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Turk to give address in last meeting By Paige Godden Daily Staff Writer The Government of the Student Body Senate will hold its last meeting of the session Wednesday night. The meeting will Turk feature GSB President Jon Turk’s State of the Student Body address — as outlined by the GSB Constitution. Turk has worked on various projects this year, including the Peer to Peer Financial Literacy group, the Green Umbrella organization and the Mind the Gap campaign. The meeting will also have the passing of the allocations for fiscal year 2011. The total expected designated student fees revenue for next year is $1,692,562.50. The senate will discuss how to allocate the funds between several organizations including ASSET, the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, the Student Activity Fee reserve and several of its own accounts. Inter-Residence Hall Senator Sagar Chawla, senior in biology, wrote a bill that is also up for debate, which would allocate $5,000 to the GSB diversity initiative. “GSB has shown interest in taking a larger role in diversity and social justice through initiatives like Mind the Gap Executive Committee, and there are numerous organizations on campus that focus on diversity and social justice issues, and GSB can support them by providing explicit funding and encouraging them to work together by sponsoring an event that would be coordinated by multiple social justice and diversity groups,” according to the bill.
Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, signs copies of his new book, “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness,” after speaking about the messages contained within. Romney lectured in the Great Hall on Monday. Photo: Joseph Bauer/Iowa State Daily
Romney speaks out Book tour outlines methods to create prosperous future By Alexander Hutchins Daily Staff Writer Mitt Romney spoke to a crowd that filled most of the Great Hall of the Memorial Union and offered ideas for strengthening the United States without making direct statements on a run for office. Romney’s appearance is one stop on his national tour promoting his book, “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness.” Romney opened with a few jokes about being recognized in public, spoke of his
vision for the nation and concluded with a brief question and answer session with the audience. Experience in the consulting field taught the concept that businesses follow successful strategies, Romney said. He said the world is currently in a period where several options for social systems are competing to be the most successful and the winner is likely to influence global development. Romney said the United States is a vital player in contemporary global affairs because it is the only major player that does not champion authoritarianism in the national character. “That’s why I conclude that America must remain strong,” Romney said. Economic vitality and military strength determine the strength of a
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Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, talks with attendees of his speech. The book outlines his ideas on foreign policy and problems plaguing citizens throughout America. Photo: Joseph Bauer/Iowa State Daily
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Dean presses for growth Society lacks knowledge of occupation, technologies
By Mike Glover Associated Press Writer Legislative leaders agreed Tuesday to remove a provision adding enforcement powers to open-record and -meeting laws from a session-ending agreement. Legislators have been working for years to pass such a plan. But Senate Majority Leader Michael Gronstal, DCouncil Bluffs, said some lawmakers remained opposed, so the proposal was removed. “I think there was concern about some of the language in there that some people perceived to be overbroad,” Gronstal said. “That’s an issue that consensus has eluded us on for
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“Engineering is everywhere,” said ISU Engineering Dean Jonathan Wickert on Monday night when speaking to a crowd concerning the future of engineering. While many students, faculty and Ames area residents flocked to the Great Hall to hear former Massachusetts Governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney speak on his new book, Wickert spoke to a somewhat smaller crowd on the future of engineering and the role it plays in society today and in the future. “I would say you would be hard-pressed to think about anything that you use on a daily basis that’s important to you that engineers did not have a role in designing, making, transporting or making sure
it’s safe,“ Wickert said, provoking the audience to consider why engineering is so integral to their lives. Water, air conditioning and electricity are all directly related to engineering and all play important roles in throughout our lives, WickWickert ert said. These technologies have “changed everyone’s lives, and yet the average person on the street doesn’t realize that there is so much technology, innovation and expertise behind them,” he said. One of Wickert’s main concerns was that people don’t really know what it is exactly that engineers do. He referenced a Harris poll that showed two-thirds of adults don’t know what engineers do and 78 percent of women don’t know what engineers do. He called engineering a “stealth profession,” as what engineers do is integral to people’s daily lives, but they are not easily recognized. He joked that we need a good television show that has characters involved in engineering because
of the lack of people wanting to be become engineers today. When many people hear the word engineer, most think of a nerdy man sitting in a cubicle like Dilbert does in the well-known cartoons, Wickert said. Wickert used this as an example of how people have stereotypes and perceptions of engineers that aren’t true and made a point to show how engineers are “cool.” “I even preordered one for my daughter,” Wickert said while talking about the new computer engineering Barbie doll, the first of the new Barbie “I Can Be” series of children’s dolls. He also listed off several important people in American and world culture who are engineers, including talk show host Montel Williams, Dallas Cowboys legendary coach Tom Landry and the CEO of Coca-Cola Company Roberto Goizueta. In regard to his focus on engineering in the future, Wickert referred to engineering as a “profession that prepares people to be more informed citizens in
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society, he said, adding that culture is the most significant factor in determining a nation’s success. “What we have, what we sacrifice for, makes us strong,” Romney said. Romney said the current administration and Washington politicians are enacting legislation that is squelching the American character and spirit of freedom. In passing laws making welfare available to single parents the traditional family is weakened and corporate taxes punish innovators for creating new concepts and economic vitality, he said. “The DNA of the American people is pioneering,” Romney said, and the current trends in Washington are smothering this innovative spirit. Trends giving welfare to
certain American communities without the requirement of work has stripped many Americans of a real understanding of hard work, Romney said. Romney said the recent health care reforms may seem beneficial to many before the real costs begin to appear, but the regulation of the health care industry is going to stifle medical innovation and cause crippling tax increases. American schools are failing children by not graduating top-caliber students, and cap and trade energy policies will harm businesses by making energy more expensive, Romney said. Despite all the setbacks he cited, Romney remained hopeful. “I’m absolutely convinced America will remain strong,” Romney said. Romney said that liberals often underestimate the intelligence of the American peo-
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the 21st century” and called it a “gateway to any kind of career.” As a way of building these engineers of the future, Iowa State offers a few ways children can get involved in engineering. One way in which Iowa State is helping the future of engineering is through Iowa State Engineering Kids. ISEK is run through the College of Engineering and offers summer engineering camps for kids as well as the first Lego League Program. It also has links to other engineering sites for kids as well as an area where they can challenge themselves with brain teasers. Another big area Wickert emphasized was the 2050 Challenge — a challenge to the engineering students at Iowa State to prepare themselves with the help of the ISU faculty so they can
ple. He said that as the national deficit becomes larger than the economy, people will demand changes and the trends of taxation and government control will reverse. As the baby boomers retire and add a tremendous additional cost to the nation’s social programs, Romney predicted more young people would become conservative and promote less government spending and more economic growth. Romney shared a story of his father assigning him chores in his youth to teach the value of hard work, a value Romney said he believes will see the American people through this time. “The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong,” Romney said, quoting his father. Romney did not indicate an intention to run for higher office during his presentation, but he exited the Great Hall to a standing ovation.
tackle the critical issues that will have arisen in 2050. Engineering especially is a field that is growing rapidly and the progress will be exponential over the careers of the engineers today. With this challenge, the students have a great opportunity to work with incredible faculty and some of the top research technologies to take on these intricate problems and make a difference in the world by improving the lives and livelihoods of people today. Wickert urged students to get involved in things that would take them outside the confines of the classroom, such as groups like the Associated General Contractors or participate in the Solar Decathlon. Wickert said that last year ISU students built a solar house, which was shipped to Washington, D.C., and built it so well that they were able to loan energy to the team from Spain; an experience that left the ISU students with memories and knowledge that will last a lifetime.
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Driver killed, three injured in rollover Polk County authorities said an 18-year-old driver has been killed and three other young men were injured in a rollover crash in Ankeny. The driver killed in the Monday night crash has been identified Zhen Karsjens of Ankeny. The injured passengers were identified as Drew Cole, of An-
keny; Joshua Davis, of Ames; and Daniel Hudak, of Des Moines. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said Karsjens lost control of his vehicle near the spot where a paved street turns to gravel, then the vehicle rolled over several times, ejecting Karsjens.
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Five farm families sought for fair award Organizers of the Iowa State Fair are on the lookout for five farm families to honor with the Way We Live Award this year. Fair officials said the families competing for recognition must exemplify farm values derived from hard work and a love for farming. To enter the competition, participants must fill out an entry form and write a 500- to 1,500-word essay describing how choosing to live on a farm and farming as an occupation has shaped the family’s life. Eligible families must be residents of Iowa with farming operations centered on animal agriculture. Officials say they may nominate themselves or be nominated by others.
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Census 2010
Government urges student participation Students in Iowa are urged to fill out their census forms. Iowa Board of Regents executive director Bob Donley said there can be confusion about where students should call home. Census rules shows that students should count the place where they spend most of their time and sleep as home — for many that will be their campus.
The Iowa regent system has 71,353 students, including 23,111 nonresidents. About 20,000 students live in residence halls. It is critical students are counted so Iowa communities receive appropriate funding. The board said it is working with the University of Iowa, Iowa State and the University of Northern Iowa in the effort.
