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What’s the most historic win in Iowa State NCAA history?

BY NOAH.ROHLFING @iowastatedaily.com Just over a week ago, we asked you what you wanted to know about Iowa State men’s and women’s basketball and its history in the NCAA Tournament using #AskMeAmes.

In the end, the question that won was: “ What is the most monumental NCAA Tournament win in Iowa State basketball history?”

To answer this question, let ’s go through the history books (and the Iowa State Daily archives) to see for ourselves.

Two games were up for contention with the sports desk for men’s basketball: the 2014 Round of 32 win over 6 seed North Carolina, and the 2000 Sweet 16 victory over 6 seed UCLA. But the Cyclones’ win over North Carolina, with all of the drama and national recognition that came with it, was the choice.

Why? Well, this win put an Iowa State squad led by Georges Niang, Naz MitrouLong, DeAndre Kane, Melvin Ejim and Dustin Hogue squarely in the national spotlight.

This was also arguably the highlight of

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KENNEDY DERAEDT/ IOWA STATE DAILY Bridget Carleton, Alexa Middleton and Rae Johnson react to the Cyclone win against the Aggies. The Iowa State women’s basketball team won against New Mexico State 97-61 during the first round of the NCAA Tournament held in Hilton Coliseum on Saturday.

Winning with everyone Cyclones dominate in first round of NCAA tournament

BY SPENCER.SUCKOW @iowastatedaily.com No madness, no upset, just flat-out dominance.

Thanks to one of its most balanced team efforts of the season, the Iowa State women’s basketball team is moving on to the NCAA Tournament Round of 32 after a 97-61

drubbing of New Mexico State. With the benefit of playing in their home arena and a significant size advantage on their side, the Cyclones thoroughly dismantled New Mexico State from the moment the ball was tipped.

This was somewhat expected, as Iowa State was a 28.5-point favorite coming into the game, but it was still an impressive statement win to begin the tournament — especially when you consider that New Mexico State came into the game winners of 17 straight, and the Cyclones had gone nearly two weeks without a game.

“The NCAA is supposed to be fun, and today was fun,” said Iowa State head coach Bill Fennelly. “Phenomenal crowd, phenomenal atmosphere and the best part about it is we get

to play again.”

Perhaps most impressive for the Cyclones, however, is the fact that everyone on Iowa State’s roster got into the scoring column. And the team’s regular rotation was just as thrilled as anyone in the stands to see bench players like Adriana Camber, Nia Washington and Lauren Mills get baskets in an NCAA Tournament game.

“In practice, everyone’s in there every day working hard and sometimes the fans don’t get to see everyone reap the rewards of the work they put in,” said senior guard Alexa Middleton. “It’s really fun for us because we see

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Church continues ban on same-sex marriage Global United Methodists keep current stance on LGBTQIA+

BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com The global United Methodist Church met in St. Louis, Missouri on Feb. 23 through 26 for their general conference and made decisions that affected the LGBTQIA+ community within the church.

“Methodism represents a branch of Protestant Christianity that traces its heritage back to John Wesley and his attempts to bring

re vival within the Churc h of England in the early 18th century,” according to the Patheos website.

The purpose of the conference was to act on a report from the Commission on a Way Forward, authorized to examine paragraphs in the Book of Discipline concerning human sexuality and to explore options to strengthen church unity, according to the United Methodist Church website.

The Commission on a Way For ward was proposed by the Council of Bishops and approved by the 2016 General Conference to do a complete examination and possible revision of ever y paragraph of the Book of Discipline concerning human sexuality as well as explore options that help to

maintain and strengthen the unity of the church, according to the United Methodist Church website.

The Traditional Plan was passed by the 2019 Special Session of General Conference. This means the current statements about homosexuality, same-sex marriage and the ordination of LGBTQIA+ individuals have not changed within the United Methodist Church.

The Traditional Plan received 438 yes votes (53 percent) and 384 no votes (47 percent).

“LGBTQIA people have not been banned by The United Methodist Church,” according to the United Methodist Church

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IOWA STATE DAILY The Collegiate United Methodist Church on Lincoln Way. The Collegiate United Methodist Church in Ames has prided themselves with being inclusive of people within the LGBTQIA+ community.

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Monday Monologues series, Grant Wood Foyer, Parks Library at 12:15 p.m.

“Iowa Odyssey (How We Got to Here),” Amanda Petefish-Schrag, assistant professor of music and theatre. Iowa Odyssey is a collaborative theatre project exploring our local stories of immigration and the idea of what it means to create community.

Open forum: College of Engineering dean finalist, Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall at 2 p.m. Each of five dean finalists will be announced the day before his

Lecture: Systems, Sustainability and Policy, Campanile Room, Memorial Union at 7 p.m. ”Setting the Table: Systems, Sustain-

ability and Policy.” Angie Tagtow is a registered and licensed dietitian with more than 25 years of experience in public health and food policy. She was executive director of the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion during the Obama administration and co-led the development and launch of the 2015-20 Dietary Guidelines for Americans with the US Department of Health and Human Services.

All events courtesy of event.iastate.edu.

POLICE BLOTTER 3.14.19 Janae Kinlee Wallace, age 21, of 615 Carroll Avenue in Ames, Iowa, was cited for driving under suspension on Lincoln Way and Beach Avenue (reported at 1:53 a.m.).

An individual reported being harassed 2420 Lincoln Way (reported at 8:21 a.m.).

An officer checked on the welfare of an individual.

The person was transported to a medical facility for treatment from 119 Stanton Avenue (reported at 8:38 a.m.).

An individual reported being harassed at Town Engineering Building (reported at 1:37 p.m.).

An individual reported the theft of a bicycle at 119 Stanton Avenue (reported at 7:53 p.m.).

Theresa Alexandra Campos, age 18, of 2516 44th Street in Des Moines, Iowa, was arrested and charged with drug poss/delivery marijuana, driving under suspension, possession of drug paraphernalia, drug stamp criminal penalties, and other violation of chapter 321a - suspend/denied/ revoked at Stange Road and Hawthorn Court Drive (reported at 10:43 p.m.).

