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Former ISU coach Gene Chizik has been found to have reportedly breached numerous NCAA rules in his time as the football coach at Auburn, according to a report by former New York Times and Sports Illustrated writer Selena Roberts that was

released Wednesday night. Chizik was at the helm of the Auburn football program when it had reportedly changed players’ grades, offered money to potential NFL draft picks and violated recruiting rules. Chizik coached

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Iowa State to a 5-19 record in two seasons before leaving for Auburn. Under Chizik, coaches would offer money to players for numerous reasons, including bypassing the NFL Draft, in order to keep playing for the Tigers. Chizik was fired last season after a 3-9 season.

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Dean finalist presents in ISU forum J. Chris Leach, one of the three finalists for the position of the Dean of the College of Business, will be presented in an open forum Thursday. Leach has served as the senior associate dean for faculty and research in the Leeds School of Business at University of Colorado, Boulder for 19 years. Leach will be on campus Thursday and Friday, and the open forum will be held in 1148 Gerdin from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. on April 4. -Daily staff

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File photos: Kelsey Kremer, Huiling Wu and Iowa State Daily (Left) Trent Loos displays his horses August 26, 2008, during the Farm Progress Show in Boone. (Top right) Members of the Block and Bridle Club make burgers on April 10, 2012. (Bottom Right) Jim Dickson, professor of animal science and meat science, speaks during “The Truth: Lean Finely Textured Beef.”

Iowa State takes reins Block and Bridle comes to Ames By Nate.Bucsko @iowastatedaily.com More than 300 members of the Block and Bridle organization will be in Ames this week for the 93rd Block and Bridle National Convention.

Iowa State has one of the largest Block and Bridle clubs in the nation and will be host to the event for the first time. “The national convention is a chance to have different Block and Bridle students from across the country come to one location and participate in tours, workshops and networking events,” said Kristin Liska, junior in ani-

mal science and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Student Council representative. The event will begin on Thursday, April 4, 2013, and conclude Saturday evening. President Steven Leath will open the event on Thursday with a speech. The first night includes a Pride of Schools event, where all the

programs showcase what is unique about their school. “This year the theme is ‘Feed the Need, Ignite the Future.’ Our goal for this convention is to prepare the animal science students to have them become advocates for their industry,” Liska said. Brady Zuck, senior in animal science and the president of ISU Block and Bridle, said

there will be about 350 members from 33 other schools along with approximately 60 students from Iowa State. The National Convention will be hosted at the Quality Inn and Suites Starlite Village Conference Center. “We are extremely excited about this three-day

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Prayer speaks tongues By Hayley.Lindly @iowastatedaily.com Pentecostal Christians on the ISU campus find it useful to speak in tongues in order to connect with God. “Speaking in tongues refers to vocalizations attributed by believers to supernatural causes, and usually unintelligible to the speaker or listeners,” said Hector Avalos, professor of religious studies at Iowa State.

Many Pentecostal Christians use speaking tongues as a life guidance. Ashley Moeller, senior in interior design, said that speaking in tongues happens when the Holy Spirit is baptized into your body. “Speaking in tongues is just a physical manifestation of the Holy Spirit inside of you. It’s kind of guidance in our lives as Christians. It provides us with boldness and it’s a way that we communicate through the Father when we don’t have the words to pray over something,” Moeller said. Moeller was a child when she

had her first experience in speaking tongues. She comes from a family who speaks in tongues to worship. “I was 10 when it happened, so it can happen at various ages. My dad had prayed with me in my bedroom about it, and I just kind of picked it up,” Moeller said. Moeller is a member of LifePointe church in Ames and a member of Chi Alpha, a Pentecostal fellowship. During the services at LifePointe and Chi Alpha, many members will speak

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By Lissandra.Villa @iowastatedaily.com The Maintenance Shop will host the ISU Global Health and AIDS Coalition’s “Telling Our Stories: ISU HIV/AIDS Monologues” event. The event will be at 8 p.m. Thursday and is funded by a Focus

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A body specimen was requested from a driver who was suspected of operating while intoxicated. Wesley Ketcham, 19, 227 Crystal St., Unit 508, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and failure to prove security against liability. Noah Allyn, 21, 6318 Frederiksen Court, was cited for open container in a motor vehicle at Hayward Avenue and Mortensen Parkway (reported at 3:42 a.m.).

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April 1 Vehicles driven by Catherine Broadie and McKinzie Flanagan were involved in a property damage collision at Lot 63 (reported at 10:54 a.m.). Photo courtesy of Brandon Amerien Members of ROTC do an exercise to help increase their skills in training. Funding for the ISU National Guard and military Reserve stipend programs recently faced drastic cuts, but Congress passed an amendment to restore benefits until Sept. 30.

