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When he received the letter of acceptance to the ISU Study Abroad program, Flinn Milligan’s heart stopped. He clenched the piece of paper in
his hands as his thoughts suddenly tumbled around his head. “It was a proper dream, coming to America,” he said. “Everything I was expecting came from various films from the past 40 years. I was expecting a lot of different things, coming from England.” One of the things he had not expected to do while in America was meet his fiancee. Bailey Finn, recent graduate of Iowa State’s culinary science program, remembers their first conver-
sation, or rather, argument. “It was about cheese,” she laughed. “I was insisting that the best cheese in the world came from Wisconsin. Then he kept calling me a home economics major. Even though he came off a little bit of a jerk, it was in an enduring way. I kind of already liked him.” When they went out, Milligan repeatedly insisted on a certain type of outing.
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The official dedication ceremony of Iowa State’s Hixson-Lied Small Animal Hospital is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at the College of Veterinary Medicine. The dedication will mark the “completion of the two-phase renovation and expansion project of the Dr. W. Eugene and Linda Lloyd Veterinary Medical Center that began in 2006,” according to the ISU News Service. Lisa Nolan, dean of Vet Med, will provide the welcome and closing at the ceremony.
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It was a proper dream, coming to America. Everything I was expecting came from various films from the past 40 years. I was expecting a lot of different things, coming from England.” Flinn Milligan
Gourmet coffee from The Roasterie is served all across Iowa State’s campus, and this year, O’Neill has debuted a coffee designed specifically for Iowa State called “1858,” named for the year the university was founded. “I have absolute total love of all
Early in the development of group fitness, classes such as “Jazzercise” and aerobics with Jane Fonda or Richard Simmons laid the foundation for a stereotype that exercise in a group setting is primarily for females. Group fitness classes at Iowa State, even without an overly charismatic instructor or a room full of leotard clad women, are seeing a trend of lower male participation. Why? Has the stereotype driven men away? Is there something about exercising in a group that men can’t appreciate like women do? Perhaps these classes just aren’t offering what men are looking for in a workout. Kara Herbert, fitness coordinator for recreation services, said Iowa State does see a lower percentage of men opposed to women because in general men tend to be more focused on working out solo. “Psychology professors [will] tell you women are more inclined to work out in groups, where men tend to be more inclined to work out on their own,” Herbert said. Nora Hudson, fitness coordinator for recreation services and head of the fitness and wellness program, said research has shown what motivates males is competition. Group fitness can better satisfy that need for
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Photo courtesy of The Roasterie ISU alumnus Danny O’Neill, fourth from left, created The Roasterie, a business that creates gourmet coffee sold on Iowa State’s campus. This year, O’Neill debuted a coffee designed specifically for Iowa State called “1858.”
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Danny O’Neill has had a lot of what he would describe as “turning points” in his life. There was a time as an ISU student O’Neill was thinking about law school. Then there was the possibility of working with the CIA, followed
by some time in the corporate world, which ended with him as a self-described “corporate dropout.” Now he is known as the Bean Baron. O’Neill is the president and owner of The Roasterie, a specialty coffee-roasting company, which he started in 1993 from the basement of his home in Kansas City, Mo.
