: David Livingston/Iowa State Daily

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Jimmie Johnson makes a pit stop during a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race Sunday in Las Vegas. Johnson won the race. Photo: Eric Jamison/The Associated Press

Johnson team seems invincible after second win

By Jeremiah Davis Daily Staff Writer Jimmie Johnson continued his bid for a fifth straight championship with his second win in a row Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

After winning last week in California, the four-time champ notched his 49th career win in the Shelby American 400 on a day when it looked like teammate Jeff Gordon was going to come away with the victory.

“I think we’ve got more of what we showed today,” Gordon, who led 219 of the 267 laps, told The Associated Press. “We’re going to show a lot more. I think we’re just starting to tap into it.”

Johnson won on a late-race call from crew chief Chad Knaus, who chose to put four tires on the 48 car. Gordon and Kevin Harvick’s teams each took two tires to preserve track position, which had been at a premium all day.

“No luck involved in that one,” Knaus radioed to Johnson after he crossed the finish line.

Gordon’s dominating day ended with a third-place finish, while series points leader Harvick finished second to Johnson.

It would seem as though Johnson and his team simply cannot be beaten. But he, as well as others, know that eventually the proverbial gravy train will come to a halt.

“We don’t feel invincible,” Johnson told The Associated Press.

Harvick, who is the marquee free agent-tobe this season, showed again that he and his team seem to have come out firing on all cylinders early in the season.

“We can run with [Hendrick Motorsports], and they know it,” Harvick told The Associated Press.

Harvick added to his point lead as well, moving to 47 points ahead of Richard Childress Racing teammate Clint Bowyer, who finished eighth Sunday.

Johnson also etched his name in the record books once again in Vegas, earning his 15th career win on a 1.5-mile speedway, moving one win ahead of Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty and Gordon.

As for Daytona 500 champion Jamie McMurray, his day was far removed from the magical Daytona win and California pole win.

McMurray tangled with teammate Juan Pablo Montoya on lap 93.

McMurray felt terrible about the incident, especially after some biting remarks from Montoya after the race, tweeting about it afterward: “Tough day, sorry to all of the @jpmontoya fans,” McMurray said.

The Sprint Cup Series rolls on back to the East Coast this week, to the Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Drivers who have had tough luck to start this season will try to turn things around, and those riding high will plan to continue at the 1.5-mile speedway.

Atlanta is considered to be the fastest track — with speed in relation to track length — that the cars go to.

Qualifying for the Kobalt Tools 500 is Friday, and the race starts at noon Sunday.

For more on the Toyota recall, find this story at

When the Toyota recall was announced last month, Toyota owners across the country scrambled to find out if or where they needed to get their cars fixed.

In Ames, Wilson Toyota is the place for owners to go. The recall has been going on now since early February, and general manager Danny Wilson said the process has gone well.

“It’s been pretty good,” Wilson said. “Everyone who walks through the door knows what they want, so it goes pretty easy.”

The process to fix the “unintended acceleration,” as Wilson calls it, has been perfected by the mechanics in the Wilson Toyota shop.

The shop has seen several hundred cars since it began fixing them Feb. 3, and will likely see quite a few more.

“We’ll see over a thousand cars before it’s all said and done,” Wilson said. “We’re shortening the gas pedal on some, and fixing and making alterations to the floor mat on others.”

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“As of [Feb. 24], [reports] said there have been between 500 and 600,000 cars fixed,” Wilson said.

“So that’s an average of about 400 per dealership so far.”

As with any negative attention, Wilson has to guide the dealership and focus on keeping the customer satisfied.

The old adage that “any press is good press” is not lost on Wilson, who sees the opportunity to get people coming into the dealership.

Wilson said some dealerships haven’t handled the negative media attention toward Toyota well, and he sees this situation as an opportunity to embrace their customers.

“How we take care of this situation will strongly dictate the ongoing relationship with our customers,” Wilson said.

The gray area regarding the death toll in relation to the recall is something people like Wilson

don’t know much about, mostly because they don’t really need that information to execute the recall, he said.

“So many things are floating around [regarding the death count],” Wilson said. “I don’t think anyone really knows, to be honest. There are cases that have been investigated but not substantiated.”

Wilson admitted that the faulty parts may have played a role in the deaths, but they shouldn’t be the only thing to blame.