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Federal tuition assistance for members of the National Guard and the military Reserve programs has been restored for now. On March 21, Congress passed an amendment that restored tuition assistance for students who are members of the National Guard and the Reserves. This funding will continue until Sept. 30. After that, this program could be back on the cutting table. Had the cuts been finalized, ISU students apart of the National Guard or the Reserves would have lost tuition assistance worth up to $4,500 per year. The cuts would not have removed the stipends that their members receive. Currently, the ISU Army ROTC program is made up of 35 Iowa National Guard members and five Reservists. These two groups make up a third of the ROTC program at Iowa State. However, there are members of the National Guard and the Reserve who do not participate in ROTC. “Every federal department is experiencing these cuts,” said Aaron Rosheim, recruiting operations officer for the ISU Army ROTC program. “Bottom line was to save money. Soldier benefits are more high profile, that is why this got so much

attention.” The Reserves would have been affected the most had the tuition assistance been suspended. The Reserves are funded solely by the federal government while the National Guard is funded by the state and the federal government. Iowa National Guard members receive $4,500 from federal tuition assistance program along with funding from the state, while the Reserves solely receive the $4,500 from the federal government. “The Department of Defense probably did research on this and saw that this had the smallest, minimal effect on soldiers,” Rosheim said. Other ways the military could reduce funding other than the removal of the federal tuition assistance program is the possibility of reducing funding to ROTC programs across the nation. The military is already downsizing, which is common after a time of war, Rosheim said, and ROTC programs are seeing a reduction in the number of people being placed under contract. Army ROTC cadet and sophomore in marketing, Austin Dummer, is worried about the future of ROTC programs and funding for these programs. “The biggest thing that scares me for future, potential ROTC students is the reduction in scholarships and contract slots for officers, I think there are more cuts to come,” Dummer said. The ROTC programs at Iowa State have three different paths that their cadets can take when they enter the organizations.

Military education ■■ $4,500 in tuition assistance for National Guard and Reservists per year ■■ Over 300,000 U.S. military members receive tuition assistance ■■ 35 Iowa National Guard members and five Army Reservists in the ISU Army ROTC program ■■ GI Bill, ROTC scholarships and other military educating funding not affected by budget cuts

There is the scholarship route, where the cadet chooses between a scholarship for tuition and fees or room and board; they also receive a monthly stipend which ranges from $300 their freshman year to $500 their senior year. The second path is the nonscholarship. This is the least common route, but the cadet still receives a monthly stipend. The last path is the simultaneous membership program; these are the students who are in the Reserves or the National Guard. Rosheim pointed out that the tuition assistance program will probably come under review again after funding comes to an end on September 30. “This is definitely on the table as something they’ll review. It could be restructured or saved,” Rosheim said. “They’ll probably do everything they can do to keep it due to the publicity it got.”

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>>AIDS.p1 grant. “We have five or six five-minute monologues, and then we have a couple of people doing poems. There’s two smaller poems and then one longer slam poem, and then the group does an opening and closing piece together,” said Lea Hoefer, a senior in global resource systems and the event coordinator. Hoefer will be performing her piece based on

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her experience with students she worked with during a summer she spent in Tanzania. “There’s a lot of really cool things that are happening in the world of medical research right now that makes me think that someday we won’t have to worry about HIV anymore,” Hoefer said. Her performance piece, “The Science of It All,” deals with some HIV/AIDS misconceptions. “I’m just really excited to perform [the monologues] for Iowa State,” Hoefer said. “These are actual stories from [ISU] students.”

The poems were not written by ISU students, but were chosen by the performers. “Hearing these people that I’ve been working with tell their stories, it’s very emotional,” Hoefer said. “I’m hoping that will come across in the performance.” Andrea Matthews, junior in global resource systems, will be one of the students performing. Her monologue is called “That’s It” and is about a girl helping with the AIDS movement. “I am excited because I’ve never done any-

>> BRIDLE.p1 event,” Zuck said. “At the national convention the national business meeting is held, with representatives from each school in attendance. During convention, students from other schools experience the agriculture of the hosting state.” Zuck said that the banquet held at the end of the event will announce national awards from the organization. Friday, April 5, includes the Pride of Iowa tours. “These tours will showcase some of Iowa’s different agriculture aspects,” Liska said. “Some of the stops we will be making is at TransOva Genetics, Templeton Rye,

Photo: Lindsay Kayser/Iowa State Daily Bobby Quade, Ames resident, and Ashley Moeller, senior in interior design, talk before a Chi Alpha meeting. Some of the members of Chi Alpha, which is a Pentecostal fellowship, speak in tongues. Speaking in tongues, or Glossolalia, is a personal praying technique in which the speaker feels he or she is uttering a heavenly message from God.

TONGUES.p1 >> tongues throughout the service Moeller said. “When I speak in tongues, I’m allowing the Holy Spirit to speak through me, and I’m just saying, ‘God, I want you to reign in my prayers and God, I want you to reign in my life,’” said Isaac Glidewell, senior in mathematics. Moeller believes that everyone has the power to speak tongues, but sometimes it can be a process to make it happen. “There are some that have been prayed over to receive the baptism, and it just hasn’t manifested or shown up in their life through the form of speaking tongues,” Moeller said. Speaking in tongues isn’t a new phenomenon for Pentecostal Christians; it has been around since biblical times and is in the Bible. “The key passages are Acts 2, and 1 Corinthians 14:2-5, 27. In Acts 2, the ability to speak in actual human foreign languages was part of the gifts that Christians received in order to carry out their Christian mission,” Avalos said.

