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BAILING OUT BENJI

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From left, an unnamed protester, Jason Long, Dan Stoecklein, Suzy Schnell and Vicki Neal gather outside of Dale Dyvig’s Pet Shoppe on Saturday morning. Their protesting efforts were aimed at raising awareness against the use of puppy mills.

Advocacy group informs public about puppy mills

By Alex.Connor @iowastatedaily.com

V

icki Neal stands next to Mr. Meter — a name she’s dubbed for the parking meter she leans on outside of Dale Dyvig’s Pet Shoppe just off Main Street.

Neal, in her late 70s, gathers with four other women in the cold, windy weather. It’s late January and nearly a year after Dyvig approached the Ames City Council requesting a protest ordinance because of them.

Neal is the self-proclaimed “rabble-rouser” of Bailing out Benji – an animal advocacy group. She jokes that she could have the police called immediately – all by dropping a gum wrapper on the sidewalk outside of Dyvig’s.

She estimates an officer – should she lean against a win-

“Our puppies come from great kennels! Don’t buy the lies!”

In mid-February 2016, he proposed the protest ordinance to the city council – before him a 300-signature petition. He says the ordinance will inevitably “protect all customers and business owners.”

For nearly five years, the puppy mill advocacy group, Bailing out Benji, has stood outside of his business protesting his store.

And every weekend the rivalry brews – to Dyvig, Bailing out Benji drives away business.

To Bailing out Benji, the sidewalk outside his shop is where their meetings occur weekly – protest signs and all.

They are the Mill Dog Warriors. The sidewalk is their territory. Their weapon? Education.

The moment Bailing out Benji president Mindi Callison founded the group in 2011 after seeing a news story detailing the abuse of two dogs and their litter of puppies that were locked inside a rundown Des Moines hotel room.

She remembers a run-in at Dyvig’s Pet Shoppe in Ames just a little while later and asking

dow or wall, or block someone on the sidewalk – would arrive in no less than five minutes. Over the course of the past several years, the Ames Police have been called over a dozen times.

Mr. Meter is Neal’s saving grace. That is not to say, however, that he isn’t a trouble maker, too. The duo have been reported to police before, Neal says, because while she was leaning on him for comfort she was also “driving away customers.”

It’s not too bad for mid-January, however. And it’s definitely not the worst conditions the group has experienced to date.

And when you’ve protested in negative degree weather with a high windshield, your tolerance tends to build. Or at least your winter wear expands.

On this day, she’s wearing her 30-below coat.

The five women are holding signs asking passersby to say no to puppy mills as they stand on the sidewalk in front of Dyvig’s store.

Behind them reads a sign in the top corner of Dyvig’s corner window that contrasts the dark green paint on the building.

where he received his puppies.

She wanted to see them, so he sent her to Century Farm Puppies in Guthrie Center, Iowa.

Callison said the farm at the time housed more than 400 adult dogs, but it only showed her 20.

A feeling of shock, stupidity and confusion hit her. Who is looking out for these dogs? She thought.

Well, now Bailing out Benji is.

Saving lives Callison’s younger sister Brandi Webber remembers her first introduction to puppy mills while she was still a College of Design student at Iowa State several years back.

Webber said she came home from class one day and Callison immediately began telling her about this horrible thing that she recently learned.

And while Webber didn’t know it at that point, Bailing out Benji would alter her future down a different path, specifically relating to her career as a designer and solidifying her interest in graphic.

The two began brainstorming

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Agronomy, global resource systems and horticulture students received an email Thursday regarding a proposal to the Board of Regents to approve a new differential tuition structure expected to affect the upperclassmen in the aforementioned majors.

In an email received by the Iowa State Daily, the new tuition rate, if approved, “would be phased in over three years, beginning the summer of 2018. When fully implemented, juniors and seniors in those majors would pay an additional $1,600 more per academic year.”

Students within the agronomy department received the email Thursday morning signed by both Wendy Wintersteen, the dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and David Acker, associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

The proposal, according to the email, was submitted to the Iowa Board of Regents for approval with the hopes of the plan being discussed during the Regents’ April 19 and 20 meeting.

Students within the affected majors were asked to attend an informational meeting April 7 in order to hear why the plan was developed from departmental faculty leaders.

Along with the currently highlighted majors, animal sciences, biology, computer sciences, industrial design and natural resources ecology are among the most recent departments to receive differential tuition increases.

Iowa State Student Government President Cole Staudt expressed concern for the differential tuition increase model during the December regents meeting.

“The last thing we want is for students to not pursue the career they want because it costs more than other programs,” Staudt said.

At the time, Staudt said he found it very troubling that the regents had been reached out saying the model wasn’t going to work, yet continued anyway.

“I’m not sure what their reasoning is,” Staudt said. “They never gave me an explanation as to why they voted the way they did.”

In December, the regents also approved a 2 percent rise in resident undergraduate tuition rates at all three regent universities. Non-resident student tuition rose 3 percent as well.

Lecture explains Bible interpretation ISU students advised to check credit reports

By Alex.Ivanisevic @iowastatedaily.com

In the last half century there has been a loss of religious literacy that has progressed in the modern era, raising the question — how does one interpret the Bible?

That is the question Mary Healy, professor of sacred scripture at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit and senior fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, posed Thursday evening to a crowd of about 300 in the Memorial Union.

The main questions covered in the lecture revolved around whether the Bible should be interpreted in a literal or in a spiritual way, and what can be done to handle contradictions and historical inaccuracies.

It is important, she believes, to ask these kinds of questions because there is a vast variety of approaches to interpreting the Bible today.

“I hope in this lecture to wet peoples’ appetites for reading the Bible and help people realize that the Bible is God’s word and [is] for everybody,” Healy said.

As a Christian, she believes it is important to not lose the word of God. “The question, ‘How to interpret the Bible?’ is not a merely theoretical question, it’s a question that has profound existential importance for all those who believe in God, in Jesus and the word of God,” Healy said.

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Mary Healy, professor of sacred scripture at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, gives a lecture titled “How to Interpret the Bible” on Thursday in the Memorial Union.

Healy explained that, even in the past, it was recognized that there was figurative language used in the text of the Bible, and that language was to be interpreted.

This was, in a sense, the literal interpretation of the Biblical writings. The other sense of interpretation that was recognized was the spiritual sense.

“The spiritual sense is the traditional term for the way a person or a thing or an event, at an earlier stage of God’s plan, points forward to and foreshadows the fulfillment of his plan,” Healy said.

A vital aspect of literally interpreting the Bible is to properly detect the genre of literature the biblical passages are written in.

Healy explained that misinterpretations occur when mistakes are made in determining which genre

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the passage was written in.

