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After Irene: Flooding feared within days KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. — From North Carolina to New Jersey, Hurricane Irene’s winds and storm surge fell short of the doomsday predictions. But the danger is far from over: With rivers still rising, severe flooding is feared across much of the East Coast over the next few days.

More than 4.5 million homes and businesses along the coast lost power, and at least 15 deaths were blamed on the storm.

With roads impassable because of high water and fallen trees, it could be days before the full extent of the damage is known.

But as day broke Sunday, many places reported only light damage consisting of little more than downed trees and power lines.

“I think it’s a little strong to say we dodged a bullet. However, it certainly could have turned out worse for the Hampton Roads area” in Virginia, said National Weather Service meteorologist Mike Montefusco.

At the same time, officials warned of the possibility of extreme flooding as runoff from the storm makes its way into creeks and rivers. Irene brought six inches to a foot of rain to many places along the East Coast.

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Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily Presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to the press at the Polk County Republican Party Summer Picnic on Saturday at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.

Perry woos at picnic

Republicans host presidential hopefuls

By Matt.Wettengel @iowastatedaily.com While most students were enjoying the first Saturday after classes, members of the ISU College Republicans were attending the Polk

County summer picnic and listening to GOP presidential candidates Ron Paul, Rick Perry and Thaddeus McCotter discuss their presidential intentions.

Though the race to secure the GOP nomination remains in its infancy, Ben Gremel and Stephen Quist joined approximately 300 people at the Polk County summer picnic to hear the three candidates speak.

“I think gaining name recognition for a lot of these candidates is the most important thing that they can do,” said Gremel, senior in marketing.

“To tell you the truth, six months ago I couldn’t tell you who Rick Perry was.”

Despite his “late” entry into the GOP’s pool of candidates — officially announcing his bid for the presidency on Aug. 13 — Perry has jumped to the lead in national polls, despite a lack

of presence at events like the Ames Straw Poll where he finished sixth as a write-in candidate.

Perry’s popularity was evident at the Polk County picnic as he commandeered the spotlight upon arrival and commanded the majority of the crowd’s attention throughout McCotter’s speech.

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City of Ames welcomes students back Free food, gifts abound at party

By Aimee.Burch @iowastatedaily.com The promise of free stuff was all it took to get ISU students and Ames citizens to Campustown Friday night.

The annual Welcome Back Event, hosted by the city of Ames, took place at Fire Station 2 on Welch Avenue.

For Ames Fire Chief Clint Petersen, the event is a chance for him and his crew to formally welcome students back to Ames.

“It’s at our house,” Petersen said. “We’ve been doing this for several years in a row, and it’s a nice way to get the students to know we appreciate them coming back.”

Petersen had firefighters serving free Pizza Pit pizza on Frisbees provided by the fire department, something Tyler Dunleavy, sophomore

Photo: Nicole Wiegand/Iowa State Daily Students enjoy free pizza for dinner Friday during the City of Ames Welcome Back Event at Fire Station No. 2 in Campustown.

in accounting, and his friends found appealing.

“We live in Cyclone Plaza, looked out our balcony and saw the roads were blocked off, so we just came right on down,” Dunleavy said. “I’m definitely going to take all

the free stuff I can. It’s always good to have free stuff on a college campus.”

For Ames Mayor Ann Campbell, the goal of the event is to make ISU students aware of their role in the community.

“We want students to feel they are very much a part of the community of Ames, not just Iowa State University,” Campbell said. “We use this as an opportunity to introduce ourselves and have found that introducing with

pizza is a good lure, as well as with various games and prizes.”

The various games and prizes Campbell spoke of came from the “Street and Greet” trailer.

Campbell described the trailer as a mobile block party equipped with tables, chairs, party games like bags and lawn golf, and hula hoops.

The trailer can be reserved by students for a weekend, with the trailer being dropped off by police on Friday and picked up Sunday.

Campbell hoped the event would introduce students to all the amenities Ames has to offer, something freshman Maddy Haws took to heart.

Haws, a pre-integrated studio arts major, used the event to help her get to know her way around Ames better.

Petersen said that “all citizens are members of the community so we want them to feel part of the community and know what services are provided.”

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But a source close to the 23-year-old singer told E! no such tape exists, and Rihanna has done the same.

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1993: A summer of record-breaking rainfall and flooding continued as thunderstorms dumped heavy rain across portions of southwestern, central and eastern Iowa.

Police Blotter: July 17 Dustin Bumgardner, 20, of Pleasantville, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated at Pammel Drive and Stange Road. He was transported to the Story County Justice Center (reported at 1:55 a.m.).

Zachary Richards, 21, of 307 Ash Ave., was arrested and charged with public intoxication at the intersection of Chamberlain Street and Lynn Avenue. He was transported to the Story County Justice Center (reported at 2:15 a.m.).

David Kringlen-Williams, 24, of Nevada, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated (reported at 2:31 a.m.).

Jamie Thompson, 29, of Zearing, was arrested and charged with public intoxication (reported at 1 p.m.).

Angela Sales, 32, of Centerville, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct (reported at 6:40 p.m.).

Todd Sebolt, 40, of Centerville, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct (reported at 6:40 p.m.).

Stephanie Summers, 19, of Centerville, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct (reported at 6:40 p.m.).

July 18 An officer initiated a drug-related investigation at the Armory (reported at 1:09 p.m.).

Derwann Bass, 36, of 1027 Lincoln Way, was arrested and charged with driving under suspension (reported at 2:30 p.m.).

Tayauna Mosley, 20, of 623 Meadow Place, was arrested and charged with theft fifth Ames code (reported at 3:30 p.m.).

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at Lot B5 (reported at 5:56 p.m.).

Filiberto Matias, 31, of 634 N. 500th Ave., was arrested and charged with interference with official acts (simple) (reported at 9:14 p.m.).

July 21

William Vary, 44, of Nevada, was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of prescription drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia and public intoxication (reported at 12:38 a.m.).

James Morrison, 22, of 4325 Maricopa Dr. #1, was arrested on a warrant held by the Story County Sheriff’s Office at the intersection of Hunt Street and Welch Avenue. He was transported to the Story County Justice Center (reported at 1:57 a.m.).

Eliezer Ramirez, 21, of 4912 Mortensen Road unit 624, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated (second) (reported at 11:24 p.m.).

Officers assisted a woman who fell at Lied Recreation Athletic Center. The individual was transported to Mary Greeley Medical Center for treatment (reported at 10:14 a.m.).

A bicycle operated by Caitlin Schlader collided with a vehicle driven by Lisa Terry at the intersection of Osborn Drive and Wallace Road (reported at 1:20 p.m.).

An individual reported pry marks on an office door at the Memorial Union (reported at 1:24 p.m.).

A vehicle driven by Nicholas Runtsch collided with an electrical box at the intersection of South 16th Street and University Boulevard (reported at 4:33 p.m.).

A vehicle driven by Charles Strehlow collided with a parked car at Blankenburg Drive (reported at 5:06 p.m.).

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Raeann Hiscocks, 20, of 3913 Marigold Drive, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated (reported at 4:39 a.m.).

An officer initiated a drug-related investigation at the Armory (reported at 10:15 a.m.).

Stacy Perlowski, 24, of 922 Duff Ave., was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia (reported at 2:30 p.m.).

Vehicles driven by Jennifer Groen and Lana Greve were involved in a property-damage collision in Lot 93 (reported at 4:49 p.m.).

Bradley Tronchetti, 28, of Payton, was arrested and charged with public intoxication (reported at 8:11 p.m.).

Matthew Bauler, 25, of Iowa City, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated (second) (reported at 5:36 a.m.).

Joshua Ramsey, 21, of Iowa City, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Linden Hall. He was transported to the Story County Justice Center (reported at 2:19 a.m.).

Hanyu Yangcheng reported the theft of a wallet at the Food Science building (reported at 3:02 p.m.).

Amy Williams reported the theft of a parking permit from a vehicle at Lot 50B (reported at 4:28 p.m.).

Joseph Medoza, 44, of 5521 W. Lincoln Way, was arrested and charged with possession of stolen property, burglary (third) (motor vehicle) and possession of prescription drugs (reported at 5 p.m.).

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>>PICNIC.p1A One common theme throughout the three candidates’ presentations was an emphasis on fiscal reform.

Accordingly, Gremel and Quist agree that fiscal issues will and should be the dominant issue throughout the course of the nomination process.

“Obviously we have a huge debt; social security, Medicare and Medicaid are all in trouble and they’re all insolvent if we don’t do something about them and our generation is the one that’s going to have to pay the price,” said Quist, chairman of ISU College Republicans.

When it comes to choosing a candidate, both Gremel and Quist agreed it’s too early to make any decisions, but that a thorough knowledge of the candidates and issues is key.

“If [college students] are educated at all on politics, normally they’re only educated on one side,” Quist said.

The ISU College Republicans will be meeting with the head of the Iowa State College Democrats to collaborate their efforts in educating students throughout the course of the school year.

“Regardless of how we think we should solve the issue, you should get yourself educated because there are obviously different feelings on both sides of the aisle, but people need to educate themselves and do research and make an educated decision on how they want to solve it,” Quist said.

“We’re just trying to reach across the aisle — Washington has become so divisive nowadays and our generation has grown up in that,” Quist said.

“We have to make sure not to make it worse, we do have to work together at some point.”

Burning Man

Photo: Yue Wu/Iowa State Daily Ron Paul, a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination, gives interviews before he talks about his presidential ambition at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Saturday.

Photo: Cristobal Matibag/ Iowa State Daily Lyndsey Batz, junior in pre-integrated studio arts, and Jay Parry, senior in English, pack a trailer in preparation to leave for their trip to Burning Man 2011 on Friday at Parry’s home.

Class enjoys freedom amid flames at festival

Photo: Yue Wu/Iowa State Daily Rick Perry, Republican presidential candidate, talks at the press conference after the Polk County summer picnic. Perry entered the race on Aug. 13, long after most GOP candidates.

It begins today and runs through Labor Day weekend.

The works that are set to burn were made for a class called Shifting Sands: Transient Architecture in the Desert.

Devised and taught by Samantha Krupowski, adjunct assistant professor of architecture, the class guides students as they develop projects for Burning Man and prepares them for the rigors of desert life.

The festival is named for

By Cristobal.Matibag @iowastatedaily.com Eight ISU students spent the whole of summer 2011 creating original works of art.

This week, on a dry lakebed in the Nevada desert, they will set them on fire.

The students will be among thousands of artists torching their creations at Burning Man, an annual, weeklong festival at which a city is created, inhabited for a week and then dismantled.

Photo: Kelsey Kremer/ Iowa State Daily Presidential candidate Ron Paul greets members of the Polk County Republican party at their summer picnic on Saturday at Jalapeno Pete’s on the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines.

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Photo: Kaleb Warnock/Iowa State Daily More than 400 students attend Chemistry 177 in 2055 Hoover Hall on Friday. This course is one of the largest lectures on campus, and more than 1,000 students are in three different lecture sections.

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One of the toughest adjustments for freshmen is the intimidating, large-format lecture, in which some students might be in a class with more people than they had in their entire high schools.

“I kind of like it, I guess it seems like a regular class to me,” said Rachel

Collingsworth, a freshman in engineering who has three lecture-format courses. She also likes how taking advantage of technology in the classroom helps the class seem smaller, especially the clickers.

“It’s kind of fun to see what everyone else is thinking,” she said. “It seems like a group is doing it, not just me.”

However, Kristine Schluttner, freshman in engineering, does not share her enthusiasm.

“They’re not as personal, and it hasn’t really affected me yet,”

Schluttner said discussing her experience. “I probably wouldn’t get as much out of it as my smaller classes.”

Associate Provost David Holger, though, is confident in ISU professors and believes that the format is not the most important aspect of a course.

“I think the pedagogical design and the way in which a way class is delivered can be more important than the size,” Holger said. “It doesn’t have a major impact on learning, it’s just the changing of the delivery.”

He also emphasized the importance of the role and preparation of

the instructors themselves.

Thomas Greenbowe, professor of chemistry, lectures the introductory chemistry course, Chemistry 177, which is one of the largest classes on campus. It contains almost 1,300 students in three lecture sections and employs 42 teaching assistants.

“The way to do well in a course like this is to get to know 10 or 12 students in the class and to get together and ask questions and study together,” Greenbowe said. “It’s tough to go into a large course like this and do it by yourself and not interact with

anybody.”

However, he also said this is an opportunity for students to learn to work in groups and develop other skills outside of the classroom, like interpersonal skills, that will be especially useful after graduation.

