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Blood drive collects many donations to aid Ames community

By Lissandra.Villa @iowastatedaily.com Alexandra Peterson, a recent high school graduate, was driving the same route to work as she would any other day. She drove over a hill where a waiting line of cars caught her by surprise. She swerved left, nicked the last of the waiting cars and spun into the other lane where another vehicle collided with her car.

She was pronounced dead at the scene. A few minutes later, however, the civilian watching over her noticed movement.

“I was trying to breathe,” Peterson, now a sophomore in agricultural business, said.

Peterson was immediately taken to the hospital, where she said she underwent emergency surgery that would save her life but cost her 14 units of blood.

Emergencies like Peterson’s are the reason behind hosting blood drives. The ISU Blood Drive puts on two drives a year — once in the fall and once in the spring.

The spring blood drive ended Thursday. Kenny Wade, one of the co-directors for the blood drive, said 1,824 units of blood were collected throughout the week.

“Now I know how important it is,” Peterson said about donating blood, although she herself has been unable to donate. “Since [the accident], my family has been involved with the Red Cross.”

The ISU Blood Drive, which began Monday, had a slow start, according to volunteers.

Wade said the blood drive managed to collect more donations than the rest of the Big 12 schools.

“I think it went pretty well. We started off a little slow,” said Mark Vormezeele, the executive in charge of volunteers. “We came back strong on Wednesday and Thursday.”

The number of units collected Thursday was 564, Wade said.

The spring blood drive is historically slower than the fall blood drive. This year, due to changes to Greek Week, there were concerns the blood drive would see a decline in a number of donations.

“I think the blood drive was a smashing success, compared to what we projected,” Wade said. “We thought we were going to take a much larger hit due to the new Greek Week rules, but we turned out to actually meet our goal I believe.”

Wade said the goal was about 1,800 units of blood.

Students — which Vormezeele said spent an average of half an hour to an hour and a half donating, depending on how much traffic there was — had different reasons for donating.

“We have Greek Week, so [I was] trying to support my fraternity,” said Patrick Holstad, freshman in pre-architecture.

Kevin Cheng, sophomore in psychology, said he donated blood for extra credit in one of his classes.

Vormezeele said that in addition to the donors, the blood drive saw approximately 600 people who contributed by way of volunteering.

“This is one of the only organizations where you can actually save lives,” Vormezeele said.

The greek blood drive competition winners — a contest hosted exclusively by the ISU Blood Drive — will be announced this weekend.

The ISU Blood Drive is run by students in association with the American Red Cross, Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center and LifeServe Blood Center.

Amy Cappel, junior in business management and member of Sigma Kappa, donates blood during the blood drive Tuesday. Her donation was a part of other Greek Week donations.

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Donors snack on crackers, cookies, water and juice after donating blood at the blood drive Thursday. Donors made up only part of the effort — 600 people also signed up to volunteer.

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The blood drive is set up in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union every fall and spring. This year, more than 1,800 pints of blood were donated by students in the course of the week.

Greenlee’s new major breaks enrollment record

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The greek community conducts a fundraising event, Polar Bear Plunge for the Special Olympics, on April 6, 2013. The greek community successfully raised about $133,000 last year.

Polar Bear Plunge moves to State Gym due to ice

By Makayla.Tendal @iowastatedaily.com Every year, members of the greek community dive into icy Lake LaVerne as part of the Greek Week Polar Bear Plunge event to support the Special Olympics.

Breaking the usual tradition, the 18th Polar Bear Plunge has been moved to the State Gym pool this year. It will take place from 3 to 6 p.m. today.

“Basically what happened is we went to look at Lake LaVerne to get it ready for the plunge,” said Maggie Gehrls, general co-chairwoman of Greek Week and senior in interior design.

After the Story County swimming and diving team inspected the lake, the decision was made that the low water temperatures would pose as a safety issue for the

rescue team who must stay in the water the entire three hours while participants take the plunge.

“The swimming and diving team didn’t feel the lake was safe for jumping into and said that it would be too cold for their divers to be in for that long,” Gehrls said.

The ice was initially broken for the plunge, but the weather has caused the water to refreeze, forcing the event to move.

“We made the executive decision to move it inside, just because we didn’t have all the right resources on such short notice,” Gehrls said. “We were obviously expecting [Lake LaVerne] to be thawed out.”

The Polar Bear Plunge is Greek Week’s premier philanthropic event. Gehrls said she and the other general co-chairman of Greek Week, Brent Sexton,

are both very eager for the event.

“I’m excited to see everyone participate and [have] fun,” Sexton, senior in animal science, said.

Sexton also said the event is still supporting a great cause. It’ll be different, but he feels it won’t change the overall event.

Both Gehrls and Sexton are happy to help raise money for Special Olympics Iowa.

“Special Olympics Iowa is such a great cause, and we love seeing the athletes come out and how happy it makes them,” Gehrls said.

Last year, the event raised $131,000, and the goal for this year is $142,000. They are $10,000 away and believe that they will reach their goal by Saturday.

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The Greenlee School of Journalism has had a 15 percent increase in students since last year, due largely to the recently added public relations major and the school’s focus on avoiding student debt.

Both journalism and mass communication and advertising have had two years of near record-breaking enrollment with 721 students currently in the school.

About 120 of those make up the new public relations major. So far, Greenlee has 91 incoming students for next year. This number is only surpassed by the School of Computer Science at 135 and psychology at 100 incoming students.

That is an increase in students compared to fall 2013, which had a total of 605 students — 409 in journalism and 196 in advertising.

Originally approved in fall 2013, the public relations major became popular quickly but did not affect the other two majors within the school.

“People who are coming into the

school to take public relations are coming into that degree. Our journalism numbers are as strong as ever; our advertising numbers are as strong as ever,” said Michael Bugeja, director of the Greenlee School.

The major was brought in because of the interest in public relations as a career and the Greenlee School having all the required courses to have the major.

“We have always taught public relations in the school,” Bugeja said. “[It] only seemed natural to go for a degree so that students who want that profession can have a degree showing it.”

Erin Wilgenbusch, senior lecturer and the Public Relations Student Society of America adviser, explained how advertising the major was easy since the school already offered all the courses and how it got a lot of attraction from current and incoming students.

“We’re putting a name to something we’re already doing,” Wilgenbusch said.

“That’s a lot easier to market.”

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Veishea Service Day sets high goals for 2014 event

By Tanner.Judd @iowastatedaily.com Veishea at Iowa State is one of the ten best college festivals in the nation, according to collegemagazine.com.

Before Veishea week even starts, students have the chance to begin the celebration and help their community in a variety of ways.

Veishea Service Day is Saturday and takes place all over Ames. The event includes a wide range of service projects for ISU students to do to help the Ames community.

“Veishea Service Day is a great way for students to give back to the community and university,” said Karl KernsCQ, Veishea president and senior in animal science.

Some of this year’s events include picking up trash, building trails, volunteering at an animal shelter and helping preschoolers at Ames Community Preschool learn to read.

“This year, we really worked on getting as many projects as we could. This year, I think we have 15 or 16 different projects,” said Addison KistlerCQ, campus community involvement co-chairwoman with Veishea and senior in accounting. “Last year, there were under 10 [projects], so that was our main goal … to have that variety and attract a wider range of people.”

Kistler said that she believes having more events makes this year’s event more unique than last year. Both Kistler

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Gwiasda says that the Eco Fair will provide activities for children, do giveaways for small sustainable items and have exhibits to interest people, such as the Team PrISUm’s solar car. “[Team PrISUm] has been to about every Eco Fair we’ve had,” Gwiasda said. “They bring the car with them and it’s a very popular exhibit where they show people how the car works and what their project is about.”

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Energy Services and Ames’ Fire and Police departments are some of the city organizations that are planning to be at the event. Businesses such as Ken’s Appliance, U-Haul, Interstate All Battery Center and Goats on the Go are also planning to be at the Eco Fair to talk to people about how their business is sustainable.

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ISU badminton club provides tournament for public

By Madisum.VanGundy @iowastatedaily.com A badminton tournament will draw people to Forker Building from all over the country this weekend.

The badminton club at Iowa State organized the event that is free for those who want to watch.

There are 110 people signed up to play in the tournament Saturday.

Check-in will begin at 8 a.m.

Saturday and is expected to end around 6 p.m. For Sunday games, check-in begins at 8:30 a.m., and final rounds will begin at 9 a.m.

People are coming from a variety of states, including Illinois, Kansas, Texas and California.

Events include men’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles.

Each event is then broken down into 3 or 4 levels, based upon people’s skills in badminton.

Jinchen Fan, senior in marketing and president of the badminton club, said the most difficult part of organizing the tournament was making the brackets.

“Half of the players this year are new players,” Fan said.

He has to make sure people are placed in the correct levels in order to stay fair. Fan said he makes sure that each person is placed in the level most fit for him or her.

“We don’t want to put very good players in lower levels and win easy,” Fan said.

First and second places are given to players in each level.

Winners will receive a prize and a trophy.

One of the biggest prizes is a $250 racket. All prizes are sponsored by Yonex and Sony Electronic. Fan said organizing the tournament cost about $15,000 just because the prizes are worth that much.

Within the brackets, there are 4 flights: A, B, C and D. If a player loses, he or she gets bumped down to a lower flight. Fan said they guarantee that each player will play three matches.

The badminton club has also

been collaborating with other clubs on campus such as Enactus.

Members of Enactus contribute their talents to projects that improve the lives of people worldwide. They share the mission of creating a better, more sustainable world through the power of business, according to the ISU Enactus Web page.

Enactus will have a table set up at the tournament to generate revenues.

Fan is participating in three events. When asked about how he felt about the upcoming tournament, he said he was excited but nervous as well.

“Badminton is a very difficult sport,” Fan said.

