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Alexis Rokes, left, and Shelby Gagnon work on their projects for the Iowa Retail Initiative at the design studio on Main Street. The students are working to save small town retail shops.

ISU design students, retail initiative aim to improve Iowa life

By Kelly.McGowan @iowastatedaily.com Design on Main comes alive at 1:15 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday as College of Design students begin to arrive at the studio. Surrounded by detailed sketches of pubs, restaurants, coffee shops, bike trails and breweries, students develop their ideas of how to improve life in rural southwest Iowa.

These ideas are part of a multi-faceted effort from the Iowa Retail initiative, which includes another project focused on branding and business strategy in Story County. The course doing this portion of Iowa Retail Initiative outreach, DSN 546, is a senior-level studio option for design students.

The Iowa Retail Initative began in the Spring 2013 and works with a $250,000 grant from the Iowa State University Extension

and Outreach Strategic Initiative.

Some of this money has been allocated to the professors working on this design project.

“We were interested in pulling together resources from across the university to assist local retailers across Iowa,” said Mary Erickson, Iowa Retail Initiative program co-director and program coordinator in the Institute for Design Research & Outreach.

Tom Neppl, landscape architecture lecturer and Iowa Retail Initative project co-director, said that the project leaders collaborated with the College of Design and Communities Extension to define a geographical region with a demonstrated need that would benefit from working with this course. They wanted a community whose members would engage in the process.

This region is southwest Iowa. Students are working closely with the communities of Red Oak, Clarinda and Shenandoah in an attempt to create a regional identity that would promote success in the area.

Lisa Bates, interior design lecturer and Iowa Retail Initative

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The workspace of the design studio on Main Street provides a space for graduate students in the integrated visual arts program to work in the community they are trying to improve through the Iowa Retail Initiative program.

project director, said that southwest Iowa faces issues that are common to small communities in Iowa, such as empty storefronts and a struggle to bring in young people, professionals and

new businesses.

Erickson said that in the past 40 years, there has been an emptying out of small town retailers and that it has harmful effects on the communities.

She also said that designers are able to look at these types of social problems with a holistic approach.

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Tinker, Kuhlmeier Frey encourage First Amendment understanding

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Cathy Kuhlmeier Frey, left, and Mary Beth Tinker discuss the U.S. Supreme Court cases in which they testified. They discussed these landmark free-speech cases Thursday at the Memorial Union.

Mary Beth Tinker and Cathy Kuhlmeier Frey, plaintiffs in two of the biggest Supreme Court cases regarding student speech, spoke to almost 400 people about their cases and talked with the audience about the First Amendment. This discussion was a part of Iowa State’s First Amendment Day. “The First Amendment isn’t getting the attention that it should,” Tinker said. “It’s really the basis of our

democracy.”

The first half of the discussion focused on Tinker and Kuhlmeier Frey telling their stories about the events that led up to their Supreme Court cases.

Tinker wore a black armband to school along with her older brother, John, and other children in the Des Moines area to protest the Vietnam War and support President Kennedy’s proposed Christmas Truce after watching news reports about the conflict in 1965.

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Leath assembles Veishea task force

By Bill.Dyke @iowastatedaily.com The list of members for President Steven Leath’s Veishea Task Force was released Thursday, containing university faculty, former Veishea committee leaders, ISU alumni, Ames police and current students.

The task force is set to meet over the next several weeks to formulate a recommendation for Veishea’s continued celebration.

The original deadline — the end of the spring 2014 semester — has been pushed back to “sometime in the summer,” according to Government of the Student Body President Hillary Kletscher during an address to Wednesday’s GSB Senate meeting attendees.

However, no definite timeline has been set.

Kletscher has said that as a representative of students, she would encourage student feedback via email.

Also on the task force is Jeff Woody, graduate student in biomedical sciences and co-president of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee. Woody wrote a blog post denouncing the April 8 riot during Veishea.

Sophia Magill, the 2004 GSB president, will also serve on the task force. Magill is a 2005 ISU alumna and assistant director of federal relations, and she served on the committee that canceled the 2005 Veishea celebrations after the 2004 riot.

To give feedback to the task force, you can contact GSB President Kletscher at hillklet@iastate.edu or the task force directly at veisheataskforce@iastate.edu.

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SLACK LINE: Students take advantage of warm weather After a cold and brisk morning, warm weather crept up on ISU students late Thursday afternoon. Morgan Masters, freshman in physics, broke out his slack line and invited a couple of friends to join him. Masters and his friends use the slack line for fun. After being set up in old Richardson Court for around two hours, three other friends eagerly joined Masters. “It’s mainly for fun ... [and] I invite others to join” Masters said.

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ISU receives 5th ranking in world for agriculture, forestry program

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Police Blotter The information in the log comes from the ISU and City of Ames police departments’ records.

All those accused of violating the law are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

April 12 Suraj Desai, 19, 4446 Friley Hall, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Forest Hills Drive and Hyland Avenue (reported at 3:09 a.m.).

Koltton Larson, 19, 4711 NW 5th St, Ankeny, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Lincoln Way and Wilmoth Avenue (reported at 4:56 a.m.).

Samuel Robinson, 22, 1 Maybeck Place, Elsah, IL, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated (third offense) at West Street and Wilmoth Avenue (reported at 5:42 a.m.).

An individual reported damage to a vehicle window at Lot B4 (reported at 10:50 a.m.).

The following were cited for underage possession of alcohol: Andrew Connelly, 19, 823 Beaumont Drive, Unit 206, Naperville, IL; Michael Vegter, 20, 14494 Vegter Road, Morrison, IL; and Blake Blean, 19, 623 18th Avenue, Fulton, IL at Lot 54 (reported at 3:28 p.m.).

Bradley Stiff, 19, 504 South Johnson St, Apt 5, Iowa City, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Birch Hall (reported at 6:49 p.m.).

Ethan Lindquist, 20, 112 Sandberg Court, was cited for underage possession of alcohol and interference with official acts at the 200 block of Campus Avenue (reported at 8:06 p.m.).

Daniel Dirks, 20, 331 North 9th St, Akron, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at the 3300 block of Lincoln Way (reported at 8:14 p.m.).

Eric Feld, 29, 1217 Jefferson St, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Campus Avenue and West Street (reported at 8:25 p.m.).

Cameron Arnold, 19, 23409 221st St, Milford, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Lot 73 (reported at 8:35 p.m.).

Tyson Bourassa, 20, 1326 South Alice St, Sioux City, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. at Arbor Street and State Avenue (reported at 8:54 p.m.).

Mark Meir, 19, 3303 Rebecca St, Sioux City, and Brody Kafton, 19, 2400 College Road, Council Bluffs, were cited for underage possession of alcohol at Ames Intermodal Facility (reported at 9:04 p.m.).

Michael Trischan, 19, 4427 Friley Hall, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Hayward Avenue and Knapp Street (reported at 9:28 p.m.).

Charles Hollis, 26, 1221 Mayfield Drive, Apt 308, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated at Campus Avenue and Lincoln Way (reported at 9:21 p.m.).