3.15.19 Officers responded to a report of disorderly conduct at Union Drive (reported at 10:27 a.m.).

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Across 1 Sleeps out under the stars 6 NYC gambling outlets closed in 2010 10 Transcript figs.

14 Cookies in some pie crusts 15 Gather in a field 16 Latin for “elbow” 17 Reuters or Bloomberg 19 Geological age 20 Los Angeles-to-San Bernardino

direction 21 Sausage unit 22 Produce seller’s kiosk 23 Macho man 25 Chips in a chip 27 Top USN rank 30 Nutritionist’s recommendation 34 Wedding party 36 Popeye’s Olive 37 “Alas!”

38 At full speed 39 Basic biological molecule 40 Skier’s spot 41 Food __: listlessness after a large meal 42 Cranberry source 43 Lost color 44 “My goose is cooked!”

48 Cavity filler’s deg.

49 Not skilled in 50 Lends a hand 52 Boldly states 54 Hay holder 56 County of the Blarney Stone 60 Parting word with an air kiss, perhaps 61 Aromatic plot, and where to find three different plants hidden in 17-, 30- and 44-Across 63 SASEs, e.g.

64 Dancer Kelly 65 Tour leader 66 Homer Simpson outbursts 67 Home run gait 68 More than rotund

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Marie Kondo faces critics Comments reflect Asian student experience

Fourth dean finalist announced

BY ANNELISE.WELLS @iowastatedaily.com

BY NATHAN.CIRIAN @iowastatedaily.com As Netflix’s “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo,” has swept the nation, Kondo has been the subject of both praise and criticism that has invoked colonial stereotypes and prejudices, and these words have reflected experiences of some Iowa State students.

Kondo became the subject of controversy when many people misinterpreted her advice from an episode of her show, in which critics claimed that she advised people to keep “only 30 books.”

Kondo has repeatedly stated that her method does not have numer ic al recommendations.

This number was a reference to how many she personally keeps.

Regardless, many people attacked Kondo through social media and traditional newspaper opinion pages.

One of them was Anakana Schofield, an Irish-Canadian writer. Schofield went on a tirade on Twitter, claiming it was an “uprising against Konmari.” She later wrote a piece for the British newspaper, the Guardian. In some time since this incident, Schofield has locked her Twitter account.

In her piece for the Guardian, S chofield referred to aspects of Kondo’s methods, including “waking up” books, as “woo-woo nonsense” and stated that one wakes up books by opening and reading them “not tap it with fairy finger motions.”

Not all of the criticism seemed to come from this specific incident, however. Barbara Ehrenreich, another writer, also took to Twitter to air her thoughts about Kondo’s new show.

“I will be convinced that America is not in decline only when our de-cluttering guru Marie

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COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIA Marie Kondo has faced both praise and criticism from her Netflix series. Some Asian students at Iowa State feel as if these criticisms reflect their experiences here.

Kondo learns to speak English,” wrote the author of “Nickel and Dimed” and “Natural Causes.”

She doubled down on this tweet in a second tweet where she says she is not bothered that Kondo “doesn’t speak English to her huge American audience,” but she dug deeper on her point that it does signal that America is “in decline as a superpower.” In a third tweet, she tried to pass the incident off as an “[attempt] at subtle humor,” which backfired.

Other opinion pieces and news articles have criticized these critics, calling them racist and embodying aspects of racism and Orientalism, a term most commonly associated with the work of Edward Said, who was a professor of literature at Columbia University.

One piece, “The Not-So-Subtle Racism Behind the Marie Kondo Criticism,” by Muqing Zhang in Paper Magazine broke down the language of Kondo’s critics into the duality that is the stereotypical

view of Asian people as something to fetishize and something to fear.

“Once Kondo was no longer an exoticism’s site of pleasure and exploitation for white people to experience their Orientalist fantasies, she became the other Orientalist trope — the yellow peril threat to white people’s insecurity over their destructive capitalist consumption,” Zhang wrote.

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W. Samuel Easterling of Virginia Tech has been announced as the fourth finalist in consideration to be the next James L. and Katherine S. Melsa dean of Iowa State’s College of Engineering.

Easterling will visit Iowa State’s campus Sunday through Tuesday.

Easterling will also host an open forum on Monday from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium in Howe Hall.

During the open forum, Easterling will meet and answer questions from students, faculty, staff, community members and stakeholders.

According to a press release, Easter ling is the MontagueBetts professor of structural steel design and the head of Virginia Tech’s Via department of civil and environmental engineering.

Easterling earned his doctorate in structural engineering from Iowa State. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from West Virginia University in civil engineering.

Additional l y, Easter ling is a former president of V irgina Tech’s Faculty Senate and is also a registered professional engineer in Virginia, according to a press release.

Easter ling is the f our th of five finalists in consideration for the position. The fifth and final candidate will visit campus from Tuesday through Thursday and will be announced one day before their visit.

Janis Terpenny of Pennsylvania State, Robert Frosch of Purdue University and Erick Jones of the University of Texas at Arlington were announced earlier in the month as the first three finalists for the position.

More information on the dean search can be found on the Office of the Senior Vice President and the Provost’s website, along with Easterling’s itinerary, Vita and other information.

Researchers study policy to prevent bed bugs

BY KAYLIE.CROWE @iowastatedaily.com A team of researchers have developed a mathematical model and new state policies requiring landlords to report a unit’s recent bedbug infestations to potential tenants.

This policy may raise costs to landlords over the short-term but through the long-term offers a way to reduce infestations, which would lower costs. This mathematical model evaluates the costs and benefits of city and state policies requiring landlords to report recent bed bug infestations.

This model states the disclosure as an effective control policy to reduce the prevalence of infestations and can lead to five-year cost increases to landlords but will ultimately result in long-term savings to landlords. Disclosure also saves tenants money from the first year

of implementation. Disclosure could also reduce the threat as well as cost to private homeowners of spreading infestations.

“The treatment costs will out with any vacancy costs,” said Chris Rehmann, an associate professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering, who is involved in the study.

Researchers, during their workshops, heard real stories of bedbug infestations, their effects on people and the struggle to get rid of them.

