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New semester, new you Utilize time management skills for a strong semester

BY SAGE.SMITH @iowastatedaily.com Students can focus on time management and use resources such as phone apps to have a strong spring semester.

Alexander Toftness, graduate psychology student, teaches the Psychology 131: Academic Learning Skills course.

Toftness said a big thing they push in the class is time management.

Students can have different approaches to managing their time throughout the school weeks. Some may sit down on the first day of classes, read through the syllabus of each class and mark down important due dates in their planners. Others may take it one day at a time.

“It ’s like building a jigsaw puzzle,” Toftness said.

“You’ve got all your hours in the week, and now you have to figure out where your assignments are going to fit into those hours. It’s a lot better to do that approach than it is to sort of be like ‘What is due today?’ and then try to do those things.”

Jesse Rothweiler is also a graduate psychology student who teaches Psychology 131: Academic Learning Skills.

Rothweiler advises students to set what they know they have to do and then be specific with their schedules.

When scheduling time to study or work on assignments, Rothweiler said students can block out time for specific work.

Students can take a three hour block of time and have

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City Council sets engagement goals

BY AMBER.MOHMAND @iowastatedaily.com The Ames City Council discussed methods to increase community engagement during the first goal setting meeting.

Members of the Ames City Council, with the exception of Ward 3 Rep. David Martin, met for a special meeting Saturday morning to develop the new goals of the Council. The goal setting meeting is the first of two, and no decisions were made during the first meeting.

During the meeting, the Council members reflected on the accomplishments and challenges in the past couple of years. Mayor John Haila said he is proud to serve with the Council.

“I have trust in every individual in this Council that they have good intentions and they have the best interest of this community in mind, and I’ve never doubted that,” Haila said. “To me, [if ] we lose trust, we’re in serious trouble.”

The Council goals can be found on the city of Ames website, and they are re-evaluated every two years. During the meeting,

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AMBER MOHMAND/ IOWA STATE DAILY Members of the Ames City Council, with the exception of Ward 3 Rep. David Martin, met for a special meeting Saturday morning to develop the new goals of the Council.

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Student Government to focus on mental health, diversity

BY MORGAN.LAVIOLETTE @iowastatedaily.com Student Government is undergoing changes for the upcoming semester to improve mental health as well as diversity and inclusion for students on campus.

Student Body President Austin Graber has his own perspective on what Student Government is.

“I like to say Student Government is students serving students,” Graber said. “Whichever area we feel student life can be enhanced, we then work on projects and work with relevant administration to try and improve on that.”

An area of enhancement for the spring semester is mental health and its accessibility to students.

“Within mental health, we’ve been working with Student Counseling Services,” Graber said. “The first big thing that will be rolling out this semester is a mental health app.”

Therapy Assistance Online (TAO) is a mobile therapy assistance device to provide wellness tools, according to the TAO app.

“This app provides 24/7 counseling for students,” Graber said. “This will cut the amount of need at the physical counseling centers and is great for students struggling with mental health issues in the middle of the night.”

Student Government will be providing funds to support the app and ensure students are aware of its availability, Graber said.

Creating a comfortable environment in the counseling center is another priority for Student Government in the second semester.

“We are working on a positive, stress-relieving day,” Graber said. “We want students to know where Student Counseling Services is and want them to feel comfortable with being there, so we came up with this idea of having some stress-relieving dogs in that area for students to visit and play with.”

Graber mentioned the reevaluation being done on educational courses that meet the U.S. Diversity graduation requirement.

“We’ve decided to make a subcommittee that will be looking at the outcomes of the current diversity requirement,” Graber said. “The U.S. Diversity requirement was created 19 years ago, but the definition of diversity and inclusion has changed dramatically since then.”

Graber said diversity and inclusion is becoming a larger part of the student body in the spring semester.

Heroes Week is a new addition from the Diversity and Inclusion Committee at Iowa State.

“Heroes Week is going to highlight a hero from a different identity each day that has been marginalized in the past,” Graber said. “This is to show that these people have made a big impact in the state of Iowa.”

Graber also said the Jack Trice statue being added to tour scripts for potential students looking at Iowa State can be a way to create a more inclusive environment.

“We really want to push for inclusion right when students step on campus,” Graber said. “Prospective students who come to Iowa State will know about Jack Trice, and we can make that an opportunity to talk about diversity.”