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dent in animal science and public relations coordinator for the badminton club, said she’s looking forward to the tournament.

Weng is signed up to play in the mixed doubles event.

“It’s fun for me,” Weng said.

The badminton club will host a closed tournament next fall, which will only be available to club members.

“I’m so excited to hear the sound of smashing,” Fan said. “I really enjoy when I play it; even if I’m really, really tired, I still want to go to the court.”

One of the badminton club’s goals is to generate more audience awareness of the sport and generate more attention from the community.

Lambda Theta Pi hosts ‘Sabor Latino!’ cooking event

By Jaden.Urbi @iowastatedaily.com On Thursday, Lambda Theta Phi hosted an event dedicated to teaching people how to make Latin foods. They called the event “Sabor Latino!”

Christopher Hinojo, senior in microbiology, is the assistant event coordinator for Lambda Theta Phi and took the lead on planning this event. The event was different than some of their other events throughout the year.

“This is just something fun and free we’re putting on to thank the

ISU student body for supporting us throughout the year at our philanthropy events,” Hinojo said.

The Multipurpose Room in the Union Drive Community Center was filled with about 50 students as they gathered to take part in the interactive Latino cooking demonstration.

Hinojo said they wanted to make something other than the typical dishes you would think of, such as tacos and burritos. The fraternity brothers showed guests how to prepare plantains, empanadas and bunuelos — all

easy and inexpensive traditional dishes.

“We want to teach people an economical way to serve yourself in college,” Hinojo said.

Hinojo said he grew up surrounded by Latin culture while living in New Jersey with his Peruvian parents. He is a first generation college student, but he said it was easy to lose touch with his culture when he moved away.

“I moved here in sixth grade and it was a big culture shock when you don’t get to hear your language, you don’t get the same food and you just lose touch a

little bit,” said Hinojo.

Emma Rink, freshman in pre-business and member of the greek community, said that when she heard about the event, she was excited to check it out.

“I like to cook in my spare time and ‘Sabor Latino!’ seemed like a fun way to spice up my cooking skills while supporting the greek community,” Rink said.

Members of the fraternity went up to the front of the room and began by giving a brief history of the ingredients of the dishes being shown, passing around informational

papers.

“It was really fun to learn the history behind the ingredients because it makes me feel better educated on the cuisine I will be preparing,” Rink said.

After they were given the history of the ingredients, audience members were invited to come up and try cooking. A couple of the guests got to compete and see who could peel and slice the plantains quickest.

“Having these events helps the Latino people in our fraternity feel more at home with the culture while being able to share a

little bit of that with other people,” Hinojo said.

Rink said she enjoyed the fun and lighthearted environment.

When the members actually began cooking, the rest of the audience was encouraged to go up and stand around the table so they could see how it is actually made.

“It was nice to be able to be shown some of the cooking techniques from people who have grown up around the food,” Rink said. “I think that that will help me when I try to make some of the recipes with my mom this summer.”

Iowa State Daily selects Koenigsfeld as 2014 editor-in-chief

By Makayla.Tendall @iowastatedaily.com Stephen Koenigsfeld was selected Thursday as the next editor-in-chief of the Iowa State Daily for the 2014-15 academic year.

Koenigsfeld, who is currently a junior in journalism, has worked at the Daily since his freshman year. Koenigsfeld started as a sports reporter and served as the managing editor of digital platforms for the 2013-14 academic year.

“The Daily really sold me on Iowa State,” Koenigsfeld said

regarding how he started his student career with the goal of becoming editor-in-chief.

Koenigsfeld said one of his biggest goals is to connect with the audience and serve the Iowa State University community.

“I’m just really excited to be leading a newsroom that’s really involved with the audience.

I think that’s one of my biggest goals: to interact with our campus more so than we have ever before,” Koenigsfeld said. “Kind of reaching out saying, ‘What do you guys like about the Iowa State Daily? What do you not like? What

do you want to know, and what do you want to get covered? Let’s get that done because that’s our job, to serve you and serve the community.’”

Koenigsfeld ran against Maddy Arnold, an assistant sports editor and sophomore in journalism, for the position. Arnold will act as editor-in-chief for the Daily during the summer and apply for the managing editor position for the academic year.

Both Koenigsfeld and Arnold will look to expand the Daily’s digital platforms during the next year.

“Since I’ll be here again next year, I’ll still be able to help out with mainly the website and things like that, and Maddy can focus in on working with section editors and take some responsibilities with social media and tracking Internet,” Koenigsfeld said.

Arnold reiterated that their goals to expand digital platforms are necessary to serve the paper’s audience.

“Stephen is very digitalminded. The Daily really needs somebody that way with fewer people reading print editions,”

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and Kerns also had a similar vision for this year’s Veishea Service Day. “I would say just making that tie between the community and the students would be the big thing,” Kistler said. “The community definitely appreciates seeing Iowa State students going out there and serving.”

Kerns said that being part of one community aspect is a big part of Veishea Service Day as well.

The word Veishea is an acronym used to describe all the original colleges of Iowa State. It stands for Veterinary, Engineering, Industrial Science, Home Economics and Agriculture. During Veishea, ISU students get the chance to celebrate all that their school is about.

“We have such a great campus, such a great school here, and I think it’s just mainly celebrating the past as well as the present, some of the great traditions as well as what we have going on now,” Kistler said.

While Veishea is a great way to celebrate traditions and events at Iowa State, Kistler believes Veishea Service Day, otherwise known as Stash the Trash, provides a way to celebrate the Ames community as well.

“With service day, you’re able to celebrate being a community member of Ames as well,” Kistler said.

Aside from the goal of tying campus and community together, Kistler mentioned a more quantifiable goal that Veishea has for this year’s service day.

“Earlier in the semester, our goal was 500 people to sign up and attend, and we’re close to that,” Kistler said. “We’re in the 450 range right now, so we’re really excited about that.”

Veishea Service Day events are each three hours long, going from 9 a.m. to noon or from 1 to 4 p.m. If the goal of 500 volunteers is reached, 1,500 service hours will be completed during this one event.

“The student body is thoughtful and wanting to help out,” Kerns said. “It’s a great day to all get out and be a part of the one community aspect and work side by side.”

Kerns also said they are still taking students who want to help out Saturday.

Making the major did not come easy, though, as the school could not accredit the program through the student society because they did not track what students were interested in public relations as career field. Because of the interest in the program, Greenlee made it into a major.

“We have a very active award-winning Public Relation Student Society of America chapter at Iowa State University,” Bugeja said.

“We also have a curriculum in public relations that rivals any other degree program. So in other words, we had the courses already, so why not if we can get accredited for public relations by the Public Relations Society of America.”

There was initial fear that the new major would take away journalism and advertising students, but Wilgenbusch explained that those who go into journalism and advertising go in it for that major and those who go into public relations will go for that major.

“I think it’s always been that way. I think it’s a mind-set people come in with,” Wilgenbusch said. “I think people already knew, and at first there’s that panic that we would take all the journalism students but people knew what they want when they came here.”

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“We’re kind of going to make it a little bit ironic. It’s 90 degrees in State Gym, so we’re kind of sweating for a reason,” Gehrls said.

Gerhls said the warmer

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Members of the ISU community throw scraps of wood into a truck during Veishea Service Day on April 6, 2013. Service Day provides students a fun experience while volunteering.

Students can go to veishea.iastate.edu to register and see a listing of volunteer opportunities. Sign-up for open projects can also be registered Saturday at Reiman Gardens.

Kistler said that while many people don’t think of service events as fun things to do, Veishea Service Day is a unique bonding experience that you may not get in normal social scenes.

“You get the opportunity to help out the community,” Kistler said. “Whether that’s directly through helping people or indirectly through picking up trash and cleaning up the environment, it gives you that chance to make a difference.”

temperatures might increase participation as she thought some people might be nervous about such cold temperatures.

Makenzie Haskin, sophomore in elementary education and member of Delta Delta Delta, was originally worried about the cold water’s effect on her lip sync group for Greek Week.

“I’m not too upset about [the location change

to State Gym] because all of our lip syncers won’t be sick for second cuts the next day,” Haskin said.

Some students are disappointed about the location change, though.

“I’m kind of upset because I won’t get the experience of jumping into the lake,” said Tory Pfannkuch, freshman in event management and member of Kappa Delta, who would

be jumping into the lake for the first time. “It’s not the same experience.”

Pfannkuch also said she thought some people might be upset because they donated money to see people jump into the lake, and jumping into a pool is just not the same.

Other participants are happy the event is still going on in the first place.

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Arnold said.

Arnold said her goals for the summer are to focus on the quality of content and the Daily website to provide the public with timely information.

“I’m most excited about being able to focus on the quality of content that the Daily is producing because it’s only a once-a-week publication. We can really focus in on the quality and take the time to get the details right,” Arnold said.

“I want to focus on digital, especially because the timely content with have to go online because it is a once-a-week paper.”

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The Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication has seen a 15 percent increase since last year in prospective student enrollment, partly due to a new major.

major, Bugeja said the school can also thank its graduation plan for students as a factor. The school concentrates on ensuring students graduate in four years, and the school is known for its 97 percent employment rate with students getting jobs within six months of graduation.

“We make sure that the parents know that we push through with as little debt as possible,” Bugeja said. “That’s been a big draw.”

Bugeja hopes to continue getting more students within the school and all of its majors, but he stresses the official number of students cannot be revealed until June 1.

“Word of mouth has been spreading … We can recruit as many people as we want,” Bugeja said.

community is still doing it,” said Katie Henry, senior in journalism and mass communication and member of Kappa Delta. “I’m looking forward to seeing how it will be different, but I still expect it to be a lot of fun.”

Gehrls also said a DJ was hired for the event, and T-shirts and prizes will be handed out.

Registration continues through Friday from 2:30

Wilgenbusch said the large number of newer students coming in will not take away from the Greenlee promise either.