Many people who have the gift to speak in tongues will speak languages that are not understood through any human language. “There are also ‘angelic tongues’ that require an interpreter and are not human languages. These are the ones that most Pentecostals claim to speak today,” Avalos said. Although speaking in tongues isn’t always understood, it has been meaningful for Moeller. “Speaking in tongues as a personal prayer language is more edifying for me and building up my faith,” Glidewell said . While there are many Christians who believe that speaking tongues is a legitimate form of worship, there are those who don’t believe in it as an appropriate form of prayer. “Many religions do find it to be a legitimate form of worship,” Avalos said. “Tongues could be used for prayer or for conveying divine messages to fellow Christians. There are still a few groups of Christians who believe that speaking in tongues is not legitimate but rather some sort of demonic delusion.”

thing like this before, so it’s a really new experience,” Matthews said. Matthews said she hopes that people attending the event walk away with a new perspective. “I really hope that students will come and be able to take something away from this performance,” Hoefer said. Hoefer added that people often don’t think HIV and AIDS affect their community. “We’re trying to show that it really matters to everybody and it affects everybody,” Hoefer said.

Kent Feeds, Iowa Select Farms and Pioneer Livestock Nutrition Center.” A concert will be held on Friday evening and Saturday is a workshop day, which include skills training and some seminars on how to get a job and prepare for a career in the agriculture industry. “We began planning for this national convention over a year ago,” Zuck said. “The committee originally selected a location, chose a theme and a date for the convention. Then sponsors were contacted and the committee began planning the Pride of Iowa tours.” Block and Bridle has the goal of promoting “higher scholastic standard and a

more complete understanding of animal science,” according to its website. Both Zuck and Liska are looking forward to showing off Iowa State’s club and the university during this event. “I am looking forward to a successful showcasing of Iowa State University, the state of Iowa and our club to other members from across the nation,” Zuck said. “As one of the top Block and Bridle Clubs in the nation, we have a lot to be proud of.” Liska is determined show everything Iowa has to offer at the convention. “With the tours, we can show that there is a lot more to Iowa than pigs and corn,” Liska said.

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Intimidation tactic harms gun control As budgets, immigration reform and a seemingly bellicose North Korea advance to the front rows of public attention, one thing remains clear: The debate about gun control is alive and well, and will not go away easily. One recent example from Indianapolis, Ind. demonstrates exactly why agreement on how many restrictions there should be on the acquisition of firearms and what those restrictions should be, is so elusive and fleeting. Last Thursday, ThinkProgress, a liberal blog, reported on an event that was part of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns National Day to Demand Action. While the Indiana “state chapter of Moms Demand Action held a rally in favor of limiting the availability of military-style weapons and universal background checks,” the report says. “Several men with assault rifles and handguns ... engaged in a discussion about gun regulations with the group,” that was holding the rally. (A much less biased source, the Washington Post, corroborated ThinkProgress’ story.) Although the pro-gun advocates, who appeared at the scene with loaded AR-15s, apparently engaged in a discussion, the added touch of discussing gun control literally at gunpoint does their cause no favors. Like the hippy supporters of marijuana decriminalization who simply want to be able to smoke a joint or pro-life zealots bombing abortion clinics, daring gun control proponents to take away gun owners’ weapons by showing them off, plays right into the stereotypes that distort discourse and make a reasonable solution impossible. The people who went to the rally in Indianapolis with loaded rifles gave gun-control advocates the best propaganda imaginable — a scene with some men looking as if they wanted to intimidate others into agreement. There is no reason this incident in Indianapolis will not reverberate throughout the country, across airwaves, across the front pages of newspapers and magazines and across the banners of websites, as proposals and counter-proposals for gun regulations come into public view. Unfortunately, it is obviouslystupid individuals such as these who become the image of the cause they support. Unfortunately, it is impossible for some people to leave behind the trappings of their compensatory identity as a gun owner at home and try to talk as equals with a fellow citizen who disagrees with them. Unfortunately, it is impossible to think before we act and make sure we don’t aggravate the opposition before we enter a public forum and exert our energies on public issues. It may sound like a broken record, but politics is about considering others and coming to appreciate their concerns. Indeed, without a knowledge of other viewpoints, it is difficult to truly appreciate one’s own. In the end, the question that must be asked is this: Do we want people to agree with us because we have convinced them, or do we want them to agree with us because they think their lives are in our hands? Bringing people into the fold is a much better alternative than exterminating their existence. The political process depends on a multitude of equals. When one group looks poised to eliminate some of those equals, politics is replaced by war and a state of nature.

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GOP needs to be retooled Photo courtesy of CNN/Edward M. Pio Roda The Republican candidates pose at the CNN Republican National Security Debate held at Constitution Hall. Columnist, Michael Glawe, says the GOP, a party once known for open-mindedness and an ability to work with opposition, has crippled itself by not being open to new ideas.

