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Iowa’s poet laureate Mary Swander sits down for question, answer session about her work

11 Oil spill

Security measures spark suspicions as media told to back off by BP

14 The Big 12

Athletic directors answer questions about the Big 12 conference

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Police Blotter : ISU, Ames Police Departments June

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Sun June 4: Joelle Chauncey, 22, 230 Campus Ave. unit 104, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 1:38 a.m.)

Paul Luillens, 22, 4800 Mortensen Road unit 205,

The information in the log comes from the ISU and the City of Ames police departments’ records. All those accused of violating the law are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated. (reported at 2:47 a.m.)

Ryan Hull, 22, 2613 Bristol Drive unit 109, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated. (reported at 3:00 a.m.)

A student officer on patrol reported damage to four glass door panels at Coover Hall. (reported at 10:26 a.m.)

A staff member reported a person was acting in an unusual manner at the Memorial Union. An officer responded and provided assistance. (reported at 10:45 a.m.)

Robert Lee Newton, 33, 420 East 7th St. unit C13, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 2:28 p.m.)

Brandee M. Thompson, 28, 1104 Pinoa Drive unit 1, was arrested and charged with driving while barred. (reported at 5:20 p.m.)

Eric Welcher, 36, was arrested and charged with WRT manufacturing meth, and delivery of a controlled substance. (reported at 9: 15 p.m.)

Akemi Harell, 31, was arrested and charged with WRT possession of controlled substance, third offense, and possession of drug paraphernalia. (re-

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Jason Bunting, 39, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance — marijuana — intent to deliver and drug tax stamp. (reported at 11:56 p.m.)

June 5: Jonathan W. Jennings, 22, 4315 Maricopa Drive unit 6, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 1:27 a.m.)

Ashley Nordmann, 24, of Norfolk, Neb., was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated — second offense. (reported at 2:13

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Antonio La Juan Starks, 30, of Nevada, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief, second offense. (reported at 2:55 a.m.)

Brandon Moorman, 26, 301 South Russell Ave., was arrested and charged with intoxication. (reported at 2:07 a.m.)

A resident reported the theft of a laptop computer from an unlocked apartment at University Village. (reported at 3:08 a.m.)

Jessica M. Cordonnier, 20, 3812 Tripp St. unit 313, was arrested and charged with WRT contempt. (reported at 8:25 p.m.)

June 6: Britany Cunningham, 20, 4912 Mortensen Road unit 834, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 12:09 a.m.)

Henry Ferreira, 24, of Alden, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 1:23 a.m.)

Daniel D. Manning, 21, of Ankeny, was arrested and charged with intoxication. (reported at 1:31 a.m.)

Ashley Kadlec, 21, 4305 Maricopa Drive unit 10, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 1:42 a.m.)

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By Ivy Christianson Daily Correspondent Slip on your work gloves, it’s time to work.

The second annual College Creek Cleanup is from 1 – 4 p.m. Saturday.

“The College Creek Cleanup is an opportunity for students, faculty, staff, as well as any Ames resident to make a difference to the Iowa State and Ames communities through cleaning up trash and improving the water quality of College Creek,” said Merry Rankin, director of sustainability.

Rankin said volunteers can come to the Forker parking lot to pick up gloves, trash bags and trash grabbers — all provided — and help leave their green footprint on College Creek.

This environmental function was the initiative of a student who was a Live Green! intern in 2009, and wanted to finish her internship by organizing

an event that directly impacted the ISU campus.

“This year’s intern decided to end his internship by making the cleanup an annual event, and coordinating the second annual College Creek Cleanup,” Rankin said.

The previous cleanup raked in around 30 volunteers. Rankin and Shawn Wagner, event coordinator for this year, hope to have at least 30 volunteers. They emphasized that they are still accepting volunteers, and students may register onsite the day of the event.

The event is free to all volunteers through sponsorships from Metro Waste Authority, the Main Street Subway and Cookies, etc. Assistance was also provided from Facilities Planning and Management, Keep Iowa State Beautiful and Live Green!.

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Mary Greeley

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Medical center hosts fundraiser

City Council begins process to evaluate electric fee studies

Annual Hope Run raises money for the Israel Family Hospice House

By Katherine Klingseis Daily Correspondent Mary Greeley Medical Center is holding its 10th annual Hope Run on Saturday to raise funds for the Israel Family Hospice House.

The Hospice House is funded through private support, and the Hope Run raises funds for ongoing care of the House.

Andrea Hammes Dodge is the development coordinator at Mary Greeley Medical Center.

She said, “[The Israel Family Hospice House] has 24-hour really, really good care and great, compassionate staff and volunteers that will help the patients and the family members deal with the loss of their loved-ones.”