The classes will remain at a smaller size but will contain more sections to fill requirements for Greenlee’s skills courses.

“If it got to the point where we had to have multiple sections, I think students will have that nice, small classroom environment just with more sections,” Wilgenbusch said.

“We are working on ways to find new lab space,” Bugeja said.

“Those decisions, however, have not been made.”

Bugeja explained that Greenlee students’ tuition will be used to get more labs and proper expansion to respond to the increasing number of students.

to 5:30 p.m. The Polar Bear Plunge is open to all college students and community members.

“It’s kind of unfortunate, but we’re going to make the best of the situation for a really great cause,” Gehrls said. “We still want everyone to come out and still have fun.”

Allison Dietzenbach contributed to this article.

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Obamacare has given too many extensions Pushing deadline allows Americans to procrastinate “Meaningless.” This is the word Speaker of the House John Boehner used to describe the Obamacare healthcare mandate being pushed back to the middle of April, and this is a fair statement. There is no point in even placing a deadline if the President and his administration do not plan to make anyone follow it.

There have been years of planning for Obamacare to go into effect, but much like everything else that makes its way through the government, it is taking longer than expected. Americans, however, are not going to rush the process of completing enrollment in Obamacare when they know that if they put it off there will be no consequences.

Reince Priebus, Republican national committee chairman, described Obamacare’s failure to hold strong to their deadline, saying, “Another day, another Obamacare delay from the same Obama administration that won’t work with Republicans to help Americans suffering from the unintended consequences of the Democrats’ failed health care law.

Democrats in leadership may say they are doubling down on Obamacare but you have to wonder how many more unilateral delays their candidates running in 2014 can withstand.”

The number of Americans deciding to enroll last minute in Obamacare has skyrocketed, which directly correlates with the online system having trouble keeping up.

An easy solution to this would be to not wait until the last minute to enroll.

We tend to blame the government right away when problems arise but with something as simple as enrollment, Americans could take a stand by doing it sooner rather than later.

The Obama administration should consider penalizing the people who have failed to enroll or have chosen to enroll late. It is not ideal to have to penalize American citizens to make them enroll in a program that gives them health insurance, but it is better than continuing to wait for people to enroll whenever they want.

There are people expecting this program to be fully implemented soon and, by missing the deadline for the enrollment mandate, the administration continues to push back the date that people will actually begin to receive their full benefits from Obamacare.

The people who will be able to enroll late and not be penalized will be people who have proof that they tried to register and had trouble because of errors in the website.

Aaron Albright, spokesman for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services mentioned in The New York Times that the extension will help people who have special circumstances or complex cases. They want people who are already near the finish line to be ready to be allowed to finish registration, but this is wishful thinking at best.

It is practically human nature to procrastinate and wait until the last minute to do something. If Obamacare is continually pushed back in its deadline people are going to continue to wait until the last minute to register and nothing is ever going to get done. If Americans want to see Obamacare happen sooner rather than later they need to get enrolled in the same fashion.

It is time for the administration to set a deadline and stick to it. They cannot continue to wait on people to sign up for health insurance. If people want to sign up, they will. But close the deadline when you say you are going to, so we can start moving forward rather than waiting in a government-sponsored stand still.

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Bullying bill takes student activity monitoring too far

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owa’s Senate recently passed an anti-bullying bill to strengthen the current state laws against bullying. Going to the floor March 18, Senate File 2318 met with some resistance, with the vote splitting into a 26-19 final tally.

The votes were sharply divided along party lines with all the Democratic senators voting for the bill and all votes against the bill coming from the Republican side of the Senate. The bill, which caused heated debate on the floor, was opposed strongly by the Republican Party for a number of reasons.

Republicans offered the Senate an amendment, stating that the bill was not open ended enough to cover all possibilities of bullying. Republicans also had problems with the bill in that it lacked the inclusion of parents. Issue was also taken with the possibility of creating a new agency inside the Department of Education and the proposed appropriations of $750,000 towards school programs to create safer learning environments.

Bullying is a big problem.

Not only in Iowa, but in our entire country. There is no denying this, and it is shown in spades by strong support from Republican Governor Terry Branstad and bipartisan support elsewhere. However, the Senate Republicans have some valid points with the new bill. The first of these being that the bill and law is specific on who can be covered by the law. The amount of groups that are listed covers a vast range of people, but why wouldn’t the law simply cover every person and any reason to incite bullying or harassment?

“Bullying is bullying regardless of who you are.

We should be protecting all kids in Iowa, not just 18 enumerated characteristics … All Iowans deserve to be protected,” said State Senator Jake Chapman, R-Adel.

After all, that is what the law is in place for — protection. It does not expressly state that every Iowan citizen is safe from harassment.

Surely, what is listed in the law is not intended to exclude others who may need help.

The problem is that it potentially leaves open a loophole.

It would simply be safer to

reword the measure.

Another big point is regarding the power the bill would give to the schools when it comes to dealing with bullying, especially cyberbullying. The bill allows for school officials to deal with bullying which happens outside of school, including what happens on the internet. This gives school officials the right to monitor kids’ social media and other electronics and punish them for how they use social media even when they are outside school.

This is a direct violation to the students First Amendment rights. Students forfeit parts of their First Amendment protections when they attend school

during weekdays, but does that really mean they should continuously lose that right when the final bell rings for the day? Kids should have their own personal place to escape to and not have to act like they are in a classroom no matter where they are.

We are all against bullying. That does not mean we need to curtail students’ rights to put what they want on the internet or say what they want when texting friends. If a child is being bullied, cyber-bullied and so on, then they should do what every person has been taught when going through grade school. They should find an adult they trust and get help to confront the problem.

More than likely if a kid is being cyber-bullied he or she is probably getting harassed at school too. That is where school programs against bullying come in.

When we give government officials such as teachers and principals the ability to take matters into their own hands, even when the action that they are punishing happens outside of their jurisdiction, we go too far. If it happens outside of the school then it is, by definition, not the place of school officials to deal with the problem in an official capacity. Our government should trust the children’s parents to properly handle situations regarding bullying outside of school.

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A new bill was passed that allows schools to monitor students’ social media and punish them for what occurs on the Internet as well as in class. Columnist McLaughlin says that it is too extreme.

Personality in college makes a social difference

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niversities will take student’s ACT score, transcripts, GPA and class-rank all into consideration for admission but one essential trait examined for acceptance is missing.

Extroverts tend to thrive in school atmospheres because a majority of school systems cater to them. In order to offer the best learning environment and most successful college experience, administrators need to take personality traits into account.

In some of my previous classes, I had the benefit of taking in-depth personality tests. However, when my feedback told me I was an introvert, I was not surprised. Regardless if you take a personality test or not, it is pretty easy to categorize yourself along the introvert and extrovert scale.

It is typical for people to fall along a range: major introvert, semi-introvert, introvert, extrovert, semi-extrovert or major extrovert. While individual personalities vary, there remain qualities typically recognized for each level.

Extroverts excel in environments that include large groups of people, plenty of interaction and face-to-face conversation, and using their communication skills with ease. Universities allow for extroverts to thrive on so much energy, while introverts are often pushing themselves harder to try and achieve that same energy level.

Don’t get me wrong, introverts are not all about being shy and spending all our time alone. I was a cheerleader for most of my life and did some acting. I

loved the rush of performing in front of a large crowd. I could even handle going to parties after cheerleading events with all my friends. But there are definitely nights filled with books, blankets, movies and cuddling.

For many introverts, there is a want to be pushed out of comfort zones in order to gain communication and social skills. Although for some stress levels can be high enough to display dangerous behavior.

In an article written by Jill D. Burruss and Lisa Kaenzig, extreme cases show that the individual has no friends, but not by choice, which can then trigger depression, that they will not work with others under any circumstance and they exhibit marked changes such as weight change, changes in their sleeping pattern, distress, withdrawal, etc.

While extreme cases such as the above tend to be rare, there are personality traits commonly found in people that harbor any resemblance to an introvert. According to Burrus and Kaenzig, these traits “don’t need to be cured” but instead they need “to be understood and accepted.”

With the ways universities are designed introverts have a harder time enjoying themselves.

Introverts are typically territorial; they want time and space for themselves and get edgy without enough alone time. Dorm rooms are small enough for one person, let alone two.

On top of that, most one-bedroom dorms are assigned to upperclassmen.

For introverts, this can create a lot of tension when they cannot find space to be alone for a while to recharge.

Introverts also quickly become drained around large groups of people.

Kate Bartolotta writes, “for us, social time is giving our energy rather than receiving energy.” Bartolotta also made the simile of introverts being thought as “having a cup of energy available.”

Extroverts have a constant full cup in large groups while introverts slowly lose a little from the cup the longer interaction continues.

Imagine the career fair. Professors and guest speakers often stress the importance of networking. Introverts are typically cautious when it comes to meeting and interacting with new people. This makes building connections with people that the introvert hardly knows very difficult. It also can make interviews terribly uncomfortable and awkward.

While extroverts love large groups, introverts prefer one-on-one communication. Large lecture halls are a complete nightmare for introverts.

Many would then suggest visiting your professor alone during their office hours, which the point above exposes the problem with that.

Future employers will be looking for resumes filled with clubs and activities.

It’s even better if you hold positions in said clubs. If you receive more than one, you then have numerous on-going tasks and projects, on top of classwork. That can be a good amount for anyone, but quickly becomes a lot for introverts.

It becomes obvious that personality policies should become a real thing for universities. The solution could be as simple as smaller group work, independent study time and speech classes filled with similar personalities. This will help integrate more positive college experiences and brighter futures for introverts.

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Athletes need compensation for full-time work

By Anthony.Bader @iowastatedaily.com

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he National Labor Relations Board ruled Wednesday that members of the Northwestern University football team who receive scholarships have the right to unionize.

