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TUESDAY

Health

Ames open for organics

CSA programs connect farmers with consumers

Organic certification costs, benefits high

By Bethany Pint Daily Staff Writer

By Whitney Sager Daily Staff Writer

Marilyn Andersen knows where her strawberries come from. She didn’t buy them in a grocery store, and they weren’t specially ordered from a berry patch in California.

Andersen gets her shipment of strawberries from Berry Patch Farm in Nevada through the Farm to Folk Community Supported Agriculture — CSA — program in Ames.

Farm to Folk began as Magic Beanstalk CSA in 1995. Its name was changed in 2007, said Andersen, coordinator of the program.

Farm to Folk is open year-round and provides consumers with different share options in a variety of price ranges.

“With a CSA share, a person would pay at the beginning of the season, and then each week during the growing season they would get a delivery of fresh produce of whatever is ripe and ready for that week,” Andersen said.

The “a la carte” option allows CSA members to choose as often as they want from a list of available items, updated each week.

“If you don’t want to have a CSA share, where you’re committed to paying at the beginning and getting something every week, with the ‘a la carte’ you can order on an as-needed basis,” Andersen said.

Helen Gunderson, of Ames, uses the “a la carte” ordering option to order chickens and honey from Audubon County Farm, and corn kernels, pancake mix and wheat berries from Paul’s Grains.

“I very much believe in the use of locally grown foods, and the grocery stores in Ames don’t really carry a lot of that,” Gunderson said.

While the push to get to know the producers is good, Gunderson said she’s met more of them through the farmers market since some of the producers don’t stick around during the Tuesday delivery date to talk

Florida, dairy from Minnesota, turkeys from Minnesota and chickens from Kalona, Iowa.

“It’s a nice way to collectively organize your customers,” he said. “The nice thing about Farm to Folk is it works well on both sides. As producers you can have all your customers all in one spot and organized. But on the other side, it’s nice for consumers because all the producers are in one spot.”

He said it’s “less money and more work” selling to grocery stores than to consumers.

He said government regulations and the competi-

While more and more farms are switching to organic farming methods, producers must keep in mind the regulations that need to be followed when growing these crops.

In order for produce to be sold as an organic product, it must be certified.

According to the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, any crop that is labeled as “100 percent organic,” “organic” or “made with organic ingredients” must be certified.

According to the National Organic Program’s Web site, the information a producer must give to an accredited certifying agent includes the type of operation, a list of any substances applied to the land during the last three years, what products are being grown, and a description of the organic system plan. Once a producer has been certified as organic, it must pay an annual fee for certification costs.

“All the certification costs for my operation are around $500 a year,” said Angela Tedesco, owner of Turtle Farm CSA in Granger.

Tedesco said the certification costs, at least in her opinion, outweigh the hidden costs that are incurred on consumers from conventional farming practices. These hidden costs may include the cleanup of pollution in water due to chemical run-off from fields. According to

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Marilyn Andersen, coordinator of Farm to Folk, talks with Paula Weidner, of Ames, after distributing vegetables that Weidner bought through the program at First Christian Church, the drop-off site. Photo: Karuna Ang/Iowa State Daily

to customers.

“If you’re expecting to get to know your farmer and have a social experience, sometimes I find more of that by going to the farmers market in the summer,” she said.

Nick Wallace, a beef and lamb producer from Keystone, said he’s been able to connect with his customers and other producers through the CSA. Wallace coordinates the distribution of several meat products through 10 different CSA programs, including four in Chicago.

Besides his beef and lamb products, Wallace processes Berkshire pork, fish from Alaska, shrimp from

Poverty Awareness Week

Budget

ISU group travels to Belize to tackle food security issues

By Chelsea Davis Daily Staff Writer While some students relaxed on a beach, went home or stayed in Ames, eight members from one ISU group went to Belize to help eliminate poverty.

Engineers Without Borders started in fall 2008 and since then has worked countless hours to spread the message of the rise of global poverty. This year it will hold Poverty Awareness Week from March 29 through April 3.

“Right now about half the population lives on less than $2 a day,” said Kavita Rodgers, senior in economics and journalism and mass communication. “We’re sitting over here at Iowa State University and everything’s really cushy, and somewhere somebody is starving or doesn’t have water to drink.”

Jeff Garland, senior in mechanical engineering and programming director for Engineers Without Borders, said the group noticed a lot of clubs on campus concerning poverty, but nothing was uniting them.

“We thought it would be a good idea to have an event that focused on the global pandemic of poverty,” Garland said. “We put together this event to combine all those clubs and individuals that had a like-minded goal of eliminating poverty.”

Although details have not been finalized for the week, Garland said the band Shades will be performing at Headliner’s on Lincoln Way. There will be a multi-disciplinary panel speaking about approaches to poverty and an event called “The World of Poverty,” which will happen in front of Parks Library. “‘The World of Poverty’ is the coolest event on campus [for Poverty Awareness Week], in my opinion,” Garland said. “Lots of different groups that deal with poverty will be explaining what they do.”

The panel will include an economics professor from Iowa State, an engineering professor from the University of Iowa who invented an award-winning filter, someone from The World Food Prize and someone in the global health arena.

Rodgers is part of the team of students who went to Belize for Spring Break.

“Last year we did an assessment trip to Belize, and based on the needs that we gathered from the villagers, we’re going down this semester to build four solar fruit dehydrators for the school,” Rodgers said.

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Iowa education fund drops

By Tyler Kingkade Daily Staff Writer Frustrations over education cuts came to a boil as Spring Break began in Iowa. Break allowed a chance for students to visit their homes and realize the next generation will face a vastly different curriculum thanks to budget cuts in nearly every school district.

Iowa’s education fund has dropped from $1.271 billion in fiscal year 2009 to $815 million in the current fiscal year. The Iowa Legislature is aiming for $844 million next year’s budget while Gov. Chet Culver has put a target at $861 million.

Des Moines Public Schools have proposed eliminating 480 positions, most of them teachers, and will make a final decision in April.

Ames Public Schools is considering cutting positions, eliminating funding for high school dances and eliminating middle school orchestra — a savings of $45,286, while scaling back music programs in elementary schools. All to reach a goal of cutting $3.5 million from their budget for the next fiscal year and $1.5 million for the 2011–’12 fiscal year.

In response, a Web site and Twitter account launched called “Save Ames Music.”

Outside of Iowa, Kansas City, Mo., is considering closing half of the public schools. Teachers and assistant principals may be laid off over the next two years for the first time in Omaha Public Schools history after a 12–0 vote March 15 by the Omaha Public School Board.

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Iowa’s education fund has dropped from $1.271 billion in fiscal year 2009 to $815 million in the current fiscal year. Gov. Culver is aiming for $861 million for next year’s budget. Photo: Tyler Kingkade/Iowa State Daily

kin and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan held a town hallstyled meeting with a standingroom only crowd of near 150 at Morris Elementary on Des Moines’ south side where Duncan largely pushed President Barack Obama’s planned overhaul of No Child Left Behind.

Outside, concerned parents stood with signs, like Jeffery J. Weiss’ reading “Make Music Not War.” Others distributed flyers urging support for music education funding. Weiss was there representing the Catholic Peace Ministry with his two daughters.

Before the doors were opened, a group of middle school teachers stood and discussed the cuts their respective schools were facing.

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last eight [years] have been phenomenal.”

No Child Left Behind was the hallmark achievement of President George W. Bush’s first year in office and based success of children performing on grade-level requirements determined by scores on standardized testing such as the Iowa Tests of Educational Development.

Betsy LeBlond has been a certified substitute teacher for more than 15 years because she does not want to “deal with the bureaucracy.”

“Teachers are so run down, so exhausted, so unsupported by the administration,” LeBlond commented.

Many of the attendees waiting for the start of the panel expressed passionate disapproval of NCLB and proposed cuts to English Second Language educators as well as to the arts.

Duncan said NCLB “didn’t

work” and put a spotlight on the achievement gap. He added, “One of the big failures is money was left behind.”

“The law was too punitive,” Duncan said as he declared a need to reward excellence.

“There’s success out there but no one is learning from them.”

Duncan emphasized giving more autonomy to school systems and less “micro-managing from Washington.”

Both Harkin and Duncan boasted the $350 million included in the Recovery Act for state education systems, though the Iowa State Education Association has said lawmakers used a majority of the money this year.

Duncan said investing in technology could create a “great equalizer” among schools and added assessment testing needed reevaluating.

“If we raise the bar, I have no doubt kids will do better,” he said.

Once questions from the audience were taken in the meeting, a man quickly stood and voiced his frustrations with Iowa’s education system.

“You say you’ve been there for 23 years; well, Senator Harkin, you get an ‘F’!” he burst in reference to Harkin’s years as the head of the Senate Education Appropriations Committee.

Attendees brought up charter schools, Gifted & Talented programs and music programs, including one parent who said, “My third grader will not have choir, orchestra and band like my fifth grader did.”

Weiss shouted from the back, “Cut the Pentagon bud-

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Lananh Pham, left, freshman in pre-biology and pre-medical illustration, and Danika Schaaf, freshman in global resource systems, take advantage of the beautiful day Monday and do their homework outside by the Knoll. The weather is expected to stay in the low 50s for the rest of the week. Photo: Rebekka Brown/Iowa State Daily

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Mar. 12 Richard Monk, 27, 3108 Ellis St., was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 11:50 p.m.)

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604, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. He was transported to the Story County Justice Center. (reported at 12:41 a.m.)

Matthew Martin, 23, 2519 Hunt St., was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated. He was transported to the Story County Justice Center. (reported at 1:08 a.m.)

An individual reported

losing a passport.

However, the item was later found. (reported at 3:09 a.m.)

Vehicles driven by Tho Pham and Susan Radke were involved in a property damage collision. (reported at 9:46 a.m.)

A staff member reported graffiti on a restroom wall. (reported at 1:10 p.m.)

A staff member reported a student who was upset about a

failing grade. (reported at 2:59 p.m.)

A resident reported unauthorized charges had been posted to a bank account and to a credit card. (reported at 3:30 p.m.)

Mar. 13 David Bendickson, 23, of Grand Junction, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 3:45 a.m.)

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the National Organic Program’s Web site, only non-synthetic, or natural, substances can be used in organic produce. Synthetic substances, such as conventional pesticides and fertilizers, cannot be used.

Rather than using harsh chemicals, organic producers will incorporate natural methods to help their crops grow.