“This provides an opportunity for them to develop a skill set that companies want. Yes, they’re going to have to know some chemistry, but beyond that, if they can’t work in a group in an interdisciplinary team to get things done, the company isn’t going to hire them.”

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BLAKESBURG — Wapello County supervisors will review the emergency response to last month’s explosion of a tanker truck.

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DES MOINES — A newspaper investigation has found safeguards remain inadequate a year after salmonella sickened at least 1,600 people and led to the recall of a halfbillion eggs.

The Des Moines Register reported Iowa egg producers don’t have to disclose salmonella test results to state or federal regulators, egg farms

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The town was evacuated over concerns that the fire would spread to a large storage tank filled with ammo-

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By Kaleb.Warnock @iowastatedaily.com AgArts hosted its first Local Wonders Dinner to raise money and fund an Iowa art project. The event took place at the MonteBello Bed and Breakfast Inn on Saturday night and featured live music and potluck dinner.

“It was a great success,” said Mary Swanders, Iowa Poet Laureate and ISU distinguished professor in residence. “Everybody said it was a great success here at the MonteBello Bed and Breakfast.”

The goal of the event was also to bring attention to the importance of preserving folk art and culture because of its necessity to Iowa life. The Montebello farm provided a picturesque setting with a

glowing sunset accompanied along with the soft folk music floating over the lively conversation of the outdoor dinner.

“We try to intersect agriculture and art and kind of spice it up somehow because we’re in Iowa,” said master of ceremonies and AgArts member Xavier Cavazos, graduate student in English.

The evening also featured a reading from the book “Excellent Joy” by author Mike Rosmann.

“This is a good because the work of AgArts and words of Excellent Joy connect,” Rosmann said. “Its a wonderful organization. I met some people tonight, people with some thinking going on between their ears.”

There were six proposals presented that evening that spanned several different styles and mediums.

There were projects like a filmography based on a play, an environmental writing workshop and even a proposal for a comprehensive Iowan

Microbrewery tour.

After dinner, artists were allotted three minutes to present their proposals. After that, attendees discussed and placed their votes. The unique project Apron Strings and Memories, by ISU graduate student Jeanie Freeman Kirkpatrick, was chosen to receive the donations from the evening.

Her project is an exhibition displaying the aprons of rural Iowan women, and to tell their stories and memories of their lives and housework to be featured at the Octagon studio in Ames.

“The majority of rural women would wear an apron when doing housework,” Kirkpatrick’s proposal said.

“These aprons cannot talk, but the women who wear them can.”

There will be a call for aprons from, in and around Ames to be featured in the project. The grant will be used to pay shipping costs and expenses for the exhibit.

Photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily John Linstrom presents his proposal to the Ag Arts Council on Saturday at MonteBello Bed and Breakfast Inn.

>>ART.p3A him.

“He has to use his own optic nerve to get a look at himself,” said Parry of the work.

After the sculpture’s outer layer burns, Parry will use its wire frame as the “skeleton” for a new sculpture — one made wholly from materials he gathers at the festival.

Lyndsey Batz, junior in political science, made an updated version of the Native American dreamcatcher for the festival. Instead of the traditional wood and thread, hers is rendered in silicone and steel. The piece, called “GABA,” is named for a neurotransmitter that induces sleep. To make it, Batz took motherboards from camcorders and other devices and af-

fixed them to metal plates.

Because the materials used for her piece were scavenged rather than bought, she considers it a response to the “commercialized” traditional dreamcatcher.

The course in which Batz and Parry prepared their works is a recent addition to the ISU catalog, having only been offered since 2010. So far, it’s the only course in the world that specifically incorporates a trip to Burning Man. Krupowski thinks her students’ experience at the festival will teach a lesson that’s not always stressed in the design curriculum: the transience of material things.

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When they’re not burning their art, or watching “The Man” go up in flames, the students will be able to enjoy food, music and rides on heavily modified cars and trucks known as “mutant vehicles.”

Festival guidelines dictate that all these experiences and the goods that come with them be given as gifts.

“You can’t buy or sell anything there. And people will just set up a hot dog stand, or a bar, or an ice cream counter,” Krupowski said. “You might just be walking along in the desert, and all of a sudden this 100-foot yacht on wheels starts passing you by. And you just jump on.”

Along with the fun, the festival hosts more serious rituals. On its final day, organizers burn a large temple. Before it’s incinerated, festivalgoers cover it with messages and fill it with symbolically significant objects.

“I had to euthanize a dog a couple of years ago, and I’ve had his ashes since then,” she said. “He’s going to the temple.

So he’s going to have his second burn.”

Krupowski was reluctant to discuss her other plans, saying she would see what happened when she got to it.

“Part of the fun of Burning Man is just finding your way through and trying to see what’s out there.”

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Larger class sizes mean less face time Larger-than-ever numbers of freshmen here at Iowa State put us in a difficult dilemma. As public funding shrinks while the student population rises and more class sections become increasingly necessary, more strain is placed on professors and students. As a result, we’re forced to increase class sizes, which leads to students losing a valuable part of their education: contact and attention.

In the back of the auditorium, it’s easy to let your attention drift. As the distance between you and the professor increases, so does the mental bridge between class and everything else. Students distract themselves with Facebook or by making their plans for after class. Besides the lack of available attention, students lose the opportunity to question and interact with the professor and one another.

Expressing yourself in class isn’t just fun — it’s a valuable part of your education. However, it’s exceedingly hard in a large class where being seen or heard is difficult, even if you can conquer the sheer intimidation of speaking in front of two, three or perhaps even 400 students. This also applies to professors; it’s no easy matter to participate in a class of 200 students, let alone teach one.

Large classes make it difficult for a professor to know all of his or her students. They’re already swamped with research and curriculum development, so it adds stress to them and diminishes the quality for us as they give less time with each student and less focus to the issue at hand.

There is no single or simple solution. Teachers’ research is a primary source of funding; if we diminish that in the expectation of greater course loads, we’re only making the problem worse for ourselves. Graduate TAs are a good solution, but their salaries are part of the funding problem, and no one would advocate limiting student admissions.

The only solution should be a compromise. Students will have to deal with those larger classes and take more initiative on their own.

Professors may have to teach an additional course each semester in order to limit class size and offer more sections. Some departments have begun to utilize undergraduate TAs for discussion groups. And the Legislature will have to keep funding at least constant, if not restore it, if the people of Iowa want to live in a state with a good education system that keeps high school students around for another four years.

Iowa State continues to grow, and unless there’s a drastic change in funding, class sizes are an issue that both students and professors are going to have to deal with. It’s our sacrifices together as a university that will create a solution.

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Fees

Illustration: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily The university should not force students to pay course fees for exams and software. Isn’t that what tuition money is for?

University course fees a no-go O

n Monday, I received my syllabi and, like most of the 28,000 ISU students, I quickly glanced over it as the teacher talked about it, then gazed off into space for the remainder of the class period. As I enter into my fourth year at Iowa State, I’m pretty familiar with general grading policies, academic dishonesty, special accommodations, and everything else on the syllabus. We are all capable of reading even if most students won’t do it. However, in my merchandising class, I noticed something new: course fees.

I’m used to paying lab fees for my design classes. These fees cover things like fabric, thread, machine maintenance, notions and sometimes the occasional field trip. The course fees the syllabus in my merchandising class went on to explain covered things such as “exams, instructional copies, VR software costs, and copies/presentation materials.”

I was slightly confused. Aren’t things like my exams what I’m paying Iowa State thousands of dollars a year for? The instructor went on to say that if we needed to make copies or prints for our projects, we could keep the receipt and be reimbursed for them if they were done at an on-campus printing site.

By Jessica.Brunning @iowastatedaily.com I also happen to know from working at Campus Organizations Accounting that receiving reimbursements is extremely inconvenient and I’m willing to bet that most students won’t want to go through the hassle.

Well, the college can just pocket that extra money from the fees then. I’m fairly certain my three exams for the course won’t cost the $25 they’re asking for, and I don’t even know what the hell VR software is. I know, I’m not the most technologically savvy person, but that is beside the point.

So, this is how the College of Human Sciences is making ends meet. Starting a few years ago they started requiring students to print their own syllabi, and now we have to pay for our tests, which I have concluded from dis-

cussions about blue books is possibly slightly illegal given the fact that students, in essence, must pay for their grade. Students pay their tuition, which is an agreement between them and the university that they will receive a set amount of education, services, etc. for the price they pay. However, the university breaches that agreement when it forces the students to pay an additional “tax” in order to receive a final grade.

But the university will continue to cut the budgets to poor little programs like apparel, educational studies and hospitality management and force them to scrimp and scrape to make ends meet at the expense of their students. All while Iowa State makes calls to donors asking them to pay for a new scoreboard and football facility instead of supporting the actual educational institution that allows collegiate sports to exist. So to those of you that actually read the newspaper, say something. And to the rest of the student population ... continue to live in quiet oblivion.

Jessica Brunning is a senior in political

science and apparel merchandising design and production from Castana, Iowa.

Apple

Take lesson from Steve Jobs’ past W

hile some people think his story has been overplayed by news outlets in the last week, Steve Jobs is a man who deserves the attention he has received as the curtain falls on his amazing career. I’ll start off saying that, while I’m not a Steve Jobs fan or an Apple fanboy, I do have to admire his products, his achievements and his career path.

How did one man who seemed more preoccupied searching for his spiritual self during his college years, and only toyed with computers in his spare time, manage to revolutionize the technological world?

Well, that is a very good question to ask.

For those who don’t know his history, Steve Jobs was an adopted child who grew up in San Francisco in the ’60s, the days in which man first walked on the moon, integrated circuits were invented, race and gender equality were being established, and students were revolting against popular culture. Jobs was influenced by all these things, but one of his biggest early achievements was being noticed by Hewlett-Packard employee Steve Wozniak as he became interested in computers during his high school years.

Jobs would later attend college, dropout, become a Buddhist in India and return to California before working with his friend Wozniak again. It was in 1976 that Jobs convinced Wozniak they should commercialize a simple computer design Wozniak had created and convinced a local shop to buy the computers for

By Rick.Hanton @iowastatedaily.com $500 apiece. It was that simple.

With Wozniak’s brilliant engineering skills and some of Jobs’ shrewd business decisions that kept company ownership in their hands, Apple Computer had made their roots.

Their second design, the Apple II, is generally credited with creating the home computer market with its simple interface, easeof-use and easy setup. Jobs was always pressing the envelope and pushing his employees to create a more user-friendly experience.

This is what got the 24-year-old founder famously interested in the interesting things Xerox was doing at its Palo Alto research center nearby. After seeing the graphical interface Xerox invented there years before its time, Jobs set out to copy it — creating the graphical Apple Lisa and Apple Macintosh in 1984.

Even when he was then fired from Apple in 1985, Jobs went off and created the NeXT computer, which used object-oriented programming — now a standard of most software — and then-revolutionary devices like the Ethernet port (which can now connect your computer to the Internet). On that machine he could send multime-

dia emails and could eventually use the newly created CD-ROM drive to load programs. As Jobs explained to news outlets at the time, the NeXT computers were far ahead of their time and eventually their NeXTSTEP operating system was bought by Apple and became the stepping stone to the current Mac OS X. From his early days learning about computing with Wozniak, Jobs always wanted the computers they developed to have the very best technology possible coupled with the best design in existence. Jobs has delved in software, engineering and design but has never tied himself solely to one discipline. He thinks about developing the best, and only the best, holistic product and pushes his employees to develop it as quickly as possible.

One of Jobs’ greatest gifts is his intuition about what the user needs. When Jobs designs a new product, he can visualize how it should work and function for the user. It was said that during the last decade one of the toughest achievements for Apple product managers was to get a finished product past Jobs. The brilliance of Apple is they have never been hindered by what “the market” wanted. The company took risks to design devices to fill gaps in current technology with unique combinations of both new and old technologies.

For years, if a new product didn’t live up to all of Jobs’ expectations, it was sent back to the drawing board. One requirement of Jobs’ position is to have

a completely open mind. Apple thrives on the mentality that if you throw enough smart people at a hard problem, anything can be possible.

This is something to think about as you go through your college career. The young people of the last few decades have accomplished some amazing world-changing feats because they pushed boundaries and were never told what could not be done.

The moon landings in the ’60s, the creation of consumer electronics in the 1970s, Jobs’ and Gates’ work to create personal computing in the ’80s, the Internet in the ’90s and social media revolution in the new millennium were all achieved by people in their 20s who were willing to dream. What will our generation create and develop? How can you and I change the world for the better?