“There’s some faulty parts, and there’s going to be some failure on the mechanical side,” Wilson said. “But there’s also some fault on the human side. People make the parts. People install the parts. People drive the cars. It’s not just one thing.”

Wilson said the current recall process will continue for the next 60 to 120 days, and will get done in steady increments. He also said Toyota is focusing solely on the recall, and not on its competition at the moment.

“There’s no company that deals with these things perfectly,” Wilson said. “It’s a learning experience. It’ll be fun in retrospect to look back on this and see what we learned.”

Science

Pothole predicament re-evaluated

By Ben Sloan Daily Staff Writer With potholes springing up with the winter thaw, the annual jarring rides on Ames roads are now upon us, and one ISU professor is working to reduce the cost of repairing the roads.

Potholes are created by the freeze thaw cycle: the temperature rising above freezing in the day and dropping below it at night. Water expands as a solid and conWilliams tracts as a liquid, so once water infiltrates the asphalt, the bonds between the materials are destroyed as this cycle proceeds. This condition not only wreaks havoc on car alignments but has a significant effect on our city and university budgets.

Dave Cole, city of Ames street maintenance supervisor, said the city’s budget on materials alone runs in the neighborhood of $150,000.

One professor at Iowa State is looking to reduce this financially parasitic condition on the school and city’s already strained budgets. Christopher Williams, associate professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering, is researching “pavement systems that are more cost effective and last longer.”

Williams said the current infrastructure of roadways is based on 1950s technology that is localized for a wide range of conditions.

At the time, this localization seemed like a good idea, but Williams illustrated that the lack of continuity in roadways has reduced the overall quality of the system. Loads have also increased over time so there is now more pressure than ever on the pavements, he said.

Today asphalt is created from petroleum by-products, and as a corollary

has seemingly immeasurable environmental effects. Williams is looking to create construction materials out of biomass such as switch grass or corn waste. The research has gone even further by using recycled petroleum materials like roof shingles and old car tires to create the pavement systems.

Another large expense to asphalt creation is the temperature it must be heated to for the correct reactions to take place. Williams’ research has shown that it is possible to lower the temperature by 15–20 percent and reduce the cost of energy input along with the massive carbon dioxide emissions associated with the process.

Williams also explained the economics correlated with improving the current pavement systems. The gas tax, which is a flat tax factored into every gallon of gas we buy, has not been raised in the past 20 years. With inflation, the purchasing power that results from the tax revenue has decreased over time.

The current state of the economy has further reduced gas tax revenues because on the whole people are driving less than before. A surprising impact on the revenues has been current cars getting better mileage so less fuel is being purchased.

Williams’ research is currently being applied in Illinois on Interstate 90 with 25 percent of the asphalt being recycled. The Iowa Department of Transportation has also been a great partner in applying these technologies, he said.

Williams hopes that in three to five years, these technologies will be applied on a much larger scale, because if research conducted in the lab can’t be applied to the real world, what is the point, he said.

Geneva Auto Show

Car designs need to grab consumer’s attention

By Colleen Barry AP Business Writer MILAN — For most of the world’s automakers, the Geneva Auto Show will be back-to-business with new model rollouts to put the gotta-have-it gleam back in consumers’ eyes.

For Toyota, that won’t be enough.

“Toyota is still in the middle of its global recalls, and new problems keep showing up. It’s like Tiger Woods: new mistresses keep appearing,” said Rebecca Lindland, auto analyst with consulting firm IHS-Global Insight.

Toyota has issued global recalls totaling 8.5 million vehicles since October for sticky gas pedals, faulty floor mats and glitches in braking software.

The Geneva show, which opens to the news media Tuesday and Wednesday

and then to the public on Thursday, is a key coming-out for automakers in a neutral country with no industry of its own to claim a homefield advantage.

It boasts 32 world premiere production cars and a dozen concept cars. The show runs through March 14.

The industry remains in a tough place. Some of the world premieres — notably Alfa Romeo’s Giulietta, a compact competing in the same size range as the formidable Volkswagen Golf — are cars that would have launched in 2009 if it weren’t for the impact of bottomed-out sales.

“The road to recovery remains stony,” Daimler Chairman Dieter Zetsche, who is also head of the European industry group ACEA, said last week. “While the worst is hopefully behind us, the upswing is far from stable.”