The Hope Run has four different events: the 10K, the 5K, the 1-mile — non-competitive — and Hope Run Jr. The 10K, 5K, and 1-mile runs will begin at 8 a.m., and will be followed by an award ceremony. At 9:45 a.m., the Hope Run Jr., which is for children under 10, will begin.

“Basically everybody can be involved in some respect,” Dodge said.

“If they want to walk with somebody, they can do that, or, if they are competitive and want to run a 10K, timed for an award, they have that opportunity as well. It’s just a great community event to remind people what kind of care we can provide.”

The entry fee is $25 for adults who register prior to the event, $30 for adults who register at the event and $10 for children under 12.

The proceeds will be put into an endowment for the Hospice House.

“Ten years ago, when [the endowment] was set up, all the money that was fundraised was put into an endowment, which means that the Hospice House operates off of the interest from that money,” Dodge said. “The more money we raise, the more interest is available for the operating of the House.”

Dodge, the event coordinator for the Hope Run, is joined by a group of volunteers in planning and setting up the event. Diane Flummerfelt and Beth Henriksen are the event’s volunteer co-chair-

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The Hope Run is held in conjunction with the Mary Greeley Festival. The festival will include entertainment, food and games for all ages.

Medical professionals from Mary Greeley Medical Center, McFarland Clinic PC, and the Blood Center of Iowa will be offering healthy living information and health screens.

“There are all sorts of wellness and healthy activities,” Henriksen said. “There are usually an ambulance, a fire truck, blood pressure checks, people from the Cancer Center, a lot of little freebies and different vendors.”

The Hope Run and the Mary Greeley Festival will be held at Bandshell Park. All runners will receive a free breakfast provided by Sapore Pizza and a T-shirt.

Early applications can be handed in at Mary Greeley Medical Center. Packets can be picked up from 11:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Friday at First National Bank, or Saturday at Bandshell Park prior to the race.

Long-term conservation is necessary

By James Heggen Daily Staff Writer The Ames City Council is beginning the process to evaluate electric fees for the city of Ames.

Tuesday night, Mark Beauchamp, president of Utility Financial Solutions, gave a presentation to the City Council and members of the Electric Utility Operations Review and Advisory Board, giving some information about the process. He also talked about why such a study is necessary and what information it will provide.

A cost of service and a rate study for the Electric Utility Board of the city of Ames will be conducted.

Beauchamp talked about the need for periodically doing these studies, which is to avoid things like “inter-class and intra-class subsidies” as well as “generational subsidies.” Inter-class and intraclass subsidies means that through the electric rates, one class is subsidizing the other, and generational subsidies refer to when one generation’s rates do not cover costs for future maintenance or repairs and a later generation ends up paying the bill.

These studies can also maintain stability in the long term, he said.

Another topic of discussion was rate structures. Currently, Ames has a declining rate structure for its electric utilities, which charges customers less the more electricity they use.

Beauchamp talked about three different types of rate structures: declining block rates, inclining block rates and flat rates. Inclining block rates encourage energy conservation, but also come with challenges, he said.

No action was taken, as this meeting was just for information.

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Question and Answer

Interview with Poet Laureate of Iowa Distinguished professor of English offers her thoughts about the work she has done thanks to 2009 appointment

By Ivy Christianson Daily Correspondent Here she is, Miss America. Okay, well not quite.

More like, here she is, Miss Poet Laureate of Iowa: Iowa State’s own, Mary Swander.

Swander, distinguished professor of English, was appointed as Iowa’s Poet Laureate in 2009 by Gov. Chet Culver.

As Poet Laureate, Swander serves as the state’s

symbolic leader of poetry.

She travels across the state delivering readings, talks and workshops. Officially, her title allows her to deliver poems at official Iowa events at the invitation of Culver.

While not attending events as Iowa’s Poet Laureate, she manages to find time to get her poetry published, whether that be in books or individually.

Swander has a collection of 10 self-authored

books under her professional belt.

The most recent of her self authored books is, “The Girls on the Tin Roof,” published in April of 2009.

Iowa State Daily [ISD]: Where did you grow up? Are you originally from Iowa?

Mary Swander [MS]: I was born in Iowa, I grew up in Manning, which is a small town in western Iowa, and I also lived in Davenport, which is in eastern Iowa.

ISD: So, what was your childhood like?

MS: I lived in town with my grandmother who owned two farms. She owned the original homesteading farms of her family who came from Iowa and did homesteading in Iowa.

[It was] through a lot of sweat and toil that she was able to hold onto them through the Depression.

I had the best of both worlds because we went out to the farm all the time. I didn’t have to do the heavy, hard labor of the farm, just got to enjoy it.