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1.13.20 January Monthly Crafts: Glass Magnets, Workspace, Iowa State Memorial Union, all day

Browse through our stash of patterned papers, books, music pages, and comic books for images or design s you like and turn them into a set of 4 handy fridge magnets.

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Open forum: Scholarly journals license renewal, Campanile Room, Memorial Union at noon

The University Library is in license renewal negotiations with the Elsevier, the world’s largest publisher of scholarly journals. Iowa State’s current agreement with Elsevier expired at the end of 2019, but negotiations will continue in good faith into 2020 with no immediate impact on access.

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POLICE BLOTTER 1.11.20 Mahalel Alelluyah Hill, age 20, of 4912 Mortensen Rd. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with theft in the fourth degree, shoplifting, at 320 S Duff Avenue (reported at 6:18 p.m.).

Alfred Dwayne Miles, age 31, of 2279 E 190 St. Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with theft in the fifth degree, shoplifting, at 2801 E 13 Street (reported at 10:20 p.m.).

Tristan Daniel Felderman, age 24, of 600 S 17 St. Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at U.S. Highway 30 and University Boulevard (reported at 4:28 a.m.).

Tristan Daniel Felderman, age 24, of 600 S 17

St. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with interference with official acts, simple/serious assault, at U.S. Highway 30 and University Boulevard (reported at 4:28 a.m.).

CATILIN YAMADA/ IOWA STATE DAILY Fast-paced Senior Guard Prentiss Nixon fighting for a ball during the Iowa State basketball game against Oklahoma on Saturday.

Brandon Michael Rial Bogue, age 37, of 121 NE Maple St. - Elkhart, Iowa, was arrested and charged with failure to maintain control at 4399 Stange Road and Weston Drive (reported at 3:30 a.m.).

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Brandon Michael Rial Bogue, age 37, of 121 NE Maple St. - Elkhart, Iowa, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated, second offense, at 4399 Stange Road and Weston Drive (reported at 3:30 a.m.).

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Fannon hired as Iowa State soccer coach

BY JOHN.MILLER @iowastatedaily.com The Iowa State soccer team has a new face at the helm.

The Cyclones announced on Tuesday that Matt Fannon has been hired to take over the reins of the program. He replaces former coach Tony Minatta, who resigned in October after six seasons and accepted a job at Stephen F. Austin.

Fannon was an assistant at Regis University and the University of Wyoming before assuming head coaching responsibilities at Wittenberg (2013-16) and Bowling Green State (2017-19), and now he holds a Power 5 coaching job.

“We are thrilled to announce that Matt will be joining the Cyclone family to lead our soccer program,” ISU senior associate athletics Dr. Calli Sanders said in a release. “He is a proven program builder at the Division 1 level and has a passion for coaching soccer and developing student-athletes.”

Fannon, a native of York, England, guided Bowling Green State to a 41-18-7 mark (26-61) MAC in his three seasons there. He won more games at BGSU than the school won in the eight year prior combined. The Falcons also made it to the NCAA Tournament in the last two seasons, something Iowa State has only done once in program history (2005).

Fannon won the Mid-American Conference (MAC) Coach of the Year the last three years in a row for his turnaround of the Bowling Green State program.

At Wittenberg, he did much of the same as he led the program to more than 40 wins over four seasons. His team made the NCAA Division III Tournament in his final year and Fannon won the NCAC Coach of the Year.

Known for an attacking style of play with the Falcons, that style can take time to develop, and Fannon hopes to make an impact right away at Iowa State.

“Julie and I are thrilled to be bringing our family to Ames,” Fannon said. “In the short time we have had to get to know our new home, it’s clear that the championship culture is founded on a wonderfully welcoming family environment. Being trusted with the chance to build the Iowa State soccer team into a strong and competitive program is an opportunity I am excited to accept.”

IOWA STATE DAILY Brad Freihoefer, director of the Center for LGBTQIA+ Student Success, delivers an opening speech to all attendees of the opening ceremony March 5, 2019.

LGBTQIA+ Center grows

New Center assistant director to start Monday

BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com The Center for LGBTQIA+ Student Success has announced the name of the person filling the role of assistant director.

After a week of four different candidate interviews in early December, Cheltzie Miller-Bailey, former events and technology manager for the Lectures Program at Iowa State, will be stepping into the role of assistant director for the Center.

