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Holocaust Remembrance Day

Commemorating liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau

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GARRETT HEYD/ IOWA STATE DAILY Students and members of fundraising teams dance together during Dance Marathon, a 15 hour event to raise money for children with cancer.

Dance Marathon takes on Iowa State

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Monday is a remembrance day for one of the most well-known events of World War II, the Holocaust.

Jan. 27 is designated by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Since 2005, the UN and its member states have hosted commemoration ceremonies to mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism.

“This is the story of the death of six million and the suffering of millions more and the story of violence and evil carried out by millions,” said Jeremy Best, assistant professor of history. “It would be erasing the truth about the past if we do not remember.”

This year is the 15th anniversary of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Auschwitz-Birkenau is one of the most well known camps used by the Nazi party in WWII. It was a Polish city formerly called Oswiecim before being divided into the two parts of the camp, Auschwitz and Birkenau. It was liberated by the Soviet Union in January 1945, according to History.com.

On Nov. 1, 2005, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 60/7 to designate Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The same resolution supports the development of educational programs to remember the Holocaust and to prevent further genocide.

“Resolution 60/7 not only establishes Jan. 27 as ‘International Day of Commemoration in memor y of the victims of the Holocaust,’ it also rejects any form of Holocaust denial,” according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website.

The resolution encourages member states of the UN to actively preserve sites that the Nazis used during the “Final Solution.” Drawing from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the resolution condemns all forms of “religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief ” throughout the world.

The first commemoration ceremony took place on Jan. 27, 2006, at the UN Headquarters in New York City. Nearly

2,200 people attended in person. Since the ceremony was broadcasted live on television, many more people were able to view it throughout the world. UN offices across the world and other state offices also conduct their own ceremonies.

Since 2010, the UN has designated specific themes for the annual commemorations.

That year, the central theme revolved around Holocaust survivors and the lessons they pass on to future generations.

The 2011 theme focused on the experiences of women. The 2012 theme was “Children and the Holocaust ” and highlighted the effects of mass violence on children.

In 2013, remembrance events centered on individuals and groups who risked their lives “to save tens of thousands of Jews, Roma and Sinti and others from near-certain death under the Nazi regime during the Second World War in Europe,” according to the United States PG4

Harden to discuss national security Former Obama administration official comes to Ames

BY KATHERINE.KEALEY @iowastatedaily.com A former Obama administration official, Dave Harden, will discuss national security and the presidential race at Iowa State at 5:30 p.m. Monday in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union.

Harden serves as the managing director for the Georgetown Strategy Group working in the realm of international development.

He worked under the Obama administration, serving as assistant administrator for the United States Agency for International Development ’s Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance.

Harden recently endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination. His lecture is as a campaign surrogate and is part of the Campaign Series in 2020 the Committee on Lectures

is hosting.

Director of the L ectures Program, Amanda Knief, said the committee on lectures is in no way endorsing any candidates running or party.

“Biden’s campaign came to us and asked us if he could speak, and we were happy to have him come because we are happy to work with any campaigns that come on to campus,” Knief said.

It will be a classic lecture style with questions from the audience after and is expected to run for an hour. It is open to the public and will be free.

Knief said the goal of these lectures is to make them accessible to all Iowa State students.

“We think it is really important that students get as many opportunities as possible [...] to engage with candidates and their surrogates and to be able to ask questions about

how candidates would handle issues that are important to students,” Knief said. “We think that [...] part of the committee on lectures’ responsibility is to facilitate that to make sure we make it as easy as possible for students to have access to as many candidates as we can.”

Iowa’s caucuses are scheduled for Feb. 3, though national security has gained recent prominence in the Democratic primary.

Th e subject was extensively discussed in the January Presidential Debate in Des Moines.

“I think this is a really important topic in light of the events with Iran, and some of the things that have been going on with China,” Knief said. “National security is an issue because of our involvement in several conflicts around the globe. I think students should be interested and engaged with it and how whoever elected to the presidency in November will affect the U.S.”

Music roared through the halls of the Memorial Union as Iowa State’s Dance Marathon took on Iowa State Saturday.

The total number raised from this year’s Dance Marathon was $340,552.22.

Kait Pearce, a fourth-year executive co-director of Dance Marathon and senior in kinesiology and health, talked about goals for this year’s event.

“We are in the middle of a $700,000 pledge to Chemodynamics,” Pearce said. “It’s a preventative program that supports neonatal and infant heart and lungs. They use predictive software that finds where the potential problems are and intervene before it becomes a problem.”

Last year, $380,000 of the $700,000 was raised from Dance Marathon. This money goes toward programs like Chemodynamics that help families with children that need invasive surgeries or have serious medical conditions.

The goal for this year is to raise the rest of the $700,000 for those families.

Dance Marathon has been a large part of student philanthropy at Iowa State for the last 23 years. It is a student organization focused on raising money for the University of Iowa’s Stead Family Children’s Hospital, according to the Dance Marathon website.

Rachael Dierickx, an Iowa State alumna and former Dance Marathon student dancer, explained how important the event is to her family.

“My daughter had open heart surgery when she was two,” Dierickx said. “It was a nice thing for me to be able to reach out to Dance Marathon as a family when I was so passionate about it as a student.”