[The farm] instilled in me a love of the natural world and appreciation for agriculture.

ISD: Very cool. Did you attend school in Manning, then?

MS: Yes, I attended school in Manning and then in Davenport. I then went to an all-girl school in Rock Island, Ill., which had a big influence on me. However, I graduated from Davenport Central High School and went to Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and I attended the Iowa Writers Workshop. I majored in English and got my Master of Fine Arts from the workshop. When you go to the workshop, you get a M.F.A., a terminal degree, the last degree a writer gets.

ISD: Did you have time to get involved in any extra curriculars?

MS: At Georgetown we had a poetry group. It was really fun. It was a Friday afternoon gathering where we’d sit around and read poetry to one another. There was probably about 20 students and faculty that did that every Friday afternoon.

ISD: How did you start liking poetry?

MS: I had a great teacher at Georgetown, Roland Flint. He ended up being the Poet Laureate of Maryland later in his life. I had a poetry reading course with him first, he had a love of poetry [and] was a wonderful reader of poetry. He could recite hundreds of poems by heart. He was inspirational.

Mary Swander, distinguished professor of English, was honored by being named Iowa Poet Laureate of 2009. She has been writing all her life. She has several published books and poems. In addition to all her writing she still teaches full time. Courtesy Photo

ISD: What types of things do you like to write about?

MS: I’ve written about a range of things. I’ve

written about folklore, landscape and natural history.

I have a book about living with the Amish, I have a book about working with Hispanic healers in New Mexico, I’m working on a book about a family farm in Ireland right now.

ISD: How does it feel to be a published author?

How old were you when you were first published?

MS: I was about 21 when I got my first poem published. The first publication is the big thrill, the first poem you get published, the first book you get published, you have a huge rush. It’s always neat after that, I’ve published lots of books. But the first publication are really, really fun.

ISD: You were named the Poet Laureate of Iowa, what all does that entail?

MS: When you’re appointed in Iowa, you’re appointed by the governor for a two-year term, there’s absolutely no money with it, but it’s an honorary thing.

Technically you’re supposed to write a poem for the governor if he or she wants one. So, what it really is, you do a million readings, talks, workshops [and] events all over the state. Last year I did, on average, three events in different parts of the state, a week. That’s on top of a regular teaching load. It’s really intense.

In most states they give you some kind of stipend to do a project, and Iowa doesn’t. So I did my own project, I developed my own website if anyone wants to post a poem or other piece of writing and get good feed back from their peers, it’s iowalit.com.

ISD: So what do you like to do in your free time when not teaching or working on books or poetry things?

MS: I work in the garden, play music, play the banjo, read, watch movies, get together with friends [and] exercise.

ISD: What has been the most rewarding thing in your life thus far?

MS: I’ve had a lot of rewarding things in my life.

Teaching is very, very rewarding for me. I’ve taught thousands of students to appreciate poetry, nonfiction and play-writing.

ISD: What do you plan to do after you finish teaching?

MS: Then I get to really write and really get to do my writing. I put in about 60 hours a week doing my teaching job. When I retire down the line, I won’t have to [put in those hours] anymore.

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Race

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ISU formula car team competes in California for Formula SAE Innovations in this year’s car may provide an edge

By Paige Godden Daily Staff Writer The ISU formula car team is competing in Formula SAE California until Saturday.

The team designed, built and tested the mini open-wheel race car. The goal is a fast and reliable car for the Formula SAE Series competition May 13-16 at Michigan International Speedway.

The team spent the last year building a $30,000 formula car in order to compete.

Nick Krauel, junior in meteorology and the team’s project director.

He said in a news release, “I’m confident we can get a top 20 finish.

I’d love to finish better than that. I do think we have a good shot at getting in the top 10 again.”

This year the team is trying new tactics to try and get in the top 10.

The first new feature is the team’s engine. The car runs on a ethanol-powered Yamaha YZF 450 engine. This type of engine usually runs in an allterrain vehicle. The change in engine will give the car more horsepower.

Also, they have made improvements to the design of the car.

The team developed a way to incorporate buttons on the steering wheel to electronically shift gears.

In addition, the car is lighter than those in years past. The suspension was made softer and more responsive.

The biggest improvement this year was that the team finished the car three weeks before the competition.

This allowed for more time for testing the car before the actual competition.

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This is a step up from last year’s car, which wasn’t finished before the team left for the racetrack, and the team never managed to get it running.

The event has more than 50 schools registered from countries around the world.

In order to be eligible for the race, team members must be enrolled as undergraduates or graduates, be a member of SAE and have a driver’s license and insurance.

The team must make it through a schedule of events including technical inspectors and a presentation of design cost before the autocross even takes place.