As for the spiritual interpretation, Healy gave the explanation that God writes with events.

“God actually uses events to signify future events,” Healy said.

Anne Clifford, associate professor of philosophy and religious studies, asked during the Q&A portion of the lecture whether or not there is still a place for historical interpretation along with the literal.

She holds the opinion that the historical interpretation is important because it is important for one to put themselves in the place and time that an event took place in order to understand it better.

Healy said a union of the two interpretations would complement one another in developing an optimal perspective of the Bible.

For many college students, the only time their credit comes to mind is during fleeting, catchy TV ads. Yet, credit reports impact all of us, whether we know it or not.

Whether they’re finishing freshman year or preparing to step into the real world as a college graduate, students need to be aware of what their credit report says and, more importantly, make sure everything in that report is accurate.

Jonathan Fox, Iowa State professor of human development and family services, said research shows that 1 in 4 credit reports has some sort of mistake. These errors can range from something as minor as an incorrect name or as devastating as an additional account or debt.

The only way to find them is by checking your credit report.

“Checking your credit does not impact your credit score,” Fox said.

“It’s actually a sign of responsibility.”

In 25 years of teaching personal finance classes, Fox said he’s never had a class where every student’s report was accurate.

He suggested that students use the government-funded site AnnualCreditReport.com. It’s free, quick and gives users the option to check their reports from all three credit bureaus: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.

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“Everybody thinks you can get your credit report once a year, which is true, but there are three bureaus,” Fox said. “So you can go to the trough three different times.

They have similar but not identical data.”

Fox said the best way students can keep up with their credit report is to check it every four months.

Cynthia Fletcher, professor of human development and family services, said it’s important for students to realize that even during their time in college, they’re building a credit history, especially if they live off campus.

“Renting, taking out utilities, buying cars, those activities are fed into a credit history,” Fletcher said.

“And that is something that many people don’t even think about.”

During that process, it’s easy for a simple data entry mistake to hurt students’ credit. Because the information in a person’s credit history is used in so many ways, a mistake on a credit report could hurt students’ ability to receive credit, get insurance and even land a job.

For those who find that the information in their credit report is accurate, but not entirely favorable, there are a few ways to help it improve.

“It’s pretty straight forward,” Fletcher said. “Start taking actions and making decisions that reflect that you are a responsible consumer and that you have the ability a willingness to repay.”

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The 3rd annual Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Symposium: 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Reiman Gardens. The symposium features speakers, a poster session highlighting graduate and undergraduate student research, and a complimentary breakfast, lunch and coffee break.

There will be time for the speakers to interact with students. In addition to sharing their research, speak er s are invited to discuss their journey and offer advice to students who would lik e to pursue a career in academia.

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Workshop: Fundraising for Success: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Gateway Hotel and Conference Center, 2100 Green Hills Dr., Ames. Ready to Run Iowa is a non-partisan campaign training program to encourage women to run for elective office, position themselves for appointive office, work on a campaign or become involved in public life as leaders in their respective communities. Fee includes workshop materials, a parking pass and light refreshments. Registration is required. Cost: $20 Lawnmower Service Days: 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. at west side of Sukup Hall. Sponsored by members of the Agriculture Systems Technology Club. This is a routine maintenance service; no major repairs.

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Tennis: 3 p.m. at Forker courts (weather permitting.) Iowa State vs. Baylor. In the case of inclement weather, competition will be moved to Life Time Fitness, 11911 Hickman Rd., Urbandale. Check the Cyclone tennis website for location updates.

Closing Reception: Rome Beneath the Surface Exhibition: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Gallery 181 and Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum, College of Design. Reception celebrating the “Rome Beneath the Surface: Inspiration from a City of Layers” exhibition of work by 52 ISU College of Design students who studied in Italy with the college’s Rome Program in fall 2016.

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The portrait sitter for the Faces of ISU Live Portrait Painting event on Wednesday was Warren Kuhn, emeritus professor and retired dean of Library Services at Iowa State. Rose Frantzen said that she prefers to do live paintings, but she does take pictures of her subjects so that she can add more details later on. Frantzen will be painting former Iowa State faculty and staff from March 29 to April 6 as part of the upcoming “Faces of Iowa State” exhibition. The public is invited to watch her paint live in the lower level of the Christian Petersen Art Museum.

Frantzen painted 19 portraits of Iowa State faculty and staff during the 2016 Iowa State Fair.

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Student startup finds success

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From left, Neil Saigal, David Leo and Kenyon Brown were nominated for a Prometheus Award for their app PollUp. PollUp is an employee feedback moblie app that connnects empolyers with their employees.

By Danielle.Gehr @iowastatedaily.com The business world has seen a trend in employers paying more attention to the thoughts and feelings of their employees by taking surveys and asking for feedback.

Three Iowa State students saw this trend and created their own company called PollUp Solutions Inc. hoping to profit off it. Little did they know that it would take off, landing them a nomination for a 2017 Prometheus Award.

David Leo, a senior in management information systems, Kenyon Brown, a junior in management information systems, and Neil Saigal, a senior in computer engineering, had already been working on software in their free time when they came up with the idea for PollUp.

PollUp is a tool for companies that takes employee feedback and simplifies it for the employers. This information can all be viewed on an app on their phone.

“To break it down even simpler all these companies spend all this money on these huge, robust annual surveys...and then they wait to pile up all these problems or people spill out all these problems once or twice a year and what we’re instead doing is we have a software piece that sort of does it more day by day,” Brown said.

This method keeps companies solving problems that are relevant since this program consistently checks in with employees.

All their work can be found on pollup.net where it states that “when 66 percent of employees feel disengaged at work, we know the typical survey is no longer enough to under-

stand how your employees truly feel.”

Brown brought up the stigma that comes with human resources. Typically, those on the outside look at them with distain.

This is what led to a shift in HR’s approach at businesses across the country.

“Because of all of [these] new transitions and these new HR departments trying to rebrand themselves and call themselves ‘people departments’ basically, they’re seeing crazy statistics,” Brown said.

Companies that implement these new methods are seeing employee retention increases of around 20 percent and increases of performance of around 15 percent, Brown added.

Leo brought up companies like Google that do quirky things to keep employees happy

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Genders uniquely affected by climate

By Katlyn.Campbell @iowastatedaily.com Does your gender impact how you see climate change and the environment?

Most studies find that women are more concerned about the environment than men. But according to a study from the Human Ecology Review, some Iowa State researchers argue that the difference is in the way an individual interacts with nature.

Ann Oberhauser, professor of sociology and director of women’s and gender studies in 2015, focuses her work on feminist theory and research, gender and globalization, development studies and gender and work.

She leads a study abroad program focused on gender and sustainable development in Tanzania that will take place in June.