“Cheltzie is amazing, ” said Br ad Freihoefer, director of the Center for LGBQTIA+ Student Success. “She is extremely talented and has a lot of great experience and has really been present in LGBTQIA+ centers at the University of Northern Iowa, has done really campus-wide related events at the University of North Texas and most recently has been in the Lectures Program here at Iowa State and so a really great breadth of exper ience and talent and just a

wonderful person. I am really looking for ward to students connecting with Cheltzie.”

Freihoefer said Miller-Bailey fits into the role because of her ability to connect to students and being detail-oriented.

Miller-Bailey graduated with a master of arts in post-secondary education in student affairs in May 2017 at the University of Northern Iowa after completing her undergraduate years there as well.

D uring her time at the University of Northern Iowa, Miller-Bailey had a variety of different positions in and out of LGBTQIA+ work before graduating.

One of these positions included working in the LGBTQIA+ center on that campus as a Gender and Sexuality Services intern.

From there, she went on to work as the coordinator of campus-wide events for the Student Activities Center at the University of North Texas until the summer of 2019 when she moved to Iowa State. While at the University of

North Texas, the majority of her time was focused on making homecoming at the university more inclusive.

In July of 2019, she became the events and technology manager for the Lectures Program at Iowa State. While in this position, she coordinated event logistics for more than 100 events and assisted in the selection of speakers.

Freihoefer said it has been almost a year since Clare Lemke, former assistant director of the Center for LGBTQIA+ Student Success, left Iowa State for a position at a different college, which left the role of assistant director empty. They said with Miller-Bailey now in the role, it will be the third or fourth time in the Center’s history that the Center will be fully staffed.

“The assistant director position is a position that really assists the director in a variety of ways,” Freihoefer said. “It has

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Claim Ames census campaign to be launched Monday

BY AMBER.MOHMAND @iowastatedaily.com The 2020 census campaign will be launched Monday.

Ames Mayor John Haila, Iowa State President Wendy Wintersteen and a representative from the United States Census Bureau will launch the 2020 census “Claim Ames” public awareness campaign with a press conference at 11 a.m. on Monday in the City Council Chambers at City Hall.

The campaign is focused on obtaining an accurate count of every person living in Ames for the 2020 census.

“The census is a snapshot or a count of the number of people in the community,” said Susan Gwiasda, city of Ames public relations officer. “It doesn’t look at why you’re in the community or how long you’re going to stay because you may not know. It’s a count, and for that count, if you’re an international student going to school in Ames — whether you’re a citizen of another country or a citizen of the United States — you need to claim Ames on your census.

Students are required to complete a form in the community they live in for the majority of the year. Parents of the students are told by the census that the student needs to fill out the form

The 2020 census campaign will be launched 11 a.m. Monday in the Council Chambers at Ames City Hall.

in the city they are attending school at.

The campaign will make special efforts to connect with the students to inform the community about the census.

The census can be completed by telephone, mail and online — for the first time in history.

People will receive a notice in the mail beginning in mid-March, which will allow the participants to respond online. “[The census will] ask just a couple of questions; they’re pretty easy questions, and it

shouldn’t take that long,” Gwiasda said. “Census will never ask [...] those kinds of questions where you would feel they’re invasive.”

The census will arrive in the form of a postcard with a code and a link to a form.

“The census is much more than just a head count,” said Ames Mayor John Haila in a press release. “It provides a picture of our nation that helps determine where to build new schools, hospitals, and businesses; how federal funding is distributed and how congressional seats are

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apportioned. It also helps us see how our communities have changed over time.”

Political representation is determined by population and based on the census numbers; $675 billion annually is distributed in federal funds.

Those who live in group housing such as dorms, sorority and fraternity housing, Gwiasda said the city is currently developing a system to send the census information.

More information about the census can be found on the 2020 Census website.

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Iowa State Daily Monday, January 13, 2020

New StuOrg system Changes in public event processes

COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Trips abroad that are sponsored by Iowa State are now required to register beforehand. The Office of Risk Management provides resources to help reduce risk and increase safety.

BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com A new system for event authorization has been released for student organizations on campus.

As of Jan. 8, student organizations planning events open to more than just their club membership should submit them for review using the new University Event Authorization System.