The cars aren’t racing each other but competing one at a time in five racing events.

The events include acceleration; cornering; autocross.

It also includes a quick and curvy half-mile course that can be raced at average speeds of 2530 mph.

Endurance is a big part of the race, at 13.7 miles.

The race also features top speeds of 65 mph; and fuel economy.

Iowa State’s team has competed in the past.

The team finished with its highest score of seventh place in 2006 and 18th in 2007 and 2005.

There will be more coverage once the competition is complete Saturday.

Web Links:

check out the SAE team’s website at sae.stuorg.iastate.edu/ or their Facebook group at facebook.com/group. php?gid=2201198913

Students were given the chance to vote on the design of the new hybrid busses that will be added to the CyRide fleet. The Gold Leaf design was chosen for the new busses. Courtesy photo: CyRide

First Cybrids ready to begin integration into campus routes CyRide hybrid busses infiltrate the ranks, continue energy-conscious practices for resident commuters

By Paige Godden Daily Staff Writer The first Cybrids have landed in Ames.

CyRide is adding 12 hybrid busses, along with 3 diesel busses to its fleet of 59.

Five more busses are expected to arrive this week, and the plan is to have all busses mixed in on the regular routes this fall.

Sheri Kyras, director of

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transit at CyRide, said 10 of the busses were funded through Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grants.

The rest of the busses were paid for through stimulus funding grants.

Kyras said the busses are expected to save a little money, because they run at 4 to 5 mpg compared to the regular busses, which run at 2.6 to 4 mpg.

Kyras said other fleets that have transitioned to hybrid vehicles say the maintenance isn’t much different than a regular bus.

The Cybrids are also expected to bring with them significant air quality benefits.

“We’ve got 12 now, and we will see how they fit into the community and so forth.

Courtesy photo: CyRide

If they work, we will work to get additional grants for hybrid vehicles.

It’s a demonstration to see whether it’s a good thing to expand the program even further,” Kyras said.

CyRide is planning to unveil its new busses in August.

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Club

Team PrISUm gets solar car ready for big competition Team hopes to qualify for American Solar Challenge while in Texas

By Paige Godden Daily Staff Writer Team PrISUm is competing at the Formula Sun Grand Prix in Cresson, Texas.

The team arrived Saturday with its solar car ready to race.

They hope to qualify for the American Solar Challenge, a race from Tulsa, Okla., to Chicago, Ill., but first they have to pass a series of tests.

The four drivers, Wade Johanns, Erin Kelly, Trevor Dobbs and Evan Stumpges, had to pass the egress test, according to the team’s blog.

During the test the drivers have to evacuate the car in less than 10 seconds.

Each driver was able to pass the test Monday, according to the blog.

The team also passed the mechanical inspection.

Trying to pass the battery protection inspection caused the team some delays though, according to the blog.

With the help of the team from the University of Minnesota, the team was able to get clearance of the car’s battery by Tuesday morning.

“If everything goes well tomorrow, we intend to complete the American Solar Challenge qualifying tomorrow during the first day of the Formula Sun Grand Prix.

To meet this goal, each of our four drivers must complete 25 laps

Courtesy photo: PrISUm/Flickr

for a total of 100 laps around the 1.7 mile track,” according to a blog posted Tuesday.

The team wasn’t available for comment Wednesday to say whether or not they had qualified for the American Solar Challenge.

The Challenge goes from June 19-26, and the team’s progress can be watched at their blog.

Web Links:

to follow the PrISUm team check out their website solarcar.stuorg.iastate.edu or their race blog at solarcar.stuorg.iastate.edu/2010_asc.php

Saturday

June 19, 2010

Bandshell Park, 125 E. 5th St., Ames, IA

• Registration: $25 for adults ($30 on race day) $10 for youth (12 and under).

• New! 5K Team Division.

• Free breakfast for participants following the race!

• All proceeds benefit the Israel Family Hospice House.

To register call 515-239-2210 or visit www.mgmc.org.

8:00 a.m.

9:15 a.m.

10k, 5k, 1-mile Age Group Awards

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Hope Run Jr.

(medals to top three finishers in 14 categories) (distances suitable for children ages 10 and under)

Enjoy Mary Greeley Fest from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.!

Activities for all ages Lunch catered by Sapore Pizza Cold Stone ice cream available Bike helmet giveaway to first 100 visitors

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Iowa Rose Society

Reiman Gardens hosts rose show Reiman Gardens will be hosting the Iowa Rose Society’s Annual Rose Show on Sunday.

There will be a rose sale in the morning, featuring Easy Elegance and Buck Roses — developed for their hardiness by the late Griffith Buck, ISU professor. Proceeds from the sale go to support the Gardens.