Learn from Steve Jobs’ example: Do your dreaming first, unbounded by real-world constraints. Then work with diverse people, diverse techniques and diverse technologies to bring your dreams to life. When you’re done, you will have something your customer wants, something beautiful that seems as if it is from the future. As Jobs once noted about Apple computers: Technology alone is not enough. It’s technology married with the liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that makes our hearts sing.

Rick Hanton is a senior in computer engineering from Arden Hills, Minn.

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Monday, August 29, 2011 | Iowa State Daily | OPINION | 9A

Guest column

Irene might lead to significant political changes

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urricane Irene is a great case study of the idea that big government is our enemy. I teach classes on coastal policy. I also work with the Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center on these issues, so I’m very interested in how events such as hurricanes impact the discussion about the role of government. And the 2012 election is all about big government. Texas Gov. Rick Perry has even said that, if elected president, he hopes to make the federal government “irrelevant” to average Americans.

If climate change (regardless of how much is natural or caused by human activity) is progressing as we assume, coastal zones may see repeat performances such as Irene and therefore need to plan long range (not just respond to an incident such as a hurricane). It’s an opportunity to assess a range of political and policy issues.

First, low-lying coastal areas have sensitive infrastructure including airports, railroad tracks, power plants, subway facilities and tunnels, fuel and chemical storage facilities and ports, sewage treatment plants, and military bases (mostly Navy and Air Force) that all become extremely vulnerable when a huge storm hits the coast. The Air Force moved its airplanes and the Navy sailed its ships out of port (ships are built to take rough seas but not to be slammed to bits against steel and concrete docks).

A Department of Defense report has warned about the risks to critical coastal infrastructure and even suggested moving many of these facilities to safer areas. Of course that’s a monumental task. I was in Texas and Louisiana this spring for a conference and some research and visited the miles after miles of oil refineries, pipelines, gas, and shipping facilities. These are at risk when the weather (or climate) turns sour.

Second, the robustness of local, state and federal government agencies is tested when “normal” suddenly is interrupted. Katrina was

Photo courtesy of Thinkstock Political and policy issues can be assessed during periods of extreme weather. Tropical Storm Irene gave the government an opportunity to consider its role in storm damage.

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a wake-up call. Government at every level in the city, the state of Louisiana and, of course, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, failed to perform. Every subsequent incident is a further test of the effectiveness of leadership as well as government coordination in addressing short as well as long-term consequences of large storms and sea level rises.

Third, most East Coast beaches are artificial — renourished with sand that is slurried from offshore to restore the beaches after storms.

This costs hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. And has to be redone periodically because of wave action, severe storms and wind simply erodes the beaches. That’s the “life of a beach.”

How do fiscal conservatives (the tea party) feel about rebuilding the beaches on the Vineyard, Folly Beach, South Carolina, the Jersey Shore and along the Gold Coast of Florida at the expense of taxpayers in Idaho and Iowa?

Fourth, these disasters are also a good test of coastal civil society. How do people respond to government evacuation warnings? Does looting take place as the storm hits and after the storm leaves? What’s the public law enforcement action to prevent this? Do people protect their own properties?

Fifth, how good is the follow-up after the storm has passed? Are sensitive and at-risk barrier islands just rebuilt as they were or are there buy-out programs to set aside the most vulnerable places to let nature move the sand and dunes? Are bridges built over breaks in barrier islands (inlets where storms literally cut the island in half)? This is a huge issue because the post-hurricane infrastructure rebuild is a massive public works job and very expensive to taxpayers.

In a year when big government is the theme for election 2012, this storm could suggest some important insights.

There is nothing better to illustrate how much we need effective government than a disaster such as a hurricane. We can rant and rave abstractly about how bad “Big Government” is.

We can cut in spending to the bone. But even the most fiscally conservative person expects the governor and his/her staff to issue emergency orders and take over during a tornado, flood or hurricane (not Microsoft, Wal-Mart, Verizon, Wall Street bankers, or even BP). We expect the National Guard to turn out, FEMA to be there, flood insurance to help rebuild our homes (private insurance companies wouldn’t dream of taking such a risk!) and a robust first responder system to be available to help injured folks.

After the storm has passed we want our roads and bridges fixed quickly and count on county, municipal, state and federal disaster declarations and the huge stream of taxpayer money that comes with those declarations. I’ll bet even Govs. Chris Christie and Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul expect government help. I’m waiting for them to bitch about big spending and big government.

Irene may well change some of the conversation about the role of government as we move to 2012. Do the citizens of the U.S. East Coast want the federal government to be “irrelevant” to them as a hurricane hits their towns and neighborhoods?

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Socialists would be disappointed in Barack Obama

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ARXIST!” “SOCIALIST!” If you were to go to any tea party rally in this country, odds are you will hear these two words being shouted into bullhorns, megaphones and microphones, as well as from random people in the crowd. They are more than likely using these words to describe our president, Barack Obama, because the policies enacted under his presidency, in their view, are socialist in nature.

These charges have mainly been promulgated by conservative news outlets such as Fox News and Drudge Report, as well as the troupe of right-wing talk radio hosts on a daily basis. The Health Insurance Reform, signed by Obama last year, was reported by the aforementioned as a “government takeover of health care,” which was complete with the oh-so-scary and oh-so-false “death panels.” A lie perpetuated mainly by Sarah Palin, whose expansive knowledge of health insurance policy led her to such a reasonable and rational

By Jacob.Witte @iowastatedaily.com accusation.

Let us consider, however, the notion that the Affordable Care Act is in fact a socialist or Marxist policy. One defining aspect of a socialist health care system is that there is one unitary health care system; the National Health Service in the U.K. is a good example, where doctors, nurses, hospitals and everything in between dealing with medicine is funded by the government.

While America does have several government-funded health care agencies (Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Affairs, etc.), a purely socialist Affordable Care Act would provide for all Americans to either enter into one heath care body, or allow anyone to opt in to Medicare

(this provision, while on the table at one point, was scrapped). If Obama was a devout Marxist, would he be truly proud of the Affordable Care Act, which mandates that individuals purchase private, for-profit health insurance? Would he brag that it did not create a single-payer system?

Would he be satisfied if the private, for-profit health insurance industry was not completely destroyed and replaced by a National Health System-type program? I will leave the answer to you.

Another topic that seems to be peddled around again and again is taxes. At the end of 2010, Obama signed into law the extension of the Bush tax cuts for an extra two years. This one is pretty easy to deconstruct. If our president was a Marxist through and through, there is no possible way he would be able to live with himself after this decision.

Although Obama was upset that the tax cuts had to continue for two years, a Marxist Obama would call for the outright seizure of all of the wealthy in this country’s assets, or enough

of their wealth to redistribute it to the proletariat of this country. And also, many tea partyers use T.E.A. as an abbreviation for “Taxed Enough Already.” However, the tax burden on Americans is at a 58-year low.

Let me repeat that. Fifty-eight-year low. Clearly we are not being taxed enough if the last time we saw taxes this low was during the Eisenhower administration.

The Obama administration also has seen the extension and continuation of both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as the bombings of Libya earlier this year. Since Marxist theorists generally see international war as capitalist imperialism, which only seeks to benefit war profiteers and the ruling class to further enslave the working class, would our “Marxist” president be able to support the continuation of these wars, or the bombings of another coincidentally oil-rich nation in Libya?

One final aspect that seeks to support the claim that our president is far from a Marxist is his view on religion. Marx himself was an atheist

and outright despised religion, calling it the “opiate of the masses.” If you have been following the right-wing attacks on Obama since 2008, you either know him (falsely) as a radical Christian with anti-American views fostered by Jeremiah Wright, or you know him (also falsely) as a Muslim.

Either way, the term “atheist” never enters the picture.

So at the end of the day, it is clear to see how the president is not a Marxist, and that his policies are hardly socialist. It seems that conservatives do not seem to know anything about what socialism really is or have any idea what Marx wrote about. One can know and understand Marxism without condoning it, and therein lies the problem: To even know or understand Marxism in today’s hyper-capitalist, knee-jerk reaction society tends to make one a Marxist without even realizing it. And we all know there is nothing worse than a Marxist.

Jacob Witte is a senior in political science from Callender, Iowa.

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New York Stock Exchange

Wall Street opens for trading The Associated Press

NEW YORK — The opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange will ring on time Monday.

The operators of the historic Big Board and other major U.S. exchanges said they plan to open for trading as usual.

The announcements came after city officials said damage from Tropical Storm Irene wasn’t as severe as feared in New York’s financial district.

It wasn’t clear Sunday afternoon whether the city’s subways and buses would be running normally in time for the Monday morning commute, and flooding and downed trees were obstructing tracks throughout the major commuter rail systems that bring workers into town from the New York, Connecticut and New Jersey suburbs. The world’s biggest transit system was shut down ahead of the storm.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg lifted the evacuation order for downtown Manhattan, effective 3 p.m.

Weather has shut down or delayed the opening of the stock markets about two dozen times in the past. The most recent weather delay occurred on Jan. 8, 1996, when the New York Stock Exchange did not open until 11 a.m. due to a snowstorm.

Over the years, the weather has become less of a concern for markets because computerized trading has cut the need for live brokers to shout orders on the floor of major exchanges.

The major exchanges said they were prepared to open even if the storm’s impact had been severe.

The New York Stock Exchange said it could have operated at full capacity by using its electronic exchange, the NYSE Arca in Chicago, which it acquired in 2006.

Nasdaq OMX spokesman Frank DeMaria said it could have handled trading through its exchange in Stockholm, Sweden.

When broker Peter Tuchman started working on the New York Stock Exchange

Environment

California considers foam container band

By Sheila V. Kumar The Associated Press

Photo: Jason DeCrow/The Associated Press A man walks through floodwaters along the seawall in Battery Park as Tropical Storm Irene passes through New York on Sunday.

Irene threatened Wall Street, but it will open on time Monday.

25 years ago, he said there were about 1,500 traders on the floor and all transactions were made through “open outcry and paper.” Now he said there are just about 350 brokers. And most transactions are electronic.

A spokesman for the NYSE says its building and systems are all in working order. The owners of the Nasdaq stock exchange, Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade also expect to open normally.

SACRAMENTO, Calif.

— Restaurant owner Gary Honeycutt said a push in California’s state Legislature to ban the plastic foam containers he uses to serve up takeout meals could cost him thousands of dollars in an industry where profit margins already are razor thin.

BJ’s Kountry Kitchen, in the heart of California’s farm country, uses about 26,000 of the 9-inch foam clamshells a year, mostly for takeout by the customers who come in for the restaurant’s popular breakfast omelets.

“We put cheese on those omelets. And when we put the cheese on, it’s really hot and bubbly and it goes right through the biodegradable stuff,” he said. He expects his costs would more than double if the state requires him to use biodegradable cartons.

The bill by Democratic state Sen. Alan Lowenthal,

would prohibit restaurants, grocery stores and other vendors from dispensing food in expanded polystyrene containers, commonly known as Styrofoam, beginning in 2016. If signed into law, the measure would make California the first to institute a statewide ban on such containers. More than 50 California cities and counties have similar bans The bill would exempt school districts and city and county jurisdictions if they implemented programs that recycled more than 60 percent of their foam waste.

Lowenthal said litter from the foam containers is one of the most abundant forms of debris found in city streets, sewers and beaches.

“It’s not biodegradable, it’s not compostable, and if it’s in the water for a long time, it breaks up into small beads and lasts for thousands of years. It costs millions to clean up beaches,” he said.

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Hurricane Katrina

Lower 9th Ward still bleak 6 years after storm plans to rebuild a high school and pave the neighborhood’s roads. And actor Wendell Pierce, who stars in an HBO series about New Orleans, is backing a new supermarket for an area that hasn’t had one in 20 years.

While residents welcome the news, they remain skeptical. Promises have been dashed too many times.

“Look around you at the Katrina houses!” said Robert Stark, a 54-year-old disabled veteran, sweating in stifling August heat on a porch looking onto Flood Street. He waved at two vacant crumbling houses, like so many that dot the Lower 9th Ward.

He shook his head and added: “Look at the grass.”

In many lots, fields of high grass grow in place of houses. “There ain’t nothing new down here. Nothing new ... nothing new.”

That’s not completely true.

Since Katrina, the predominantly black neighborhood has been the site of rebuilding by environmental groups and thousands of volunteers. There’s now an

By Cain Burdeau The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — In New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward, the grasses grow taller than people and street after street is scarred by empty decaying houses, the lives that once played out inside their walls hardly imaginable now.