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Men’s Basketball

Cyclones face ranked teams, drop to 5–5

By Dan Tracy Daily Staff Writer Iowa State made its second trip of the season out east this weekend for two matches against two nationally ranked opponents in No. 66 Old Dominion and No. 27 Virginia Commonwealth.

Saturday’s showdown with Old Dominion could have gone in the Cyclones’ favor, but losses in a tiebreaker and a third set at No. 4 singles cost the team a 5–2 loss.

The Cyclones lost the doubles point with a pair of 8–4 losses by junior Erin Karonis and freshman Jenna Langhorst and the sophomore tandem of Tessa Lang and Maria Macedo.

Senior Alyssa Palen and junior Liza Wischer earned the team’s lone doubles victory with a 8–4 victory over the pair of Marija Citic and Juliana Pires.

After losing the doubles point, Karonis and Macedo dropped their singles matches. Down 3–0, Lang lost a tiebreaker 10–8 in the first set to Irina Dementyeva and lost the second set to seal the victory for Old Dominion.

Langhorst also neared a victory as she forced a third set against Diana Ivanova before falling 7–5, 2–6, 6–1.

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Stat of the week 27 Number of points Oklahoma State’s James Anderson scored in the Cowboys’ upset of the top-ranked Kansas Jayhawks last Saturday. Anderson averaged 20.5 points in two games last week en route to earning Big 12 Player of the Week honors for the second week in a row.

Big 12 Game to watch No. 25 Texas (22–7, 8–6) @ No. 22 Baylor (22–6, 9–5) 3 p.m. Saturday, ESPN Big 12 week in review Feb. 24 Iowa State 78, Nebraska 74 No. 21 Texas 69, Oklahoma St. 59 Baylor 70, No. 23 Texas A&M 66 Missouri 92, Colorado 63 Feb. 27 Colorado 75, Iowa State 72 Oklahoma St. 85, No. 1 Kansas 77 No. 23 Texas A&M 74, No. 21 Texas 58 No. 6 Kansas St. 63, Missouri 53 Baylor 70, Oklahoma 63 Nebraska 83, Texas Tech 79 Big 12 Standings (Through Saturday) 1. Kansas 27–2, 13–1 2. Kansas State 22–4, 11–3 3. Baylor 22–6, 9–5 4. Texas A&M 20–8, 9–5 5. Missouri 21–8, 9–5 6. Texas 22–7, 8–6 7. Oklahoma St. 20–8, 8–6 8. Texas Tech 16–12, 4–10 9. Colorado 13–15, 4–10 10. Oklahoma 13–15, 4–10 11. Iowa State 14–15, 3–11 12. Nebraska 14–15, 2–12 Associated Press Top 25 1. Syracuse (59) 27–2 2. Kansas (6) 27–2 3. Kentucky 27–2 4. Duke 25–4 5. Kansas State 24–4 6. Ohio State 23–7 7. Purdue 24–4 8. New Mexico 27–3 9. Villanova 23–5 10. West Virginia 22–6 11. Michigan State 22–7 12. Butler 26–4 13. Vanderbilt 22–6 14. Brigham Young 26–4 15. Wisconsin 21–7 16. Tennessee 21–7 17. Pittsburgh 22–7 18. Gonzaga 24–5 19. Georgetown 20. Temple 21. Baylor 22. Maryland 23. Texas A&M 24. UTEP 25. Xavier

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An awkward goodbye

Gilstrap to be honored, despite potential return

vs.

By Chris Cuellar Daily Staff Writer You’re finishing the touches on a mediocre date. Good looks, but uninspired conversation, and you’re not sure how to end the evening. There’s just one rule — don’t make it awkward.

Tuesday will be the last game for coach Greg McDermott’s squad at Hilton Coliseum for the 2009–’10 season, and with an unsuccessful Big 12 campaign and potential departures, it will be apprehensive goodbye for fans to the Cyclone players.

Likely postseason bound, the Missouri Tigers (21–8, 9–5 Big 12) are visiting to spoil senior night for the 11th-place Cyclones, and it will be up to the players that are in constant discussion for departure to ensure that isn’t the case. Iowa State lost to Missouri 65–56 in Columbia, Mo., in the teams’ first meeting this season. It was a close matchup until the very end, and ISU fans hope that’s the case Tuesday.