—The Associated Press
Rep. Mark Smith, D-Marshalltown, left, talks with Iowa House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, D-Des Moines, during the final day of the Iowa legislative session Tuesday at the Statehouse in Des Moines. Photo: Charlie Neibergall/The Associated Press
Budget matters dominate session By Mike Glover Associated Press Writer Budget matters dominated the Iowa Legislature from the day the session began in January, but lawmakers found time to deal with other issues. Many matters, however, fell by the wayside. Here’s a look at what the Legislature did, and didn’t do, this session: BUDGET: Faced with a $341 million shortfall, the Legislature’s top accomplishment was a package of changes designed to cut the budget by changing purchasing and
computer operations, merging some small agencies and changing operations in some larger departments. Coupled with an early retirement package for state employees, the changes saved about $270 million and went a long way toward balancing the budget. GAMBLING: Although they were desperate for money, lawmakers rejected two gambling proposals. One would have generated up to $25 million annually by expanding areas in casinos where operators could offer games; it also would have end-
Census Forms Arrive in March If you live in Ames the majority of the year, even ISU students, you’re an Ames resident for the census. So remember to return your form and CLAIM AMES!
ed most elections needed for casinos to keep their licenses. Under the other plan, casino operators in Dubuque and Council Bluffs offered to pay the state $7 million a year if they could stop subsidizing dog racing. LABOR: For two years, Democrats have called for passage of measures allowing unions to collect a fee from nonmembers in a bargaining unit they represent, expand the topics for which public workers can bargain and require workers on public projects to be paid the prevailing wage. None of the measures
came up for a vote this year, creating tension between labor and Democrats. MARRIAGE: Same-sex marriage is a big issue in the Republican gubernatorial race, but it barely came up during the session thanks to opposition from Democratic leaders. Many Republican legislators want to put a constitutional amendment before voters outlawing gay marriage, but that would require approval by two consecutive general assemblies. With no action this year, the soonest the issue could be put before voters would be 2014. ANIMALS: Lawmakers approved tightened regulations of dog-breeding operations in an effort to crack down on puppy mills. The measure raises fees on breeding operations for hiring additional inspectors to check complaints. GUNS: Lawmakers approved a measure that would take guns from those convicted of domestic abuse. Legislators also changed the system for granting concealed-weapons permits, requiring sheriffs to use state guidelines in deciding whether to grant such requests and explaining when they decline permits. TEXTING: The legislature approved restrictions on motorists who send text messages while driving. Drivers under 18 were banned from using cell phones while driving, and older drivers were banned from sending or reading text messages while driving. SESSION: To save money, lawmakers reduced the normal 100-day session to 80 days, putting themselves under severe time pressure. They finished up in 79 days, which Senate Majority Leader Michael Gronstal said would mean about $800,000 in savings. “That’s real money,” he said.
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Rice 101 Gina Garrett AmesEats Flavors writer Welcome to the wonderful world of rice! If you are thinking about minute rice now, you may find the following fact shocking: There may be more than 120,000 varieties of rice in the world. Rice is the staple cereal grain for many countries. It is the main source of food for more than half the world!
In the Middle East and India regions many varieties of rice can be found, but the most common is basmati. Pakistan alone produces 5 million tons of basmati rice every year. Basmati is a very fragrant rice that you can purchase in the United States. Basmati is not as common in some countries such as Turkey, where you are more likely to find baldo rice — a quick cooking, short grain rice that is usually used for creamier dishes. Rice is used in some way in every country around the globe. It can be in sweet or savory dishes. It can be a side dish to nearly anything or incorporated into dishes such as stews or rice puddings. Rice is classified in the following ways: Long grain, such as basmati and jasmine
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Short grain, such as arborio or java
Kelsey Bulat AmesEats Flavors writer To have an Indian food experience, you don’t need to travel far. While voyaging to India to enjoy Indian food in its natural environment may be more enticing, the two Indian restaurants in Ames,India Palace and Indian Delights, are a more attainable and affordable alternative. Madhu Gadia, the author of The Indian Vegan Kitchen and New Indian Home Cooking and a resident of Ames, is now offering Indian cooking classes in her home. Take advantage of these three Indian opportunities in Ames and read on to find out more about each of them:
Glutinous, such as sushi rice or shinmai Wild rice is not rice, but rather are marsh grasses The previously mentioned minute rice is not a type of rice, but rather a brand label identifying the quick cooking time of this par-boiled product.
Curry: What is it? India delights My experience with Dipak Biswas, restaurant owner and chef: Biswas provided me with a very cordial welcome. Before I could even inquire about his restaurant, Biswas brought me a pot of tea along with some milk and sugar. He explained to me that he treats all his customers as one would treat a family member or friend. Then later, without making an order, Biswas excused himself, went to the kitchen, filled a bowl with basmati rice and some chicken tikka masala, chicken marinated in yogurt, tomatoes and served in a creamy sauce and brought it out for me to try. I felt as though I was in an Indian version of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” — not eating was not an option. I must also add that everything I tired was delicious as well as complementary. The chicken masala was spicy but not “hot spicy.” The basmati rice had a subtle hint of coconut, a buttery feel and it melted in my mouth. Dipak Biswas is from West Bengal, India, and his wife Asha, also the chef and owner of the restaurant, is from Kerala, India. Their cuisine has characteristics inspired by all the varying types of India cuisine and is homemade.
Indian Cooking Class My experience with Madhu Gadia: I attended a free cooking class of Gadia’s at Wheatsfield Grocery Store. At this particular cooking demonstration she made two bean dishes: kabuli chana salad, a salad made from chickpeas, and sukha lobhia, a blacked-eyed pea dip. Gadia shared that her mother would make the kabuli chana salad for her and her siblings as an after school snack. The demonstration was very personable and informative. Gadia is from the Punjab region of India and has traveled throughout India. Her upbringing and travels in India established her cooking style. To learn more about Madhu Gadia and the home-based cooking classes she offers, go to her website www.cuisineofindia.com .
India Palace My experience with Gurdeep Singh, restaurant owner and head chef: My meeting with Singh was brief but equally as warm as Biswas’s. Singh is from the state of Punjab, which is located in northern India and his cuisine is inspired by Punjab origins. Singh values his customers and treats them as family. Ninetynine percent of his food is homemade and as Singh emphasized, his dishes “are from scratch and are truly authentic.” One of the most popular dishes at India Palace is a bread called Naan made from fine flour bread, soft and puffy and baked in a tandoor oven.
Hummus at home What is hummus and what do you do with it? Those are two of the most frequently asked questions I have received time and time again. Hummus is considered a dip or spread made by pureeing chickpeas and is commonly served with pita chips. The word hummus is Arabic for chickpea and garbanzo is the Spanish translation of chickpea, so don’t be fooled at the grocery store. According to the “New Book of Middle Eastern Food,” a version without tahini, a sesame paste, is equally as popular, but in the West the tahini version is more ubiquitous.
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Spice it up! One tip that I suggest is to use a food processor if you have one, it makes hummus easier since it blends without much liquid and the blender needs more liquid to blend. Since I own a blender, I just had to add more liquid to create the best consistency. Hummus is quick, easy, nutritious and tastes great — so what more could you ask for?
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n Chinese eggplant: This fruit is about the same color as an American eggplant, however it is much longer with a softer skin. It is also more sweet and tender than the American eggplant. n Indian eggplant: Also known for its sweetness and tenderness, the Indian eggplant can be used just like an American eggplant. However it is much smaller in size and is round with a red-purple color. n Japanese eggplant: This eggplant is very similar to the Chinese eggplant in that it is long and skinny, sweet and tender.
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- Open up your cupboards and see what kind of curry you can create and test it on some friends! Have fun with it. If there is a curry you love send it to Flavors and share the experience!
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Medical marijuana disallows patients from gun purchases By Gene Johnson Associated Press Writer A Washington state medical marijuana activist who nearly killed an intruder in his home this month has been barred from buying guns, even though he said he has no criminal record. Steve Sarich said he tried to buy a shotgun and a pistol a few
days after the March 15 shootout to replace ones that were seized by investigators, but he failed the background check. The King County Sheriff’s Office sent him an e-mail Tuesday explaining the denial. It said that Sarich showed investigators his paperwork as a medical marijuana patient, and those papers create a presumption that Sarich is an “unlawful
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Sex Abuse
Pope may not have had knowledge of allegations A priest who helped investigate child sex allegations against a former colleague in the Milwaukee Archdiocese says there’s no indication that the current pope had any knowledge at the time of the investigation. The Rev. Thomas Brundage said Tuesday from Alaska that there’s no way of knowing whether then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger saw two letters sent to his office in the mid-1990s outlining abuse allegations against the Rev. Lawrence Murphy.
Brundage says the office Ratzinger ran before becoming Pope Benedict XVI receives an enormous amount of mail. Murphy is accused of molesting some 200 boys at a school near Milwaukee from 1950-1974. He died in 1998, shortly after documents show Ratzinger’s deputy at the time, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, shut down plans to conduct a church trial of Murphy.