St. Claude Avenue, the once moderately busy commercial thoroughfare, looks bleak.

Most buildings are shuttered, “For Sale” signs stuck on their sides. There aren’t many buyers. And the businesses that are open are mostly corner stores where folks buy pricey cigarettes, liquor and packaged food.

Six years after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, the New Orleans neighborhood that was hardest hit still looks like a ghost town.

Redevelopment has been slow in coming, and the neighborhood has just 5,500 residents — one-third its pre-Katrina population.

But politicians, investors and celebrities continue to promise a better future. City leaders recently announced

eco-friendly community center and a cluster of more than 50 modernistic houses, built with the help of actor Brad Pitt. It sits near where the floodwall toppled on Aug. 29, 2005, killing dozens of people and swamping thousands of homes with floodwaters that reached rooftops.

Also, a charter school has been rebuilt and many of the shotgun-style homes and Creole cottages in the older part of the neighborhood, Holy Cross, are a display of bright New Orleans colors and cheery yards.

But residents of the Lower 9th Ward, downriver from the French Quarter, nevertheless feel left behind.

Other parts of New Orleans have flourished thanks to federal recovery dollars that have brought new businesses, schools and streets.

Entrepreneurship and civic engagement is up, city schools have shown test-score gains and the middle class is growing, according to a new report by the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, a group tracking the city’s recovery. Even crime —

still nearly twice the national average — is being held in check and falling, the report said. Meanwhile, the Army Corps of Engineers is getting closer to finishing $14 billion in work to better shield the city from future hurricanes.

“Some of the data shows that New Orleans is rebuilding better than before,” said Allison Plyer, deputy director of the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center.

Still, Plyer said the Lower 9th Ward is among a number of low-income communities that have had difficulty rebuilding since Katrina’s flooding.

In the Lower 9th Ward, the fire station for Engine 39 hasn’t been rebuilt. Instead, the firefighters use a trailer.

Schools and churches are boarded up.

Scores of houses still bear the markings of search-andrescue crews — the now familiar “X’’ spray painted on doors and the front of houses to designate whether a building had been searched, by whom and whether any bodies had been found inside.

The only difference is they are faded now.

Photo: Gerald Herbert/The Associated Press A destroyed home sits on Flood Street in New Orleans on Thursday. The Lower 9th Ward was hit the hardest when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast six years ago.

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9/11

Montana town provides glimpse of patriotism

By Nicholas K. Geranios The Associated Press SUPERIOR, Mont. — Longtime guidance counselor Dan Lucier studies hallwaymounted photos of past graduating classes at Superior High School, pointing to the teenagers who joined the military.

There are usually one or two in each class of about 30 students who graduate from the one-story wooden school in Superior, a town of 900 residents in the forested northern Rockies.

But the class of 2003 was the most striking for its military service, coming two years after the attacks of Sept. 11 and just months after the country went to war with Iraq. Three graduates of Superior High enlisted in the military, so many that the county briefly held the distinction of producing the highest number of Army recruits per capita in the nation.

One became a military doctor, one is a sergeant currently serving in Iraq, and the third became a bomb disposal

expert who lost both arms when an explosive device she was trying to dismantle detonated. The three made their decisions to join the Army independently, but their experiences form a tiny, unique microcosm of young Americans who signed up for the military after 9/11.

Their service also demonstrates how the legacy of 9/11 rippled across the nation, from ground zero and into small towns like Superior thousands of miles away. Dr. Tim Park, 26, a member of that class of 2003, said he joined the Army out of a sense of patriotism.

“When you hike up one of our community’s surrounding mountain trails, look out onto the grand vista below, and then go home to your warm, peaceful neighborhood sitting next to the lazily flowing Clark Fork, it’s hard not to fall in love with your country,” Park wrote in an email from San Antonio, where he is a captain and surgery resident at Brooke Army Medical Center.

Ten years after Sept. 11,

Photo: Nicholas K. Geranios/The Associated Press A bulletin board on display at the Mineral County Courthouse in Superior, Mont., celebrates the county’s military recruits.

recruiting numbers are down, but Superior remains a patriotic place. Many homes fly the American flag. The bridge across the Clark Fork River was renamed the Mineral County Veterans Memorial Bridge after 9/11. The county courthouse contains a homemade display of photos and news clippings about residents who have served or are serving

in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The display includes photos of Park, plus former Superior High basketball star Mandi Metzger and Mary Dague, all members of that Class of 2003. Metzger is a staff sergeant, currently deployed in Iraq. Dague lost both arms to a roadside bomb and now lives in the suburbs of Seattle, where she is an inspi-

rational figure to her friends.

Park said he was not surprised that Superior led the nation in recruiting. People raised in close-knit communities often see serving in the military as a noble job, he said.

“I was taught at an early age to not take anything for granted, and to especially appreciate the freedoms we enjoy in our country,” he said.

“I wouldn’t say that people are unusually patriotic in Mineral County. What I do think is true is that those of us from Mineral County have a heart-strings connection to our country.”

Park is hoping to become a trauma surgeon, so he can help wounded military members.

Metzger did not want to go to college, and enlisted shortly after graduation, her mother Diane said.

“I was surprised,” she said of her daughter’s career choice.

“But once she got in, she took off. It was exactly what she needed to do.”

She ended up going to college, after all, while in the

military and has an associate’s degree in management, her mother said.

Diane Metzger admits she worries about her daughter’s safety in Iraq. Mandi Metzger works in food service, which includes delivering food to soldiers in the field, her mother said. Her daughter was looking for an opportunity when she joined the Army, and now will make the military her career.

Tired of waiting tables in Superior, Dague enlisted in the Army. She rejected traditional female jobs and became a bomb disposal sergeant, part of a team that detonated or dismantled the war’s ubiquitous improvised explosive devices.

On Nov. 4, 2007, a blasting cap she was working on went off and blew off both of her arms.

That made her one of the few double amputees among female veterans.

Dague did not return several messages seeking an interview. But her mother, Terra Pruitt, said her daughter would have joined the service even if 9/11 had not happened.

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AVCA Top 25 1: Penn State (54) 2: Southern California (5) 3: California (1) 4: Texas 5: Nebraska 6: Stanford 7: Washington 8: Illinois 9: Florida 10: Hawai’i 11: UCLA 12: Minnesota 13: Purdue 14: Northern Iowa 15: Colorado State 16: Oklahoma 17: Duke 18: Iowa State 19: Dayton 20: San Diego 21: Ohio State 22: Long Beach State 23: Tulsa 24: Michigan 25: Tennessee

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‘Everybody can play’ Photo: Kendra Plathe/Iowa State Daily Josiah Ruhland, sophomore in pre-architecture, practices for the Iowa State Rugby Club on Sunday at the Lied Recreation Athletic Center. Iowa State was ranked No. 9 by the Princeton Review on its “Everyone Plays Intramural Sports” list and No. 18 on the “Jock Schools” list.

The Associated Press

California beats Japan 2-1 to take LLWS title SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — California returned the Little League World Series to the United States with the type of victory even the big leaguers dream about.

Nick Pratto singled in the winning run with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of sixth inning to give the boys from Huntington Beach a 2-1 victory Sunday over Hamamatsu City, Japan, and a World Series championship.

With runners on first and second, an error by Japan’s shortstop on what could have been an inningending double play loaded the bases for California. After a force play at the plate, the 12-year-old Pratto smacked a solid liner to center off reliever Kazuto Takakura that brought pinchrunner Eric Anderson home with the winning run.

Pratto tossed his helmet into the air after rounding first before his teammates mobbed him in the infield.

“USA! USA,” yelled fans before Pratto’s single. A U.S. team has now won six out of the last seven World Series, with Japan’s win last year the exception.

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Track and field:

Bolt false starts, is eliminated from 100 final DAEGU, South Korea — Usain Bolt was eliminated from the 100-meter final Sunday at the world championships because of a false start.

The world-record holder and defending champion jumped the gun and was led off the track.

In Bolt’s absence, Jamaican teammate Yohan Blake won the gold in 9.92 seconds. Walter Dix of the United States was second in 10.08 second, and Kim Collins of Saint Kitts and Nevis was third in 10.09.

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Iowa State ranks on Princeton Review list

By Alex.Halsted @iowastatedaily.com ISU students love their sports, according to Princeton Review.

Following surveys completed by more than 122,000 students across the country, Princeton Review, a test preparation and admissions consulting company, has ranked Iowa State at No. 9 on its “Everyone Plays Intramural Sports” list and No. 18 on its “Jock Schools” list.

The lists, which are just two of 62 released by Princeton Review, are compiled based on 80-question surveys presented to students at 376 schools across the country, including Iowa State.

David Soto, director of College Rankings and Ratings for Princeton Review, said the universities included are only the best of the best and rankings come straight from what the company perceives to be the true experts.

“We’re only looking at the top 15 percent of all four-year universities,” Soto said. “We go directly to who we believe to be the college experts and those are the current students.”

The surveys, which are completed by 375 students per school on average, use a Likert scale to determine the

Everybody can play, everybody can be a champion and everyone can enjoy it.”

— Garry Greenlee extent to which a student agrees or disagrees with a variety of questions regarding the university — including the popularity of athletics.

That’s where Iowa State scored its highest marks.

To determine the rankings for the list “Everyone Plays Intramural Sports,” survey participants were asked the question, “How popular are intramural sports at your school?”

Students, in general, agreed that intramural sports are popular on campus, and Garry Greenlee, associate director of Recreation Services, said the ranking speaks highly of the university’s intramural sports offering.

“It tells me that we offer a wide variety of different activities,” Greenlee said. “When you talk about the variety of the 40 to 50 different sports that we offer, I think that says a lot.”

Based on several significant surveys over the years, Rec services said around 70 percent of students play an intramural sport at least once during

their time at Iowa State.

When looking at the percentage of students who use Recreation Services during their stay, the number increases to more than 90 percent. Greenlee said it all comes down to enjoyment.

“You can find something to do with our intramural program no matter what your skill level is,” Greenlee said. “Everybody can play, everybody can be a champion and everybody can enjoy it.”

The positive ranking for intramurals helped play a part in the school’s No. 18 ranking in the “Jock Schools” list, which Soto said is based on a culmination of survey questions.

“We’re looking directly at the popularity of fraternities and sororities as well as intercollegiate athletics and intramurals on campus,” Soto said.

Iowa State ranked highly because of the popularity of its 55 fraternities and sororities, its intramural program and the increasing popularity of intercollegiate athletics.

“I think any time you make a top 20 ranking when you’re looking at roughly 400 schools, it’s something positive,” said Steve Malchow, senior associate athletics director. “We’ve seen the enthusiasm, so I’m glad someone else recognized that. That’s a feather in the cap well earned by Iowa State students.”

The enthusiasm has shown this fall through ticket sales. Student foot-

Previous Princeton Review rankings “Everyone Plays Intramural Sports” 2011: No. 9 2010-08: N/A 2007-06: No. 8 2005: No. 14 2004-03: No. 11 1992-2002: N/A

“Jock Schools” 2011: No. 18 2010-08: N/A 2007-06: No. 12 2005: No. 20 2004: No. 8 2003: No. 16 1992-2002: N/A

ball season tickets have already surpassed last season’s total and student tickets for men’s basketball sold out faster than ever before this past summer, said ISU Athletic Director Jamie Pollard.

Because of the students’ growing interest, Malchow said, Iowa State has been highly ranked.

“College sports are obviously extremely popular across the country and when you’re playing at the top level like we are, that’s an easy draw; people want to be involved with that,” Malchow said.

“There is a common thread: our athletics events are fun to come to, the kids enjoy it and they’re buying in.”

Racing

Iowa Speedway: A family business

By Jeremiah.Davis @iowastatedaily.com Since its inception in 2005, Iowa Speedway has been a family affair. The 7/8-mile speedway located in the hills outside Newton was developed and built by a family company, then sold in June to another.

Brothers Stan and Conrad Clement, along with other family members, bought the speedway on June 30 from Manatt’s Inc. — a family construction business based in Brooklyn, Iowa.

“The Manatt family that owned it — Manatt’s Construction — they had a five-year plan when they financed it and built it,” Conrad said. “And they wanted to be out of it in five years, so that’s what we were doing.”

Conrad, the new chairman, came on board in June with his sons Tracy and Eric, who each now own a minority stake. They joined Stan and his sons Luke and Tyler. Stan, who was CEO since the beginning of Iowa Speedway, simply reunited a family that has been in business together for years.