Dierickx said her daughter is now nine years old and perfectly healthy, thanks to money raised from Dance Marathon.

The event also has a large impact on student participants. Pearce said her role as an executive member has shown her how this event impacts families in positive ways.

“My favorite part of the day is the end after final [number] reveal,” Pearce said. “We do the morale dance one last time and it’s super cool to be on the stage as an executive member and get to look out and see 400 dancers knowing the whole morale dance.

They’re so bought into the cause [...] Everyone is fueled with so much fire, even though it’s midnight and we’ve been on our feet for 15 hours.”

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1.27.20 Monday Monologues series, Grant Wood Foyer, Parks Library at 12:15 p.m. “Barjche 2020:

Dancing through Barriers,” members from ISU’s Orchesis I student dance company will perform modern dance choreography by San Francisco guest artist Kathleen Hermesdorf and artistic director Cynthia Adams.

Lecture: National Security and the Presidential Race, Sun Room, Memorial Union at 5:30 p.m. Dave Harden is a foreign policy expert

currently serving as the Managing Director for the Georgetown Strategy Group which works within the realm of international development. He

recently served as the Assistant Administrator for the US Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance in the Obama Administration. Harden is a Biden campaign surrogate. Part of the Campaign Series in 2020.

Hammered Silver Earrings Workshop, The Workspace at the Memorial Union at 6 p.m.

Learn some basics of metalworking by making a pair of sterling silver earrings. Hammer silver into slender rectangles about 1.5” long and create texture that catches the light. Add a bright copper rivet and finish on sterling silver ear wires.

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(reported at 1:36 a.m.).

Bryce Daniel Muschick, age 34, of Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with harassment in the second degree at 134 Main Street (reported at 1:36 a.m.).

Bryce Daniel Muschick, age 34, of Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at 134 Main Street (reported at 1:36 a.m.).

Bryce Daniel Muschick, age 34, of Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at 134 Main Street (reported at 12:57 a.m.).

Bryce Daniel Muschick, age 34, of Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct/ fighting/violent behavior at 134 Main Street

Bryce Daniel Muschick, age 34, of Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct/ fighting/violent behavior at 134 Main Street (reported at 12:57 a.m.).

William Roger Roberts, age 40, of 1268 Cherokee Street- Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with drug possession of a controlled substance at 109 East Lincoln Way and Des Moines Avenue (reported at 4:57 p.m.).

William Roger Roberts, age 40, of 1268 Cherokee Street- Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with operating with intoxicated, first offense, at 109 East Lincoln Way and Des Moines Avenue (reported at 4:57 p.m.).

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The LGBTQIA+ acronym The creation and expansion throughout history

BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com The acronym used for the LGBTQIA+ community has evolved and changed over the years and is still debated today on what is the correct terminology.

Since the 1990s, different versions of the acronym have been created as increasingly nuanced ways to understand and define people’s lived experiences of gender and sexuality have been expressed.

The short acronym of LGBT has been used since the 1990s after it was adapted from LGB — which stood for lesbian, gay and bisexual.

LGB replaced the term gay in reference to the LGBTQIA+ community in the mid-to-late 1980s.

“The LGBTQ acronym is not just a collection of letters that represent identities; rather, these letters are history embodied,” said Jeffry Iovannone, primary writer for Queer History for the People, in a post on Medium.com. “They tell the story of the modern American Gay Civil Rights Movement, reminding us that our victories have been a long time coming, and have not been easily won. And there is still much work to do.”

T, which stands for transgender, was next to gain a place on the acronym.

While the first three letters, LGB, focus on sexual identity, transgender refers to a person whose gender identity is different from the sex on their birth certificate.

However, not everyone who identifies as trans will take hormones or have sex reassignment surgery, and some don’t identify within the gender binary, preferring gender-neutral pronouns such as they, them and theirs.

Following the letter T was Q, which stands for Queer, and can be used as an umbrella term to represent anyone who’s non-cisgender and non-heterosexual.

The term is a reclaimed derogatory term, therefore it may be seen as derogatory to some while others use it openly.

The term queer is sometimes preferred because it is ambiguous and allows people to avoid the

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more rigid boundaries associated with labels like lesbian and transgender.

Another Q can be added for questioning — producing the variant LGBTQQ — which represents people who are still exploring their sexuality or gender identity.

I stands for intersex which is, a person “born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male,” according to the Intersex Society of North America.

Experts believe that 0.05 to 1.7 percent of the population is born with “intersex traits,” meaning their body is not definitely male or female, possibly because they have chromosomes which are not XX or XY, or because their genitals or reproductive organs are not considered “standard.”

The A stands for asexual, which is defined as someone who does not experience sexual attraction for any gender.

The plus sign is there to include anyone’s identity that doesn’t fall under another letter or allows for the acronym to be shortened.

Another expanded version of the acronym in use is LGBTQQIP2SAA, which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, pansexual, two spirit, asexual and ally.

The 2S stands for two spirit people, “two spirit is a third gender found in some Native American cultures, often involving birth-assigned men or women taking on the identities and roles of the opposite sex,” according to dictionary.com.

Pansexual is the P in the acronym and refers to a person whose romantic, emotional and/or sexual attraction is not based on gender, biological sex or gender identity.