Event Authorization is the process all student organizations go through to host an event that is open to the public, which includes Iowa State students outside of the organization’s membership roster, students from other universities and the public at large.

The process is also used when student organizations reserve the Lynn Fuhrer Lodge for a club event, even though the event is not open to the public. “ The University Event Authorization form should be submitted online at least ten business days prior to the date of the event, no later than four business days when hosting smaller, routine events,” according to the Student Activities Center’s website’s frequently asked questions page. “Large special events and theme weeks are expected to submit the form at least two months in advance.”

Recognized student organizations must submit all events that are open to the public and/ or students outside of the club’s membership.

A recognized student organization is any student organization created through the Student Activities Center and has been approved through its Student

Iowa Statesponsored abroad trips now require registration

BY QUINN.VANDENBERG @iowastatedaily.com

GARRETT HEYD/ IOWA STATE DAILY ClubFest, now located in the Great Hall, has hundreds of campus organizations and clubs that interact with thousands of students interested in joining.

Organization Recognition Board, according to the Student Activities Center’s website. There are currently over 850 recognized student organizations at Iowa State.

Events not open to the public do not have to be authorized; this includes weekly organization meetings, practices and organization-sponsored trips.

“If your event includes guests, members of other organizations, is open to the Iowa State community or open to individuals from other universities, you do

need to have your event authorized,” according to the Student Activities Center’s website’s frequently asked questions page.

Events that involve food, animals, gambling or raffles, alcohol, non-university vendors or youth, which counts as any non-Iowa State students under the age of 18 according to the Student Activities Center’s website, will require completion of additional processes and may require a meeting with the Event Authorization Committee.

If an organization plans to

serve and/or sell food at their event, they will need to complete the Food Sales Form, which is now embedded into the University Event Authorization system.

Any youth program hosted by a student organization must be sponsored by a university department and complete the Youth Program Registration process.

If an organization is hosting an event that is just open to the

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Pete Buttigieg set to return to Iowa State

BY MALLORY.TOPE @iowastatedaily.com Pete Buttigieg will host a town hall at 6:30 p.m. on Monday in the Memorial Union.

This will be the third time Buttigieg has visited Iowa State’s campus since he began his presidential campaign in early 2019.

Buttigieg’s first visit to Iowa State in January saw just a handful of curious show up to see him speak — when he returned in October 2019 the crowd size like his poll numbers had dramatically increased — with hundreds attending his Oct. 16 town hall.

Mandy Moore will also join Buttigieg at this event.

Moore is a singer and actress. She voiced the Disney princess Rapunzel in the film “Tangled” and stars in the NBC series “This Is Us.” Buttigieg’s visit to Ames comes a day before the next Democratic presidential debate. He is one of six candidates that qualified for the

TREVOR BABCOCK/ IOWA STATE DAILY Pete Buttigieg speaks at a town hall Nov. 4 in Spencer, Iowa.

Democratic presidential debate set to take place in Des Moines, the last debate before caucus night.

Buttigieg will also host campaign stops in Des Moines, Winterset, Newton, Cedar Falls,

Mason City, Algona, Emmetsburg, Arnolds Park, Orange City, Sioux City and Le Mars on his latest swing through Iowa. This tour comes

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A new policy was put into effect requiring all Iowa State-sponsored trips to foreign countries or U.S. territories to be pre-registered to evaluate risk, according to a press release.

This policy, effective Jan. 1, includes trips for study abroad classes as well as faculty trips being funded

by Iowa State.

Trips that require pre-registration include anything partially or entirely funded by Iowa State, anything providing students academic credit, any trip involving a student organization or club, faculty member is engaging in education or research abroad.

Shaun Jamieson, international risk analyst for the Office of Risk Management, said in the press release the registration does not work to forbid travel abroad but provide travelers with resources to reduce travel risk.

The policy is meant to ensure travelers are insured and connected with resources before departing for the trip. The press release also stated the pre-registration system works to automatically enroll travelers in insurance covering the cost of emergency medical care if needed due to natural disasters or political instability.

Registration also signs up the travelers for the system AlertTraveler on their email or smartphone, which provides safety and security alerts to travelers.

Information used from AlertTraveler considers health and security concerns, and then destinations are assessed by risk level, according to the press release.

Areas are then classified based on their risk level.