Matthew Gute, 19, 2139 Hancock Drive, Apt 22, Boone, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Hayward Avenue and Knapp Street (reported at 9:44 p.m.).

Cyrus Lund, 19, 2205 Friley Hall, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Lake Laverne (reported at 9:44 p.m.).

Wade Hoyle, 20, 208 Arizona St, Glidden, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at the 400 block of Hayward Avenue (reported at 9:53 p.m.).

Jonathon Bradley, 21, 6654

160th St, Harris, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at the 200 block of Hayward Avenue (reported at 10:19 p.m.).

The following were cited for underage possession of alcohol: Kaine Lindberg, 18, 2520 45th St, Des Moines; Daniel Happe, 19, 6369 Larch Hall; and Joseph Amadeo, 19, 6369 Larch Hall at Larch Hall (reported at 10:18 p.m.).

Brennon Cameron, 18, 606 West Broadway St, Eagle Grove, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Beyer Court and Union Drive (reported at 10:51 p.m.).

Ryan Strohbehn, 20, 24893 U Ave, Reinbeck, was arrested and charged with public intoxication and underage possession of alcohol (second offense) at the 2800 block of Wood Street (reported at 11:21 p.m.).

Jarret White, 18, 100 Hillcrest North, Unit 125, Iowa City, was cited for unlawful use of a license at the 400 block of Hayward Avenue (reported at 11:30 p.m.).

Peter Nielson, 22, 227 5th St, Apt 4, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated at Hayward Avenue and Hunt Street (reported at 11:45 p.m.).

Cody Cline, 20, 300 South 18th St, Estherville, and Mason Peterson, 19, 8257 Willow Hall, were cited for underage possession of alcohol at Hyland Avenue and West Street (reported at 11:52 p.m.).

Abdelrahman Nader, 20,1312 Walton Drive, Unit 201, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated at Hyland Avenue and West Street (reported at 11:41 p.m.).

Iowa State’s agriculture and forestry program has been ranked fifth in the world by Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings, a British organization that measures employer and academic reputation, as well as scientific journal citations.

Five of the top 10 states in the world rankings included Midwest states.

“Iowa State’s movement up the rankings list was a combination of employers commenting on the students who are coming out of the programs, the citing of research and the comments from other universities. It is a cumulative effect,” said Joe Colletti, senior associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Universities around the world vote for who they think are the top 10 universities, and the universities are not allowed to vote for themselves.

The rankings are also measured by looking at the journals that are published by each university.

Iowa State has made a big impact in the number of citations that have been used from research done by ISU graduate programs and researchers.

Iowa State has a very motivated team of researchers, Colletti said. In the colleges of agriculture and forestry, there is an umbrella that covers extension, teaching and research.

“Everyone is putting their nose to the grindstone,” Colletti said. “All of the researchers are encouraged to find a project that has an end game.

An example of the type of research projects include food, hunger, biofuels and environmental pollution.”

There is a continuous boom of enrollment in the College of Agriculture, and the demand for jobs in agriculture and forestry increase every year, Colletti said.

“Employers are recognizing the importance of higher education, and they like what students bring to their companies,” Colletti said.

Iowa State has the largest agriculture career fair. It has the third largest undergraduate program in the nation as well. “[Iowa State] is a great agricul-

ture college because we are a land grant university filled with great professors and academic advisers.

[Iowa State] also has one of the best agriculture career fairs, which leads to better job placement rates,” said Kyle Johnson, junior in agriculture systems technology.

Employers attend the career fair looking for quality and well-rounded students to fill the job demand.

“Iowa State is a very well-known agriculture school because rather than focusing on one specific area, Iowa State hires professionals from all over the world and in all different areas of agriculture, which makes it easier for students to apply what

they learn in the classroom to the real world,” said Alan Johnson, sophomore in animal science.

There is a steady rise in the graduate program, too, and that plays a key role in getting more grants to help with research.

“There are so many things that Iowa State does well,” Lee Herr, freshman in animal science. “I think it is a combination of the research that is done, the students’ willingness to learn and the professors that teach us.

“It takes a very good combination of all these and much more to be one of the top 10, and Iowa State University does it very well.”

NROTC drill team to compete in Nebraska

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April 13 Riley Dollen, 18, 182 Dayan Drive, Council Bluffs, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at the 500 block of Welch Avenue (reported at 12:15 a.m.).

Mark Stone, 20,150 33rd Ave, Marion, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated at Lincoln Way and Morrill Road (reported at 12:37 a.m.).

Kale Pugh, 19, 201 Elm Ave. Mitchellville, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at the 200 block of Chamberlain Place (reported at 12:39 a.m.).

A woman reported being sexually assaulted by two unidentified men at Arbor Street and State Avenue (reported at 12:31 a.m.).

Jamar Sims, 19, no permanent address, was arrested and charged with public intoxication and possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver at Hyland Avenue and Lincoln Way (reported at 1:02 a.m.).

Magdelana Matloub, 18, N9W29432 Thames Road, Waukesha, WI, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Union Drive and Welch Road (reported at 1:02 a.m.).

Darnell Robinson, 19, 651 Hilltop Circle, Eau Claire, WI, was arrested and charged with reckless use of fire or explosives and unlawful use of a license at Helser Hall (reported at 1:15 a.m.).

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Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings is a company that ranks universities and businesses around the world, and they have finalized their rankings for agriculture and forestry. Iowa State is among the rankings as fifth in the world.

The Cyclone Drill Team will compete this weekend in the Great Plains Naval ROTC Competition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The Cyclone Drill Team is a part of the Naval ROTC program at Iowa State available to Naval ROTC students and midshipmen. The team is designed to help members learn more about drill procedures.

“The military is based off tradition, and drill is a part of that. The drill team, overall, is going to enhance their leadership ability, their confidence and instill discipline in everyone,” said Staff Sergeant Christopher Harrison of naval science.

Any Naval ROTC students or midshipmen can join the Cyclone Drill Team, though leaders of the team must be voted in.

Genevieve Halvorsen, president of the drill team and senior in culinary science, said leading the drill team this year has helped her learn a lot about being

a leader and has helped her with confidence, too.

“I’ve had to learn all of the [drill] material and procedures and then teach it to everyone, and what better way is there to show you know what you’re doing than if you can teach it to someone else,” Halvorsen said. “I know that skill will help me in any leadership role I have in the future.”

Being a part of the drill team will help all members in their futures whether or not they pursue a military career, Halvorsen said.

“Drill in itself is an amazing way to harness your discipline and bearing — characteristics that pay huge dividends in the military,” Halvorsen said.

Halvorsen said the Cyclone Drill Team doesn’t get to attend as many drill competitions as they would like due to scheduling conflicts and funding.

“Academics are our number one priority here, as well as physical fitness, so if midshipmen are having a hard time balancing commitments, that and whether the team has proper funding, have kept us from competing in the

past,” Halvorsen said.

From Friday to Saturday, however, the Cyclone Drill Team will compete in the Great Plains Drill Meet at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

In this two-day event, 19 drill team members will compete in a total of eight events ranging from drill competitions and color guard to endurance challenges, such as sit-ups and swim relays.