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he modern Republican Party is commonly, and rather mistakenly, touted by many of its members as the “Party of Lincoln”. While this used to be true, the Republicans are now merely a withered shadow of their former prestige. The party that once saved the Union is now the one damaging it. “Lincoln’s Party” has been seized and fabricated by “Reagan’s Party.” If the Republican Party actually was the party of Lincoln, and acted that way, I would probably be one of them. But they’re not, so I’m not. Yet I can’t help but notice the dramatic shift in the political spectrum during the course of my lifetime and well before I was born. Republicans have been shifting more and more to the right, making current Democrats look like the old Republicans (I think most Democrats would agree that many of President Barack Obama’s policies are not truly liberal-progressive policies). Fringe groups like the Tea Party now dominate the recesses of the Grand Old Party. I do see a glimmer of hope for the Republican party, though. The question that must be asked is, “How do the Republicans ‘fix’

By Michael.Glawe @iowastatedaily.com their party?” Just two days after the Conservative Political Action Conference (March 14-16), Reince Priebus released his “autopsy report” of the GOP. The report, however, does not outline specific policy changes to the Republican platform (with the exception, possibly, of immigration reform). Rather, the report talks about “communication” with young and minority voters. This essentially ignores the real issues young and minority voters are actually concerned about (voter suppression, costs of education, etc.). Instead, Priebus suggests that retooling “how” Republicans deliver their message is the real cure. The report adds new “marketing techniques,” data enhancement and even new fundraising avenues. The GOP needs to realize that it’s not “how” they deliver the message; it’s the message itself. I have spent months, since perhaps the elections, trying to figure out how to fix this “message” problem. After all, the nation deserves to have two viable parties that can forge compromise when it is

needed most. I have too many suggestions for policy changes, so I will save those for a comprehensive followup column. Instead, let’s focus on “attitude.” (To be fair, there are plenty of changes I’d like see in the Democratic platform as well.) The Republican Party can cure its state of myopia by dampening the tone and form of their rhetoric. The attitude for the last four years has been “The Democrats are to blame and you’re all stupid for voting for them …” Neither party should be using this kind of language. A losing party should first look themselves in the mirror. Reflection is always the best way to begin anew. The GOP must open up discussions with the people who don’t agree with them. Their platform can no longer stand on “our way or the highway” principles. Making attempts to bridge the political divide will foster genuine discussion on heated policy issues. I often imagine how engaging (and tolerable) debates would be if Democrats acted like Noam Chomsky and Republicans like William Buckley. That level of intellectually honest conversation would force politicians to be on top of their game every day. Instead, we have very misguided claims about climatology, macroeconomic stimuli or whatever, that are easily refutable by evidence.

Lastly, as a sort of prelude to my next column, the GOP needs to clearly separate the subjective from the objective. The reason voters don’t trust political parties is because they tend to use think tanks to weld together pseudoevidence that is “in line” with their own ideology. Opinions should be formed from the throes of independent research. Evidence should always be gathered with an open-mind. Lincoln’s Republican Party combated slavery and saved the Union. Our sixteenth president and his party did this by keeping an open mind with those who disagreed with them (the abolitionists, Whigs, Conservatives, and Conservative Democrats). Not to mention the fact that Lincoln’s cabinet was composed entirely of his political rivals (Seward, Bates, Chase and Stanton). If Republicans could accomplish this delicate balancing act in the midst of the Civil War, they can definitely accomplish it now. Republicans should, ideally, stand for what Lincoln stood for, not for what Reagan stood for, but they don’t. As is observed in the show “The Newsroom,” the first step in solving a problem is realizing there is one. The GOP requires fixing.

Michael Glawe is a junior in mathematics and economics from New Ulm, Minnesota.

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derstand the repercussions of making it legal. “But you want us to step in and render a decision based on an assessment of the effects of this institution, which is newer than cell phones or the Internet?” Alito said. “I mean we … do not have the ability to see the future.” This is like saying, as MSNBC talk show host Rachel Maddow readily points out, that “we have an inalienable right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness — just so long as the specific type of happiness is older than mobile telephones.” We only knew it was right. The issue here is a simple question of the rights of U.S. citizens under the Constitution — the rights given to all Americans under the 14th Amendment. The defense for Proposition 8 is making arguments which not only have no substance, but are clearly refuted by history and current testimony. Theodore Olson, speaking in response to Cooper and representing the challenge to California’s Proposition 8, said it best in his conclusion, in restating Justice Ginsberg’s opinion from United States v Virginia in 1996. “A prime part of the history of our Constitution,” Olson read , “is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.”