During the program, students partner with local Tanzanians in women’s advocacy groups to look at water harvesting efforts and improved agricultural techniques.

Oberhauser said women will be greatly impacted by current environmental issues such as climate change and deforestation. As women search for firewood to heat their homes and cook with, these resources will be scarce, taking a toll on how far women have to travel to find these resources.

“Women are oftentimes involved with gathering water so more and more with water issues they have to walk a long way or they’re carrying water on their head or transporting it,” Oberhauser said.

Maaz Gardezi, doctoral student in sociology and instructor for environmental sociology, believes that environmental concern depends on much more than the romanticized view of women’s connection to nature.

It depends on what type

of environmental concern women and men are interacting with, Gardezi said.

For women in developing countries, any issues with water may be of concern, because it is traditionally their job to collect it.

For men who are farmers, the issue may be about the quality of their soil.

The new ecological paradigm, a sociology term most often used to measure environmental concern, states, “In order for us to start thinking of the interaction of human and nature we have to look at it in terms of them being in tandem but also in a very balanced way,” Gardezi said.

Stronger social-altruistic environmental values, or showing a selfless concern for the well-being of others in relation to the environment and nature.

Danielle Wirth, lecturer in sociology, said that no gender is more environmentally concerned than the other. Rather, the concerns come with the way men and women interact with nature.

Women around the world with no formal education are getting involved in environmental issues because their children, food supply and water systems are directly impacted by degradation, Wirth said.

“Many men would prefer to work with land in terms of its utilitarian values,” Wirth said. “What is its productivity? When women are talking about land in addition to productivity, words that they use to describe land are ‘healthy’ and ‘beautiful.’”

Men, on the other hand, find interest in the inputs and outputs needed to sustain the goods they are receiving from the land.

Gardezi suggests that there should be a shift in leadership for environmental governance, which would allow more women to decide on issues of environmental importance in politics.

The Thielen Student Health Center has seen a 400 percent increase in long-term birth control since February 2016.

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Women turn to long-term birth control

By Sarah.Muller @iowastatedaily.com As Brooklynn Jacobs, senior in communication studies, witnessed the election and inauguration of President Donald Trump, she realized her birth control could be at risk of being taken away.

“I just think it’s crazy that this administration of men, white men, are trying to decide if women get access to adequate reproductive [health care], just because they don’t understand it,” Jacobs said.

“They don’t have to deal with it.”

One of Trump’s missions has been to repeal the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, which allows people to stay on their parents’ insurance until they are 26 years old.

“It became a reality that I might be kicked off my mom’s insurance now,” Jacobs said. “Or it might be optional for my insurance to cover women’s reproductive rights now.”

Some women have turned to long-term birth control due to Trump targeting the Affordable Care Act and trying to defund Planned Parenthood.

When Jacobs’ birth control prescription needed refilling, she decided to switch to an intrauterine device (IUD) that won’t need to be changed for seven years. “[Short-term birth control] has to be taken at the same time every day with oral pills,” said Laura Knowles, nursing and patient services supervisor at the student health center.

“With IUDs and Nexplanon, once it’s there, it’s there.”

IUDs are inserted into the vaginal area, while Nexplanon is a small bar inserted into the arm. Because they are inserted, they are long term, which means they can work for years without having to be taken out and replaced.

Relying on her mother’s insurance, Jacobs discussed her concerns with her mom.

“Being on her insurance saves me at least $2,000 a year,” Jacobs said. “I could be putting forth [this money] to my living expenses or loans. On my own, I can’t afford that. [My mom wants to pay for it] and I want to be on [birth control], so it works out.”

Jacobs has two sisters who are 15 years old, and she is encouraging them to get on long-term birth control, not necessarily for sex if they are not ready, but for other health reasons.

“I just encourage everybody to know about reproductive health care and fertility management,” Jacobs said.

The Thielen Student Health Center has seen a 400 percent increase in long-term birth control since February 2016, and IUDs have doubled since July 2016.

“With the IUDs, it’s a one-time cost, one-time procedure that covers you for five years,” Knowles said. “With pills, you have to pay every three months, if not every month.”

Knowles explained that cost may fluctuate, but some students are finding it appealing that IUDs and Nexplanon require a onetime cost for a long-term birth control. The pill is an expense that is more constant over time and could see a more dramatic change in price.

“Health policy impacts all of us,” Erin Baldwin, director of the health center, said. “We must take that all into consideration and see how it impacts Iowa State.”

Knowles said there are multiple small clauses and sentences that can dramatically affect a bill that legislators are trying to pass. As far as defunding Planned Parenthood, if the Ames center were to close, Knowles and Baldwin don’t believe the health center is prepared to take in the fluctuation of patients.

“We have other community providers that do women’s health care, but [we] just want to make sure people have access to that health care,” Baldwin said.

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Faculty Senate lacks diversity

By Robert.Roberson @iowastatedaily.com Although the Faculty Senate has recently been a champion of diversity and inclusion on the Iowa State campus, diversity within the senate leaves something to be desired.

Faculty Senate President Jonathan Sturm and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee Chair Mark Looney had a lot to say about diversity in Faculty Senate.

While their views don’t necessarily reflect the rest of the senate, Sturm and Looney do not believe the senate has a diverse enough membership and put an emphasis on the executive board. Though that may be true, the senate passed a resolution unanimously last semester against racism, sexism, bigotry, harassment and oppression, and for diversity and inclusion.

“Our executive board needs greater diversity from all interpretations of the word,” Sturm said.

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5 Slick 9 Japanese poem with 17 syllables 14 More than simmer 15 Natural skin soother 16 Caravan stop 17 ‘50s-’60s Ramblers, briefly 18 Grand Prix series designation 20 Brings in, as salary 22 Geeky types 23 Controversial Vietnam War defoliant 26 Onetime Leno announcer Hall 29 Salt, in France 30 “__ we there yet?”

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42 Too 43 Country bumpkins 44 “I hope you’ve learned your __!”

47 Pro vote 48 Little white lie 51 “__-hoo! Over here!”

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ment for Spot 57 “MASH” setting 58 “Shh! Don’t tell!” and hint to what can precede the starts of 18-, 23-, 37and 52-Across 63 Cheesy sandwich 64 Dance in a line 65 Actress Garr 66 Autobahn auto 67 Like a truck climbing a steep hill 68 Flower part 69 Tiff

Down 1 White House family 2 Respect that’s “paid” 3 Coin with a buffalo, once 4 Designer MaryKate or Ashley 5 Klutzy fellow 6 U.N. worker protection gp.