“While this version is certainly inclusive of the myriad ways people understand gender and sexual identity, it is not necessarily efficient,” Iovannone said. “It is difficult to remember, let alone say, and will invariably result in giving those not familiar with the community a terminology lesson.”

Another alternative acronym is MOGII, which stands for marginalized orientations, gender identities and intersex.

“The primary benefit of the MOGII acronym is that it encompasses the diverse identities that comprise the community in only five letters,” Iovannone said. “But aside from its compact nature, there are several problems with this variation.”

One of the main problems Iovannone points out is MOGII is intended to refer to the LGBTQIA+ community; however, cisgender

heterosexual women are also marginalized and oppressed on the basis of their gender identities.

No matter the chosen acronym for the LGBTQIA+ community, there is a history behind the community and the acronym that is the common face of it.

One important part is the decision to place the L at the front.

“When civic and religious leaders call us ‘GLB’ or ‘GLBT’ rather than a now normative version of LGBT, [...] It erases part of our history, especially the history of women in the LGBT community and in our struggles for civil rights,” according to Elizabeth Drescher, author of Choosing Our Religion: The Spiritual Lives of America’s Nones, in a post on Medium.com.

“It takes away a real and meaningful power — the power of naming — that has been marked throughout history and culture as critical to shaping and asserting authentic and authoritative identity.”

This history of the acronym goes back to the last sustained trauma in the LGBTQIA+ world which is the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s and 1990s. During that time, as most people are aware, thousands of gay men, transwomen and also many straight and bisexual men and women died.

“Gay men themselves rallied to each other’s sides as did many straight allies, providing companionship, meals, and some measure of nursing care to many people with AIDS,” Drescher said.

“But a central, and largely unacknowledged, factor in the care of men with AIDS were organized and more loosely configured networks of lesbians.”

Drescher went on to explain how women took more leadership roles in LGBT communities as gay men were sidelined by HIV/AIDS. By the late 1990s, then, “gay community centers” across the country became “lesbian and gay community centers,” and it became common to switch the G and the L in standard acronym as well as, over time, to add the T and then the Q and so on.

“So, the L before the G is more than a nit-picking alphabet soup,” Drescher said. “It is a signal of respect, of solidarity and of hope for a shared future of equality, justice and love.”

Monday Monologues works to bring more students

BY AVERY.STAKER @iowastatedaily.com The first Monday Monologue of 2020 is set to take place from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. Monday.

The event will take place at the Grant Wood Foyer in the Parks Library and is free to attend. Attendees are encouraged to enjoy their lunch while they watch and listen.

Monday Monologues is a series that has been held since the fall of 2018. It has provided students an outlet to bring words to life in creative ways to spread various messages. This Monday Monologue is unique because it is the first performance to feature a choreographed dance rather than spoken words.

The Orchesis I dance organization will perform a few small

scale excerpts from their “Barjche’ 2020: Dancing through Barriers” show, which honors past and future heroines through the integration of music and choreographed dancing. Specifically, the show celebrates the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote.

After practicing nearly every week since the start of the fall semester, Orchesis I is fresh off their first showing Friday in Perry.

Cynthia Adams, the artistic director, choreographer and advisor to the organization, said their first performance was great despite a frozen stage door and uncooperative weather.

Kathleen Hermesdorf, a dance producer and teacher from San Francisco, California, and internationally acclaimed composer Albert Mathias made guest appearances during the show’s production. Hermesdorf and Mathias worked with Orchesis I

every night for a week, coming up with a score and choreography piece for the show.

“When the students work with new guest choreographers it just brings them to a different place,” Adams said regarding Hermesdorf. “It gives them a new experience that they might not be familiar with.”

Susan Gent, the founder of Monday Monologues, said she is very excited for the dancing performance.

“I gave this a little thought about expanding beyond poetry or performance, and thought dance is also a way we communicate,” Gent said.

The full “Barjche’ 2020: Dancing through Barriers” show can be seen 7:30 p.m. Friday and 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Fisher Theater.

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Tom Steyer to kick-off bus tour in Ames

BY JAKE.WEBSTER @iowastatedaily.com Amid a flurry of presidential candidates crisscrossing the state ahead of caucus night, Tom Steyer is returning to Iowa State for an event on Monday.

The event is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Monday in the Scheman Building, just one week ahead of the first-inthe-nation caucuses.

Steyer’s visit follows campaign stops in Ames in the past week by former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Amy Klobuchar.

The candidate’s closing pitch to voters focuses on his support for combating climate change. A new ad for his campaign touts his support for climate activism.

“I worked with the activists in Oxnard, [Calif.] to stop the last fossil fuel plant I hope is ever proposed for California,” Steyer said in the ad. “And the reason we won is because environmental justice was at the heart.”

Steyer founded the advocacy group “NextGen America” in 2013 to mobilize young voters on issues including climate change. He has said he sees the fight against anthropogenic climate change as a possibility for positive economic redevelopment. “[Combating climate change] is our best opportunity to reinvent this country in the most positive way by winning in the [race towards clean energy],” Steyer said to the Daily in December.

The billionaire businessman has opened his wallet to fund his presidential campaign, spending nearly $48 million on his presidential campaign by the end of September 2019 — the most recent contribution data from the FEC that is publicly available, according to Federal Elections Commission (FEC) documents.