“We’d always been in agribusiness, Conrad and I together years back,” Stan said. “[We were] in the grain elevator business back in the ‘70s and ‘80s, and I’ve always been kind of a little bit in the development and real estate kind of thing. We had Clement Grain Co.” Both just high school graduates, Stan and Conrad are the very definition of self-made men.

The brothers worked right from graduation, both climbing the proverbial ladder of success to become the heads of companies.

“I was the president, chairman and CEO of Featherlite Inc. for 18 years,” Conrad said. “We sold that company. Eric, my youngest son, he’s still the executive vice president and general manager of Featherlite, Inc.” The trailer-building company — which provides the large haulers that transport cars and equipment from shop to track on race weekends —connected Conrad with motorsports in a big way. He said he’s been involved with NASCAR, IndyCar and many other major motorsports since 1991 with Featherlite.

Photo: Jeremiah Davis/Iowa State Daily CEO of Iowa Speedway Stan Clement stands with his brother, chairman Conrad Clement, in front of the Newton Club, a luxury seating area at the speedway. The two were born and raised in Newton, Iowa.

But when Stan saw the opportunity to take over ownership of the Speedway when the Manatts’ fiveyear plan was up, he brought in his older brother — and also gave NASCAR champion Rusty Wallace, who designed the track, 5 percent ownership — to help further the goals he and his family have.

“That’s our long-range goal, there’s no question about that,” Conrad said of getting a Sprint Cup race at Iowa Speedway. “There’s just no dates available, and [NASCAR is] not going to extend the schedule out, one of [the other dates] has to be moved from another race, and that’s easier said than done. It takes time.

“We feel we’ll be able to get that done. We’ve got the track. Everybody likes the Iowa Speedway.”

Iowa Speedway currently has the ability to seat

more than 48,000 people, but would likely need to expand to 70,000 to 80,000 to facilitate a Sprint Cup crowd. That, both Stan and Conrad said, is easy enough to accomplish.

“The infrastructure is here, it was built for expansion,” Conrad said. “There’s really no limit. It’s just a matter of how high.”

Conrad went on to say he thought the chances of getting a Sprint Cup date at Iowa Speedway was in the “high 90 percents” in the next “two-three-four years.” Stan echoed his brother by, not surprisingly, saying he believes his facility is second to none.

“I don’t know what [track] it’d be,” Stan said of any other tracks being ahead of Iowa Speedway for the shot at a Sprint Cup date. “There’s nobody better than us. We like to brag a little bit, but it’s the truth.”

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Football

Big 12 teams prepare for 2011 season 59 percent of his passes and threw for only 10 touchdowns as the starting quarterback last season.

Kansas State Wildcats (7-6, 3-5)

By Daily Staff Baylor Bears (7-6, 4-4 Big 12 last season) Key Player: QB Robert Griffin III — 304454 pass completions, 3,501 yards, 22 TD, 269.3 yards/ game last season Outlook: Baylor is coming off its first bowl appearance — a 38-14 loss to Illinois in the Texas Bowl — since 1994 led

by Robert Griffin III. The junior quarterback combined for 30 total touchdowns — 22 passing and eight rushing — last season and was also second on the team in rushing yards with 635.

Key Player: DB David Garrett — 92 total tackles, 15 tackles for loss, 3 sacks, 1 interception last season Outlook: The departures of quarterback Carson Coffman and running back Daniel Thomas will prove to be a major setback for Kansas State, which is coming off of a 36-34 loss to Syracuse in the inaugural Pinstripe Bowl.

Bill Snyder will be entering his 20th overall season as coach of the Wildcats, as well as his third since taking over after the firing of Ron Prince in 2009.

Kansas Jayhawks (3-9, 1-7) Key Player: LB Steven Johnson — 95 total tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, 2 sacks last season Outlook: Turner Gill is coming off a nightmare of an inaugural season as the Jayhawks’ coach, with the team’s only conference win coming off of a 52-45 comeback against now-departed Colorado.

Running back James Sims led the Jayhawk ground attack with 742 rushing yards and nine touchdowns on 168 carries in 11 games as a true freshman.

No. 8 Texas A&M Aggies (9-4, 6-2)

File photo: Gene Pavelko/Iowa State Daily The Cyclones take on Oklahoma State on Nov. 7, 2009. The Cyclones will face every Big 12 team this season after the conference shrunk to 10 teams following the exit of Nebraska and Colorado.

No. 21 Missouri Tigers (10-3, 6-2)

No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners (12-2, 6-2)

Key Player: TE Michael Egnew — 90 receptions, 762 receiving yards, 8.5 yards/ catch, 5 TD, 58.6 yards/game last season Outlook: The absence of quarterback Blaine Gabbert, who was picked 10th overall by the Jacksonville Jaguars in last April’s NFL draft, will create some big questions for Missouri.

The Tigers led the Big 12 in scoring defense last season, allowing only 16.1 points per game, which was good for sixth nationally.

Key Player: QB Landry Jones — 405-617 pass completions, 4,718 pass yards, 38 TD, 337.0 yards/game last season Outlook: The Sooners come into the 2011 season as the No. 1 team in college football. Senior wide receiver Ryan Broyles led the Big 12 in receptions last season with 131 with 14 touchdown receptions and is poised for another breakout year as junior quarterback Landry Jones’ premier target.

Key Player: WR Justin Blackmon — 111 receptions, 1,782 receiving yards, 16.1 yards/catch, 20 TD, 148.5 yards/game last season Outlook: Despite entering the season ranked No. 9 in the preseason AP top 25 poll, Oklahoma State has played the role of little brother to instate rival Oklahoma, which has beaten the Cowboys eight straight times dating back to 2003. All eyes will be on quarterback Brandon Weeden and receiver Justin Blackmon,

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Texas Longhorns (5-7, 2-6) Key Player: LB Keenan Robinson — 106 total tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, 2 interceptions last season Outlook: The Longhorns settled for an unthought of 5-7 season last year, missing a bowl selection for the first time since 1997 and the first time in the Mack Brown era. All eyes will be on quarterback Garrett Gilbert, who completed only

Texas Tech Red Raiders (8-5, 3-5) Key Player: RB Eric Stephens — 127 carries, 668 rush yards, 5.3 yards/ carry, 6 TD, 51.4 yards/game last season Outlook: TTU coach Tommy Tuberville is finally getting his feet under him, having led the Red Raiders to an 8-5 season that included a 4538 victory over Northwestern in the TicketCity Bowl. Junior Seth Doege will be taking over for Taylor Potts at quarterback this season, having only played in two games and throwing for no touchdowns last season.

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Key Player: RB Cyrus Gray — 200 carries, 1,133 rush yards, 5.7 yards/ carry, 12 TD, 87.2 yards/game last season Outlook: After having expressed interest in departing from the Big 12, Texas A&M will be hoping to make a statement in what it hopes will be its last season in the conference. Returning for the Aggies is wide receiving tandem Jeff Fuller and Ryan Swope, who combined for 1,800 receiving yard and 16 touchdowns last season.

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Soccer

Cyclones take down No. 23 Washington 2-0

By Dylan.Montz @iowastatedaily.com

In a nonconference match on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, Iowa State blanked the No. 23 Washington Huskies 2-0 in the first meeting between the two programs.

The Cyclones (3-0-1) have yet to give up a goal in the first four games this season. The streak dates back to last season, as Iowa State has shut out its last six opponents making this the longest streak in program history.

The 3-0-1 record is the best start to the season after four games in ISU soccer history.

In 2010, the Huskies (0-2-1) advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Championships.

With no score after the first half, the Cyclones made the score 1-0 coming from a goal by sophomore Meredith Skitt at the 59:10 mark.

Sophomore Emily Goldstein was credited with the assist.

At the 67:01 mark, sophomore Brittany Morgan scored a goal, putting the Cyclones up 2-0 over the Huskies in a score that would eventually be the final. Morgan’s goal was assisted by fellow sophomores Jennifer

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By the numbers 6 Games in a row the Cyclones have played without allowing a goal.

3-0-1 The best four-game start in ISU program history.

Dominguez and Margaret Powers.

Defensively, sophomore goalkeeper Maddie Jobe continues to provide valuable minutes for Iowa State, playing for the full 90 minutes against Washington and recording five saves.

Jobe has not allowed a goal in 550 minutes of play dating back to the 2010 season and so far this year has recorded four wins and shutouts.

After one half of play, Iowa State led Washington in shots 7-3, but the Huskies would come back at the end

Photo: Manfred Brugger/Iowa State Daily Emily Goldstein throws the ball in bounds Aug. 21 against Northern Illinois.

of the match to have an 18-14 advantage in that category. The Cyclones did, however, have the upper hand in shots on goal, edging the Huskies six

to five.

Iowa State also edged Washington in corner-kicks by a tally of 7-5.

The next contest for the Cyclones

will be Friday at the Minnesota Invitational in Minneapolis. Iowa State will take on Milwaukee in a game scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m.

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Track and field

Double-amputee reaches world 400 semifinals

By Pat Graham The Associated Press

DAEGU, South Korea — The double-amputee sprinter known as the “Blade Runner” is steadily stealing Usain Bolt’s stage at the world championships.

Bounding along on his carbon-fiber blades, Oscar Pistorius is proving he indeed belongs on the same track at major meets as able-bodied athletes.

On Sunday, in his opening heat of the 400 meters, the South African finished third in 45.39 seconds to advance to the following day’s semifinals.

Although Bolt clearly remains the face of track, the 24-year-old Pistorius is demonstrating there’s room for more. He never before has competed for a major title and might not even make it to Tuesday’s final, but his story remains an inspiration to many.

Not to mention a contentious topic for others, who think the blades give Pistorius

an unfair advantage.

For Pistorius, this was simply a chance to compete against the best. He fought off nerves and tracked Femi Ogunode of Qatar down the back stretch with an impressive burst.

“A big sense of relief,” Pistorius said. “This is a platform where you work extremely hard to get here. Once you get here, you don’t want to let it slide.”

It’s been quite a path to reach this point for Pistorius.

The International Association of Athletics Federations had banned the multi-Paralympic gold medalist from able-bodied competitions, saying the blades he wears gave him an edge.

In 2008, Pistorius was cleared to compete by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

But he failed to qualify for that year’s Beijing Olympics and then again for the 2009 worlds in Berlin.

Stronger, leaner and more confident, this is a breakout season for Pistorius. In one of

his last races before Daegu, he earned the “A’’ standard with his best-ever time of 45.07 to earn a place at the worlds.

“Phenomenal race,” Pistorius remembered. “Never had a race where every aspect went extremely well.”

A place in the final might require an even better performance. After all, defending champion LaShawn Merritt hardly looked like he broke a sweat as he cruised to a 44.35 in his heat, the fastest time in 2011.

Pistorius’ blades have been the source of curiosity and controversy, with some wondering if the technology actually aids the runner. Merritt tried to diffuse that notion.

“I’m not really sure what’s going on with the technology,” said Merritt, the Olympic gold medalist who competed in just his second race since returning from a 21-month doping ban. “I haven’t seen a story on it or went that deep into what the technology is. I just see his times, and that he’s slowly getting better. So I can tell he’s

Photo: Kevin Frayer/The Associated Press South Africa’s Oscar Pistorius, left, Qatar’s Femi Ogunode and the U.S.’s Tony McQuay compete in a heat of the men’s 400 at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea, on Sunday.

been working.”

Belgian semifinalist Jonathan Borlee said the IAAF could be left in an awkward position should Pistorius make it into the final.

“In that case I think, yeah, it will be a problem for IAAF, for (the) federation who will say, ‘Oh it’s not fair,’” Borlee said.

Others competitors use the presence of Pistorius as a challenge, not wanting to get beat by him. Chris Brown of the Bahamas powered down the home stretch to win the heat involving Pistorius.

“With him being inside the race, automatically everybody steps up,” Brown said. “No one

wants to get beat by him. Me definitely, I don’t want to get beat him.”

Pistorius was born without fibulas and had both legs amputated just below the knee when he was only 11 months old. He uses prosthetic blades made of the carbon-fiber material to compete.

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NEW YORK — The U.S. Open will begin Monday with tweaks to the day’s original schedule, including a twohour delay for the start of play at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

The U.S. Tennis Association said Sunday that the site of the year’s last Grand Slam tournament had “minimal damage” from Tropical Storm Irene.

The gates at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center will open to the public at 10 a.m. EDT on Monday, and matches will start as planned at 11 a.m. on nine of the tournament’s 13 courts.