Those competing this weekend are excited for the opportunities attending a drill competition.

“We’ll get to network and meet a lot of people that are just like us, from all around the Midwest — people that we may get to work with in the future,” said Adam Pollard, vice president of the Cyclone Drill Team and sophomore in interdisciplinary studies.

Throughout the academic year, the drill team has practiced every Sunday for two hours at a time, but with the date of the competition approaching, it has been practicing three times a week for the past two months.

“There was a lot of

learning done this semester and a lot of progress made,” Harrison said.

“They’ve come a long way.”

At the end of the competition this weekend, there will be an overall champion of the competition, which is decided from four events: the inspection, platoon drill, squad drill and color guard. There will also be individual event awards for each event as well as awards for each school competing.

Competition Events ■■ drill competition ■■ unit inspection ■■ platoon drill ■■ squad drill ■■ color guard ■■ rifle/pistol competition ■■ endurance competition ■■ pull-up/flexed arm hang ■■ log sit-ups ■■ stretcher relay ■■ Izzy Dizzy relay ■■ tug of war ■■ Boots & Utes relay ■■ 500-yard relay swim

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Professor progresses in research with dissolvable material

By Blake.Dowson @iowastatedaily.com Imagine a world in which a lost credit card could melt away or a medically-implanted electronic device could dissolve as soon as it finished its job.

Reza Montazami and his research team at Iowa State are experimenting with materials they call “transient electronics” or “transient materials,” special polymers that are designed to melt away when a trigger is activated. They have the potential to open doors in the medical and military fields, among others.

Montazami, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, said he is making progress in a field of study that is fairly new to the world.

“Transient materials are a class of materials that undergo complete dissolution into their environment in response to an external stimulus,” Montazami said.

Montazami said that the idea of these materials has been with him for a long time.

“The idea dates back to when I was a grad student looking for ways to make free-standing electrodes,” he said. “Thoughts evolved over the years to transient electronics.”

Nastaran Hashemi, a member of Montazami’s team and an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, said Iowa State gave her an opportunity to further her research on the materials.

“I have always been interested in exploring new biodegradable materials for various biological studies,” Hashemi said. “At Iowa State University, I was presented with the opportunity to pursue this field more seriously.”

Montazami said one of his

main goals is to develop the technology further and to explore different applications for the materials.

Hashemi echoed his thoughts on the advancement of the technology. “[We want to] further our understanding of transient electronics and explore new biomedical applications such as drug delivery and tissue engineering,” she said.

Montazami said that research so far on the materials has been difficult.

“The objective is to have fully functional devices until the point you don’t need them anymore,” he said. “It is rather challenging to have a very stable system and push it into self-destruction in a short time.”

The team of researchers — including Mahendra Thunga, postdoctoral research associate in materials science and engineering; Handan Acar and Simge Cinar, postdoctoral research associates in mechanical engineering; Montazami and Hashemi — has not received any funds for the research yet. It is waiting on a proposal to the National Science Foundation, the military and many other groups for the funding.

Michael Kessler, director of Washington State University’s School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering and formerly an employee at Iowa State, is also working on the project with the research team.

Montazami said that applications for these transient materials are almost endless. “[The technology could be used] in passports, credit cards, ID cards, data storage devices for military applications and implantable bioelectronics,” he

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Reza Montazami, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and the creator of a way to dissolve electronics down to almost nothing, is working toward his long-term goal of remotely activating electronics to dissolve.

said.

Living in a world in which you can make a lost credit card melt away isn’t that far away, Montazami said. He said a time when doctors can make bigger leaps in treatment options is just around the corner, especially with the help of these transient materials.

Montazami’s team is the only group in Iowa working on the transient materials and one of only a few other groups in the United States and Europe.

Montazami said that developing these new transient materials could possibly open the doors to many other technologi-

cal advancements.

“New technologies always find their way into almost everything,” he said.

As for what comes next for Montazami and his research team, much is in the air.

Montazami has the opportunity to possibly patent his work or sell it to investors.

“Perhaps I will patent the technology for now and work on advancing it,” he said. “Perhaps there will be interest on the technology from the private investing sector.”

Whatever his decision, the world has shown interest in his work.

“I have already been invited to the Founders Forum in London, which is a place to meet investors,” Mantazami said. “I am not sure if I will attend yet, but that is an option. Also, a couple of companies have contacted me regarding collaboration.”

The team has already presented its research at the meeting of the American Chemical Society in Dallas. It has also developed and tested a degradable antenna that is capable of data transmission.

The team was also recently published in a paper that was in the journal “Advanced Functional Materials.”

Students utilize learning communities as support system Graduates, veterans gain resources; courses added

By Carlea.Schuler @iowastatedaily.com When a student first comes to Iowa State as a freshman, the university tries to give him or her a solid support system in order to retain as many first-year students as possible.

Today, new efforts are being made to retain as many doctoral students, sophomores and veterans by giving them an individual support system, too.

“Similar to how we have assisted first-year and undergraduate students in providing them support to help them increase retention and graduation, we need to do the same for doctoral students,” said Ann Gansemer-Topf, assistant professor of higher education in Iowa State’s School of Education.

Anyone who works directly with students was invited to the 2014 Student Success Summit, which took place at the beginning of April. The goal of the summit was to allow faculty, staff and graduate students to build an understanding of retention and instructional learning outcomes as well as to encourage academic success.

Gansemer-Topf gave a keynote presentation at the summit. The main point of her presentation was that student success looks different across different populations. A person can look at an overall school retention rate, but if that person digs deeper, he or she will see that there are groups of students who may not be succeeding at the same rate.

Certain things might happen to students during their sophomore or junior

year, and those students can receive support for those issues. The summit encouraged all who attended to expand support to the students through a variety of different ways.

“Support means academic support, extracurricular support, financial support and mental health, emotional support,” Gansemer-Topf said.

“We know learning communities work for undergraduate students,” GansemerTopf said. “It works because it puts students with similar interests in a community where they can talk about their experiences and help support each other.”

Learning communities are a way for students to make educational connections with other students, but they are usually directed toward first-year students. This year, the School of Education has created a learning community for doctoral students.

Just like in freshman orientation classes, support is given to doctoral students by helping them understand their expectations.

Gansemer-Topf said that in the learning community, a first-year doctoral student can connect with a third-year doctoral student and figure out what to expect in the years to come.

Anne Foegen is the advisor for the School of Education’s doctoral learning community. She worked with two doctoral students last summer to create a proposal for competitive awards through the graduate school to support new graduate learning communities.

The learning community has administered surveys to assess the needs of the doctoral students, invited guest speakers to meet with the learning community, hosted peer-mentoring sessions and hosted social events such as picnics and bowling.

“We try to foster a sense of community among the doctorate students,” Foegen said.

The College of Engineering has a new learning community as well, called the sophomore success learning community. The group meets twice a week, and is focused around a one-credit course, University Studies 201. Students are encouraged to be in the course while in the learning community, but it is not required.

The students in the learning community can choose to attend tutoring sessions, job shadowing programs, networking events with professionals and meetings with peer mentors.