The candidate’s Ames event will kick-off a nearly weeklong “Final Sprint” bus tour that will take him to all four congressional districts in Iowa. “[Steyer] will be on a bus tour through Iowa to energize supporters, build on his continued momentum, and take the case to all Iowans that he’s the best candidate to expose Donald Trump on the economy,” the Steyer campaign said in a press release.

While Steyer’s ad spending has accompanied him vaulting into second place in recent polling of South Carolina, the last of the four states in the Democratic primary to vote in February, he has not seen significant dividends in Iowa.

In a Siena College poll released Saturday of likely Iowa Democratic caucusgoers, Steyer has three percent support and is tied for sixth place alongside businessman Andrew Yang, 22 percent behind Sanders, the Iowa frontrunner.

Steyer will remain in Iowa campaigning ahead of the caucuses until caucus night on Feb. 3, according to a press release.

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Holocaust Memorial Museum website.

The 2014 theme focused on journeys through the Holocaust, from deportation to liberation. In 2015, the central idea was how the experiences of the Holocaust shaped the founding of the UN. The 2016 theme explored the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ connection to the Holocaust.

The 2017 theme emphasized “Holocaust education as a platform for building respect for human rights, increasing tolerance and defending our common humanity,” according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website.

In 2018, the theme was “Holocaust Remembrance and Education: Our Shared Responsibility.”

In 2015, 39 countries participated in International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration ceremonies. Remembrance activities varied by country. Some hosted lectures and presentations on different topics, while others showed films and documentaries on the Holocaust. Other countries lit

Amy Klobuchar endorsed Senator hosts town hall before caucuses

BY KATHERINE.KEALEY @iowastatedaily.com In Jethro’s Steak n’ Chop in Ames, people packed into the venue wearing green pins that read “Amy.” The pins were worn by supporters of Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s presidential campaign, she hosted a town hall in the restaurant Sunday afternoon.

Klobuchar was welcomed to the event

by Rep. Ross Wilburn, D-Minn., who endorsed her campaign at the start of the town hall.

“She is committed to improving the lives of families in the heartland and ensure kids that grow up in rural Iowa can stay in rural Iowa,” Wilburn said. “Instead of calling people names or spreading the blame, Amy is focused on getting things done.”

She began her speech talking about her “reality” as one of the jurors in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.

“I think about this moment in time, this is a president that put his private interest, his partisan interest and political interest over our country,” Klobuchar said. “I think this is a moment of courage. How you are going to vote on impeachment in the end, you at least have to believe enough in our democracy that you are not afraid of the truth.”

Klobuchar said she is interested in a trial that represents the Constitution, not political parties, and there has never been a trial like this one in the history of the country.

Klobuchar said she wants to hear from witnesses, such as Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton. Klobuchar quoted the musical “Hamilton,” she said she wants to talk to the people who were “in the room when it happened.”

“When we are there, as 100 jurors, we are there representing the American people, we are there to uphold the Constitution,” Klobuchar said.

Klobuchar said impeachment is an “economic check” on the president and under his presidency there is not shared prosperity. She said there is more that could be done, but to do so red states need to turn blue in this next election.

“My plan is we are going to build a beautiful blue wall of Democratic votes

candles or read the names of victims of the Nazi regime.

In addition to observing International Holocaust Remembrance Day, many of the participating countries have established their own remembrance days that are often connected to events from the Holocaust.

For example, Argentina legislated April 19, the day of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, as the national Day for Cultural Diversity.

Hungary designated April 16 as National Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the establishment of the ghetto in Munkács. In 1979, the United States Congress established Days of Remembrance that usually take place between April and early May to commemorate victims of the Nazi regime. The U.S. Days of Remembrance correspond to Yom HaShoah, Israel’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day which takes place on April 20 and 21.

The purpose of International Holocaust Remembrance Day is two-fold: to serve as a date for the official commemoration of the victims of the Nazi regime and to promote Holocaust education throughout the world.

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ALEXANDER GRAY/ IOWA STATE DAILY Sen. Amy Klobuchar spoke Sunday at Jethro’s BBQ in Ames, and said she wished she would be able to spend more time in Iowa ahead of the caucuses, but would have to return to Washington D.C. for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.

around those states and we are going to make Donald Trump pay for it,” Klobuchar said.

Klobuchar talked about the importance of strong unions, accessible health care and affordable prescription medication and premiums and childcare. She said she plans to build and improve the Affordable Care Act and pass a non-profit public option for health care.

Anna Bilek, senior in civil engineering, said she wanted to be informed on all the presidential candidates, but has committed to caucus for Klobuchar.

Bilek said she appreciates Klobuchar’s healthcare plan, but also her ability to reach across the aisle to Republicans.

“I really like Amy because she has all of the things I am looking for,” Bilek said “I think it is really great that she is a female, but also is very qualified [...] and when she was elected flipped a lot of red districts blue and that makes me confident she would be able to do the same in the presidential election. I think our country is so polarized and I think someone in the middle is what we need to bring us back together and I think she would be great at that.”

Douglas Mihelich, senior in mechanical engineering, is from Minnesota and said he

he always brings up five myths that are common beliefs of people when they think about the Holocaust. These five false beliefs are: that Aushwitz was the place where most of the Jews were killed; Germans who refused to partake in the Holocaust were punished or killed; only the Nazi party and the Schutzstaffel killed Jews; nobody outside of Germany knew what was going on; and the Jews were weak and defenseless victims.

