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THURSDAY
March 25, 2010, Volume 204 >> Number 123 >> 40 cents >> iowastatedaily.com >> An independent newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890
Prestigious Career
Student Government
Juggling club extensions gain funding By Paige Godden Daily Staff Writer The ISU Juggling and Unicycling Club was allocated $734.88 from the Government of the Student Body Senate discretionary account at Wednesday’s meeting. The club was in need of new items in order to keep expanding its membership and repair equipment. The group plans on buying glow in the dark juggling balls, Kevlar torch tips, renegade clubs and a Nimbus 29-inch Unicycle. A representative from the club said the unicycle is made to be able to ride for long distances and several members have expressed an interest in possibly unicycling through the coming RAGBRAI. The senate voted on funding capital items to the GSB ITS media committee. The bill originally called for the transfer of
see GSB on PAGE 4 Dwight Ink sits with his beloved companion in the living room of his home in Lansdowne, Va. Ink served seven presidents in a variety of positions including organizing the Department of Housing and Urban Development and responding to the 1964 Alaskan earthquake. Photo: Sarah Haas/Iowa State Daily
Risk and reward
Editor’s note: This is the second part in a three-part series detailing ISU alumnus Dwight Ink’s career serving seven presidents as a public administrator. The first part relayed 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 will discuss Ink’s lasting relationship with Iowa State. By Sarah Haas Daily Staff Writer
When a 9.2-magnitude earthquake lifted or sank more than 50,000 square miles of Alaska an average of five feet, President Lyndon Johnson appointed ISU alumnus Dwight Ink to lead the recovery effort. “The best experience in my career was the Alaska recovery effort because it succeeded,” said
Ink, who served seven presidents. “A whole state would have gone belly up and close to half the people would have abandoned the state had we not acted swiftly. It would have been a mess for years.” The 1964 quake devastated the Alaskan economy, which was fragile because Alaska had only been admitted to statehood in 1959. The young economy was heavily reliant on fishing. In addition to causing the destruction of fishing boats and canneries, the quake altered the depth of some of Alaska’s harbors. Ink said some harbors were either too shallow for boats or too deep for breakwaters to protect the boats. Thousands of businesses and homes were damaged beyond repair, while the infrastructure, including water, sewer, communications and roads, were obliterated. Many worried inflation would cause the state to become obsolete. Johnson appointed Ink executive director of the recovery efforts for the Federal Reconstruction and Development Planning Commission for Alaska and worked in tandem with a temporary commission composed of politicians and cabinet members. The purpose of the commission was to
Ames City Council
Meeting held on intermodal transportation
work with state and local leaders to develop and facilitate plans for reconstruction and economic development. The commission provided political leadership and developed the recovery policies while the staff, headed by Ink, conducted the commission’s day-to-day operations. To say Ink and the commission had their hands full is an extreme understatement, especially because the window for construction in Alaska is severely hampered by dismal winter conditions. “People are too timid. They get discouraged easily,” Ink said. “Well, there are some things you can’t do, but there are an awful lot of things you can do. If something needs to be done, you go out and do it, but you have to be creative. You have to be innovative. You have to be willing to take some risks.” Ink said the response to the earthquake was atypical, because Johnson appointed members of his cabinet to the recovery effort in order to expedite work necessary to help Alaskans. The speed of the recovery was unprecedented because the
Ames City Council held a brief meeting Tuesday in which the members heard a number of updates for community projects — including an update on when the next steps to continue with the Intermodal Transportation Facility will take place. The council approved a motion to approve the Intermodal Transportation Facility conceptual design contract with Neumann Monson architectural firm for an amount no more than $68,500. The money acquired from the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery Grant will not be available until May 17. The Federal Transit Administration must approve a smaller phased design proposal on May 17. The city therefore approved the motion to hire an architect to work with the project team to
see INK on PAGE 4
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By Allison Suesse Daily Staff Writer
Board of Regents
Regents target athletics, efficiency By Zach Thompson Daily Staff Writer The Board of Regents convened in a telephone meeting Wednesday and received several reports from departments at each of the regents’ institutions and asking the institutions’ leadership to begin formulating plans to tackle several issues that continue to press the cut-stricken institutions. A motion proposed by Board President David Miles that the universities formulate plans to “substantially reduce or eliminate” state appropriated funds used for the schools’ athletics programs passed unanimously and without discussion — requiring the universities’ presidents to submit assessments, plans and time lines for making the changes at the board’s meeting in September. The state’s appropriations currently subsidize utility, administrative and overhead costs associated with the schools’ athletics programs. ISU Athletics Director Jamie Pollard wrote in
an e-mail to athletics department donors and season ticket-holders Tuesday that the program currently receives only 3.7 percent of its total budget — or $1.6 million — through state appropriations, and that this amount has decreased from 12 percent — $3.4 million — since 2005. Pollard assured the recipients that “the proposal will actually have a minimal impact on our athletics program.” Miles also proposed the regents and their institutions continue to work to identify inefficiencies and cost-savings measures that can be addressed inter-institutionally and to explore opportunities to collaborate within and between the institutions. Miles said the institutions should focus on possibilities in the areas of information technology resources, purchasing, human resources and facilities management. Miles requested the institutions restrain themselves to the principles of maintaining or improv-
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Actions taken by the Board of Regents during Wednesday’s telephonic meeting, regarding ISU Department of Public Safety’s Parking Division: ■■ Approved parking permit fee increases of 2.4 – 3.0 percent for fiscal year 2011. Parking meter hourly rates will not change. ■■ Approved Memorial Union parking ramp permit fee increases of 2.7 – 4.0 percent for fiscal year 2011. Hourly rates will largely remain unchanged, although a few hourly rates will increase by $0.25. ■■ Approved changes to the ISU Parking and Traffic Rules in the Iowa Administrative Code to redefine “bicycle,” “motorcycle” and “moped,” and to define for the first time “motorized bicycle.” ■■ Approved changes to the Parking Division Manual, including updating outdated references and policies, and extending the amount of time an appeal can be made from 10 days to 15 days after the ticked has been issued. ■■ As part of its long-range plan, the parking division intends to develop an online appeals process, explore ways to increase sustainability in building and renovating parking lots and parking ramps, and “to evaluate a potential fee structure for cars that park in commuter lots ... for those that take CyRide’s orange route shuttle into campus,” according to the university parking proposal.
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