Travelers to moderate-risk areas are encouraged to review their itinerary with the Office of Risk Management, and review of the itinerary is required for trips to high-risk areas.

For trips to severe-risk destinations, a required itinerary review is shared with unit-level leadership and the respective senior vice president.

The press release stated nearly all student trips abroad were registered for the fiscal year 2018; however the requirement works to increase registration for employee trips, which currently has about 75 percent of 1,284 abroad trips registered.

The press release also reported that the majority of previously registered travel was to low-risk level areas for conferences; however, five percent of trips were to areas classified as high-to-severe risk destinations.

Jamieson said in the press release that the registration program can also provide those traveling with resources such as laptops for use abroad, satellite phones and translation apps.

The online registration required for such trips can be found on the Iowa State Office of Risk Management website. An online tutorial is provided for those unfamiliar with or new to the system.

The policy came about because of a new international travel risk focus, a prominent concern in higher education.

Jamieson is available to speak to classes or groups around campus on traveling safely in other countries, researching areas to visit and related topics. Jamieson can be emailed at shaun@iastate.edu or reached at 515-294-6916.

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Monday, January 13, 2020 Iowa State Daily LETTER

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COURTESY OF PIXABAY Columnist Parth Shiralkar thinks that oftentimes, people rush through life instead of appreciating every moment.

Appreciate the smaller things in life

BY PARTH.SHIRALKAR @iowastatedaily.com

IOWA STATE DAILY Letter writer Steve Corbin believes that questions will be helpful for finding answers during Iowa’s 2020 legislative session.

Questions for next legislative session

BY STEVE CORBIN Steven.B.Corbin@gmail.com

Socrates (469-399 B.C.), the founding father of Western philosophy, believed only through the process of continual questioning could a person discover truth. According to Socrates, questions are the answer. With Iowa’s legislature starting Jan. 13, there are a multitude of questions Gov. Reynolds and legislators need to answer and act upon in 2020.

For example, on Nov. 2, 2010, 63 percent of Iowans voted to add an amendment to Iowa’s constitution to protect natural resources and outdoor recreation. Why have our representatives blatantly ignored the will of the people while Iowa’s woefully toxic soil and water is before their very eyes (and nose)? Doesn’t it make sense to enact 3/8th of a penny sales tax — which would generate $190 million per year — to clean up Iowa?

Why are legislators satisfied with Iowa being ranked the 33rd state for high-speed broadband accessibility? Don’t they know with 100 percent broadband access, Iowa would become a magnet state for business growth and citizen prosperity?

Since Iowa: 1) has the third highest racial disparities of whites and blacks in incarceration in America, 2) has Hispanic incarceration within the top 25 worst in the country

and 3) is the only state that does not restore the right to vote for convicted felons while knowing Iowa’s Supreme Court approved mass re-enfranchisement (Oct. 31, 2005), why haven’t our elected representatives enacted criminal justice reform and abolished felon disenfranchisement?

Why haven’t legislators embraced universal childhood education when research reveals 90 percent of brain development happens before a child is five years old and Iowa ranks 37th in state spending on preschool? If we don’t act now, aren’t we shortchanging Iowa’s future skilled workforce?

Since 71 of Iowa’s 99 counties and over 700 of Iowa’s 947 incorporated cities have lost population in the past decade, about one in five rural healthcare centers are in danger of closing, and research is replete with Iowa’s current rural financial hardship, which was caused by President Trump siding with big oil companies over biofuels and his not-well-thought-out contentious trade war, shouldn’t revitalizing rural Iowa be a legislative priority?

Why are legislators ignoring a gender equal-pay-for-equal-work public policy when we know women in Iowa are paid 77 cents for every dollar paid to a man, and Iowa has the nation’s 17th largest gap between what gender workers earn? Is equity a virtue or not to our female governor

and legislators?

Why are our delegates to the Capitol holding onto Iowa’s 2016 dictated privatized Medicaid program and refusing to acknowledge we have a healthcare crisis if we know 600,000 Iowans have been denied health care, Iowans with disabilities aren’t getting the care they need, health care providers are closing or reducing services and the number of uninsured Iowans has doubled from 3.9 to 7.2 percent (one of the highest in USA)?

Why have legislators only allocated two percent average increase per year in the past decade to Iowa’s K-12 public schools when they know three percent is needed just to cover the cost of inflation? Are they proud Iowa ranks 30th nationally in spending per student and schools have been forced to increase class size, fire teachers and raise property taxes?