“We played a great game against [Missouri] the first time, despite not shooting the basketball well, and still had an opportunity to win in the last three or four minutes,” McDermott said. “There’s a lot of positives that we can take from how we defended them the first time around.”

The only player being honored as a senior on senior night is Marquis Gilstrap, a forward that transferred to Ames from Gulf Coast Community College and has averaged 14.9 points and 9.1 rebounds in his only season wearing the cardinal and gold. Gilstrap scored 26 points in Saturday’s loss to Colorado and has five Big 12 Rookie of the Week awards to his name.

“He made great decisions [Saturday]; I thought the pace of his play was better,” McDermott said.

“Sometimes Marquis gets in a hurry and puts his head down and he’s getting to the rim whether somebody is in his way or not.”

The only other senior listed on the roster, forward Jamie Vanderbeken only saw action in 10 games before leg injuries sidelined him. The 6-foot11-inch shooter has already been granted a medical redshirt and will return to Ames on scholarship for next season.

Junior Craig Brackins has been in this discussion as a possible departure for more than 12 months, as the saga in the spring of 2009 led to his return as a Cyclone. Barring a record-setting Big 12 Tournament run, his wish to participate in postseason play will likely go unfulfilled into the offseason, setting off more talks of the forward taking his wares and moving onto professional basketball.

If Tuesday were to be the last time Brackins put

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ISU forward Marquis Gilstrap goes up for a dunk against Nebraska on Wednesday. Gilstrap, last week’s Big 12 Rookie of the Week, will be the only senior honored by Iowa State on senior night Tuesday night in Hilton Coliseum.. Photo: Tim Reuter/Iowa State Daily

Tale of the Tape: Scoring Offense: ISU 72.3, MU 79.2 Scoring Defense: ISU 69.7, MU 65.1 Turnover Margin: ISU -1.10, MU +6.72 Rebounding Margin: ISU +2.2, MU -1.8 3 Point FG: ISU 6.6, MU 8.0 on his home jersey, fans would surely want to recognize the occasion, but the title “senior night” is manifest.

“It’s just been my experience that you honor your seniors on senior night,” McDermott said. “If they’re not a senior, then you don’t recognize them.

If at the end of the season Craig sits down with his family and decides that he’s going to move onto a professional career, then we’ll have ample opportunities to honor him. I think senior night is for seniors.”

An opponent for fans will be deciphering which players will be returning next season for the team and who will be leaving, but the opponent on the floor is a very capable squad that coach Mike Anderson likes to run at break-neck speeds up and down the floor.

Atop the Big 12 in turnover margin by almost

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Hockey

Iowa State anticipates national tournament

By David Merrill Daily Staff Writer Iowa State will head into the ACHA National Tournament this weekend as the No. 5 seed and will play its opening round game against Kent State. The Golden Flashes are the No. 12 seed.

The Cyclones will try to avoid exiting in the first round for the second straight year. They were upset by an overachieving Stony Brook team in last year’s National Tournament. The winner of that game will play the winner of the No. 4 Illinois-No. 13 Stony Brook contest, a game in which Illinois is strongly favored.

The rest of the bracket includes No. 2 Penn State against No. 15 Canton, No. 10 Central Oklahoma vs. No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 1 Lindenwood vs.

No. 16 Rutgers, No. 8 Minot State vs.

No. 9 Oakland, No. 3 Ohio, vs. No. 14 Robert Morris, and No. 6 Liberty vs.

No. 11 Arizona State.

Central Oklahoma is a strong No. 10 seed and could provide some surprises for the rest of the field in the tournament.

“They don’t have a lot of big names,” said sophomore forward Brian Rooney. “They don’t have a lot of guys that played in Canada or Junior A’s like Lindenwood or Illinois,

ISU forwards Brian Rooney and Josh Rahme drive towards the goal during the game Friday at the Ames/ISU Ice Arena. The Cyclones advance into the ACHA National Tournament this weekend as the No. 5 seed. Photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily

but they work really hard, they have great systems, really good coaching and they have a couple guys who know how to put the puck in the net.”

While the Broncos may fittingly be the “dark horse” for the tournament, it is the Central State’s powerhouses Ohio and Lindenwood that other teams may have the most trouble with.

Lindenwood, Illinois, Ohio and Iowa State have been the teams from the Central State league that have found the most success in the Na-

tional Tournament in recent years.