The society’s judged show, featuring the best roses in Iowa, will take place in the afternoon.

Throughout the day, there will be live music playing in the Gardens by Anne Regnier, keyboardist, and Stephanie Harper, flautist.

There will also be watercolor painting classes offered, but preregistration was required.

Admissions to the events, and all of the Gardens, is free.

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he Big 12 is saved! Wow! I, for one, thought it was dead after Nebraska bolted. Sure Texas could have saved the whole thing, but various reports were saying that if Nebraska left, Texas would leave, too. Apparently, they were bluffing. Maybe that’s why they call it Texas Hold ‘em.

I’m still in shock. After all, the sharks were circling.

Blood was in the water. Nebraska and Colorado were gone. PAC-10 commissioner Larry Scott was on the verge of landing five more Big 12 schools. Our own commissioner, Dan Beebe, looked like the captain of the Titanic going down with the ship. But then, in the 11th hour, Beebe put forth a plan. Orangebloods. com’s Chip Brown, the man who broke the story of the original PAC-16 plan, reported that Texas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M will make $20 million per year with the new TV deal in Beebe’s plan.

The rest of the Big 12 schools will make $14 to $17 million per year, which doubles their current revenues.

That’s fantastic news for Iowa State. Not only does the Big 12 continue on, but Iowa State is going to take it to the bank.

The Big 12’s next TV negotiations are in 2011 for the start of 2012. Chris Level, talk show host, reported Fox Sports as the major TV player in Beebe’s plan.

Apparently Beebe really had been “working tire-

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lessly” after all. I’ll admit, I had little faith in the man through the whole process, especially after listening to his teleconference Friday. But he got it done. Well, he and a group of “influential people,” according to ESPN. I never knew college athletics could be so murky behind the scenes. Disaster was averted.

It’s like a major hurricane was about to hit shore when it suddenly changed course, back out to sea.

And that’s kind of how this whole process felt too: like a hurricane.

The storm started small, and there was only one guy reporting on it. Actually, there was only one guy who really knew what was going on, Chip Brown.

So we watched his Twitter account closely. Or in my case, watched cyclonefanatic.com really closely, which would direct you to pertinent information provided by his Twitter account, such as the PAC-10’s desire

to poach half the schools from the Big 12 for a super conference with a TV network to rival the Big 10’s.

The storm then grew and picked up steam, and more people started to pay attention. ESPN was mysteriously absent at this point, outside of their Big 12 blogger, David Ubben.

Then Colorado left, Nebraska left, five more Big 12 schools were on the verge of leaving and many were calling Board of Regents meetings for the following week — dark clouds were forming over the weekend.

The weekend ended, Monday began, and suddenly the hurricane pulled a U-turn out of nowhere.

Unbelievable. I think Chris Williams, publisher of CycloneFanatic.com, put it about right when he said in an article, “[today] goes down as the greatest day in the history of ISU athletics.” Think about it. Iowa State was on the brink of disaster. Any direction we would have gone would have been down; revenues, academics, travel, etc., we’d lose.

Instead, we stand to gain millions of dollars for staying in our conference. Sure, we have to play Texas and Oklahoma more, which will be tough, but that sure beats playing Houston and Tulsa. As the Pointer Sisters so eloquently put it, “I’m so excited and I just can’t hide it, I’m about to lose control and I think I like it.”

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Oil Spill

BP too secretive about cleanup efforts T

he plot thickens on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. After oil washed up and contaminated shores, a cleanup operation was prompted by BP. Who could have foreseen that the same giant corporation that just caused one of the greatest disasters since Katrina would look out for its best interests during said cleanup?

BP’s reaction to the press is thrashing the freedom of the press as much as the oil washing in from the ocean is thrashing the shores. It would seem in an effort to save face, BP is cracking down on media presence using not only private security companies but the National Guard as well.

One of the security companies, hired by BP, is protecting the cleanup workers on the shores from the media.

In a video posted on youtube.com by ThinkProgress, BP’s security is shown trying to bully a local news crew in New Orleans. The news crew from WDSU is told that they could not interview any workers. The most glaring part of the exchange was the security personnel telling media they could not be on the public beach around the workers.

“Every single security guard here has given the instructions to every single news crew that you can be outside of 100 yards of the workers or along the boom,” security said to the WDSU news crew.

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The news team challenged the ability of BP’s security to tell people what to do, since they had no actual legal authority.

BP’s security retorted with, “I can tell you where to go because I’m employed to keep this beach safe. And right now, those are my instructions. I’d like to keep the workers safe as well.”

Evidently, BP hired security personnel to keep their cleanup crews safe from the insidious media presence that would surely swarm and coerce them to say all kinds of unflattering things about BP and how the cleanup effort is going.