If our elected delegates asked questions over a few other issues, like our skilled workforce shortage, Iowa’s Nutrient Reduction Strategy, community safety and higher education, to name a few, the public policy answer would be revealed.

Socrates might ask, why can’t Iowa legislators and the governor see the same data and rankings as their constituents and ask themselves what needs to be done to resolve issues in peril? Perplexing, isn’t it?

Questions are the answer.

Traveling to India is always a mixed bag of emotions that is accentuated by the unearthly hours of travel that these trips require of me. I wrote this column from the Heathrow airport in London, where I spent a solid chunk (eight hours, give or take) of my time before catching my second nine-hour flight of the day. Or is it days? I can’t really tell.

Steven Spielberg directed a great movie with Tom Hanks called The Terminal (2004), and Hanks has captured the essence of feeling trapped in an unfamiliar setting very nicely. Of course, he finds love and other sought-after things in the airport as well, like decent and reasonably-priced food, which I haven’t found yet.

Spielberg knows how to use cinematic liberty, that’s for sure.

Sitting in the company of loud families, surprisingly polite babies and spotty WiFi, I reflect on 2019 and its mild ups and downs, which I’m grateful for. Much has changed, but much remains the same, not just in aspects of my life, but also aspects of who I am. New opportunities presented themselves and old ones gave up on me without warning, but alas, such is life. Odd, how time passes so quickly when you’re not stuck in an airport.

Owning to my affinity for activities that involve doing nothing, I am not in the habit of committing to New Year resolutions. However, since it is a new decade — and not just a year — looming on the horizon, I have been trying to convince myself to eat healthier, work out more and spend more time actually meditating than setting reminders to meditate.

I spent Christmas in the airport for the first time.

I loved how everyone’s so busy getting from point A to point B that there are only a few people in the holiday spirit, as far as I could see, apart from the flight crew people who were all wearing Christmas hats and headbands. Which begs the question, are we really just going from point A to point B in our lives, not taking out time to pause and breathe and maybe set a reminder to meditate?

I am by no means promoting more layovers, no; rather, I implore readers to cherish the small joys in life. It seems like only yesterday that I was getting on my long flight back home. I am also reminded of my first few weeks in 2019 in a vivid spurt of memories, which is nice.

I wish readers an adventurous new decade; may this new year bring you chances of earning what you yearn for.

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Unlikely pieces lead Cyclones Iowa State takes win against Oklahoma

BY ZANE.DOUGLAS @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State played perhaps its most important game on Saturday. Coming off of a three game losing streak and playing a tough — albeit beatable — Oklahoma team, the Cyclones needed to get back on track if they hoped to have any success this season.

The game ended up being exactly what the Cyclones needed.

The movement was flowing, the perimeter shots were sinking and the defense was stifling.

Moving forward, the Cyclones still have a tough road, and as it stands right now, they don’t have a great shot at the NCAA Tournament in March, but the Oklahoma game was a step in the right direction for Coach Steve Prohm’s team.

BOLTON PROVIDES SCORING FLARE One of Iowa State’s most underrated scorers this season has been sophomore guard Rasir Bolton. Perhaps underrated is the wrong word, however, as Bolton has showed that inconsistency is still a big part of his game as he matures.

Bolton shook off an abysmal performance against Kansas for one of his best performances yet. The sophomore finished with 23 points on 10-17 shooting. Bolton also added six assists, which showcases a playmaking ability that hasn’t quite shone through in that column.

Bolton killed the Sooners with his quickness, finishing and vision, and they had no answer for him.

“I was just playing, you know, just trying

CAITLIN YAMADA/ IOWA STATE DAILY Tyrese Haliburton looks to drive past an Oklahoma defender on Saturday. The Cyclones beat the Sooners 81-68.

not to lose, trying to get that sick feeling out,” Bolton said.

With an away tilt against Baylor next, Bolton will need to have a game like Saturday if the Cyclones want to pull off a huge upset.

TERRENCE LEWIS FINALLY PANS OUT Many take some time to develop. The path to a solid basketball career isn’t always linear, but since it is so short and the prime of your athletic ability is so young, struggling for a couple years can all but end your career as a basketball player.