These bugs feed on human blood, causing rashes, allergies, sleep loss, itching and anxiety.

Infestations also cause social, psychological, and economic problems and the bugs are very difficult to eliminate from homes.

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences recently published a paper reporting the researchers’ findings. The author is Michael Levy, an associate professor of

biostatistics, epidemiology and informatics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. The co-authors are Rehmann; Sherrie Xie, a doctoral student who is also at Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine; and Alison Hill, a research fellow for Harvard University’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.

Rehmann, a civil, constr uction and environmental engineer, usually focuses his studies on the mixing in rivers and lakes.

However, due to his expertise in mathematical modeling and his prior work with Daniel Schneider who began this study, Rehmann was brought into the study.

Schneider, a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Illinois, was traveling and picked up bed bugs and had a rough time to reduce the infestation, so he then started this study.

“When I as at one the workshops I was the only person from Iowa,” Rehmann said.

“There were three places that had this policy which were New York, San Francisco and Mason City, Iowa. When they told me that, they asked me why Mason City? I didn’t know; it was really an outlier. Now I say why isn’t the rest of the country catching up to Mason City?”

The primary supporter of the study was The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center. Other supporters are The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Institutes of Health and The NIH. Bedbugs have re-emerged as a national and worldwide problem over the past 20 years, the researchers wrote.

“Were hoping that this work will help inform the policy makers and they’ll adopt it,” Rehmann said.

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Iowa State Daily Monday, March 25, 2019

Student Government election results

BY MADELYN.OSTENDORF @iowastatedaily.com Austin Graber and V ishesh Bhatia have been elected as the next Student Government president and vice president with 54 percent of the vote.

The two thanked their team as well as their opponents extensively after the win and spoke about their faith in what football Coach Matt Campbell calls “the process.”

“Coach Campbell always talks about trusting the process,” Graber said. “I feel like ever since coming to campus we’ve been trusting the process, and this is just the process loving us back.”

Graber and Bhatia also both emphasized their thankfulness for a “clean campaign” and respect for their opponents.

Graber and Bhatia ran on the platform “Educate. Elevate.

Connect.” which focuses on br inging Iowa S tate students together by educating on student wellness, elevating Cyclone pride and connecting Cyclones.

Major platform points by the candidates include: increasing awareness surrounding the Tree of Oppression, conducting Fireside Chats and Reverse Town Halls, creating a mental health section in Destination Iowa State and bringing in lecture series that cover sexual assault awareness and mental health.

Graber is a junior in business economics and Bhatia is a junior in genetics. Both are currently involved in Student Government as Graber serves as an Ivy College of Business senator and Bhatia serves as an IRHA senator.

Graber and Bhatia are set to be inaugurated April 11.

Benjamin W hittington and Annaliessa Michelotti received 11 percent of the vote, and Cody Woodruff and Analese Hauber received 29 percent.

5,220 ballots were cast, resulting in a voter turnout of 14.9 percent, which is down 2.9 percent from last year.

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MADELYN OSTENDORF/ IOWA STATE DAILY Austin Graber and Vishesh Bhatia were announced to be the Student Government president and vice president with 54 percent of the vote, as announced on the night of March 15.

SENATORS ELECTED INCLUDE: OFF-CAMPUS RESIDENCE AREA Sydney Dondlinger, 1247 votes Noah Heasley, 1124 votes Matthew Klaes, 1103 votes Alissa McMichael, 1253 votes Morgan Mitchell, 1131 votes Justin Reis, 1019 votes Kaitlyn Roling, 1288 votes Jacob Schrader, 1142 votes Hayat Sumael, 995 votes INTER-RESIDENCE HALL ASSOCIATION Madesh Samanu, 509 votes Caleb Warren, 521 votes Mason Zastrow, 556 votes Alex Klein, 28 votes (Write-in) Ryan Hurley, 6 votes (Write-in)

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Tao Wang, an assistant professor of history at Iowa State, said Orientalist stereotypes influence U.S. foreign policy toward countries of Asia, specifically ones that were enemies, such as North Korea and China.

Wang mentioned the “yellow per il ” stereotype in response to the policies of the U.S. These prejudices had already been in the national consciousness by the 1950s.

This stereotype has existed for centuries and become prominent in the American West during periods of heavy immigration from China and Japan in the late 19th century.

The experience of Asian students at Iowa State and how they see themselves on campus and at a national level has echoed the concerns of people of Asian descent nationally.

Saaya Ito, president of the Japanese Students Association on campus and a senior in marketing, shared a few stories of friends who were both international students and Asian American students.

Ito wrote a few of these experiences in an email, and they included stories about her

FREDERIKSEN COURT Madison Mueller, 474 votes Ian Searles, 47 votes (Write-in)

COLLEGIATE PANHELLENIC COUNCIL Morgan Fritz, 376 votes

INTER-FRATERNITY COUNCIL Zachary Mass, 287 votes

UNIVERSITY STUDENT APARTMENT COMMUNITY Travis Lipford, 165 votes

HUMAN SCIENCES Ashley Burns, 468 votes Nicole Latimer, 490 votes COLLEGE OF DESIGN Taylor Blair, 251

international friends being stared at when their names are said during roll call, feeling threatened by bigger men at the gym and people avoiding sitting near them in class.

As for her Asian American friends, they often find themselves isolated, especially those who grew up in parts of the country with low Asian populations, the Midwest being the example offered. They look forward to going to universities because there is a chance that they will meet people like them.

However, they found these prospects to be underwhelming or different than they imagined. After meeting international students, Ito wrote that they often felt like they could not connect with them. They could not find common ground with these students, despite having similar heritages and this left them feeling isolated once again.

Rahul Namboori, President of the Indian S tudents’ Association and a Junior in Management Information Systems, provided another look into the experiences of Asian students.