At Arthur Ashe Stadium, the U.S. Open’s main arena, play is to begin at 1 p.m., instead of 11 a.m. The match that originally was supposed to be the first one played there — reigning Wimbledon champi-

on Petra Kvitova, of the Czech Republic, against Alexandra Dulgheru, of Romania — was switched to Louis Armstrong Stadium.

Play at Court 17 is scheduled to start at 1 p.m., too.

Matches at the Grandstand and Court 11 will begin at noon.

Irene made landfall in New York as a tropical storm with 65 mph winds, not the 100 mph hurricane that had churned up the East Coast.

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College football

LPGA

Source: Big 12 expects A&M to leave Lincicome wins

By Stephen Hawkins The Associated Press Big 12 officials expect Texas A&M to announce within the next week that it plans to leave the conference.

A person with knowledge of what was discussed during a conference call of the Big 12 board of directors Saturday told The Associated Press that Texas A&M officials talked about their anticipated departure.

“No major surprises,” said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the talks. “A&M didn’t say they were leaving, but certainly gave every indication that’s what they plan on doing.”

As for the timing of such a move, that person said, “it would not be a surprise that it would happen sometime this week” and likely the only thing that could keep that from happening would be if the 12-team SEC determines it is not ready

to add any more teams at this point.

The Aggies have publicly expressed interest in joining the SEC and on Thursday formally informed Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe in a letter from school President R. Bowen Loftin that Texas A&M was exploring all of its options.

Among items discussed during Saturday’s call was how much money Texas A&M would forfeit for leaving the conference and likely negotiations of that amount, which could be $20 million or more for the university.

SEC presidents and chancellors met two weeks ago and reaffirmed their “satisfaction with the present 12 institutional alignment.”

But they also acknowledged the possibility of future expansion and discussed criteria for that.

If Texas A&M leaves the Big 12, the move could trigger another shakeup across college sport.

Texas last year considered offers to join the Big Ten and the Pac-10 before deciding to stay in the Big 12. Nebraska (Big Ten) and Colorado (Pac-12) left the Big 12 Conference in July.

Texas A&M would have to settle its membership with the Big 12 before it could apply for membership into the Southeastern Conference.

“The Big 12 Conference members have been and will continue to conduct meetings related to the situation with Texas A&M and conference membership,” Beebe said in a statement Saturday.

“There will be public statements as appropriate and necessary if and when action is taken.”

It was unclear if Texas A&M would be able to move to the SEC as early as the 2012-13 school year.

The Aggies will certainly play their Big 12 schedules in football and other sports for the upcoming season, as

Colorado and Nebraska did a year go before their departures from the league.

The person who spoke on condition of anonymity said the other nine Big 12 members again reaffirmed the desire to keep the conference intact.

“Obviously now, I think there is a little more urgency to think about if A&M leaves, who’s No. 10, or who’s 11 and 12 as well,” that person said.

SMU athletic director Steve Orsini said Thursday that he has had informal talks with Big 12 officials for some time to inform them of the school’s improvements and growth.

He said it has been SMU’s goal to join a BCS conference because it wasn’t included in the Southwest Conference’s merger with the Big 8 that formed the Big 12 Conference in 1996.

Texas A&M opens its season next Sunday at home against SMU.

Canadian event

By The Associated Press

MIRABEL, Quebec — Brittany Lincicome was singing in the rain Sunday in the Canadian Women’s Open.

“I was very patient, singing a lot of songs, very chatty,” Lincicome said after her second LPGA Tour victory of the season and fifth overall.

“The weather was not great, but I was still having fun. I’m definitely going to remember this win.”

To stay focused, the long-hitting American sings to herself as part of her sports psychology program.

Lincicome She wasn’t quite ready for an encore in the media center.

“I’m not a good singer, so I’m not singing for you,” Lincicome said.

Lincicome, with former Canadian player A.J. Eathorne working as her caddie, saved par on the 18th hole for a 2-under 70 to edge defending champion Michelle Wie and Stacy Lewis by a stroke at Hillsdale Golf & Country Club. Lincicome finished at 13 under and earned $337,500.

“I never won on tour myself, so it’s kind of cool to say I’ve been involved in two wins in one year,” Eathorne said. “I guess, I never thought it would get that good, that fast.

“It’s been a lot of fun this week being a Canadian in Canada.

Everyone’s asking me why I’m not playing and obviously there’s a very good reason I’m not playing. I’ve got a great job.

I can be involved in a win and I know my game is not where it needs to be to do that.”

“Grab a few friends and have a good time!”

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Military

UN concerned about Iraq before US exit

By Lara Jakes The Associated Press BAGHDAD — The U.N.’s outgoing top diplomat in Iraq on Sunday said the government in Baghdad must determine whether its security forces are strong enough to thwart violence before requiring U.S. troops to leave at the end of the year.

In his last interview after two years in Baghdad, U.N. envoy Ad Melkert said Iraqi security forces have made “clear improvements” but declined to say if he thinks they are ready to protect the country without help from the American military.

“It’s up to the government, really, to assess if it is enough to deal with the risks that are still around,” Melkert said in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press on the eve of his departure Monday.

“Obviously, security remains a very important issue.”

The U.S. and Iraqi govern-

ments are negotiating how many American troops might stay, and what role they would play, in a mission that has already lasted more than eight years. A 2008 security agreement between Baghdad and Washington requires all U.S. troops to be out of Iraq by Dec. 31, but the country’s shaky security situation and vulnerability to Iranian influence has prompted politicians on both sides to buck widespread public disapproval and reconsider the deadline.

Violence has dropped dramatically across Iraq from just a few years ago, but deadly attacks still happen nearly every day. A pair of bombs killed two people on Sunday and wounded five in Shiite Muslim neighborhoods in Baghdad, including one that was hidden on a civilian’s car.

Chief among the U.N.’s concerns about security are tensions between Arabs and Kurds over disputed land in Iraq’s north.

Some analysts have predicted that the tensions could lead to civil war if the yearslong dispute isn’t settled and security forces are unable to contain violence there.

To keep tensions from boiling over, Melkert said joint Arab-Kurdish security forces in the swath of disputed lands must continue to work together if the Americans leave. The joint force was designed by the U.S. military, which fears it will dissolve without their hands-on guidance.

Melkert said he believes the joint force will remain intact, calling it “extremely important” during work to parcel out the swath of disputed territory in Ninevah, Tamim and Diyala provinces, with the city of Kirkuk at the center.

“You cannot eternally have disputed areas, because sooner or later there will be interests to abuse the unresolved nature of the situation,” Melkert said. “But it needs to be done, of course, in a more stable en-

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Photo: Karim Kadim/The Associated Press United Nations Special Representative Ad Melkert is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday.

vironment, and I believe these joint coordination centers, joint checkpoints, can play an important role in providing that stability.”

Last year, soon-to-be Army chief Gen. Ray Odierno, who was then commanding U.S. forces in Iraq, suggested that U.N. peacekeepers could continue to mentor the Arab-Kurd forces if American troops leave.

Melkert all but ruled that out. “There’s certainly no talk of any U.N. peacekeeping efforts,” he said.

In an interview after Melkert’s comments, Brig.

Gen. Sherko Fatih, commander of Iraqi army troops in Kirkuk, cited “harsh arguments and friction” between Arab and Kurdish soldiers that led him to ask to close joint checkpoints there. He said his request was denied.

“Neither are indepen-

dent, and the trust is not there between them,” Fatih said of the ethnically split troops. “Therefore, the U.S. withdrawal will have fearful consequences.”

A senior spokesman for the Kurdish forces known as peshmerga said American advisers largely stopped overseeing the joint troops three months ago.

He predicted the KurdishArab force would remain in place in at least 22 checkpoints across the disputed lands.

“These checkpoints will keep on its joint work even after the departure of U.S troops,” peshmerga spokesman Jabbar Yawar said.

A decision on whether U.S. troops will remain is not expected for several weeks at least, and the American military is already starting to pack up to leave. About 46,000 U.S. troops currently are in Iraq.

The White House has offered

to keep up to 10,000 there.

Melkert also met Sunday with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who issued a statement praising the envoy’s work. Al-Maliki said Melkert affirmed U.N. support of Baghdad’s push to transfer several thousand Iranian exiles who live in a remote desert camp out of the country by the end of the year.

The residents of Camp Ashraf are a resistance group to Tehran’s clerical regime.

They have been a thorn in alMaliki’s side as he tried to bolster ties with Iran.

The Ashraf residents do not want to leave, however, and it’s not known where they could go. It’s not clear if they are considered refugees with a protected status under international treaties.

Melkert did not discuss Camp Ashraf during the AP interview.

Hugo Chavez

Venezuelan president set to begin new round of treatment

By Jorge Rueda The Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez checked in to a military hospital Saturday night to begin a third round of chemotherapy, this time getting the cancer treatment at home rather than Cuba.

Chavez walked into the Dr. Carlos Arvelo Military Hospital accompanied by his daughter Rosa and aides.

He said his treatment has been going well and aims

to prevent reappearance of cancer cells more than two months after he underwent surgery.

“I’m coming in the best shape,” Chavez said on television as he was led through the hospital. “I’ll come out of here strengthened.”

He said earlier on television that he and his team of Cuban and Venezuelan doctors decided it would be all right for him to undergo chemotherapy in Venezuela after his latest round of medical tests Friday.

“The conditions are in place to do this third cycle here,” he said.

“I’m determined to continue living,” Chavez said at the hospital. “It’s not time to die. What we have to do still is a great deal.”

Chavez, who was first elected in 1998, has vowed to bounce back and win re-election in 2012.

Before going to the hospital, Chavez appeared on a balcony of the presidential palace waving to a crowd of cheering supporters.

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Censorship

China blog site shuts accounts over ‘rumors’

By Joe McDonald The Associated Press BEIJING — China’s most popular microblogging site is cracking down on what it says is the spread of false rumors after the ruling Communist Party told Internet companies to tighten control over information online.

The move by Sina Corp. reflects the pressure on China’s Internet companies, most of which are privately owned, to take initiative to help Beijing enforce censorship or risk losing the right to operate profitable businesses in a fast-growing market.

Sina’s Weibo service has sent notices to its 200 million users denying two reports posted on the site, including one about the killing of a 19-year-old woman. It said the accounts of users who originated the reports were temporarily closed.

The move comes amid the ruling party’s most sweeping crackdown on dissent in years as it tries to prevent the rise of Middle East-style protests.

The party secretary for Beijing, Liu Qi, visited Sina’s headquarters last Monday and said that the Internet companies should block the spread of false and harmful information, according to a party newspaper.

Liu gave no details of what the party wanted, but Sina issued a statement Thursday saying it would “put more effort into attacking all kinds of rumors.”

Beijing encourages Internet use for education and business but worries about its potential to spread criticism of communist rule. Authorities tightened controls after social networking and other websites played a key role in protests that brought down governments in Egypt and Tunisia.

Weibo users reacted with dismay to Sina’s move.

“The constitution stipulates freedom of speech, but there is no freedom of speech in reality,” said one posting on the site. “Please refute this rumor.”

Sina’s announcement gave no indication it was following government orders but many user comments said it reacted to Liu’s visit.

Others questioned whether the ruling party would use the policy to suppress the spread of true information that might embarrass officials.

“Do not ban the truth through ‘refuting rumors,’”

said one.

Web bulletin boards and Sina’s microblogging site are especially sensitive because they give China’s general public a rare opportunity to express opinions to a wide audience in a society where the party controls all media.

Communist leaders have allowed such services as they try to strike a balance between controlling information and developing an Internet industry they hope will help drive China’s modernization.

Private sector Internet services are required to monitor content on their own and quickly remove any that violates censorship rules.

Sina CEO Charles Chao told Forbes magazine in March that Weibo had at least 100 employees monitoring content 24 hours a day.

In its announcements Friday, Sina denied a report on Weibo that a suspect in the slaying of a 19-year-old woman was freed in the central city of Wuhan because of his politically influential father. It cited police as saying the suspect was still in detention.

Sina said the account of the user who spread the report was suspended for one month.

The company also denied a report that the Chinese Red Cross was improperly charging hospital patients for blood.

It said the Red Cross had no role in managing blood donations, only in assisting health authorities with publicity.

Sina said it has created a separate channel dubbed “Weibo Refutes Rumors” to

spread denials of false information. It announced an email address for users to send reports of possible falsehoods.

China’s online population is by far the world’s biggest, with 485 million Internet users as of June 30, and is still growing rapidly, according to the government-sanctioned China National Internet Information Center.

That has created huge profit opportunities for Internet companies that comply with official controls, giving Beijing leverage to encourage cooperation and for private sector businesses to bear the cost of enforcing censorship.