“On our farm, we spend a lot of time creating biodiversity for pests and small animals,” said Rick Hartmann, owner of Small Potatoes Farm in Minburn. Hartmann said he does this by using crop rotations to help limit the growth of insects that are often seen when a single crop is grown in an area year after year. Marilyn Andersen, coordinator of Farm to Folk Collaborative in Ames, said producers use labor-intensive practices to keep weeds and pests out.

“They manage weeds through hand cultivation, you know, hoeing or cultivating with a small tractor, and they use crop rotations and scouting for pests to help keep the load of damaging insects down,” Andersen said.

The reason for the increase in the popularity of certified organic produce is that consumers believe it is a safer and healthier alternative to conventional produce “Some people just don’t want pesticides

tion for business are two of the toughest components when supplying for grocery stores and markets.

Andersen said there is a cost difference between products ordered from the CSA and those purchased in a grocery store.

“We find that it is a little bit less expensive than if you buy any of the organic products at any of the grocery stores,” she said.

“It’s a little bit more than conventional produce at the grocery store, but it’s less than the organic.”

Between all the CSA programs Wallace supplies, he connects with 500 consumers per month.

“I think the common thread is everyone wants to know where their food’s coming from,” he said. “They like to know who raised it and how they raised it.”

Sumana Srinath, of Ames, has been a Farm to Folk CSA member for three years.

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Organic blackberry jam lines shelves in Hy-Vee’s Natural Foods section. The Natural Foods section contains many natural and organic foods, including bulk food and organic coffee and can be found at both Ames locations. Photo: Joseph Bauer/Iowa State Daily

on their foods,” Hartmann said.

Many consumers feel better about eating food that is locally grown and about having the ability to go visit the farm where the food was grown.

“They’ll know that the farmer has taken great care in growing the crop, and they’ll know they won’t be getting pesticide residues,” Andersen said. “They won’t be getting genetically modified crops, because those are not allowed, and they’ll be supporting something that’s good for the earth and supporting sustainable practices.”

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from PAGE 1 get.” The sentiment was quickly picked up by many other audience members, who called for a shift from defense spending to education spending. Duncan and Harkin tried to move the conversation forward, but were continually interrupted by the same shouting.

Eventually Duncan admitted, “I’ve been thinking the same thing.”

Maggie Rawland of Des Moines, a retired school teacher, had been holding up a sign which read “$ for Arts, Not Arms!” She said Duncan’s comment about defense spending was a bright light during the discussion. Earlier that week, students arranged a gathering outside of Merrill Middle School in Des Moines to protest the cuts before the school day started March 8. The rally was organized by Theresa Hoffman’s language arts students while Hoffman got an OK with Merrill’s principal.

“They were very upset that we lost shop and drama [last year], and then when they heard we were going to lose vocal music and that I am retiring and a math teacher is retiring, and they’re not replacing us, they’re concerned with the size of classes,” Hoffman explained.

John Carver, left, superintendent of Van Meter school district, Sen. Tom Harkin and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan discuss issues at their town hall meeting in Des Moines. Photo: Tyler Kingkade/Iowa State Daily

Hoffman pointed to her frustrations with the DMPS district’s plan to lay off teachers while new positions are developed with people who will travel between schools and “help teachers be better teachers,” as she put it.

“Some of the schools went into a program called International Baccalaureate,” Hoffman said, adding that despite her’s and other colleague’s planned retirements they were still put through the training.

IB is a nonprofit educational foun-

dation founded in Switzerland in 1968 holding a strong interest in preparation for an international future.

“They paid full dollar to fly us. I went all the way to Montreal, Canada, got ‘wined and dined,’” Hoffman revealed.

“I was in a class size of about 10 and taught by a woman who was flown out there from Colorado Springs — it didn’t make sense to me.”Hoffman said her plane trip cost $700 and estimated the hotel rooms cost above $200 a night for three nights, not including the price of

the training itself and food and drink, for about 60 staffers from Merrill and another 60 from Goodrell. Hoffman further claimed eight positions were excessed at Goodrell Middle School because they ran out of money paying for the IB training.

“They are making them excessed because they’re saying you have to be IB trained to be in that school,” she said.

Hoffman has taught for 33 years in both Des Moines and Muscatine, and now has a master’s degree. She said the teaching methods and responsibilities have changed, as well as the family structure contributing to the current situation. Hoffman also pointed out the decline in Iowa’s rank in education. She attributed part of the decline to NCLB, which she called “a bunch of crap.”

“We are in a profession where people are too afraid to speak out,” Hoffman claimed.

Ashleigh Mills, senior in English education from Des Moines, switched her focus last semester from going to law school to opting to become a teacher in order to give back to the community.

Now amid massive budget cutting she admits the profession is “scary” and does not see incentive for progress.

Mills is disappointed to see arts and physical education being targeted,

She said she prefers going to the CSA for her milk and vegetables.

“I know it’s all locally grown,” she said. “It’s the freshest produce you can probably get.”

She said she prefers the milk through the CSA because it’s organic, and the vegetables because they are fresh.

“I’m more into local grown than organic because it’s much fresher; the taste is much better,” Srinath said.

She said she uses the “a la carte” ordering option, and in the summer she orders a share of fruits and vegetables.

Andersen said 15 to 20 people pick up orders every week this winter.

Farm to Folk had 184 members last year. The CSA sold 100 fruit shares and 90 vegetable shares.

“I think it’s a really great way to get fresh produce all year round,” she said.

“You do know where the food came from; it’s local. The quality might be a little better quality than in the grocery store, just because it’s fresh — it’s been picked that day.”

calling it “cutting creativity,” further explaining how teachers pointed out her gift of writing prompting her focus on English in college.

“Kids need that outlet,” Mills said.

“It’s a long day from 7 to 3 and they need that release, like recess.”

On March 9, community members attended the Des Moines School Board meeting to voice their concern. Two days later, a rally in support of funding for the arts and music was held on the steps of the Iowa Capitol.

Patrick J. Kearney, a music educator from Johnston High School, is encouraging the 6,324 members of his “Support Music Education in the Des Moines Public Schools” Facebook group to attend the DMPS Board budget forum next Tuesday.

Des Moines may receive $26.6 million more than what administrators are currently expecting as a part of the state’s plan to pay districts enough to allow their budgets to expand by 2 percent in the 2010–’11 school year.

Mills believes at this point the state should be allocating more money to education as a way out of the current recession.

“We need smart kids,” she explained. “We’re raising the future. It sounds cliché, but it’s true.”

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Obituaries

Governor

Juanita S. Boylan

Donald Robert Smith

Juanita S. Boylan, 87, a resident of Ames for 62 years, died Saturday, March 20 at the Story County Medical Center in Nevada.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Stevens Memorial Chapel in Ames. Burial will follow in Ames Municipal Cemetery.

A visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at Stevens Memorial Chapel.

Juanita was born July 23, 1922, in Kansas City, Mo., to Hilbert and Mamie (Evans) Sheridan.

She married David R. Boylan on March 24, 1944 in Kansas City, Mo. She graduated from the University of Kansas in 1944 with a degree in bacteriology. She was employed as a laboratory assistant at Iowa State from 1948 to 1950.

Juanita was an accomplished organist and was an active member of Campus Baptist Church, where she played the organ and piano for over 50 years.

Her love for music was passed down to her three daughters, Sharon, Elizabeth and Lisa, who became active in music in their respective churches.

She enjoyed the arts, reading, sewing, gardening and traveling.

She is survived by her husband, Dr. David R. Boylan, former dean of the College of Engineering at Iowa State; three daughters, Sharon (Lee) Hähnlen of Lynchburg, Va., Elizabeth (Murray) McKee of Carlisle and Lisa (Kevin) Powell of Walford; one daughter-inlaw, Vonny Boylan of Ames; and five grandchildren, Joshua Hähnlen, Anne-Christie (Peggy) Boylan-Ashraf, Matthew McKee,Heather McKee and Collin Powell.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a son, Gerald Ray Boylan; and a granddaughter, Amanda Hähnlen.

Donald Robert Smith, 64, a wind power engineer and radical political thinker, died March 7 in San Francisco, Calif.

Don was born in Liberal, Kan., on July 22, 1945, and raised in Rockwell City. He earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Iowa State in 1968; completed a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Paris in 1972; and received a doctorate in modern European history (focusing on the French Revolution) from the University of Iowa in 1978.

Don married Sondra (Miesse) Smith in Ames. They had three children and later divorced. They decided on a relatively unusual parenting arrangement, in which Don raised their eldest daughter Nico, and Sondra raised their twin daughters Miura and Chaney. In 1978 Don moved with Nico to Oakland, Calif., where he raised her as a single father and resided for the rest of his life.

While living in Oakland, Don became an acclaimed expert on wind power. He first worked as a research and development engineer at AeroPower Systems, a manufacturer of wind power generators; later he served as a contract engineer and wind energy consultant for PG&E. As a self-employed Wind Energy Consultant, Don held patents relating to generators, published many papers and enjoyed giving lectures.

For the last 11 years, Don worked as a regulatory analyst for the state of California Public Utilities Commission, where he was the Division of Ratepayer Advocates’ foremost expert on the implementation of California’s renewable energy program legislation and the integration of wind energy into the electricity grid using the effective load carrying capability. Don also worked on regulations for the reduction of greenhouse gases, procure-

Domestic abusers will no longer own firearms under legislation ment of all of California’s renewable resources since 2002 and the development of a resource adequacy standard.

Don’s co-workers at CPUC loved his ironic, dry sense of humor and his general refusal to fit in.

Don’s life was full of paradoxes. He lived frugally, yet splurged on an extensive collection of classic toy trains. He was not known to be sentimental, but saved every photo of his children and grandchildren ever given to him. He shied away from attention, yet was elected student body president at Iowa State in 1967, while he was a member of Students for a Democratic Society, an organization which played a major role in the student movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Don had a lasting influence on Iowa State. Although many of the ideas he proposed — co-ed dormitories, voting rights for students in university cities, alcoholic beverages on campus and legal availability of contraceptives in student health centers — were not enacted while he was student body president, they later became permanent university policies. His radical ideas, which seemed revolutionary at the time, are now standard civil rights. The cause of Don’s death was liver failure; his death was peaceful, surrounded by his daughters Nico, Miura and Chaney. Other survivors include his sister Barbara; seven grandchildren: Cage, Lena, Stosh, Ray, Sam, Austen and Calder; and his pitbull, Fido. Preceding him in death were his parents, Robert Francis Smith and Enid Mae (Stofferson) Smith.