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Dragged deeper than ever into the clerical sex abuse scandal, the Vatican is launching a legal defense that it hopes will shield the pope from a lawsuit in Kentucky seeking to have him answer attorneys’ questions under oath. Court documents obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press show that Vatican lawyers plan to argue that the pope has immunity as head of state, that American bishops who oversaw abusive priests weren’t employees of the Vatican, and that a 1962 document is not the “smoking gun” that provides proof of a cover-up. The Holy See is trying to fend off the first U.S. case to reach the stage of determining whether victims actually have a claim against the Vatican itself for negligence for allegedly failing to alert police or the public about Roman Catholic priests who molested children. The case was filed in 2004 in Kentucky by three men who claim they were abused by priests and claim negligence by the Vatican. Their attorney, William McMurry, is seeking class-action status for the case, saying there are thousands of victims across the country. “This case is the only case that has been ever been filed against the Vatican which has as its sole objective to hold the
Joey Piscitelli, Northern California Director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, talks about Pope Benedict XVI, as Melanie Sakoda, left, holds a sign during a news conference at a demonstration Monday. Photo: Paul Sakuma/The Associated Press
Vatican accountable for all the priest sex abuse ever committed in this country,” he said in a phone interview. “There is no other defendant. There’s no bishop, no priest.” The Vatican is seeking to dismiss the suit before Benedict XVI can be questioned or documents subpoenaed. The preview of the legal defense was submitted last month in U.S. District Court in Louisville. The Vatican’s strategy is to be formally filed in the coming weeks. Vatican officials declined to comment Tuesday. Plaintiffs in the Kentucky suit argue that U.S. diocesan bishops were employees of the Holy See, and that Rome was therefore responsible for their alleged wrongdoing in failing to report abuse. They say a 1962 Vatican doc-
ument mandated that bishops not report sex abuse cases to police. The Vatican has argued that there is nothing in the document that precluded bishops from calling police. With the U.S. scandal reinvigorated by reports of abuse in Europe and scrutiny of Benedict’s handling of abuse cases when he was archbishop of Munich, the Kentucky case and another in Oregon have taken on greater significance. Lawyers as far away as Australia have said they plan to use similar strategies. At the same time though, the hurdles remain enormously high to be able to force a foreign government to turn over confidential documents, let alone to subject a head of state to questioning by U.S. lawyers, experts said. The United States considers the Vatican a sovereign state — the two have had diplomatic relations since 1984. In 2007, U.S. District Court Judge John Heyburn rejected an initial request by the plaintiffs to depose Benedict. “They will not be able to depose the pope,” said Joseph Dellapenna, a professor at Villanova University Law School an author of “Suing Foreign Governments and their Corporations.” “But lower level officials could very well be deposed and there could be subpoenas for documents as part of discovery,” he said.
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Subway Bombing
Putin vows masterminds will be apprehended By Lynn Berry Associated Press Writer
into submission and was elected president the following year. Now in his second stint as prime minister after serving two full terms as president, Putin has an excuse to revert to the tough line that shored up his authority following past terrorist attacks. While welcomed by many Russians, it also is raising fears that civil liberties may be further sacrificed under the pretext of fighting terrorism. Capitalizing on the outrage, members of the Kremlin-loyal parliament proposed bringing back the death penalty for terrorism. Russia has imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, but has been reluctant to outlaw it due to broad public support for the death penalty. Monday’s subway bombings, carried out by two women, are the first terrorist attacks in Moscow in six years. They have shaken a city that has been insulated from the violence still raging in the restive southern corner of the country. Russia observed a day of mourning Tuesday, with flags at half-staff at the Kremlin and across the vast country. Relatives identified the dead at a Moscow morgue, and tearful commuters placed candles at makeshift memorials heaped with carnations inside the two stricken subway stations in the city center.
A boy crosses himself during a religious service for those killed in subway explosions Tuesday at Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia. Flowers overflowed from rickety tables in the two Moscow subway stations in memory of the 39 passengers killed in a double suicide bombing as Russia began a national day of mourning. Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko/The Associated Press
The old Vladimir Putin is back, confronting a terrorist attack in Moscow by using the same kind of coarse and colorful language that helped him win the presidency a decade ago. A day after twin suicide bombings in the subway killed 39 people, the powerful prime minister told Russians he is certain the masterminds of the attacks would be found. The security services have blamed extremists from the North Caucasus, a predominantly Muslim region in southern Russia that includes Chechnya. “We know they are lying low, but it is already a matter of pride for the law enforcement agencies to drag them out of the sewer and into broad daylight,” Putin said, directing a transportation security meeting that was shown Tuesday on Russian television. The choice of the gutter language recalled Putin’s famous threat to “wipe out the Chechen rebels in the outhouse” after they were blamed for a series of apartment building bombings that terrorized Moscow in 1999. Putin, as prime minister at the time, sent in overwhelming military force to pound the region
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By Edith M. Lederer Associated Press Writer Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday accepted a request from Pakistan’s president to delay the release of a report on the assassination of his wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, until April 15. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky made the announcement just two hours before a threemember U.N. commission that investigated Bhutto’s death was scheduled to hold a press conference to discuss the report’s findings. Nesirky said he did not know why Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari made the request, which was received at the U.N. overnight. But Pakistan’s presidential spokesman, Farhatullah Babar, said the country had requested the delay so the commission could attempt to question two heads of state who he said had called Bhutto before her death warning her of “serious threats to her life.” He declined to say which heads of state he was referring to, saying it would be unethical. It was unclear why the commission had not spoken to them. “This can make the report more credible,” he said to the AP in Islamabad. Bhutto was killed in a Dec. 27, 2007, gun and suicide-bomb attack as she was leaving a rally in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, where she was campaigning to return her Pakistan People’s Party to power in parliamentary elections. The government at the time of Bhutto’s murder, led by President Pervez Musharraf, blamed Baitullah Mehsud, a Pakistani militant commander with reported links to al-Qaida. Officials
at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency also said Mehsud was the chief suspect. But Bhutto’s party repeatedly hinted that Musharraf or his allies were involved and demanded a U.N. probe, claiming it was the only way the whole truth would be revealed. The secretary-general agreed to appoint a commission to assist Pakistan by determining the facts and circumstances of Bhutto’s death and it began work on July 1, 2009. Nesirky said the commission informed Ban that “all relevant facts and circumstances have been explored and the report is now complete and ready to be delivered.” The three-member commission is led by Chile’s U.N. Ambassador Heraldo Munoz, a dissident during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Munoz declined to comment. The other members are former Indonesian attorney general Marzuki Darusman, now a member of the National Commission of Human Rights, and Ireland’s former deputy police commissioner Peter Fitzgerald, who headed the initial U.N. inquiry into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005. Under terms agreed to by the U.N. and the Pakistani government, the commission was to determine facts and circumstances but Pakistani authorities would determine any criminal responsibility. Zardari succeeded Musharraf as president in September 2008 and when Ban visited Pakistan in February 2009 the president told government officials: “We believe the commission’s findings will eventually expose the financiers, the organizers, the sponsors and the conspirators of this terrorist act and bring them to justice.”
Freedom of Speech
Campaigners accuse British lawmakers blocking reform Freedom of speech campaigners accused British lawmakers Tuesday of blocking attempts to reform the country’s notoriously tough libel laws. A committee of House of Commons legislators voted to delay proposed changes to current laws, which would sharply cut fees charged to both defendants and complainants by lawyers representing them in libel cases. Media organizations in Britain have long complained that excessive fees mean they often can’t afford to defend themselves in defamation cases, stifling free expression and curtailing investigative jour-
nalism. Some say they’re simply unwilling to run potentially contentious stories because of the risk they could be sued. Justice Secretary Jack Straw acknowledged last week that Britain’s libel laws needed a better balance between to protect press freedoms. But opponents — including some lawmakers on a committee scrutinizing the planned legislation — said more consultation, and a full Parliamentary vote, is needed before any changes can be passed. “The feeling was that the impact would be that lawyers wouldn’t touch difficult cases
any more,” said Labour Party legislator Chris Mullin, who voted against immediately passing the laws in a vote of a legislative committee. Libel reform campaigner Jonathan Heawood, of human rights charity English PEN, said the decision was surprising. “It’s hard to understand why anyone would stand in the way of these reforms on costs,” he said. Britain’s justice ministry said it hopes the planned laws can be debated again before Britain’s Parliament is dissolved ahead of an election likely to take place in May.
—The Associated Press
By Alexander G. Higgins, Seth Borenstein Associated Press Writers The world’s largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang — a success that kick-started a megabillion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the universe began. Scientists cheered during Tuesday’s historic crash of two proton beams, which produced three times more energy than researchers had created before and marked a milestone for the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider. “This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1 — what happened in the beginning,” physicist Michio Kaku said to The Associated Press. “This is a Genesis machine. It’ll help to recreate the most glorious event in the history of the universe.” The power produced will ramp up even more in the future as scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, watch for elusive particles that are more theorized than seen on Earth. The consequences of finding those mysterious particles could “affect our conception of who we are in the universe,” said Kaku, co-founder of string field theory and author of the book “Physics of the Impossible.” “This is the Jurassic Park for particle physicists,” said Phil Schewe, a spokesman for the American Institute of Physics. He called the collider a time machine. “Some of the particles they are making now or are about to make haven’t been around for 14 billion years.” The first step in simulating the moments after the Big Bang nearly 14 billion years ago was to produce a tiny bang. Two beams of protons were sent hurtling in opposite directions toward each other in a 17-mile tunnel below the SwissFrench border — the coldest place in the universe at slightly above absolute zero. CERN used powerful superconducting magnets to force the two beams to cross; two of the protons collided, producing 7 trillion electron volts. The data generated is ex-
The magnet core of the world’s largest superconducting solenoid magnet is shown in Geneva, Switzerland March 22, 2007. The information provided could answer some of physics most intriguing questions. Photo: Martial Trezzini/The Associated Press
strange stuff that makes up more of the universe than normal matter but has not been seen on Earth. It won’t happen immediately, maybe centuries down the line, but it could answer questions about the Big Bang, alternate universes and if time travel is possible, Kaku said. “It would change people’s philosophy,” he said.