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>>ENGAGEMENT.p1 “I was always making Bailey do American things with me. Getting a pretzel at the mall, going to a bowling alley and drinking a beer; old time classic American stuff, that sort of thing.” “It was fun,” Finn chimed in. “We did things you wouldn’t normally do during the school year. We would take off to go hiking for an evening — just the two of us.” With 30 days left until Milligan’s visa expired, they made a spontaneous road trip to San Francisco. The end of the trip meant two things: saying goodbye and deciding just where their relationship was going. They decided to stay together. Milligan explained the decision: “All along, we said we would do it as
long as it was fun — we knew it was going to be difficult and unlike typical relationships. We would stop when it stopped being fun, and it hasn’t stopped being fun.” In May, Finn flew to England to visit and was met with a ring. “Not being with her wasn’t an option,” Milligan said. “We both knew we wanted to be together, and getting married is the only possible way of achieving that. It allows us to have a life together, not a life over Skype or through letters.” Today, the couple lives together in California. Every three months, Milligan’s visa requires him to leave the country and prevents him from finding employment. Marriage will put an end to that. “In the future...” Finn started, and was interrupted by Milligan yelling
from the kitchen that hopefully he will have a job. “In the future, yes, hopefully Flinn will have a job, but we just want to live a normal life,” Finn continued. “No visas or other problems. We’ve waited three years to be a normal couple.” While a date for the wedding has not been set, the couple anticipates it greatly and speculates how much their lives have drastically changed in such a short time. “When I said coming to America was like a proper dream, even in my dreams, I couldn’t have imagined this,” Milligan said. “It’s been quite the experience; I grew up a lot from it, but all the greatest things in my life have been with Bailey, so growing up is OK. I traveled, got engaged, moved to California. I didn’t just study abroad; I made America home.”
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things Iowa and all things Iowa State,” O’Neill said, who was born and raised in Iowa and graduated from Iowa State in 1983. 1858, which is being sold at campus cafes for only $1 until Sept. 16, is a 100-percent organic light-roast coffee that was created by O’Neill specifically for ISU Dining. “It was Iowa State’s idea. ...We love it, and we’re behind it,” O’Neill said, who described the coffee as being “a great lingering coffee that sticks with you well after your last taste.” 1858 will not be the only coffee that The Roasterie debuts on campus this semester. “Olivia’s Akvavit,” a coffee created by The Roasterie from their My Blend program by Olivia Madison, dean of the library, will be served at President Steven Leath’s installation events this week. Madison took a survey on her taste preferences from The Roasterie and was able to create her own special blend, which she named Olivia’s Akvavit, a name that represents her Danish heritage. “It’s rich coffee,” Madison said. “Every time I drink it, it’s just like I’m in Denmark.” Madison did not choose her own coffee blend for the inauguration but offered it as a choice alongside 40 Sardines, another Roasterie blend, for Leath to choose from in a blind taste test. “I was so impressed with the care he took,” Madison said on how Leath chose which coffee would be used at the installation events. In the end, Leath chose Olivia’s Akvavit. Madison has worked closely with O’Neill and The Roasterie since the opening of Bookends Cafe in the library in 2006, where she first met O’Neill. “For him, he knows the personal touch of how to do
competition. Based on the numbers comparing spring semester to summer, Herbert said group fitness classes are seeing a rise in the number of men from 13.83 percent in the spring to 17.6 percent in the summer. Michael Giles, director of recreation services, said higher intensity or strength-developing classes tend to have a larger male participation but said group fitness classes are not targeted toward either gender. Hudson agreed: “We just try to diversify different opportunities for people to experience fitness on many different levels. ... As we diversify those opportunities, it’s opened the door for more males to be interested in participating. We’ve softened, perhaps, the stereotype that group fitness is only for females.” Giles said recreation services tries to provide programming for group fitness and mind-body fitness, as well as different types of equipment that allow users, both male and female, to create a well-rounded balance in their exercising program. He said he would tell both genders that if they focus on only one element of fitness, they are really “missing the boat” on getting a well-rounded, balanced, healthy exercise program. “I think the door has opened in terms of people realizing they want to move differently and stimulate muscles differently and be more balanced,” Hudson said. “We’re seeing more people be educated in the need to have a more balanced fitness program — flexibility, cardio, strength, function. We are seeing the trend of fitness programs offering many varieties of movement opportunities.” Herbert said the members of recreation services are constantly looking for ways to diversify the program so they are offering something for everyone — not just specific populations. “We’re always focusing on the latest trends and demands,” Giles said. “If there is a huge demand from the male population related to group fitness activities we’d certainly love to hear. … We need feedback from them as well.”