Namboori was born in India but moved to Iowa during third grade. Growing up, he “pushed himself ” into American culture but

IVY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS Jack Bender, 569 votes Joshua Hanyang, 499 votes

AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES Kelsey Culbertson, 478 votes Hans Riensche, 441 votes

LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES Lydia Greene, 386 votes Jacob Ludwig, 435 votes Mckenzie Meradith, 378 votes

ENGINEERING Jacob Conn, 805 votes Advait Mhaskar, 763 votes Sandeep Stanley, 836 votes Anthony Tonet, 881 votes

was “still proud of [his] culture.” He said that his parents raised him to embrace his Indian identity. However, he also said that he found that he had split himself into two different personalities, a public and private persona.

He explained that he acted differently based on where he was. At home he would embrace his background whereas, in public, he might embody a more “American” identity, though he said he wasn’t sure why.

On the issue of racism and Orientalism, he said he has not “experienced anything personally racist on campus. People seem to just keep it to themselves. It seems more prevalent online where it is more faceless.”

Namboori repeatedly stressed that his experience is in no way representative of everyone in his organization or on campus in general.

Raahym Rasul, a junior in supply chain management and vice president of the Pakistan Student Association, shared his experiences in an interview as well.

Rasul is an international student from Pakistan and has lived there most of his life.

Rasul agreed with Namboori that he had not experienced any racism directed towards him

VETERINARY MEDICINE Kate Alucard, 5 votes (Write-in)

GRADUATE (ALL WRITE-IN’S) Anastasia Sweeney, 3 votes Bryan Lampkin (Tied), 2 votes Christopher Pudenz (Tied), 2 votes Dariana Glasco-Boyd (Tied), 2 votes Garrett Gowen (Tied), 2 votes James Schiltz (Tied), 2 votes Laura Olson (Tied), 2 votes Prajjwal Jamdagni (Tied), 2 votes Sher Afghan Asad (Tied), 2 votes Election Commissioner Emily Rizvic said that “in the Bylaws, the Graduate college decides how to break the ties.”

personally but he notices when he is being treated differently because of his background.

He explained it as a “gut-feeling” when interacting with people. Rasul has traveled a lot while attending Iowa State and says there is a different dynamic between the Midwest and the coasts.

“People get used to you faster on the coasts,” Rasul said.

He mentioned that it just takes people in the Midwest a little more time to get used to international students.

Rasul mentioned instances where he would interview for jobs and internships, and the tone and mannerisms of the interviewer would change as soon as he mentioned where he was from. Rasul would notice this change and think, “I’m not getting this job.”

Rasul said that international students, from Asia especially, are nothing to fear.

Contrary to the orientalist notions of the West, he does not think they are going to come in and change the culture of the U.S. He said that international students played a key role in the U.S. economy, contributing $39 billion last year, according to a study by the Association of international Educators.

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LETTER

John Rochford responded to a letter to the editor in which one person criticized his idea that intersectionality and Critical Race Theory are contrary to individuality.

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Response: Core arguments misunderstood Intersectional activism removes individuality

BY JOHN.ROCHFORD jjrochford@icloud.com The respondent to my original letter to the editor (that letter being Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory Ser ve as Political Ideologies) does not quite grasp the core arguments made in my original piece, and those that she does touch on, are misrepresented.

I think it vital to understand the foundation of what two ideologies are at play in this discussion: CRT/intersectionality and individualism. Perhaps deeper, is the barebone ideologies of collectivism vs. individualism in the context of how one views the world and ultimately uses those views to influence whatever policy or rules are in play at any given place. The respondent ’s fifth point of her piece describes the “trope” of using MLK’s famous quote concerning his children someday being judged

by content of character as opposed to color of skin. This is not a trope.

These are his words, perhaps inconvenient to the respondent’s worldview or to those that use arbitrary characteristics to influence not only their worldview but use that worldview in an attempt to control others actions.

Let us look at certain definitions, as defined by various university diversity departments across the county, that do look through the intersectionalities ideological lens.

First is racism. Racism, as defined in this ideological lens is a “power plus privilege” dynamic. Only those who possess “power and privilege” can engage in racism. Our second term is “agent of oppression” defined as: members of dominant social groups in the U.S., privileged by birth, who knowingly or unknowingly exploit targets of oppression.

Who are agents of oppression?

Well, let us use the University of Southern California’s diversity definition toolkit: heterosexual, white, male, Christian, middle class or owning people, English speakers, citizens or a combination of the list.

The problem with intersectional ideas, and especially intersectional

activism, is that this lens is attempting to impose its will unto others.

The respondent to my article mischaracterizes my argument in her ninth point, which she says, “deals with the idea of one truth being more relevant than another.”

She claims that I am discounting individual experiences of other people and elevating my truth as dominant. Such is not the case, and I have said as much.

The difference between my ideas and those of the respondent, is that I am not looking to impose a collective ideology, while the respondent says that a place like a university should use the intersectional lens, and impose core tenants of their beliefs unto others based on a dichotomy of arbitrary characteristics mentioned, rather than judging the much more complex dynamic of each individual regardless of immutable characteristics, because to the respondent, intersectionality contains “truth.”

My argument, using DiAngelo’s ideas and her position as an educator as an example, is that one should not impose the ideology of “all whites are racist at birth,” as truth and then feel the duty is to teach and impose whites to “check

their privilege” on any given perspective, or to explicitly say or imply that certain ideas cannot be discussed by whites, or by males, or by Christians, or citizens, or whatever else because one does not have that collective “experience” of a target group.

That mode of thinking, especially in activist circles, holds dire consequences for political debate and discussing political nuance. This allows espousers of intersectionality to discredit arguments from those that disagree, by attributing racist, bigoted, or xenophobic motive to dissenter’s arguments by default, if the dissenter is an “agent of oppression.”

There are also ramifications in terms of academic freedom. The respondent to my piece, in her last sentence, claims my arguments made are not only wrong but harmful.

This thinking is the exact reason why so many speakers and ideas across the nation on various college campuses and beyond are protested and shut down.

Individualism is not an ideology that has centralized rules.

Any and everyone is an individual.

Intersectional, collective ideology

does have rules and those rules are rooted in the immutable. Again, judge not by skin but by the content of character. Color is superficial, easy to see. Content of character is not, it is complex. Categorizing groups of people based on immutable birth characteristics as oppressors and oppressed is lazy ideological policy building and leads to massive socio-political divides that we see in our country today.