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‘Male studies’ deserves place in curriculum “A gathering of academicians drawn from a range of disciplines will meet on April 7 at Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, to examine the declining state of the male, stemming from cataclysmic changes in today’s culture, environment and global economy.” No, this editorial isn’t sarcastic, and that quote wasn’t from “The Onion,” but rather from www.malestudies.org, a site that makes a compelling case for the creation of a male studies major. Historically, the oppression of women was once so severe that their contributions were lost with the passage of time. As women’s studies programs sprouted during the feminist movement, these once discounted contributions were rightly appreciated, empowering women to continue breaking barriers and fighting oppression. Oppression, as defined by Merriam Webster, is “the unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power.” It is an act of one person over another. It’s difficult to mention feminism and not mention the fight against oppression. The women’s movement aims to eradicate oppression, and while it’s fair to say men did not and do not face oppression, every demographic — including men — faces obstacles. Every gender, age, race and culture has unique barriers inhibiting its success. In the near future, the obstacles facing men will enter uncharted territory. According to a September article in USA Today, women may soon outnumber men in the workforce. For the first time ever. Tom Mortenson, of “The BoysProject,” sifted through census data and calculated ratios comparing men to women. Some of the results are alarming: “For every 100 women enrolled in college, there are 77 men enrolled. “For every 100 girls expelled from public elementary and secondary schools, 335 boys are expelled. “For every 100 women ages 18 to 21 in correctional facilities, there are 1,430 men behind bars.” Black or white, gay or straight, rich or poor, men aren’t beating the odds. Are these statistics the product of a gross societal oversight? What are the factors leading to these drastic disparities? This rampant evolution of half our society deserves a closer look. A male studies program would provide an appropriate avenue for discussing and studying the forces shaping the modern male. Do these obstacles differ between men of different backgrounds? Have historical transgressions made us sensitive to assertive males? Can systems currently failing men, like education and corrections, be revamped without degrading the progress made by women? The creation of a male studies program would not mark the end of the feminist movement. Perfect parity of the genders will never exist, because some obstacles may never be eliminated. Men and women may someday be equal, but we will never be the same. Men of the past oppressed women, but that doesn’t mean we can ignore the quiet unrest brewing in the Y-chromosome. In this time of intense budget cuts, a male studies program may not be the best idea. However, we would like to see the department of women’s studies add a few experimental classes focusing on emerging male issues. Inevitably, this would benefit men and women alike and fulfill the department’s mission of “forg[ing] new scholarship based on the centrality of gender as a category of analysis.”
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at the Central Library on Monday in Des Moines. Romney recently released his new book, and Schmidt argues that Romney stopped in Iowa as part of a 2012 presidential run. Photo: Conrad Schmidt/The Associated Press
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t’s going to be a long Iowa presidential caucus season. We’ve already had Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, George Pataki and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal in Iowa. This week we had former Sen. Rick Santorum and former Mass Gov. Mitt Romney in town. Romney was in Des Moines and Ames to sell and autograph books. It had nothing to do with politics and surely nothing to do with him sniffing out a potential caucus bid for the 2010 GOP race for the White House. Is Iowa on the list of every book author as a major market for book signing? I think not. Is Romney exploring a run in 2012? Of course he is. I was going to ask him, but I could not get a five-minute slot to do a quick interview for Insider Iowa. He was too busy signing away. Is Iowa a good place for Romney to bid for the top spot in 2012? Not really because he is not “really” a social conservative, so in the Iowa GOP he’d be toast. He is pretty smart on business and economics, though, and that should count for a lot in these
Steffen Schmidt is a professor of political science and chief political correspondent for www.insideriowa.com
dreadful times. “Run government like a business,” I say. That is, so long as it’s not AIG, Lehman Brothers, the U.S. Auto Industry, the U.S. airlines, the mortgage industry, the housing industry, ENRON, Madoff, JP Morgan or Bear Sterns. Of course, these and other private companies that were run like a business ended up showing no common sense and, in many cases, corruption and mismanagement that no government agency could get away with. Romney is also excellent on health care coverage. He was the architect of the Massachusetts universal mandatory health care coverage law that is now in effect in that state. So he’d be the perfect president of the United States to implement and to improve the new federal health care program. Oddly enough, he has come out against that health care reform, I guess because he’s a “states’ righter” who believes that
states should be in control of their own education, health care and other such policies. “America has unfortunately been taken down the wrong path by President [Barack] Obama, which is why it’s critical we elect fiscally responsible conservative leaders who will restore commonsense principles to health care,” Romney said recently. Romney has a group called “Free and Strong America Political Action Committee.” It has just launched a project, “Prescription for Repeal.” The group will support with campaign contributions Republican candidates who are running in the 2010 elections on a platform of repealing “the worst aspects” of the health care law signed by Obama. Most people I’ve talked to and many pundits think it will be a brutal uphill crawl for the champion of mandatory health care in Massachusetts to now become the champion of fighting
against national health care and insurance reform. One of the other problems is that Romney’s entire history is that of a moderate Republican. How will he jump on the bandwagon of the unruly, angry and edgy tea baggers who are now the most dynamic and visible force in the GOP? On the other hand, Scott Brown became a senator of Massachusetts, even though he’s relatively moderate — no other Republican could get elected in the bluest state in the country — and Brown supported the Massachusetts health care program that Romney constructed there. In fact, Romney has claimed responsibility for Brown’s success in winning the off-year election to fill Sen. Ted Kennedy’s seat. In any case, we are all happy to welcome one and all Republican wannabes for 2012 in Iowa. Our Holiday Inn’s still have empty rooms; the TV stations are drooling about the advertising; the bookstores are ready for the book signings; and our economic development needs the “stimulus” of a big, rowdy and expensive GOP bid for top dog of the party for the next presidential contest.
Politics:
Get rid of parties in the USA The Census Bureau is making a concerted effort to fully include young people — witness Commerce Secretary Gary Locke’s recent appearance on “The Daily Show.” Census takers will be knocking on dorm rooms and checking to see who is crashing on the couch, but regardless of how thorough they are, they will miss out on one dramatic population migration: Young Americans are opting not to affiliate with a political party. A full 50 percent of voters aged 18-29 now identify as independents, and the percentage of the electorate under 30 is growing. In 2006, 18-29 year olds accounted for 21 percent of the electorate. By 2015, estimates are that 18-29 year olds will account for 33 percent of all voters. But the millennial generation finds itself confronted by an electoral system designed by the I Like Ike crowd. Party politics dominate. Election districts are gerrymandered to serve party interests. Many states require poll workers to be registered as a Democrat or Republican. The Federal Election Commission is comprised of three Democrats and three Republicans, rendering it both structurally impotent and blind to the concerns of independents. Most significantly, primary elections are off limits to independents in 17 states. The official attitude among political elites toward the independence of younger voters ranges from amusement to outright hostility. Gail Collins of the New York Times recently opined on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that, “the only kind of people voting in primaries
John Opdycke is a graduate of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and current chief of staff of IndependentVoting.org, a national association of independent voters with organizations in 40 states. tend to be the lunatic ends of the party because everyone else thinks it’s so much suaver and cooler to say they are independent.” Collins’ message to new voters, delivered with typical sarcasm, is to join a party and get with the program. Her view is shared by many political insiders who see independents as “fence sitters” who cannot be bothered to get involved. But millennials’ are not apathetic; they voted in record numbers in 2008. They vote, they volunteer, but they don’t want to join a party. And their stubborn independence has fueled a national controversy on the issue of open vs. closed primaries. Republican hardliners in Rhode Island, Idaho and Arizona are pushing to close their state’s primaries. The Idaho GOP has gone so far as to file suit to force the state of Idaho to require voters to select a party when they register to vote. Elsewhere, post-partisan electeds like New York City’s independent Mayor Michael Bloomberg has empaneled a Charter Revision Commission to review the city’s governing charter. The commission is being lobbied by independents to recommend a switch to a non-partisan primary system for local elections.
In California — where independent registration has grown from 9 percent in 1990 to 20 percent today — voters have the chance on June 8 to enact Proposition 14 and create an open, “top-two” voting system in which all the voters and all the candidates, regardless of party affiliation, participate in first-round elections, with the top two candidates going on to the November ballot. This non-partisan approach to state elections is being opposed by every political party — major and minor — in California. Our constitution does not mention political parties. But they have dominated political life since 1800. A new generation, comfortable with new forms of participation and communication, at ease with new technologies, and turned off by partisan dysfunction in Washington, is looking for new, more independent ways to participate in political and civic life. By 2015, this generation of voters could account for a full third of the electorate, but there is a real danger that if given the choice of participating in old-style party politics, or not participating at all, the millennial generation will choose the latter. America has thrived because we recognize the importance of the new. We cherish the rule breakers, the out-of-the-boxers, the innovators. We all know that Washington is broken; let’s fix it with more than a new coat of paint. The time has come for structural reforms that will empower a new generation of voters and create incentives for them to participate. Young people are telling us they don’t want a party. We need to listen to them.