Lindenwood is coming off a year in which it finished 42–3, and this year the Lions won the Central States Collegiate Hockey League conference tournament championship.

The Lions will head into the tournament with the league’s best record at 38–5. The Cyclones are feeling more confident heading into nationals this year.

“The main thing is we’re healthy,” said junior forward Josh Rahme. “We have five full lines here that can play

and I think that will help us down the stretch.”

Kent State features a World University Games goaltender in Ryan Gregory. Iowa State was able to put four goals past him in the teams’ last contest en route to a 5–0 victory, but the Cyclones can’t count on it being that easy this time around.

“We need to stick to our game plan,” Rahme said. “It’s going to take a lot of rubber to get the puck past Gregory, but I think we can do it.”

The Cyclones will hope to replicate what they did last time against the Golden Flashes, which is similar to what the Canadian national team did in its gold medal game victory over the United States and goaltender Ryan Miller. They will attempt to shade the view of the puck from Gregory and make his attention focus on many different directions at once.

“You have to pressure him and you have to be smart with your dump-ins,” Rahme said. “If you get it too close to his skates, he’s going to burn you and outlet all the way down the ice.”

That’s not the only strategy the Cyclones plan to use.

“We play to forecheck very aggressively,” said coach Al Murdoch. “We also have to be relentless around their net, we were flat last year.”

Softball

Weekend trip to Georgia slows ISU advance

By Michael Zogg Daily Staff Writer The Cyclones hit a bump this weekend in Georgia. Iowa State (7–9) went 1–4 in the Georgia Tournament in Athens, losing to South Alabama, No. 8 Georgia, St. John’s and Georgia again Friday and Saturday before coming back with a big 11–3 win over Charleston Southern on Sunday.

The Cyclones came into the weekend above .500. Even their losses had been close, but they ran into trouble this weekend, as Iowa State was outscored 31–17 at the Georgia Tournament.

“We just didn’t play well,” said coach Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler. “We didn’t hit like we had been hitting, we didn’t do a very good job keeping the ball in the park pitching-wise and I don’t even think our approach was very good.”

Defensively, the Cyclones seemed to have trouble with the hard surface on which Georgia plays.

Through the five games, Iowa State had nine errors,

equaling its season total from the first 11 games.

“Our defense had a really hard time with the field conditions at Georgia,” GemeinhardtCesler said. “But even though it wasn’t what we were accusGemeinhardttomed to, or what they thought Cesler was ideal, the other team is playing on the same surface.”

Gemeinhardt-Cesler was disappointed that the team let the conditions bother it as much as it did.

“There are always uncontrollable factors that you are dealing with in softball,” GemeinhardtCesler said, citing umpires, cold weather and wind as possible examples. “The way that you have to approach it is, ‘We are still going to be better than the other team.’ Even though we don’t necessarily feel comfortable in a situation, we can still use it to our advantage.”

She thought her team could have had the upper

Georgia Tournament South Alabama L 3–2 Georgia L 8–0 St. John’s L 6–1 Georgia L 11–3 Charleston Southern W 11–3 hand last weekend given the condition of the field, but the Cyclones did not execute.

“We have a lot of fast people, a lot of people that can hit the ball into the ground, and we didn’t — we hit the ball in the air,” Gemeinhardt-Cesler said.

To the Cyclones’ credit, they were able to come back strong Sunday, jumping all over Charleston Southern with a 7–0 lead after the first inning.

The team thinks the win is important to get Iowa State back on track as the Cyclones begin practice this week.

Although 1–4 is not what they were hoping for, the Cyclones are remaining optimistic.

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By Kelsey Jacobs Daily Staff Writer The Cyclones demonstrated their ability to remain focused and resilient to adversity Friday at Hilton Coliseum.

Their performances on vault, bars and floor made up for a few mishaps on beam, and Iowa State walked away with a win over Minnesota.

“They attacked it, and that’s just what I asked them to do — go out there and attack routines,” said coach Jay Ronayne. “There’s nothing to hold back and, joking, I was saying it was dollar night — everyone paid a dollar to get in, so give them five dollars worth of entertainment — and that’s what they did.”

The team had an improved vault performance from last week, moving up from a 48.350 to a 48.700. However, when the Cyclones hit the next rotation, the gymnasts raised the bar further.