Photo: Lyn Bryant/Iowa State Daily Coffee from The Roasterie is served at the MU Market and Cafe. The Roasterie’s brews are sold at six different locations around campus, including a new blend called “1858” that was designed specifically for Iowa State.
good business,” Madison said of O’Neill. O’Neill believes in selling only the best, but it took him awhile to discover that the coffee business was where he wanted to be. After a visit to Russia in 1992, he returned wanting a change. “I was just hell-bent on doing something different, and coffee was the only idea that I had,” said O’Neill. O’Neill bought a hot air popcorn popper and began airroasting coffee in his home. For three months, O’Neill knocked on doors trying to sell his coffee, and for three months, he did not make a sale. “I call those the dark days,” O’Neill said. “[But] I didn’t want to quit. ... I focused on quality, and I thought that was the only way I could compete.” Eventually, O’Neill began
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to make sales, and the business took off from there. O’Neill wanted to take the best coffee and “connect it with a cause.” The cause came when O’Neill felt that one of their farmers in Brazil was offering too low a price for the coffee beans. “He gave me the price, and I said I would be embarrassed to pay that; it’s too low,” O’Neill said. The Roasterie began to pay 15 cents more per pound for the
coffee beans from the farmer; the extra money went to fund a preschool in the farmer’s area. There were soon 60 students at the new school. “There were unexpected consequences, but in this case, they were all good,” O’Neill explained. While the children were in school, their mothers were able to pick coffee beans, thus doubling the income of the households. The children were also bringing what they learned in the school home and
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Iowa’s votes keep sway in national elections
On Nov. 6, the next president of the United States and your next representative to the House of Representatives will be elected. That’s 56 days until you are called upon to perform one of citizenship’s many duties. As you’ve no doubt noticed, President Barack Obama has not only been to Iowa several times recently, but also Iowa State. Mitt Romney naturally has been trying to match Obama’s every move. You’ve probably noticed all the campaign ads. Obviously a lot of money is being spent in Iowa to court your vote. As a resident of and potential voter in Iowa, you are in position to play a role in the future of America. But why is Iowa so important to the national election? The origin of Iowa’s attention in the national spotlight is Iowa’s famed “first in the nation” caucuses. But Iowans put their pants on one leg at a time like anyone else. We have the same hopes and dreams as everyone, and we’re moderates. We’ve correctly picked six of the last 10 presidents and four of the last five. And it just so happens that we swing politically. We have one Democrat and one Republican in the Senate. In the House, we have three Democrats and two Republicans. Our governor is a Republican, but our state legislature is divided, the Senate having a Democratic majority, and the House a Republican one. Last presidential election, most Iowans picked Obama. Many Iowans think that this bipartisanship works for us. Despite the worst recession since the Great Depression, Iowa’s unemployment rate is 5.1 percent, far below the national average. Congressman Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, recently said Iowa’s success in hard times is due to investments in education, renewable energy and trying to restore our manufacturing base after losing 54,000 jobs in the last decade. Polls show Obama and Mitt Romney in a dead heat now. The parties are circling their wagons: Most Republicans report they’ll vote for Romney, and most Democrats report they’ll vote for Obama. That means the independents and swing voters are critical this election — and Iowa is a major swing state. But voting is in decline; in 2004, 71.3 percent of Iowans voted, and in 2008 only 70.2 percent. That decline is expected to continue, making every vote in Iowa critical. If Braley is right and the key to Iowa’s and America’s recovery is education, renewable energy and manufacturing, we Iowa Staters hold the keys to the future. Your vote is more important than ever, Iowa State. Choose wisely.