The College of Engineering will be starting an industrial mentoring program in fall 2014 to connect alumni with the learning community.

The College of Human Sciences has a program called the CHS Multicultural Mentors, which is a select group of students who are mentors to a freshman group called Connect Four. The students in the multicultural mentors group provide academic support to the freshmen as well as engage in leadership development.

The group was created by Denise Williams, doctoral student in the School of Education, a few years ago.

The group attends monthly leadership development sessions, meets regularly with its Connect Four members oneon-one and attends the annual Mentor Leadership Retreat. The students in the multicultural program also do community service and have social events.

“We want to support our students, promote leadership development and help our students build community across the college,” Williams said.

The Veterans Center’s goal is to strengthen the lives of veterans, military

personnel and their families in the community. It has been open for two years and is a place for veterans to connect with one another. It has Thursday dinners at the center and is hoping to coordinate a learning community for fall 2014.

Angie Mallory, graduate student in English, is the coordinator for the new veterans’ learning community. Mallory’s own experiences as a veteran and her interest in communication inspired her to coordinate an English class for the veterans’ learning community.

Over this summer, Mallory will be designing an English 250 course that will be linked with the veterans’ learning community. Anyone who associates with the veterans can join the English course and the learning community.

“We are also trying to get faculty and anyone who supports veterans involved to come and interact with the students,” Mallory said.

Mallory is coordinating with Jathan Chicoine, the first veteran service coordinator. Their plan is to use the English course as a way to bring veterans together who would not normally be together.

“They will find within that course that they do have things in common,” Mallory said.

Gansemer-Topf said that student involvement enhances their academic study.

Most students come to a college for the educational aspect, but being involved in extracurricular groups adds that much more to a student’s overall experience.

Gansemer-Topf said the skills student gain from extracurricular activities will help them with their careers in the long run.

“Student success begins when they set foot on campus but needs to continue until they graduate,” Gansemer-Topf said.

Agriculture and biosystems engineering ranks 4th in nation’s graduate programs

By Carolina.Colon @iowastatedaily.com According to the latest graduate program rankings released

by U.S. News and World Report, Iowa State’s graduate program in agriculture and biosystems engineering ranked fourth among private and public universities.

David Holger, dean of the Graduate College, said Iowa State’s program ranking did not change dramatically but rather quite slowly.

“It takes several years to change ranking [because] it is based on a specific group of people’s perspectives,” Holger said.

It is the highest ranking in a graduate program at Iowa State so far.

Holger felt honored when he received the news.

“We are being compared with universities who have other great graduate programs,” Holger

said.

He also said the program was not only ranked fourth because Iowa State has a highly professional hired staff, but also because the graduate students demonstrate professionalism to the world.

The criteria behind the rankings include being exposed to high qualities of research activity and external activities in professional discipline as well as maintaining a good staff and students.

“I think the students do have a large part to do with the program’s success,” Jeremy Brue, graduate student in biological and agricultural engineering, said. “Everyone takes pride in the work they are doing and want to be a positive influence not only within the department, but also on the outside community as well.”

In order to sustain the ranking, the department desires the

best students and staff, acting as a “prerequisite” for the ranking.

“In order to raise our ranking, we need to essentially get the help of those Ph.D. students with active research,” Holger said.

Brue expressed how important it is to maintain the ranking and also move up in later years.

“The department has a great faculty and staff in place that prepares students for their careers after ISU,” Brue said. “There is a lot of excitement for the new [Biorenewables Complex], as well. That should help to attract more students in the future.”

Martin Gross, another graduate student in biological and agricultural engineering, went into this because of his interest in renewable chemicals and fuels.

He wanted to get involved with developing crops and production methods.

Gross was excited with the news of the ranking.

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Iowa State’s graduate program in agriculture and biosystems engineering was recently ranked fourth in the nation by a prestigious magazine. Other ISU graduate programs ranked, too, all within the College of Engineering.

“It means a lot [for the ranking] to come from a well-known university in the field that you are studying,” Gross said. “It means that the facilities and faculty are great, which puts the student in the best position to land a great job after college.”

Some of the other ranked

ISU graduate programs that had a higher ranking include industrial manufacturing system engineering, ranked 25th; materials engineering, ranked 29th; aerospace engineering, ranked 26th and chemical engineering and civil engineering tied at 31st in the rankings.

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Indian Student Association preps for Holi festival

By Kat.Gruenewald @iowastatedaily.com The Indian Student Association will celebrate the traditional Indian Holi festival by throwing different colored powder at one another and anyone else who wishes to participate.

The celebration will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday on the south Campanile lawn.

“The actual Holi festival [was] celebrated over a month ago in India, but it was so cold in Ames, and for the celebration, you have to be in the open,” said Vivek Lawana, graduate student in biomedical sciences and president of the Indian Student Association.

In India, the Holi festival is a religious festival celebrating the victory over evil. The traditional Holi festival begins by lighting bonfires the day before the color celebration.

Apoorva Acharya, graduate student in supply chain and information systems and public relations officer for the Indian Student Association, said the celebration also represents a new year.

“The many religions of India almost all have their new year celebration in the week before the Holi festival, so then Holi is the first festival of the new year,” Apoorva said.

The word “holi” is a Sanskrit word connected to one of the many mythological stories of India and its gods and demons, Lawana said.

Lawana also said the celebration at Iowa State will take out the religious aspect and make it more fun and entertaining.

The main aspect of the celebration is to throw the provided organic colors at one another.

“The concept is the same as of the [La Tomatina Festival] in Spain,” Acharya said.

But this year, the Indian Student Association will have some new aspects in addition to the original setup.

“We will have two Indian dance perfor-

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The Indian Student Association celebrated Holi on April 14, 2013, on Central Campus. Holi is known as the festival of colors, and participants throw colored dyes and water at one another. Everyone is invited to participate in the celebration from 10 a.m. to 2p.m. this Saturday.

mances,” Lawana said. “The groups could not perform because of the cancellation of Veishea. Therefore, we want to give them a stage to show their talent. The Holi festival usually gathers a huge crowd.”

The ISU Chakraas Club will kick off the event with a traditional dance called dandiya raas that involves high rhythmic moves, synchronization, colorful costumes and a pair of dandiya sticks.

“After [the] performances, we will hand

out the bags of colors,” Acharya said.

The color used will be organic so that the soil will not be harmed and no one will have an allergic reaction, Lawana said.

“The colors we throw at each other signify that something good is happening. It is a lot of fun,” Lawana said.

Water guns will also be provided next to the color.

“People should have a lot of fun throwing water and color at each other,” Lawana

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Design students work with their professor Lisa Bates, far right, and Tom Neppl, far left, for the Iowa Retail Initiative at the design studio workplace on Main Street on Wednesday.

>>FREE SPEECH p1 “We just thought we were standing up for peace at Christmas time,” Tinker said.

Eventually, Tinker, her brother and others who chose to wear the armbands on that day were suspended from school. The American Civil Liberties Union heard about the suspensions and helped Tinker file a lawsuit against her school district which eventually reached the Supreme Court.