7 Doone of Exmoor 8 Red Sea republic 9 “Texas” poker variety 10 Very small batteries 11 Prefix with metric 12 Kith and __ 13 Exploit 19 Hankering 21 Button that gets things going 24 Sandwich cookie

25 Raring to go 26 Airline with famously tight security 27 Symbol of peace 28 Hair colorings 32 Vegetables in pods 33 The “B” in TV’s former The WB network 34 “Your point being...?”

35 Target city for Godzilla 37 Tyne of “Judging Amy” 38 Margarine 39 __ buco: veal dish 40 Scuba diving area 41 Not tight 45 Familiar adage 46 Evening, in ads 48 Inflame with enthusiasm 49 Marcos with a shoe collection 50 “Take a hike!”

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Looney said new diversity courses, which would need approval from the senate, could be helpful.

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Along with the resolution passed last November, Sturm also went out to an Agora speech zone and promoted a “climate of welcome.”

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IOWA STATE DAILY

OPINION

Friday, March 31, 2017

5 EDITORIAL

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Members of Iowa State fraternities and sororities dive into Lake LaVerne for the Polar Bear Plunge on March 31, 2012.

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Columnist Felker argues that while one of the greatest assets of universities is their diversity, it is also one of their greatest points of conflict. It is the faculty’s responsibility to educate students on the subject and promote an inclusive environment.

Check your preconceptions Microaggressions add to unwelcoming campus for minorities

By Alex.Felker @iowastatedaily.com

O

n Tuesday afternoon, I was out walking across campus when a young woman — who appeared to be either Asian or AsianAmerican — passed me on the sidewalk wearing a surgical mask. Moments later, she also passed a group of three male students. Once out of earshot, I immediately heard one of these students make some snide comment about the mask and the woman wearing it, and out of the other two I heard some barely quelled laughs.

Whether an incident like this, or the poking fun at others’ accents, as I’ve also often heard in passing, these are just the kind of seemingly mild victimizations, or microaggressions, that are such an issue on our campus.

Little spoonful by little spoonful, it’s these kinds of interactions that can contribute to an environment of discomfort and fear for our minority populations.

It’s just these kinds of moments and scenes — which are played out far more frequently than probably any of us realize — that provide for the unease and conflict so detrimental to a healthy, safe and productive

university learning environment for all.

Surgical masks, like the one I saw this woman wearing, are commonly worn by East Asians (and others) for a variety of reasons.

Many wear them to prevent the spread of colds, to combat pollen allergies —hay fever has been an issue among the Japanese population ever since a period of rapid deforestation in the 1960s led to abnormally high amounts of pollen being introduced to the air — and even for psychological purposes or as fashion statements. They are far more culturally acceptable in Japan and other Asian countries than here (even expected, to some extent, when a person is ill.)

But this is all beside the point. The issue is in our campus’ sometimes understated, and sometimes explicit atmosphere of criticism and animosity toward all that’s different and out of place — and most Ames students certainly aren’t used to seeing surgical masks casually worn in public.

Universities are melting pots for different cultures, backgrounds and points of view. This is one of their greatest assets, but also one of their greatest points of conflict.

It’s important that we continue to address this issue and engage in this discussion. It’s our faculty’s duty to educate their students in this subject and to promote an inclusive environment. This is what makes a higher education so valuable: exposure, perspective and then understanding.

No, there aren’t students standing out front of Parks Library with signs

that read “International Students Are Unwelcome.” There aren’t sections of the dining centers roped off for minorities. There isn’t blatant, barefaced racism. But what there is, is a mostly unspoken, indirect, subtle and ultimately invasive atmosphere of dislocation experienced by a portion of our student body — and it’s all our community’s responsibility to address this.

This is what I have to say to every member of our Iowa State community: Don’t be so quick to any kind of judgment. Be understanding. Be considerate. Think how you’d feel thrown into a university in a country halfway across the world, in a community that might even speak an entirely different language than your native tongue — all alone, everything on your shoulders and everyone else different from you.

Think about what you say and what you do — before you do it and before you say it. Don’t poke fun at others’ expense for a cheap laugh or two.

Be compassionate and empathetic.

These are simple lessons; the sorts of lessons all of us were supposed to have learned in preschool and grade school. But our campus’ behavior doesn’t show that.

The world is home to hundreds, even thousands of cultures. The American Midwest is just one of them.

When confronted with something or someone exhibiting some different behavior, style, custom or whatever it is, check your preconceptions at the door.

Abortion must remain a woman’s decision

By Peyton.Spanbauer @iowastatedaily.com I, for one, am sick and tired of old white men deciding what I can and cannot do with my body. I am done seeing protesters outside of Ames Planned Parenthood, encouraging the cessation of my right to certain heath care. I will no longer stand to hear the overused anti-abortion argument — something that should have been settled in 1973 with Roe v. Wade.

As a woman living in America, I feel scared and threatened by the discussions taking place in Washington, D.C., concerning the rights I have over my own body. To think that because a room full of men have potentially limited the number of courses of action I can take in handling a pregnancy, and also contraceptive care, infuriates me.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to defund all institutions providing women with even information on abortions. As if slashing women’s health care in all of America wasn’t enough, he largely defunded all international Planned Parenthoods and similar organizations, further condemning women of the world to losing these rights.

Abortions are an essential, basic health care for women, and to deny such rights is unconstitutional. For women who are not ready to have a child, too young to have a child or cannot financially or competently raise a child, abortions should be a safe and accessible solution. Not to mention cases of rape and incest — a woman shouldn’t have to carry that child for nine

Become a supporter of the Polar Bear Plunge While Greek Week at Iowa State is coming to a close, one of the final events will make an impact for a much longer time period and have a much further reach than our campus. The greek community’s annual Polar Bear Plunge helps raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Special Olympics Iowa.

Special Olympics Iowa has a mission “to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for individuals with intellectual disabilities by giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes, and the community.”

More than 124,000 Iowans “have a mental or emotional illness that interferes with daily activities,” according to the Iowa Data Center. Organizations like Special Olympics Iowa help give individuals with disabilities an opportunity to compete in sports and be a part of a strong community.

Those who participate in Special Olympics Iowa gain “improved physical fitness and motor skills, greater self-confidence, a more positive selfimage and lifelong friendships,” according to the organization’s website.

Below are some of the programs that help accomplish this: The Athlete Leadership programs educates and trains individuals with intellectual disabilities in literacy, leadership and speaking skills.

Special Olympics Healthy Athletes helps the athletes improve their health and fitness through a variety of health services at clinics conducted in welcoming environments at Special Olympics competitions.

“Spread the Word to End the Word” campaign to help educate Iowa students about the hurtful nature of the word retard and advocate for them to stop using it.

Throughout the year, the Iowa State greek community continually finds philanthropic ways to serve needs and organizations within our community, state and nation. These acts exemplify service above self and show what can happen if you get behind a cause. Polar Plunge is just one of these actions.