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By Kristen.Daily @iowastatedaily.com into moral and ethical debates that surround meat politics — especially those concerned with animal suffering. Because Foer has so painstakingly explored all options — from factory farms to small family practices trying to raise animals with sustainable and humane practices — he is finally able to make his decision. Foer makes a powerful distinction, though he admits that his choice is personal. He wrote, “My decision not to eat animals is necessary for me, but it is also limited — and personal. It is a commitment made within the context of my life, not anyone else’s. And until 60 or so years ago, much of my reasoning wouldn’t have even been intelligible, because the industrial animal agriculture to which I’m responding hadn’t become dominant.” Furthermore, he concludes that personal decisions to not eat meat are not enough. If we merely become aloof and distance ourselves from issues by our personal decisions, we are not solving the problem. To truly solve the problem, we

have to increase our sphere of influence and actions — I will explore ways we can do this as individuals below. In addition to all of these moral ponderings and calls to action, Foer is careful to allow other voices to speak into his work. He includes excerpts and interviews from factory farmers, small poultry farmers, ranchers, activists, PETA members and even vegetarian cattle ranchers. He recognizes that we all have different stakes in this issue and that our decision whether to eat meat or not is our own. Foer challenges readers to make their own decision and to stand up for that decision. He makes it clear that how we participate in the food industry is a vital question today. It

has become a movement worth fighting for. For example, he says, “We can’t plead, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones who will be fairly asked, ‘What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?’” I know that at times, everything can seem to be politicized, and I know that our decisions about food are often simply based on cost and time. It takes longer to prepare a meal than it does to heat up a pre-made meal in the microwave. I know that our expenses as students often limit our grocery budgets. But this

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s you may know, I have been wrestling over our decisions to eat — or not to eat — meat over the past couple of weeks, and I have been exploring Jonathan Safran Foer’s book “Eating Animals” in doing so. Foer’s unique combination of personal narrative and investigative journalism make a compelling read. To complete this series of discussion on the politics of the meat industry, I would like to present Foer’s final decision about meat — to eat or not to eat. In the final chapters of “Eating Animals,” Foer finally comes to his own conclusion, which is that he personally can not eat meat and that he will raise his child as a vegetarian. Yet Foer does not stop here; unlike many authors and readers, he questions how far he can go to accept others’ decisions to eat meat. Throughout the entire novel, the reader is presented with stories and facts that explore Foer’s own journey to learn more about where his meat is coming from. He not only recounts his interactions with meat producers and growers, but also takes time to delve

matters. Food matters. We can change traditions and habits. We need to say no to factory farming. It is inhumane and morally unacceptable. I am not saying that we should not eat meat, but if we are going to, the way we treat animals has to change. If you are curious to find more discussion on Foer’s book, I encourage you to check out my other columns: “Talking about meat” and “Eating meat means eating animals,” as well as reading Foer’s book. Foer raises so many important issues and questions to consider about the state of the meat industry in the states today. His novel is extremely well-researched and as objective as possible. I highly encourage you to read it — it is not your typical pro-vegetarian, anti-meat rant, which I know makes some readers skeptical or apprehensive. Whether you eat meat or not, there is a lot of valuable information Foer has to share.

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Photo: Kelby Wingert/Iowa State Daily Elizabeth Stranahan practices her routine for the NCAA Regional meet. The meet will take place Friday in Tuscaloosa, Ala. She co-captains the ISU gymnastics team and is the only competing senior on the squad.

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Photo: Kelby Wingert/Iowa State Daily Senior Elizabeth Stranahan showcases her routines for the NCAA Regional meet, which will take place Friday in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Her highest score on the balance beam is a 9.8, which contributed to her highest score all around.

After almost 20 years in the sport of gymnastics, it’s fitting that senior Elizabeth Stranahan’s career may end so close to where it began. Stranahan’s gymnastics career has brought her almost 1,000 miles away from her native home of Atlanta to compete for Iowa State. On Saturday, at the NCAA Regional, Stranahan will return to compete in what could be her final meet in Tuscaloosa, Ala., just a

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Senior Elizabeth Stranahan’s recruitment by Iowa State started off comically. During her junior year in high school, Stranahan performed a floor exercise at nationals. “My mom was videotaping my routine, and you can see in the background TeShawn Jackson, an assistant coach for Iowa State ... . And my mom has on video [the assistant coach] climbing up over stands trying to get videotape ... ,” Stranahan said. Stranahan’s floor routine placed fourth that year. After that, Stranahan exchanged letters with the staff and walked on to the team her freshman year.

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File photo: Iowa State Daily Betsy Saina is currently ranked No. 1 in the nation for the 5,000-meter run.

File photo: Iowa State Daily Meaghan Nelson is ranked No. 2 in the 10,000-meter & No. 12 in the 5,000-meter run, while Dani Stack is ranked No. 6 in the 10k and No. 17 in the 5k.

Photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily Nick Efkamp stretches before practice on Tuesday at Lied Recreation Center. As a senior in high school Efkamp won the 110-meter hurdles, 100-meter dash, long jump and set the Class 1A meet record in the 400-meter hurdles (52.85).