The Holoc aust was the sy stematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies and collaborators.

The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were “racially superior” and that the Jews, deemed “inferior,” were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.

“During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived racial and biological inferiority: Roma (Gypsies), people with disabilities, some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians and others), Soviet prisoners of war and blacks,” according to the United States

has seen Klobuchar’s work firsthand and has committed to caucus for her as well.

“Growing up in Minnesota I had a lot of opportunities to witness firsthand her ability to cross the aisle to work with both Democrats and Republicans to find real common sense solutions,” Mihelich said.

Mihelich said Klobuchar has the best plan for paying for higher education.

“She has a lot of great ideas on making college more affordable, I am not convinced that college should be free,” Mihelich said. “I think she has a really good progressive and real solution that could be implemented.”

Klobuchar’s education plan is one of the reasons she won the endorsement of Wilburn, who had previously endorsed Sen. Kamala Harris.

“The things that closed the deal for me was the support of education, she has similar views on education as Sen. Harris, who I was a strong supporter and advocate of,” Wilburn said. “I really just want folks to get out and caucus. I will be caucusing which means I do endorse Sen. Klobuchar, but bring a friend and get people out. That is what I am going to be doing and I want the people of Ames and Story County to do the same.”

Holocaust Memorial Museum website.

“Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses and homosexuals.”

In the final months of the war, the Nazis moved camp inmates by train or on forced marches, often called “death marches,” in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners.

As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Germany, they began to encounter and liberate concentration camp prisoners, as well as prisoners en route by forced march from one camp to another. The marches continued until May 7, 1945, the day the German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.

For the Western Allies, World War II officially ended in Europe on the next day, May 8, while Soviet forces announced their “Victory Day” on May 9, 1945.

“The Holocaust does not exist to teach us lessons,” Best said. “It is not like ‘Oh thank goodness that happened, now we know better.’ But nonetheless, it would be a moral failing to forget about what happened.”

OPINION

Monday, January 27, 2020 Iowa State Daily

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GUEST COLUMN

Small businesses to export more

USMCA and SBA will help benefit small businesses

BY TOM SALISBURY AND SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION june.teasley@sba.gov

Finally, only an official signing ceremony by stands between small businesses and their benefit from the new United States-MexicoCanada Agreement (USMCA). The agreement establishes fair trade rules between our North American neighbors and its expected implementation sets the future for trade progress for small businesses by simplifying customs and trade rules and reducing barriers and costs that small businesses have historically faced.

In my role with the S mall Business Association (SBA), I have encountered many businesses in trade relationships with Canada and Mexico and have heard how these markets helped to expand their businesses. Now, they will benefit as the USMCA: Cuts red tape at the border and encourages small-business consideration when regulations are in development and implemented Supports the 21st century economy with strong digital trade detail supporting internet-enabled small businesses and e-commerce exports Promotes small-business participation in government procurement, offering another way to grow their customer base and expand Protects innovators’ intellectual property Eliminates local presence requirements for cross-border service providers, benefiting small businesses by removing the burden of opening a foreign office to do business.

In SBA’s Region VII perhaps the state of Iowa will benefit the most from the agreement.

Canada and Mexico, ranked one and two as destinations, serve as key export markets for production from Iowa, constituting an estimated 47 percent of Iowa’s total exports. Last year, Iowa exported $4.2 billion worth of goods to

STATE DEPARTMENT PHOTO BY RON PRZYSUCHA Region VII Administrator Tom Salisbury advocates for small businesses to participate in export relations with the USMCA and SBA for more benefits.

Canada alone — which represents 30 percent of the state’s total goods exports — and nearly $2.3 billion worth of goods to Mexico, according to the U.S. Trade Representative. Out of the 12 million American jobs supported by trade with Canada and Mexico, nearly 130,000 of those currently exist in Iowa.

Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas will benefit greatly, too.

In Missouri, 56 percent of total exports are sent to Canada and Mexico, accounting for $7.8 billion worth of trade, and 42 percent of Nebraska’s total exports ($3.1 billion worth of products) are sent to the two countries. Kansas exported $2.5 billion of goods to Canada last year, with hundreds of millions from aviation and agriculture. As Kansas’ top two trading destinations, Canada and Mexico purchase more than one-third of Kansas’s total global manufacturing exports. One of four Kansas manufacturing firms exporting to the countries.

These companies will enjoy an ongoing trade regulation involvement. The USMCA includes a Small and Medium Enterprise chapter that established a small business trade committee.

Government officials from each country make

up the committee, providing a forum where small businesses can share information about the impact of international business regulations and their concerns. Keeping the communication lines open will empower small businesses to share in the economic expansion the agreement will bring.

The International Trade Commission says that within five years, the USMCA could add up to $2.2 billion in new economic growth and 589,000 jobs to the American economy. Small businesses will create two out of three of those net new jobs according to history. Look for more new job growth as our small businesses access the two-thirds of the world’s purchasing power, which is in foreign countries. Trade is an imperative strategy for small businesses to sustain and generate growth.