The respondent did not mention whether she agreed with DiAngelo’s White Fragility premise or DiAngelo’s foundational belief that all whites are racist by birth, and that there is an inherent narcissism in whites believing they are individuals with no accountability to collective racism.

The respondent, in mischaracterization of my position wrote, “he seeks to equate these experiences as the same when they are not” in reference to my first piece.

That is patently false. That is what DiAngelo believes based on her words, and what intersectionality espouses in the end. I believe the exact opposite. I believe individuals should be individuals, whatever that may mean.

EDITORIAL

Iowa State article by the Onion not entirely false On the heels of a college scandal that roiled many involved in the higher education space, the Onion decided to take its own approach to the university admissions process. In doing so, the popular satire website featured none other than Iowa State.

Published March 18, the headline read: “Thousands Of Students Forced To Attend Iowa State After University Sets Acceptance Rate To 140%.”

And while the Onion is commonly known for its ability to take an issue or public figure and turn around a fake news article that makes a joke of the situation, the Onion article about Iowa State is actually kind of true.

The acceptance rate for Iowa State students is on the high end of 89 percent.

Iowa State, like the University of Northern Iowa and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa, all use the Regent Admission Index. Automatic acceptance is granted to anyone with a score of at least 245.

While some do not meet this general

admissions requirement, it’s relatively easy to get into Iowa State compared to the elite and Ivy-league institutions such as the University of Southern California, Yale and Georgetown involved in the college admissions scandal.

For many, the recent scandal perpetrated by many wealthy families, including Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, highlights the use of money and notoriety to obtain special admissions to elite colleges as 89 percent at Iowa State is much closer to 140 percent than Yale, which lets in about 6.7 percent of students.

The Onion article also speaks to Iowa State’s recent initiatives to build a more diverse and inclusive academic environment.

In many ways, this is true. While Iowa State is a predominately white institution, nearly one in four Iowa State students is either a minority or an international student, according to fall 2018 enrollment.

“In fact, we were quite surprised by the number of international students we were able to prod onto planes,” President

Wendy Wintersteen is fake quoted in the Onion.

And what really speaks to Iowa State’s acceptance rate was the Onion’s decision to report that Iowa State “would not be adding any additional scholarships or housing, but promised that each student would love their dozens of new roommates.”

This mirrors fall 2015, in which the university topped at 36,001 students in 2015 — the largest in school history.

While a dormitory was in the midst of being built in fall 2015, now recognized as Geoffroy Hall, Iowa State struggled to find housing for its giant enrollment. In a lot of cases, students were assigned to dens rather than traditional dorm rooms to accommodate.

Iowa State’s enrollment has since decreased and ample housing is readily available.

However, the Onion article touches on the very real history of the university’s decisions surrounding diversity and inclusion, enrollment and admissions.

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Iowa State Daily Monday, March 25, 2019

The other side of March Madness Iowa State experiences anything but Cinderella story

BY NOAH.ROHLFING @iowastatedaily.com TULSA, OKLA. — March Madness is usually a place of magic, of fantastic finishes and of Cinderella stories. it is the best threeweek stretch of the season for many college sports fans.

For Iowa State Friday night, it went from a dream to a nightmare.

An up and down first half, followed by a second half marked by mistakes and nearmisses, sent Iowa State packing to a 14-loss Ohio State team that many expected the Cyclones to beat.

It was a bitter end for Iowa State fans, but likely a fitting end to a season filled with so many peaks and valleys.

Ohio State ran onto the floor, celebrating a Sunday tip time with a chance to make the Sweet 16.

The Buckeyes’ fans stood and roared with happiness, dreaming of a trip to Kansas City that was now one step closer.

Iowa State? Headed home, with three seniors ending their collegiate careers and with a team meeting on Monday before a NCAA-mandated week-long break.

Oh boy, does March Madness goes both ways.

It was clear from the moment the locker room opened: this one hurt more than any of Iowa State’s 12 losses.

Zoran Talley Jr. was telling his teammates he loved them while ruminating on his college career ending. Nick Weiler-Babb hugged his teammates after being interviewed. Assistant coaches milled about, consoling their downtrodden players.

The Cyclones were stunned.

But they knew where things went wrong against the Buckeyes.

“They just dictated pace the whole game,

KENNEDY DERAEDT/ IOWA STATE DAILY Redshirt senior Marial Shayok passes the ball to freshman forward George Conditt IV during the championship game against Kansas. Shayok was awarded the most outstanding player in the tournament.

really,” said freshman guard Tyrese Haliburton.

Ohio State spent much of the second half feeding big man Kaleb Wesson, who found success down low and made it difficult for the Cyclones to get the stops they needed as the game wound down.

Wesson finished with 21 points and 12 boards. Redshirt senior guard Marial Shayok’s game-high 23 points weren’t enough.

Sophomore guard Lindell Wigginton said the Buckeyes knew what was coming from Iowa State.

“They scouted us well, they ran us off the line,” Wigginton said. “They came in and had a gameplan for us, and it worked.”

Freshman guard Talen Horton-Tucker mentioned he wanted to send the seniors out on the right note.

Talley’s response?

“They sent us out right.”

Reflection will happen in Ames once the pain subsides for the Cyclones’ coaches, players

and fans.

But what happens after that?

Iowa State loses Shayok and Weiler-Babb — two massive contributors this season — and another veteran in Talley. Wigginton and Horton-Tucker have heavily featured in NBA Draft chatter — Horton-Tucker often as a firstrounder — and Haliburton has worked his way onto the fringes of the conversation.

A n d t h e n t h e r e ’s s u d d e n c o a c h i n g speculation.

With the Alabama job — Prohm’s alma mater — set to open up following a buyout with Avery Johnson, Prohm’s name was mentioned by multiple outlets as a possible leading candidate.

Prohm did his best to quash the rumors after the game Friday night.

“There’s nothing to say, man,” Prohm said. “I want to be the best coach at Iowa State. That’s it.

“I love Ames. There is no story. I’m trying to be the best coach at Iowa State and see if I can

be here for a long, long time. That’s it.”