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Mutual constitutional unity remains necessary Politics cannot begin without agreement on fundamental laws
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ritons and other citizens of monarchies proclaim the words: “The king is dead. Long live the king,” whenever a reigning monarch dies, in order to deny the possibility of an interregnum, a period of time in which no man was king, and immediately acknowledge a successor in office. Every election cycle, we Americans could, with justification, say: “America is dead. Long live America.” In our system, the Constitution is king and the president, justices of the Supreme Court, senators and representatives we elect are its agents. Yet despite being the essence of our union, the Constitution’s meaning is elusive. We — Democrats, Republicans, conservatives, liberals, moderates — cannot, for the life of us, agree on what the Constitution means. Americans are impossibly divided about how the Constitution should be interpreted. According to a Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation-Harvard University “Role of Government Survey” published in October 2010, 50 percent of Americans believe the Supreme Court should base its interpretations of the Constitution on what it meant as originally written. A nearly equal number, 46 percent, take the opposite view, that the Constitution should be interpreted according to what it means in current times. That result is not new. According to the same poll, the numbers for 2005 were simply reversed: 46 percent of Americans were originalists and 50 percent believe in the Constitution’s adaptability. A political typology survey done by the Pew Research Center the next year, 2011, found a similar divide over the Constitution’s interpretation. That June, 45 percent of Americans thought the Supreme Court should “base its rulings on what the Constitution meant as originally written,” and 50 percent thought it should
By Michael.Belding @iowastatedaily.com “base its rulings on what the Constitution means in current times.” Those data also show clearly the partisan nature of the disagreement: 70 percent of Republicans are on the side of what the Constitution meant in 1787, and 65 percent of Democrats favored interpretations based on the present. That nearly-even split among Americans at large and the partisan split between Democrats and Republicans show the unlikelihood of developing a consensus on what should be an easily-comprehensible document. It is short; we all learn about it all through school; the legal, political, and historical disciplines are devoted to its study; it is invoked at every turn; and the marketplace of books is awash in anthologies of speeches, letters and pamphlets created by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention. Alexander Hamilton explained in the 78th installment of “The Federalist”: “A constitution is ... a fundamental law.” He continued his thought a few essays later, in No. 81: “The Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give place to the Constitution.” In other words, the Constitution is an essential prerequisite, a sine qua non, to the laws we enact through our political process, without which the latter could not exist. But without agreement on the rules of the game, the players can neither take the field nor begin playing. Nationwide unemployment was at 8.3 percent in July. To bring that number down, we should lower tax rates for the wealthy (job-creators) or the government needs to run a deficit in order to pay for programs that put people to work. In 2010, 15.1
percent of Americans lived in poverty. To decrease that rate, we must increase state support for charities, lower taxes on corporations and wealthy Americans so that better-paying jobs that were outsourced can return to the United States or be started from scratch, invest in education or reform welfare. Also in 2010, 49.9 million Americans (16.3 percent) went without health insurance. To cover more of them, we either need to maintain government support for such programs and mandates or allow the free market to run its course. With some 11.5 million illegal immigrants (or “unauthorized immigrants”) in the United States in 2011, clearly we need some kind of border control, guest worker program or more fundamental change in immigration policy. Demand for educated workers is supposed to reach new heights; by 2018, an estimated 29.5 million jobs will open up in the United States that will require at least some college education. That demand is anticipated to exceed the supply. To make up the difference, the government should invest in higher education (by such measures as low-interest student loans, direct funding to colleges and universities and grants to students with financial need) or allow new private for-profit institutions of higher education to fill in the gap. Those are just a few of the issues that figure highly in public discourse. There are others. What each of them shares in common is that no action on any of them can occur until members of Congress and the whole U.S. population decide to agree — either by resigning and giving in, or by hashing out the debate in an intelligent way — on the basic premises of the Constitution. Monday, Sept. 17, will be Constitution Day. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed their names to the Constitution nearly 225 years ago. Now is as good at time as any to rescue the political system they confidently established.
Michael Belding is a graduate student in history from Story City, Iowa.