“The Supreme Court ruled, by seven to two, that we won our case,” Tinker said.

“Not only did we win our case but students all over the country won because the court ruled that neither students nor teachers leave their constitutional right to freedom of expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

Following the Supreme Court’s decision, the court created the Tinker Standard which states that all speech in schools is protected except speech that invades the rights of others and any speech that creates

Students are focusing on coming up with improvements for these communities, but their impact will not stop there.

The goal is to broaden the impact of this project by finding design principles that can be enacted in other locations and creating a toolbox of ideas to make available to other communities, Erickson said.

“We’re not just helping three communities. We are looking for ways that this can be of use across the state,” she said.

Neppl said that this project is unique in that while students may have worked on real project sites, this is the first time working with real clients in a real community for many of them.

“This is giving a little sampling of what’s to come,” he said.

Neppl also said that stu-

a disruption of normal school activities.

Kuhlmeier Frey worked for her school’s newspaper at Hazelwood East High School in St. Louis County, Mo., when her principal decided to cut out stories she had been working on about teen pregnancy, the effects of divorce on teenagers and runaway children.

“The story topics we did mattered because they were relevant problems,” Kuhlmeier Frey said. She said that her principal told them the stories were too mature for an immature audience.

The American Civil Liberties Union also heard about Kuhlmeier Frey and helped her and three other students file a lawsuit against their school district which also went to the Supreme Court. This time, the Supreme Court ruled that anything sponsored by the school could be subject to censorship.

“When we lost, the Tinker Standard no longer applied and it gave the school a lot

said.

The event will be free for everyone.

“We will have pizza and offer a traditional Holi drink along with some other surprises as well,” Archaya said.

The event will also have a disc jockey playing Bollywood music, and the Bollywood Dance Club will give a performance.

“It will be a lot of fun and enjoyment,” Lawana said. ents, take their thoughts into consideration and eventually sell an idea to a client.

Bourke, along with most of the other students in this course, went on a field trip to the Pacific Northwest earlier in the semester. They experienced cities with distinct regional identities, including Seattle, Vancouver, British Columbia and Bellingham, Wash.

Going on this trip helped fuel a discussion of what regional identities would be effective for this project, Neppl said.

In the future, members of the Initiative would like to expand their outreach to include local grocers.

Erickson said that they are grateful for funding from the extension offices and for the opportunity to work something they all believe in: small scale local retail.

“It’s not retail alone that we ended up looking at,” Bates said. “It’s overall quality of life.”

dents are responding well to this collaboration and have been engaging with the communities. Students have had three community presentations and site visits thus far, and will present their ideas to the communities in an open forum on April 28.

Bates said that the communities have enjoyed receiving advice with a younger perspective.

None of the students were previously familiar with the region.

“Having them see everything with new, fresh eyes is a new perspective than the community members that live there on a daily basis and see everything over and over again,” Bates said.

Mollie Bourke, a senior in architecture, is working on an outdoor recreation system proposal. She said that through this project, she has learned to continually communicate with cli-

more freedoms,” Kuhlmeier Frey said. “I feel very unfortunate for the students today that things are so much harder.”

Mike Hiestand, a special project attorney for the Student Press Law Center, later discussed the Morse v. Frederick case that he said has further eroded students’ free speech rights.

Joseph Frederick was suspended from school after he displayed a “BONG HiTS [sic] 4 JESUS” banner across the street from his school during the 2002 Olympic Torch relay. The Supreme Court heard Frederick’s case and added to the Tinker Standard that any speech encouraging illegal drug use can be censored by schools.

“The laws change because they’re laws made by people and the people in the [Supreme] Court change,” said Hiestand.

Tinker and Kuhlmeier Frey travel all over the country and talk to students to not only advocate for the First Amendment but to also encourage them to stand up for

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what they believe is right.

“Students need to know their rights because without knowing your rights, you can’t stand up for your rights [and] you can’t use your rights,” Tinker said. “We have so many decisions to make in our world and our country that we need student’s input [on].”

“If you’re constantly told no and you take that for granted and you back down to everything, where are we going?”

Kuhlmeier Frey said. “What is our society going to become if no one is willing to challenge things?”

“It’s always been young people that have pushed us forward; that’s what they’re known for,” Hiestand said. “They actually have free speech tools [like smartphones and social media] that are unprecedented.

We can’t keep doing things the way we’re doing it and if history is any reminder to us, it has to be the young people that really push us forward.”

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‘Late Show’ makes safe choice, excludes women from top spot

By Zachary.Neuendorf @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State Daily

The NCAA’s plans to implement unlimited meals for athletes is the right move for the association, but it needs to continue to take care of all of its athletes, including walk-ons.

NCAA makes moves in the right direction The NCAA was under fire after Final Four most outstanding player Shabazz Napier claimed to be going to bed at night “starving.”

The regulations that stood for the NCAA meal plans for athletes were that Division I athletes on scholarship would get three meals a day on a meal plan.

Although this was the largest meal plan available to students, with all of the work athletes put in during the day, it wasn’t enough to keep them from being hungry at the end of the night. NCAA is ready to take steps to change that for athletes in the 2014-2015 school year.

If the plan is implemented, student athletes will have unlimited meals at the dining center and unlimited snacks.

The best part of this plan is that walk-on athletes will be included in the meal plan.

As of right now, the gold meal plans are only free to athletes who are on scholarship. That means that at the end of the night when the team goes to dinner, the walk-on athletes have to go home and make food for themselves unless they purchased their own meal plan.

It is good to see the NCAA make plans to start taking better care of the athletes that are not on scholarship. It seems that in the past they tend to be overlooked, but they are putting in just as many hours in classes and on the field.

It should only be assumed that all of the athletes on the team will be given the same perks.

Meals are not the only areas where the NCAA will be making changes in the upcoming seasons. There will now be a CPR-certified staff member present for all forms of training, and strength and conditioning coaches will now be required to have accreditation.

There will be a reduced penalty for a street-drug test; lastly, there will be a required three hours of rest between practices. These should help reduce stress of atheletes and give them some down time between practices to rest and hopefully study.

These new plans will hopefully help athletes to perform at their best. If athletes have full stomachs and time to rest between practices during the day, there is a better chance that when it game time arrives, they will be feeling healthy and ready to play.

After all, college athletes bring a lot of money to the school’s athletic department, and players deserve to be taken care of in return, no matter if they are a walk-on or on scholarship.

The NCAA has been under a lot of pressure lately to start paying athletes, but rather than paying them they are possibly doing something better.

By feeding the team, it makes any food that they would normally have to buy outside of meals free. Athletes won’t need to be paid if they have nearly nothing that they have to pay for.

If the NCAA did decide to pay athletes, it would most likely only be athletes on scholarship while the whole team will be fed and no one will be going hungry with the new plan.

The NCAA gets a lot of flack, but it seems that it is moving in the right direction and, in this case, deserves some praise. It is nice to see that it is making plans to better the health and performance of Division I athletes across the nation.

After all, nobody should have to go to bed hungry.