Sophomore sprinter Nick Efkamp was not highly recruited coming out of high school. But this year, he became a Big 12 Champion. During his senior year in 2011, Efkamp — who was from the small town of Madrid, Iowa — won four individual state titles in one year, a feat only six athletes have ever achieved. He won the 110-meter hurdles, the 100-meter dash, long jump and set the Class 1A meet record in the 400-meter hurdles (52.85). “Iowa is pretty well-known for track because the state meet is held at Drake, but coming from a small school, I was not recruited as much as I would have been at a bigger school,” Efkamp said. “I’m really glad that Iowa State gave me a chance to show that I can run at the Division I level, so I’m not too upset that I didn’t go to a bigger

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Okoro sisters’ dream delivers at ISU File photo: Iowa State Daily Ian Warner is currently ranked No. 10 in the country in the 100 meters. – Daily Staff

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Fartlek SPORT: Running DEFINITION: Training that blends continuous and interval training. The variable intensity of the exercise works both the aerobic and anaerobic systems. USE: ISU runner Morgan Casey uses fartlek training to increase her endurance.

By Isaac.Copley @iowastatedaily.com Ever since Ejiro and Ese Okoro first stepped on the track back in their home country of England, they have dreamed of running at the Division I level in the United States. “Everything we said when we were little has happened here,” Ejiro said. “We always said we wanted to live in America and go to school in America and we just liked to say it and dream. It’s all right here, it’s a blessing.” Although the two are twins, Ejiro is a senior while Ese will have one more year of eligibility. Both of the Okoro sisters ran track at the university level in England, but each competed for different universities — Ese at Middlesex University in London and Ejiro at the University of Greenwich in London. Adjusting to the new style and structure of school and athletics in the United States was difficult at first, but

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Photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily Ejiro Okoro, left, and Ese Okoro talk to a coach on Tuesday before practice at Lied Recreation Center. The Okoro sisters are twins and are both on the track team. The Okoros ran in England but moved to compete here.

>>REGIONALS.p6 three-hour drive from her hometown. “I am over the moon that we are going back close to home,” Stranahan said. “I could not be happier to get to — hopefully this isn’t the last meet — ... bring this journey to a close near home. This is the closest we’ve been in four years.” Four years ago, Stranahan’s career at Iowa State started as a walk-on. She competed in just one event for the Cyclones but has become an all-around gymnast and co-captain by her senior year. Stranahan is the only senior that has competed for Iowa State this season, and her last season has been her best. She has posted careerhigh scores on vault, uneven bars, balance beam and allaround this year, including two records at the West Virginia meet. “A lot of girls are really good [when they are] very young,” Stranahan said. “[At] 12 or 13, you’ll really see them spike. I wasn’t exactly that kid. Mine’s been kind of a steady progression — where I am right now is the best I’ve ever been. “I had to work really hard in club, and I had to work really hard in college. That makes me even more proud of what I’ve accomplished.” Stranahan was first introduced to gymnastics when she was just 3 years old. By her senior year in high school, she was a state champion in Georgia and placed first on the balance beam. During her junior and senior years in high school, Stranahan was co-captain of her club team and went to junior Olympic nationals twice, which is where Iowa State began to recruit her. “Her best event and the one that shows her personality the most is floor — that’s what caught my eye when I was recruiting her,” said ISU coach Jay Ronayne. “Her floor was just very polished, very elegant. I saw a ton of

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Stranahan’s career highs this season Vault – 9.85 at Michigan Uneven bars – 9.8 at UCLA Balance Beam – 9.8 at West Virginia All-Around – 39.05 at West Virginia

potential in her. She [is] not a hugely powerful, quick gymnast, but she’s very pretty to watch.” Junior Michelle Shealy grew up near Stranahan and competed against her in club gymnastics before becoming teammates and roommates with her at Iowa State. Shealy said Stranahan has always been a good leader, but during this season in particular, it has shown because she is the only competing senior on the team. “[Stranahan] is a fun person, but she also knows when it’s time to get serious,” Shealy said. “She’s been our co-captain last year and this year. She’s just a great role model. As the only senior, this year especially, we look up to her.” Stranahan said after this season she will be retiring from gymnastics but hopes to still be involved with the sport in the future. “I’d love to coach,” Stranahan said. “I’d love to maybe be a judge.” The regional meet will be an emotional one for Stranahan because she will be so close to home for what could be her last meet. Even so, the senior is hoping to avoid letting the emotions affect her. “I’m trying not to think about all that and not let that emotions get in the way,” Stranahan said. “I’m sure, as we get to that final solute, that last routine, we’ll kind of know where we stand, and I’ll let that emotion kind of come in. “When I hit the arena, I just want to do my job. I want to hit 4-for-4 [routines].”