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case concerning a “transgender” inmate has struck a chord with folks across the nation, LGBT supporters and those against, which could influence future rulings for elective surgery. At the least, it begs the question of how our prison systems should function. Michelle Kosilek, previously named Robert Kosilek, murdered his wife, Cheryl, in 1990 and is currently serving a life sentence in Boston. Kosilek has received hormone treatments but lives in a manner more like a woman in an all-male prison — don’t even get me started on the prison slang “punk” jokes. U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled 12 years ago Kosilek would receive treatment for genderidentity disorder, due to Kosilek’s claim he is a woman living in a man’s body. On Sept. 4, after Kosilek had tried to castrate himself and twice attempted suicide during his incarceration, Wolf ruled the state of Massachusetts will foot the bill for sex reassignment surgery, to a tune that could cost up to $20,000. Wolf’s 126-page ruling is partly explained by the following excerpt: “There is no less intrusive means to correct the prolonged violation of Kosilek’s Eighth Amendment right to adequate medical care,” and that the surgery is the “only adequate treatment” option. Kosilek cannot keep a job to pay for the surgery himself. So
By Gabriel.Stoffa @iowastatedaily.com taxpayer money is basically the only option. But the big question is whether the surgery is necessary as a medical procedure. Gender reassignment surgery for Kosilek will not save his life. It might make him less apt to attempt suicide as a result of still having a penis but doesn’t keep his mental away from suicidal thoughts. On the other hand, the mental anguish Kosilek is suffering from being a transgendered person trapped in the “wrong” body does make it cruel to deny him surgery, given the hormone treatments and mental evaluations are not cutting it and even murderers have rights. Do we continue to use ineffective treatments to help him, hoping it will one day pay off, or do we support such surgeries to deal with the physical aspect, while the mental aspect remains an issue? I have to say I don’t support the surgery. I don’t support it because transgendered persons without financial means, who abide by the law, are not given such assistance. If Kosilek is suffering such mental anguish, maybe noncriminals who feel trapped in the wrong
body suffer similar problems. A survey found 41 percent of 6,450 transgendered respondents to have attempted suicide, compared to the rate of 1.6 percent suicide attempt rate for the whole of the population, according to the 2011 report of the National Transgender Discriminatory Survey: “Injustice at Every Turn.” It usually takes a fair bit of mental anguish to attempt suicide, so maybe sex reassignment surgery should be something funded partly under health care provided adequate mental evaluation has been undertaken. To receive hormone therapy for gender dysphoria, psychiatric evaluation must be undertaken, and if it is determined the person is only able to continue on with the surgery, then surgery seems like a lifesaving issue. But in Kosilek’s case, I have to ask how much his mental anguish is his penis problems, and how much is prison. The man murdered his wife. Ask any soldier out there how killing a person can weigh on you, and you can imagine how the act of murder could mess with your head. And what about the harassment, physical and mental, Kosilek likely receives in the prison for his female qualities. Being a “punk” in prison tends to result in some dropping the soap incidents — OK, I couldn’t help getting one prison slang joke in. Where do you put Kosilek when the surgery is done? Is “he”
still a “he” or is “he” now a “she”? There is not a concrete legal system for transgendered people to establish what gender they are, with or without surgery; the only norm is to be socially polite and refer to the person by whatever gender they wish to be. In any case, Kosilek’s harassment will likely not diminish in an all-male prison, nor would it should he be moved to an allfemale one. So what does this surgery accomplish apart from making a murderer possibly feel better? Though subjecting murderers to mental and physical torment is not OK legally, giving opportunities to them that are not afforded to those law-abiding citizens outside prison strikes me as something of a problem. What this case really brings to light is the need for reassessment of prisoner rights and treatment, and the need to change the already insanely high incarceration rates for U.S. citizens. Maybe the $20,000 surgery wouldn’t seem so dramatic if we weren’t wasting several billions of dollars each year to lock up potheads. Maybe I just wanted to sneak in a comment about how marijuana should be legal. But maybe, maybe I have a point about how our prison system needs altering.
Gabriel Stoffa is a graduate student in political science from Ottumwa, Iowa.