This decision is a win for the football players and for unions in general.

Unions allow people with little influence or power to have a say in matters that affect their lives. Student athletes will hopefully be able to improve their college experience through deals made via collective bargaining.

According to a recent CNN article, football players at Northwestern are seeking better medical care, concussion testing and even the possibility of getting paid. So far it appears that unionization is the only way to make their voices heard on the major issues that players face.

One might think that football players in college are first and foremost students and therefore should

not be paid. However, given how much time per week that the athletes put into their sport, participating in college athletics is essentially a full-time job.

Many of the players on the Northwestern team claim that they felt they needed to prioritize football above school.

If a player is attending college on a sports scholarship, why wouldn’t he or she prioritize sports over school? The student must keep up their performance on the court or field in order to maintain his or her scholarship. Good grades are simply not what pay the bills in that situation.

Personally, I only work a part-time job where I stand around for six hours at a time, and I still find it hard to manage school, social life and extra-curricular activities.

I cannot imagine spending 40-plus hours every week dedicated to a sport while maintaining a social life and still achieving spectacular grades. It’s not impossible, but it is much more difficult.

Given their time com-

mitment, professional and collegiate football players are not too dissimilar. Both put in many hours a week practicing the sport and both generate millions of dollars in revenue as a result of the games they play.

The main difference is that professional football players make a profit from their time on the field. The minimum yearly salary for a first year professional football player is $375,000.

The most any college football player can hope for is to break even after four years with a full ride scholarship.

The reason that universities give out scholarships to football players is that by giving a more highly valued scholarship, they will be getting better players. By getting better players, a school will make its team more successful. If the team is successful, the university will make more money from ticket sales and through other forms of revenue.

Since universities give out scholarships with the intention to make money from having successful

teams, it is only fair that the players receive some of this money. As the system is currently set up, they are being exploited.

Professional football players, like other athletes, are paid because they provide a service. They play football once a week and are paid for doing so because others enjoy watching them play. This is not a difficult concept — the players provide a service for which they are compensated.

College football players do not necessarily need to be making hundreds of thousands of dollars the way professional athletes do, but they should be compensated much more than they currently are.

Universities benefit directly from the players’ presence on their teams, and the players’ compensation should be proportional.

Another way to look at this issue is that top NCAA coaches earn salaries similar to that of professional coaches, yet college players only break even with their scholarships. If NCAA coaches are receiving

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College athletes on scholarship deserve to be compensated for playing sports. Universities make millions of dollars when the players are on the field, yet the athletes don’t see a dime.

compensation similar to a professional level, it does not seem too far-fetched that NCAA players should receive more reasonable compensation.

One argument for the lack of payment to players is that the profits from football and basketball are needed to support other less popular sports at universities. However, some sports economists, such as Leo Kahane, have recently challenged this line of thought showing that revenue generated from

sports like hockey are able to easily cover the scholarships for top players in the sport.

Even if the more popular sports supported all other athletics at a university, players would still deserve some compensation. The bottom line is that universities make more money off of having sports teams than they would if they had no athletics. To not compensate players for this gained value is, quite simply, exploitation.

Fundamentalism poses risk to government, science

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n a talk to his constituents at the Liberty Baptist Church Sportsman’s Banquet in September of 2012, Paul Broun, U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 10th District said many things. He stated “that talk about evolution, embryology, and the big bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell…the Earth is but about 9,000 years old.” And Rep. Broun is not alone.

In the 2012 Republican primaries for the Republican nomination for the President of the United States, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota’s 6th District and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas’ 14th District all agreed that intelligent design was the preferred mode of science education for American children and that biological evolution was just a theory.

Biological evolution is not just a theory. It is a scientific theory that is supported by experiments, facts, observations and mathematics. Intelligent design, on the other hand, is not supported by

any scientifically validated procedure.

Applying such public policy as intelligent design could have devastating results.

Americans ought to be concerned with the policy decisions of their U.S. representatives, senators and state governors.

In the same way, Americans should be concerned if their representative is applying his or her respective religious beliefs to science and public policy. Such a religious belief system is currently being utilized by Rep. Broun, who sits on the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment and is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight.

Consequently, both are subcommittees for the United States House Committee on Space, Science and Technology. In addition, Americans ought to be concerned for their economic, educational and technological future as the United States economy faces stiffer competition and innovation from expanding European and Chinese markets.

In the future, it will be increasingly difficult to compete in the global economy with representatives who share a similar paradigm to that of Rep. Broun. This particular type of fundamentalist point of

view is dangerous. It is the main culprit targeting biological evolution and its supportive scientific, engineering and mathematical disciplines and applications.

Rep. Broun and his type of thinking are an example of the necessity of the separation of church and state.

What these types of politicians tend to do is muddy the waters with nonsensical details. If one says it enough, it must be true, “Evolution is just a theory.” This type of thinking, lack of scientific understanding and ignorance in scientific literacy could potentially, if not already, create dire consequences on American science policy and America’s scientific future and competitiveness.

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Rather it is discourse in support of a system that has been built on the technological foundations from the mathematical and scientific discoveries of the past 400 years — a system in which measurable facts and evidences are engineered to improve the lives of all Americans, including those of faith.

We are a society where Americans are free to express their opinions, but are also free to take advantage of scientific literacy while discovering the competitive edge that Lady Liberty provides for her children.

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The ISU women’s hockey club won the American Collegiate Hockey Association’s Division II national title. Millie Luedtke was named the tournament MVP with five goals and seven assists.

STARTED FROM THE BOTTOM: WOMEN’S HOCKEY CLUB CLAIMS NATIONAL TITLE

By Harrison.March @iowastatedaily.com Something about this season felt different for the ISU women’s hockey club.

Less than eight months removed from a 5-11-0 season in which the Cyclones were outscored 89-34, the team was gearing up for its 2013-14 campaign. Its first task: actually get a team together.

“When I was a freshman, people didn’t take it very seriously. We had fun, but we didn’t win a lot,” said senior Ashley Bye. “We had some issues with retention. Girls were just not coming back the next year.”

Three years later at open tryouts, so many aspiring team members showed up that the club had to make cuts, something it had never done before. When the roster was finally set, Iowa State set its sights on the season opener against University of Iowa.

The Cyclones swept the series with the Hawkeyes, winning 13-1 and 10-1. Then came the first big challenge of the year: a home series with Rainy River Community College.

The Rainy River Voyageurs had won three of the last six American Collegiate Hockey Association Women’s Division II Championships and finished as runnersup another year. That didn’t bother the Cyclones, who got the sweep again, this time winning 1-0 and 5-1.

“When we beat Rainy River, that was a big triumph for this team,” said head coach Derek Herbert. “That’s when we knew how good we really could be and that we could maybe make a run this season.”

Fast forward four and a half months.

The women’s hockey club is 14-5-1 on the season and has outscored its opponents by an 86-42 margin. On deck is the American Collegiate Hockey Association’s tournament.

Iowa State ran through its foes in pool play, knocking off Michigan State 5-1, the Wisconsin-La Crosse 3-1 and California University of Pennsylvania 2-1, qualifying for the semifinals in the process.

Only one problem – the club had to face off with North Dakota State in the semifinal, a team they had a 1-3 record against during the regular season. The Cyclones led by two goals from forward Millie Luedtke and survived a late push from North Dakota State and knocked off the Bison 6-5.

“When we won in the semis, it was just surreal. Nobody else thought we’d get that far, I think some people didn’t know Iowa State has a team,” Luedtke said. “We’d only beaten North Dakota [State] once in the season, but we knew we could get it done and move on to the championship.”

Iowa State, a team that averaged just more than four goals per game, found itself locked in a defensive battle with Pennsylvania State for the ACHA National Title on Saturday.

Entering the third period, both teams were still scoreless.

“We had been getting opportunities to get ahead, but nothing quite stuck out as a great shot,” Bye said.

Finally, the Cyclones had a breakthrough. Luedtke, who finished the year with 22 goals in 25 games, netted her biggest shot of the year.

The score was Iowa State 1, Penn State

0 with 7:21 remaining.

In the net for the Cyclones was freshman Sophie Puente, who already had four shut outs under her belt. About seven minutes later, Puente had her fifth.

“Wow, those were the slowest seven minutes of my life,” Bye said with a laugh.

The buzzer sounded and the Cyclones threw their gloves and sticks on the ice and piled up on each other in celebration.

Iowa State’s women’s hockey club had won the ACHA Division II national title.

“There’s really nothing like it,” Luedtke said. “It was such a team effort and obviously a huge accomplishment for this team.

Not only to get to the tournament, but to come out on top. The only way to describe it is surreal.”

Following the win, Luedtke, who had five goals and seven assists in Iowa State’s tournament run, was named the tournament MVP. Bye was also named to the alltournament second team.

Though on the outside a championship run may have seemed like a long shot, Herbert said he wasn’t as surprised.

“I took over as head coach after last year, and we had lots of talent coming in with some new girls,” Herbert said. “I wasn’t entirely sure what it would be like, but I kept an open mind. Pretty early on, I had a good feeling.”

Herbert decided to write his goals for the season on the team whiteboard, “go undefeated” and “win the national title” among them.

“As the season went on, we had to erase some of them and sometimes that was hard to do,” Bye said. “But winning the title,

that’s still there. It’s so cool to see it still up on the board.”

With the success the Cyclones had this season, questions about their future have arisen. Herbert said that while the team was on its tournament run, he was asked by many people if the team was interested in moving to the Division I level.

“We have the capability, I think, but that’s just such a big step. And if you decide to do it, you can’t really go back,” Herbert said. “First, though, we want to make sure we have enough people and talent coming in to keep it up.”

In the meantime, Iowa State is working to schedule games with Division I teams to see how the Cyclones stack up with tougher competition. As the Cyclones weigh the options for their future, Bye thinks the top priority is to continue strengthening relationships within the team.