Don asked that his body be cremated and his remains be scattered at the Altamont Pass Wind Farm. Donations may be made in Don’s name to California Transplant Donor Network, 1000 Broadway, Suite 600, Oakland, CA 94607, www. donatelifecalifornia.org.

By Mike Glover Associated Press Writer DES MOINES — People convicted of domestic abuse won’t be able to own firearms under a bill signed into law Monday by Gov. Chet Culver.

Culver signed the measure, which was approved by the legislature on Thursday, at a Statehouse ceremony, capping 10 years of work by victim advocates who claimed it was an obvious way to protect people from abusers.

“The bottom line is, it’s the right thing to do,” Culver said.

Among those who attended the ceremony were the governor’s wife, Mari Culver, who has focused on issues of special significance to women and children during her tenure as first lady.

“For 40 months, she has gone across this state advocating for women and children in need,” the governor said. “She lost a cousin to a horrific case of domestic violence.”

Attorney General Tom Miller also attended, noting that he has long called for a measure outlawing gun ownership by people convicted of domestic abuse.

Miller said 205 Iowans have died in domestic violence incidents since 1995. That includes 111 who were killed with guns — 26 of them children or bystanders.

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The group is also doing water quality and soil testing projects, planting a school garden and implementing a feeding program so the boarding school can be self-sufficient.

“We’re looking for a sustainable project that the students would be able to carry on even after we’ve left,” Rodgers said.

Around the world people are hard at work trying to eliminate poverty.

“The U.N. has ’Millennium Development Goals,’ which are helping to eradicate poverty and reduce it by half by the year 2015,” Rodgers said.

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“It will save lives,” Miller said. “It will help prevent women, men and children from being terrorized, maimed and killed by violent abusers.”

The measure makes an exception for law enforcement officers. Those found guilty of domestic abuse can keep their service weapons but must give up all other weapons in possession.

Gun-rights advocates opposed the measure, arguing it was the first step toward greater restrictions on gun ownership.

They said the state should offer self-defense classes to domestic abuse victims instead, or give them tax breaks on gun purchases.

The measure was modeled after a federal law approved by Congress in 1995.

Senate Majority Leader Michael Gronstal, D-Council Bluffs, dismissed the gun-rights arguments.

“If you want to keep your guns, don’t beat up your spouse,” he said.

developing world you need things to be affordable for the people that would use them,” Garland said. “So what we’re doing is figuring out ways to retrofit those molds with things that they’ll have.”

Therefore, Garland said, they are using a planter for the inner mold and a modified trash can for the outer mold. The group is looking for members from all majors and backgrounds.

“It’s not all about engineering,” Rodgers said. “You have to take into account the economic and social and cultural aspects. It’s really nice to have other perspectives as well.”

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ders is doing its part in developing new and more costeffective projects that could be used in impoverished countries. Garland made it clear, though, that the group is not solely for engineers.

“It’s not engineering in the sense that a lot of people think, where it’s heavy numbercrunching,” Garland said. “It’s almost more of a MacGyverstyle engineering, where you have limited resources and you try to manipulate [them] to fit your needs.”

One of Garland’s current projects is a peanut sheller, which is a set of concrete molds that spin around to shell the peanuts.

Unfortunately, the molds cost $500.

“They’re really expensive, and if you’re working in the

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Health Care

Obama to speak in Iowa City President to sign health bill, take it on the road

States line up to challenge overhaul

By Erica Werner Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is preparing to sign a transformative health care bill ushering in near-universal medical coverage for the first time in the nation’s history — and then hit the road to sell it to a reluctant public.

Obama will travel to Iowa City on Thursday, the White House said, as he now turns to seeing a companion bill through the Senate and selling the health care overhaul’s benefits on behalf of House members who cast risky votes. It is most likely that he will sign the bill Tuesday, but plans are not yet final, said a senior administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an as-yetunannounced strategy.

House Democrats voted 219–212 late Sunday to send the landmark legislation to Obama.

The 10-year, $938 billion bill would extend coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans, reduce deficits and ban insurance company practices such as charging more to women and denying coverage to people with pre-existing medical conditions.

“This is what change looks like,” Obama said later in tele-

Activists, legislators and community leaders gather outside Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., on Monday. They launched a petition to put a measure on the Michigan ballot asking voters whether they want to exempt the state from the health care overhaul. Photo: Carlos Osorio/The Associated Press

vised remarks that stirred memories of his 2008 campaign promise of “change we can believe in.”

“We proved that this government — a government of the people and by the people — still works for the people.”

Obama’s presidency received a needed boost from legislation’s passage, which would touch the lives of nearly every American. The battle for the future of the health insurance system — affecting one-sixth of the economy — galvanized Republicans and conservative activists looking ahead to November’s midterm elections.

A companion package making a series of changes sought by House Democrats to the larger bill, which already passed the Senate, was approved 220–211.

The fix-it bill will now go to the Senate, where debate is expected to begin as early as Tuesday.

Senate Democrats hope to approve it unchanged and send it directly to Obama, though Republicans intend to attempt parliamentary objections that could change the bill and require it to go back to the House.

Sen. John McCain said Monday morning that Democrats have not heard the last of the health care debate, and said he

Texas Republican says he shouted ‘baby killer’ during House debate

By Jim Abrams Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON — Texas Republican Rep. Randy Neugebauer (NAW’-guh-bow-er) says he was the lawmaker who shouted out “baby killer” when Rep. Bart Stupak, whose vote was crucial to passage of the health care bill, was speaking on the House floor Sunday evening.

The third-term congressman says he apologized to Stupak.

He says in a statement that while he remains “heartbroken” over passage of the bill, “I deeply regret that my actions were mistakenly interpreted as a direct reference” to Stupak.

Neugebauer says he shouted Neugebauer out “it’s a baby killer” in reference to an agreement reached between President Barack Obama and anti-abortion Democrats led by Stupak.

was repulsed by “all this euphoria going on.”

Appearing on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” McCain, who was Obama’s GOP rival in the 2008 presidential campaign, said that “outside the Beltway, the American people are very angry. They don’t like it, and we’re going to repeal this.”

The complicated two-step approval process for the legislation was made necessary because Senate Democrats lost their filibuster-proof supermajority in a special election in January, a setback that caused even some Democratic lawmakers to pronounce the yearlong health

States are already lining up to sue the federal government over the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Officials in at least 10 states are filing a lawsuit challenging the legislation.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said he planned to file the complaint “the moment Obama signs the bill.”

Abbott pledged to pursue the case “to protect all Texans’ constitutional rights, preserve the constitutional framework intended by our nation’s founders and defend our state from further infringement by the federal government.”

Other states planning to challenge the bill were Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Utah and Washington.

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning said the measure “tramples on individual liberty and dumps on the states the burden of an unfunded mandate that taxpayers cannot afford.”

The House voted 219–212 late Sunday to approve the overhaul, which would extend coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans and make a host of other changes.

—The Associated Press

care effort dead. Under the relentless prodding of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in particular, it was gradually revived, and the fix-it bill will be considered under fast-track Senate rules that don’t allow minority party filibusters.

“We will be joining those who established Social Security, Medicare and now, tonight, health care for all Americans,” said a jubilant Pelosi, D-Calif., partner to Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the grueling campaign to pass the legislation.

GOP lawmakers attacked the legislation as everything

from a government takeover to the beginning of totalitarianism, and none voted in favor.

“Hell no!” Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, shouted in a fiery speech. “We have failed to listen to America and we have failed to reflect the will of our constituents.”

Thirty-four Democrats also voted “no” on the Senatepassed bill.

Sunday night’s votes capped an unpredictable and raucous weekend at the capitol, with Democratic leaders negotiating around the clock for the final votes as hundreds of protesters paraded outside.

Police investigate vandalism at NY Democratic offices ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Authorities are trying to find out who threw bricks through windows and doors at two Democratic Party offices in western New York before Sunday’s health care vote.

Monroe County Democratic Committee officials say a brick shattered glass doors at the party’s headquarters in Rochester on Saturday or Sunday.

No one was in the building at the time.

Rochester police are investigating.

A brick was thrown through a window at Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter’s district office in Niagara Falls early Friday.

Slaughter’s district stretches from Rochester to the Buffalo area.

She has been an important supporter of the health care reform bill passed Sunday by the House.

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Renee Bowman, 44, showed no emotion even as she apologized.

“I am very sorry for the abuse of the girls,” she told Montgomery County Circuit Judge Michael J. Algeo in an even voice. “It haunts me. It haunts me every day.”

The judge was unconvinced.

“You come across as such a nice, soft-spoken person,” Algeo said. “I can only conclude that the Renee Bowman I see before me is a different Renee Bowman from the one who lived in that house in Lusby.”

The bodies of Minnet and Jasmine Bowman were discovered in a locked freezer in September 2008. Authorities searched the house after a third sister escaped and was found wandering the neighborhood.

Investigators concluded Bowman had killed the girls months before, while the family was living 60 miles away in Rockville, and took the freezer with her as she moved around.

Even after the girls died, she continued to collect subsidies paid to adoptive parents of special needs children in the

Renee Bowman is escorted into the Calvert County courthouse in Maryland for sentencing Jan. 8. Bowman was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and three counts of first-degree child abuse. File photo: Ann Heisenfelt/The Associated Press

District of Columbia. She received a total of about $150,000 after the adoptions.

A jury convicted Bowman last month of two counts of first-degree murder and three counts of first-degree child abuse.

Bowman had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree child abuse in Calvert County for abusing the third girl in Lusby and was sentenced to 25 years.

Monday’s sentence — two consecutive life terms for the killings, plus 75 years for the abuse — was the maximum allowed under Maryland law.

“You sentenced these two young innocent children in the dawn of their lives to a death chamber, and for you that op-

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Bowman’s lawyers maintain she did not kill the girls, though they acknowledge the abuse. Public defender Alan Drew said the defense would appeal the murder convictions but declined to comment further.

Prosecutors painted Bowman as a sadist who derived pleasure from her children’s misery as she kept them in a locked room with a bucket for a toilet. All three girls had severe injuries from repeated beatings, and none ever went to school. The surviving girl, now 9, testified Bowman beat them with a baseball bat and repeatedly choked them until they lost consciousness.

Officer Arrest

Colorado trooper arrested on drunken driving charge

By Dan Elliott Associated Press Writer DENVER — An on-duty Colorado state trooper was arrested Monday on suspicion of driving drunk in a marked patrol car while in uniform and carrying a gun, authorities said.