Denial aside, his name might still pop up in speculation until a coach is hired, and with Ames legend Fred Hoiberg looking more and more likely to become Nebraska’s head coach, Cyclone fans cast a frustrated tone after the loss.

If all goes well for Iowa State, another successful year could be at hand. But Friday night, that was the furthest thing from the minds of the players.

A teary-eyed Talen Horton-Tucker and Lindell Wigginton both said they hadn’t thought about their futures.

“I can’t even think about that right now,” Horton-Tucker said.

Obviously, this loss is raw. The Cyclones will probably take a while to heal. But tough decisions will have to be made before they know it.

Meanwhile, in the other locker room at the BOK Center, the Buckeyes were all smiles.

After all, their tournament dreams are still alive.

Wrestling makes strides in year two under Dresser

BY TREVOR.HOLBROOK @iowastatedaily.com The transition into the Kevin Dresser era at Iowa State was ugly.

A once highly decorated program, Iowa State slumped to 8-10 in duals, including losses to teams like Northern Colorado and Wyoming.

This time one year ago, the Cyclones managed to send only one wrestler — Jarrett Degen — to the NCAA Championships.

The start of the Dresser era was ugly, but the program he took over was even uglier before he arrived.

Despite the extremely average 2017-18 campaign, the program still appeared in a much better place than the 2016-17 season.

The program Dresser inherited went 1-12 in duals during Kevin Jackson’s final season in Ames, Iowa. Jac kson’s Cyc lones did field three athletes in the NCAA Championships, but the trio combined for an abysmal one team point.

With the average but big

KATLYN CAMPBELL/ IOWA STATE DAILY Iowa State’s Jarrett Degen wrestles the 149-pound weight class Feb. 1.

improvement in Dresser’s first season, Iowa State entered this year with much higher hopes.

After the first season the Cyclones lost heavyweight Marcus Harrington and Dane Pestano, along with a slew of athletes who transferred during or before the season.

But Iowa State plugged in redshirt sophomore Gannon Gremmel at heavyweight and added nowfour-time All-American Willie Miklus into the mix at 197 pounds.

W ith Miklus in the room,

redshirt sophomore Sam Colbray cut down to 184 pounds in place of Pestano.

Redshirt freshmen Austin Gomez (133-pounds) and Marcus Coleman (174-pounds) filled holes in the lineup, while redshirt sophomore Alex Mackall transferred in from Rutgers to anchor 125-pound spot.

Familiar faces reemerged at 149 pounds (Degen), 141 (Ian Parker) and 157 (Chase Straw). The 165pound spot remained a revolving door with injuries, but a couple freshmen proved they can handle

Big 12-level matches throughout the year.

With the returning talent complimented by the injected talent from athletes coming off redshirts and transferring in, the Cyclones looked ready to make a jump.

Iowa State accomplished that with a second-place finish at the Big 12 Tournament and nine athletes competing in the NCAA Championships (not to mention pushing top-five Iowa to the brink in a one-point dual loss).

Not only were the Cyclones winning duals and snagging bonus points, but the team looked like a better conditioned and stronger team for the most part.

Even with all the improvement, the Cyclones failed to even sniff anywhere close to a top five spot as a team in Pittsburgh.

M i k l u s a n d D e ge n s e c u re d podium spots, and Colbray and Gomez just missed the AllAmerican cut. Outside of that quartet, Iowa State didn’t receive the results it needed from athletes like

Coleman, Parker and others.

Now comes the tough part for Iowa State. The Cyclones should now be on most quality teams’ radar, and with that comes higher expectations and a target on the teams’ back.

For tunatel y for Iowa S tate, Miklus is the only lineup regular who won’t be competing in a cardinal and gold singlet next year (although he could potentially stick around in a coaching role of some form).

Besides Miklus, the only other upperclassman was redshirt junior Chase Straw. Iowa State returns 90 percent of its lineup, while integrating freshmen like David Carr, Francis Duggan and Joel Shapiro off their redshirts and sprinkling in another crop of freshmen.

With all that laid out, you have to wonder what this team’s ceiling is next year.

It appears on paper Iowa State should be ready to make another leap, but remember, matches aren’t wrestled on paper.

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Stephens welcomes ‘Sound of Music’ Touring musical differs from family movie favorite

BY EMILY.URBAN @iowastatedaily.com “The Sound of Music” is set to dance its way to Stephens Auditorium 7 p.m. Thursday.

The musical is the winner of the Tony, Academy Award and the Grammy for Best Score. The musical has captivated audiences since 1959 with its movie adaption released in 1965 to critical acclaim.

“The Sound of Music” is based off of the true story of a family who escaped the Nazi annexation of Austria. The musical follows a nun in training, Maria, as she is sent to look after the seven children of the Von Trapp family.

The advantages to taking on a show many know and love are many. The actors on stage can hear the audience sing along to favorites such as “Do-Re-Mi” and “My Favorite Things.” Christina Tompkins is the female swing, assistant company manager and understudy for nine roles. Tompkins said there are always new things about the musical even the cast discovers.

“I think the biggest advantage is that most people, someone in your family have seen it and when we come to town we bring a show that maybe your grandmother knows or you parents know and they want to introduce it to their children or their grandchildren,” Tompkins said. “It is exposing this really wonderful story, based on a true story, to a lot of people.”

However, there are also a few challenges to putting on an iconic, large production. The musical tells the Von Trapp’s story in a more

COURTESY OF STEPHENS AUDITORIUM Maria singing with the von Trapp children in “The Sound of Music.” Audiences love to sing along with the cast.

political, in-depth way than the well-known movie version. A few songs are placed at different parts of the show and the overall feel of the musical less romanticized.

“I would say our version is more cinematic,” Tompkins said. “We never go to a full black out on the stage. Everything moves really really well. It is a fantastic and a really fresh take on the ‘Sound of Music.’ It doesn’t rely on just, ‘oh the kids are singing and Maria is singing.’ We are telling the story and the set is beautiful. I think that is one of the big things.”

