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ESCAPING TO SAFETY

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Quean Smith ran track, played football and baseball and wrestled at his high school in Detroit. Now he’s a Division I wrestler at Iowa State, something he never thought would be possible.

Quean Smith shouldn’t have made it out of Detroit. Now he’s a success story. By Ben.Visser @iowastatedaily.com Former Iowa State wrestling coach Kevin Jackson sent a text to each one of his newcomers when they first arrived to campus. He asked how they liked Iowa State and how they were adjusting. Most of the time the responses he received were something along the lines of, “I like it, I like Iowa State.” Or: “It feels like home.” Earl Hall, a Florida native, said he loved Iowa State even though he initially felt a little out of place. But he attributed that to being far away from home. Quean Smith’s — pronounced KEYon — response was much different. “I feel safe.” “I had never heard that before,” Jackson said. “You feel safe? I’ve never heard a student-athlete come on campus and ask them how they feel and

they say they feel safe.” Quean had a good reason for that response. In Ames, Quean could get on a bus and not have to worry if that was his last time. He could go into a gas station and not worry about it being shot up. “Growing up, I never felt safe,” Quean said. “There were all types of stuff going on — killings, robbings. It was terrifying. I couldn’t even walk down my own block without worrying about, ‘Is today my last day?’ “Then, when I came to Iowa State — at first I was still looking behind myself checking to see if someone was behind me. But then after awhile I’m like, ‘There’s nobody there to get me.’ I felt safe.” No more teachers, no more school Quean grew up in Detroit and went to school in Highland Park — a suburb just north of Detroit. The only problem was there was no school. There was a building, but it had no

teachers. There were students, but they had no principal. “By the time I got to 10th grade, my whole school was taken over by gangs,” Quean said. Every time a new teacher came in, the gangs beat them up. The school had a new principal every single year Quean was there because the gangs ran them out. The teachers were terrified to teach at a school where they couldn’t walk down the hallway because there was a gang on one side of the wall and a gang on the other side. And if they walked down that line, something was going to happen. “Every day we either had a bomb threat or a riot or EMS come in because someone got beat up,” Quean said. The school had metal detectors, but they didn’t work, so students started bringing guns to school. Quean had three stable teachers from his freshman to his senior year. He didn’t take four classes in a year

until his senior year. In between the classes Quean did have, he either sat in a classroom with one of the stable teachers, went to the wrestling room or went to the cafeteria. He tried to stay away from the gangs. But that didn’t mean the thought never crept into his head. Introduction to athletics Quean’s mom, Florence Vanhorn, ran track for a junior college before she blew out her knee. She introduced Quean to athletics. He started playing baseball, but soon after, his mom started coaching him to be a runner. Quean, who was 5-foot-10 and 250 pounds in high school, had a perfect frame to be a thrower. “I didn’t want to do that,” Quean said. “They put me against another big guy [in a race], and he was pretty fast, and they were like, ‘If you beat him,

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Seeking more reliability, ISU Professor: Trump’s breaks up with Blackboard speech pivot toward being presidential

By Alli.Weaver @iowastatedaily.com Have you ever been awake late at night, finishing homework that’s due tomorrow, only to find that Blackboard is down when you attempt to submit it?The Center of Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) and the Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) have plans to improve students’ experiences. During Wednesday’s Student Government meeting, Ann Marie VanDerZanden, director of CELT, shared plans to switch from Blackboard Learn to Blackboard Ultra by spring 2018. The university’s Learning Management Systems (LMS) license with Blackboard Learn is coming to an end, so CELT and the Office of CIO found it necessary to replace it and preferably to improve it. After reviewing many options, Blackboard Ultra is currently the top choice, VanDerZanden said. Other universities, specifically the University of Iowa and the University of Northern Iowa, have also been implementing new programs, and their experiences have been taken into account. The change in LMS is intended to improve student and professor experience, VanDerZanden said. “Blackboard Ultra has a very different look and feel than the current Blackboard,” she said. Along with the visual aspects, other considered factors include mobile app abilities, ease of instructor use and overall accessibility, VanDerZanden said. CELT also supports the idea that “change provides opportunity.” The organization urges instructors to consider accessibility, course updates and other ways to make course content improvements along with the LMS change. IT, CELT, college staff and select professors will be introduced to the new program in July 2017, giv-

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Vice President Cody West asks a question to Ann Marie VanDerZanden, who spoke to Student Government on Wednesday about the upcoming end of Blackboard Learn.

ing instructors a chance to become familiar and to integrate their courses before student rollout. Though the official rollout of Blackboard Ultra will be in spring 2018, some instructors will participate in early rollout of the new LMS in fall 2017. VanDerZanden said early rollout is intended not to be a pilot to explore possibilities, but to slowly integrate the program into student and professor interaction. Throughout the integration process, CELT plans to have an active support team for new instructors in order to create an ease of usage and transition. The subsidization of graduate prep courses also was discussed during the meeting. Many students pursuing graduate school have difficulties preparing for examinations, Sen. Danielle Nygard, proposer of the bill, said. Through the Princeton Review, the Student Government proposed to implement preparatory online courses for GRE, GMAT and LSAT at a portion of the price. “When students have more opportunities, it allows them to do

more things and be the best that they can be,” Sen. Cody Woodruff said. This bill was passed at 26-0-1, giving $150 per student enrolled in the Princeton Review’s preparatory courses in fall 2017. For that semester, the Student Government will present up to $37,500 total on a first-come, first-serve basis. Orders that were passed • Confirmation of Monica Pietig, Ashley Dvorsky and Nicholas Holaday to StuGov Supreme Court • Funding Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow • Funding ISU Trap and Skeet Club Approving the 2017-18 Election Apportionments • Additional Clause to the Events Committee, stating that the president can determine whether an events committee is necessary for a given year • Funding Iranian Students and Scholars Association • StuGov President Cole Staudt to attend a meeting at the Capitol on Tuesday to continue discussion of the medical amnesty bill, with intent to move it out of Senate by March 31.