David Dolan, 48, was arrested by Douglas County deputies about 7 a.m. on Colorado 470, a beltway around southwest Denver, the Sheriff's Department said.

He was booked on charges of driving under the influence and prohibited use of weapons.

Colorado law makes it illegal for anyone to have a firearm while intoxicated.

Dolan was placed on unpaid leave and an internal investigation was under way, said Col. James Wolfinbarger, chief of the Colorado State Patrol.

Dolan was on his way from his home station in Colorado Springs to the State Patrol training academy in the west Denver suburb of Golden, said Wolfinbarger, who didn't know what business Dolan had at the academy.

A woman who answered the phone at a Col-

orado Springs number listed for Dolan declined to comment and hung up.

Video of Dolan's arrest was captured by a television station helicopter. It showed deputies putting handcuffs Dolan on him and placing him in the back of a patrol vehicle.

"Images like that tarnish our badges," Wolfinbarger said, adding that he was devastated by the arrest.

Dolan is a 21-year veteran of the State Patrol.

Wolfinbarger declined to say whether Dolan had been commended or disciplined in the past, citing privacy rules.

Asked if Dolan might be suffering from posttraumatic stress or other consequences of job stress, Wolfinbarger said, "This is a very difficult job. ... There are clearly years of accumulated stress." He didn't elaborate.

Dolan was arrested after several people reported a State Patrol car driving erratically on northbound Interstate 25 near Castle Rock, about 25 miles south of Denver.

Technology

Tourist rocket test flight successful MOJAVE, Calif. — Virgin Galactic’s new space tourism rocket has been taken aloft over the California desert by a mothership aircraft on its first test flight. Virgin Galactic says in a statement on its Web site that Monday’s flight at the Mojave Air and Space Port was

successful.

The spaceship remained attached to the specially designed jet-powered mothership throughout the flight.

In the future, the spaceship will be launched from the larger aircraft, fire its rocket and carry passengers on a sub-

orbital thrill ride into space before gliding to a landing — for about $200,000 a ticket.

It’s the second generation of the Burt Rutan-designed system that sent the first privately developed, manned rocket into space in 2004.

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Internet

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By Melissa Eddy Associated Press Writer

A worker cleans the sign in front of Google China headquarters in Beijing on Monday. Google Inc. will shift its search engine off the mainland and maintain other operations in the country to counter against censorship. Photo: Ng Han Guan/The Associated Press

Google Inc. shifts search engine off Chinese mainland

By Jessica Mintz and Michael Liedtke AP Technology Writers SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. stopped censoring the Internet for China by shifting its search engine off the mainland Monday but said it will maintain other operations in the country. The maneuver attempts to balance Google's disdain for China's Internet rules with the company's desire to profit from an explosively growing market.

Google's decision comes after an impasse pitting the world's most powerful Internet company against the government of the world's most populous country. But it's not clear Google has resolved the standoff that began Jan. 12. That's when Google said it would no longer adhere to China's requirement that it keep some Internet results out of its citizens' view.

Visitors to Google's old service for China, Google.cn, are now being redirected to the Chinese-language service based in Hong Kong, where Google does not censor the search results. The Hong Kong page heralded the shift Monday with this announcement: "Welcome to Google Search in China's new home." The site also began displaying search results in the simplified Chinese charac-

ters that are used in mainland China.

However, the results can't all be accessed inside China, because government filters restrict the links that can be clicked by mainland audiences.

Google plans to keep its engineering and sales offices in China so it can keep a technological toehold in the country and continue to sell ads for the Chinese-language version of its search engine in the U.S. The company, based in Mountain View, Calif., also intends to keep its mapping and music services on Google.cn.

But the revolt against censorship threatens to crimp Google's growth, particularly if China retaliates by making it more difficult for the company to do business in the country.

The Chinese government could react by blocking access to Google's services, much as it has completely shut off Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, which is owned by Google.

In a way, Monday's change harks back to how Google operated in China before 2006. Back then Chinese users could search through Google sites such as Google.com, although filters inside China kept people there from clicking through to links generated by queries such as "Tiananmen Square massacre."

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REGENSBURG, Germany — Four priests and two nuns in the Regensburg diocese are under investigation for sexual abuse allegations, the diocese said Monday, as a wider picture began to emerge of incidents decades ago in the pope’s native Bavaria.

Diocese spokesman Clemens Neck said that since allegations first surfaced earlier this month, the church has been pursuing the cases with the goals of achieving justice and help for the victims, punishing the offenders and preventing future crimes.

“The work of the last 14 days has shown us that serious wrongdoing was committed by spiritual leaders and members of the church,” Neck said at a press conference called to provide an update on the investigation.

“We deeply regret what the spiritual leaders and church members did to these children and youths, and we ask for forgiveness on their behalf.”

In addition to the six now under investigation, about whom further details were not given, Neck said there were two new charges of sexual abuse of a minor by a man identified as Friedich Z. who was already convicted of abuse charges in 1958, and one new charge against a Georg Z. who was convicted in 1969.

The Regensburg cases come among a

Pope Benedict XVI, right, walks with Georg Ratzinger on Sept. 13, 2006, in Regensburg, Germany. The pope’s brother says that he slapped pupils across the face after he took over a German boys’ choir in the 1960s. File photo: Diether Endlicher/The Associated Press

spiraling child abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church in Germany, in which some 300 former students have come forward with claims of physical or sexual abuse.

Members of a U.S.-based group arrived in Munich on Monday to encourage more victims in Germany to come forward.

“We want to reach out to any others who have been hurt. We ask them to speak out,” said Barbara Blaine, president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP.

Abuse scandals involving Catholic dioceses, monasteries and other institutions have also hit several other countries, with victims in Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Italy all coming forward recently with allegations of abuse as well as cover-ups.

Blaine said she hoped that her group, which has some 9,000 members in the U.S., would be able to found a chapter in Germany and other European nations to help victims and pressure the church to report offending priests.

American on Trial

Vatican

North Korea detains man for illegal entry

Pro-life protestors call for excommunication

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Monday that it will put an American on trial for entering the communist country illegally.

State-run media identified him as 30-year-old Aijalon Mahli Gomes, of Boston, and said “his crime has been confirmed.”

North Korea had announced two months ago that an American was detained Jan. 25 for trespassing after crossing into the country from China and was under investigation.

There was no immediate U.S. confirmation of the man’s identity but State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said last week that Swedish diplomats in Pyongyang have had access to an American in North Korean custody.

Gomes would be the fourth American detained in communist North Korea on charges of illegal entry in the past year. It was not immediately clear why he crossed into North Korea.

ROME — An abortion foe is demanding the excommunication of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a tiny protest in Rome outside St. Peter’s Square.

For exactly a minute Monday, Randall Terry and six other protesters held placards a few yards away from the edge of Vatican territory.

Terry in the past urged people to burn effigies of Pelosi for her championing of health care legislation in Congress.

Terry’s placard read “No

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communion for Pelosi.”

Other signs urged Washington’s archbishop, Donald Wuerl, to excommunicate her.

Democrats voted Sunday to extend coverage to millions of uninsured Americans.

Key to passage was an executive order signed by President Barack Obama affirming laws that ban federal funding for abortions except for rape, incest or danger to the woman’s life.

Vatican teaching forbids abortion.

—The Associated Press

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Review:

Welcome to the ‘Entitled States of America’ Throughout the health care reform debate, our leaders had the opportunity to implement meaningful change in an imperfect system. Instead, they multiplied existing flaws by vastly increasing the entitlement nature of government health care.

“How,” senators cried, “can a wealthy, industrial society have members who do not enjoy the benefits of modern health care insurance?” But that’s the wrong question.

Poverty is the natural state of human existence. Each of us comes into the world naked and cold, with dominion over nothing more than ambition and intellect, which we may put to the task of building our lives.

That is, until government guarantees us myriad entitlements that can be had, essentially, through the act of being born.

In Europe, a baby comes out of the womb, slaps the obstetrician and demands immediate access to infant-fortified government cheese puree and a TV on which to watch the government-created educational program “Proletariat Street,” broadcast on the public cable network.

OK, so maybe that’s an exaggeration, but not by much. In Greece, a country on the brink of financial meltdown, 28-year-old hairdressers take to the streets in support of their “right” to retire at age 50 and collect pensions paid out of the state coffer.

In France, where laid-off workers have a tendency to kidnap their bosses, the right to a job is as culturally embedded as baguettes and menage a trois.

We Yanks have mostly resisted such notions of entitlement, but today, those on the left are celebrating a bill that, as one columnist wrote, “enshrines the principle that all Americans have the right to health care.”

The problem is that such a right is essentially a claim over someone else’s property: your doctor’s time and training, your hospital’s equipment and supplies and your insurer’s or the taxpayer’s money.

Conceptually then, demanding that health care be provided to you is as absurd as demanding that a local builder construct a house in order to fulfill your right to a home or demanding that Apple give you a new iPad so that you can exercise your right to not pay attention in class.

In contrast, the rights given to us by the Constitution are freedoms: They provide us with a framework in which to live, not the means to do so. We are guaranteed pursuit of happiness, not happiness.

Author Stephen Crane’s most famous poem illuminates the difference: “A man said to the universe: ‘Sir, I exist!’

‘However,’ replied the universe, ‘The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.’”

If Crane were writing today, man’s pompous declaration wouldn’t be humbled, because a government regulator would butt in to provide the man with government-funded food, housing and health care. Today, simply by being, we hold that society owes us a debt for the pleasure of our company.

By further changing the relationship between citizen and state, and by marching toward a single-payer system, legislators missed the boat. They asked, “Why do we have poverty?” and answered, “Because we haven’t yet provided for everyone.”

A more illuminating question, though, is, “Why do we have wealth?” Had legislators asked, the unequivocal answer would have been that wealth — quality health care included — is a product of the hard work and innovation of millions of individuals within a free-market system. With that knowledge, Congress could have enacted reforms to strengthen the health care markets.

Tort reform could save hospitals millions in medical malpractice premiums, and would keep physicians who fear high-dollar lawsuits from ordering unnecessary and costly tests. Increased use of medical savings accounts, coupled with high-deductible insurance plans, could put consumers back in charge of weighing the costs and benefits of treatment options. Both ideas could lower the overall cost of health care and, presumably, increase coverage.

Instead, we get more government, a bigger bureaucracy and an even more unsustainable mentality of entitlement.