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Health Care:
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Reform makes step in right direction T
uesday, President Barack Obama signed into law the biggest overhaul of health care the United States has ever seen. At a price tag of $940 billion over the next 10 years, 32 million uninsured Americans will get coverage. Any family making between 100 and 400 percent of the poverty line will receive subsidies, and the so-called “doughnut hole” gap in Medicare coverage will be closed. The bill also expands Medicaid, stops insurance companies from refusing to offer coverage due to pre-existing conditions and lengthens the amount of time young adults can stay on their parents’ coverage. Of course, a bill of this magnitude doesn’t come without new taxes. Wealthy families, a favorite target for Democratic legislation, can expect a 3.8 percent increase on taxes for investments. They can also expect a 40 percent excise tax on their insurance plans. Indoor tanning will also be getting more expensive with a new 10 percent tax. Opponents of the bill are also quick to attack the way it was passed. In an effort to sweeten the deal for wavering moderate Democrats, Senate leadership kicked back cash to Louisiana and Nebraska. The deals, dubbed the “Louisiana Purchase” and “Cornhusker Kickback” by Republicans, are blatant bribes. Nothing like bringing “change” to Washington. Opponents also join me in opposing the intrusion government is making into our lives. By 2014, if you don’t have insurance, you will be fined $700 annually. Government taking over health care also means a financial interest in controlling our behavior. A tax on tanning is just the
This column was written by Trevor Boeckmann and originally published in The Northern Iowan, the student newspaper of Northern Iowa University. It appears courtesy of U-wire. start. I have no doubt a push will soon come to tax or ban fast food and other contributors to an unhealthy lifestyle. After all, your heart attack is on the taxpayer’s dime. Yet, through the backroom deals, taxes and attacks on liberty — I can’t help but support health care reform. Our system is broken and something needed to be done. On simply a financial basis, our health care is horrendous. We spend more than any other developed country as a percentage of GDP on health, yet we are the only one without socialized medicine. This bill will actually reduce the deficit by $143 billion in the first 10 years and an additional $1.2 trillion in the next 10 years, actually to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. On an individual level, the problems are just as bad. A study by Commonwealth Fund found that two in five Americans under 65 had problems paying their medical bills in 2007. Sixty billion in medical bills are left unpaid every year, and a Harvard study found that 60 percent of bankruptcies are caused by medical bills. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, America pays $4,631 per head annually on health care. The average for developed countries of our size is less than one-half of that. Something needs to change. What have we gotten from all of this spending? Proponents of the current system harp on our quality of care and great doctors. The numbers, however, as they often do, disagree. The United Kingdom did a study
on the health care systems in 10 developed countries, including Japan, Canada, Australia, some European Union countries and others, and found the United States has the lowest life expectancy, the most potential years of life lost and the highest infant mortality rate of any of them. How about quality of life? With all of our spending on health, it has to be high, right? Again, not quite. In 2005, The Economist ranked 111 countries on their quality of life, with health and happiness playing huge components. The United States came in 13th behind “socialist” countries like Sweden, Norway and Finland despite having the second highest GDP per capita of any country. At the end of the day we have to be honest with ourselves. Socialized medicine is already here. If you get sick and don’t have insurance, go to the emergency room and then don’t pay your bill. Bam — national health care for all. The question is, is that efficient? Of course not. In a civilized society, we simply will not let someone die on the streets when they can’t afford health care. It’s time we have a health care policy that reflects that. I won’t claim this bill is perfect, but it’s a step in the right direction. It’s time Americans drop the buzzwords, drop the demonizing of the other side and start actually discussing how to fix health care. In his book “The Return of Depression Economics,” Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman argues that failing to do what’s necessary for fear of being labeled a “socialist” is the worst possible outcome. I couldn’t agree more.
Legislation:
Bill won’t fix country’s woes, needs bipartisan solutions “Hisssss,” go the Republicans. “In your face!” shout the Democrats. Sounds like another victory for social justice, right? Why, then, the queasy feeling in my gut? I should be uber-excited that President Barack Obama just signed into law the health care reform bill. The bill, according to the White House Web site, will help more than 31 million uninsured Americans afford health insurance while providing subsidies to tens of millions more. What’s sweeter is that it will reduce our national deficit by $100 billion in the next 10 years and another trillion within the forthcoming decade “by cutting government overspending and reigning in waste, fraud and abuse.” However, Douglas HoltzEakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, said when we “strip out all the gimmicks and budgetary games and rework the calculus,” the health care bill will increase, not decrease, our national debt by $562 billion dollars. Not exactly chump change, eh? Looks like Robin Hood has left the Sherwood Forest for Washington D.C., shedding his feathered hat and woolen tights for an Armani suit, a silk tie
This column was written by Jeff Kruegger and originally published in the The Northern Iowan, the student newspaper of Northern Iowa University. It appears courtesy of U-wire. and a $400 haircut. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m all for the underdog. But my economic sense tells me the health care bill signed into law March 23 will, in the end, leave us worse off than before. As an unmarried, 23-yearold college student about to enter the “real world,” I’ll benefit from wording in the bill that allows me to stay on my parents plan until I’m 26. Yay for me, for now! But what about my future? Or my children’s future? Will the promises made about Medicare, Medicaid, government subsidies and tax cuts hold up to the test of time? Not likely with our national debt soaring like Icarus toward the sun on wings made of cotton and linen. And what if, in the future, I fall on hard times and cannot afford health insurance? “Tough luck,” says the bill, which doles out annual penalties of $695 for uninsured individuals and up to $2,085 for families. That’s like fining a homeless person for not having the financial ability to afford housing. Really?
OK, I concede. We desperately need health care reform in this country, but we’re going about it all cattywampus: pushing the bill through Congress by greasing the palms of several Democratic senators and by using a process known as “reconciliation,” where only 50 Senate votes were needed to pass the bill as opposed to the 60 votes normally needed. To add icing to my cake, Sen. Chuck Grassley introduced a bill last week that would apply the health care law to members of Congress and top White House officials, including the president and vice president. Needless to say, senators shot down the bill. In the end, I have no magic potion to fix our national health care woes, only a recommendation that we work together in a bipartisan manner to come up with common-sense solutions that don’t heap more debt upon our shoulders. Or we can, as the saying goes, “wish in one hand, [defecate] in the other and see which one fills up first.”
Films:
Spring movie lineup looks promising, minus Michael Bay
H
ey, did you hear Brendan Fraser is getting work again? Yeah, he’s gonna be in this awesome family comedy where he’s a real-estate developer chopping down a forest for housing and the animals are like, “Awww naw!” And then they beat the hell out of him and he learns the meaning of faux-environmentalism. Yes, it certainly seems like we’ve entered a period in the history of film where ideas haven’t just stagnated, they’ve fermented and are running at about 120 proof. But like a good liquor, this April does offer some chances for enjoyment and excitement as well as regret. Aside from the cinematic tour-de-force the aforementioned “Furry Vengeance” with Fraser is promised to be, three films are on my radar this month as an illustration of what modern movies are and hopefully can be. And then there’s one from Michael Bay. First is “Clash of the Titans.” Everyone’s soonto-be favorite Australian, Sam Worthington — minus the giant blue “Avatar” effects — is leaping off 3-D screens this week and unleashing as much awe as studios can buy with $70 million. I’m actually excited for this one, as it seems to be a film
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where the drunken and randy suits running film companies just threw up their hands and said, “Hey, here’s a slow spot in our spring lineup. Put something with violence in there.” It won’t be intellectually challenging or revolutionary. It will be exciting, and if it can capture the goofy-yet-mythic vibe of “300,” then I’ll get my 3-D ticket price’s worth. Also, any film where Liam Neeson gets to say, “Release the kraken,” has to have something going for it. Things that awesome are what established his career. Onto our next item: Admit it, you’re going to see “Kick-Ass.” I’m going to, and it’s because it’s a movie that looks like it gets, well, gets “it.” It gets genre conventions, it gets the way our entertainment is bleeding over into our social
definitions and it gets how inexplicably funny it is to see Nicholas Cage’s blonde moustache peeking out from beneath his batman cowl. If the trailers indicate the mood of the film accurately, this one is a self-aware film in a time where awareness of so many things has gone out of vogue. And it has McLovin. With a gun. It’s moments like that, which make me proud to be an American. Next up, “The Losers.” Most comic-book movies, of necessity, modify their subject matter and come up with a product that loses the soul of the original work. “The Dark Knight” avoided this remarkably and was a smash hit. “The Losers” is set to do it again. There’s something about lovable misfits — most all of whom seem to be played by lookalikes of Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Clive Owen — doing stupid things and finding serendipitous success. It’s a comic movie that understands the loud, off-beat nature of what comics embody. I’m looking forward to it the same way I’m anticipating “Kick-Ass,” and if it’s true to the trailers, we’ll have a winner on our hands. And of course, I can’t mention Hollywood’s
offerings without a mention of Michael Bay. “Nightmare on Elm Street,” one of the earliest and best special-effects-driven modern horror films — until it spun out of Wes Craven’s hands — is being produced by Bay and thundering into theaters at the end of April. But I have to ask, “Why?” None of the things that are suggested in the trailer are really all that scary. We flinch because we know that the scenes suggested here are going to involve mostly unlikable people meeting unspeakably brutal ends. If I drop a mouse in a blender and film it, I’m written up on charges — and rightfully so. If Bay and his studio lackeys set fire to an enormous pile of money and spend the better part of two hours finding new ways to kill via razor blades, the crime goes unheeded. If this were in 3-D it would be the perfect example of Hollywood excess, but alas the film has an audience. I for one wish that audience luck. Someone has to keep Bay busy, otherwise he’ll go back to those talking car-robots and systematically destroying John Turturro’s soul. Mark your calendars. Spring is here, and cinema is blossoming into, well, some sort of plant.
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Sports NCAA Final Four
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games that defined the 2009-10 season
No. 1 Connecticut (37-0) vs. No. 4 Baylor (27-9) No. 1 Stanford (35-1) vs. No. 3 Oklahoma (27-10)
Baylor (Big 12) Final Four appearances: 2nd How the Lady Bears got here: vs. Fresno State 69-55, vs. Georgetown 49-33, vs. Tennessee 77-62, vs. Duke 51-48 Coach: Kim Mulkey. 10th year, 457-77 overall The national champions from 2005 return to the Final Four with a young, yet talented line-up led by the Big 12 freshman of the year 6’8” Brittney Griner. Griner has been the most dominant defensive force in the country this season, setting the single-season record for blocks (199) and NCAA tournament record for blocks with 35. Griner will be the obvious focus of any team on both the offensive and defensive end. Senior forward Morghan Medlock will need to help take some pressure off of the freshman phenom. Baylor has also shown its ability to force turnovers on defense with their full-court press which in the win over Duke, helped them finish the game on a 10-0 run.