Baidu Inc., which operates China’s dominant search engine, says its profit for the three months ending in June rose 95 percent over a year earlier to $252.6 million.

Baidu’s market share has grown since U.S.-based rival Google Inc. closed its China search engine last year after saying it no longer wanted to cooperate with censorship.

Sina, whose shares are traded on the U.S.-based Nasdaq stock market, reported a $10 million quarterly profit. That was down from $25.2 million for the same period of 2010 due to the costs of launching Weibo.

Another private company, Alibaba Group, has told merchants on its popular e-commerce platform Taobao to stop selling virtual private network and other software that can bypass Internet filters meant to block access to foreign websites deemed subversive or obscene.

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Libya

Gadhafi forces killed detainees, survivors say

By Ben Hubbard and Karin Laub The Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya — Retreating loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi killed scores of detainees and arbitrarily shot civilians over the past week, as rebel forces extended their control over the Libyan capital, survivors and a human rights group said Sunday.

In one case, Gadhafi fighters opened fire and hurled grenades at more than 120 civilians huddling in a hangar used as a makeshift lockup near a military base, said Mabrouk Abdullah, 45, who escaped with a bullet wound in his side.

Some 50 charred corpses were still scattered across the hangar on Sunday.

New York-based Human Rights Watch said the evidence it has collected so far “strongly suggests that Gadhafi government forces went on a spate of arbitrary killing as Tripoli was falling.”

The justice minister in the

rebels’ interim government, Mohammed al-Alagi, said the allegations would be investigated and leaders of Gadhafi’s military units put on trial.

So far, there have been no specific allegations of atrocities carried out by rebel fighters, though human rights groups are continuing to investigate some unsolved cases.

AP reporters have witnessed several episodes of rebels mistreating detainees or sub-Saharan Africans suspected of being hired Gadhafi guns. Earlier this week, rebels and their supporters did not help eight wounded men, presumably Gadhafi fighters, who were stranded in a bombed out fire station in Tripoli’s Abu Salim neighborhood, some pleading for water.

Najib Barakat, the health minister in the rebels’ interim government, said Sunday that he does not yet have a death toll for the weeklong battle for Tripoli. Hundreds have died and more bodies, some in advanced stages of decay, are still being retrieved from streets.

Barakat said efforts are being made to identify bodies. At the least, the corpses of suspected Gadhafi fighters, especially non-Libyans, are being photographed before burial, to allow for possible future identification by relatives.

Rebels rode into Tripoli a week ago, then fought fierce battles with Gadhafi forces, especially at the former Libyan leader’s Bab al-Aziziya compound and the Abu Salim neighborhood, a regime stronghold.

As the rebels consolidated their control and Gadhafi fighters fled, reports of atrocities began emerging over the weekend.

Human Rights Watch said it has evidence indicating regime troops killed at least 17 detainees in an improvised lockup, a building of Libya’s internal security service, in the Gargur neighborhood of Tripoli. A doctor who examined the corpses said about half had been shot in the back of the head and that abrasions on ankles and wrists suggested

Photo: Sergey Ponomarev/The Associated Press A rebel fighter gestures behind the eagle at the headquarters of the elite military unit commanded by Moammar Gadhafi’s son Khamis in Tripoli, LIbya, on Sunday.

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The group spoke to Osama Al-Swayi who had been detained there, along with 24 others.

On Aug. 21, detainees heard rebels advancing and shout-

ing “Allahu Akbar!” or “God is great” he told Human Rights Watch.

“We were so happy, and we knew we would be released soon,” he said. “Snipers were upstairs; then they came

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Hundreds of foreigners leaving Tripoli

By Paul Schemm The Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya — Around a thousand Egyptians, Jordanians and Filipinos were boarding a passenger ferry Sunday to escape continuing instability and shortages in the battered Libyan capital.

A week after rebels swept into Tripoli and toppled the regime of Moammar Gadhafi, the city is more secure but remains wracked by shortages and instability.

Even as these leave, thousands more, many from sub-Saharan Africa, remain stranded and occasionally subject to abuse by rebel forces.

“The whole situation is worrisome, and daily life is very difficult, so we want to leave until daily life returns to normal,” said Abu Obeidi Labib, an Egyptian documentary filmmaker who has lived in Tripoli for 32 of his 35 years.

He wants to leave for the sake of his young daughter,

playing around his feet, and his pregnant wife.

“We will return after it calms down, but the (NATO) bombardments upset my child, and now my wife can’t stand all the shooting,” he added. They plan to go back to the quiet Egyptian city of Aswan, deep in the south, until she has given birth.

The Tripoli port was filled with people scrambling to get on the ferry, which normally plies the waters between Turkey and Lebanon but is now being used by the International Organization for Migration.

It is the group’s second trip. They plan several more to help the foreigners stranded in Libya, especially those from countries too poor to send their own ships.

Othman Bilbaisy, the senior operations officer for the IOM, estimated a thousand foreigners, most of them Egyptians, were expected to leave Sunday.

Photo: Giulio Petrocco/The Associated Press Evacuees wait for the ship to take them to Benghazi, in the port of Tripoli, Libya, on Sunday. A thousand Egyptians, Jordanians and Filipinos were loaded onto a ferry to escape Tripoli.

“The number varies every day because when people feel safer, they probably decide to stay,” he said, explaining how difficult a decision it is for them. “Most people are migrants and they come to make money, so they can’t afford to go back empty handed.”

He said the next boat would try to evacuate more sub-Saharan Africans, who are often

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The majority of the crowd Sunday were young Egyptian day laborers from poor rural towns.

One group boasted that they were using the ship as a free ride home for the upcoming Eid holidays, marking

the end of the holy month of Ramadan, and would be returning on the days-long route overland through eastern Libya.

Libya, a country of just six million people, used to employ up to a million foreign workers, hundreds of thousands of whom fled when the uprising against Gadhafi started in February.

They range from construction workers and hotel cleaners to highly paid professionals, like Mohammed Idris, a 27-year-old Jordanian working as an embryologist at a fertility clinic. On Sunday, he was waiting on the quay to crowd onto the ship with the Egyptian laborers.

With his slight frame, wispy beard and glasses, he seemed out of place in a city overrun by gun-toting rebels flashing victory signs and shooting in the air.

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Middle East

Pakistan’s Karachi faces tension after resignation

By Asif Shahzad The Associated Press ISLAMABAD — A ruling party minister in Pakistan’s violence-plagued city of Karachi resigned Sunday, charging that the city’s largest political party was behind the bloodshed and its leader was a “killer”, allegations that could spark more trouble.

Holding a copy of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, Zulfikar Mirza accused the powerful Muttahida Qaumi Movement of responsibility for kidnapping, extortion and violence that has killed more than 400 people since July. He also accused the party of killing journalist Wali Khan Babar earlier this year.

“I am saying it openly that the MQM killed him,” he told a news conference televised live around the country.

In unusually blunt comments, he singled out MQM leader Altaf Hussein, who critics say runs the party like a cult from his home in London, as a “killer” and the head of a “ter-

rorist organization.”

In a statement, the MQM said Mirza himself was a patron of murderers and his remarks were a “heinous bid to spark the fire of hatred, violence and insurgency.”

There was no immediate reaction on the streets of the city of 18 million people.

The city, Pakistan’s economic hub and largest city, has long been plagued by ethnic and political bloodshed, but the current surge has been particularly prolonged.

Analysts say the MQM is involved in a turf war with another political force in the city, the Awami National Party, and the Pakistan Peoples Party, of which Mirza was a member.

Killers linked to the parties are behind most of the violence, they say.

The MQM represents the region’s Urdu-speaking population, while the ANP is supported by Pashtuns who arrived in the city in great numbers over the last 10 years, challenging the dominance of the MQM.

Photo: Fareed Khan/The Associated Press Zulfikar Mirza speaks at a press conference in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sunday. Mirza, a ruling party politician in Pakistan’s violenceplagued Karachi, has resigned and is accusing the city’s largest political party of killings and terrorism.

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Politics

Japan faces more confusion amid leadership vote

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A debate Sunday among the candidates was not carried live on any of the major TV networks.

“In Japan these days, a prime minister who lasts even one year is a miracle,” said Minoru Morita, who has written several books on Japanese politics.

He predicted more confusion ahead, including a possible split in the ruling party in coming months.

Japanese media reports said Sunday that Economy Minister Banri Kaieda, 62, had a slight lead over other candidates after securing the backing of the ruling party’s behind-the-scenes power broker, Ichiro Ozawa.

But that could prove a pitfall in a run-off, as legislators may rally behind a rival to block Ozawa’s grip on power, according to Morita.

Facing off against Kaieda are former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara, Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Agriculture Minister Michihiko Kano and former Transport Minister Sumio Mabuchi.

Maehara, 49, was initially considered the favorite until Kaieda won Ozawa’s backing.

Maehara has technically violated election laws by accepting donations from foreigners — a problem that could bring him down if the opposition decides to pursue that in parliament. He stepped down as foreign minister earlier this year over that scandal.

Legislators, therefore, may decide to support a relatively

TOKYO — The five candidates vying to become Japan’s next prime minister promised Sunday to resolve the country’s nuclear crisis and revive its battered economy, amid widespread public cynicism about a revolving door of leaders.

Japan — which is set to see its sixth prime minister in five years — has fumbled recently to find leadership to tackle formidable challenges, including recovery from a massive earthquake and tsunami in March and the battle to bring a nuclear power plant sent into meltdown by the disasters under control.

Even before the disasters hit, the nation was already ailing with serious problems such as an aging population and stagnant economy.

None of the five candidates looking to replace Naoto Kan as prime minister is expected to win the needed majority of 200 votes in balloting among legislators in the ruling Democratic Party in the first round of voting, set for Monday. If no one gets a majority, a run-off between the top two candidates would follow.

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Ozawa is embroiled in a political funding scandal, though some say his trial is likely to end in acquittal, and his presence has hung like a shadow over the party leadership campaign.

At Sunday’s debate at a Tokyo hotel, candidates appeared in agreement, all promising a revived Japanese economy and a resolution of the nuclear crisis in comments heavy on rhetoric but scant on concrete proposals.

“I would like to use the recovery efforts in northeastern Japan as a springboard to achieve an overall revival of Japan,” Kaieda said, after invoking President John F. Kennedy’s famous line about asking what you can do for your country, rather than what your country can do for you.

No matter who wins, the new prime minister is expected to last barely a year because he would be serving out the term of Kan, who announced Friday that he would resign.

Kan, 64, came to power in 2010 amid high hopes for his liberal and approachable persona.

Photo: Shizuo Kambayashi/The Associated Press Former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara speaks during a debate with four other candidates for the leader of Japan’s ruling Democratic Party in Tokyo on Sunday. The five candidates vying to become Japan’s next prime minister promised to resolve the country’s nuclear crisis and revive its battered economy, amid widespread public cynicism about a revolving door of leaders.

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country, briefly 35 Chimney passage 36 Scratch or scuff 37 Ostracized one 41 Prefix with metric 42 Recipient of a princess’s kiss 44 Suffix for no-good 45 Like days gone by 47 Cornerstone principle of democracy 51 Henry __ Lodge: WWI senator 52 Final stage of a chess match 56 “Sesame Street” resident 57 “Get lost, kitty!”

59 Adorn, as a birthday gift 60 Below-the-belt 61 Eight-time Best Actor nominee who never won

64 Musician’s deg.

65 Dodge, as the press 66 Address the crowd 67 Cellos’ sect.

68 Flew off the handle 69 Gumbo vegetables Down 1 Friendly term of address 2 Oak tree-to-be 3 Lisa of “The Cosby Show” 4 Easternmost Great Lake 5 Reggae’s Marley 6 Supernatural 7 Au naturel 8 Stand next to 9 West of the silver screen 10 Refer (to) 11 Dependable beyond doubt

Seating for 100 @ 207 Welch Ave. Ste. 201 (Clocktower/Campustown)

Word of the Day: 12 Kids’ secret club meeting place 13 Dispose of via eBay 18 Morales of “La Bamba” 23 Jazz motif 25 __ facto 26 Cries of triumph 28 Totally gross 29 Luggagescreening org.

30 “Exodus” author Uris 31 Car radio button 32 “Tomb Raider” role for Angelina Jolie 33 Conflict involving a fake horse 38 Workbook chapter 39 __ for tat 40 Sang like a canary, so to speak 43 Mongolian desert 46 Out-of-the-office detective duty 48 Ebert’s partner after Siskel 49 Parented 50 “Do __ others ...”