Each member of the greek community who raises $75 or more gets to take a plunge into a cold pool outdoors on Saturday night. In 2015, the community raised $188,000 in 2015.

At the beginning of Greek Week 2017, $216,000 had been raised.

Polar Bear Plunge takes place Saturday evening. Donations can be made before noon Saturday.

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Columnist Spanbauer argues that President Donald Trump needs to stop grabbing at women’s rights and focus on more worthwhile issues that the country faces.

months if she does not so desire.

Historically, whether or not abortions have been legal, women have received them. Before Roe v. Wade, women sought the help of doctors to privately carry out the operation at the risk of these doctors’ medical licenses and even incarceration. While this was the safer method, not all women were able to take this route. Others had no other choice but to perform what was called the “coat-hanger abortion” or even throw themselves down the stairs in order to terminate their pregnancies.

Now, before you say all of these desperate acts are unnecessary, and could have been prevented if a woman were to simply carry out her pregnancy, you should first know that under some situations some women are simply forced to terminate.

Whether it is fear of assault if

someone finds out about her being pregnant, not wanting to have to raise a child in an unhealthy, bad situation or not being physically competent enough to care for and raise a child, women getting abortions are not just thinking for themselves.

So why force women to birth children that they do not want, only to add to the increasing number of children in adoption centers or foster care? Why force women to have a child that they cannot financially or properly raise, thereby dooming the child from birth?

The bigger picture of abortion is that the policy surrounding it is determined by mostly men.

A photo of a room full of all men standing and watching as Trump signed his defunding bill recently went viral, showing Americans who’s really behind

the women’s issues at hand.

Can someone please tell me why only men are making the decisions regarding women’s health care? This is a woman’s matter, and therefore should be decided by women.

Furthermore, if you don’t believe in getting abortions, I have advice: don’t get one. Keep abortions legal, however, for those who need this resource in case of emergencies. They are thinking for the sake of the child.

America was originally founded on the principles of freedom — the freedom to make your own decisions and the freedom to constitutional rights. To deny women the freedom to their own bodies is not just unconstitutional, but un-American in nature. Trump needs to stop grabbing at women’s rights and focus on some of the more worthwhile issues at hand.

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SPORTS

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Friday, March 31, 2017

‘Insulted’ Cyclones on a mission

Iowa State gymnastics defeated Southeast Missouri and Centenary on Feb. 3 at Hilton Coliseum. Iowa State heads into this weekend’s regional as an underdog, but that isn’t deterring the team.

By Austin.Anderson @iowastatedaily.com Meaghan Sievers stumbled upon an article on Monday. It was a preview for the NCAA regional in Lincoln the Cyclones will be competing in on Saturday written by NCAA Gym News.

The dominance of LSU was talked about, as well as the perceived battle for second between Boise State and Nebraska. Then the writer discussed the longshot possibilities of No. 4 seed Arizona and No. 6 seed Minnesota having a chance.

It took 646 words and 31 sentences to be written before Iowa State was anywhere to be found.

When No. 5 seed Iowa State was

finally discussed during the section on the teams, the Cyclones had two sentences written about them.

“Iowa State could advance, but it would take a lot of help from everyone else,” the article read.

“Just making regionals is the prize here as the Cyclones have been in and out of the top 36 over the past few years.”

“Bold. That’s bold,” Sievers said.

“I think people truly underestimate the amount of work and heart that this team has. I don’t think people have any idea how far we’ve come and how much we’ve worked to be at this point.

“It doesn’t show it anywhere, but we’re actually the most improved team in the NCAA right now. I think people completely underestimate

our team and the potential that we have. It’s almost an insult to me.

The only thing we can do for that is show them that they’re wrong. I’m ready to throw it back in their face.”

When Sievers first read the article, she sent it to junior Haylee Young.

Being counted out this season isn’t new to the Cyclones, particularly Young. After the opening meet of the season against Arizona State, Young brought up being an underdog. The Cyclones began the season ranked No. 40 before climbing as high as No. 23 this season.

She has preached having an underdog mentality all season.

“When people say stuff about us like it’s just a prize for us to be at regionals, that’s not really fair for

them to say because we’ve had a great season,” Young said. “That just gave us all a little extra motivation going into this weekend.

“We expected to be here.”

The Cyclones expected themselves to make it to regionals, but everyone expected the rest of the teams in the Lincoln regional to be there.

LSU is the No. 2 team in the country. Boise State is the No. 2 team in the regional. Nebraska is hosting the regional. Two of those three teams are expected to finish in the top two on Saturday and qualify for nationals.

“We’re not keeping up a reputation,” Young said. “We’re building one.”

The Cyclones are the No. 5 seed,

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and as made apparent by the article, have little expected of them nationally.

But all of the scores are wiped clean from earlier in the season.

The only scores that matter are the ones scored on Saturday. Without expectation, it’s possible the higher ranked teams are more likely to feel the pressure.

“You’re starting from a blank slate,” coach Jay Ronayne said.

“What kind of history are you going to write? If nobody expects you to write a masterpiece novel, then when you do, it’s going to be received pretty well. If everyone expects it from that blank slate that you’re going to write the best piece ever, you’re probably going to fall short.”

Iowa State returns home for three-match stretch

By Andrew.Smith @iowastatedaily.com After a tough weekend in Kansas, the Cyclones will attempt to turn their fortunes around after only winning just two sets out of the two matches last weekend.

But Iowa State’s opponents may not be the only things the Cyclones need to fight this weekend.

“It’s supposed to be kinda spotty rain in the morning,” coach Armando Espinosa said. “We are supposed to play Texas indoors at 10, and if we cannot play outside, we will have to cancel the Central College match.”

The weather around Ames may be dreary and bleak, but the Cyclones can’t let it get them down as they welcome a trio of team to Ames.

To kick off the weekend, the Cyclones will host No. 15 Baylor (13-5, 1-2 Big 12) on Friday and No. 21 Texas (8-6, 2-2 Big 12) on Sunday.

The Bears are going to be a tough out for the Cyclones, as they have two outstanding singles players boasting great records.

Angie Shakhraichuk comes in winning four straight matches, boosting her record to 11-4.

But the real weapon for the Bears is Blair Shankle, who is ranked No. 4 in the nation in singles. She has been a solid bet for the Bears, winning nine games at the top spot in the lineup.

Much like the Cyclones, the Bears have switched things up in doubles this season, but they have found success with a few pairings.

Their most successful team has been the pair of Jessica Hinojosa and Shakhraichuk, who have an 8-5 re-

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Evelyne Guay competes in the women’s 4x1, 600-meter relay at the Drake Relays in Des Moines in 2015.