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Cyclones go for 3-0 with Leathernecks By Stephen.Koenigsfeld @iowastatedaily.com The Cyclones have started 2-0 for the second straight season and now have the chance to claim their second consecutive 3-0 start with a win against Western Illinois this Saturday. However, the caliber of the Leathernecks (2-0) squad isn’t of the highest regard. The Leathernecks have won just 11 games during the past three seasons, finishing 2-9 last season. Looking at the statistics, it would be easy for a team to get complacent going into a game with a sub-par Football Championship Series team. For coach Paul Rhoads and his team, that isn’t likely. “I don’t sense a bit of complacency in our kids,” Rhoads said. “That’s fully judged after going through meetings the other day and how we went through practice [Sunday].” Rhoads said the focus and energy from the team is what is keeping his Cyclones on track for the game against the Leathernecks, who have outscored their two opponents 5032 so far this season. While putting points on the board hasn’t been a problem for the Leathernecks, the Cyclones kept in-state rival Iowa without a touchdown on last Saturday. “There’s a lot of similarities to the University of Iowa in how they do things,” Rhoads said. “It’s great, sound football. [Western Illinois is] well coached fundamentally and schematically, and their defense [has made] a number of key plays through two victories.” Linebacker Jake Knott agreed
File photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily Linebacker Jake Knott celebrates after a touchdown during the Sept. 1 game against Tulsa. The Cyclones now are striving for a chance to claim their second consecutive 3-0 start with a win against Western Illinois.
with his coach in that the defense expects to see some of the same things they saw in their victory against Iowa. “I think they’re a very good team. They run a pretty similar offense to what Iowa is running, and they do a great job of that also,” Knott said. As for defensive lineman Jake McDonough, he said the honor of playing was enough to keep him hungry from week to week. “It’s quite a privilege to go out there ... and you only get 12 games, so you take each one seriously,” McDonough said. “And this being my last season, every game is motivation for me to perform at the best of my ability.”
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Strong safety Durrell Givens used metaphors to describe how he plans to stay out of the trap of complacency. “You just have to stay hungry,” Givens said. “We want every win, so you can’t take your foot off the gas. And that’s what we plan on doing.” One thing Rhoads and some of his players harped upon Monday morning was looking at the Leathernecks’ 2-0 record, rather than the caliber of the Football Championship Series school. “We just want to get to 3-0, and that’s our main focus,” Givens said. The Cyclones will kickoff their first evening game of the season at 7 p.m. Saturday.
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The new MLB playoff format with four wild card teams instead of two is a lot like the first few years of playing organized sports: Everyone is a winner. Major League Baseball announced in March that beginning this postseason there would be two wild card teams from each league. This is double what it was before, but with this new format the league, teams and fans all come out on top. Some people argue that adding the additional wild card will make fewer fans watch because it makes it easier to get in and therefore takes away from the splendor that is the MLB postseason. While we do agree this is true, adding an extra playoff spot to each league will put two additional fan bases in the mix and therefore improve television ratings. Consider this: last season, the Atlanta Braves had an 8.5-game lead in the wild card on Sept. 1. As time would tell, the Braves went on to suffer a historic slide and ended up losing the wild card spot to the St. Louis Cardinals by one game. You can’t tell us Braves fans would have said, “No thanks, we’ll just call it a season now,” had the MLB made this change before last season, could you? Speaking from experience, there’s nothing like it when your favorite team makes the playoffs. The 162-game schedule makes for a tumultuous season, where one day, you think your team is going to take the division, and the next, you’re biting your fingernails in a game for a chance at postseason play. Of the four major sports, baseball now has 10 of its 30 teams make the playoffs. With this new addition, that is still less than the NFL (12 of 32), NBA (16 of 30) and NHL (16 of 30). This shows just how difficult it is to even make it to October. The fans win with the new playoff format because it will not only make the wild card games more interesting, but it allows them to watch their teams at a time of year they normally could not. To kick off the playoffs, both wild card teams from each league will play each other to see who gets to advance to the divisional round. This means teams will have to decide whether to put their ace on the mound or hope they can win further down the rotation so they have their best for the next round. It doesn’t get much more exciting than that. With the NFL having become the most profitable sport in the country, the other professional sports are trying to find ways to keep up revenue while still winning games, baseball included.