The obligation is now law — and all you have to do to cash in is say, “I exist.”

Players control multiple characters throughout the game “Heavy Rain,” each one with a unique and interesting perspective necessary to unraveling the mystery of the Origami Killer. The character pictured above, Norman Jayden, is an FBI investigator armed with cutting edge technology useful in tracking down clues. These clues, characters and plot are pivotal to the full experience. Courtesy photo: IGN.com

Lots of story, not much else ‘Heavy Rain’ provides fine entertainment but leaves an almost sour aftertaste

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“Heavy Rain” has both, but I’ve got to be honest with you, I’m still not entirely sure how I feel about it.

As an eagerly anticipated exclusive for the PS3, this title has some selling power. It’s unique, it’s complex and, even on a superficial level, it looks great. What sets this title apart is that whereas other games use narrative to push the player forward as a tool, “Heavy Rain” is nothing if not the story itself.

The tale is interesting, holds high stakes and engrosses from the get-go — all definite positives. I’ve seen and heard a lot of people complain about the opening hour or so — how slow it is, how very tutorial-like and uneventful. But while I would agree that it is quite slow, I would assert that the way things play out in the prologue are important for understanding and connecting with later moments. Hence, it didn’t really bother me, especially because of how fast things take off from there.

The action sequences come in spades, and will have you fending off attackers, fleeing for your life and other adrenaline-inducing scenarios. It’s really hard to go into any sort of detail without spoiling the game, but rest assured, there will very likely be times when you grip the controller in a heated panic, completely aware of the consequences of failure.

I know there were multiple times I screamed at my TV, “I’m not gonna do that! No! I can’t!” or “Run! Run you son of a bitch! Get out of there!” or even “No ... no, it can’t be!”

Speaking of plot, this one really does deserve to be seen in its entirety. Don’t look up strategy guides — at all. Doing so will just leave you empty inside, as it robs the scene of any unpredictability. There was one point at which I couldn’t figure out how to properly direct my character through one of the game’s trials, and I eventually got so frustrated I had to look up how to do something as simple as moving. By the time I found out

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what I was doing wrong, all of my fear and tension had been replaced with exasperation and frustration, ruining the remainder of the scene.

In other words, don’t be like me. Explore and try your very best to figure things out on your own, and live with the consequences.

Your characters will thank you for it. Or they’ll die. Lighthearted stuff in this game, huh?

While the characters all look great, the environments are sometimes textured surprisingly low-resolution and flat, or models can seem strange and unnatural. It can remind you a little too much that “Heavy Rain” is a game, not an interactive drama with real people you should care about. It should be noted that, while this pops up every now again, the majority of the game is very successful in engaging the audience, and it’s a great, strange feeling when the game makes you feel for a certain character. For example, Madison Paige perfectly channels the real-world feminine perspective and problems.

Similarly, while all of the characters are presumably American, their voice actors are not. The main characters are fine — Scott Shelby is particularly well-voiced — but some of the side characters and less-prevalent people throughout the game have a slight French twist to their voices that can pull you out of the moment.

Nothing against the French, mind you. I just don’t know any American who sounds like that.

Controls are accurate and responsive, a definite plus considering how quickly you’ll need to react in certain situations. The only real gripe I had was with walking. You don’t do it by holding the left thumbstick as is common in nearly every other title in existence, you instead press and hold R2 to travel whichever

way you face. The left thumbstick still controls where you look, and turning it will change your character’s direction, so I’m not sure why it was necessary to implement the R2 control scheme when you’re practically traveling by analog stick anyway. It just feels clunky and slow compared to everything else.

The entire game should take around 15 hours — not bad for an extremely linear structure. That sort of length helped to keep me engrossed and amazed, begging for the next bit of information. In fact, it was very hard to put the controller down at some points — like 3 in the morning — because I was so eager and desperate to see what happened next.

Now, all that being said, while I had an absolute blast playing “Heavy Rain” and will likely give it another play-through to see what changes I can create, looking back I’m not entirely sure it’s a must-buy. Here’s the thing, the story is an intriguing murder-mystery as good and engrossing as any Hollywood blockbuster and has multiple twists to keep you guessing at the identity of the killer. But once you’ve figured out whodunnit, you look back and wonder about whether a few of the earlier scenes were extraneous, unnecessary dead-ends.

In other words, was it clever writing and a well-constructed plot, or was it a bunch of b.s. and curve balls explicitly designed to throw you from the trail? There are some questions that don’t get answered, leaving some fairly big plot holes that can take away from the feeling of satisfaction upon completion.

Really, I feel like a dog. My owner has a tennis ball and has thrown it, sending me running; or so I thought. Upon returning to my owner, I can see they never actually threw the ball; it was here the whole time.

There was no conspiracy of tennis balls, there was no identical-but-shady-and-evil tennis ball, there wasn’t even a point in me running off like I did. It was just this tennis ball, right here, in my owner’s hand. I’m surprised and delighted to see it, to finally chew it in my mouth and savor its sweet, succulent flavor, but I can’t help but feel a little cheated all the same.

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Veishea violence blamed on students To the editor, While Veishea is just three weeks away, I would like to remind readers that it was just six short years ago that Iowa State had its most recent “party riot” involving thousands of students.

As a result, nothing sharpens the senses of local leaders more acutely than looking down the barrel of another Veishea.

For the uninitiated, Veishea is the annual event that exposes to public view the years of wrongheaded policies around alcohol use, and the mismanagement of the student body — except for the most compliant — by the division of student affairs.

Dr. Larry Brendtro said, “In most fields of professional knowledge, the expert thinks in different ways than the naive observer. But specialists with troubled youth often alter only the words, while the music

Jon Shelness is a 2004 alumnus. continues with refrains of ‘attack’ or ‘avoid.’”

Because the primary focus of large land-grant universities is research and publishing, student governance mostly takes a back seat.

As a result, the dorms are not organized around cutting-edge management strategies, and atrisk students often run amok in small and large ways. Then, these same students move off campus, taking the values learned in the dorms with them into the community.

But don’t worry; Iowa State, with the help of the city of Ames, has a plan if students really get out of line during Veishea.

A disturbance will be met with swift and questionable

police tactics that will result in a draw, yet the public will applaud the theatrics as a win for law and order. The university and city will then figuratively circle the wagons to end all debate, and use spin control with the press.

Lobbyists will be dispatched to the Iowa Statehouse and to Washington D.C. to call in favors.

All problems will be blamed on the students themselves, and one or two undergraduates will be scapegoated by the Story County and ISU justice systems.

Then, a task force of local experts, who get their power from the status quo, will be convened.

Lawyers from various state agencies will review student complaints and the U.S. Department of Justice will look the other way.

As a result, those in power will be absolved of all wrongdoing, and nothing substantive will change.

Then, a summit will be held

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with experts from other large land-grant universities that suffer from these same kinds of disturbances, who themselves refuse to change.

The purpose is to make it seem like the underlying issues around the 210 “party riots” that have occurred at mostly large land-grant universities since the mid-’80s are actually being addressed.

All the above tactics are used because officials know that the public relations black eye will disappear from sight after a year as people tire of the issue. By dealing with major disturbances in the above mentioned ways, it is much cheaper and much less disruptive to the campus bureaucracy than actually fixing the underlying problems.

This is what passes as “best practices” at Iowa State. Have a happy and safe Veishea.

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C Please speak out to help a man not lose further years of his life This is a story of a man named Glenn Allen Smith who is currently in jail in Nevada, Iowa, for allegedly stabbing and killing Daniel McGonigle. I am responding to several comments made in the press.

In the Dec. 30, 2009, edition of the Ames Tribune, an article stated that, according to testimony, McGonigle was the one who attacked Glenn. It also said McGonigle was still enraged and began cursing obscenities at the medics when they arrived, swearing he would kill the person responsible. Does this sound like an innocent victim to you? Someone who physically attacks another human being and then states that he will kill him?

Several other articles have also made reference to Glenn being in prison in the past for a similar crime.

In the Dec. 8, 2009, edition of the Ames Tribune, it was stated that Glenn was released in 1997 from a prison in Oklahoma but was incarcerated on various other crimes until 2001.

On Jan. 15, in the Ames Tribune, Story County Attorney Stephen Holmes stated that Glenn was indigent and implied that he had been since 2001.

Now, the media have gone from stating that McGonigle suffered several stab wounds to 20 stab wounds, and in one story it was even 30.

The numerous stories that have been written about Glenn have painted a picture of a monster. I intend to paint another picture for you, a more accurate one at that.

To many of you, this man is Glenn Allen Smith, the killer.

For me it’s just “Hot Rod,” my brother.

Just within this past week, I learned of my brother being in jail in Iowa.

I want the world to see the man that I knew my whole life.

He has never been a violent person.

As a child he couldn’t even stomach the site of blood. I remember it as though it were yesterday; we were kids going to the doctor together to get our immunizations.

I had to go first, as he was too scared, and the moment he saw blood on my arm he ran into the hall and began to vomit.

He was always very tenderhearted and would never hurt anyone without provocation.

Before our mother passed away — I was 7 and he was 9 — she made him promise to always look out for me.

He was my hero and would always come to my defense in the face of a bully. He loves his family and has always had a protective nature.

I implore you to have compassion, to walk a mile in my brother’s shoes.

Would you not fight to your death — or possibly and unfortunately to your attacker’s death

Tammy LaDawn Smith is the sister of Glenn Allen Smith.

— in order to defend a family member or yourself?

I know that I would. My brother and I, along with five other siblings, did not have an easy childhood.

We endured losing our mother from cirrhosis of the liver, foster homes, living from relative to relative, neglect and emotional turmoil from seeing things we should have never seen as children.

I am in no way making these references to invoke pity, but simply in hopes to evoke some compassion.

In reference to the charge in Oklahoma in 1985, imagine a 21-year-old young man with a wife, two small boys and a job to support them, who happens upon the wrong person at the wrong time.

A man you simply needed a ride from and ends up changing the course of your life.

A large homosexual man, who starts trying to touch you inappropriately, and then physically attacks you.

Would you panic? Would you let him have his way with you? Would you fight for your life, or just let him take it from you?

You would do exactly what I believe my brother did: You would defend yourself to the death.

Yes, my brother fought for his life, and yes the only means that he had to save himself was a small pocket knife.

Imagine how traumatizing this would be for anyone, much less a 21-year-old.

It was shown in court that the one wound was an upward thrust — Glenn was defending himself, not attacking.

Put yourself in his shoes for just a moment.