“We saw a family coming together at nationals; it all really fell into place,” Bye said. “We were having fun together in the hotel, everyone was clicking. If we stick together into next season and build that team chemistry, it could be another big year.”

It’s been a long journey from being unknown to being national champions, and though questions and concerns about next season already loom, the Cyclones are taking time to let it all sink in.

“Walking around campus in our gear, people are giving us high fives. One of my teachers even told the class about it and everyone clapped and congratulated me,” Bye said. “The Iowa Wild even asked us to come drop the puck at a game. It’s just unbelievable.”

ISU football gets hands-on coach Physical new coach looks forward to player development

By Alex.Gookin @iowastatedaily.com On the first day of spring practice, ISU running back coach Louis Ayeni knew he had a lot to learn as a new coach on Iowa State’s staff.

What the four returning running backs did not know was that Ayeni would show them that they had a lot to learn, too. Equipped with a foam blocking bag, Ayeni whacked players as they ran through a running drill.

“The first time they went through, they were a little surprised,” Ayeni said. “Now it’s kind of funny. When they’re running through, they have their pads down and they try to run me over.

They learn.”

The hands-on coaching

We practice fast, we practice physical and we play hard through the whistle, so it’s kind of fun.”

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approach is just Ayeni’s way of teaching. The 2003 Northwestern graduate is only eight years removed from playing in the NFL and despite a recent birthday, he says he’s young enough to run alongside players and coach as an example.

Ayeni says he likes what he’s seen of the group, led by Aaron Wimberly, a senior in the fall.

“I see some fast guys,” Ayeni said. “It’s been exciting. With the new staff coming in, these guys have taken the coaching well and they want to get better every sin-

gle day.”

Ayeni has four running backs this spring with last season’s leading rusher Wimberly and thirdleading rusher DeVondrick Nealy.

Rob Standard and redshirt freshman Tyler Brown also return from last year’s squad.

Head coach Paul Rhoads hopes to see a healthier spring out of the group, as Wimberly struggled with injuries much of last spring and throughout the season.

“I’d love to get 15 days of practice out of him,” Rhoads said of Wimberly. “Aaron is tough, he doesn’t have to show any toughness. I’d like to see him take control of the offense and display all the skills he has.”

Ayeni hopes to see player development through the spring, claiming he can bench more than any of the running backs. He said the friendly competition between coach and players makes it fun.

But after three practices, Ayeni said there is still some

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Redshirt junior DeVondrick Nealy runs the ball during spring practice at Bergstrom Football Complex on March 10. Nealy is one of four returning running backs coached by new running back coach Louis Ayeni.

learning to do. After four years of coaching at the University Toledo, it’s back to teaching players how he runs practice.

“It’s been kind of fun doing that because for four years your

guys know how to practice with you, so they are seeing a different side of me a little bit,” Ayeni said.

“We practice fast, we practice physical and we play hard through the whistle, so it’s kind of fun.”

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Cyclone golf club prepares to host Iowa, Wisconsin; aims to advance to nationals

By Mike.Randleman @iowastatedaily.com The current weather conditions in Iowa may not be ideal for golf, but they are good enough for the ISU golf club.

After months practicing indoors, Iowa State will pit its A and B teams against club teams from the University of Iowa and University of Wisconsin in an 18-hole tournament Saturday at Veenker Memorial Golf Course in Ames.

“I actually have been out there to talk with Greg Dingel, our faculty advisor, a couple times. There was some snow on it a couple weeks ago, but today he sent me a picture of them cutting the greens, so I kind of got excited about that,” said ISU golf club president Matt Dohse.

With weather and course conditions slowly improving, players had the opportunity Thursday to practice outside on the driving range for the first time since their first tournament of the spring season in Branson, Mo., on March 1 and 2.

Before finally venturing back outdoors, the club had to get creative in the winter months to stay sharp.

“We were inside at Lied [Recreation Center] either on the turf doing short game or putting and we were in the batting cages just hitting golf balls into the net I’d say for a solid two months,” Dohse said.

When the time came to venture to Missouri in early March, Dohse wasn’t sure what type of showing the team would have at the National Collegiate Gaelic Athletic Association central regional tournament.

“I did not know what to expect from our team considering we had not hit a ball outside. I’d say we did OK for not even playing outside,” Dohse said of the team’s fourthplace finish.

Along with two non-qualifying tournaments, Iowa State will also play in two regional tournaments this spring.

The regional tournaments have implications for the association’s national tournament, which the club missed out on in the fall.

“It was not the start we all wanted,” said sophomore Jeremy Mason, who tied for seventh individually. “We’re still in decent position where if we play well in our second regional in two weeks, we might have a shot to go to nationals. We’re not out of contention, but we’re not in the spot we wanted to be.”

In order to advance to nationals, Mason said the team likely has to win the second regional tournament April 5 and 6 in Hartsburg, Mo. “For first place, you get six points; second place you get two points; third place you get one point. Whatever team that has the highest point total after two tournaments will go to nationals,” Mason said of the qualifying process.

With a fourth-place finish in the first regional, Iowa State did not earn any points and will have to win and hope for the top-three finishers from the first tournament — Saint Louis, Missouri and Iowa — to finish outside out of the top three.

Whether or not Iowa State advances to New Jersey to compete at nationals, Mason, a varsity golfer in high school, has enjoyed the opportunity the club has given him to stay competitive.

“It’s nice to represent my school,” Mason said. “You miss that competitiveness of playing golf, so it’s nice to get back into it again. It’s nice meeting people with the same interests as you.”

Though the ISU golf club went competitive for the first time in 2013-14, Dohse encourages golfers of any skill level to join the club for its noncompetitive side.

“You come out once or twice a week and play nine holes,” Dohse said. “You pay a membership fee for the club each semester which gets you a T-shirt and entrance into all our events.”

The club has made it a point to be active on several social media platforms to share information about the club.

“You can check out our Facebook page, our Twitter and this semester we have our own Web page now,” Dohse said. “I’d say we’re probably the best in the social media category for all club teams in the country.”

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The ISU golf club will host the University of Iowa and the University of Wisconsin Saturday in an 18-hole tournament at Veenker Memorial Golf Course. After months of practicing indoors, the team is excited to play outdoors and on real grass.

ISU softball hopes to keep intensity against Oklahoma

By Ben.Paulus @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State opens up its Big 12 season this weekend with a three-game series against No. 23 Oklahoma.

The Cyclones got off to a strong start this season going 13-3 through their first 16 games. A combination of dominant pitching, clean defense and a potent offense from top to bottom led Iowa State early.

Since then, however, the Cyclones have dropped eight of their past 12, bringing their record to 17-11 heading into conference play.

With a ranked opponent coming to town, Iowa State is hoping to take advantage of the home field to get back to its winning ways.

“Our team definitely likes playing in front of the home crowd,” said second baseman Sara Davison. “It really brings the intensity level up and we play best when we’re excited for the games and focused.”

Iowa State is 5-1 while playing at home this season. After sweeping the opening weekend in the Bergstrom Football Complex by going 4-0, the Cyclones split the outdoor home-opening doubleheader with Northern Illinois.

Coming off a dramatic victory in

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Senior Sara Davison prepares to hit the ball during Iowa State’s game against Northern Illinois on Sunday at Cyclone Sports Complex. The Cyclones defeated the Huskies, 6-5.

walk-off fashion March 23 against the Huskies, Iowa State’s goal is to keep the intensity level high.

Aly Cappaert’s home run sent the Huskies home with a loss, and gave the Cyclones the confidence they were searching for heading into Big 12 play.

“We’ve gone through a lot of things this season,” said ISU coach Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler. “Initially we were trying to relax and have a bit of fun. Now we’ve gone the other direction trying to take a different approach, we’re just looking for a reset button.”

After their doubleheader against South Dakota was canceled due to inclement weather, the Cyclones will have some extra time to reset for Oklahoma on Friday.

The Sooners are riding a three-game winning streak into Ames this weekend with an overall record of 21-8.

Aiming to get on track, Iowa State will strive to get back to what was working at the start of the season. Playing sound defense, having a reliable pitching staff, along with a productive offense will be what the Cyclones will lean on during Big 12 play.

“We’ve been working on getting our focus back in practice lately,” said right fielder Sarah Hawryluk. “Just working hard and trying to take it one game at a time.”

Playing outside consistently at home might be the difference maker Iowa State is looking for. After back-to-back sub .500 weekends at the Shocker Classic and Class Act Classic, the Cyclones could use a bit of that home field advantage to turn it around.

Iowa State will host three contests with Oklahoma, their opener starting at 4 p.m. Friday. The Cyclones and the Sooners will face off against each other at 12 p.m. Saturday and again at noon on Sunday.

Iowa State hosts TCU, Texas Tech in last two home meets of season Confident team aims for win in conference play after five losses

By Max.Dible @iowastatedaily.com The ISU tennis team will be in search of a victory for the first time in Big 12 play this weekend when conference foes Texas Christian University and Texas Tech University travel to Ames Racquet & Fitness for its meets on Friday and Sunday, respectively.

The Cyclones (8-9, 0-4 Big 12) have dropped five meets in a row heading into the weekend, all against ranked opponents.

Nothing will change for the squad as TCU holds the 32nd spot in the nation while Texas Tech is ranked 57th.

Iowa State started off

the season on a hot streak, but the level of competition has risen considerably since conference play began, which ISU coach Armando Espinosa said has exposed some of his team’s flaws.

“We need to be a bit fitter, so we are working on that,” Espinosa said.

“We also need to be more patient and have a smarter shot selection.”

Espinosa said that playing better opponents can change the nature of a player’s game.

“Sometimes when you are playing a ranked opponent, you feel like you need to make bigger shots and you take away from what your true game is,” Espinosa said. “You go out there and try to paint the lines and it does not work, and suddenly you are giving them points for free.