school.” Coming from such a small school was not the only disadvantage of not getting highly recruited. Iowa’s weather does not allow for athletes to have a long season in track and field, forcing recruiters to concentrate on southern states more often. “You have to look hard recruiting in Iowa because there are guys that have the attitude but don’t have as long [of] a season as people do in California or Texas, but Nick is definitely a guy that fits our program,” said ISU sprint coach Nate Wiens. Efkamp did not have the privilege of practicing on a track every day and had to work out in front of the school on a circle moat made of cement. “We also ran in the school’s hallways to practice the 4x1 handoffs,” Efkamp said. “It is a lot different now having an indoor and outdoor track to practice on, which is definitely a lot better for training.” During his time in high school, Efkamp also participated in football, basketball and baseball for a few years along with running track. “It was different from playing all of the sports in high school and now just concentrating on one sport in college,” Efkamp said. “Sometimes I miss the other sports, but I’ll still play them with my friends.” Although he was involved in all of the sports, Efkamp knew after his junior year in high school that no other sport could beat his passion for track. Efkamp wanted to take his passion to the next level and began to take it even more seriously his senior year. “I had a lot of people who believed in me, and that is why I became so passionate about track and my hurdle coach in high

>>TWINS.p6 both have since embraced it. “In England, people usually go to university for academics, but here people are here to do sports and academics,” Ese said. “I think the work ethic in the student-athletes and my teammates is very constant and straightforward.” Settling in at a new school — in a new country — is a problem many athletes in track face. However, the Okoros feel they have benefitted from a different style of training in the United States. “For me, my training in England compared to training here, things are more structured and more engaging,” Ejiro said. “Compared to my specific training, everything I’ve done here is completely different.” The Okoros have been taking advantage of their training at Iowa State and the transition as well as the help of their teammates made things much easier. “I think coach [Corey Ihmels] and the training complements me well,” Ese said. “Everything within our team is like one big happy family, and I really like it.” In their two years at Iowa State, the Okoro sisters have racked up some noteworthy accolades. Ejiro, a mid-distance runner, finished

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school ran at [Northern Iowa] and became sort of an inspiration to me,” Efkamp said. All of Efkamp’s family and supporters and the people who believed in him from the beginning had the opportunity to see him compete during the Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championships. The meet was held in Ames, roughly half an hour away from Efkamp’s hometown of Madrid. During the meet, Efkamp ran a personal best 46.25 in the 400-meter dash on his way to becoming the Big 12 champion while also placing fifth in the 200-meter dash. Growing up so close to Ames, many people watched Efkamp do well at the Big 12 Championships, just like his time during high school at the State Championships. “All of my major wins have been really important for me, and I’ll remember each one differently,” Efkamp said. “Winning the Big 12 Championships was huge because it shows people that I wasn’t just here to say I ran track in college and was able to leave my mark, but I’m also not content with just one and hopefully I’ll be able to get one more or maybe a couple during the outdoor season.”

Development under coach Ihmels Ese and Ejiro Okoro have had success at Iowa State, but they are not the only ones. Under the training of ISU coach Corey Ihmels, Cyclone athletes feel they have a seasoned, experienced coach who is one of the best in the country. Ihmels has groomed several of the Big 12’s best during his time at Iowa State. The Okoros are one example, but Ihmels has produced a number of talented distance runners including Lisa Uhl (formerly known as Koll), Betsy Saina, Meaghan Nelson, Dani Stack and Crystal Nelson. “We have all bought in to Ihmels program and we are very fortunate to have arguably the best distance coach in the nation,” said Dani Stack. Under the training of Ihmels, the Cyclones are on the rise. Iowa State has improved in the Big 12 conference each year, including a third-place finish for the women at the indoor conference meet this past February.

seventh in the 800-meter run to earn All-America honors at the 2013 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. Ese, a sprinter and a hurdler, is the reigning Big 12 champion in the 600-yard

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dash. In addition to their dream of competing in the United States, coaching and training were major influences on the decision to attend and compete at Iowa State. However, the twins have come to appreciate more than just the track side of Ames. “For one, the weather: in the spring and summer it’s actually hot,” Ese said with a laugh. “In England, it rains every day; it’s cold and gloomy every day.” Ihmels has played a large part in the twins’ successes at Iowa State. Ihmels has enjoyed having the Okoros in his program and sees them both having explosive seasons. “I think this year you’ve seen the improvement you would have hoped to have seen,” Ihmels said. “Especially with them coming over, that first year is a pretty big shock. We’ve seen a pretty big jump from both of them, and I think they are just scratching the surface of what they can do, they’ve been a good fit here.” Competing has come easy to the Okoros and now that they are settled in, Ihmels expects big things. “I expect them to keep getting better and better,” Ihmels said. “They are more settled in this year and understand better of what we want from them.”