BP not wanting press to talk to the workers makes me wonder what kind of conditions the workers are living in. It also makes me wonder if the cleanup efforts on the shores are nothing more than a token gesture by BP in an effort to boost its badly damaged public image.

What makes the whole situation more like a bad “Twilight Zone” episode is that the National Guard is denying media the ability to take pictures

of rescued wildlife.

In a video uploaded to youtube.com by CNN, a sergeant in the National Guard aggressively tells the CNN camera woman that she is going to have turn her camera off.

The animals the media are trying to photograph are in bad shape, covered in oil and make for some pretty impressive photographs.

They really drive home what’s happening in the Gulf, and drive a feeling to the pit of your stomach that BP isn’t likely ready to have run with its brand name.

This reminds me so much of when the Bush administration wouldn’t allow photos of soldiers’ caskets to be photographed. It was as if Bush thought that if the American public didn’t have the hard reality of what the cost of war was — cargo holds stuffed with young Americans in boxes — then the cost would never become apparent.

I think it’s time to take a hard look at where we stand as a nation in times of crisis. Will we let our

civil rights fall by the way side, or will we be better than that? I’d like to think we’re better.

And if you like to think like I do, why not drop BP a line to let them know your thoughts on their handling of the colossal mess they made. The BP office phone number is 1-985902-5231.

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Athletic directors answer lingering Big 12 questions

By Doug Tucker AP Sports Writer LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas athletic director Lew Perkins said Wednesday the five Big 12 schools in danger of being left without a conference came up with a plan that includes offering money to keep Texas, Texas A&M and Oklahoma in the league.

Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Baylor and Missouri drafted a “business plan” to persuade the bigger schools to reject any interest from the Pac-10 or Southeastern Conference, Perkins said. The idea was to make sure the three Big 12 South schools would not lose any money by sticking with the Big 12.

“Five schools got together and we tried to develop a business plan like everything else,” said Perkins, who did not disclose financial details of the offer. He said paying to remain aligned with Texas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M is no different from a school giving a pay raise to a coach who wins a national championship and gets other job offers.

Perkins and Kansas State athletics director John Currie both said they don’t expect the three big schools to need the money because league revenues are expected to grow in coming years.

Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe indicated on Tuesday that the five schools had offered to give Texas, Texas A&M and Oklahoma their share of whatever exit penalty money Colorado and Nebraska wind up paying for leaving the league over the next two years. Perkins said the five offered to take the money out of their share of conference revenues from other sources. Calls to the Big 12 offices in Dallas were not immediately returned Wednesday.

Nebraska, which will join the Big Ten in July 2011, said it does not believe it owes any penalty money.

Under Big 12 bylaws, schools must give up 50 percent of their share of conference revenues if they give two years’ notice, as Colorado has done, or 70 percent of the revenue if the notice is less than 18 months before departure, which apparently would apply to Nebraska.

The Big 12 in 2008-2009 distributed $10.1 million to Colorado and $11.5 million to Nebraska, according to IRS tax records examined by the Associated Press. Using those figures, the overall penalty for Colorado over two years would be $10.1 million and $8.05 million for Nebraska over the next year. Divided up among the remaining 10 members, each would get about $1.8 million.

Once Colorado and Nebraska decided to leave, there was a possibility that the Big 12 might dissolve because the Pac-10 was courting Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A&M. Oklahoma State and Texas Tech would probably also have come along. Had they gone, it would have created a crisis for the other five and left them scrambling to find a major conference. But the league held together at 10 members when Texas turned down the Pac10 and everyone else fell into line, lured with the promise of much richer football television contracts and the promise that Texas and Oklahoma, at least, can start their own TV networks without sharing with other members.

Jamie Pollard, athletic director, left, answers a question as President Gregory Geoffroy, right, listens during a news conference regarding the Big 12 Conference Tuesday in Ames. Photo: Bill Neilbergal/The Associated Press

Conference stays alive Geoffroy, Pollard discuss future Big 12 details

By Jordan Wickstrom Daily Staff Writer Multiple media outlets, coaches and university personnel were all in attendance Tuesday to hear Jamie Pollard, athletic director, and President Gregory Geoffroy make the official announcement that the Big 12 was going to stay.

From the opening, Pollard made it clear the Big 12 wasn’t looking for more teams. So it may not expand, despite the possibility of losing the conference championship football game.

“Part of this scenario is that we clearly won’t have a championship game, and the coaches voted 12 to 0 not to have a championship game several years ago; and the coaches have every year talked about playing nine [conference games]” Pollard said.

“I know [football coach Paul Rhoads] understands it, and he wasn’t here for those votes, but he’ll echo those same sentiments that not playing the championship game is beneficial.”