Junior forward Terrence Lewis might be the epitome of that situation. Lewis was a top-100 recruit by some outlets and came to the team at the same time as Lindell Wigginton.

Lewis was stagnant on offense and a liability on defense to the point where his minutes came only sparingly.

In multiple games this season, Lewis has stepped up and given the Cyclones a boost as the only traditional wing that they have in their rotation.

Against Oklahoma, the junior did it with cuts, three-point shooting and hustle, which sparked one of Iowa State’s early runs that gave the Cyclones a large lead.

Lewis would score 10 points in just the first half.

The second half didn’t showcase Lewis, but his first half contributions were much needed for the struggling Cyclone club.

“Terrence Lewis came off the bench and was terrific for us,” Prohm said.

PROHM’S PLAN ALL ALONG Iowa State shuffled out a new starting lineup on Saturday and would tinker with different looks all game that probably made it hard for Oklahoma to trust any of the film it watched.

The plan was to have Solomon Young come off the bench and allow sophomore George Conditt to get his first star of the year. The move looked smart, as both of them played well in their new roles.

Seniors Michael Jacobson and Prentiss Nixon were two starters that saw some different rotations as well.

Jacobson and Nixon were subbed out early in the first half and didn’t return until the second half of the game.

“That was my process coming into the game,” Prohm said. “I talked to you guys the other day [about going] deep into my bench and trust those guys and see who could really give us a spark.”

Prohm’s confidence in what he did on Saturday could lead Cyclone fans to believe that this kind of thing will be common, and with Baylor awaiting, it might be the only advantage that Iowa State has.

Wrestling road trip to West Coast creates questions

BY ZACH.MARTIN @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State hit the road for a quartet of duals on the West Coast and is returning to Ames having earned an even split. After dominating Utah Valley in the Big 12 opener 45-0, the Cyclones went 1-2 in Phoenix for the Sun Devil duals.

WHAT WAS LEARNED Head Coach Kevin Dresser said he believes his team can become a top-10 team in the country. When the season started, it was easy to look around the room, see the talent that fit with the projected lineup and notice Iowa State can vault into that realm.

While the Cyclones still have ample time to wrestle well and the NCAA Tournament is still a couple months away, this weekend was a time when they needed to perform well.

And they fell just a bit short.

It was expected Iowa State would make life difficult for Utah Valley, and it did. If the Wolverines wrestled some of their ranked wrestlers, the score would’ve been closer, but the Cyclones were still favored.

W hat needed to happen on Saturday was for the Cyclones to

really impose their will — something Dresser mentioned previously about his group — against a sneaky good Campbell team, Harvard and fourthranked Arizona State.

The dual scores don’t really matter; what mattered were the individual matches that pitted two ranked opponents together, which helps with seeding for the NCAAs, and Iowa State went 2-6.

Alex Mackall (125 pounds), Todd Small (133), Sam Colbray (174) and Gannon Gremmel (heavyweight) all wrestled opponents they could see in Minneapolis. Only Small was able to grab a win against a fellow ranked opponent.

Those four are potential AllAmericans in the Cyclones lineup.

Can they win a blood-round match to get to the podium? Only time will tell.

Ian Parker (141) and David Carr (157) were the only two that went 4-0 on the weekend. Those two are legitimate NCAA semifinal contenders and All-American wrestlers.

TALE OF TWO WEEKENDS Winning the Southern Scuffle title was the type of confidence booster Gremmel needed going into this long stretch of duals and the challenges he

matches he gets, but Saturday was a prime opportunity for Gremmel to prove he’s one of the top-8 heavyweights in Division I that he was unable to take advantage of.

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COURTESY OF IOWA STATE ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Redshirt freshman David Carr speaks to reporters at Iowa State wrestling media day.

faced as one of two wrestlers for Iowa State to wrestle a top-20 guy in each dual on Saturday.

He went 0-3.

The signs that maybe the redshirt junior was going to struggle came as early as the Utah Valley dual.

The regular heavyweight in the Wolverines lineup — Tate Orndorff — was held out due to an illness, thrusting Chase Trussell onto the mat.

Gremmel did what he did during the Bucknell dual — threw a smaller guy around and took him down way off the mat a couple times. Dresser

has stated publicly the Dubuque native gets a little too excited during matches.