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For gamers who have experienced the many decades of video games, today’s changes to the hobby and the industry are more different than ever before. Gone are the days of 8-bit graphics and watching a 2-D Super Mario hop across his pixelated castles. Even gamers who didn’t get their hands on a controller until the ‘90s have seen a drastic change from what they grew up with to what they have in front of them now. For the first person shooter, the change has seen a rollercoaster of events since it

first came about. First-person-shooter games today carry the basic traits of their forefathers but with implemented features that only modern technology can handle. Comparing “Doom” to “Call of Duty,” the underlying gameplay mechanics remain the same: a weapon of some sort is held to the left or right side of the screen, and the weapon can be fired at whoever is in front of it. In the last decade of gaming, the first person shooter has seen itself rise near the top of the sales charts, surpassing adventure games, third-person games and platformers, according to an article on Gameinformer. The lead franchise for this genre domination is one that many people have heard of: “Call of Duty.” “Call of Duty” became a blockbuster success in its

early days when it re-imagined what a World War II shooter could be. After the 2003 launch of the first of the series, six more WWIIthemed titles and expansions were released with the “Call of Duty” branding. Many other competitors like Medal of Honor fought head to head with “Call of Duty,” and it took years for the genre to move out of WWII. The disturbance that shook the industry happened in 2007 when Infinity Ward released “Call of Duty’s” first iteration into modern combat, aptly named “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.” When “Call of Duty 4” introduced its perk and class systems with its multiplayer, and combined it with the new, modern setting for the series’ single player, Infinity Ward and Activision struck gold with the gaming community, apparently filling of gap.

By 2009, the game had sold more than 13 million copies, according to Joystiq, and had established a fan base that would persuade Activision to continue the series on a yearly-release schedule. Nowadays, with a total of approximately 20 “Call of Duty” titles, nearly 10 “Battlefield” games, and eight “Halo” games, the genre is saturated with different play styles and settings. With the immense popularity of “Call of Duty,” games like “Crysis,” “Far Cry” and others have borrowed the class and loadout system, undoubtedly after seeing how popular it was with “Call of Duty” fans. In a 2011 Cracked.com article, some satirical requirements for a modern firstperson-shooter game are laid out. The article even opens

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Festival plays in Des Moines next weekend Coalition features reunion for Iowa band By Dominic Spizzirri Ames247 writer The Des Moines Music Coalition will be hosting its annual music festival, the Gross Domestic Product music festival April 13 on Fourth Street in downtown Des Moines. Gross Domestic Product will feature 19 different artists ranging from multiple genres such as rock, hip-hop, electronic and folk across five different stages. Gross Domestic Product will also feature an open mic night and local disc jockeys spinning their own col-

lection of vinyl. This year’s Gross Domestic Product will also be the reunion show for ‘90s alternative rock band House of Large Sizes, originally from Cedar Falls, Iowa. After releasing eight albums, the band broke up in 2003 and since then has played a few reunion shows in 2007 and 2009. The Gross Domestic Product has been going on for a number of years. Each year’s goal is to show off what the music scene in Iowa has to offer. “Basically the goal is to bring the community together through the pride of the music scene. People come together, bands come together, we hang out, and we encourage people to collaborate. Just a positive time around music,” said Chris Ford, ad-

Costs ■■ Vaudeville Mews: 5 to 9 p.m. $7, 9 to midnight show $12 ■■ Fourth Street Theatre: 5 p.m. to midnight show $8 ■■ Vaudeville Mews Outdoor Patio: Free ■■ All access passes are sold out.

ministrator for Des Moines Music Coalition. The bands will be playing in one of three places: Vaudeville Mews indoors, Vaudeville Mews outdoors and the Fourth Street Theatre.

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Music: ‘Warrior’ By Sam Abrahms I’ve got to say one thing before I write anything else: Lil Wayne is irrelevant. I’m probably being too harsh on a guy who’s dealing with life and the effects of a prison stint by getting chopped and screwed by any means necessary, but he deserves it. Codeine, sizzurp, lean, whatever you want to call it, has been the death of Weezy. The least listenable, most scatterbrained album Wayne has ever put out, “I Am Not a Human Being II” plays as another “beat that p***y up” compilation set to the tune of a life no human could possibly believe exists. It’s full of lazy “party” music for the generation of partiers. It’s one directionless flaunting of dumb quips and innuendos. I am fully past the point of expecting to be impressed by any of Wayne’s new material. He’s beating a dead horse with his overused themes.

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“The Host” is a movie adaptation of a book written by Stephanie Meyer. The movie is about a girl named Melanie Strider who is hiding from her world that is slowly being taken over by foreign invaders. These invaders, also referred to as the seekers, take over the body of humans and make the humans’ bodies their new host or home in this world. This movie was interesting. I liked the storyline a lot. Yes, Stephanie Meyer included some cheesy romance and unnecessary teenage hormonal situations, but look past that 30 percent of the movie and see the 70 percent of interesting material she did manage to include. It was well done, but if what the media says is true, if “The Host” does well there will be a sequel. Stephanie Meyer isn’t done haunting theaters.

This is the next game in the series out on the 3DS. Like previous games, it’s story-driven gameplay is a really fun and in-depth experience. They give you the ability to choose your difficulty which lets players scale their experience. The gameplay itself is great and the turnbased strategy is fun and in-depth but some of the game’s features are kind of buggy. The character models would clip through the ground so their feet were always on the ground. This issue seems like they stem from either the game being rushed or out of laziness. Neither effect the gameplay at all. It’s the kind of game you keep playing because you’ve become attached to the characters. Also you can marry now so why not live out your fan fiction while you’re at it?

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