Now that the conference has 10 teams, the belief is that football schedules will ex-

pand to nine conference games and three nonconference games.

Pollard said he would like to keep the Iowa vs.

Iowa State game on the schedule, but that deciGeoffroy sion will be strictly based on what the Big Ten decides to do with its scheduling.

“At this juncture, it’s premature to speculate on which games we wouldn’t play,” Pollard said. “Our belief is that the Iowa vs.

Pollard Iowa State game means a lot to this state, and we would like to see that continue. However, I can’t speak for what the Big Ten’s going to do.

I haven’t followed on if they’re going to go to nine games.”

Pollard said that if Iowa State is playing nine games, he and Rhoads will have to decide if it is wise to place Iowa on the schedule.

Football was not the only sport to be affected by the change to the Big 12. Both men’s and women’s basketball are going to be forced to make drastic changes to their scheduling.

For starters, there will now be a round robin scheduling change: All schools will have to play each other twice during the regular season.

Men’s basketball coach Fred Hoiberg and women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly were both in attendance during Tuesday’s news conference, and shared equal enthusiasm.

“I think, in a small way, we were penalized because we live in a small town,” Fennelly said. “We all understand the magnitude that TV and football have on our sport.

But when you look at what the student athletes have done, day in and day out, someone obviously took a step back and said we can keep this going.”

The addition of a round robin scheduling change could be difficult for both programs. The two coaches did not seem too enthused by the change, but were willing to accept the change if it meant the Big 12 stayed together.

“The best thing for us was to stay in the Big 12, and that’s exactly what happened,” Hoiberg said. “[A round robin] is going to be tough from the basketball side. It’s going to be a tougher road for us but we’re excited for that.”

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NCAA

World Cup Scores

Koll named as finalist for woman’s sports award Senior distance runner Lisa Koll has been named as one of the Collegiate Women Sports Awards’ top three finalists for the Honda-Broderick Cup. The Honda-Broderick Cup is the Awards’ top honor given to the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year.

Koll, a Fort Dodge native, recently capped her ISU track career with a double-gold performance at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, bringing first place finishes back to Ames in both the 5,000and 10,000-meter runs.

The wins were her third and fourth NCAA championships, and she is an 11-

time All-American. Koll is also the collegiate record holder in the 10,000-meter.

The other two finalists are Maya Moore of the University of Koll Connecticut’s national champion basketball team, and Megan Hodge of Penn State University’s champion volleyball team.

The winner will be announced in a ceremony to be held Monday in Los Angeles, Calif.

BIG 12

the conference, the topic to discuss in the future may wind up being the question regarding revenue distribution among all Big 12 teams.

from PAGE 14 Even though the future of the Big 12 was in question, so far neither basketball team lost any recruits.

There has been some backlash about the size of revenue the Longhorns will be gaining from the new Big 12 format — talk such as Texas will basically run the Big 12 due to its high increase in revenue.

Despite the talk, Geoffroy said there will be no change in the revenue sharing formula the Big 12 uses, which means more money for all Big 12 schools, not just Texas.

“That formula has really been what’s driven our revenue,” Geoffroy said. “What we anticipate will occur is that over the next several years we’ll see a significant ramp up in the size of the television contract the Big 12 has.”

Despite Pollard and Beebe’s reassurance Texas does not have full control of

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World Cup schedule THURSDAY ■■ Argentina vs. South Korea................ 6:30 a.m.

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MONDAY ■■ Portugal vs. North Korea.................. 6:30 a.m.

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How much will other schools be receiving?

With Texas eying its own TV network, the Longhorns may be in for a significant increase in revenue from that alone.

However, Pollard was more than willing to accept that fact if it meant Iowa State was also getting fair treatment.

“If having our top schools go for $14 or $15 million to $20 million, and in order to do that Iowa State gets to go from $9 million to $13 million, I’m all in,” Pollard said.

“If we’re going to go up $4 million, and that means somebody else may go up $5 million, I’m taking the $4 million.”

It may not seem fair to some, it may not be the way some fans wanted to see the conference survive, but for now the Big 12 is still alive.

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Theatrical family values live on

By Julia Ferrell Daily Staff Writer Their shelves are lined with copies of musicals ranging from “The Phantom of the Opera” to “Reefer Madness.” A poster for “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” is stuck to the front of a cabinet door, and a playbill from “Les Miserables” is framed on the living room wall, along with an autograph and photo from Broadway actor Chip Zien.

Lars Skaar, 29, said a collective interest in theater has, and always will be, a main outlet for his close-knit family.

Raised in Story City, Lars and sisters Jena, 33, and Katie, 31, grew up around the arts. Their father, Ole, was well-known in the community for his tenor voice.