The SBA is ready to support new and existing exporting small businesses. In fiscal year 2019, the SBA backed $1 billion in financing to small businesses through our export loan programs, where small firms can access from $500 to $5.5 million in loan assistance. Our State Trade and Export Promotion Program (STEP) program, a federal-state partnership

initiative, provides state governments with funds to support direct export assistance and more. Since 2011, the STEP program has awarded approximately $157 million in grants to fund export opportunities and increase the footprint of small businesses in countries all over the world. The grants not only fund trade missions but create an avenue where small business firms can access other SBA resource partners and other state and federal assistance.

In fiscal year 2020, the SBA will offer more STEP grants and increase the number of export financing workshops for small businesses across the nation. SBA export assistance staff are currently located in 21 U.S. Export Assistance Centers with U.S. Department of Commerce and Export-Import Bank staff to coordinate export deals. This includes an export finance manager located in St. Louis for Region VII SBA. All these activities help small businesses through the exporting process.

The expansion of small business exports will add strength to an already historic resurgence in the American economy as determined, optimistic and innovative small businesses seize on this opportunity. The SBA is ready to help them.

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Comeback proves to be futile Lewis and Young lead the charge in loss

BY ZANE.DOUGLAS @iowastatedaily.com The second half of Saturday’s game saw Iowa State nearly comeback from a 55-37 deficit to No. 16 Auburn.

The final score was just a four point margin with the Tigers barely holding on by a score of 80-76, thanks in part to a second half run with a complete momentum shift in what had been an otherwise forgettable afternoon for Coach Steve Prohm’s group.

LEWIS AND YOUNG LEAD CHARGE As ever yone likely suspected, juniors Terrence Lewis and Solomon Young were the main benefactors of the huge second half run.

The two made up for a ton of the run and it showed in their plus/minus statistic as Lewis and Young earned a +14 and a +8, respectively.

The production came in the form of second chance points. Lewis and Young each had four offensive rebounds in the game and turned those into points for a Cyclone team that was struggling mightily to put the ball in the hoop.

Many of the rebounds came at crucial times down the stretch when the Cyclones were in danger of falling behind more or they needed to keep their foot on the gas.

Lewis was effective due to his size and length as a wing — a player type that doesn’t always fit in Prohm’s system — and Young has burst through with more effective play for two games straight now.

Lewis missed a wide open three with 10 seconds left and the Cyclones down by four, but Iowa State wouldn’t have been close without his production in the first place. He finished with 12 points on 4-7 shooting and 4-6 from the line with five rebounds and two steals in 21 minutes off the bench.

Young finished with 10 points on 3-8 shooting, 4-5 from the free-throw line and nine rebounds in 24 minutes.

FOUL TROUBLE HURTS CYCLONES The leading scorer for the Cyclones was

CAITLIN YAMADA/ IOWA STATE DAILY Senior guard Prentiss Nixon during the men’s basketball game against No.3 Kansas on Jan. 8 in Hilton Coliseum.

sophomore guard Rasir Bolton. Bolton put up 23 points on 6-19 shooting, 2-7 from three and 9-10 from the line. He added four rebounds, but he also added four personal fouls.

The Penn State transfer has come alive as one of Iowa State’s main two scoring options over the past few weeks, with this game being no different.

When Bolton was working, it was hard to stop him, but on the defensive end, the personal fouls took away much of his effectiveness. He was relegated to bench minutes that he probably wouldn’t have seen otherwise.

Bolton only played 31 minutes compared

to the 40 that he played against Oklahoma State. In that time, the Cyclones were a -1 with him on the floor.

GRILL CAN’T FIND HIS STROKE Sitting out with a broken nose, Tre Jackson couldn’t play on Saturday, which gave an opportunity for extra minutes to his freshman cohort Caleb Grill.

Grill earned 13 minutes and played effectively in that time, piling up two rebounds and three assists and he found openings by spreading the floor in the corner.

Despite finding the openings, Grill did

not take advantage.

Three wide open three-point chances clanged out for Grill — two from the corners and one from the top of the key — and the freshman’s already abysmal shooting percentage from distance plummeted even further down to 17.2 percent.

This is a far cry from the start of the season when the Cyclones could rely solely on him to add three-point shooting while the rest of the team couldn’t seem to find its shot.

Jackson is expected to play Wednesday which could dispel any more playing time for Grill.

Cyclones turn in strong performances at Cyclone Open

BY ADARSH.TAMM @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State’s Track and Field squad put on its first home meet of the season on Saturday at the Lied Recreation Center.

The Cyclones produced a strong start to their young season, winning 13 events on both the field and track

PAVLENKO’S SEASON DEBUT Redshirt senior Vlad Pavlenko won the men’s weight throw on Saturday with a toss of 21.12 meters. The Arlington Heights, Illinois, native bested a field of eight throwers on his second attempt, with a toss of 20.14 meters, before solidifying his victory on the last throw.

Over the course of the competition, the closest mark to Pavlenko’s was Northern Iowa senior Kyler Yodts, who produced a throw of 18.31 meters.

Moving forward, Pavlenko will be looking to close out his final season

as a Cyclone in strong fashion, after establishing a new school record in the weight throw last year (71 feet, 8.75 inches), while also scooping up Honorable Mention All-America honors in the hammer throw.

1 MILE BATTLE Sophomore distance runner Cailie Logue competed in her first race of the new year by running in the 1 mile at the Cyclone Open. Her last race was back in December when she placed 13th in the 5000-meter at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener held at Boston University.