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ecently, CBS announced that David Letterman would be leaving “The Late Show,” making for the opportunity to usher in a fresh face to the world of late night television. Sadly, it gave the coveted position to Stephen Colbert. Though hilarious and more than worthy, he will be in the company of other white male hosts who look just like him.

At first, the bitterness derived from the inevitable cancellation of the genius “The Colbert Report” where Colbert has created not only a character but also the wisest-in-hisignorance social critic of our time. But the disappointment quickly shifted to the network clearly playing the “safe” bet.

Hiring a woman or a person of color would have been a risk in its eyes, and obviously it is not alone — NBC avoided diversification earlier this year with the promotion and hiring of Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers.

If you were to take into consideration all networks, cable included, a sole female would rise from the testosterone-filled club: Chelsea Handler. And by the end of 2014, Handler will be leaving her show willingly to pursue something else, leaving the field more homogenous than it is right now.

So what gives? Is there a lack of hysterical, clever, staunch women? No. The argument that women cannot be funny or are inherently less funny than their counterparts has been deemed utterly absurd across the board. Retta, Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, Amy Sedaris, Sarah Silverman, Tig Notaro — that is a list of insanely talented woman off the top of my head who I would die to see on a nightly basis.

Besides the need-no-explanation absorbing presence of their crafts, having a woman host a late night talk show would be a gigantic signal to culture at large that women can be funny and in charge — the moonlight knows no gender. Interesting side note: It is no coincidence that there is a divide between daytime and nighttime talk programming, most notably with Ellen, Katie Couric and the ladies of “The View” leading the charge during the work day.

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CBS has named Stephen Colbert as David Letterman’s successor to host “The Late Show,” continuing the trend of having many white men hosting late shows of this sort. Columnist Neuendorf argues that it was the “safe” choice, especially considering women’s rise in comedy roles in film and television.

culture, women are given the short end of the stick — too often being written into repetitive, simplistic best friendesque roles.

To test the female friendliness of a film or narrative show, the Bechdel Test is applied. The requirements to pass are the following: the film must have at least two named women in the picture, the women must have a conversation with each other at some point and their conversation must not be about a male character.

Recently, an extensive study was done correlating the Bechdel Test and modern film, and the results were satisfying. Although only about half of the films of the last couple decades were analyzed, the study concluded that the films that passed not only had lower budgets but also generally outperformed their failing counterparts at the box office.

As Cate Blanchett righteously declared in her Oscar acceptance speech this year, “Those in the industry who are foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with

women in the center are niche experiences. They are not.

Audiences want to see them.

In fact, they earn money.”

So, in terms of characterdriven art, women are on the rise to ruling the game — or at least having an equal representation. So when this is the case, it is jarring that femaledriven personality performance, which is essential to stand-up or hosting, appears to be lagging behind.

This was confirmed locally when at Veishea Says I’m Funny, the school’s stand-up comedy competition, only three of the 23 competitors were women. That is too large of a gap to blame on coincidence. Were women directly discouraged to have a go? Not likely. Are women naturally less interested in being funny?

No, not naturally.

The lack of female participation does not have a simple explanation, but it was disappointing to see so little gender diversity; however, from my humble perception, the three women stole the show and delivered the most thought-out, thought-provoking jokes of the night.

Many of the male contestants resorted to insolent comments toward women.

For example, one man openly called half of the woman in the audience ugly — that was his idea of a joke. On the opposite side of objectifying remarks, were truckloads of jokes about breasts, which I guess comes with the territory of being young and straight.

Despite that, the girls took a more creative approach to their sets — one commented extensively about the false expectations of sexting, while another exploited the ignorance of youth and race.

From this small sampling, it became apparent that the girls somehow overstepped the typical tropes of comedy that have grown to be less funny with age and have entered territory that is exciting, bold and unique.

I do not want to make any generalizations, but from what I have examined, women are definitely funnier than men. That being said, I will watch Stephen Colbert often while waiting for Sarah Silverman to take Jimmy Kimmel’s gig.

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Prisacari reflects on time as GPSS president, the progress made during the academic year Anna A. Prisacari, 2013-2014 GPSS president As the 2013-14 academic year and my presidential term draw to a close, I want to take a moment to reflect upon Graduate and Professional Student Senate’s accomplishments.

This year, GPSS hosted its first annual graduate orientation and its first Graduate and Professional Student Research Conference, revised the Professional Advancement Grant policies, improved the efficiency of GPSS meetings, worked with the Graduate College to establish the Graduate Writing Center, evaluated Government of the Student Body-GPSS student activity fee split ratio and developed a new GPSS website.

Certainly, everything that was accomplished was only made possible with the help and support of the people around me. I readily give credit to the GPSS Executive Council, GPSS members, students who served on various university committees, faculty and staff and many others who have contributed to the success of GPSS. GPSS realizes the importance of students networking and interacting outside their home department. That’s why this highly successful year has also been the product of extensive collaboration between GPSS, ISU administration and other organizations. Thanks to the generous donations and support from all the colleges and the office of the senior vice president and provost, GPSS hosted its First Graduate and Professional Student

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Anna Prisacari, the Graduate and Professional Student Senate president for the 2013-2014 academic year, discusses improvements made and thanks all the people who contributed.

Research Conference on April 4, 2014, where more than 150 graduate and professional students presented their work to our campus and community.

With the support of the division of student affairs, GPSS hosted several professional development events that offered an additional opportunity for students to interact with ISU faculty and staff members. Also for the first time, the GPSS collaborated with the ISU Postdoctorate Association on several events, allowing graduate and professional students to interact with their future colleagues.

As GPSS continues its commit-

ment to represent and serve all graduate and professional students, I would like to welcome the GPSS President-elect Arko Mukherjee and the new executive council. It has truly been an honor for me to be a voice for 5,296 graduate and professional students this past year as the president of the GPSS. Now, although I feel exhausted from the time and effort I put in, I can proudly say it was all worth it.

Being a student leader at Iowa State is highly rewarding, and the opportunity to serve in such an influential role has been very fulfilling.

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PERFECTION Caitlin Brown to compete alone at nationals; teammates assist during rigorous practices

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Caitlin Brown, junior from Apple Valley, Minn., practices at Beyer Hall’s gymnastics gym Wednesday afternoon. Brown constantly strives for perfection in every routine she performs, which is an atribute that has allowed Brown to reach the NCAA tournament and what Iowa State is hoping will get her to her goal of becoming an All-American.

By Harrison.March @iowastatedaily.com Back in January, just two meets into the ISU gymnastics team’s season, ISU coach Jay Ronayne made a prediction about junior Caitlin Brown.

“Keep an eye on her,” he said.

“This is the season for Caitlin.”

At that point in the season, Brown had set a new career-high in the allaround twice. Since then, she has reset her personal best four more times, including her most recent mark of 39.400 at NCAA Regionals on April 4.

That score was good enough to send Brown to Birmingham, Ala. for the all-around competition at the NCAA Championships on Friday.

Though six seniors have already bid farewell to the team and Brown will be the only ISU gymnast competing at nationals, her returning teammates haven’t let her prepare alone.