You cannot do that against a good team.”

Iowa State struggled to score during its games

This season has gone by really fast and it is crazy that these are our last home matches, but it has been exciting. ” Emma Waites

in Texas last weekend, losing to both Baylor and Texas, each by a score of 7-0.

Freshman Talisa Merchiers lost both matches of the weekend but won the most games out of any ISU player.

Merchiers said that despite the five consecutive losses, positive attitudes and perspectives still prevail at practice.

“We still have the mentality to beat every

team,” Merchiers said.

“We do not think before the match that we are going to lose. I know what the level [of play] is, and I am just going to fight for every point.”

Senior Emma Waites may have the most incentive to help turn things around as this weekend’s matches will be the final of her four-year career in Ames.

“It is hitting me as of right now,” Waites said.

“This season has gone by really fast and it is crazy that these are our last home matches, but it has been exciting. I am just ready to play here and leave it all out here.”

Waites and the rest of the Cyclones will be afforded the opportunity to do just that at 3 p.m.

Friday against TCU. Iowa State will have Saturday off but will return to Ames Racquet & Fitness at 11 a.m. Sunday to take on Texas Tech.

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Emma Waites is ready to return the ball during her match against Oklahoma State April 7, 2013 at the Forker Tennis Courts. She will play her last career home match March 30.

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The sweetest

HOMECOMING Hogue’s dream becomes reality in New York City

By Alex.Halsted @iowastatedaily.com NEW YORK — Dustin Hogue couldn’t hold it back. A wide smile crossed his face as he glanced out through the tunnel and saw for the first time what he had always dreamed of.

As he took each subsequent step toward the court for Iowa State’s practice, Hogue spread his arms to take it in. He stood at mid-court, his arms apart and looked around at Madison Square Garden, the place he’d always wanted to be.

“To actually have this opportunity is kind of crazy to me,” Hogue said.

“Everybody wants to play in the Garden, and to actually have the chance to come back and play here … I never thought I actually would be here in the Garden playing.”

Hogue grew up in Yonkers, N.Y. as a New York Knicks fan. He would watch games on television with family and friends and he would dream. Maybe, he thought, one day he could play at The World’s Most Famous Arena.

From time to time, Hogue and his childhood friends would make the 30-minute or so commute into Manhattan. They would walk past Madison Square Garden and look up at the structure in wonder.

“One day,” Hogue would say, “we’re going to get there.”

Yet Hogue never went. He wanted to catch a Knicks game, but the opportunity never presented itself. When the Cyclones were put into the East Regional of the NCAA tournament this season as a No. 3 seed, the opportunity was open.

Iowa State pushed past North Carolina Central in the second round in San Antonio, moving to being one game away from the Sweet 16 and New York City. Hogue received a handful of text messages seeking tickets if the Cyclones advanced.

As Hogue and assistant coach Matt Abdelmassih, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., hugged after a two-point victory against North Carolina just more than a day later, he said in Hogue’s ear, “We’re going home.”

The Cyclones were in the Sweet 16 for the fourth time in school history, and Hogue’s phone began to buzz in the locker room. The text message count seeking tickets reached 155.

“I’m not going to be able to get everybody tickets,” said Hogue, who has bargained with teammates to increase his 15-ticket allotment. “It’s going to be a tough draft pick for these tickets.”

Hogue, a 6-foot-6 forward transfer from Indian Hills Community College, burst onto the scene in his first season at Iowa State. He started from Day 1 and finished the regular season tied for second in rebounding in the Big 12.

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Junior Dustin Hogue embraces assistant coach Matt Abdelmassih after the Cyclones beat the North Carolina Tar Heels 85-83 clinching their birth into the Sweet 16 on Sunday. Hogue fouled out of the game after scoring 14 points and grabbing seven rebounds.

Throughout his first season, Hogue has become Iowa State’s physical presence, falling to the ground and grabbing rebounds while averaging 10.9 points and 8.5 rebounds per game entering the Sweet 16.

His toughness on the court, he says, stems from New York, where he played at local YMCAs and the famous Rucker Park while growing up.

“It’s always tough basketball,” Hogue said. “I’m the energetic guy on the court now, but growing up there were hundreds of me everywhere.”

Only one will play in the Sweet 16 on Friday night.

“It’s going to be an emotional night I’m sure when his name is called on these loud speakers,” said Abdelmassih, who has been to the Garden hundreds of times.

“Because these are the most famous loud speakers in the world.”

When the buzzer sounded to end Iowa State’s practice and the court cleared, Hogue posed for a photo under the hoop. He picked up a ball and dunked one final time.

As he walked back toward the tunnel, his smile was still there. Finally, just as he told his friends many years ago, Hogue had made it to Madison Square Garden.

“It’s beautiful, man,” Hogue said. “My shot is money. It’s the home court advantage or something.”

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ISU coach Fred Hoiberg answers questions from media during Iowa State’s press conference Saturday at the AT&T Center in San Antonio. Hoiberg set to face former teammate in Friday’s game.

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Junior Percy Gibson, left, and junior Dustin Hogue share a smile during the Cyclones’ open practice Thursday at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

“IT’S A DREAM COME TRUE.” To actually have the chance to play here like I dreamed of as a kid,

— DUSTIN HOUGE

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UConn head coach Kevin Ollie watches his team practice Thursday at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Ollie is a former NBA teammate of Hoiberg from the Chicago Bulls.

Hoiberg to encounter longtime friend on Connecticut bench UConn coach to face off against NBA teammate for first time

By Alex.Halsted @iowastatedaily.com NEW YORK — Fred Hoiberg and Kevin Ollie stood together in Tucson, Ariz. two decades ago as young teenagers and strangers.

Arizona basketball coach Lute Olson had a

scholarship available to hand out and he looked at both of them.

“The first one who accepts gets it,” Olson told them.

In the end, neither accepted, as Hoiberg instead chose to play for his hometown Cyclones and Ollie decided to play at Connecticut.

Ten years later in Chicago, the two found themselves together again.

They were 29 years old and playing for the Chicago Bulls.

“He was just one of the

greatest teammates I have ever been around,” Ollie said of Hoiberg in New York on Thursday before the Sweet 16. “Personable, would do anything for his teammates.”

When Hoiberg was forced to retire from the NBA early after 10 seasons because of an enlarged aortic root in his heart, he became an assistant general manager with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

In 2008, the Timberwolves were in need of a veteran, and Hoiberg knew the perfect

guy.

The first guy Minnesota called was Ollie.

“He allowed me to be a 37-year-old point guard, to get another year in the NBA, which is always good,” Ollie said. “He did a lot in my life.”

“He owes me,” Hoiberg said jokingly, “because I resurrected his damn career.”

The two were back in the same setting Thursday as their teams — Iowa State and Connecticut — prepared to square off

Friday in the Sweet 16 at Madison Square Garden.

Hoiberg has found success in his first four seasons coaching collegiately at Iowa State, advancing to three-straight NCAA tournaments.

Ollie has found similar success in his second season at his alma mater, reaching the Sweet 16 after the Huskies failed to make the tournament last season.

“Just with our NBA experience, I think we coach the same,” Ollie said. “We try to manipulate the de-

fense. We try to go to different matchups. I look at him, and he took the job at Iowa State and just filled in those shoes and just took it to another level. I’m a big fan of Fred’s.”

They’re big fans of each other, ever since that day in Arizona.

“Listen, Kevin and I weren’t very good players,” Hoiberg said. “But to stick around, me for 10, him for 13 years [in the NBA], you have to have some of those qualities to stick: a work ethic, good teammate and that’s what Kevin was.”

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Monte Morris ‘ready for the bright lights’ Mentor speaks about Morris’ ability to play on ‘biggest of stages’

By Dean.Berhow-Goll @iowastatedaily.com NEW YORK — As Monte Morris had the rare taste of losing in his mouth while walking off the court, having lost in the state championship as a sophomore, one of his idols pulled him aside.

It was Mateen Cleaves, a former three-time AllAmerican for Michigan State who chose then and there to become the young man’s mentor. The two exchanging numbers sparked what would be one of the most important moments of Morris’ young development.

“He called me about a week after that and asked if I want to get in the gym, I can help your game get to the next level,” Morris said, sitting at his locker in Madison Square Garden.

“Ever since then we’ve had that bond, that competitiveness. It just took off from there.”

Morris worked out with Cleaves in the offseasons moving forward, Cleaves pushing him harder and further than he’d ever experienced playing as a standout for the Flint Beecher Buccaneers.

Soon the talk around Flint became this young kid at Beecher who found a way to win no matter if he was scoring 25 a night or dishing out 15 assists.

“Coming up in Flint, you had to go see ManMan play,” Cleaves said with a big smile, still sporting a Michigan State sweatshirt. “It was barbershop talk. You’ve got to go see Man-Man play and he was one of the guys that came up through Flint that had that effect, you had to go watch him play.”

His junior year was a coming out party for Morris. He averaged 18 points, six assists and five rebounds per game en route to the Final Four, which is Michigan’s version of the state playoffs.

The previous two years, Beecher hadn’t made it passed the semifinals, but in that year’s game, Morris dished out the biggest assist of his career, which to this day is the play he’s remembered

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Freshman guard Monte Morris goes for a layup during the second-round NCAA tournament game against North Carolina Central. The Cyclones defeated the Eagles 93-75 on March 21.

for in Flint.

Against Detroit Consortium in the semifinals with 10 seconds left and the score tied at 36, Morris poked the ball loose on defense, received the outlet pass and in midair contorted his body to deliver a 50-foot pass to a teammate, who hit a buzzer-beater for the win.

“A 45-to-50 foot pass on the money with this kid off balance to win the game,” said Mike Williams, Morris’ high school cozzz ach at Flint Beecher. “He just made plays, he made winning plays. A lot of kids can make plays, but that kid made winning plays for us.”