Iowa State political science professors Steffen Schmidt and Dirk Deam weighed in on how they thought President Donald Trump fared in addressing congress for the first time. Deam and Schmidt drew comparisons to past presidents’ first addresses to Congress as well as the change in tone from the start of Trump’s campaign to now. Schmidt believes Trump did considerably well compared to other presidents and by criteria of what kind of speech is expected from a Republican president. “The speech was very good and on a mainstream conservative GOP standard. He delivered it very well,” Schmidt said. Schmidt believes the speech was the beginning of a pivot to being “presidential” by Trump. One of Trump’s main focuses was military spending, saying he plans to provide “a budget that rebuilds the military, eliminates the defense sequester and calls for one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history.” Deam said that it’s hard for him to see why the budget has to increase. “The last time the budget was this high was with Reagan, and that blew a hole in the budget,” Deam said. “There were more negative consequences.” Trump’s reference to the widow of a fallen soldier during his speech was seen as a misstep to Schmidt. “I did find it too much to ‘use’ the widow of the fallen soldier as a prop,” Schmidt said. “It lasted too long and it was tasteless of Trump to point that the soldier was looking down from heaven

and liking what he saw.” Trump also made a point to mention that the 250th anniversary of the United States is nine years away. This event may not seem applicable, but Trump used it to mark the end of his possible eight years in office, asking what the country will look like at this time. Deam said that this was a classic tactic used by presidents before Trump. “That’s a common way of opening up hope and creating urgency,” Deam said. “The idea of holding out for some goal or something that we’re trying to reach is common.” He compared it to former President John F. Kennedy’s goal of putting an American astronaut on the moon. Deam said that Kennedy created this urgency by making Americans feel that this goal wasn’t too far from being achieved, but wasn’t too close. Another thing Schmidt noted was the improvement of staying on message by Trump, as opposed to what was seen on the campaign trail. The key to Trump following through with the presidential momentum that his speech generated is to fill his rhetoric with more policy, which it is currently lacking, Schmidt said. “He needs to follow this with less tweeting or more policy-oriented tweeting,” Schmidt said. “He also needs to now fill in the details of how he will accomplish the goals he has for the economy, jobs, taxes and foreign policy.” In his address, Trump focused on the “softening of both sides,”mostly in relation to his immigration travel ban. He largely discussed tax reform, Obamacare, his recent immigration ban, and his proposed wall along the U.S. southern border.


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POLICE BLOTTER The information in the log comes from the ISU and City of Ames police departments’ records.

Feb. 28 Julie Gustafson Minot, 53, of 2153 X Ave., Madrid, Iowa, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at theScheman Building at 12:02 p.m.

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

An officer assisted an individual who was experiencing medical difficulties. The person was transported to a medical facility for treatment at Buchanan Hall at 11:57 p.m.

Students will have a chance to participate in an open forum on the upcoming Memorial Union renovation vote. The open forum will take place at 6 p.m. in the Gallery room of the Memorial Union.

The open forum will go over the MU renovation and expansion, along with the proposed student free increase to fund the project. Memorial Union staff and representatives from the Memorial Union Student Advisory Committee will provide details on the project and answer any questions. There is no fee to attend

the open forum, but registration if planing to attend is advised. To register, go to http://www.mu.iastate. edu/about/proposedrenovation/open-forum/ open-forum-sign-up/ and fill out the online form. Voting on support of a student fee increase to fund the renovation and expansion of the MU will take place on March 7 and 8.

Youth Program: Caterpillar Club: 10: a.m. to 11 a.m. at Reiman Gardens. Join us weekly this winter for our popular Early Childhood Development program featuring stories and creative activities around a nature-based theme. Cyclone Club Luncheon: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at the Alumni Center, Reiman Ballroom.Featured speake r i s m e n’s b a s k e t b a l l head coach Steve Prohm; emceed by Voice of the Cyclones John Walters. Luncheons are open to the public, with an opportunity to ask questions, m e e t I o wa S t a t e h e a d c o a ch e s a n d w i n p r i ze drawings. An optional lunch, catered by Hy-Vee, is available. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. Cost: $12 for optional lunch. D e s i g n C a re e r Fa i r : 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Great Hall, Memorial Union. A professional environment for students, alumni and employers to discuss career opportunities in design. Meeting: Professional and Scientific Council: 2:10 p.m. at 4 p.m. at the Gallery, Memorial Union. The P&S Council is a representative body elected by, and responsible to, Professional and Scientific employees at Iowa State University. Meetings are open to the public. Getting Started with Zotero: 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Parks Library. An introduction to Zotero. Seating is limited. Preregistration is required. Register through Learn at ISU: Library Workshops catalog. (Keyword:LIB) If you need disability accommodations, please contact Jody Kalvik in advance. Seminar: Finding Foundation Funding and What to Do Once You’ve Found a Match: 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Ensminger Room, Kildee Hall. Learn how to strategically search for foundation funding using the Foundation Directory Online and other sources. Intended for all faculty and staff interested in funding smaller projects or diversifying their funding sources. Register online. Public meeting: CyRide route changes: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Ames City Hall council chambers. Transit officials will outline two proposed route options

C yc l o n e C i n e m a : L a L a Land: 7 p.m. at Carver H a l l 101. T h e S t u d e n t Union Board presents Cyclone Cinema! Showings are free in Carver 101 at 7 and 10 p.m. every Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Hope to see you there.

March 3 Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Memorial Union. Keynote speak er is acti vist and poet Lakota Harden. ISCORE is the university’s local initiative designed to provide an ongoing platform of sharing and applying new knowledge through presentations and workshops. Registration (free) is requested. B eyo n d t h e Te x t : R a re B o o k s a s A rt i fa c t s : 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at Parks Library.Opportunity to examine books from the library’s rare books collection. Seating is limited. Preregistration is required. Register through Learn at ISU: Library Workshops Catalog. Key word: LIB. If you need disability accommodations. Contact Jody Kalvik in advance. All events and descriptions courtesy of the Iowa State events page at events.iastate.edu.

THROWBACK THURSDAY: MORRILL What do you know about the history of Morrill Hall? For this week’s Iowa State Throwback Thursday and more photos go online at iowastatedaily.com.

What does it mean to exercise your brain?The same way you normally exercise. Go online to read how working out can affect your brain and mental health.

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EATING HEALTHY ON CAMPUS

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STUDENTS CELEBRATE ASH WEDNESDAY A parishioner receives ashes on her forehead during Ash Wednesday mass at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church on March 1. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent for Christians.

Find yourself inching toward grabbing that extra dessert? Go online at iowastatedaily.com to learn how to live healthy on campus.

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DONALD TRUMP IN SONG LYRICS After President Donald Trump announced his run for office and his campaign platform, music artists – predominantly hip hop – took to the studios.

Lecture: Using Exercise to Treat Depression: 7 p.m. at Richard and Joan Stark Lecture Hall, 1148 Gerdin Business Building. 201617 Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series. James Blumenthal, a clinical psychologist at the Duke University Medical Center, will discuss the relationship of exercise and physical activity to mental health. L A S D e a n ’s L e c t u r e : R o by n L u t z : 8 p . m . a t the Sun Room, Memo rial Union. “Programming Molecules in the Age of Nanotechnology,” Robyn Lutz, ISU computer science.