Connecticut (Big East) Final Four appearances: 11th How the Huskies got here: vs. Southern University 95-39, vs. Temple 90-36, vs. Iowa State 7436, vs. Florida State 90-50 Coach: Geno Auriemma, 25th year, 733-122 overall With beating their first four NCAA tournament opponents by an average of 47 points, it’s no surprise that the Huskies are back as the favorites in their third consecutive final four appearance. All the pieces are in place for a title defense as returning All-Americans Tina Charles and Maya Moore have led the Huskies once again through an undefeated regular season and into the post-season. Their current 76 game win streak, the second longest in college basketball history, is due in large part to not only the players performance but the leadership of legendary head coach Geno Auriemma. Auriemma will be looking for his seventh national championship.
Stanford (Pac 10) Final Four appearances: 9th How the Cardinals got here: vs. UC-Riverside 79-47, vs. Iowa 9667, vs. Georgia 73-36, vs. Xavier 55-53 Coach: Tara VanDerveer, 24th year, 792-194 overall It isn’t often that the top play on Sportscenter’s Top 10 plays of the day comes the sport of women’s basketball, but it was no question that the best play of Monday and the best play of this season’s tournament came in the StanfordXavier regional semifinal. With four seconds remaining, Stanford junior guard Jeannate Pohlen drove the length of the court and laid in the final bucket as time expired to break a 53-53 tie and punch the Cardinal’s ticket to San Antonio. The Cardinals, under the direction of head coach Tara VanDerveer, will make their third consecutive Final Four appearance. Secondteam All-American center Jayne Appel is a force inside for the Cardinal and will need to stay out of foul trouble for Stanford to have any chance at their first national title since 1992.
Oklahoma (Big 12) Final Four appearances: 3rd How the Sooners got here: vs. South Dakota State 68-57, vs. Ark. Little Rock 60-44, vs. Notre Dame 77-72, vs. Kentucky 88-68 Coach: Sherri Coale, 14th year, 313-142 overall After a come-from-behind 61-59 loss to Louisville in last year’s National Semifinal, the Sooners are back in the Final Four and in search of the team’s first-ever National Championship. This year’s team has relied on consistent guard play from All-American Danielle Robinson and sharpshooting Nyeshia Stevenson. A key for the Sooners will be to keep their games close, the Sooners are one of the best free-throw shooting teams in the country and have shot 89 percent from the line already in the tournament.
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ISU coach Bill Fennelly makes a call during the second half of the game against UW-Green Bay on March 23 at Hilton Coliseum. The Cyclones won 60-56 and advanced to the Sweet 16 where they lost to Connecticut. File photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily
By Kayci Woodley Daily Staff Writer
Denae Stuckey goes after a loose ball in the game against Texas Tech on Feb. 3 at Hilton Coliseum. The Cyclones beat the Red Raiders 63-48. File photo: Jay Bai/Iowa State Daily
Mental errors and a lack of aggressiveness by post players accounted for multiple defensive mishaps against the Wildcats. The game plan heading into Manhattan was to stop Wildcat forward Ashley Sweat from owning the court, but instead the versatile senior went off for 31 points against the Cyclones. After this breakdown, Cyclone players realized the importance of following the scouting report and knowing where the opponent’s best player is at all times. Despite a quick turnaround from the Sunday afternoon game to play Texas Tech on Wednesday of the following week, the Cyclones were successful in taking down the Red Raiders.
Overtime road victory (W) 73–71 For the first time since 2000, and just the second time in school history, the Cyclones left Austin, Texas with a victory. A trey by senior point guard Alison Lacey tied the score to send the game into overtime, and junior Kelsey Bolte’s 3-pointer with 56 seconds left in overtime handed Iowa State the win. Even after trailing by 14 points in the second half, the Cyclones battled back and were led by Lacey’s 20 points and Bolte’s 19. Coach Bill Fennelly urged his players in his post-game speech to bring the magic back to Hilton against Oklahoma the following week, and the then-No. 21 Cyclones went on to upset the then-No. 11 Sooners at Hilton.
Iowa State celebrates after beating UW-Green Bay to advance to the Sweet 16 for the second straight year and fifth time overall under coach Bill Fennelly. File photo: David Livingston/Iowa State Daily
than eight minutes to play the Cyclones took their first lead of the game at 48–47. When the Phoenix put the two best Cyclone free throw shooters on the line with seconds to play in the game, Iowa State slid by for the win. Junior guard Kelsey Bolte knocked down two free throws to put Iowa State up 58–56 with three seconds to play. The Phoenix made a final attempt to score and it was ended by an interception by senior guard Denae Stuckey and the Cyclones advanced to the Sweet 16.
Alison Lacey attempts to drive around her defender against Baylor on Feb. 13 at Hilton Coliseum. The Cyclones beat the Lady Bears 69-45. File photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily
Iowa State’s Kelsey Bolte takes a shot over Oklahoma State’s Lindey Keller during the Cyclones loss in the Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City, Mo. File photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily Here
Sweat leads Wildcat attack (L) 73–67 Feelings of February surrounded Iowa State after its road loss to Kansas State on Jan. 31.
Baylor beat down (W) 69–45 Numerous emotions surround Iowa State’s annual Pink Zone event at Hilton Coliseum and this season the Cyclones lived up to the anticipation surrounding the event. Iowa State finished 16–32 from 3-point land against the Bears and had a first half performance that left Fennelly without any complaints. The Cyclones entered the locker room at halftime with a 20-point lead over a then-No. 15 Baylor squad. Everyone in a cardinal and gold uniform was a hot shooter, including post players who nailed buckets from beyond the arc to open up opportunities for guards. Quick passes and ball screens led to 20 assists on the first 20 Cyclone baskets of the game. Fennelly referred to this game as the best 40 minutes the Cyclones had played all year. How sweet it is (W) 60–56 For all but three minutes of the game, Iowa State trailed Wisconsin-Green Bay in its second round game of the NCAA tournament and it looked as though the Cyclones’ season would end in Hilton Coliseum. With just more
ISU freshmen center Anna Prins attempts a shot against UConn’s Tina Charles during the Dayton Regional semifinals. UConn won to eliminate Iowa State. Photo: Rashah McChesney/Iowa State Daily
Falling to the best (L) 74–36 The season may not have ended as Cyclone players had hoped, but it ended at the hands of the most dominating team in women’s collegiate basketball history. Iowa State fell to No. 1 UConn in the Dayton, Ohio, regional as the Huskies claimed their 75th straight victory. With her hot shooting from 3-point land early on and her defensive effort, junior forward Maya Moore led the Huskies with 25 points. For five seniors the loss meant the end to their Cyclone careers, but the experience can only benefit the returning players.
Softball
Iowa State gears up for Cy-Hawk Series Cyclones’ confidence high as they prepare to face Hawkeyes at home By David Merrill Daily Staff Writer The Cyclones (21–13) will play their first home game of the season at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Iowa State Softball Complex against instate rival Iowa (16–13). Iowa State’s last home victory against the Hawkeyes was in the 1999-00 season. The Cy-Hawk Series for these
two teams played its first series on April 15, 1975, in which the Cyclones won both games. Iowa State has experienced more success in recent games, but the Hawkeyes have a slight edge overall in the series, with a 36–33–1 lead. Iowa will seek revenge after Iowa State secured an 8–2 victory against the Hawkeyes earlier in the
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Iowa State’s Rachel Zabriskie winds up during the game against North Dakota State on March 31, 2009. Photo: Iowa State Daily
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season. That win put the Cyclones record at 2-2 in a game led offensively by freshman infielder Erica Miller and senior infielder Courtney Wray, who each contributed 3 RBI’s. Miller also recorded her first career home run as the Cyclones eliminated the Hawkeyes from the Metrodome Softball Classic in Minneapolis. The Cyclones are coming off of a split with Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas, and say they feel confident, heading into the matchup. “I’m happy with where we’re at right now,” coach Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler said. “We had a solid weekend against Texas Tech, and we have seen all three of their pitchers when we beat them the first time, so we’re going into this one feeling pretty good about our chances.” Sophomore outfielder Bianca Lopez and senior outfielder Kelsey Kidwell have put forth strong performances in recent series, and the two players’ ability to get on base and produce runs has played a major part in the Cyclones’ victories in eight of their last nine games. Lopez boasts a .414 batting average and has clocked six doubles, two triples and eight RBI’s over a nine-game stretch. “I’m just trying to stay consistent — at least one hit every game,” Lopez said, “but I’m not trying to change anything. I’m just going to keep doing what I’ve been doing, because it’s been working.” Junior pitcher Rachel Zabriskie — whose 50th win this past Sunday made her the Cyclones’ all-time wins leader — will be back on the mound for the matchup against the Hawkeyes. Zabriskie will continue her pursuit of becoming the first pitcher in Iowa State history to throw 200 strikeouts in one season. She currently has 181 strikeouts so far this season. Zabriskie already holds the record for most career strikeouts in ISU history. Led by Zabriskie, Iowa State has recorded a .158 ERA over the past nine games. The team is eager to have its first home game of the season,
South African Caster Semenya, left, waits outside an athletics competition in Stellenbosch, South Africa, on Tuesday. Semenya says she will return to competitive racing this season. Photo: Schalk van Zuydam/The Associated Press
media,” Semenya told The Associated Press. “I don’t want to talk to you.” In the statement, Semenya said: “I have been subjected to unwarranted and invasive scrutiny of the most intimate and private details of my being.” Meet organizer Richard Stander said Semenya was “not comfortable with” the situation surrounding her eligibility. “Caster said she was not happy. She wants to participate. She wants to perform,” Stander said, adding that the South African athletics federation has a plan to bring her back to competition as soon as possible. “She is a performer. ... She doesn’t have the opportunity to do that at the moment.”
as the weather has started to warm up and could be one of the warmest home games the Cyclones have seen in five years. The Cyclones have played their first 32 games of the season on the road. “We’re very excited,” Lopez said, “especially because the weather is going to be nice, so I’m all ecstatic. And we beat Iowa last time, and I didn’t get to play the last time we played them, so I’m pretty excited.”