This was after she placed 15th at the NCAA Cross Country National Championships in Terre Haute, Indiana.

At the Cyclone Open, Logue fell back in the mile race, with senior Gwynne Wright leading the pack early on. As the race progressed however, the battle for first turned into a duel between Logue and Northern

NICK NADING/ IOWA STATE DAILY Iowa State runners start the 60-meter hurdle Saturday at the Cyclone Open

Iowa assistant coach Alex Wilson.

At the bell lap however, Wilson made a breakaway for home and never looked back, as she crossed the line in a time of 4:41.98. Logue finished second with a time of 4:48.01.

800-METER TRIUMPH The race of the entire meet was the men’s 800-meter run, where the Cyclone trio of Festus Lagat, Roshon Roomes and Daniel Nixon put on a fantastic display of middle distance

running.

Participating in their own heat, the three runners were paced by former Iowa runner Carter Lilly until the final bell, when they all blazed for home.

As they came down the stretch, Lagat and Roomes edged out to the front, both crossing the line ahead of Nixon. In the end however, Lagat proved victorious with a time of 1:47.55, which is now the fastest time in the nation for the 800.

Roomes followed suit with a time of 1:47.74, which is the second fastest time in the country. Nixon finished in 1:48.58, now fifth fastest in the country and in Iowa State history.

Lagat is also now second fastest in ISU history to Edward Kemboi’s 1:45.98 in 2014, while Roomes moves up to the third slot on the all-time list.

Lagat also claims the fastest time over the 1000-meter event this season, running a time of 2:20.88 at the Jimmy Grant Invitational two weeks ago.

LIFESTYLE

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Pete Lee hosts stand-up Students bring laughs in SUB Comedy Contest

BY GABBY.LUCAS @iowastatedaily.com Ten Iowa State student comics each performed five-minute sets in front of a panel of judges at the second annual Student Union Board (SUB) Stand-Up Comedy Contest late Thursday.

Each comic was completely different, but shared one common goal: fill the tiny Maintenance Shop (M-Shop) with big laughs.

Returning from last year’s Comedy Contest, the event was hosted by professional stand-up comedian Pete Lee, who ended the night with his own full-length set.

The evening kicked off with a bit of banter from Lee, who is known for his appearances on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

Despite a broken elbow, Lee got the crowd warmed up and ready for the student competition with plenty of jokes about college life and Iowa weather.

Ashish Jha, senior in mechanical engineering, was first up with his take on how people give babies more credit than they deserve. Following him was Chirayu Shukla, senior in biology, who had plenty of stories to tell about being an Indian man in Iowa.

Shukla shifted gears towards the end of his set, calling out agriculture majors with a string of “You might be an ag student if…” riffs. Shukla won the contest’s People’s Choice Award.

Each student set was broken up by small pockets of filler from Lee, ensuring the laughs ran aplenty and momentum was never lost.

Lee even improvised some contestant’s introductions, making for spontaneous material the crowd uproariously appreciated.

Julian Totton, junior in communication studies, went edgier with his set — cracking jokes about politics, social issues and, “every subject that could get you cancelled,” Lee said.

Quinn Sturm, senior in computer science,

GABBY LUCAS/ IOWA STATE DAILY Nolan Galvin entertained the audience with a story about being a tour guide for an Argentinian man.

brought the mood back up and won third place overall for his energetic performance.

Eric Exner, junior in industrial engineering, brought laughs with a poem about donating plasma for money.

Nolan Galvin, sophomore in food science (AGLS) and opener for professional comedian Rae Sanni for SUB Comedy Night in October, made light his struggles of being a Latino American who doesn’t know Spanish.

Tom Sun, senior in computer engineering, received second place for providing the audience with a humorous list of do’s and don’ts, as well as debunking myths about his fellow engineering majors.

Following performances by Caden Washburn, junior in chemical engineering, and Jonathan Faughn, senior in mechanical engineering, was Jake McGuire, junior in marketing, who took home first place.

McGuire split sides with an epic tale of how he ripped his pants at two consecutive high school dances, and detailed the notoriety he gained from it.

McGuire said he was encouraged to try his hand at stand-up comedy because his friends told him he was a great storyteller.

“It feels amazing [to win], I really didn’t expect it so I was not prepared at all,” McGuire said.

McGuire said he only began doing stand-up a year and a half ago and he is proud to have something to show for his passion.

“I really just love the rush of being onstage,” McGuire said. “I’ve always liked to perform with other people, and being onstage by myself and getting to tell people my stories is really, really rewarding.”

Robert Reinhard, president of Iowa State’s Stand Up Comedy Club and senior in software

engineering, said he saw his first stand-up show exactly one year ago at last year’s stand-up contest.

He started doing comedy that same week, and coming full circle, helped organize this year’s installment. Reinhard, having been so strongly influenced by student comedy, said he has loved watching this year’s contestants grow.

“This is about all the comics that performed tonight, and I’m really proud of the sets they’ve done,” Reinhard said. “I’ve been watching them work on them for the last couple of months in Des Moines — at places like Java Joes, Teehee’s, Lefty’s Live Music and at the M-Shop — even on Tuesday, they were still working to nail down their sets as best as they could. I’m really proud of them.”