“[Practice] feels weird and sort of empty with those girls gone,” Brown said. “The girls that are still here, though, they’re really supporting me.

Sammie [Pearsall] told me she’d do beam routines with me if I wanted some extra help ... Things like that are really pushing me.”

The preparation for Brown has been intense, which Ronayne said didn’t have to be the case.

“When I started talking to her about getting ready, I asked if she wanted to go down to have fun and enjoy the experience or if she wanted to go compete and give it her all,” Ronayne said. “She didn’t hesitate when she chose the latter.”

Brown could become an AllAmerican, depending on where she finishes on individual events as well as in the all-around competition. That’s a goal she’s had in mind leading up to the weekend, and her practice habits have

reflected it.

“Every routine that I do really has to be perfect,” Brown said. “Every bar routine, if the hand stand isn’t hit or the dismount isn’t stuck, I do it again.

If I wobble on the beam, I do it again.

Nailing those little details and nailing them every single time will go a long way.”

Ronayne said perfectionism is abundant in the sport of gymnasts and Brown’s preparations for nationals have really brought it out in her.

“It’s wonderful in the sense that it drives her to be better than she was yesterday,” Ronayne said. “If she keeps breaking her own records she’ll get a 10.0 and, really, that won’t be enough for her. She will seriously want a 10.1, which is a great attitude to have.”

ISU assistant coach Katie TeftMinasola — who has been working primarily with beam routines — said Brown’s pursuit of perfection in the

gym is already paying dividends.

“She’s grown a lot in her consistency and just allowing herself to perform the way she can,” Teft-Minasola said. “Sometimes she likes to think too much and that gets in the way and leads to a few mistakes. Lately, though, she’s done well allowing herself to do her gymnastics and that’s really shining through.”

Brown’s goals for the weekend are certainly lofty, but no doubt attainable.

If there’s anything she’s learned during her break-out junior season, it’s how to reach them.

“I would love to make it to [the individual event finals] Sunday, and being an All-American would be wonderful, but what I need to [do to] get there is focus,” Brown said. “The focus isn’t, ‘I need to get this placement.’ I’m thinking, ‘You need to do this routine at this level so those things happen.’ If I can take care of that, my goals will come.”

Budai returns, fills ISU’s top spot for Big 12 tournament

By Max.Dible @iowastatedaily.com The only question remaining for Iowa State as it heads into the Big 12 tournament on Thursday in Fort Worth, Texas, is who the Cyclones will face.

The ISU tennis team (9-13, 1-8 Big 12) put a mark in the conference win column for the first time last Sunday when it ousted West Virginia on the road by a score of 5-2 in its last Big 12 meet of the season.

The win also earned Iowa State the eighth seed in the upcoming conference tournament, an easier draw than if the Cyclones had fallen to West Virginia and been slotted in the ninth position.

The battle for the No. 6 and 7 seeds will be decided this upcoming weekend when in-state rivals Kansas and Kansas State get together to hash things out.

Both potential ISU oppo-

nents have two important things in common — each beat Iowa State in Ames during the opening weekend of Big 12 play, but neither had to deal with freshman and No. 2 singles player Samantha Budai, who was sidelined by injury.

ISU coach Armando Espinosa said that Budai’s return to the lineup bodes well for the Cyclones’ chances in Texas. “[Budai] did not play against either team, and she will bump everybody down a spot,” Espinosa said. “We had some competitive matches with everyone playing up, so I think we will be in very good shape with [Budai] in the match.”

Budai said Iowa State might have a psychological edge as well because each player had to play stiffer competition in her absence.

“I think it will bring more confidence [to my teammates] knowing that they did so well against people they were not nec-

essarily supposed to be playing,” Budai said.

Junior Meghan Cassens agreed with Budai’s assessment of the state of the team, adding that the win over West Virginia in the final meet of the season took pressure off of Iowa State and improved its standing heading into the Big 12 tournament.

“I think we are the ones with nothing to lose because we have already lost to [whichever team] we play,” Cassens said. “You just never know how it will play out. It kind of depends on the day.”

Until that day comes, Cassens said the team will brave the grind as it has done all year and prepare to fight through the aches and pains that have accumulated over the long season.

Espinosa said the extra preparation time the team has received will be put to good use, preparing a little bit longer for opponents his team is a little more familiar with.

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Freshman Samantha Budai attacks the ball during Iowa State’s 5-2 loss to Drake on March 7 at Ames Racquet & Fitness Center. Budai is able to play in the Big 12 tournament this year, taking the top spot in the lineup.

“They are both very talented and very difficult teams to play,” Espinosa said. “I think we match up well against both of them. I

do not think the girls are afraid of either of those two teams, so I am excited about it. I think we are ready to go.”

Spring volleyball to finish season against former Big 12 foe Nebraska

By Chris.Wolff @iowastatedaily.com After a few short weeks, Iowa State’s spring volleyball season is already coming to a close. This weekend’s matchup against former Big 12 foe Nebraska Cornhuskers may be the toughest competition the Cyclones have faced this spring.

A season ago, Nebraska swept Iowa State three sets to none en route to a 26-7 season that saw the Cornhuskers finish the season ranked eighth in the country.

ISU coach Christy Johnson-Lynch suspects Nebraska will be a top-10 ranked team nationally again this season; she said their weekend matchup will tell where Iowa State is currently at and how much work it still needs to do.

“They’ll put a lot more pressure on us and they’ll exploit our weaknesses probably more than most of the other teams we have been able to play,” Johnson-Lynch

said.

While the match against Nebraska will end Iowa State’s spring slate, the Cornhuskers’ spring slate is just beginning with the matchup against the Cyclones.

After competing in two tournaments to begin the spring season, the Cyclones are closing out the season by playing in single match events, more like how things go during the fall season.

As the adjustment from tournament style play to single matches, JohnsonLynch wants the team to take a more inseason approach to the final two spring matches.

“The past two weekends, we just showed up and played,” Johnson-Lynch said. “We didn’t really scout, we just made adjustments on the fly and that was fine … but we also want to practice executing a scouting report, so we’ll practice that Thursday and Saturday.”

In addition to ending the spring slate,

the matchup against Nebraska brings a little added flair due to some ISU team members being from Nebraska.

Redshirt freshman Samara West is a native of Omaha, Neb., and junior Bria Rasmussen is a native of Grand Island, Neb. Besides the players, Johnson-Lynch also has connections to Nebraska. The coach’s hometown is Omaha, Neb., and is a former Cornhusker herself, graduating from Nebraska in 1996.

“I think more that they’re close and they’re good,” Johnson-Lynch said of whether her Nebraska ties had to do with setting up the spring matchup. “We’ve played them just about every year for the past couple of years; it’s a really great opportunity.”

While Johnson-Lynch acknowledged there is a little extra flair when playing against her alma mater, she doesn’t think it’s a whole lot different than playing

against anybody else.

“I think it’s been so long, you know?

There’s a little bit [extra motivation to win] of course, and I’ll see probably a lot of fans that I know, more than any other team we play, but it’s kind of old hat,” JohnsonLynch said. “I’m used to it.”