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for the CyRide bus system, answer questions and encourage input from attendees. Workshop: Intro to Plant Propagation: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Reiman Gardens. Learn easy-to-implement techniques from an expert in plant propagation, Reiman Gardens’ Horticulturist Jessie Liebenguth. Cost: $25 (discounts for members, ISU students.)

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Construction of Morrill Hall began in 1890 and was finished in 1891.

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Morrill rich in history By Ian.Steenhoek @iowastatedaily.com Construction of Morrill Hall began in 1890 and was finished in 1891. Morrill Hall was named in honor of Sen. Justin Morrill, who was born April 1, 1810. He wrote the Morrill Land Grant Act. The building has had a tumultuous history and was deemed unsafe in 1996. It was rescued from demolition by a campaign from former President Gregory Geoffroy, and was reopened in 2007. The hall has served several purposes throughout its history. It originally included a chapel, a library, a gym and a museum. The library later moved to Beardshear Hall after its completion before ending up at Parks Library in 1925. According to the Library’s Special Collections, the building housed a barbershop in the southeast corner of the building from 1905 to 1908.

Morrill Hall has also been home to a variety of animals and other miniature disasters. Bats have been a common sighting in the building and have disrupted faculty and students alike for decades. There was a large beehive removed from the building once as well. There was even a stuffed camel for a while that eventually succumbed to water damage and was disposed of. When the roof was replaced in the 1980s, it was discovered that the original mortar included moose hair. It was originally thought to be asbestos, however, and caused a fright. Until the 1980s, it was a popular prank to place a pumpkin at the top of the turret. Morrill Hall houses the Christian Petersen Art Museum, the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching learning community and two classrooms. The Morrill Land Grant Act was written by Justin Morrill.

Officially called “An Act Donating Public Lands to the Several States and Territories, which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts,” the act called for each state to set aside 30,000 acres dedicated to higher education. On June 10, 1862, the bill passed the Senate by a vote of 32 to 7. On June 17, 1862, it passed the House of Representatives with a vote of 90 to 25. It was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln on July 2, 1892. On Sept. 11, 1862, the state of Iowa was the first state to accept these provisions. The new staircase i n f r o n t o f t h e b u i l ding holds the sculpture “Transformation,” which was designed by Albert Paley. It is suppose to represent a connection between the old and the new of Iowa State, and was designed specifically for Morrill Hall and its reopening in 2007. To see the throwback photo go online at iowastatedaily.com.

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IOWA STATE WINS BIG Three Iowa State women’s basketball players won Big 12 awards on Wednesday. Check out which awards online at iowastatedaily.com.

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WOMEN’S TRACK SENDS 2 TO NCAAS Junior Jhoanmy Luque and sophomore Jasmine Staebler will represent the Iowa State women’s track and field team at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships on March 10 and 11 in College Station, Texas. Luque will compete in the long jump and triple jump, while Staebler will run in the 800.

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Buck Runyan, executive director for Remuda Ranch at the Meadows, gives a lecture Wednesday in the Cardinal Room on the different types of eating disorders.

Debunking common fallacies Lecturer advises on handling eating disorders By Whitney.Mason and Halee.Olson @iowastatedaily.com As part of Body Image and Eating Disorder Awareness Week, Buck Runyan spoke to an audience about eating disorders Wednesday night in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union. Runyan is an executive director of Remuda Ranch, an in-patient/residential program for individuals with eating disorders in Wickenburg, Arizona. He has more than 20 years of background with eating disorders. “[Eating disorders are] the most complex psychological disease known to man,” Runyan said. His purpose for the evening was to debunk common misconceptions about eating dis-

orders, provide the audience with helpful tools to handle the complex disease and give a legitimate definition to the term “eating disorder.” The types of eating disorders that Runyan focused heavily on were anorexia, bulimia and binge eating. People with anorexia restrict energy intakes, which ultimately leads to low body weight. Bulimia involves intaking copious amounts of food, followed by vomiting, misuse of laxatives or excessive exercise. Binge eating consists of losing control and overeating in short periods of time. Runyan mentioned several psychological characteristics associated with eating disorders, including increased negative emotions, changes in personality, inflexibility in thinking and more stress. Some of the physical characteristics Runyan acknowledged with eating disorders included low body weight, hair loss and dry skin. “The body will eat itself; it needs to survive,” Runyan

said. An unknown consequence of eating disorders to many is cerebral atrophy, which is decrement in the size of the brain, due to loss of carbs, which carries sugars that are used to fuel the brain. “They may look normal, but their brain is severely impacted,” Runyan said. Runyan emphasized the importance in knowing the signs of someone suffering from an eating disorder. He said if you notice that someone is “nibbling” or chewing their food at an abnormally slow pace, there is a chance that this person could be suffering from anorexia. Typical signs that someone could potentially be bulimic are binge eating or eating at a rapid pace. Red flags for eating disorders across the board are excessive exercise, fatigue, sleep disturbance, participating in other addictions such as laxatives or sexual promiscuity, and acting defensive if questioned about eating disorders. “They are masters of avoid-

ance,” Runyan said. He explained that a common misconception is that eating disorders are “a white, rich girl’s disease,” when in actuality, statistics show that the rates of multicultural people who suffer from eating disorders are extremely similar to Caucasians. “Eating disorders do not discriminate,” Runyan said. Contrary to popular belief, eating disorders are not the product of trauma or the “ideal” body images portrayed in the media. Runyan explained that eating disorders act as endorphins to the body, relieving their victims of life’s stressors. “They are addicted to endorphins,” Runyan said. At the end of the lecture, Runyan answered questions from attendees regarding assistance in acknowledging that someone they know may have an eating disorder and emphasized the importance of knowing and acknowledging the warning signs. “Come up with a plan from the heart,” Runyan said.

ISU group strives to end prison labor By Megan.Salo @iowastatedaily.com

The ISU Student Action group met Wednesday to discuss their cause: prison labor. Kaleb VanFosson, lead organizer, said Iowa State has employed Iowa federal prisoners to work on campus in various jobs such as cleaning around Frederiksen Court. The prisoners are paid less than a dollar an hour for their work. “It’s essentially slave labor,” VanFosson said. The group plans to attend the Student Government meeting next week to discuss terminating the program during the open forum. It also encourages students to write letters to President Steven Leath explaining why they are against prison labor. These letters will be hand delivered to Leath’s office next Wednesday. ISU Student Action is planning a rally for March 31 to push the university to end prison labor, with details to come. The second cause the group is fighting for is promoting the Fight for $15. Fight for $15 is a movement that works for the minimum wage to be raised to $15 nationwide. Although ISU Student Action’s main focus is on the prison labor campaign, it will work with this movement through tabling, speaking with university clubs and starting a petition at Iowa State. Students interested in becoming a member of ISU Student Action can contact VanFosson at kalebv@iastate.edu.