When Lars reached seventh grade, he chose to sing in the middle school choir, where he sang soprano for two years. Lars began performing in plays and musicals when he entered high school.

Fourteen years later, Lars has now participated in more than 30 shows and has no plans to stop.

“In school, [theater] is something everyone does,” he said. “I just never stopped.”

While his sister Katie now lives in Arizona, Lars and Jena are still prominent performers in the Judge Story Theatrical Troupe in Story City, and oc-

casionally perform in shows for StageWest in Des Moines.

Later this year, Lars will be returning to StageWest as Mitch Mahoney in their production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” Though Lars takes pride in many of his theatrical roles, including Horton the Elephant in “Seussical” and Lumiere in “Beauty and the Beast,” his crowning achievement was in “Farmer Song: The Musical.”

“Farmer,” an original musical written by former ISU student Joe Hynek, was first brought to Lars’ attention when he received a call from Hynek, asking him to replace a performer.

“I remember I was actually playing disc golf at the time, and I was a bit hesitant about the show at first. But they asked me to come in and watch it, I ended up loving it and I immediately signed on,” Lars said.

Twelve days later, after memorizing the entire musical and more than 40 lines, the cast performed “Farmer” at the Iowa State Fair.

After finishing at the fair, the cast received another call from Hynek, who told them the show had been accepted to be performed at the prestigious New York International Fringe Festival.

Lars remembers the 26-hour drive to New York City, when the entire cast was crowded into one RV.

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Though he recalls being exhausted, Lars still managed to see five Broadway shows within his first few days in the city.

Since his time in New York City, Lars is still an avid fan of Broadway, along with his wife, Veronica.

Veronica, 28, has designed numerous costumes for ISU theater, as well as StageWest in Des Moines. During her years at Waldorf College in Forest City, she was also a prominent lead in many shows.

When Lars was a sophomore at Waldorf, Veronica became pregnant with their first child, Kaia. But the pregnancy never stopped Veronica from performing.

She continued to hold lead roles in many shows, including William Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost.”

During a performance, Veronica fell on stage but decided to follow through with the show.

Both Veronica and the baby were fine, but the memory continues to stay with Lars.

Along with Kaia, 8, Lars and Veronica had a second child, Leif, last July.

While currently juggling two

Kaia

Leif

jobs at NuCara Pharmacy and Alley’s Pizza in Story City, Lars still enjoys spending time with the family, and is proud to see Kaia expressing his same interest in theater.

“She listens to ‘Shrek the Musical’ constantly, and we even took her to the show’s second performance ever in Seattle,” Lars said. “I hope she loves [theater] as much as I do, but if she pursues something else, that’s okay too.”

As for Leif, Lars and Veronica are not too worried about raising him around theater at the moment.

“I just want him to sleep through the night right now,” Lars said.

Although the Skaar family’s love for theater may be one common factor that keeps them close, Lars feels that more importantly, it is something that keeps them strong through difficult times.

In March, Lars’s mother, Jackie, 55, was diagnosed with esophageal cancer.

Last week, she successfully completed her final chemother-

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Lars Skaar started acting when he was 15 and has been in 35 plays since then. He and his wife Veronica are introducing the rich theatrical tradition they have come to love to their children. Photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily

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Memorial Union showcases ‘My Favorite Artwork’ pieces holding significance to staff A new exhibit in the Memorial Union features artwork meaningful to the MU staff.

The exhibit, “My Favorite Artwork,” does not include pieces from the MU collection, but rather works of art that belong to the MU staff.

These pieces could be anything from objects that they made themselves to souvenirs from traveling or simply favorite pieces of “refrigerator art.”

Each piece is accompanied by a statement explaining why the work is special to its owner.

For example, a pen and ink work loaned by Monica Ernberger, clerk in the Study Abroad

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apy in Ames, and if her cancer has been sterilized, she will soon undergo a surgery in Iowa City.

Currently, Lars is preparing for two shows, a Judge Story Children’s Theater production of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and StageWest’s “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” His latest production of “Kiss Me, Kate” closed last week, and Lars has decided to take the

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summer off to spend time with his family.

“They’re both things that I love and enjoy very much, and I’m trying to balance them out as much as possible,” Lars said about family and theater.

Along with an illness in the family, Lars is also currently focusing on two other health issues of his own.

Earlier this year, Lars was diagnosed with an acid reflux disorder that could cause permanent damage to his vocal chords.

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in top condition, Lars has sworn to never drink soda or alcohol, and he refuses to go near any type of tobacco.

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Their strong passion for theater and Broadway may go unnoticed by the mainstream society, but their love for the arts has created a strong family that nothing can overcome.

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