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March 8, 2010, Volume 204 >> Number 115 >> 40 cents >> iowastatedaily.com >> An independent newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890
KaleidoQuiz 2010
2010 GSB Elections
Starbuck house wins
E-mail sent via listserv discovered
By Anthony Capps Daily Staff Writer
By Paige Godden Daily Staff Writer
It was the first KaleidoQuiz win ever for Martin Hall’s Starbuck house. The team, which was named “I was hiding under your porch because I love you.,” has been a regular team but had never placed in a top spot. Second place went to the materials science and engineering team, which was headquartered in Hoover Hall. That team, which was named “I Mustache You A Question,” placed fifth last year. The third-place team, named “Super-Secret KQ Kommandos,” were older students and alumni of the Lyon Harwood team. This year’s Harwood team, named “The next 26 hours are the only time every year that Google’s DNS server gets more access than your mom.,” finished in sixth place. It has traditionally been a top-placing team with many first-place finishes in the past few years. Rick Hanton, senior in computer engineering, said the older students and alumni who didn’t return — those who joined to form “Super-Secret KQ Kommandos” — hurt the overall experience of the team. With so many underclassmen recruited, next year is looking better. Last year a group of alumni of the Friley-based Lorch-Russel team joined for a one-year wonder team. That team, “Epic Sail,” won Kaleidoquiz 2009.
An e-mail originally written by former Government of the Student Body vice presidential candidate Jacob Wilson was forwarded to two ISU list serves by the editor of Trend magazine Feb. 28, at 11:03 p.m. The e-mail was sent to the “trendexec” and “trendall” list serves. GSB Election Code states that, “Email communications through any Iowa State University listserv shall be prohibited within 24 hours of the voting periods and during the voting periods.” The e-mail was originally sent to Trend editor Emily Mahaney on Feb. 26. Wilson and former GSB presidential candidate Chandra Peterson were fined the minimum fine of $50 for breaking election code Thursday night after a similar e-mail was sent to a greek house. In a short phone conversation, Peterson said the situations sounded similar and she would be upset if the campaign were to be fined again.
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The members of “The next 26 hours are the only time every year that Google’s DNS server gets more access than your mom.” search for an answer during KaleidoQuiz 2010 on Saturday. Kaleidoquiz is a 26-hour event that pits teams against one another to answer questions put out by KURE, the student-run radio station. Photo: Yue Wu/Iowa State Daily ™
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Academics
MBA offers new classes Business curriculum includes sustainability By Whitney Sager Daily Staff Writer The College of Business has sustainability not only on its mind, but in its books too. The Master of Business Administration program within the business college has taken on the topic of sustainability this academic year in its core classes. This topic was chosen because of
the importance it holds for businesses in the future. “We think that sustainability will become more important in the future as businesses try to develop long-term plans that are environmentally sound, socially responsible and ultimately, economically feasible,” said Sam DeMarie, business core faculty member and associate professor of management. Studying out of the book “Green to Gold,” by Daniel Esty and Andrew Winston, students enrolled in the MBA core classes are looking at sustainability issues taken on by busi-
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In addition to the MBA program, the undergraduate classes are beginning to look at sustainability issues. Frank Montabon, associate professor of logistics operations and management information systems, said sustainability is an issue that will be involved in the “competitive landscape” of the business world. “Environmental regulation is not going away,” Montabon said. “Not only is it not going away, there’s only going to be more of it.”
The problem with incorporating sustainability into the undergraduate business classes is that it is a versatile topic. Montabon said the resulting challenge is making sure sustainability is actually being taught in the classes. “I think we’re taking on that challenge pretty well, and I think a lot of that is the individual professor saying that, yes, this is something that they want to cover in their classes,” Montabon said.
Off-campus housing
ISCORE
Councils combine efforts for proposal
‘Free Land’ is keynote speaker
New landlord-tenant program is considered By Allison Suesse Daily Staff Writer Representatives from the Government of the Student Body, Iowa State and Ames City Council hope to combine efforts to reinstate a landlord-tenant mediation service. With 45.8 percent of students living in offcampus housing — not including sororities or fraternities — a service that helps students deal with rental property issues could be beneficial. Michael Heilman, off-campus senator and senior in political science, mentioned that the service could potentially aid students in finding resolutions to landlord-tenant disputes, including maintenance issues such as
shoveling or repairs. The service could also provide students with the proper forms they need to make maintenance requests or sort out rent issues. Heilman noted that having these forms available to students with this service could “expedite” the process of making requests. Heilman also noted that the landlord-tenant service could have its own Web site that could “allow students to market their apartment when they move out, find places to live, and know all the available things in Ames,” Heilman said. The landlord-tenant program would essentially have the same goal, Heilman said, as a service that existed until 2001 called OffCampus and Adult Student Services. The service, funded by GSB and the Dean of Students Office, was eliminated because of severe budget cuts in 2000-2001.
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By Alexander Hutchins Daily Staff Writer The Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity — ISCORE — welcomed Ariel Luckey as keynote speaker Friday afternoon. Luckey, a hip-hop theater artist, performed selections from his one-man show “Free Land” to more than 200 attendees at the ISCORE luncheon. The performance focused on the theme of white settlement of homestead land, and included discussion periods. The show was a multimedia performance including music to accompany the hip-hop poetry and visual elements projected on the screen.
The title of the show originated from a conversation Luckey once had with his grandfather. As Luckey explained to the audience, he once asked his grandfather who had lived on the family’s old Southwestern ranch. His grandfather’s reply, “It was empty,” drove Luckey to pursue the history of the people who had once occupied the territory and to confront the brutal history of white occupation. The answers to these questions and their previously imperceptible effect on Luckey were the focus of the performance. Luckey’s performance was the keynote item of the
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Government
Al-Qaida official arrested for emerging videos By Ashraf Khan, Associated Press Writer The American-born spokesman for al-Qaida has been arrested by Pakistani intelligence officers in the southern city of Karachi, two officers and a government official said Sunday as video emerged of him urging U.S. Muslims to attack their own country. The arrest of Adam Gadahn represents a major victory in the U.S.-led battle against al-Qaida and will be taken as a sign that Pakistan, criticized in the past for being an untrustworthy ally, is fully cooperating with Washington. It follows the recent detentions of several Afghan Taliban commanders in Karachi, including the movement’s No. 2 commander. Gadahn has appeared in more than half a dozen al-Qaida videos, in which he is taunting and threatening the West and calling for its destruction. A U.S. court charged Gadahn with treason in 2006. He was arrested in the sprawling southern metropolis of Karachi in recent days. A senior government official also confirmed the arrest. The intelligence officials said Gadahn was being interrogated by Pakistani officials. Pakistani agents and those from the CIA work closely on some operations in Pakistan, but it was not clear if any Americans were involved in the operation. He moved to Pakistan in 1998, according to the FBI. He is said to have attended an al-Qaida training camp six years later, serving as a translator and consultant. He has been wanted by the FBI since 2004. The treason charge carries the death penalty if he is convicted. He was also charged with two counts of providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.