CyRide proposes route changes, seeks input By Michael.Heckle @iowastatedaily.com The Iowa State community discussed changes to CyRide that may affect students, faculty and staff who frequent the university’s bus routes. Last July, CyRide, assisted by national transportation consultants Nelson/Nygaard, began a year-long study examining the most efficient way to run the service. CyRide presented its findings and suggestions to the community at a public meeting Wednesday afternoon in the Memorial Union. Thomas Wittmann of Nelson/ Nygaard presented two different scenarios regarding how CyRide routes and schedules may change. The finalized version, which will be determined around the end of March, will feature a combination of the two based on community input. CyRide hopes to begin implementation of the final restructuring in the fall of 2018. The first scenario would include modest changes to current routes in an attempt to avoid overloading buses and to help keep them

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With outside help from contractor Thomas Wittmann, middle, the restructuring of CyRide’s routes attempts to more adequately meet the needs of Iowa State students.

on schedule. It would only change about half of the CyRide routes, leaving much of the current structure intact with few changes. The plan would add more frequent stops for 1 Red, 1A Cherry

(formerly 1A Red), 3 Blue and 6 Brown. “Many of the routes in the morning times are scheduled to come every 20 minutes,” Wittman said. “We have a lot of buses back-to-

back, and so rather than having multiple buses spaced every 20 minutes, we’d be looking in the morning times to take those extra buses and put them on the schedule on a regular basis.” Scenario one also looks to increase speed and reliability along 1A Cherry and 7 Purple. This plan would alter their routes along Union Drive into campus, turning buses around before Osborne Drive. For route 2 Green, this plan would adjust its schedule to serve Ames High School during schooltime trips only. Under scenario one, East Ames would be served by a reconstructed 4 Gray route, eliminating the 10 Pink Route. It would also change 4 Gray’s schedule, allowing its buses to run all day. Finally, this scenario would change route 5 Yellow to run every 30 minutes all day and operate on Saturdays. It would also eliminate 22 Gold and consolidate it with 6 Brown, which would deviate to Lynn Avenue. The second scenario would be far more transformative. It looks at increasing the number of trips in some areas and decreasing it in others to balance the high demand

for public transportation. The plan would make major changes to routes on the northside of campus. It would create a new Gold Route that would run from the Towers to Schilletter Village every 10 minutes and consolidate the northern part of 3 Blue with 2 Green and 22 Gold. This would mean that 2 Green would act as the main bus to North Grand Mall, rather than 3 Blue. However, this plan would also leave roughly 20 people along 24th Street without access to service. 2 Green would also limit trips to Ames High School to two morning and two evening trips. Scenario two would also increase frequency on 1 Red, 3 Blue, 23 Orange and 22 Gold routes. This scenario would also establish a new route, 25 Peach, that would serve the College of Veterinary Medicine, Applied Sciences and the ISU Research Park. The route would feature a bus every hour. “We’re not looking at saying we’re going to pick scenario one or scenario two,” Wittmann said. CyRide is hosting an online survey on the proposed route changes until March 15. To leave input, visit www. surveymonkey.com/r/mycyride.

ISCORE event discusses faculty impact By Jacey.Goetzman @iowastatedaily.com At the Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity (ISCORE) pre-conference on Wednesday afternoon, professionals were able to learn from keynote speaker Daniel Spikes and others on how to deliver a more full education to students. “We experience the world the way we are – not necessarily the way it is,” Spikes said. The pre-conference is designed for faculty, staff and other professionals such as graduate students. It acts as a professional development opportunity, providing tools to create inclusive interactions and spaces on campus. It also kicks off ISCORE, where students will present what they have learned from the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity. “Each faculty has their own stage, and their own platform, to teach their curriculum,” Japannah Kellogg, director of the ISCORE

project, said. “[The pre-conference allows] a different space to have these conversations.” Faculty and staff who attended the preconference got to go to a number of sessions, ranging in topic from the intersectionality of our identities to the language and concepts one must understand in order to make the world more racially just. “We’re here to educate our students on a number of different levels,” Kellogg said. “You come to Iowa State to have a full education. It may not just be to become the best engineer. It hopefully is to be a better person, and you’re a better person when you do have an understanding and an appreciation for human difference.” Spikes enforced that these conversations must take place on campus, because research “suggests that our institutions are primary socializing forces in society.” Each person is socialized from the time that they are young, and from that socialization, implicit biases can be formed.

Spikes had been attempting to dodge those implicit biases since childhood. “I tried to do everything that I [could] to [...] downplay any negative stereotypes associated with my blackness,” Spikes said. He didn’t tell people that he played guitar because he didn’t want them to assume what kind of music he played; he wore glasses in the hopes that people wouldn’t believe him to be stupid. Spikes began doing this after an incident when he was walking home from school on a rainy day. A truck revved up and hit a puddle to splash him as the individuals inside yelled “n-----!” Spikes began looking toward his white friends: what they did, what they wore, how they spoke. And he practiced the art of “codeswitching,” a term that describes purposefully shifting cultural traits and vernacular to suit different circumstances. Spikes drew upon his experience, and his identity, in order to discuss diversity regard-

ing institutions and higher education. “I have to be very cognizant [of my identity] to ensure that whenever I am thinking about these things, or teaching about these things, I understand that people experience the world differently because of their social identity,” Spikes said. Racism, Spikes said, is often looked at as isolated events. He compared it, rather, to smog in the air. “We all breathe it in, so therefore we all breathe it out, which means we are all complicit unless we are anti,” Spikes said, “actively fighting against it.” Kellogg encouraged that inclusivity makes us a better community. “In order for us to really make change, the process has to begin with us [as educators,]” Spikes said. The ISCORE conference on Friday will be hosted by students and open to all, delivering the experience they had at the national conference to all of the Iowa State campus.