Tompkins’ second job with the production is as the assistant company manager. While

she has been with the show since 2017, she took on this role August 2018. She organizes travel for the production of 65 people around the country, budgeting for transport via airplane, charter bus or even rental cars.

“The challenging part is really going from city to city every day,” Tompkins said. “We have a mountain. We have Maria. We have the Von Trapps. If the nuns sing and we defeat the Nazis then we have the best show.”

The production transports their own lights, sound, and set to the venue by 7 or 8 a.m. depending on the show time. A crew of 15 people set up the show until the cast arrives

at the venue around 4 to 5 p.m. When traveling on buses, they have a sleeper bus, four flat-beds and charter buses.

“It is a really interesting way to look at the business side of it and learning about how much it take to put on a show,” Tompkins said.

“How much money everything costs.”

“The Sound of Music” shows at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday in Stephens Auditorium. The north doors open at 6:45 p.m. and the south doors open at 7 p.m.

Tickets are available at the box office, Ticketmaster or over the phone. A pre-show dinner is available for this performance.

FromSoftware kicks up the gaming challenge with Sekiro

BY CHASE.JOHNSON @iowastatedaily.com FromSoftware, developers of “Bloodborne” and the “Dark Souls” series, have evolved their proven formula yet again in “Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.”

“Sekiro” is a challenging and engaging adventure through a fictional take on a war-torn feudal Japan. The near-perfect combat mixed with fun traversal mechanics and an interesting world the game inhabits make “Sekiro” a memorable experience that will carry you to the very end of the game and perhaps through an additional playthrough. With the play-time in this game coming in at roughly 50 hours, I would say it is well worth your money.

In “Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice,” you play as Wolf, a shinobi royal guardian who has lost everything to a war that has been raging for years. The setting of the game is in the 1500’s in Sengoku-era Japan; this is not Japan as we know it, however; there are mystical and fictional threats awaiting you.

From the start of the game, Wolf is forgetful of his past but finds a goal: find and protect the “divine heir,” the young ruler Kuro. This initial mission goes haywire; Wolf ’s arm is sliced off in a duel and Kuro is kidnapped. Wolf passes out, awakening in a strange temple with a new, mechanical prosthetic arm. The man who saved Wolf and gave him the replacement arm is a hermit named “The Sculptor.”

Much of the story in “Sekiro” is given to the player in short cutscenes or by eavesdropping on people in the environment. Along this path of revenge and searching, Wolf will regain lost memories from his past and encounter countless enemies that will prove a match to his own abilities.

The combat in “Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice” is reminiscent of previous FromSoftware games. Much like “Dark Souls,” the player will be locking onto the enemy and will attack while dodging, blocking and parrying. Similar to “Bloodborne,” “Sekiro” encourages the player to act more aggressively in combat situations, as the enemies are fast and must be overwhelmed. “Sekiro” evolves this combat formula by getting rid of the stamina bar and replacing it with a posture bar, which you and your enemy have. You fill the bar up by continuously attacking the enemy. Once the enemy’s posture bar is full, the player can execute a satisfying deathblow.

The prosthetic arm the Sculptor gives to Wolf is customizable; there are crossbow arms, flamethrower arms, axe arms and many other types to equip and use in combat. “Sekiro” also differs from previous FromSoftware games by including a jump button. Players are now able to traverse the battleground with a dedicated jump button, which allows you to go over enemies and out of danger.

The new jump mechanic isn’t only useful in combat, it is necessary to

COURTESY OF IGDB.COM FromSoftware is known for difficult games. “Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice” might be their most difficult game yet.

climb walls and to leap from platform to platform to progress through the level. Wolf ’s prosthetic arm has a grappling hook that is always on the arm, regardless of the attachment. This grappling hook allows you to ascend buildings or trees at given vantage points in mere seconds. This kind of verticality was never possible in previous FromSoftware games,and is interesting to see implanted so skillfully in this installment. Players are able to hug walls and crouch, both adding to the stealth aspect of the game.

The game’s stealth, is not done in any half-measure; it is a fully implemented and very functionally capable system that has never appeared in a FromSoftware game until now.

Wolf can scale ledges and hang from cliffs as well. All of these new traversal mechanics given to the player help to make “Sekiro” a fast and more

engaging experience.

Much like previous FromSoftware games, “Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice” is a rogue-like action adventure game (rogue-like meaning you lose items when you die).There are shrines that you can rest at which refills your health and your primary healing items, but also respawns all enemies, even the ones you’ve already killed.

The bosses in this game are extremely difficult at some points. In almost every level, there is a mini-boss you must defeat to progress, before encountering an actual boss. These bosses are fast, have large hitboxes, large health bars and have a very wide range of moves. It takes memorization of move sets, twitch reaction time and patience to conquer these bosses.

There is loot to be picked up throughout the world as well, whether it be new arm attachments, health

items, combat enhancers, or crafting/ upgrade materials.

The general presentation of this game is superb. From the beautiful red leaves covering the ground to the way the water glistens to the way a drunken enemy stumbles around, “Sekiro” succeeds in delivering a believable visual achievement. The world of “Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice” is gloomy and treacherous like previous FromSoftware games, but also like those previous games, it contains a beautiful canvas of colors and sounds and lights that swirl together to create a stunning product depicting a beautiful country ravaged by war.

Progression in this game is very different from previous FromSoftware games. No longer do you funnel a currency into different skill bars. In “Sekiro,” you collect arm attachments in the environment and bring them to the Sculptor to fit them to your arm.

“Sekiro” is well balanced in its difficulty levels, but it should only be considered if you are prepared for an extremely challenging experience.

For fans of “Bloodborne” and “Dark Souls,” you know what you are getting into with this game. It has that eerie and unforgiving experience you can expect from every FromSoftware game, but with a new setting and a new take on the existing formula.

“Sekiro’s” new precision-based combat mechanics are a lot to get accustomed to making it one of FromSoftware’s most difficult titles yet.

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the work that goes in in practice, and for everyone to score tonight, that’s really exciting for us.”

