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MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012

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Administration: Wickert starts vice president, provost forums By Frances Myers Daily staff writer The first open forum for Iowa State’s senior vice president and provost search will be Jonathan Wickert, dean of the College of Engineering. It will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in the Pioneer Room of the Memorial Union. During this time, Wickert will meet with members of the community. Wickert has served as the dean of the College of Engineering at Iowa State since 2009. He came to Iowa State in 2007 as chairman of the department of mechanical engineering and the Larry and Pam Pithan Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Before coming to Iowa State, he served 17 years at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Wickert is the James and Katherine Melsa Professor of Engineering and a professor of mechanical engineering. He earned his bachelor’s degree in 1985, master’s degree in 1987, and his doctorate in 1989, all in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. As dean of the College of Engineering, he leads academic programs and business operations which encompass 7,000 students, 360 faculty members. This will be the first of the three open forums for provost and vice president of Iowa State. The next open forum will be for David Manderscheid, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of NebraskaLincoln. This will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in Pioneer Room of the Memorial Union. The third and last forum will be for Carlo Montemagno, founding dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Cincinnati. This forum will be at 10:45 a.m. Friday in the Memorial Union Gallery.

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Photo: Kelsey Kremer/ Iowa State Daily The lead singer of Hot Chelle Rae, Ryan Follese, sings on the Live @ Veishea stage Friday in the Molecular Biology parking lot. Hot Chelle Rae headlined their performance with the hit song “Tonight, Tonight.”

Photo: Kayla Greiner/Iowa State Daily ISU President Steven Leath with Veishea Co-Chairwoman Kayla Nielsen toss out candy to the spectators at the Veishea Parade.

Photo: Nicole Wiegand/Iowa State Daily Laura Beaver, senior in family consumer science education, and Tony Cox of DeWitt, Iowa, dance to keep warm at Live @ Veishea on Saturday.

Academics

Dead Week practices under fire

By Aimee.Burch @iowastatedaily.com

It is a term synonymous with the winding down of each semester: Dead Week. For some ISU students, the term does not bear any significance the first time they hear a fellow student utter the words. Its weight does not really begin to sink in until their workload becomes unbearable. According to the ISU catalog, Dead Week is des-

ignated as the final week of undergraduate classes of both the fall and spring semesters. Declared by the Government of the Student Body and the university, the goal of Dead Week is to allow students the time to review and fully prepare for the coming final exams. Clubs and organizations are not allowed to hold meetings during this time without the permission of the program coordinator in the Student Activities Center. On the academic side, “mandatory final exams may not be given during Dead Week except for labo-

ratory courses and for those classes meeting once a week and for which there is no contact during the normal final exam week.” Major course assignments, like research papers and projects, should be assigned well before Dead Week begins, with the due date for these assignments no later than the Friday of Dead Week. Recently, Dead Week practices have come under fire by students, culminating in a resolution put

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