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Meet and greet supports vets By Emily.Schroer @iowastatedaily.com As roughly 15 students and faculty gathered into the small Col. Pride Veterans Lounge in the Memorial Union, the close quarters allowed everyone to overhear the multiple conversations going on around them. Iowa State’s Veterans Center hosted a faculty, staff and student veteran meet and greet from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday in the lounge. David Vogel, professor of psychology, said he had previous experience working with Jathan Chicoine and was happy to show his support to the veteran’s community. He shows his support by attending the event every semester. “It’s a nice environment to talk,” Vogel said. “Students don’t always just come and talk with professors, but here it’s nice to do that.” Stacy Cordery, professor of history, said she attended the event because she wanted to learn more about the different interests and various needs that are important to the veterans. She also said she didn’t have much knowledge and

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Brandon Lay and Logan Dunn talk during the meet and greet event for Iowa State veterans Wednesday.

understanding about veterans in the first place, so she was interested in learning more. “As a historian, after interviewing veterans and reading papers, I know they can often feel like a class set apart,” Cordery said. “They do a good job reaching out.” Logan Dunn, four-year veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard, said hosting events

like the one Wednesday help raise awareness about veterans. They veteran’s community is open to anyone looking for a place to belong. Originally from the South, Dunn said that coming to Iowa State was just like being home. He felt that the hospitality of the veteran’s center was very welcoming and

open. He said that hosting events like the meet and greet provides a great way to meet new people, network, have a good time and have great conversations. Cordery said she believes faculty should be involved in what students are doing on campus. “Bridges last better than walls,” Cordery said.

Event shines light on disabilities By Mary.Pautsch @iowastatedaily.com What makes people different should be celebrated, not diminished, according to Iowa State’s International Student Council (ISC). ISC’s Humanitarian Awareness Committee will bring this statement to life at its “Changing Perspectives” event, a night for students to experience what it is like to be physically disabled in hope of bringing more awareness to how people are affected by it worldwide. “It’s not just something that’s here in the U.S.,” said Hannah Ridzuan, vice president of ISC. “We have more outreach within the international community than other ISU groups, so we wanted to use that to our advantage.” “Changing Perspectives” will be an informative and interactive event, Ridzuan said. It will include a series of activities where groups will be led from room to room, completing tasks that lead to clues. The clues will be used to fill in the blanks of a sentence given to each group that makes a statement about disability awareness. The first team to complete its sentence wins.

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Each task will be a simulation of what it would be like to live with certain disabilities. For example, in one room, participants will learn how to identify letters in Braille and then need to complete a game of hangman using only Braille while blindfolded to obtain their clue. Chidiebere Uguru, member of the Humanitarian Awareness Committee, said that having the handson experience will hopefully make the message sink in for participants. “It’s not only lectures,” Uguru said. “The activities make it more effective. It sticks a lot more in your brain that way.” A reflection session will take place at the end of the event for those in attendance to ask questions and discuss anything they have learned from the activities. Ridzuan said the session is meant to be an open forum where people will not have to be afraid to ask questions they may find awkward or potentially offensive. “Encounters with disabled people may be awkward for some people if they don’t have experience with that,” she said. “For example, if you see a handicapped person fall, you might not know if you

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Thursday, March 2, 2017

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President Trump speaks in front of a crowd on July 28, 2016, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Trump recently rolled back transgender restroom rights.

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Columnist Felker argues that teachers likely perform the most or second most important task any member of our society could burden themselves with, and, in return, receive poor salaries and little respect.

Unrespected war heroes Teachers are in need of more money, more help, more respect as they educate future generations

By Alex.Felker @iowastatedaily.com

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ho goes through a worse hell than the typical secondgrade teacher? All that comes to my mind is perhaps the soldier in wartime. But even he is at least given a pack of constipation-inducing biscuits for when the times truly get tough. The teacher is offered no such curative. It is inexcusable, and near contemptible, how poorly teachers are thought of in the United States. They perform what is likely the most or second most important duty a member of our society could ever burden themselves with, and, in return, receive wretched salaries and very little of the respect they deserve. Tell a person in conversation that you teach fourth-grade earth science, and you will be taken for either a lunatic or failure — likely both. No, teaching young minds will never attract each and every one of the state’s best and brightest, but it should attract more. It takes a certain kind of mentality, a certain kind of willingness to suffer and a certain kind of ignorant faith in mankind — the good sort of ignorance, that is — but, importantly, this shouldn’t stop the state from incentivizing employment in the “industry,” if it could be called that. The issue is in how few really, truly good teachers there are. If, for seven out of 15 or so waking hours a day, we could be comfortable with leaving our children in the hands of any old miser off the street, then this might be a nonissue. The problem is that teaching requires a certain sort of spirit. A rare spirit. A patient spirit. There are these spirits out there, but they aren’t all going into teaching. Many are dissuaded by the poor pay, and, whether they will admit it or not, likely discouraged — or, at the very least, not encouraged — by what stigmas and stereotypes surround teaching young children. There are a few ways this could be fixed. First: More money Of course it always comes down to money. There are fewer decent people going into teaching, fewer teachers per student and fewer caretakers per child in every grade of every stage of education each year in and each year out. And that’s because there are fewer tax dollars. Why aren’t teachers paid more? The average salary for a public school

teacher in Iowa hovers around that $50,000 mark; characterized by a dumpy range and little room for increase. For a minute, humor me and imagine a world in which teachers were paid, let us say, the amount your typical Division I college football offensive coordinator (another state employee) was paid — somewhere in the range of $100,000 to $200,000. This hypothetical, idealized world would be very different from our current one. Suddenly, the duty of teaching our young people, which includes preparing them for our “greater society,” and instilling in them the basic moral, ethical and technical faculties to function as a useful and respectful citizen of this great country, would be a duty hotly pursued. There would be competition, and, as such, there would be an increased quality in candidate and a better job done. This is of course wildly infeasible. But what of an across-the-board 5 or 10 percent increase in salary? — Purely ill-informed bunkum, naturally. Our state government would never condone such wanton use of tax dollars, on such an immense scale, and in a sector that it has evidently identified as nothing more than a black hole for the sucking up of grievances, funding and grievances about funding. Second: More help What if every professional teacher had a caretaker to help them? To keep the children under control, to handle secretarial issues or issues with child health and behavior, and, generally, to lend a hand whenever a hand was needed? This, to some extent, is the idea behind student teachers. But student teachers are such a rare, capricious, transient breed. What’s needed is a permanent, professional caretaker in the same vein as a nurse’s assistant. Per the Iowa Department of Education’s “Early Intervention Block Grant Program (Class Size),” 2012-2013 survey, the average kindergarten through third-grade classroom has 20.75 students in it; 17 students — three, and one healthy lump of a fourth less, that is — having been the program’s prescribed goal for a more suitable student-to-instructor ratio. The issue is in how much of the teacher’s time is consumed by his or her clerical duties; these which require the kind of energy and efforts they are saddled with expending on the sorts of matters any stay-at-home mother or father knows only too well,

