How sweet it is
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Iowa State advances to face UConn in the Sweet 16
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Budgeting allocation to be finalized By Paige Godden Daily Staff Writer The Government of the Student Body Senate will finalize the regular allocations budget at Wednesday’s meeting. Danielson The finance committee has been working on preparing groups for regular allocations, in which the GSB has allocated approximately $1.3 million to various student clubs and organizations, since the beginning of February. Two weeks ago, the unofficial numbers were voted on and passed through the committee, and then presented to the senate. Senators were asked by Finance Director Tom Danielson to review the numbers, and if they wished to discuss a single group’s budget, to pull the group out for questioning at Wednesday’s meeting. The budgets that are not pulled out for questioning will be voted on as one bill. Then the GSB Senate will review the individual budgets being questioned.
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Claim Ames Day
Drop off Census forms at CyRide stops Thursday By Allison Suesse Daily Staff Writer Census 2010 forms are due in April. For students who have yet to mail in their completed form, the City of Ames and Iowa State will be collecting them from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Thursday at campus CrRide bus stops for “Claim Ames Day.” Volunteers from the city and university will be stationed at CyRide stops including the Iowa State Center transit hub, Friley Hall, Parks Library, MapleWillow-Larch and along with other popular stops. Volunteers will also be located to collect from 8 to 10 a.m. at the Campustown and downtown post offices and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Ames Public Library. Ames residents and students are encouraged to stop by any location to turn in their completed census, grab a breakfast bar, promotional items and enter to win a drawing for a gift card. There are 100 $50 gift cards to win in the drawing. Susan Gwiasda, public relations officer for the City of Ames, said there are a lot of decisions made based on the information provided by the census, including political representation and federal funding. “Census is important,” Gwiasda said. It is important that students realize they are an integral part of the Ames community while they are enrolled at school and complete the form, Gwiasda said. She said in a news release that census information is confidential, and the form only takes a couple minutes to fill out.
Dwight Ink shows photos in his home in his home in Lansdowne, Va. Ink spent more than 30 years serving as a public administrator and was recently featured in “If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government” by William Eggers and John O’Leary. Photo: Sarah Haas/Iowa State Daily
A life of opportunities Editor’s note: This is the first part in a three-part series detailing ISU alumnus Dwight Ink’s career serving as a public administrator. The first part relays Ink’s experiences working at the Atomic Energy Commission, while the second part includes Ink’s employment under Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. The final installment discusses Ink’s lasting relationship with Iowa State. By Sarah Haas Daily Staff Writer When Dwight Ink first met a U.S. president, he was clutching information more top secret than the director of the CIA could access. Carrying two locked containers housing charts that explained the future plans of the Atomic Energy Commission during the Cold War, Ink was escorted into an unremarkable room of the White House for his first of what would become many White House
Dwight Ink shares his lifetime story. Photo: Sarah Haas/Iowa State Daily
Ink was one of the first two ISU students to graduate with a degree in government in 1948. After receiving a master’s degree in public administration, Ink spent more than 30 years working as a public administrator and served seven presidents. Eisenhower coaxed Ink into remembering the combinations by talking about Big Six football. Eisenhower,
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who was from Kansas, was familiar with Iowa State and even mentioned a recent ISU victory. Eventually Ink was able to open both cases and set up the charts. He eased into the presentation, during which time his boss joined the pair and allowed Ink to proceed with the
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Board of Regents
ISU professors react to Presidents to U.S. health care reform present plans for By Alexander Hutchins Daily Staff Writer With the Affordable Health Care for America Act signed into law by President Obama with more than 20 pens, the long trek from the early days of his administration has accomplished a legCooper islative victory. Now that the new law is signed and ready to be implemented over the course of more than five years, there is no shortage of anticipation and apprehension over the law’s potential effects. Eric Cooper, associate professor of psychology and Libertarian party candidate for Iowa’s gubernatorial race, said the new health legislation is like a time bomb waiting to go off in five years. Cooper said when the costs of the law begin to manifest and the expense becomes apparent around 2019, the public’s enthusiasm
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meetings. He memorized combinations that unlocked each container. The charts not only included a description of the contents of the U.S. nuclear stockpile but also the newest technical developments the AEC hoped would keep the United States ahead of the Soviet Union in the nuclear arms race. The sensitivity of the information was so high that the AEC could not risk putting the information together in one chart. “I walked into this office alone and put the cases down and looked up and there was this bald guy behind a big desk looking at me. He asked me, ‘What’s your name?`’ and I stumbled and said, ‘My name’s Dwight.’ And he said, ‘My name is Dwight, too.’” Unexpectedly alone in the Oval Office with the president, the combinations to the locked charts quickly vanished from Ink’s memory. His boss, John McCone, was late for the meeting with the president. Noticing Ink’s anxiety, President Dwight Eisenhower asked where Ink was from. “I’m from Iowa,” Ink said to the president. Born Sept. 9, 1922 in Des Moines,
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may wither and cost the Democrats significant support. “This could be the gift that keeps on giving for Libertarians,” he said. The Republican party could be either bolstered or demoralized come midterm elections, Cooper said. He said passage of the act was better for Obama now, but may end up turning away the public in the future if the reforms fail. Steffen Schmidt, professor of political science, said Democrats knew some type of health care reform had to be implemented because changes had been put off for so long. Both Cooper and Schmidt said in independent interviews that the legislation’s success was due to key compromises and negotiations made by Obama in order to ensure the support of key Democrats that were initially opposed to the law. “I was surprised [at the Democratic support] because I thought the negotiating skills
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fund elimination
By Jessica Opoien Daily Staff Writer
The presidents of Iowa’s three regents’ universities will be asked to consider plans to potentially eliminate general fund subsidies for intercollegiate athletics at today’s Board of Regents meeting. On the agenda is a resolution, pending approval, directing presidents to form Pollard plans that would “substantially reduce or eliminate” general fund subsidies for intercollegiate athletics over an undetermined “appropriate time period.” “The proposal will actually have a minimal impact on our athletics program because we have already reduced our reliance on state funding significantly in the past five years,” said ISU Athletics Director Jamie Pollard in a letter sent to ISU athletics donors and ticket-holders March 23. According to the letter, the ISU athletics department reduced its state support from 12 percent of the total athletics
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