While the team is looking to end the spring season on a strong note, JohnsonLynch noted it’s not something the team absolutely has to have.

“I don’t think it’s everything,” Johnson-Lynch said of ending the spring season on a high note. “But we hope that it’s an accumulation of everything we’ve worked on this spring.”

The team will also get the chance to travel to Europe this summer and compete against various teams across the pond before the fall season gets under way.

The final spring match will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday at Hilton Coliseum.

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Cyclones to split for weekend meets, head across country

By Chirs.Wolff @iowastatedaily.com Once again, the ISU women’s track team will be splitting up for a number of different meets this weekend. A group of middle-distance and distance runners will be heading out west to California to compete in the Mt. Sac Relays.

The sprinters will be splitting up between the Kansas Relays and the Louisiana State Alumni Gold meet, and athletes competing in field events will also head to Louisiana State with some of the sprinters.

This will be the second time members of the ISU women’s track team have headed to California for competition this outdoor season with one more trip to California on the schedule remaining.

“Just going out to California, the weather is always nice, there’s good heats and good competition,” Maggie Gannon, who will be running the 1500-meter, said.

“The goal is always to run fast, compete well in my heat and hopefully hit a mark that will make regionals.”

Also competing at the Mt. Sac Relays will be a trio of Cyclones running the 10,000-meter run — Katy Moen, Bethanie Brown and Sam Bluske — among others.

While many of the ISU women’s track athletes have already qualified for the regional meet, now is a time for athletes who haven’t yet qualified to make their last pushes at hitting a qualifying time.

For others, the goal is to continue progressing and pushing for even better times.

“Just working on race tactics and getting ready because the ultimate goal is the

regional meet and getting to the NCAAs,” Gannon said. “So, I’m approaching each race like I would a regional race and trying to put myself in good position.”

Ese Okoro will be heading to Louisiana State where she looks to continue her impressive outdoor season.

The senior’s bread and butter event has been the 400-meter hurdles, in which she has run some of the fastest times in the nation.

Ese’s twin sister, Ejiro Okoro, will be sitting out this weekend again, having yet to make her outdoor debut this season.

Ejiro ran deep into the indoor season, as she competed in the NCAA Indoor Championship, and is also coming off a slight injury she sustained just before the NCAA Indoor Championship.

Also sitting out this weekend will be Christina Hillman, who won a national championship in the shot put event at the NCAA Indoor Championship event.

Hillman also has yet to compete since winning that championship and is unsure of when she will make her outdoor season debut.

Iowa State’s coaching staff has made it fairly common to rest some of its top athletes, even deep into the season, so that they can continually train without having to rest up for lower caliber meets.

“He has his reasons,” Hillman said of ISU multi-event coach Fletcher Brook’s decision to not have Hillman compete.

“I’m not nagging him about it because I know the reasoning behind it, but I am letting him know that I do want to compete.

I’m a competitor, so I always want to compete, but I understand why I’m not.”

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Maggie Gannon finished fourth during the women’s 1-mile run March 1 at the Big 12 Indoor Championships. Gannon will compete at the Mt. Sac Relays in California with her teammates.

Hillman has been working on her technique during her break from competition, which she says is her biggest issue when it comes to the shot put.

“We’ve been working on technique a lot and doing weights as well, but my technique is where I struggle the most, so we’ve really been focusing on that,” Hillman said.

While Hillman said she was unsure of when she would make her outdoor season debut, she said she thinks it will be before the conference tournament.

The athletes who will be competing this weekend say they are making the most of the meets left on the schedule as they work toward the regional meet.

“I think at this point in the season, especially being more mid-distance, I’m just using every opportunity to go out on the track and run hard, and we got a couple good meets coming up after this week,” Gannon said. “Most of the women who will run at the regional meet have already ran times for that, so at this point we’re just trying to improve on those times.”

Men’s track and field works to constantly improve, readies for LSU

By Kyle.Kubiak @iowastatedaily.com The unspoken motto for the ISU men’s track and field team’s season has stayed consistent all year: “improve every day.”

Three athletes in particular are starting to see that mindset come to life due to this year’s new coaching staff. They are hoping the hard work and improvement will continue during this weekend’s competition in Baton Rouge, La., at the Louisiana State Alumni Gold meet.

“The preparation we have done in the indoor up to this point has really translated well into the outdoor. I’m excited to see all of these guys continue to improve and get stronger,” said ISU assistant coach Glenn Smith.

Junior sprinter Ivan Tamba has been one of the athletes who has been adamant since day one on how much stronger and

healthier he feels due to this new staff. The focus toward strength and small improvements every day was something he said from the start of the year would end up paying off later.

Tamba has posted a personal record in two of his four meets he has competed in so far this outdoor season.

“The start of the outdoor season is going well. The times I’m seeing are pretty promising,” Tamba said. “I’ve definitely seen a lot of improvement in myself from indoor to out.”

Smith has seen the growth he was hoping Tamba would achieve come together, too.

“I’m looking forward to seeing Tamba keep improving week by week,” Smith said.

Besides the new training methods and the consistent motto of improving each day, Tamba has also seen a change that has helped not just the team overall

but also himself individually.

“Last year we emphasized so much on times and our own performances. This year, to be honest, we don’t really care. We’re just having fun,” Tamba said. “The day before a meet, we do anything and everything besides thinking about track. It’s when I get in the blocks that I think about track, and it’s still just about having fun.”

Another ISU athlete who has seen a big jump from the indoor season to the outdoor season is Derek Jones, freshman hurdler and sprinter.

“I feel very lucky to be feeling this good and strong already in the season,” Jones said. “It’s been a big difference, but I’m happy where I’m at and now I just want to go out this weekend and get faster.”

Jones’ teammates and coaches see nothing but big things and more improvement out of the freshman in the rest of this season

that will carry over into his career beyond this year.

“I’m very pleased with the hurdlers and their body of work so far this season, but especially Derek Jones. He is an extremely adaptable and strong hurdler,” Smith said. “He is a versatile guy who can hurdle with both legs and easily get over them due to his height.”

Senior Ryan Sander also spoke on the quick improvements and lessons he has learned in his final year with the Cyclones.

“I learned a lot in the first couple months here, just as much as I learned in the first three years I was here,” Sander said.

He has solidified himself throughout his career at Iowa State in the 60-meter hurdles with fairly consistent times, which is only an indoor season race. This year, he has really been focusing on improving his 110-meter hurdles for his last outdoor season.

“I’ve always struggled with the 110 hurdles, so I’ve just been continuing to work on them a lot to improve,” Sander said. “The main thing I have been focusing on is the last couple hurdles, just making those stronger to post a fast time.”

Sander is hoping the hard work will show this weekend as he will be competing against some of the best hurdlers in the nation in Baton Rouge.

“Last year at this meet, the world record and NCAA champion in the hurdles was there so I’m excited for that competition,” Sander said. “I’m looking to run a personal best against the best this weekend.”

Junior Edward Kemboi will be the lone athlete not competing in Louisiana this weekend as he will be heading to Walnut, Calif. for the Mt. Sac Relays to be in the loaded field for the 800-meter run.

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