If someone were attacking you and the only thing you had in your possession to strike back with were a magazine lighter, a hammer, a fork, a pair of scissors or any item for that matter, would you not reach for it in order to save your life from someone who is literally trying to choke the life out of you?

My brother is not a coldblooded killer.

Now you can ask yourself, is this someone who walks through life victimizing others or is he in fact an unfortunate soul who was physically attacked not once, but twice in his life, being left with the unfortunate necessity to defend his own life?

My brother was released in 2001 at which time I sent him a bus ticket and invitation to come to Wilson, N.C., and live with myself and my two children.

I have photos, taken Dec. 25, 2001, that show “Uncle Hot Rod” enjoying his first Christmas since the age of 21.

While he was here, he obtained a drivers license and worked two jobs.

One year later he went back to our home state of Oklahoma, where he worked several jobs, stayed with two different

siblings and also had a place of his own.

It was only after an apparent breakdown that he turned to the streets to live.

Imagine having almost 20 years of your life taken from you.

In the meantime your kids grow up without you, your father passes away, you miss out on everything in life.

Imagine the mental state that one must be in after enduring such a life and simply because you valued your life enough to fight for it. Because you were not in the position to afford an attorney of your choosing.

As stated in the Tribune, the conviction of second-degree murder in the McGonigle case was thrown out because District Court Judge William Pattinson found the verdict was “contrary to the evidence’s weight.”

There was another knife found at the scene, with blood on it, according to testimony in the McGonigle trial.

However, they couldn’t determine whether it was human or animal blood.

Please, this was in 2009.

What kind of test did they run?

Could the other knife have been used by Larry Fowler, who had also been in conflict with McGonigle earlier, according to testimony?

This would explain the many wounds, as well as the two- and four-inch wound lengths. Yet the attorney is still going after my brother with a vengeance.

I am pleading with anyone who may read this, who is willing to advocate for my brother’s release, or may have further information regarding this case to please come forward before it is too late.

Please don’t let them take away what little life my brother has left.

ongratulations! You got the interview.

Once you get past the excitement of being invited to an interview with a company you were secretly wishing would call you, it is time to get to work and prepare for your big moment.

This time of year I find myself offering interviewing tips on a regular basis to students who are looking for full-time jobs or summer internships.

Bottom line: The preparation methods are the same.

It all starts with research, practice and a professional appearance.

It may go without saying that you should practice your responses to the typical interview questions: “Tell me about yourself,” “What are your strengths?” and “Where do you see yourself in five years?”

But what about the questions you ask the interviewer?

Yes, you actually do want to ask, not just answer, questions. Some of you may be saying to yourselves: “Won’t it seem like I wasn’t listening or did not do my research if I ask a question during an interview?”

Quite the contrary, actually. Asking questions can demonstrate your genuine interest in the organization and the position for which you are interviewing.

Of all the questions a hiring manager may ask you during a job interview, the one that could be the most important and most crucial to your success — and trickiest to answer: “Do you have any questions for me?”

This simple question can baffle those of you who already feel they have achieved the utmost level of preparation.

However, asking questions provides the perfect opportunity to set yourself apart from other applicants interviewing for the same position as you.

My best advice? Plain and simple: Do not say “No” when they ask that question.

Recruiters admit they get a sense of the candidate not being prepared or having done no research when they don’t have questions to ask. One local recruiter shares this: “If a candidate comes with questions for me, it shows initiative. I get the feeling they have truly taken the time to look at the position and the company. It gives me a better insight into what that candidate may be like.”

Asking smart and relevant questions allows you to guide the conversation as well as expand upon your related skills and experience.

Tammy Stegman is a Career Coordinator in the College of Business, Raisbeck Career Services Center.

A list of each career services office can be found at www.career.iastate.edu.

A good way to think of questions to ask is thoroughly researching the Web site.

Many times, examination of the Web site will generate questions to which you want to know the answer.

In addition, there is bound to be something you want to know and can ask that you won’t find on the Web site.

Another way to come up with questions to ask is to tie in your past experiences.

Maybe volunteering has been a big focus in your life and you want to know if volunteering and community involvement is important to the organization.

Avoid asking questions about compensation and benefits until an offer has already been extended.

Consider these questions as you are preparing for your big interview.

Make sure to write them down so you don’t run the risk of forgetting what you wanted to ask.

How would you describe your company’s culture?

I noticed on your Web site that you were a $1.8 million bank last quarter. What are the biggest challenges facing your company in the next several years?

What are the most important priorities for this department?

While researching your organization I learned you recently [fill in the blank]. Can you tell me a little bit more about this development?

What do you enjoy most about working here?

These questions should be helpful in your interview success.

Probably the most important question you can ask is: “What is the next step in the process?”

If you forget to ask this question, you may walk away from the interview wondering when they will contact you.

Finally, at the end of the interview, take a moment to reiterate your interest about the position and the organization.

Thank the interviewer for his or her time, and be sure to follow up with a note of appreciation.

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Women’s Basketball

Goodell in favor of new overtime rules for playoffs

By Barry Wilner Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell likes the proposal to modify overtime in the playoffs. Can his support sway enough owners to approve it for next season?

The competition committee recommended Monday to the 32 owners that a team losing the coin toss and then surrendering a field goal on the first possession should have a series of its own in OT. Such a rules change would need 24 votes for ratification.

“This stays true to the integrity of the game,” Goodell said. “The competition committee has come up with something very much worth considering. It keeps the tradition of sudden death, and I think it is responsive to some of the issues that have been brought up.

“It’s getting a lot of thought. It’s got potential to be a better system.”

Statistics examined by the committee showed that since 1994, teams winning the coin toss win the game 59.8 percent of the time. The team that loses the toss wins the game 38.5 percent in that 15-year span, or since kickoffs were moved back 5 yards to the 30.

Those numbers alarmed Indianapolis Colts president Bill Polian, a member of the committee.

“We felt the stats are so arresting that something needs to be done,” Polian said.

“The original framers of the rule did not project the movement of the kickoff, or (the trend) in improvement of kickers.”

One owner who would seem to have reason to favor the modification, Minnesota’s Zygi Wilf, is not convinced it’s a wise move. The Vikings lost the coin toss for overtime in the NFC title game, then saw the Saints march to a winning field goal on the first — and only — series.

Still, as of Monday, Wilf was leaning toward voting no to a switch.

“We need consistency of the regular season and postseason,” he said.

Infraction

Memphis’ appeal of vacated wins denied by NCAA MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis must vacate its record 38-win men’s basketball season from 2007–’08 after the NCAA rejected its appeal.

The NCAA announced Monday that its Infractions Appeal Committee ruled against Memphis, which was found to use an ineligible player, believed to be Derrick Rose. The Tigers lost in overtime to Kansas in the national title game that season.

The NCAA originally ordered Memphis to vacate the season and forfeit money Aug. 20. Memphis had appealed, arguing the penalties were unprecedented and that the school was held to a strict liability when Rose was ruled retroactively ineligible for an SAT score that was invalidated by the Educational Testing Service in May 2008.

“The Infractions Appeals Committee found no basis to conclude that the penalty was excessive such that the Committee on Infractions had abused its discretion in imposing the penalty,” the NCAA said in a release posted on its Web site.

The decision was based on a letter from the testing agency to the athlete that “not only made the student-athlete aware that his eligibility was in serious jeopardy, but that he would be declared ineligible if he did not respond to the letter,” according to the committee’s report to the NCAA. The letters ETS sent Rose asking for more information were dated March 17, 2008 — while he was playing in the NCAA Tournament — and April 10, 2008, days after the championship game loss. The only address the ETS had for Rose came when he took the test in high school while living in Illinois.

The decision will result in an asterisk beside Memphis’ 38–2 season that had set the NCAA record for wins in a season and approximately $615,000 in lost tournament revenue.

The infractions committee originally said it struck hard because the ineligible player was used the entire season. Rose played in all 40 games, starting 39.

The university issued a statement Monday, saying it was “extremely disappointed” and “strongly disagrees” with the decision.

Memphis had kept a banner commemorating that season hanging in the rafters at FedExForum during its appeal, but that banner now will be taken down.

Memphis also asked the NCAA to take several steps to avoid this kind of problem in the future.

The university wants the NCAA to require the Educational Testing Service to notify universities of any investigations of student-athletes, something officials want the NCAA to start immediately to work out a plan to do that. And Memphis wants the NCAA Eligibility Center to provide guidance and keep both schools and studentathletes informed on test score questions.

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Prepping for Green Bay Cyclones’ game Tuesday will decide Sweet 16 status

By Jordan Wickstrom Daily Staff Writer All season long the Cyclones were considered underdogs in terms of how they will finish the season.

On Tuesday, the fourthseeded Cyclones will play as the favorite and try to stop the upsetLacey minded 12th-seed University of Wisconsin-Green Bay from ending their season early.

“If you’re in the NCAA Tournament, you’re here for a reason,” said senior point guard Alison Lacey. “[Green Bay’s] excited to be here. They played really well [Sunday]. So it doesn’t matter what seed they are. It doesn’t matter if we’re a four or they’re a 12.

We’re both here for a reason and we have to prepare for that.”

This game will serve as a rematch for these two teams. The last time Iowa State met Green Bay was in the 2005–’06 season’s WNIT where Iowa State held onto a 79–71 overtime victory in the first round.

For Iowa State, a trip to the Sweet 16 would mark the first time since the year span between 1999 and 2001 that the team would make consecutive Sweet 16 appearances.

“To think about where we started and be 40 minutes away from the Sweet 16 is a great tribute to our players and to my staff,” said coach Bill Fennelly. “We have a tremendous challenge in Green Bay. I was very impressed with the way they played Virginia.”

A Sweet 16 spot would be the first for Green Bay. The Phoenix have made the NCAA Tournament nine times in the last 37 years, but have never made it past the second round.

Green Bay believes this season will be different.

Only one No. 12 seed has ever made the Sweet 16 and the Phoenix would like to become the second team ever Tuesday.

“We’re just going to compete on every single play,” said Green Bay junior guard Celeste Hoewisch. “We’re going to play hard and fight you for everything. And I really am confident in our team. We play with a lot of heart and we’re going to be aggressive. We’ve come here to compete.”

This season has been one of the most successful seasons of all time for the Phoenix. At 27–4, Green Bay finished first in the Horizon League.

“All week long [the coaches] were telling us the great things we’ve accomplished this season and how we need to be hungry to accomplish more,” said Phoenix junior forward Kayla Tetschlag. “It’s definitely not overconfidence, but we’re just trying to pump ourselves to play a good game.”