Seniors Ceilia Maccani and Jody McKellar both scored 9.875 on bars, which was a career high for McKellar.

Jacquelyn Holmes also notched a season-high 9.825 that helped the team end

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the rotation with a season-high 49.150 on bars. The momentum the team had on bars didn’t carry over to the next rotation on beam, however.

Senior Megan Barnes, who is recovering from a torn PCL, and Maccani fell off the beam during their performances.

Teams are allowed to drop one score per rotation, so one of the falls had to count.

“I was disappointed, definitely, because my spot being first up is to set the tone,” Maccani said. “Setting the tone with a fall isn’t what I wanted to do, so I’m definitely going to get back in the gym and nail flight after flight after flight so it doesn’t happen again.”

Ronayne explained that it’s easy to let someone’s fall affect other gymnasts.

“It’s hard not to think ‘Gosh, she fell, then if somebody else does then we count a team fall,’” Ronayne said. “The hardest part is just to block that out and do the routine you do in the gym 10 times every day.”

After the slips on beam, the team rebounded with a strong 49.225 on floor exercise. Senior Melanie Tham, who scored a career-high 9.850, said the floor

lineup was just trying to be consistent.

“Our assistant coaches say to us that our job is the same no matter what,” Tham said. “So we know that when we go to the floor we’re going to do the same thing every time, and that’s just trying

to hit clean routines. It doesn’t really change if we have a bad day on beam — we go to the floor and just try to do the same thing that we do every time.”

After their rebound, the Cyclones finished the meet with 195.475.

“After reviewing the Colorado game, I thought our execution when we needed it was as good as its been in a long time,” McDermott said. “We’ve got to try and take the positives and apply it to our practices.”

With seven players averaging more than seven points per contest and forcing opponents into just under 20 turnovers per game, the Tigers should give the Cyclones all they can handle.

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“Scheduling Old Dominion was good,” said coach Armando Espinosa. “We did have a lot of chances, we just need to get better at taking that next step against the tough competition.”

In Sunday’s match against VCU, the Cyclones struggled with only one singles victory from Karonis en route to a 6–1 defeat. Karonis was leading Ana Bara 3–6, 5–0 before Bara retired due to injury, awarding the victory to Karonis. Macedo forced tiebreakers in doubles along with Lang and in singles but lost 9–8 (8–6) in doubles and 7–5, 7–6 (7–4) in singles.

“VCU was by far the best team we’ve played so far,” Espinosa said. “Even though we are a big hitting team, they put a lot of pressure on us, so they made us look like we couldn’t hit the ball.”

The two defeats drop the Cyclones to 5–5 on the season with only two non-conference matches remaining on March 18, when they will host Cleveland State and the University of South Dakota.

In the meantime, the team will begin Big 12 Conference play Saturday with a trip down to Waco, Texas, to square off against the No. 5-ranked Baylor Bears.

Iowa State’s Melanie Tham performs a floor routine Friday at Hilton Coliseum. The Cyclones beat Minnesota 195.475 to 195.200 despite two falls on the uneven bars.

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It is still difficult for Orellana to communicate with her family by phone. She can receive calls out of Chile, but has been unable to make calls to her family and friends.

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A man working for the Florida Circus carries pieces of a damaged ride in Iloca, Chile, on Monday. A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit central Chile on Saturday. Photo: Fernando Vergara/The Associated Press

U.N. and Red Cross officials in Geneva said details of the destruction in Chile remained sketchy, noting that aftershocks were a continued risk and citing a number of “silent areas” with no contact to the outside world.

The international Red Cross, based in Geneva, said volunteers were providing first aid in areas hardest hit, and that it was appealing for donations within Chile. It has released $280,000 of its own funds, and is sending aid experts to help recovery

efforts, but stressed that local officials were taking the lead — unlike in Haiti, where the January earthquake destroyed large parts of the capital, Port-auPrince, including many government buildings, and killed over 200,000.

The World Health Organization said it expected the death toll to rise in the coming days as communications improve.

For survivors, it said access to health services will be a major challenge and noted that indig-

enous people living in adobe homes were most at risk from heavily damaged infrastructure.

Doctors Without Borders said it sent an exploratory team of health workers to help the Chilean government. They will travel Monday to the Maule region and will focus on areas close to the epicenter of the earthquake, prioritizing rural villages where aid often takes far longer to reach than in cities.

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