Track, field sends multiple top athletes to Stanford

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Sophomore Annabella Bonadonna serves the ball against Kansas on April 10, 2016, in Ames, Iowa.

cord overall and are 1-2 in the conference.

“We expect a tough Baylor match,” Espinosa said.

“It’s going to be a little bit tougher, but we are just going to see what we are able to do.”

The Longhorns also sport a powerful lineup, with three players ranked in the top 100 in the nation in singles.

Bianca Turati has been playing well for the Longhorns, earning a 6-4 record at the top spot in singles.

She has been one of the more consistent players in the Longhorns’ lineup, next to Petra Granic, who has bounced between the No. 3 and 4 spot.

Granic has tallied eight wins and only three losses while flying under the radar as one of Texas’ more successful singles players.

“They’re both very good teams, they are both really highly ranked,” assistant

coach Olga Elkin said. “I think it will be good to get a couple of wins here and there, and every match we go out there we need to improve.”

The Cyclones will then wrap up the weekend by facing Division III Central College later Sunday afternoon.

“For Central, we are going to give our kids at the bottom a little bit more of a chance to play higher in the lineup,” Espinosa said.

“Overall, I think it’s going to be a good weekend for us.”

If Iowa State can mange to win one of the Big 12 matches, it would be huge for the Cyclones, who could use a boost from last weekend’s slump.

“I think we have been playing really well as a team,” sophomore Erin Freeman said. “I think if we continue to work hard and practice well, we should be OK.”

From Abby Caldwell running a school record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase as a freshman to Erin Hooker clocking a personal record in the 5,000 with “half a shoe,” the Iowa State women’s track and field team has continuously produced headlines at the Stanford Invitational in recent years.

The Cyclones appear poised for another breakthrough at this year’s meet, which will begin with field events at 11 a.m. Friday at the Cobb Track and Angell Field in Palo Alto, California.

On the distance side, some of the team’s best athletes will make their outdoor debut, including Kelly Naumann in the steeplechase, Hooker in the 5,000, Anne Frisbie in the 10,000 and Evelyne Guay in the 800 and 1,500.

It’s been two years since Hooker last ran a personal best in the 5,000 outdoors.

“It was really pretty unnerving,” Hooker’s coach, Andrea Grove-McDonough, said at the time about the race. “She lost her shoe about halfway. It stayed on, but it was like a slipper.”

As long as Hooker avoids another “slipper” mishap, she will likely put that two-year personal record in danger this weekend.

For Naumann, all signs point to a breakout season. A year ago, the sophomore was watching online videos of athletes running the steeplechase in preparation for an event that she had no experience competing in before arriving at Iowa State.

She went on to place third in the event at the 2016 Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championships and qualified for regionals.

Heading into this season, she has her sights set on qualifying for nationals.

“We’re looking forward to seeing [Grace Gibbons and Kelly Naumann] get out there because it’s been a year [since they last competed in the steeplechase],” GroveMcDonough said.

To top it off, Guay is coming off her strongest track season of her career, carrying momentum from recent personal records in the 1,000 and mile, and a silver medal from the Big 12 indoor championships into the outdoor season.

“I think the biggest contributor to my progress indoors was being able to get a lot more training,” Guay said. “... At first I was a little skeptical with coach McDonough and was like, ‘Ah, maybe this is too much,’ but then I committed and believed in her training. I think with the increased training, but also having the confidence piece in my training and my ability, led to a little bit of a breakthrough indoors.”

On the field and sprinting side, Allanah McCorkle, Iowa State’s star from its season opener who moved up to No. 5 in Iowa State history in the long jump after leaping 19 feet 11.5 inches at the Tulsa Duels on March 18, will make her return in the event this weekend.

Grove-McDonough’s expectation for the meet is simple: “It’d be really nice to come away with as many solid regional marks we can get, ones we feel confident will hold up inside the top 48 come the end of the year.”

IOWA STATE DAILY

COMMUNITY

Friday, March 31, 2017

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Event brings England to Ames

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Iowa State students work with downtown businesses to host Londonfest in Ames. The event will offer food trucks, craft beer and other British-inspired products.

By Dan Mika, Staff Writer dmika@amestrib.com A group of Iowa State students has partnered with downtown businesses to bring a little bit of Great Britain to Main Street next month.

Leah Blankespoor, an Iowa State senior and codirector of Londonfest, said the idea began when business owners on Main Street came to her capstone class earlier this

year with an idea to bring a London-themed event to the area.

She and other students in the class formed a working group to develop the idea further into Londonfest and secured permission to block off the 200 block of Main Street from the City Council earlier this month.

Londonfest is scheduled for 2 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, April 22. Tickets are currently available for $10 each at www.theun-

dergroundames.com.

Blankespoor, who studied abroad in England last year, said three other members of the event’s planning team have also studied in the country during their time at Iowa State. The event also coincides with London Underground’s 10th anniversary.

“It seemed like the perfect kind of event to plan together,” she said.

Amber Strait, an Iowa State senior and the event’s food and beverage coor-

ISU professor employs trash to build puppets

By Austin Cannon, Staff Writer acannon@amestrib.com Amanda Petefish-Schrag makes some trashy puppets.

To clarify, her marionettes don’t wear torn clothing and have pierced noses — not that there’s anything wrong with that — they are, however, made from literal garbage.

Petefish-Schrag, assistant professor in Iowa State University’s theater department, has spent most of her life around puppets, growing up touring and performing with her parents in Minnesota. After seeing the world’s oceans polluted by millions of pounds of trash, she decided to start using that garbage to make her own puppets.

“Part of working with trash means having to confront what you’re throwing away and what you’re consuming and what impact that’s going to have on your community and on your world,” she said.

So far, she’s made about 20 to 30 puppets out of mostly plastic trash.

A video on YouTube showed her manipulating a technicolored Dodo bird marionette around her basement, where she builds them.

Her work has gotten to the point that when her friends are using a certain material, they’ll ask her, “Do you think you could do anything with this?”

Sometimes, there’s even potential in something as small as a bag that used to hold potato chips.

“It forces you to think differently and see differently,” she said.

“How could that be repurposed into something else? And how could we make that something beautiful or something funny or something that will have new meaning and impact for an audience?”

Petefish-Schrag doesn’t get to perform with puppets as often as she used to, but she sees a use for them in communicating difficult issues.

“There’s something transformative and freeing, I think, about the ability to talk to this object that has life that is less scary, in some respects, than talking to a recognizable human being,” she said.

Some might immediately picture Big Bird, but churches in the past would use puppets to educate their members, too, Petefish-Schrag said.

It was a different way to communicate — from someone fresh and unfamiliar.

dinator, said food trucks from the Mucky Duck, Macubana, the Big Red Food Truck from Des Moines, an ice cream truck and others will be selling at the event.