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Until this weekend, Jenelle Hudson had been unsure of her role this season on the ISU volleyball team. For much of the season, the freshman setter from San Diego and coach Christy Johnson-Lynch discussed the possibility of using a redshirt. After a 3-3 start to the season, Johnson-Lynch felt it was best to put Hudson on the court now.
“I felt compelled to play her — we do have such significant holes in our defense — she’s a tough server and a great passer, and I felt like we were really lacking in those areas, and she could help shore that up for us,” Johnson-Lynch said. So Thursday evening, Johnson-Lynch told Hudson to be ready — that she would take the court during the weekend. “That was a very difficult decision to make — whether or not to redshirt
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File photo: Brandi Boyett/Iowa State Daily The men’s cross-country team warms up at Lied on Aug. 23 for a run through Ames.
Home meet gives men’s team a ‘sense of urgency’ By Mark Specht Daily Correspondent For the past two seasons, the ISU men’s cross-country team had the goal to make it to nationals, and for the past two seasons, it has fallen short of that goal. Redshirt sophomore Josh Heitkamp, who finished second overall at the Drake Bulldog Classic in August, said this year’s team has a different mentality. “The past couple of years it’s been, ‘Oh yeah, we’ll get better as the year goes on,’” Heitkamp said. “But now there’s not so much of a sense of urgency, but we want to be better now.” Freshman Caleb Abfall agreed with Heitkamp’s sentiment. “We’re all focused and determined,” Abfall said. “I think we all have a tenacity about this year.” In preparation for races, the team has been practicing two times each week, and many members have been running what will be their highest miles per week of the season. “We’re taking advantage of this time to work out hard and get a lot of mileage in,” said sophomore Alec Bollman. ”When we get into race sea-
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son, we do have one every week and every two weekends, so the chance to pick up your mileage and get good training in kind of goes down from there.” The only home meet of the year will be the Iowa Intercollegiate meet Saturday. The meet, an 8,000-meter race, will take place at the ISU cross-country course just west of the Wallace and Wilson towers. Bollman described the course as being tough, adding with a laugh: “It has a lot of hills.” Bollman said the team has practiced out on the course doing mile repeats, K-repeats and hill workouts. Historically, the Cyclones have treated their home meet
as a workout because they face mostly the smaller schools of the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. “In the past years, we were guaranteed basically a victory,” Heitkamp said. “It’s basically get through it, work hard and do what coach tells us, whether it’s racing or using it as a workout.” However, this year the team’s approach to the race may change with former Big 12 rival Missouri possibly attending. “By all means we’re not going to go down without a fight,” Heitkamp said. “With Missouri coming up and if they bring their team, then we’re definitely probably going to race to win.”
doing the same thing for years to come. How do you think the Yankees are able to sign all the big-name players they get? Yes, being in the biggest market plays a part, but the Yankees have either won their division or the wild card all but once during the last 10 years. All those T-shirt and hat
sales combined with how much it costs to see a game at Yankee Stadium? That’s a lot of coin. As with any argument, there are cons to adding the extra team, but when it comes to America’s Pastime, it’s all about enjoying the game. Adding the extra playoff spots will just make this even more positive.