Despite Green Bay being a mid-major team and not having much success in the NCAA Tournament, the Cyclones understand the amount of competition Green Bay will bring to Tuesday’s game.

“Green Bay’s one of those teams that have been good for a long time,” Fennelly said. “They’re someone that no one wants to schedule at Green Bay. They’re someone that you look at your bracket and think you don’t want to play them. They’ve had that reputation for a long time.”

Green Bay enters Tuesday’s game with the distinction of being the lowest seed to win in the NCAA Tournament. Despite turning the ball over 31 times, Green Bay was still able to win due to its “attack” style of offense that helped the Phoenix force the Cavaliers to commit 28 personal fouls.

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ABOVE: Alison Lacey jumps for a shot during the game against Lehigh on Sunday at Hilton Coliseum. The Cyclones won their first round game of the NCAA Tournament 79–42 and will play again Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. against UW-Green Bay. Photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily.

BELOW: Iowa State’s Chelsea Poppens regains control of the ball during the game against Lehigh. Poppens and the Cyclones will face UW-Green Bay in hopes of earning Iowa State’s second consecutive berth into the Sweet 16. Photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily

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Iowa State (24–7)

Green Bay (28–4)

Where: Hilton Coliseum When: 8:30 p.m. Tuesday Notes: The No. 4 seed Cyclones will take on the No. 12 seed Phoenix in their second round game for a berth in the Sweet 16.

With a win, the Cyclones would earn their second straight Sweet 16 berth, and fifth under coach Bill Fennelly.

Iowa State beat Green Bay 79–71 in the teams’ last meeting, during the 2006 WNIT.

Men’s Basketball

Departures scramble 2010–’11 roster

By Chris Cuellar Daily Staff Writer Another transformation of the Cyclone basketball program under coach Greg McDermott became complete when ISU students were on their way to beach and home vacations.

Undergoing yet another facelift at the tail end of the tumultuous Big 12 season, the ISU men’s basketball team announced three major departures on the Friday afternoon before Spring Break began.

Leading scorer, All-Big 12 player and junior forward Craig Brackins plans to leave the team to enter the NBA Draft, and sophomore center Justin Hamilton and sophomore guard Dominique Buckley plan to transfer to play basketball elsewhere, for various reasons.

Brackins averaged 16.5 points and 8.5 rebounds per game in his junior season with the Cyclones, garnering Second Team All-Big 12 honors but dropping off from his 2009 averages.

By announcing that he is in the process of hiring an agent, his career as a college athlete is complete. Brackins released a statement with the announcement of his departure: “I really enjoyed my experience at Iowa State. The fan support and love I received from the Ames community, my coaching staff and the ISU fans will always be something I treasure. I want to thank the coaching staff for helping me with this decision, and I will always be a Cyclone.”

The 6-foot-10-inch forward surprised critics by announcing his return to Iowa

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State in April of 2009, and is currently listed as a late first-round pick by ESPN.com.

Combined with departures and an urge for a new challenge, Brackins will continue working out in preparation for the NBA Draft Combine and other possible workout invitations.

Despite a third consecutive losing record, the junior stayed positive.

“I felt like we had the team to do some things, and unfortunately some people departing from the team and unfortunate things that happened to the team led to things not going our way,” said Brackins, during the ISU women’s Big 12 Tournament game in Kansas City.

“But I’ll never regret my decision to come back for my junior year.”

“Craig has been the face of our bas-

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ISU forward Craig Brackins dunks the ball in the second half of the game against Nebraska on Feb. 24. Brackins announced on March 12 that he would forgo his senior season to enter the NBA draft.

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By Dan Tracy Daily Staff Writer After six months on the road and a schedule chock-full of ranked opponents, the 5–6 Cyclones returned home last week for a full slate of home matches, the team’s first home matches of the season.

Despite the many road trips, coach Armando Espinosa knew about the tough competition, which included six opponents ranked in the top 75 nationally, would help the team as it settled into the Big 12 Conference schedule.

The team hosted four matches over Spring Break against Missouri, Colorado, Cleveland State and South Dakota and won all four, bouncing back after four consecutive losses.

“The biggest thing was the [non-conference] schedule,” Espinosa said of the team’s win streak. “It certainly helped out a lot.”

On March 12, the team squared off against the Missouri Tigers (3–6) in the second Big 12 match of the season.

After dropping the doubles point, the Cyclones rallied back late in the match with a threeset 6–3, 2–6, 6–4 victory from

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Of the 40 free throws the Phoenix attempted, they were able to convert 34. Green Bay scored 69 points with a little under half of those coming from the free-throw line.

This provides a unique challenge for the Cyclones as they averaged 14 fouls per game this season. “[Not fouling] is something we’ve been working on all season,” Lacey said. “Sometimes we’ve been good at [not fouling], sometimes we’ve been bad. I think on Tuesday it’s going to be our main focus. Our post players are going to have to guard away from the ball and our guards are going to have to guard inside sometimes.”

Another challenge the Cyclones will face will be the playing time of Lacey. It has been no secret; the Cyclones have struggled without her in the lineup.

And with Lacey returning after an extended absence due to illness, questions have risen about how much she would be able to play during the first few rounds of the tournament.

“I could go the whole game [on Tuesday] no matter what,” Lacey said. “I woke up a little sore and kind of felt it more than I had after practice, but I think just getting after it [during practice] will be good for me and I think I’ll be ready to go [on Tuesday].”

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In singles, junior Erin Karonis upset No. 109 Melisa Esposito 2–6, 6–4, 6–3 and once again Chartier and Wischer sealed the 5–2 ISU victory with wins at No. 5 and No. 6 singles.

The two Big 12 wins is tied for the most in school history with the other multi-win season coming in 2001. Espinosa hopes his team can build on its early success for the rest of the season.

“Its exciting for them, but I don’t think they are satisfied with just the two wins,” Espinosa said. “It sends out a message to the Big 12 that we aren’t a walk over anymore.”

With a successful beginning to the spring season, the Cyclones find themselves nationally ranked for the first time since 2002 when they were ranked No. 68.

In the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings which came out last Tuesday, the Cyclones were ranked No. 66 nationally.

The Cyclones wrapped up their non-conference schedule for the season with two home matches Thursday against Cleveland State and South Dakota.

Against Cleveland State, the Cyclones were led by Macedo and Lang who helped seal the

freshman Jenna Langhorst over Missouri’s Maria Christensen at No. 4 singles.

Then a 6–4, 7–6 (16–14) tiebreaker victory from sophomore Marie-Christine Chartier brought the match to a 3–3 tie with only the No. 6 singles match remaining.

In the singles finale, junior Liza Wischer took the first set by storm, winning 6–2 against Andrea Lewis, but dropped the second set 7–5.

After being down 5–2 in the third, Wischer came back to win the final set 7–5, clinching the 4–3 victory for the Cyclones.

The win was the first over the Missouri Tigers since 2002 and also only the second Big 12 victory for the Cyclones since 2002.

Espinosa believed that because it was the first time the team had hosted a match this season, the home court advantage worked in the Cyclones’ favor.

“The girls were out there to play and really wanted to do well in front of the fans,” Espinosa said.

Sunday, the Cyclones faced their seventh ranked opponent of the season in the No. 52 Colorado Buffaloes. The team was searching for their first victory over a ranked opponent this season.

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Jimmie Johnson, right, is congratulated by crew chief Chad Knaus, left, after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series’ Food City 500 auto race Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn. Photo: Chuck Burton/The Associated Press

‘Superman’ wins again

By Jeremiah Davis Daily Staff Writer Jimmie Johnson had always been pretty bad at Bristol Motor Speedway. A 15.9 average finish, compared with 5.1 at Martinsville or 5.5 at Phoenix, it seemed to be one tiny blemish in the shiny red “S” on his chest.

That all changed Sunday at the famed “World’s Fastest Half-Mile” in Bristol, Tenn.

Throughout the day Johnson wasn’t even the car to beat. Rather, Kurt Busch, who has five career wins at Bristol, was the dominant car of the day, leading a race-high 278 laps. He ended up settling for third.

“I’d rather lose to any of the other 41 cars out there than the 48 car,” Busch told The Associated Press. “I thought we had him beat. I gave it my heart today, but we came up short.”

That sentiment is shared by Busch, the fans and most everyone else racing against the fourtime defending champion.

“It’s awesome,” Johnson Told the Associated Press.

“I’ve watched from afar before I was in this sport when people said ‘anybody but the 3 [Dale Earnhardt],’ ‘anybody but the 24 [Jeff Gordon].’ I’m awfully proud to be in that category where people say ‘anybody but the 48.’”

Johnson said in the past that Bristol was a track where he could never find a rhythm. That started to change last year, when Johnson led laps in both Bristol races. The win was as high on Johnson’s list of accomplishments as any other.

“Everything around Bristol is what people focus on,” Johnson said. “There are parties for it. The fans get excited for it. You walk into this facility and look around, and you want to run well. It’s really

been a downer for me to walk through the gates, look around, ‘Man, I’m going to [stink] today.’ I really had that mindset coming here.”

The win puts Johnson at three in the five races so far. It also leaves just five tracks where Johnson has yet to get a win.

He also said after the race that he and Crew Chief Chad Knaus want to kill the competition’s spirit, to keep the 48 car on their minds early and often. Mission accomplished.

And don’t look for Johnson to slow down anytime soon.

The series heads to Martinsville Speedway next week, where Johnson has won six times, including five of the last seven.

Kevin Harvick held on to the points lead, although narrowly, over Matt Kenseth after Bristol.

Even with three wins, Johnson sits third in points, just 14 shy of the lead.

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By Curt Anderson AP Legal Affairs Writer MIAMI — Toyota shareholders incensed over a sudden drop in stock price are heading to court with lawsuits claiming company executives deliberately misled investors and the public.

At least three proposed class-action lawsuits filed by Toyota investors say the company gave false initial assurances that the sudden acceleration problem was a simple matter of floor mats trapping gas pedals, helping prop up the stock price.

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By Michael Zogg Daily Staff Writer Iowa State has been hitting its stride over the last week and a half as it heads towards the conference season.

The Cyclones (18–12) will have their final tuneup before the conference season starts Tuesday as they travel to Omaha, Neb., for a doubleheader against Creighton (14–9) beginning at 3 p.m. at the CU Sports Complex.

