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02.07.2020 Vol. 220 No. 092
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COURTESY OF EMILY EVERHART Food Science Club’s Valentine’s Day fudge sale preorders are available for pickup Feb. 12 and 13 in 206 McKay from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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BY SAGE.SMITH @iowastatedaily.com Faculty members of Iowa State’s College of Veterinary Medicine work to build a strong community for colleagues, students, staff, clients and animals. Rodney Bagley is the department chair for Veterinary Clinical Sciences. He oversees faculty and academic programs like different areas of research. He also teaches three courses, including a second year course about ethics.
Bagley said the essential mission of the college is to train the next generation of veterinarians. Students spend three years in the curriculum learning the science and medicine behind the practice and then in their fourth year they get to apply what they’ve learned with real life training by going through clinical rotations. The veterinary medicine students work right with faculty members in their fourth year. They
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Tweet calls for caucus recanvass ‘Inconsistencies’ potential cause for concern BY JAKE.WEBSTER @iowastatedaily.com The Democratic National Committee (DNC) again intervened in the Iowa Democratic Party’s (IDP) count of the Democratic caucuses that took place Monday. “Enough is enough,” said DNC Chair Tom Perez in a tweet. “In light of the problems that have emerged in the implementation of the delegate selection plan and in order to assure public confidence in the results, I am calling on the Iowa Democratic Party to immediately begin a recanvass.” In a second tweet that came after less than an hour later, Perez clarified what he meant by a recanvass. “A recanvass is a review of the worksheets from each caucus site to ensure accuracy,” Perez said in the tweet. “The IDP will continue to report results.” The IDP’s count of Monday’s caucus results has been plagued by unprecedented delays and errors in reporting. As of 1 p.m. Thursday, 97 percent of precinct results were tabulated, though Nate Cohn, a New York Times analyst, has raised questions regarding the veracity of those results, and the IDP itself acknowledged it had released results with errors in a tweet Wednesday before fixing them. Following Perez’s intervention into the count, the IDP Chair Troy Price released a statement in response Thursday afternoon, less than
an hour after Perez’s second tweet. “While I fully acknowledge that the reporting circumstances on Monday night were unacceptable, we owe it to the thousands of Iowa Democratic volunteers and caucusgoers to remain focused on collecting and reviewing incoming results,” Price said in the statement. “Throughout the collection of records of results, the IDP identified inconsistencies in the data and used our redundant paper records to promptly correct those errors. This is an ongoing process in close coordination with precinct chairs, and we are working diligently to report the final 54 precincts to get as close to final reporting as possible.” Price said in the statement if a candidate’s campaign were to request a recanvass in compliance with the IDP delegate selection plan, the IDP is prepared. “In such a circumstance, the IDP will audit the paper records of report, as provided by the precinct chairs and signed by representatives of presidential campaigns,” Price said in the statement. “This is the official record of the Iowa Democratic caucus, and we are committed to ensuring the results accurately reflect the preference of Iowans.” According to incomplete results with 97 percent of precincts reporting on the IDP’s results webpage, Pete Buttigieg maintains a lead of less than 0.2 percent of state delegate equivalents over Bernie Sanders, who has a lead in tabulations of first and final preferences of caucusgoers, which is effectively a popular vote. Elizabeth Warren trails in third.
Fudge for sale for Valentine’s Day from Food Science Club BY NICOLE.MATTSON @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State’s Food Science Club is celebrating Valentine’s Day by hosting a fudge sale for students to purchase and enjoy with others or on their own. The Food Science Club works to create a close relationship between food science and human nutrition students. The program is designed to open students to a wide variety of food science options as well as encourage leadership and build relationships, according to the Food Science Club website. The Valentine’s Day fudge sales have been an annual event for the last five years and has been a part of the Food Science Club’s fundraising. The members of the club work together to make and package the fudge and prepare it for selling. Emily Everhart, vice president of the Food Science Club, fudge chair and senior in food science, coordinates schedules and works with various organizations to organize the Valentine’s fudge sales each year. The Food Science Club prepares 250 pounds of fudge for the sale. The profits from sales go toward industry tours and trips for members of the club. The money raised goes back into the club to benefit each member and their hard work. “We usually do one or two trips a year to different states to tour food industry plants,” Everhart said. “[Fudge sales] have been pretty successful. We just transferred over to tins instead of little paper cups and that has made it a lot easier and cut down on our costs.” This year’s fudge flavors include: peanut butter, chocolate, cookies ‘n’ cream, chocolate mint and fan-favorite Cyclone flavor, which is a chocolate fudge with peanuts and mini marshmallows topped with Cyclone M&Ms. Fudge will be sold at $6 for a half pound and $10 for one pound. Availability for preorders closed last Friday and can be picked up from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday outside of 206 McKay Hall. The remaining fudge that was not preordered can be purchased from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 14 in the foyer of LeBaron Hall.