53 Bustling with noise 54 Island nation near Sicily 55 Fencing swords 56 Shade trees 57 Just for guys 58 Formally relinquish 62 Perón of Argentina 63 As well

footle noun

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FOOT-lnoun

1. To act or talk in a foolish or silly way.

Random Facts: The “pound” key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.

Elvis Presley’s hip-wiggling started out as a stage fright. He was so nervous, that his legs would shake.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

A man was arrested and charged with the robbery—of vending machines. The man posted bail, entirely in quarters.

Level: 1

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I say, Charlie, for any sake do play up tomorrow, and don’t footle.

2. Nonsense; silliness.

Yesterdays Solution

Across 1 Shish __ 6 2008 “Yes We Can” sloganeer 11 ACLU concerns 14 Prefix with -clast 15 Group of secret schemers 16 Neighbor of Wash.

17 1956 #1 hit for Elvis Presley 19 Cartoon collectible 20 De Matteo of “The Sopranos” 21 Fat-based bird feed 22 ‘80s-’90s “Did I do that?” TV nerd 24 Having one’s day in court?

26 “Revenge is __ best served cold” 27 Mr. T catch phrase 31 Choir section 34 Cold War

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DLY-8

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20 Today is an 8 -- Take advantage of the wonderful conditions for friendship, partnership and even romance. Keep your chin high, but avoid arrogance.

Let folks know what you appreciate about them.

4. What Motown group was once called the Primettes?

5. What funkster was nicknamed “His Royal Badness”?

6. What unit of electrical power is equal to one joule per second?

7. What Supreme Court Justice performed Rush Limbaugh’s wedding ceremony?

ANSWER: Clarence Thomas

Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21 Today is a 7 -- It’s time to get the band back together and put your creative juices in the blender of infinite wisdom.

Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Today is a 6 -- Find a friend to help you solve a philosophical problem. It’s a good time to complete projects, deliver communications and take new territory.

3. What Spanish explorer was beheaded and fed to vultures for treason?

ANSWER: The watt

Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22 Today is an 8 -- Your recent education benefits many.

Suggest an innovation, and cheer when it works! Contribute to your family. They need something that only you can give.

Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Today is a 6 -- You may be feeling especially sensitive to your spirituality today, to that which moves you and makes your clock tick. Indulge that craving.

2. What Anthony Hopkins role did People magazine call “the Norman Bates of the ‘90’s”?

ANSWER: Prince

Gemini May 21-June 21 Today is an 8 -- A beautiful moment unwraps itself for you today, presenting truth, love and fortune. Later, get moving with lively conversation and physical action. Home nurtures.

Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22 Today is a 9 -- It’s harvest time: Bring in the crops and set up stores for winter. Take time to notice the landscape. Abundance can be yours. It grows when you act in community.

Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec.21 Today is a 7 -- You’re being called to the bat. Remember that you’re part of a team.

Take the necessary risks, and add up the home runs. Who’s on first base? Keep score.

ANSWER: The Supremes

Taurus April 20-May 20 Today is a 9 -- Advance to the next level. You make it look easy. Take your bearings, and then set an enticing goal. It’s an excellent time for romance, and offers pour in.

Leo July 23-Aug. 22 Today is a 7 -- A lucky break could come your way today. It’s a good time to get the word out.

Take charge, and have fun with it.

Reconnect with a long-distance friend. Love will find a way.

Drink it up and top it off with a home-baked cookie.

ANSWER:(Vasco Nunez de) Balboa

Aries March 21-April 19 Today is an 8 -- Make an emotional appeal for something you care about deeply. You gain more than expected. The end of one thing is the beginning of another. Love prevails.

Cancer June 22-July 22 Today is an 8 -- When this job gets completed, the space will be left wide open for creativity. Consider what to paint on this blank canvas.

It’s easier than you expect.

ANSWER: Hannibal Lecter

Today’s Birthday (08/29/11).

You get more than you give this year. New opportunities arise for career and for influencing opinion. Choose love, every time. If you lose, use that juice for fantastic art.

If you win, savor it. Your work earns attention and respect.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

1. What Irish wit was finally honored with a plaque in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, 95 years after his death?

ANSWER: Oscar Wilde

Virgo

8. What Seinfeld character asks for extra MSG at Chinese restaurants?

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Trivia

Daily Horoscope : by Nancy Black

I don’t remember being that needy when I was a freshman.

••• To all the girls with feathers in their hair – you’re not a bird or in high school and guys don’t find you any more attractive with a feather ••• ISU IT of course the internet works in your room, how about you go somewhere else on campus and try to connect and stop looking at me like I’m an idiot!!

••• please replace library 160 with sidewalk walking 101 as a mandatory freshman class ••• To all of you who abuse the thesaurus and insist upon multiple semicolons sprinkled throughout your two column, eleven sentence letter to the editor: you realize that the only point you’re making is that you’re an uppity a**hole, right?

••• To the guy who walked by me: I thought you were weird for wearing dress pants, shoes, and a dress shirt in this weather. Then I say your pink Dora bag, If you think I’m strange for laughing and trying to take a picture, you should probably look in a mirror. Just sayin”.

••• Dear Beardshear tripper…I say you totally biff it. You looked around and thought no one say, but I did. And I laughed at you.

••• “After we talked about how much he looked like a fish, I just knew I wanted to have babies with him.

••• Submit your just sayin’ to iowastatedaily.net/games

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Career tip:

Keep resume up to date Classes have been underway for a full week, and the nights are getting cooler: fall is coming at full speed, and summer is fading fast.

The time to update your resume to include summer jobs and internships is now, while the experiences are still fresh in your mind.

Doing this now will also leave plenty of time to have a professional critique of your resume before the fall Career Fairs in September — ­ check with your college’s Career Services department to see if they offer free critiques. Describe your job’s responsibilities and accomplishments with clear statements and action verbs.

Even if your summer job wasn’t a direct step on the way to your dream job, you likely learned something that can be added to your resume. Did you practice leadership? Work with a team to achieve a common goal?

Handle money? These skills are applicable to a variety of fields, and can boost your resume until you’re able to land that dream job or internship.

If your resume includes your GPA or a career objective, make sure those are up to date as well.

Unsure of where to begin? The College of Business’ Career Services department has an extensive guide to resumes at www.business.iastate.edu/ careers/students/guides/ resume.

Daily staff

Tech:

Apple gives Tim Cook stock grant NEW YORK — Steve Jobs took home $1 a year for serving as Apple’s CEO. The company’s new leader, Cook Tim Cook, is getting a richer deal.

Apple’s board has given Cook a restricted stock grant of 1 million shares, Apple reported late Friday in a regulatory filing.

Those shares have a market value of $383.6 million, based on the stock’s closing price on Friday.

But Cook will collect the shares only if he remains an Apple employee for the next decade. Half of his stock will vest in August 2016, and half will vest five years later, in 2021.

As Apple’s chief operating officer, Cook collected an annual salary last year of $800,000 and an additional bonus of $900,000. He also took home a special award from the board for his “outstanding performance” as acting CEO during Jobs’ 2009 medical leave: A $5 million cash bonus and a grant of 75,000 shares.

That put Cook’s total 2010 compensation at $59 million — enough to make him one of the tech industry’s highest-paid executives.

In contrast, Steve Jobs earned a $1 annual salary every year since he rejoined Apple in 1997.

While many $1-a-year CEOs reap big back-end stock and options packages, Jobs was a financial ascetic: He collected no stock awards most years, no cash bonuses and no perks, even turning down a 401(k) match from Apple.

But in late 1999, Apple’s board famously came through with a whopper of an executive bonus: The company spent $90 million to buy Jobs a Gulfstream V airplane. It also tossed in options on 10 million Apple shares.

Apple’s market cap currently stands at $355.6 billion — making it the most valuable publicly traded company in the world.

Stacey Cowley, CNN wire staff

Readerpoll Poll Reader What impact do you think Steve Jobs’ decision to resign will have on Apple? improve Steve who?

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Main Street

‘Everybody’s bar’ Whiskey River, closed in 2010 and set to reopen next month, hopes to appeal to all age groups

By Sarah.Binder @iowastatedaily.com Within the first few weeks of the school year, bargoers of Ames tend to fall back into their old weekend routines: students swarm Welch Avenue, while professors and young professionals prefer Main Street.

Whiskey River, set to reopen soon, hopes to change that.

“We are going to be an everybody’s bar,” said Nicki Romare, who purchased the establishment with her husband, Joe, in the summer of 2010 and has been working to fix it since.

“We really want it to appeal to all age groups and all demographics.”

The Romares have created an eclectic atmosphere to match the mixed crowd they hope to attract.

On the interior, exposed brick meets black and white wallpaper and green paint, and above a giant booth will hang an old car door and crystal chandelier.

“We kind of went outside the norm and used some different colors and different styles,” Nicki Romare said.

What’s familiar The Romares tried to stay faithful to the Whiskey River name, which dates back to the 70s.

“Throughout the whole process we have respected the Whiskey River establishment,” Nicki Romare said.

“Everybody has memories here.”

However, since the bar was closed due to concerns that the building was unsafe, a lot of work was required to bring the building up to code. Joe Romare said the interior basically had to be stripped. Though they hoped to keep elements such as the tin ceiling, only parts could be saved.

The overall atmosphere still will be casual, with materials such as wood, brick and colorful leather.

Nicki Romare said they didn’t want it to feel too polished and cold, so don’t expect to find any plastic fixtures.

And some familiar decorations remain, such as a red bathtub and a mannequin hanging from the ceiling.

What’s new Though the Main Street location is gridlocked between other storefronts, the addition of a garage door that can be opened on warm nights creates a patio atmosphere.

A menu of unique, homemade foods will be available daily.

The large windows will be left clear, so the kitchen, storage areas and kegs will be visible both from Main Street and inside the bar. This way, people will be able to see where their food is prepared.

Joe Romare said he hopes the bar will become known for great service.

“This is what I’ve done my whole life, so that’s what I want to bring most to the table,” he said.

Photo: Nicole Wiegand/Iowa State Daily Joe and Nicki Romare, owners of Whiskey River Bar on Main Street, take a break from remodeling Thursday. The couple plans to have the bar open by the weekend of the Iowa-Iowa State football game on Sept. 10.

Whiskey River

The menu

134 Main Street Kitchen will be open from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. daily.

Expected to open by the weekend of Sept. 10, but could open sooner.

Whiskey River will feature a unique food menu, with options such as a spaghetti and meatball sandwich or hot dogs topped with mac and cheese.

“You probably won’t find many salads or health foods here,” said Nicki Romare.

However, everything will be fresh and homemade.

Dishes are expected to be priced in the $4 to $7 range.

Video online:

Hear more from the owners of Whiskey River and see more from inside the new Main Street bar at our website, iowastatedaily.com

Orange Leaf

Relocation

Frozen yogurt store debuts in Ames

Store closing opens space for expansion

In case you haven’t heard about it constantly on Facebook and Twitter, Orange Leaf has taken over Ames with its sugary, multi-flavored buzz.

The self-serve frozen yogurt store, which allows customers to pile up the flavors and toppings and pay by the ounce, opened on Lincoln Way on Aug. 4.

Owner John Shelton said hundreds of bowls have been served each day since then, racking up thousands of sales per week.

Daily staff

By the numbers 16 flavors available at any time. The company offers up to 50 that will rotate in and out.

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Photo: David Derong/Iowa State Daily The popular self-serve yogurt chain Orange Leaf opened up shop in Ames on Aug. 4 at the corner of Lincoln Way and Grand Avenue.

26-45 calories per ounce of yogurt (varies by flavor).

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toppings available at any time.

Like flavors, more toppings will enter the rotation as time goes on.

bright orange couches decorating the store

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cents per ounce

square feet of the store

10 percent of proceeds given to local organizations during charity nights.

30 fat-free flavors

1 Retail location still available in the old Hollywood Video location.

After the owner of the Lazy M Shoes decided to retire and close shop at the end of July, Amy Abrams, owner of Duck Worth Wearing and The Loft, saw an opportunity.

Duck Worth Wearing, a consignment store specializing in children’s and maternity clothing and equipment, will move from its current location to the former home of Lazy M Shoes, 232 Main St. The Loft, which specializes in resale of trendy teen and adult clothing and accessories and is located above Duck Worth Wearing, will expand from its current location to fill both levels.

The top level will feature prom dresses and formals, while the rest of the inventory will move downstairs.

The move is expected to be complete during or before November.

Abrams said it will more than double the space of her stores.

Daily staff