The South African said her legal advisers had tried to contact the IAAF three times, but didn’t get any response about when she could return to competition. “My coach, agent and I will work closely together to identify and prepare for a limited number of athletics meetings over the course of the coming athletics season,” Semenya said. Patrick Magyar, organizer of the Weltklasse meet in Zurich and vice chairman of the elite Diamond League circuit, said he expected organizers of the 14 events to follow the IAAF’s lead. “I don’t think any of the meeting directors will take any decision outside of the IAAF,” Magyar said. “We don’t have
clearance (to let Semenya run). There has not been any discussion on it so far.” Jos Hermens, the meet director for the Shanghai Grand Prix, said he could not say what his position on Semenya would be if she tried to enter that competition. “For me it’s not of any urgency and I don’t want to make any decision on that,” Hermens said. “I can only look at the human side that it’s terrible that this is happening to her. “Whatever the outcome, the only victim is her.” Stander said Semenya had not been invited to Tuesday’s meet. “The IAAF have got her under advisement from her medi-
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Use celebrity rings as inspiration for own The Four Cs of Diamonds
By Wendy Sloan Daily Staff Writer
Cut — To begin to understand the cut of diamonds, you must start with an understanding of a diamond’s shape. The cut of each diamond is separated into three attributes: brilliance, fire and scintillation. Brilliance refers to the total amount of light that is reflected from the diamond. The fire is how the light is dispersed into the colors of the spectrum, and the scintillation is that flash of light or sparkle the stone gives off when it is moved. A round brilliant is the most standard shape found in diamond jewelry. More complex cuts include pear, heart, oval, emerald, marquise, cushions and others. Clarity — The clarity of a stone considers the imperfections that are found on either the surface or the interior. Internal birthmarks are known as inclusions while external marks are called blemishes. The clarity of the stone measures the absence of imperfections. There is no such thing as a perfect diamond. Diamonds will be assigned a grading that determines clarity. Color — The value of a diamond in color is based on how close the diamond is to being colorless. Higher-quality diamonds will have less color. Swank said that lower quality diamonds will have more of a yellow appearance. Of course, there is an exception. Some diamonds will be pink or blue in color, and these diamonds fall outside of the normal color range. Carat — A carat is the term for how diamonds are measured. One carat is the equivalent of 0.2 grams, which is also equal to the weight of a standard paperclip. Further diamonds have points that determine their weight. A diamond can have up to 100 points; so a diamond that weighs 0.5 grams will have 50 points. Youngberg said the four Cs determine a fifth: the cost of the ring. “They determine the rarity of the diamond and give its value,” he said. Also he suggested people visit www.gia.edu and look at the Web site’s information on “How to Choose a Diamond” to educate themselves before they buy a ring.
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When celebrities get engaged, the public is exposed to pictures of the ring in magazines, on the Internet and on TV. After seeing so many images of large diamonds, like the five-carat ring Tom Cruise gave Katie Holmes or Catherine Zeta-Jones’ 10-carat ring, many women might start to have unrealistic expectations about their own rings. Kyle Youngberg, of Ames Silversmithing, said the rings people see on celebrities’ hands can sometimes cost from “hundreds of thousands of dollars to a couple million.” With rings costing that much, women cannot anticipate their fiancé being able to compete. The largest diamonds Youngberg has sold were upwards of four to five carats in size and these sales are very rare, he said. Rick Swank, owner of Swank’s Jewelry, said his business has also sold a few four-carat diamonds. Instead of expecting big rocks, Youngberg suggested people get style ideas from celebrity rings as opposed to carat size. He said women should expect their engagement ring to be a “reflection of their personality and style” and “a well-made piece of jewelry that will last for years, even decades.” He said women should consider helping their guy out, if he wants it. “There is no better way to get exactly what you want,” he said. Swank said he has noticed that most women are happy with the rings they get. Men will come into his store with the intent of spending a certain amount of money and Swank will help them determine what they can get for their price range. He said about half of his engagement ring customers are men and the other half are couples choosing together. “Men usually have a good idea of what she likes from the Internet or bridal magazines,” he said. “Sometimes they bring friends.” The real numbers for engagement rings Both store owners said they get a good amount of customers that are ISU students buying engagement rings. “They are the bread and butter for engagement rings,” Youngberg said. “March, April and May is a big time for engagements.” Swank said that while he gets a lot of college students buying engagement rings, another portion of his customers are people in their late 20s. At Ames Silversmithing, the average amount of money Youngberg said customers will spend on an engagement ring is around $4,000 to $5,000. However, for the college-aged customers he said they spend closer to $2,000 to $3,000, especially if they don’t have a job. Youngberg said the standard these days is buying a stone that is from a half carat to one-anda-half carats in size. “Anything over two carats is rare,” he said.
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Youngberg said the college student’s parents’ standard for diamond size was around a quarter carat, but now people are “striving for three-quarter carat to a full-carat diamond.” Swank’s customers also spend about $3,000 on their engagements rings. Swank mentioned that if people wanted a larger diamond, they could choose a simpler setting to save some money. “You can spend any amount of money on the mounting,” he said. “A solitaire setting costs around $175.” The trend he’s noticed is that customers spend about two-thirds of the price on the diamond and the last third on the mounting. Swank suggested focusing on the style of the ring. He said the size depends on how much money one has to spend. “Diamonds are made in different sizes” he said, so people should “pick a style they want and then they can custom design it.” Other ways to spend less money on a ring Michelle Mayer, senior in journalism and mass communication, got engaged on Dec. 19, 2009. Her fiancé was able to save money on their engagement ring because the diamond used in her ring was already in her family. “The center diamond is my mom’s,” she said. “We had to get it custom-made.” This unique situation also saved the couple money on the overall price on the ring and allowed
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them to spend more on the mounting and style. Mayer’s ring has a center diamond with smaller diamonds on the band. The couple paid for the setting and the additional diamonds. Another perk of Mayer’s situation is that the couple will save money on wedding bands, too. If people are looking to save, they can make simple trade-offs to get the ring they want, including color and dropping the clarity of the diamond. He said many couples will pick an imperfect stone that looks clean to the naked eye. “No one’s going to grab your hand and stare at it,” he said. Youngberg said it is important for men to be educated ahead of time. He said that often the jewelers can teach you about diamonds during the experience, but it is best to have prior knowledge. “Some stores don’t want to teach or can’t teach [their customers],” he said. Youngberg warned there might be chain stores with salespeople working just to sell pieces, so men should look for jewelers with diamond knowledge. In addition, he mentioned that men be aware of false sales at jewelry stores. “Very few people know what jewelry should cost,” he said. “So if you see a 70 percent off banner, the chances are that the original price is so inflated that it’s a false sale.” Youngberg said people should find a store with price consistency and accuracy in their product. “Like so many things in life, you get what you pay for,” he said.
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Old tradition holds strong with guys, gals By Morgan Zimmerman Daily Staff Writer Like it or not, they’re a strong standing tradition: bachelor and bachelorette parties. A last night of debauchery before the bride and groom tie the knot for good. Some argue that these parties are out of date and disrespectful, other say they were the time of their lives. We spoke to three gals and three guys and asked what they think the ideal blowout should entail, if anything at all.
Ring bearer Brian Rohde of Santa Maria, Calif., makes a face at the flower girl, Grace Solien of Britt, during the wedding of Jase Rohde, senior in linguistics, and Rachel Rohde, senior in child, adult and family services. It is important for a bride and groom to consider the age and closeness of the young wedding party members when selecting time. Photo: Valerie Allen/Iowa State Daily
Bachelorettes Amanda Griffin, 21: “You definitely have to have a last night out with the girls — let your maid of honor take the reins. If she’s such a good friend, she’ll know just what you’d want.” Meagan Zimmerman, 24: “No strippers — male strippers are so gross. Provide plenty of cocktails and some embarrassing props, and hit up the town in a decked-out limo or party bus.” Emily Nordby, 25: “You gotta go with strippers ... because they’re hilarious. I don’t care who it’s for, if you ask me to plan your bachelorette party, there’s going to be a cop in tight pants knocking on your door.”
The bachelorette party is meant to be a last hurrah for a bride. The maid of honor should plan fun events her friend would enjoy, whether that includes a harmless night on the town or a “cop” knocking on the door. Courtesy photo: www.thinkstockphotos.com
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Bachelors Aaron Rockwell, 25: “A night out with the boys is definitely in order. I don’t personally care for strippers, but they’re just a part of it. Sorry, girlfriends.” Jake Zimmerman, 24: “Bachelor parties equal two thumbs up. I’ve never had a bad time at a bachelor party. Never.” Bradley Cleveland, 20: “For my party, I just want something fun where friends can get together, talk memories and I don’t have to tell my wife anything embarrassing the next day.”