Despite his schedule as a full time comic and actor, Lee hosts college comedy contests all over the nation, and said he loves doing it because of how many aspiring comics he meets.

“When I was in college I started doing stand-up and I would do the stand-up competitions locally in Minneapolis,” Lee said. “So I know those nerves of waking up in the morning and being like ‘How am I gonna do this,’ and the joy of going up and killing [it].”

Lee said he enjoys getting to play a role in nurturing a new generation of comedic entertainers.

“I’ve been on showcases or competitions that were really important to me, but the host just doesn’t care and the show sucks and then I go home feeling lousy,” Lee said.

Being a comic, Lee said he feels for the young performers and always cheers them on.

“I was so happy that everybody did really well,” Lee said. “That’s all I care about.”

Lee said he loves getting to know the young comedians and forming bonds with them by “giving each other shit.” He also said he hopes Iowa State brings him back to host a third time.

Lee has seen some of the student comics develop for two years now, and he said he would love to return just to see how those same student comics are continuing to grow. He also wants to see who else pops up.

“I love [Iowa State] except for when the University of Minnesota plays you in a bowl game,” Lee said with a laugh.

Halsey explores her artist persona on “Manic”

BY ANNELISE.WELLS @iowastatedaily.com After three years since her last studio album release, Halsey returns to the spotlight with “Manic,” showcasing her poignant lyrical ability through some of her most vulnerable tracks to date.

“When I made ‘Manic,’ I dove into those parts of me that weren’t healed yet and I said, ‘No, I’m not gonna wait ‘til later,” Halsey said from a stage at Capitol Records, according to a Billboard article. “I’m gonna write about them right now.’”

The 16 track album comes to just under 48 minutes long, with six singles being released before its full release, featuring “Without Me,” which ended up being the lead single.

The extensive tracklist contains tracks that blend into each other masterfully. In a tweet, Halsey said the album was meant to be listened to in order, as the placing of each song is specific regarding the surrounding tracks.

The biggest thing this album symbolizes is growth. “Manic” is Halsey’s third studio album. Her first album,

“Badlands,” addressed similar taboo topics as her latest releases, but through rose-colored glasses and with more than a dash of pretentiousness.

Her second album felt like a stage performance, set with a more distinctive and purposeful theme, in “Hopeless Fountain Kingdom.”While the concept album was an interesting notion, it lacked the artist-audience connection felt earlier in her career.

“Manic” brings that personal connection back with a vengeance, and Halsey’s lyrics deliver a sense of nostalgia to her earlier music, but this time around with a more mature sound.

The opening track is a namesake of the artist herself. “Ashley,” named after Halsey’s real birth name, Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, sets the personal tone for the record. From the beginning, Halsey strips down everything, including her stage name. She has a screaming match with herself as the track goes on, fighting between her personal self and her stage persona.

The song opens with a theme of desperation and fighting failure, which continues throughout the following 15 tracks. “And I don’t wanna be

somebody in America/ Just fighting the hysteria/ I only want to die some days,” she sings.

While “Manic” does focus on the difficult themes of her depression and loneliness in a somber way, other tracks such as “You Should be Sad” and “Killing Boys” use those same emotions centered around self-worth, anger and revenge.

“No, you’re not half the man you think that you are/ And you can’t fill the hole inside of you with money, drugs, and cars/ I’m so glad I never ever had a baby with you/ ‘Cause you can’t love nothing unless there’s something in it for you,” she sings on “You Should be Sad.” There are three interludes on the album, and this is where “Manic” apparently becomes disjointed. One or two of these short tracks would have been enough, but three is overkill and they each stick out drastically from the other tracks and not in a good way.

The three interludes are a lackluster attempt at filling airspace with useless features, with SUGA from BTS, singer and rapper Dominic Fike and Canadian-American singer Alanis

COURTESY OF EMI On “Manic,” Halsey crosses nostalgia with maturity.

Morissette. Morissette’s track, “Alanis’ Interlude,” is easily the weakest of the tracks, with oddly vulgar and mumbled lyrics for shock value carrying the song.

The journey and self-discovery of theme on “Manic” feels interrupted by the features, rather than adding anything valuable. They are ultimately forgettable, which is a shame when the rest of the album leaves such an impact.

While the features from other artists seem forced and pointless, the samples from film on the album add a sense of cinematic drama and are not overused. Their placements and

snippets seem purposeful, using popular movie soundbites from films “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “Jennifer’s Body.”

Closer track “929” feels like a diary entry you shouldn’t be reading, with raw and emotionally heavy lyrics that stopped me in my tracks when I first heard the song. It showcases her journey through her 25 years of life.

Halsey’s voice cracks as she rambles in a stream-of-consciousness, spoken-word style. “And it’s just these things that I’m thinkin’ for hours/ And I’m pickin’ my hair out in clumps in the shower/ Lost the love of my life to an ivory power/ But then I realize that I’m no higher power.”

Halsey said “929” is the most open she has ever been on a track, and based on the transparency of her past songs, that says a lot.

“Manic” succeeds as a bitingly-honest auto-biography, but at times falls into overdone, eye-roll-worthy pop music tropes. Nonetheless, the album makes you feel a little less alone, as Halsey tackles challenging topics with grace, honesty and compassion.

Final Verdict: 7/10