Morris and Beecher won back-to-back titles in his junior and senior years, both hand-delivered by the local phenom who everyone simply knew as “Man-Man.” Later his senior year, Morris upped his season averages to nearly 22 points and 10 assists per game. He was named Michigan’s Mr. Basketball, narrowly winning the award over Derrick Walton, who now starts at point guard for Michigan and Kentucky’s James Young.

Before Morris’ departure out of the state of Michigan to Iowa State, three of the last four Mr. Basketballs went on to don the emerald of a Michigan State Spartan. So why does one of the most beloved

players by Spartan fans — and most detested by Cyclone fans — of the last decade think about ManMan leaving the state?

“I was surprised,” Cleaves said. “Michigan and Michigan State, they let a good one get out. I’m pretty sure these coaches at Michigan or Michigan State would love to have him.

“If you can have an opportunity to have Monte Morris on your team, anybody would love that.”

The thing about Morris, Cleaves says, is he does whatever it takes to win. That’s why he won Mr. Basketball over the likes of the more flashy Walton and Young.

“He’s a winner,” Cleaves said. “He was always playing for a state championship, his teams always won and that’s what always stands out.

He wasn’t going to wow you with dunks or athleticism, but what he did was his teams always won and there’s something to be said for that.”

“The thing you first look at is they’re both winners,” Hoiberg said.

“Mateen, what he did, a lot of Cyclone fans will never forget that game.

Both those guys ooze confidence. They’ll do anything it takes to win. I know they’re very close, he couldn’t be a better mentor for Monte to have.”

And even now, a full

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Freshman guard Monte Morris shoots a 3-pointer during the Cyclones’ open practice Thursday at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Iowa State takes on Conneticut on Friday.

“GOOD ONE GET OUT. Michigan and Michigan State, they let a

I’m pretty sure these coaches at Michigan or Michigan State would love to have him.”

— MATEEN CLEAVES

year removed from winning in back-to-back state titles, Morris is adapting, doing what it takes for Iowa State to win games.

Early in the year, Morris said he had to adjust to stay on the floor.

The now-No. 6 ranked offense in the country didn’t need him to score. Instead he played defense and dished assists in bunches while sparingly turning the ball over, helping him on his way to an NCAA-record 5.0 assist-to-turnover ratio.

Now with Georges Niang out for the rest of the season, Morris has continued adjusting by scoring more. In his first two NCAA Tournament games, Morris is averaging 14 points per game — up from his season aver-

age of 6.6 — and shooting 50 percent from the floor while knocking down 4-of5 3-pointers, including three crucial triples against North Carolina.

“This whole season, I feel Monte’s been an X-factor and hit key shots,” said Naz Long. “Monte’s not a freshman. He doesn’t play like a freshman. He doesn’t have the mindset of a freshman.”

Morris said that because of a sit-down with Coach Hoiberg after the end of the regular season, he was given more of a green light to fill up the box score in other ways he hadn’t done often in the regular season.

“He said be aggressive Man-Man,” Morris said.

“Just go out there and have

fun and I felt like it took all the stress off my shoulders and now I’m able to just play basketball.”

Now playing in the Sweet 16 at Madison Square Garden, Morris’ mentor says that he lives for games like the one he’ll be playing in Friday night against the University of Connecticut, with yet another chance to show the nation that he thrives on the biggest of stages.

“He’s ready for the bright lights,” Cleaves said.

“It’s something people shy away from, but he eggs that on. That’s that Flint in him. I’m so proud of him. I would say my little brother but I’m more like his dad.

I just love what he’s doing, he’s making our whole city proud.”

Kane, Napier not looking for a one-on-one matchup Opposing guards prepare to square off in Sweet 16

DEANDRE KANE

SHABAZZ NAPIER

Player statistics DeAndre Kane 17.1 points per game 5.8 assists per game

By Dean.Berhow-Goll @iowastatedaily.com On Friday, two of the best guards in the country will square off, but, in each of their minds, neither is looking at it as a game of one-on-one.

Both DeAndre Kane and University of Connecticut guard Shabazz Napier enter Fridays’s Sweet 16 game coming off of performances that pushed their respective teams into the round — Kane with a game-winning bucket and Napier scoring 25 points on an incredibly efficient 9-of-13 shooting from the field.

“One guy can’t stop him, he’s really, really good,” said ISU coach Fred Hoiberg.

“You talk about great clutch players, I don’t think there’s anybody in the college game that’s better than Shabazz Napier.”

UConn coach Kevin Ollie said nearly the same thing about Kane, saying they would need a collective effort to slow down Iowa State’s facilitator.

“He’s a 6-foot-4 point guard that Fred puts on the post and posts up a lot,” Ollie said. “So we’re going to have to really, really load against him and have him see a lot of jerseys that say ‘Connecticut.’ It’s going to have to be ten eyes on him at all times.”

Kane comes into the game red-hot after flirting with a triple-double against North Carolina, finishing with 24 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists.

Ollie said Napier would guard him at

6.8 rebounds per game Shabazz Napier 17.8 points per game 4.91 assists per game 5.9 rebounds per game

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Brian Achenbach/Iowa State Daily

Senior guard DeAndre Kane shoots a layup during Iowa State’s 85-83 win over North Carolina on March 23 in San Antonio. Kane scored 24 points, had 10 rebounds and seven assists.

Senior guard Shabazz Napier pulls up for a 3-point shot during Connecticut’s open practice Thursday at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

times, but the team would also be guarding the 6-foot-4 point guard who creates mis-

matches in the post and outside.

“I think he’s definitely their motor, he

gets them going,” Napier said. “That’s what great players do. I’m pretty sure that if we try our best and try to contain him, which is sometimes difficult, because he’s seen everything.”

No matter what the media says, Kane isn’t approaching this an opportunity to showcase himself for the next level by going one-on-one with one of the best guards in the country.

Just as Ollie is approaching guarding him, Kane looks at the matchup as something the entire ISU rotation will have to keep track of, whether that be Kane guarding Napier or the young Monte Morris or Naz Long assigned to chase around the All-American.

“Well, for me I’m not looking at it as a one‑and‑one matchup,” Kane said. “I know a lot of people [are]. He’s a leader out there.

He makes big shots when they need it. He puts his team in great positions to win.

“But we’re going to do whatever we can to slow him down, slow him down in transition and we’ll take it from there.”

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Editor: Alex Halsted | sports@iowastatedaily.com

BREAKING DOWN THE BRACKET

By Alex.Halsted @iowastatedaily.com

THE GAME WHAT: No. 3 Iowa State vs. No. 7 Connecticut WHEN: 6:27 p.m. CT Friday WHERE: Madison Square Garden in New York City ANNOUNCERS: Verne Lundquist, Bill Raftery and Allie LaForce

IOWA STATE

CONNECTICUT

RECORD: 28-7 MASCOT: Cyclones NCAA TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES: 15

RECORD: 28-8 MASCOT: Huskies NCAA TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES: 31

QUICK FACT:

QUICK FACT:

Won the Big 12 Championship for the first time since 2000

UConn has won three national titles (1999, 2004, 2011)

WINS IN THE TOURNAMENTS:

WINS IN THE TOURNAMENTS:

No. 14 North Carolina Central, 93-75 No. 6 North Carolina, 85-83

No. 10 St. Joe’s, 89-81 (OT) No. 2 Villanova, 77-65

WHAT THEY’VE DONE:

WHAT THEY’VE DONE:

After starting the season 14-0, the Cyclones won 11 Big 12 games and were seeded No. 4 in the Big 12 Championship.

Three wins later, and Iowa State had its first Big 12 title since 2000. The Cyclones entered the season with uncertainty after the loss of all but one starter from last season’s tournament team, but DeAndre Kane stepped up in his first season as a transfer, Melvin Ejim molded into the Big 12 Player of the Year and Georges Niang took a leap forward as a sophomore to help the team make its third-straight NCAA tournament. While Iowa State cruised to its first tournament win, the Cyclones lost Niang along the way to a broken right foot. They still managed to sneak past North Carolina to move to the Sweet 16.

Three of UConn’s eight losses this season have come at the hands of Louisville, a fellow Sweet 16 team.

The Huskies snuck by with an overtime victory against St. Joe’s in their NCAA tournament opener, as the team’s leader, Shabazz Napier, scored nine of his 24 points in overtime to help them pull away. With the win in hand, UConn upset No. 2-seeded Villanova to advance to the Sweet 16 in New York City, just two and a half hours away from Sorrs, Conn.

STARTING 5:

G Shabazz Napier G Ryan Boatright F DeAndre Daniels F Lasan Kromah C Amida Brimah

TV: TBS

STARTING 5:

G DeAndre Kane G Monte Morris G Naz Long OR F Daniel Edozie F Melvin Ejim F Dustin Hogue

PLAYER TO WATCH: Shabazz Napier — The success of the Huskies comes with that of soon-to-be-pro Shabazz Napier.

The senior guard has averaged 24.5 points, 6.5 rebounds, 5 assists and 2.5 steals in UConn’s first two tournament victories, scoring nine of his team’s 19 points in overtime of its first game and 21 second half points in its second. On the season, Napier averages 17.8 points, 5.9 assists and 4.9 rebounds per game and was named AAC All-First Team while also being awarded AAC Player of the Year.

PLAYER TO WATCH: DeAndre Kane — Kane emerged onto the scene for the Cyclones this season as a transfer from Marshall. The senior guard averages 17.1 points, 6.8 rebounds and 5.8 assists per game and was selected as an All-Big 12 First Team member.

Kane scored 24 points, brought in 10 rebounds and dished out seven assists while scoring the game-winner with 1.6 seconds remaining to advance to the Sweet 16, acting as the Cyclones’ closer with Niang out.