She also said the event will also have craft beer vendors from the central Iowa area selling full glasses and providing samples to drinking-age guests.

Blankespoor said the event will have actors dressed as iconic British characters, such as Sherlock Holmes, members

of the Royal Family and Harry Potter. People will stroll throughout the festival to greet guests, a fashion show featuring British clothing through the years and a human foosball tournament, Blankespoor said.

Organizers are also planning to raise a 50-foot ferris wheel in the festival area as an homage to the London Eye. Blankespoor said the goal is to get 1,200 visitors to the event.

The event is primarily organized by Iowa State

students, meaning the majority of the organizers may not be in Ames next year to organize it. But Blankespoor said the event could be picked up by the next group of students in future classes as a way to attract students to downtown depending on how successful it is.

“I think it has to be memorable,” Strait said.

“People are going to have to go to it, enjoy it and want it again the following year.”

Ames woman awarded for ‘Making Democracy Work’

By Austin Harrington, Staff Writer dmika@amestrib.com Long-time Ames resident Judie Hoffman has been named the recipient of the first ever “Making Democracy Work” award from the League of Women Voters of Ames and Story County.

Hoffman, who has been a League member for many years, said she was shocked to win but is very happy to receive the award.

“It came as a surprise and a nice honor,” Hoffman said.

The award is a way for the League to mark its 90th year in Story County, but it is also designed to celebrate a person or organization in Story County that has envisioned a way to improve their community and mobilize others around them to work to effect change locally. According to local league president Devita Harden, Hoffman meets that description perfectly.

“According to the individuals who nominated Judie, Judie exemplifies the spirit of this

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award,” Harden said. “She walks the talk of civic engagement, she has worked to educate and engage others in the policy process, she has JUDIE HOFFMAN spoken to various groups ranging from ISU Extension to faith groups to international groups.”

According to the information provided in her nomination packet, Hoffman holds a bachelor’s of arts degree from Knox College and a master’s in arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She worked as a substitute teacher in the Ames school district from 1978 to 1989, served on the Ames City Council from 1988 to 2003 and was Mayor pro tem in 1999-2000.

In 1986, Hoffman became the state legislative lobbyist for the League of Women Voters of Iowa before taking on other roles, including Legislative Lobbyist for Ecumenical Ministries of Iowa in 1992, the Red Cross of Iowa in 1995 and the Iowa Reading Association in 1996.

Hoffman retired from these professional roles in 2010.

Hoffman has also served as president of the Sawyer Elementary Parent Teacher Organization; served on the Ames Planning and Zoning Commission; on the CyRide Board of Directors; on the Ames Economic Development Commission; and on the Ames Convention and Visitors’ Bureau. Along with those roles, she also found the time to be a key member of the Healthiest Ames committee, as well as several other local and statewide organizations.

Hoffman said participating in all those organizations has truly taught her what it takes to make democracy work in Iowa.

“A phrase that I’ve often used is democracy is not a spectator sport,” Hoffman said. “People need to be involved in their government, and that’s certainly some-

thing that I have done but I’ve also spent a lot of time encouraging other people to become involved in government, whether it be on the local level or the state level, or nationally.”

Harden said she counts herself as one of those people that Hoffman has inspired.

“She’s shown me that democracy works best when the public is educated on public issues,” Harden said. “She took the time to explain how that impacts what happens in Des Moines, what happens at the Story County Board of Supervisors, how that impacts our daily living and the importance of citizens to be engaged in the policy process.”

Hoffman said seeing the seemingly newly acquired attention span that the country has found for state and national politics gives her hope that democracy will continue to function well into the future.

“These are difficult times for government in the United States, but I think that more and more people are taking an interest right now then they have in the past few years and that’s important,” Hoffman said.

Along with increased civic engagement, Hoffman said that she would also like to see political polarization decrease in the coming years because she believes it creates too many areas of the country where a lawmaker knows they can’t be defeated by the other party in an election cycle.

“They know their seat is a safe seat,” Hoffman said. “If you have enough senators or representatives on the national level, it’s harder to get people to work together.”

Hoffman said that even though she is no longer a lobbyist or an elected official, she still plans on staying involved.

“It’s always interesting to work on issues, whether they be big or little, but when you can make a difference it always makes it fun,” Hoffman said.

Hoffman will be honored during the April 11 Ames City Council meeting and she will officially receive the award during the LWV’s Annual Meeting, which will be on April 22, 2017, at the Gateway Holiday Inn, in Ames.

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BENJI p1 name ideas for the animal advocacy group and Bailing out Benji stuck, Webber said.

A product of time, the group formed when the Wall Street bailouts were still raw in many Americans’ minds.

For Callison and Webber, the name just made sense.

Callison wanted to know in a time of bailouts, who was bailing out the puppies?

Webber creates graphics pro bono for the animal advocacy group, and she originally signed on to help her sister as part of her capstone project for Iowa State.

She made the logo and chose the colors for Bailing out Benji, which began as a small blog. However, the website on average now sees well over 20,000 views per month.

Webber recalls not being as into the topic at first like Callison was, but it wasn’t because of the cause. She felt she couldn’t match her sister’s level of dedication.

Now, she says, it’s all they ever talk about.

“She’s extremely compassionate, specifically when it comes to animals,” Webber said. “She’s been a hero of mine [but has] blossomed into a hero for everybody.”

Webber recalls when she and Callison were younger.

The two would see a stray kitten or puppy in the road and go help it. Inevitably, they would bring the animal home and nurture it, always promising to their mom that they weren’t going to keep it.

Callison and Webber are only a year-and-a-half apart, and the two have always been kind of close, Webber said. But it wasn’t until they started working together for a common cause that the relationship became about something deeper.

“We’re actually trying to save lives,” Webber said.

The two speak every day, Webber said, oftentimes more than once.

‘It takes all of us’ Puppy mills have enveloped Callison in every aspect of her life.

“Fun is when I get to transport a dog,” she said.

Waking up at 7 a.m. every day, Callison said she typically answers emails until she has to go to work as a preschool educator at 9:30 a.m. After work, she said she goes home and feeds and plays with her five black labradors. Her day then repeats.

“And then I work until my eyes close to go to sleep,” Callison said, which she estimates is usually about 1 a.m. “It’s a lot, but it’s worth

it.”

Callison remarked on a time she left her laptop at work and her husband wouldn’t let her go back to retrieve it.

She remembers him telling her that she needed a night off, and she was going to take it. However, Callison still did whatever work she could from her cell phone that night, including answering hundreds of emails.

And when Callison talks puppy mills, she speaks vividly. Her hands move back and forth, but with purpose.