“We are excited for conference, so these two games are getting us ready,” said sophomore outfielder Bianca Lopez.

This tuneup against Creighton will be big for the Cyclones to preserve some momentum going into the conference schedule. Last season Iowa State had trouble in the Big 12 going 7–11.

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Most of the Cyclones have faced Oltman before and are confident that they will have more success against her this time around.

“When you are facing a good pitcher, like we have been, you are not always going to get a hit, and it’s not going to be any different tomorrow,” said coach Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler. “If they come out tomorrow and hit right away, then great. That is what we want. But if they don’t, they need to just regroup, refocus and know that they have the skills to put the ball in play, which they all do.”

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Iowa State currently sits at 799 wins in program history.

If the Cyclones can manage at least one win, they will break the 800-win barrier.

of the season,” Lopez said.

“We want to have that at the beginning this year.”

The CyLopez clones are currently on a five-game winning streak and have won 11 of their last 13 games. The boost in wins has been accompanied by a boost in runs.

“We are being more successful offensively,” Lopez said.

“A lot of us are stringing big hits together when we need them, when we have runners on. Before we would always leave runners on or nobody would hit the ball, maybe they were thinking too much. I think now everyone is just relaxing and doing their thing.”

Both the offensive punch and the relaxed state of mind will be put to the test against Creighton, however.

The Blue Jays feature one of the best pitchers in the country in senior Tara Oltman. Oltman, who is a three-time All-American pitcher, already owns two wins, a save and a sub-1 ERA

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“Things like the attack on Mumbai and the forthcoming Olympics in 2012 made us realize we needed to look at the maritime domain more closely,” Britain’s terrorism minister, Alan West, said.

In a written statement to lawmakers, Home Secretary Alan Johnson said al-Qaida’s core leadership in Pakistan and Afghanistan had been stymied over the last 12 months by military action in southern Afghanistan and strikes against key individuals.

Since January 2008, seven senior al-Qaida leaders have been killed, he said.

But Johnson warned that groups in Yemen, Somalia, Saudi Arabia and Algeria are increasingly capable of mounting attacks overseas. He cited as proof the attempted Christmas Day bombing of an airliner as it approached Detroit.

“An increase in the capability of some al-Qaida affiliates and associated groups, highlighted by the attempted Detroit airline attack, demonstrates the evolving and diffuse threat we continue to face,” Johnson said.

Authorities say Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the man charged with trying to blow up the plane, had links to known radicals in Yemen.

In the report, Britain’s government said the threat of terrorists gaining access to weapons had increased because of a surge in the trafficking of radiological material, and the, at times, inadequate security around decommissioned military material.

LONDON — An attack on London during the 2012 Olympic Games poses a major security threat to Britain, the government said Monday in its latest assessment of risks from terrorism.

Ministers also acknowledged growing concerns over an attack using chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons, and warned that al-Qaida affiliates in east Africa and Saudi Arabia are gaining strength.

Publishing an annual report on Britain’s counterterrorism strategy, Britain’s Home Office acknowledged that the 2012 summer Olympics pose an acute security challenge.

“The government is working on the assumption that the greatest threat to the games is international terrorism and that the threat in 2012 will be high,” the document stated.

Officials fear terrorists could attempt raids similar to those in Mumbai, India, in 2008, arriving on small high-speed boats and using gangs of gunmen to attack targets in central London.

Britain announced Monday the opening of a dedicated maritime security center — focused in part on piracy in eastern Africa, but also aimed at bolstering the country’s defenses against an attack from the water ahead of 2012.

Security officials have expressed worries that an attack against London could be launched from the River Thames.

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16 | SPORTS | Iowa State Daily | Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Editor N. Sandell | sports@iowastatedaily.com | 515.294.3148

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NFL

NHL Players’ Association in discussion over rule change

Goodell to address accusations

TORONTO — NHL players are looking to tweak the proposed rule on blindsided hits to the head in an effort to get it in place this season.

Competition committee member Jason Spezza said in Montreal on Monday that the NHL Players’ Association is looking to make a counterproposal to the rule drafted by general managers earlier this month. However, the players aren’t seeking any major changes.

“It’s very similar,” Spezza said. “We’re looking for a BandAid fix for the rest of the year in case something happens, but in the long term, we have to sit down together and find a better solution than just tweaking a little rule. It has to be something that’s talked about. It can’t just be sprung on.

“It’s too bad because we’ve been talking for two years to try to get something in place, but it’s hard to find the proper language and the right rule.”

The NHLPA first expressed a desire to see a head-checking penalty in March 2009.

After meeting earlier this month in Florida, the league’s 30 GMs proposed one that would give referees the ability to call a minor or major for any blindside hit where the primary point of contact is the head.

It was intended to be implemented next season, but a series of recent incidents has prompted the league to look at fast-tracking the implementation process.

The NHLPA received a DVD detailing the new rule Friday night and held a conference call that evening with the five members who sit on the competition committee — Spezza, Ryan Miller, Mathieu Schneider, Jeff Halpern and Brian Campbell.

Even though the group appears to have come up with a counterproposal for the league, a union spokesperson said Monday that one hasn’t officially been made. It’s expected

to come as soon as Tuesday.

“We’ve talked about some things and we have to bounce it back off the league now,” Spezza said.

“We’ve come to a decision that we want to do something, but the league has to agree to what we want to do.”

With less than three weeks left in the regular season, the players want to take a cautious approach.

“We’ve been trying as players for two years to get something in and the league has said there are rules already in place to protect against head shots, and now they want to make a change,” Spezza said.

“But we have to be careful.

There are about 10 games left in the season and you don’t want to make a change and put the refs in a bad position.”

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school where he can receive more playing time,” McDermott said.

Brackins had been widely considered as a potential departure from this year’s team, but with a crowded backcourt and transition within the program, Buckley and Hamilton saw it fit to leave just two days after the Big 12 Tournament loss to Texas.

Brackins’ fellow forward and the leading rebounder on the 2009–’10 team, Marquis Gilstrap, wasn’t granted another year of action just hours before the Texas game, denied an appeal from the NCAA. All of the departures from the 2009–’10 team combined, guards Diante Garrett (9.7 ppg) and Scott Christopherson (8.3 ppg) will be the only returning starters. LaRon Dendy and Chris Colvin —­two players who have just completed their first year with the Cyclones — are the only other two scholarship players returning that were active by the end of this season.

Bench players Jamie Vanderbeken and Charles Boozer had season-ending injuries that kept them off the floor for most of the season, and they expect to be healthy when the 2010–’11 season tips off.

McDermott and his staff have three players expected to join the team, and has said he expects a different type of performance than the one fans saw during the time Brackins was on the floor for the Cyclones.

“Next year will be much different than this year’s team. We probably aren’t going to have a guy that is going to average 17 or 18 points a game, but I think the balance will be much better,” McDermott said.

“We’ll put a team together that will play together, remain unselfish and really care about wearing the Iowa State uniform.”

Iowa State is 59–68 in four years under McDermott, and 18–50 in Big 12 play during that time.

from PAGE 10 ketball program for the last two seasons and has always represented ISU in a first-class manner,” McDermott said. “We certainly are excited to see him thrive as a professional next season.”

Hamilton improved for the Cyclones in his sophomore season, tallying an average of 7.9 points and 7.3 rebounds per game.

He expressed an interest to play closer to home as his reason for leaving the team. The starting center for McDermott’s 2009–’10 squad, Hamilton is an Alpine, Utah, native and was granted his request for release March 12.

Buckley was a reserve guard that saw action in 7.4 minutes per contest for the Cyclones this season, and tallied 27 assists in the season.

“Dominique is seeking a

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By Barry Wilner AP Football Writer ORLANDO, Fla. — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell plans to meet with Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger about his off-field problems.

Goodell already has spoken with team owners about Roethlisberger, who is accused

MLB

Pujols receives MRI JUPITER, Fla. — St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols got an anti-inflammatory shot Monday for tightness in his back and is expected to be out of action for the next couple of days.

The three-time NL MVP missed a week this spring because of lower back pain he described as feeling like spasms. Pujols returned to play in five exhibition games before being pulled from the lineup against Boston.

“He received an MRI today and then an injection to put him over the hump, make him feel better,” Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak said. “He’s day to day. We’ll see how he feels on Wednesday.”

—The Associated Press

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concerned that Ben continues to put himself in this position.

“I spoke with the Steelers and [team president] Art Rooney about it and, at some point, I will be meeting with Ben at the appropriate time.”

Roethlisberger also is being sued by a woman who claims he raped her in 2008 at a Lake Tahoe hotel, which he denies.

of assaulting a 20-year-old college student in a Georgia nightclub March 5. His attorney says the quarterback committed no crime. Roethlisberger has yet to be interviewed by police in Milledgeville, Ga., and charges haven’t been filed.

“We take this issue very seriously,” Goodell said Monday at the NFL meetings. “I am

St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols strikes out in the fifth inning of a spring training game against the Washington Nationals in Jupiter, Fla., last Tuesday. Photo: Richard Drew/ The Associated Press

Men’s basketball early departures under Greg McDermott

Guard Dodie Dunson — transferred after freshman year Forward Brock Jacobson — transferred after sophomore year Forward Cory Johnson — transferred after sophomore year Forward Wesley Johnson — transferred after sophomore year Center Ross Marsden — transferred after sophomore year Guard Corey McIntosh — transferred after junior year Guard Mike Taylor — dismissed from team after 2006–’07 season Guard Wes Eikmeier — transferred after freshman year Forward Clinton Mann — transferred after freshman season Forward L.A. Pomlee — dismissed from team during 2009–’10 season Center Justin Hamilton — transferred after sophomore year Guard Dominique Buckley — transferred after sophomore year Forward Craig Brackins — left for NBA following junior year

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their opponents in singles as the Cyclones did not drop a single set in their victory.

The No. 66 Cyclones 9–6 (2–1) will gear up for a pair of matches this weekend in Kansas when they will travel to Lawrence on Friday to face Kansas 8–6 (0–2) and to Manhattan on Sunday to play Kansas State 3–7 (0–2). The Cyclones will then return home for two matches with Big 12 foes when they face Nebraska on April 2 and then face Texas A&M on April 11.

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doubles point with a 8–4 victory over Nicole Janek and Maria Lazaris and each won their singles matches en route to the Cyclones 6–1 victory.

The team finished off Thursday with another convincing win, a 7–0 sweep of visiting South Dakota.

Lang, Wischer and Palen all posted 6–0, 6–0 victories over

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