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THE GAME WHAT: No. 1 Virginia vs. No. 4 Michigan State WHEN: 8:57 p.m. CT Friday WHERE: Madison Square Garden in New York City ANNOUNCERS: Verne Lundquist, Bill Raftery and Allie LaForce

MICHIGAN STATE

VIRGINIA

RECORD: 28-8 MASCOT: Spartans NCAA TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES: 27

RECORD: 30-6 MASCOT: Cavaliers NCAA TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES: 17

QUICK FACT:

QUICK FACT:

Michigan State won national titles in 1979 and 2000

Virginia defeated Duke to win the ACC tournament

WINS IN THE TOURNAMENTS:

WINS IN THE TOURNAMENTS:

No. 13 Delaware, 93-78 No. 12 Harvard, 80-73

No. 16 Coast Carolina, 70-59 No. 8 Memphis, 78-60

WHAT THEY’VE DONE:

WHAT THEY’VE DONE:

After starting 18-1, Michigan State struggled with injuries and dropped seven of its next 12 games to end the season. The Spartans got healthy at the perfect time, winning the Big Ten tournament earlier this month before entering the NCAA tournament last week as a No. 4 seed. The Spartans have been the popular pick by analysts to win the East Region and have been a common national title pick, too. It cruised to an easy first win in the tournament before fending off a late run from Harvard to advance to the Sweet 16.

Virginia enters the Sweet 16 on a fivegame winning streak, complete with winning the ACC tournament earlier this month. After struggling with No. 16 seeded-Coastal Carolina in the first round by trailing at halftime before pulling away, the Cavaliers routed No. 8-seeded Memphis by 18-points in its win to advance to New York City.

STARTING 5:

STARTING 5:

G Malcolm Brogdon G Joe Harris G London Perrantes F Akil Mitchell F/C Mike Tobey

G Gary Harris G Keith Appling G Denzel Valentine F Branden Dawson C Adreian Payne

PLAYER TO WATCH:

PLAYER TO WATCH:

Joe Harris — The senior guard averaged 16.3 points per game last season on the way to being named to the All-ACC First Team.

This season that average has dipped to 11.8 points per game, and Harris was named to the second team. Nonetheless, he has been Virginia’s leader, helping it win the ACC tournament. Harris has averaged 13.5 points, four rebounds and two assists in the No. 1-seeded Cavaliers first two wins in the tournament.

Adreian Payne — Regarded during the preseason as a potential national player of the year pick, Payne suffered through a right ankle injury during the 2013-14 season and missed seven games. He was eventually named Second Team All-Big Ten averaging 16.6 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. The 6-foot-10 forward scored 41 points in 24 minutes in the Spartans’ opening tournament victory and is a force to be reckoned with inside.

Courtesy of Betsy Agosta/ The State News

Courtesy of Kelsey Grant/Cavalier Daily

TV: TBS

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CYCLONES AND THE NCAA TOURNAMENT Five appearances in 70 years, Iowa State looks to build on past success

By Alex.Halsted @iowastatedaily.com

1944 — FINAL FOUR

1986 — SWEET 16

Courtesy of ISU Athletics

The starting five players for the 1944 ISU men’s basketball team. The team made it to the Western Regional in Kansas City, Mo. and then to the Final Four and lost to Utah, 40-31.

In 1944, the NCAA tournament consisted of just eight teams, and Iowa State was one of them, making it to the Western Regional in Kansas City, Mo. Trailing Pepperdine 19-15 at halftime, the Cyclones eventually came away with a 44-39 victory and the school’s one and only trip to the Final Four — although times have changed a lot in today’s 68-team field. That team eventually lost in the Fnal Four to Utah, 40-31. * Since there were only eight teams, no Sweet 16 existed.

1997 — SWEET 16

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Kelvin Cato goes for the ball during a game against Cincinnati in 1997. Iowa State won 67-66 and moved into the Sweet 16.

It took Iowa State more than a decade and six NCAA tournament stops in between to reach the Sweet 16 for a second time in 1997. That season the Cyclones advanced to the NCAA tournament as a No. 6 seed in Auburn Hills, Mich. In the first round, Iowa State used a careerhigh 29 points from Kelvin Cato to push past Illinois State, outscoring it 16-4 in the final minutes for a 6957 victory.

With a trip to the Sweet 16 on the line against Cincinnati in the second round and Iowa State trailing by one point in the final seconds, Iowa State’s Klay Edwards hit a hook shot with 32.4 seconds to play and it acted as the gamewinner as the Cyclones moved past the Bearcats 67-66 and into their second Sweet 16 appearance in school history.

The first Elite Eight trip was not yet meant to be. Iowa State led by 16 points in the second half, but UCLA stormed back and forced overtime when the Cyclones went on a sixminute drought of no field goals. As time expired, Iowa State missed a buzzer-beater, falling 74-73 in overtime.

Courtesy of ISU Athletics

Sam Hill goes up for a layup during a game against North Carolina State in the Sweet 16 in 1986. Iowa State fell North Carolina State 70-66 in Kansas City, Mo.

During the 1985-86 season, led by Johnny Orr, Iowa State advanced to the NCAA tournament as a No. 7 seed in Minneapolis, Minn. and the Cyclones were in for a ride.

In their first round game, Iowa State senior and legend Jeff Hornacek hit a 26-foot jumper as time expired in overtime to give the Cyclones a two-point, 81-79 victory against Miami of Ohio. With the win, the Cyclones advanced to the second round to face fifth-ranked Michigan, Orr’s former team.

As underdogs, Iowa State built an 11-point lead against Michigan before fending off a late rally by the Wolverines to advance with a 72-69 victory. Orr told the media after the game, “It has to be my biggest victory, ever.” For the first time, Iowa State was in the Sweet 16. Eventually, the Cyclones would fall to North Carolina State 70-66 in the Sweet 16 in Kansas City, Mo.

2000 — ELITE EIGHT

2014 — SWEET 16

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Sophomore Georges Niang, left, celebrates after Iowa State scored a three point shot during Iowa State’s 85-83 win over the North Carolina Tar Heels. The Cyclones went on to defeat North Carolina in San Antonio, granting them access to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament.

The similarities between the 2000 team and this season’s 2014 are stark. First, a Big 12 Championship heading into the NCAA tournament put Iowa State as a No. 3 seed, its highest since the 2000 season. Now, after victories against North Carolina Central and North Carolina in San Antonio, the Cyclones are in the Sweet 16 for the fourth time in school history.

A trip to the Final Four? Well, that could possibly go through Michigan State yet against just as it did during the 2000 season. The Spartans will face Virginia seeking to advance to the Elite Eight, and Iowa State will need a win against Connecticut before it can worry about that.

Courtesy of ISU Athletics

Jamaal Tinsley dunks the ball during the Cyclones second round game against Auburn in 2000. Iowa State moved into the Sweet 16. Iowa State defeated UCLA 80-56 to move into the Elite Eight for the first time ever.

Fresh off a Big 12 Championship, Iowa State advanced to the 2000 NCAA tournament ranked as a No. 2 seed.

Playing in the Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minn., the Cyclones pushed past Central Connecticut State with an 88-78 victory in the first round.

Iowa State made easier work of Auburn in the second round, dispatching the Tigers for a 19-point, 79-60 victory and the third Sweet 16 trip in program history.

While each of the Cyclones’ previous Sweet 16 trips ended in defeat, the Cyclones weren’t yet done as they advanced to Auburn Hills, Mich. to face UCLA. That game didn’t prove to be any closer as the Cyclones stormed past the Bruins with a 24-point, 80-56 win.

In the Elite Eight for the first time ever, the second-seeded Cyclones faced top-seeded Michigan State with a trip to the Final Four on the line.

The Spartans came back from a nine-point deficit in the final five-plus minutes and went 11-of12 from the free throw line in the final minute-plus to secure a 75-64 win as ISU coach Larry Eustachy was ejected with two technicals with 9.9 seconds to play.

Michigan State defeated every opponent in its run through the NCAA tournament by double digits en route to the national championship.

6B | SPORTS | Iowa State Daily | Friday, March 28, 2014

Editor: Alex Halsted | sports@iowastatedaily.com

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN FACTS BROKE GROUND: Oct. 29, 1964

OPENED AT CURRENT LOCATION: Feb. 11, 1968

CAPACITY: — Basketball: 19,812 — Ice Hockey: 18,006 — Concerts: 20,000

HOME TO: New York Knicks [NBA], New York Rangers [NHL], New York Liberty [WNBA], St. John’s men’s basketball [NCAA]

QUOTES “I haven’t even stepped on the court yet, so it hasn’t even hit me that we’re at Madison Square Garden. It’ll hit me when I step out there and hit my first jumper.”

— MONTE MORRIS “One of my favorite athletes, Muhammad Ali, he’s competed here. The Beatles have been here. There’s just so many people that have laid their feet here. Just to look around and feel the aura of great being there. Kobe has played here, Melo, anybody you can dream of. The whole world knows about the Garden and this is definitely something I dreamed of since I was a kid.”

Alex Halsted/Iowa State Daily

Iowa State takes on the University of Connecticut on Friday in the NCAA tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York.

The venue is famous for hosting popular events such as concerts and sporting events. The Garden is home to the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers. This is first time in 53 years Madison Square Garden has hosted a NCAA tournament game.

— NAZ LONG “Some of the guys were pretty wide-eyed stepping off that plane. Then you get stuck in traffic for about an hour and a half and I think our guys got tired of that quick. To be here in the greatest arena in the world, it’s a special moment. These guys will never forget this opportunity.”

“I don’t know if there’s a lot of arenas that would have the same impression that a place like Madison Square Garden would. They understand it. They see it. They go out there and see the banners. They see the jerseys up there, DeBusschere and Ewing and Frazier and all the great players that played here.”

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