A smile stretches across her face, even though the topic may be bleak.

Her nails, painted a light shade of blue, contrast the darker blue crew neck she’s wearing that reads, “This is my end puppy mills shirt.”

Several flyers with information about Iowa, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Texas are scattered across the Bailing out Benji Facebook page.

“220 USDA licensed puppy mills. Second in the country for puppy mills.

17,000 dogs are trapped every year,” the Iowa flyer reads. “You are the solution.

Adopt.”

Webber said that when Callison discusses puppy mills she has a natural air of confidence. In every other situation, Webber notes, Callison is more reserved.

“It’s 180 [degrees.] She just snaps into what she needs to do to take care of these dogs,” Webber said.

For Callison, however, sometimes it can be hard to repeatedly raise awareness about puppy mills. She said she often has reminded herself that not everyone knows about them.

“When I talk to shelters and rescues and even our own volunteers, I try to remind them that one time you didn’t know about puppy mills,” Callison said.

“You were not born with this knowledge.

“You can’t assume other people know or assume the person walking into the store [that sells puppy mill puppies] is a bad person.”

She said with every new person, no matter how frustrating it is, the conversation about puppy mills usually begins at square one.

“It takes all of us to do this,” Callison said.

A symbiotic relationship In preparation of a transport, Callison often takes to Facebook.

“Can you help move this dog?” She asks.

Suzy Schnell and Dan Stoecklein said they help Callison whenever they can, largely through research and dog transports. The

married couple, like Callison, often act as a middleman between puppy mills and rescues, helping transport dogs the mill may no longer want.

It’s a symbiotic relationship. The puppy mills don’t want to pay to euthanize their older, sick dogs, and Callison doesn’t want to see them dead. Sometimes the mills just aren’t generating profit.

a miller to give them their unwanted breeder dogs.

They have all these dogs and they can’t just snap their fingers and make them gone in a very ethical way, Stoecklein said.

The feeling is often surreal, and there are never many questions asked.

For Schnell, she said there are so many mixed emotions about going and getting a dog out. Oftentimes,

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“Some will contact Mindi in fact and say, ‘Hey, I got this dog and we need to get rid of it,’” Stoecklein said, referring to mills as “profit eaters.”

So Callison, or another transporter, drives to the mill – whether it be in Iowa or one of the surrounding states such as Nebraska or Missouri – and sits in their lot.

They place a dog crate outside their car and wait for

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they are old and in need of health care. They are happy to save the dog but saddened by the condition in which it has been living.

After being bred their whole lives and kept in a cage, Callison said most don’t know even know how to be a dog.

She remembers a specific rescued puppy mill dog that didn’t know how to do anything but spin in circles.

Why they do it Schnell and Stoecklein describe their efforts as never that big of a deal. To them, like Callison, it’s all for the dogs.

In finding the right rescue, Callison has her connections. And the transport job doesn’t just end there.

More often than not, dogs need transported from the rescue to another rescue or perhaps a foster home. “[There’s] always some need of transporting,” Stoecklein said.

Schnell and Callison met through Schnell’s mom, who had been donating money to Bailing out Benji from the start.

“I had liked their page and would share some Facebook posts,” Schnell said, “but it wasn’t until around the [dog] auction that I went ‘OK, I need to do more.’ We would donate money, [but] I think donating your time is huge.”

The auction convinced Schnell that she needed to do more – it pushed her to be more active in speaking out about puppy mills.

It was raining that day, and Schnell was bidding on dogs for a rescue, work independent from Bailing out Benji.

The auction was at a farm, and the breeders said they were going out of business.

A big tent settled on their property housed the unwanted dogs, along with some bleachers for the bidders to sit.

The dogs were then bid on by their breed. Stoecklein recalls the way they were handled: “The way they were grabbing these dogs, you can tell they were just a product or means of generating a product.”

Even at the end of the day, Schnell was still putting money into the puppy mills’ pockets, even if she was rescuing dogs in the process.

“She [Schnell] saw the conditions the dogs were in, she saw how they were handled and how scared they were,” Stoecklein said.

“They were all just completely scared, timid and they looked like they had given up.

“They were going to whatever the next thing was, wire cage to wire cage.”

Schnell remembers the car ride home as being completely silent, even though kenneled dogs filled her backseat. The dogs, the two recall, were just dealing with it.

The most crazy thing about puppy mills to Schnell and Stoecklein, however, is “how many people don’t know” about the industry.

But the how, the way, the who and the what separate Callison’s organization from all the others, their goal being to raise awareness through education, not fear.

“I think eventually, Bailing out Benji is going to have to evolve beyond puppy mills, but I think they’ll always be educating [someone] about whoever needs a voice,” Webber said.

National acclaim Google puppy mills in Iowa and Bailing out Benji is one of the first things that pops up, and it’s not by co-

incidence.

“We’re reaching online a million people,” Webber said. “Through Facebook and through our website.

If you Google puppy mills in Iowa, you’re going to see our website pop up. If you Google Dyvig’s, you’re going to see our website pop up.”

Bailing out Benji serves as a resource outside of Iowa as well. Callison said most days, the group gets a message on Facebook or through its website saying ‘Hey, I was thinking about buying a puppy from this breeder. Do you know them?’

“Nine times out of 10 they are a puppy mill, so we just try to educate them about making a better choice, whether they adopt or [end up looking] for a more reputable breeder,” Callison said.

In addition to being featured in a documentary called “Dog by Dog,” which examines the puppy mill industry and its relation to money and politics, Callison has also been quoted in a Rolling Stone article about mills, something that Webber later described as a dream come true.

Webber remembers screaming when Callison told her. She even dropped the phone. Callison had just received a phone call from Rolling Stone Magazine out of nowhere, and Webber remembers an overwhelming sense of pride for her sister hitting her.

Who gets to say they’re able to hold a Rolling Stone article in her hand with their sister’s name in it? Webber thinks.

Callison, who is typically on the calmer side, jokes at Webber to get it together.

She’s just doing her job for the dogs.

An Ames rivalry Dyvig stands in front of the Ames City Council. It’s mid-February 2016.

He is the owner of Dyvig’s Pet Shoppe. Before him is a 300-signature petition that he is presenting to the council, asking the city to adopt ordinances that will, as he blatantly describes, protect all customers and business owners.

Nearly five years of protests by the puppy mill advocacy group Bailing out Benji outside of his business has finally reached its breaking point.

A sign hangs in Dyvig’s window: “Our puppies come from great kennels!

Don’t buy the lies!”

The rival between Dyvig and Bailing out Benji constantly brews. To Dyvig, Bailing out Benji drives away business.

To Bailing out Benji, the sidewalk outside his shop is where their weekly meetings occur – protest signs and all.

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