and is likewise only too excited to fling away, in both a figurative and literal sense, into our public school system for the larger part of the day’s sunshine. But, with the help of an additional caretaker, these teachers would be capable of doing a dramatically better job in actually teaching their students — they would simply have more time and energy for it. Again, there is the problem here with funding. But if we are ever to begin to heal this horribly-neglected, imminently-important piece of our learning ladder, then we must begin by investing in its stability. We must make terms with the thought of spending money on our worst problems. They won’t go away without it. Third: More respect There was a time, not really too long ago, when Iowa had a reputation for education. It was actually at the forefront of the nation’s movement toward the wide-scale establishment of high schools and secondary schools. As of Education Week’s 2016 state report card rankings, however, Iowa has earned a “C” in the K-12 achievement category. The state is very much middle-of-the-pack by any sort of barometer, and, in my mind, much of this could be attributed to the treatment received by our state’s teachers. This role of instructing children ought to be near-idolized. These warriors ought to be respected, valued, appreciated and looked up to in the same way faculty members of large universities are, physicians and surgeons of leading hospitals are, courageous war heroes or successful politicians are. Their duty is just as important, just as necessary, just as integral to our country’s success on every level; economically, socially, morally and ethically. Good teachers aren’t taught to be good teachers. They might be taught to be better teachers, but they’re all born with the natural ability. I am sure, if I could interview the parents of every successful elementary school teacher in the state — before their child ever even considered a career — I would have been unequivocally told by a staggering majority that their little Annie, their little Mikey was going to be a teacher when they grew up. That they had the right spirit for it. There’s no surprise in this. The key is in allowing these people to flourish. They need to be paid more, they need more help and their place in society needs to be more than whatever it now is. Our status quo is indefensible.

Don’t leave behind our transgender children Last week, the Trump administration withdrew protections for transgender children that mandated public schools to allow them to use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity. While critics of the mandate — which was put in place by the Department of Education last May — are relieved that what they viewed as a federal overstep is no longer in place, this celebration comes at the expense of transgender children’s safety. The Obama administration put this directive into place as a corresponding set of protections with its interpretation of Title IX — the law that prohibits sex discrimination in educational programs or activities that receive federal funding. More importantly, though, giving transgender children the option to use the bathroom they feel most comfortable using — the one that corresponds with their gender, as the rest of their peers do — is simply common-sense policy that prevents dangerous self-inflicted injury. According to the National Center for Transgender Equality, more than 59 percent of transgender people avoided using a public bathroom in 2015 because they were fearful of confrontation, 32 percent ate or drank less to avoid having to use the bathroom and 8 percent reported experiencing urinary tract infections or kidney infections as a result of avoiding using the bathroom. When transgender children cannot use one gender’s bathroom because their school bars them from entering it, and cannot use another gender’s bathroom because they experience dysphoria, discomfort or would be bullied for doing so, it is clear why anxiety and physical health problems are not so out of the ordinary. Transgender children need to use the bathroom, and offering a safe option for them to do something cisgender people take for granted should not be controversial. Without these protections, transgender children will suffer Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos even eventually echoed critics’ views after the protections were withdrawn, saying that “we have a responsibility to protect every student in America.” Because it will now be up to states, cities and schools to create guidelines on this issue, you can contact school administrators or the Iowa Department of Education to advocate for transgender students. You can also donate to organizations like the Transgender Law Center and Trans Student Educational Resources that work to change the landscape for transgender individuals inside and outside the classroom. Finally, you can talk to transgender people to find out what their needs might be, whether it’s actually accompanying them to the bathroom or simply listening. We cannot afford to ignore the federal government’s abject refusal to use its power to protect transgender children. Inside the classroom and beyond, transgender children deserve fundamental rights — even those as simple as the ability to safely use the bathroom.

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Memorial Union renovations worth it? By Dale Grauman Ph.D. student in Rhetoric and Professional Communication I just learned about the proposed renovations to the Memorial Union. While I agree that updating the MU is a reasonable goal for our growing campus, I am a little skeptical about the proposal to fund the updates by increasing student fees. I have two questions that I’d like answered before

submitting my vote in the upcoming Student Government General Election. First, why should we pass on higher fees to future students who will enroll after the MU has been paid for? Once the fees are raised, they will presumably never return back to pre-construction levels. According to my back-of-napkin calculations — and I stress that these are very rough calculations! — it would take about 12 years for the increased stu-

dent fees to cover the $65 million cost of renovation. Twelve years seems like a long time, but the fee increases would last much, much longer. Before I vote on this project, I’d like to know if there is some reason why it would be necessary to fund the renovations onward in perpetuity. If it’s not necessary to fund them forever, then perhaps the fee increases should come with an expiration date. My second question has two

parts: What is the recruitment and retention value of a renovated MU, and has that value been factored into the price quoted to students? A renovated MU would presumably attract students to the university and help the university to retain students once they enroll. So the renovations should generate revenue. I’d like some kind of assurance that this revenue would be passed on to the students who would be funding the project.

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Cyclones left with 3 Big 12 Tourney paths By Ryan.Young @iowastatedaily.com After Tuesday night’s three-point win against Oklahoma State, the Cyclones are now sitting alone in second place in the Big 12 Conference. That’s not what many expected at the end of January. Iowa State fell to then-o. 7 West Virginia on Jan. 31, moving it to 5-4 in conference play and keeping it in a tight battle for fourth place. Yet the month of February was kind to No. 24 Iowa State (20-9, 12-5 Big 12). The Cyclones won seven of eight games, catapulting them to second place. The lone lost, though, was at Texas. That’s when the switch took place. “[That loss] humbled us,” senior Naz Mitrou-Long said. “We didn’t go in there with any high-horse mentality, but coming off a W like we did, you lose a game like that — no discredit to Texas, they’re a good young team with a great coach — we’re not supposed to drop the ball in that game. The way we came out the gate was unacceptable. “It was humbling, and I think that really sparked the run.” Now Iowa State has just one game left in the regular season — a battle at No. 11 West Virginia at 6 p.m. Friday. That game will decide the Cyclones’ seeding in the Big 12 Championships, which start next week at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri. A win secures a No. 2 seed in the tournament. A loss, and their fate is more unsure. A win on Friday wouldn’t only impact the Big 12 tournament, though. It would have a big impact on the Cyclones’ spot in the NCAA Tournament, too.