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For men, bachelor parties about having a fun night with the guys. Despite what women might think about the tradition, many men enjoy the camaraderie and night out most, not necessarily the dirtier activities. Courtesy photo: Chris Clinton/Digital Vision
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You’ve got your bridesmaids and your groomsmen picked, you know who your ushers will be and everyone seems to be accounted for. Everyone except for those two small members of the wedding party most ooed and awed over — the ring bearer and the flower girl. Their jobs may seem easy: Walk down the aisle, smile and look precious. However, having a young girl create your pretty pathway and putting the responsibility of carrying the rings into a young boy’s possession can bring big problems. Dawn Kingsington has been a wedding planner in Minneapolis for 15 years. She said that choosing your flower girl and ring bearer and what they are going to do at your ceremony are important decisions that need to be thought out carefully. “I’ve seen rings get swallowed, I’ve seen flower girls throw tantrums in the middle of the church, I’ve seen it all,” Kingsington said. She offers the following advice for couples deciding how they want to handle these two positions in the wedding party: 1. Consider closeness. Kingsington said it is important to choose flower girls and ring bearers based on how well you know them. The closeness factor will make it easier to work with them and give instructions. She said it would also make it more meaningful to everyone involved. “I’ve had couples who have kids who are pretty much strangers, just so they could have a flower girl and ring bearer. It usually doesn’t work out very well,” Kingsington said. 2. Consider age. Depending on what you want the children to do, age can play a significant
role. She said that kids should be old enough to walk down the aisle on their own or be carried by an adult. She said they should be old enough to depend upon if actually holding the rings. “Typically, what I suggest is if the boy is younger than 5, he carries two fake rings down the aisle and the best man holds on to the real ones,” Kingsington said. “For girls, it’s all about how mature the young lady is. If she is old enough to walk down the aisle without pulling her dress down, then she is good to go.” 3. Consider competition. One of the factors playing into deciding who gets to be in the wedding party is the hurt feelings of those not chosen. If you have multiple young children in your family, make sure you consider everyone’s feelings. “I tell my brides to come up with some other special task the other kids can do during the wedding,” Kingsington said. “This will make them feel included and special.” She said such tasks include holding the bouquet before it gets tossed or introducing the special songs played at the reception. Overall, Kingsington said that as long as you choose carefully as to who your flower girl and ring bearer will be, the process should go smoothly. She said to make sure they are present at all rehearsals and they understand what exactly they have to do. “Little kids love being a part of it. You just need to give them step-by-step instructions and remind them of their jobs and they’ll do their best,” Kingsington said. By following this advice and taking proper precautions, hopefully all you’ll have to worry about when it comes to your flower girl and ring bearer is them stealing your thunder.
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People watching at the Career Fair before I talk to companies makes me feel like I’m on top of the world... ··· To my roommate: You are not a ninja, you do not have ninja-like abilities and I am not afraid of you. Love, your roomie. ··· To the guys that live below my apartment, not everyone wants to get high with you... shut the heating vents!!! ··· Roomies, my mom said not to burn bridges, but once we are done living together, consider them napalmed. ··· To the girl that I passed on the sidewalk, no one’s legs should be that skinny. Go eat something. Just sayin’ ··· To the couple at the bus stop showing non-stop PDA...did she really just put your chapstick on you lips for you? ··· I just had my first sighting or “hearing” of the famed ISU singing sensation. He’s terrible...really bad. Somebody do somthing! ··· Dear grass, it’s nice to see you again! Just sayin... ··· I hope I get proposed to in the Just sayin’s ··· To the guy who is disgusted by the girl clipping her fingernails on the bus, she does that is class too. LETS GET HER. ··· To the couple having their little argument third floor BWR: Hallway Not the place to have it. Just Sayin’ ··· To the first two rows of my Econ 102 class; stop trying to be teacher’s pets, its college. Everyone is making fun of you. ··· For all the guys who open doors for us, your chivalry does NOT go unappreciated. Thank you, from the ladies of ISU ··· I wish my roommate had better hygiene!!! ··· To the girl at the Lied with a Muscatine shirt on, your stretching positions made my day! thank you!! ··· To the guy in the library, it’s ok to Facebook creep but it does no good when they are right behind you... Just Sayin’ ··· Turtle! Just Sayin’ ··· If you don’t want your iPod stolen in the library, don’t leave it unattended on a table. just sayin.
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Aquarius: Make plans. Today’s Birthday: Have you dreamed of greater affection? Your dreams become reality this year when you inject creative thinking and powerful romantic wishes into a single concoction of the mind and heart. You now express your love confidently and courageously.
Count to 10 before speaking.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Thanks to your creativity, the results satisfy everyone. No one gets his or her way 100 percent. Everyone has to give a little ground.
Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 6 -- Most effort happens behind the scenes today. You’re creating a product that others will appreciate for its simplicity and charm.
Solution: INSTRUCTIONS: Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every number 1 to 9. For strategies on solving Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Light a fire under a partner or co-worker. Everyone needs to contribute today. At least one person works behind the scenes. Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is an 8 -- You feel the urge to apply pressure to others. Not good. Instead, apply compassion liberally.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- If you’re willing to push the envelope, you’ll discover new territory where pictures and words work together to produce just the right effect.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- You have the creative edge now. Principles of harmony dominate everything you do. Allow a female to rant a bit. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- “Affection”: three syllables with three pillars of passion, responsibility and kindness. This is not always easy to achieve, but it pays big dividends. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 5 -- Ease up on the gas pedal
today. It doesn’t all need to get done right now. Make a logical list of priorities and follow it. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 5 -- What starts out quietly at home becomes raucous and lively as soon as you walk out the door. Expect wild enthusiasm. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 6 -- If the discussion comes to a vote, the females will win through sheer numbers. That’s probably fine. Save your veto for more important issues. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -Today is a 5 -- Energy shifts from “pressing forward” to “relaxing comfortably at home.” You’re not quite there. Today’s perfect for making plans. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is an 8 -- “Divide and conquer” usually isn’t recommended. But today it works wonders as you prioritize personal desires and work requirements.
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Kansas coach Turner Gill, center, talks to his players at their first spring practice on Sunday in Lawrence, Kan. Loyal fans tired of steady increases in ticket costs may soon be able to buy their seats with payment plans similar to home mortgages or car loans. Photo: Jon Goering/The Associated Press
‘Sports mortgage’ Big-time athletics introduces newest marketing plan By Alan Scher Zagier Associated Press Writer LAWRENCE, Kan. — Season ticket holders know the annual lament. The cost of prime seats keeps rising, even if the team is lousy. Now, combine that frustration with cash-strapped college athletics departments, struggling to upgrade aging stadiums, and you’ve got the latest innovation in marketing for big-time athletics — the sports mortgage. At Kansas, Jayhawk fans who sign up to pay as much as $105,000 over 10 years will earn the right to buy guaranteed top seats for football over the next three decades. In return, the seats themselves will stay locked in at 2010 prices. California fans have even more latitude — 30 years to pay for a half-century’s worth of season football tickets. Like a home
“This is the ultimate solution for the shortfalls universities are facing in their athletics programs.” At Kansas, mortgage sales are being targeted at the new 3,000-seat Gridiron Club, an addition to 90-year-old Memorial Stadium in Lawrence that will offer its members cushioned seats, catered food, private restrooms and preferred parking. The school hopes the sales will not only cover the costs of $34 million in stadium renovations but eventually will raise a total of $200 million — without going into debt or relying on tax dollars. That would pay for renovations to Allen Fieldhouse, home of the Kansas basketball team, and build a new “Olympic village” for the Jayhawk track and field, soccer and swim teams. Another $40 million would go toward academics. Still, problems remain. The Gridiron Club’s planned opening for the 2010 season has been delayed since the school has only been able to raise about $5 million of the needed $34 million, said Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director.
mortgage, the long-term deal requires the equivalent of annual interest payments. The new pricing plans are known as “equity seat rights,” and are being pitched as a winwin for fans and teams. Die-hard fans can be certain of what they’ll pay to see their favorite team well into the future — and can always sell tickets in the secondary market while taking a tax write-off for donating to a school. Teams can bank on extra revenue and avoid borrowing. Stadium Capital Financing Group, the Chicago company behind the change, says it has the potential to transform how both college and pro teams court their most loyal fans. They’re confident sports mortgages will overtake the personal seat license, which doesn’t necessarily lock in ticket prices. The only trick now is convincing fans it’s a good deal. “Even in difficult financial times, the price of the best seats in professional stadiums and university programs go up,” said Lou Weisbach, Stadium Capital Financing’s chief executive officer.
has accepted its corrective actions and self imposed sanctions,” IUPUI spokesman Rich Schneider said in a release. “IUPUI has emerged much stronger from a compliance perspective and is confident that the corrective actions it implemented more than 16 months ago are replete with appropriate checks and balances in both the areas of academic advising for student-athletes and the monitoring of continuing eligibility to prevent future violations.” The university noted that no IUPUI studentathletes, coaches or athletics department administrators knew of the violations. Violations involving athletes include not enrolling in a degree-seeking program, not meeting progress toward degree requirements, insufficient minimum enrollment standards and competing after graduating by re-enrolling in the same baccalaureate program. The violations resulted in some of the student-athletes practicing, competing, and receiving athletic scholarships or travel expenses while not eligible to do so. Approximately 75 percent of the involved students were either eligible or would have been eligible had they received proper academic advising. The committee also found that the university failed to monitor the eligibility certification process.
INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA says it has found major infractions involving all 14 sports at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. The NCAA said Tuesday that IUPUI allowed erroneous eligibility certification for 97 studentathletes from 2003-04 through 2006-07, demonstrating a lack of institutional control and a failure to monitor by the university. A former academic adviser was cited for unethical conduct for his refusal to cooperate with the NCAA during its investigation. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis will receive three years’ probation and lose some scholarships. It will also vacate 18 victories by the men’s basketball team in 200304; 14 wins by the women’s basketball team in 2006-07; and 40 victories by the volleyball team from 2004-06. This marks the end of a process that began almost 2½ years ago for IUPUI. The school says it discovered the violations in June 2007, investigated them, and then submitted a report about them to the NCAA on Oct. 3, 2008. That report outlined steps IUPUI had taken and identified penalties IUPUI imposed on itself. Those sanctions were adopted by the NCAA without any additional limitations being imposed on its programs. “IUPUI is pleased that the NCAA enforcement staff and Committee on Infractions agreed with the results of its internal investigation and
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