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>>HUDSON.p4 her — but she was supportive of whatever we wanted to do,” Johnson-Lynch said. Hudson said there wasn’t much preparation with the players leading up to her first match due to the uncertainty. “I didn’t practice in the rotation very much, because I wasn’t expecting to play — I was expecting to redshirt,” Hudson said. On Friday against Eastern Washington, Hudson started for the Cyclones. Throughout the weekend, in Iowa State’s three total matches, Hudson appeared in all 11 sets. In the three weekend matches, Hudson contributed 19 digs and 11 assists as the team went 2-1. Johnson-Lynch said the redshirt decision may not have been the same had
the team started the season differently, adding she felt Hudson could be a big part of capping off victories against top teams down the road. “We felt like she was a piece to that, that she could have a significant impact, especially in November,” Johnson-Lynch said. “Not that what we had out there wasn’t good.”
Five-set matches taking toll In five of the team’s first nine matches this season, the match has gone to five sets. With 18 regular season matches remaining and a program record of eight fiveset matches, the team is going long in matches at an extremely high rate early on. “I think it’s just kind of been how we’ve been a little
up and down this season so far,” said setter Alison Landwehr. “When you go to five, you do learn a lot, though, so that is something that will help us in the long run I think.” Against Iowa on Friday evening, the Cyclones had six match point opportunities to put their in-state rival away in three sets. Instead, they ended up beating them in five. “I think one thing that we do need to learn from those games is we’ve had several chances where we could have just won in three,” said middle blocker Jamie Straube. “In a way, it’s almost a good thing that we’re learning that now heading into the Big 12 and heading into a tough game with Nebraska.” Iowa State will take on No. 1 Nebraska this weekend at 1 p.m. at Hilton Coliseum.
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creates self-sustained class By Madison.Martin @iowastatedaily.com In 2008, David Correll and a few of his peers created the student run organization ISU BioBus. Now, a group of about 25 students actively spend time turning used vegetable oil from campus dining centers into biodiesel used to fuel one CyRide bus. This semester five students, junior and senior level from all different majors, are enrolled in an independent study class called SCM 490. Supply Chain Management 490 is a course in the College of Business taught David Cantor. “Students have to make up and present a plan to the University to create a department on campus to run the BioBus project.” Cantor said. Jordan Minich, senior in pre-business, is a member of the small group of students. “We want to keep BioBus as a student ran organization, and at the same time being a business so that it is a profitable, self-sustained organization. That way we need to only take minimal funding from the university,” Minich said. “It’s always nice to have support from [the Government of the Student Body] and what not, but we mainly want to rely on profit by selling the waste oil, the byproduct glycerin, and government grants.” Correll, now a graduate teaching and research assistant, was thrilled to hear these students are trying to take BioBus to the next step: “I am so excited, and kind of honored that it is going to grow as an institution and hopefully become a permanent part of Iowa State. I’m so glad they are going to make that happen.” Correll also said he “would like to see students involved predominately. I think one the best things we do is expose students who are interested in green business and recycling to that sector where they actually get to recycle stuff. So I would always hope that BioBus keeps a commitment to students, but it is a production system so there may need to be some staff to keep things organized.”
Quick facts BioBus is currently a student organization on campus Five students are creating a plan to turn BioBus into a self-sustained business on campus Students will present their plan toward the end of November A final plan is hoped to be finished at the end of the semester, so it can be put in motion
Currently CyRide does not pay for the small amount of biodiesel provided to them. When asked if he thought CyRide would be interested buying biodiesel from BioBus in the future, Cantor replied, “I think CyRide is open to acquiring more biodiesel from us. They have tested the fuel on bus with our biodiesel and have had no technical problems, so I think they would be open to more from Iowa State in the future.” SCM 490 students will take their plans to the university in November. Cantor said the students hope to invite campus representatives to final presentation.
Photo: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily Dan Bell and Jordan Minich brainstorm at a Supply Chain Management 490 class. An independent study, the class take an existing BioBus program and turns it into a business.
Minich said who they invite to their presentations “depends on where our goals are at the time. Financially it could be banks, if it’s obtaining more oil or waste grease it would the head of food services.” Asked if he thinks it’s possible for the entire plan to be finished by the end of the semester, Minich replied, “It is. It won’t be put in place
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