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Matt Thomas and Naz Mitrou-Long celebrate during Iowa State’s 86-83 win on Tuesday against Oklahoma State. The win marked the Cyclones’ sixth straight win, and their seventh in February.

Regardless of the implications of the game, though, senior Matt Thomas said seeding scenarios aren’t something they look at much. He’s just focused on one game at a time. “Everyone has just bought in and is playing for each other,” Thomas said. “We don’t really listen to that outside noise. We’re just trying to take care of business and get better every single day.” Here are the three scenarios that can unfold over the next week, determining Iowa State’s seeding at the Big 12 Championships: No. 2 Seed Earning a spot as the No. 2 seed in the

tournament is simple: get a win on Friday at West Virginia. Regardless of how the other games in the conference unfold this weekend, a win over the Mountaineers will keep Iowa State ahead of both them and No. 10 Baylor, ensuring a second-place finish in the conference and the No. 2 seed in the tournament. This would mean that Iowa State’s first game at the Big 12 Championship would be at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 9. The Cyclones would play the winner of the No. 7 seed vs. No. 10 seed. No. 3 Seed If Iowa State falls to the Mountaineers on Friday, their fate in the tournament

depends on the outcome of Baylor’s game against Texas on Saturday. Following a loss on Friday, Iowa State will be the No. 3 in the tournament if Texas upsets the Bears. This outcome would result in Iowa State being tied for second place, but the tiebreaker would push the Cyclones behind West Virginia and ahead of Baylor. Iowa State’s first game at the Big 12 Championship would be at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 9, and would be against the No. 3 in the tournament. No. 4 Seed Iowa State will be a No. 4 seed in the Big 12 Tournament following a loss at West Virginia and a Baylor win against Texas on Saturday. This outcome would result in Iowa State being in a three-way tie for second place in the conference. West Virginia would win the overall tiebreaker, taking the No. 2 seed in the tournament. Baylor comes next, based on head-to-head wins, becoming the No. 2. This leaves Iowa State as the No. 4. This would mean that Iowa State’s first game at the Big 12 Championship would be at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, March 9, and would be against the No. 5 seed in the tournament.

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Weighing 285 pounds, Quean Smith has wrestled at the heavyweight slot for four years.

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Quean Smit wins a match on Jan. 31, 2016, after getting a takedown in the final second.

“IF I WAS ABLE TO MAKE IT OUT OF THE PROJECTS, THE WORST PROJECTS IN THE WORLD, YOU CAN MAKE IT OUT OF ANYWHERE.”

QUEAN SMITH

noid schizophrenia. “You think everything is out to get you,” Quean said. “Junior year in high school, I lost my favorite coach. And he passed away [from a heart attack]. A few weeks later, my favorite teacher passed away. It was so hard to work through it myself that I started losing my mind.” He saw his former coach’s face when he wasn’t there. He thought people were following him when they weren’t. He could hear voices when no one else was around. Soon, Quean was hospitalized for seven days. When he got to Iowa State, people like Jackson and former Assistant Athletic Director David Harris knew about Quean’s diagnosis. Harris and Jackson put the proper people in place to make sure Quean was successful. But Quean still had a hard time opening up to people. He described himself as the world’s friendliest person. He just didn’t know how to talk about something like this. He was afraid someone would judge him. It was Robin Jackson, Kevin’s wife, who finally got through to him.

She’s a psychiatric nurse at Mary Greely Medical Center in Ames. “Before I told her what I was diagnosed with, I just told her what was going on,” Quean said. “When I started talking with her, she already knew. She busted it out before I even said it. When she knew, I took a deep breath. The Jacksons became Quean’s surrogate parents in Ames. His real mom was 10 hours away, and he never had a dad. Quean made it a semester with Jackson’s help. And more. “I just told myself I’m going to fail all of these classes because it was easy. It’s easy to fail. But then I had people over at Hixson telling me I could do it. When they were telling me that I was like, all right I’ll try harder. Then I talked with Travis [Paulson] one day and I told him, ‘I’m trying to do this work.’ And he said, ‘Only losers try. You can do it.’ So I did.” The amount of work Quean put into his classes at Iowa State was something the people at HixsonLied had never seen before. He was there for at least 10 hours a week. Masse Poetting, an academic

coordinator at Hixson, said the average time spent in Hixson for an athlete is 6 to 8 hours a week. Every time he enrolled in a new class, he brought it over to Hixson, and they developed a plan for his success. The plans worked. Quean graduated with a degree in liberal arts in December. “He went and he earned it because at any time he could’ve fell off and ended up back in Detroit becoming ineligible,” Jackson said. The last one The four-year starter at heavyweight has never qualified for the NCAA Championships. He was in position last season, but he got a phone call from back home. His cousin Wally died. He was shot and killed due to gang violence. The man who steered Quean in the right direction in high school died Feb. 4, 2016. Kevin said he couldn’t remember a year when Quean didn’t have someone close to him die. Quean might not be a paranoid schizophrenic anymore, but the doctor’s did diagnose him with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). “I started having PTSD because I started losing everybody,” Smith said. “I grew up with a lot of good friends. They might have been in gangs, but they were good guys to me. We didn’t have fathers, so we grew up together knowing the same thing. I grew up with those guys, and now — I’m the last one.” Success story Quean turned his life into a life of helping kids with physical and mental disabilities. He always worked at the Iowa State wrestling camps over the summers. He worked with kids ranging from 6 to 15 years old. When kids worked with Quean, they wouldn’t just get lessons on the wrestling mat — they’d get life lessons. “I opened up to the kids and I talked to them about, ‘No matter

how life is, you can do it,’” Quean said. “If I was able to make it out of the projects, the worst projects in the world, you can make it out of anywhere. I had a couple kids get emotional with me and want to hug. And I was fine with that because I love kids.” Every year, the kids came back. Quean exchanged phone numbers with them in case they needed anything. But this last summer was hard for everybody. It was Quean’s last time working a camp. He doesn’t want to leave his kids with a sad story — he wants to leave them with a success story. His own story. Quean agreed to comeback one last time. “My story this year will be that I graduated college and I’m going to move on with my life,” he said When Quean told his mom and grandma that he graduated, they cried tears of joy. Quean has a job lined up with a company called Family First in Santa Barbara, California. He’ll work full-time with kids who have disabilities. “By me having a disability and not having any help growing up, I feel like I should be the one to help kids,” Quean said. “ I’m a patient person and I don’t rush anything. I think going into that field will be really good for me.” Quean has the potential to impact the lives of kids in California, but it wouldn’t be possible without the help he got at Iowa State. “For us, me and my wife, we feel like we saved a life,” Jackson said. Quean agreed. “That’s one thing I can say about Iowa State,” Quean said. “I will always have people that say, ‘We have your back, and we have your back to the end.’ Everybody here that I have worked with has my back since I walked on this campus, and I can do nothing but thank everybody here.”