All of that bench scoring was made possible due the insurmountable lead that Iowa State built early on. The Cyclones were consistently hovering around the 50 percent mark in the game in terms of field goal percentage, while knocking down three pointers at roughly a 40 percent clip, and the team’s ball movement seemed to be as sharp as it had been all season.

For as good as the team’s scoring was, Iowa State’s defense was just as much up the task. The Cyclones held the Aggies to just a 27 percent shooting percentage from the field.

Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year Brook Salas had her usual double-double for New Mexico State and Gia Pack added 16 points for, but the two combined to shoot just 11-for-36 from the field as they racked up their points on volume shots. The rest of the team was virtually shut down. “(New Mexico State is) a really good team at creating their own shot,” said senior guard Bridget Carleton. “They’re good at getting to the pull-up, getting to their stepbacks. We had an advantage, we had to use our length to contest our shots.

They’re hard shots to guard, so our only hope was to contest them.”

Ultimately, that length proved to be the biggest difference-maker on both sides of the ball. While the Cyclones aren’t Baylor in terms

of size, the disparity in height was evident from the get-go, as is usually the case when a Power 5 team plays a mid-major.

So much so, that the Cyclones outrebounded the Aggies by a 45-24 margin. That’s not to mention how many shots were altered or rushed on the defensive end, or how many easy looks down low the team got on offensively.

Things probably won’t be as easy on Monday for the Cyclones, as they’ll have to go up against a hot Missouri State team that’s beaten Drake twice and just scored 89 points on Big East champion DePaul in an upset victory.

Iowa State will have the advantage of playing at home in front of a friendly crowd once again, but there should be a sizable contingent from Missouri State, just as there was Saturday, to offset that a little bit.

In terms of on-court action, Fennelly expects a fast and physical game with a good amount of scoring. From what he saw, Fennelly said he thought Missouri State surprised DePaul with their level of talent and skill, and that the Lady Bears play a similar style to what the Cyclones see from several conference foes.

“It’ll be the kind of game I think we played in the Big 12,” Fennelly said. “Physical, athletic kids that can do a lot of things. They play a lot of players, and Kellie Harper is a really, really good coach. I think it’ll be a great game.”

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the Fred Hoiberg era, which saw the Cyclones reach heights only surpassed in the modern era by the Marcus Fizer/Jamaal Tinsley Elite Eight team of 2000.

Heading into the Tournament, Iowa State was on a hot streak after winning the Big 12 Tournament for the first time since 2000. Niang, the Cyclones’ sophomore leader, had broken his right foot against North Carolina Central in the team’s opening game. Without him, Iowa State was an underdog against the five-time NCAA Champion Tar Heels.

DeAndre Kane had arguably the best game of his Iowa State career, scoring a game-high 24 points and adding 10 rebounds and seven assists. Kane made the game-winning layup with 1.8 seconds left.

That basket completed a comeback from a five-point deficit with three minutes to play. Hoiberg was confident in the huddle, telling players, “Look at me and smile. We’re going to win this game.”

Despite losing to eventual national champs UCONN, the 2014 run was a catalyst for another Sweet 16 appearance in 2016 and the Cyclones’ continued relevance on the national stage.

On the women’s side of the bracket, 4 seed Iowa State’s 1999 win over 1 seed UCONN in the Sweet 16 has been the most impactful. It took the Cyclones to their first ever Elite Eight, and the victory over a UCONN team in the midst of building the most dominant sporting force of the 2000s made a statement that what Bill Fennelly was building in Ames could be successful.

The 64-58 win came in the Cyclones’ first ever Sweet 16 appearance after making the Round of 32 in 1998. This was Iowa State’s first taste of postseason success in women’s basketball, as the Cyclones had never made an NCAA Tournament before 1997, Fennelly’s third season at the helm.

Following their run in 1999, the Cyclones would make the Sweet 16 three times in the 2000s and establish themselves as a yearly threat in the Big 12.

The Sweet 16 victory over UCONN — a 1 seed with a national championship in 1995 — made all that following success possible, while also serving as the high point in the program’s history.

“We went from one of the worst programs in the country to the Elite Eight,” Megan Taylor told the Daily in 2009.

“It’s amazing how much we’ve turned it around.”

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website. “ We acknowledge, h owe ve r, t h a t m a ny LGBTQIA+ people, their loved ones and allies were hurt by the speeches, rhetoric and decisions of the General C o n f e re n c e. We p r a y f o r healing and forgiveness.”

The current United Methodist Church stance on homosexuality and the LGBTQIA+ community can be found on their website.

The United Methodist Church does not recognize or celebrate same-sex marriages.

According to the Book of Discipline, “Ceremonies that celebrate homosexual unions shall not be conducted by our ministers and shall not be conducted in our churches.”

The denomination’s official polic y inc lude suppor t of laws that define marriage as a union of one man and one woman.

During the 2019 conference, the denomination reaffirmed its ban on marriage equality.

According to the Human Rights Campaign website, the Traditional Plan enacts new standards for punishing ministers who perform same-sex weddings which a r e a m i n i m u m o n e - ye a r suspension without pay for the first wedding and permanent removal from ministry for the second.

“Personally, I feel extremely upset that the church voted on the traditionalist approach, especially since we have been progressive in the past,” said Jensen Wilke, a freshman in speech communication and member of the Collegiate United Methodist Church a n d We s l e y Fo u n d a t i o n congregation. “Our church is still all-inclusive, and I hope that their decision does not turn anyone away from the church.”

The Collegiate United Methodist Church and Wesley Foundation is located at 2622 Lincoln Way. According to their website they welcome ever yone, including those with sexual orientations differentiate from heterosexual.

“I’ve been very clear that the decision [by the rest of the United Methodist Church] does not affect who we are.

We w i l l c o n t i n u e t o o u r churches stated commitment to always be open for samesex weddings,” said Rev. Jen Hibben, associate pastor and campus pastor for the Collegiate United Methodist C h u r c h a n d We s l e y Foundation in Ames.

Wilke said from his perspective many students and people in his congregation are fully welcoming of the LGBTQIA+ community.

“Although the results of t h e Na t i on a l C on f e re n c e are not what we hoped for, I hope people know the y always will have a place in our congregation,” Wilke said.