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Drum-inspired ‘Birdman Live’

Oscar favorites By Dalton.Gackle @iowastatedaily.com Cyclone Cinema typically brings in several Oscar-nominated films during the spring semester. This year, it missed out on the Best Picture winner, “Moonlight.” However, the next two weeks offer two impressive films. The weeks leading up to the Oscars included “Hacksaw Ridge” and “Arrival.”

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Antonio Sanchez will perform an improvisational drum accompaniment for ‘Birdman Live’ at Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines on Thursday night.

Oscar-winning film reinvents score each night By Parker.Reed @iowastatedaily.com Coming almost two-anda-half years after its original release, someone might question the relevance of a showing of “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” in a venue outside of a traditional movie theater. The critically-acclaimed black comedy was originally released in October 2014 but has since remained relevant due to “Birdman Live,” a showing of the film accompanied by a live score performed by Antonio Sanchez, the jazz drummer who provided the film its drum-centric score. “Timeless films are gonna stand the test of time,” Sanchez said. “… Great art is like an onion, the more layers you peel back, the more detail you find. ‘Birdman’ has a lot going on. The amount of detail is astounding.” Birdman Live with Antonio Sanchez will take place at 7

highly improvised. Sanchez continues this approach during the live performances of the show. “[I stick to a] general script and stay true to general effect … but I also honor the improvisational attitude of the film,” Sanchez said. In 2015, “Birdman” won four categories at the 87th Academy Awards, including Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography. The film went on to take home the night’s top prize, “Best Picture,” winning over “Boyhood,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and “Whiplash,” the latter of which also focused heavily on drumming as a part of the narrative. “Whiplash” has also received more attention recently, as the film’s director, Damien Chazelle, went on to direct “La La Land,” which was nominated for a total of 14 awards at last Sunday’s 89th Academy Awards, tying the all-time record for number of nominations with “All About Eve” and “Titanic.” “The issue with [movies like “Whiplash”] is that if the drummer isn’t being slapped or abused, then people aren’t interested,” Sanchez said.

p.m. Thursday at Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased online via Hoyt Sherman’s website. Sanchez was first approached by Alejandro G. Inarritu, director of the film, in early 2013 with a copy of the script and an idea: a comedy filmed in a single show, with a drum-only score to match the spontaneity of the visuals. “The beauty of the shots [in the film] is so well done, and we tried to match the tone of the drums to the unpredictability of the camera,” Sanchez said. When the recording of the percussion-centric score began, Inarritu believed that the drums sounded too professional. After all, this was the first film score that Sanchez had ever recorded. “[Inarritu] wanted the drums to sound like they had been sitting in the basement of the St. James Theatre for 10 years … they should sound dusty and out of tune,” Sanchez said. When pursuing this certain sound, Sanchez determined, in association with Inarritu, that the score should seem ferocious, unpredictable and

ISU Symphony Orchestra inspires young students

Sanchez, along with others, questioned the accuracy of the jazz scene depicted in films like “Whiplash” and “La La Land” following their notable success in the mainstream. However, Sanchez admitted that he hadn’t yet seen “La La Land.” “I just don’t think the way [Chezelle] depicts jazz is accurate … at no point in [“Whiplash”] is there any joy coming from creating music,” Sanchez said. “They never get [jazz] right. They try to glamorize it too much.” Sanchez also commented on last Sunday’s “Best Picture” mix up at the 89th Academy Awards, in which “La La Land” was mistakenly awarded the top prize before it was revealed that “Moonlight” had actually won. “That was unforgivable … so gratuitous,” Sanchez said. While Sanchez said he has easily seen “Birdman” more than 50 times, he doesn’t believe that the style of performance in the film has significantly influenced his style outside of the film’s environment. “I bring to the movie my experience of playing … I was allowed to be myself,” Sanchez said.

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This weekend, Carver 101 will be host to “La La Land.” “La La Land” was the Best Picture winner Sunday night for about 30 seconds. It was accidentally announced as the winner due to a card mix-up. However, it still went home with Best Actress for Emma Stone, Best Director for Damien Chazelle, Best Cinemetography, Best Production Design, Best Original Score and Best Original Song for “City of Stars.” “La La Land” will run from March 2 to 5 with showings at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. each night.

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Next weekend, Cyclone Cinema will screen “Hidden Figures.” “Hidden Figures” was also nominated for Best Picture. There was no mix-up for this film, however. “Hidden Figures” was also up for Best Supporting Actress for Octavia Spencer and Best Adapted Screenplay. “Hidden Figures” will run on March 9 and 10 with showings at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. each night.

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By Alison.Soelberg @iowastatedaily.com

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As Jacob Harrison, director of orchestral activities and associate professor of music at Iowa State, addressed an audience of grade schoolers Tuesday at Stephen’s Auditorium, he told them to “Listen for all the different colors. Listen for all the different sounds.” Harrison began the interactive and informative Children’s Matinee Concert that the ISU Symphony Orchestra hosts annually by talking about each instrumental section and explaining how they work and sound. The performers played their respective instruments to give the students an idea of what they sounded like. “Here we go strings,” Harrison said. He motioned to the symphony, and the children’s eyes lit up as they heard the large quantity of strings play a short, beautiful melody. Soon after the description and demonstration of the instruments, the symphony played its first piece, “Overture to Nabucco” by Giuseppe Verdi. It was a classic piece that intrigued the students in the audience. Harrison then taught the students how to perform percussion by having them stand up and learn a beat, which was incorporated in the last piece. Before the final piece, Harrison held an interactive question and answer session. “The goal is not perfection; it is to tell a

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Members of the ISU Symphony Orchestra play the cello at Stephens Auditorium on Tuesday.

story,” Harrison said. The symphony then launched into its final piece, “Libertadores” by Oscar Navarro, which told the story of the Amazonian landscape and the liberation that took place there. About halfway through the piece, the symphony signaled the students to stand up and take part with the body percussion they had learned. The concert ended with a standing ovation from students and their teachers. After the concert, the students gathered in the lobby of the auditorium for an instrumental petting zoo. They got to touch and pluck the instruments and ask the symphony members questions, opening the students’ eyes to the technical and artistic sides of music. The ISU Symphony Orchestra will perform at the Great Plains Regional Tuba and Euphonium Conference Saturday in the Martha-Ellen Tye Music Hall.

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