It nearly cost him, but the ninthranked wrestler was able to squeeze out a 3-2 victory.

Gremmel struggled to get his offense going all day against each opponent he faced at Chase Field.

He managed eight total points — all escapes — against Campbell’s Jere Heino, Har vard’s Yaraslau Slavikouski and Arizona State’s Tanner Hall.

Both Dresser and his No. 1 heavyweight know he’ll get better the more

One of the more overlooked weights this weekend was at 149, where Ryan Leisure proved he is a solid backup to Jarrett Degen by grabbing a pin in the Utah Valley dual and going 2-1 in Phoenix.

The redshirt sophomore could have went 4-0, but in his dual against Campbell, he got put on his back in the second period and was pinned. Before that, he was leading 4-1.

Leisure came from behind against his Harvard opponent with five points in the third period to win 7-5.

He followed up with a 9-4 win in the Arizona State dual, racking up four minutes of riding time and looking very good on top.

With another weekend to recover, Degen might return for the Cyclones next conference dual on the road against South Dakota State. If he doesn’t, they have a capable backup in Leisure.

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Best and worst of entertainment What music and movies you missed over break

with is argued to be cancelled.

Dave Chappelle’s recent “Sticks and Stones” Netflix special became the target of critics who deemed its jokes as offensive and unabashed; therefore, canceled.

This is an example of taking cancel-culture too far. Once a trend on the internet, even one that started as a joke, starts to impede on the right of free speech and other constitutional rights; that is when it is time to cancel cancel-culture.

BY MARGARET.TROUP @iowastatedaily.com

WORST: NEIL PEART (SEPTEMBER 12, 1952 - JANUARY 7, 2020)

Now that Winter Break is over, reality is setting in for many students. For those who want to postpone reality a bit longer, here’s the top 10 best and worst things that happened over Winter Break, in no particular order.

BEST: “THE WITCHER” - SEASON 1 Andrzej Sapkowski surely had no idea how big his short story, “The Witcher,” would become when it was originally published in Fantastyka magazine in 1986. Since the 1980s, Sapkowski’s stories have since been adapted into eight novels, four video games and, now, one Netflix series.

Following the story of monster hunter Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill), sorceress Yennefer of Vengerberg (Anya Chalotra) and Cintran princess Ciri (Freya Allan), the trio finds their complicated futures are connected.

This series has received much critical acclaim since its release, significantly higher than television shows based on video games usually receive.

Its stellar casting, dark storylines and well balanced action sequences make it one of Netflix’s must-see new series.

BEST: “YOU” - SEASON 2 Based on Caroline Kepnes’ book “Hidden Bodies,” this series follows Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgle), a well-mannered book shop worker who has a bad habit of stalking the women with whom he falls in love. In season two of “You,” Goldberg has moved from New York to Los Angeles in order to run away from his past.

While attempting to let go of his old selfish ways, a new love interest catches his eye.

While season two still focuses on Goldberg’s creepily trustworthy facade, there is a newly added element of surprise. For the first time, the show depicts that Goldberg has an antagonist.

An old flame has come back to haunt him and, for the first time, audiences can see that Joe is scared.

Fans of “Dexter” and “Bates Motel” should give “You” a watch. Its creepy but still humorous, and entertaining stories leave viewers on the edge of their seats throughout the entire new season.

BEST: “LITTLE WOMEN” Greta Gerwig’s 2019 adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s book “Little Women” follows the story of the four March sisters, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy, as they face the difficulties that come with being a woman in the 1860’s post civil war.

This star-studded film has recognizable names such as Emma Watson and Laura Dern. Some recognizable faces in “Little Women” include Florence Pugh from “Midsommar,” Eliza Scanlen from “Sharp Objects” and Saoirse Ronan from “Lady Bird.”

While the story of “Little Women” mostly focuses on the hardships, heartbreaks and losses the March girls face in their lives, the script still remains funny and heart-warming enough to be classified as a “feel good” movie.

BEST: “KLAUS” Speaking of feel-good movies, Sergio Pablos’ animated movie “Klaus” is an instant holiday classic.

Just because the holidays are over doesn’t mean audiences can’t enjoy an animated movie about the origin of Santa Claus.

“Klaus” is about Jesper Johanssen, voiced by

SCREENSHOT FROM YOUTUBE The best and worst of music, movies, and happenings from Winter Break. Pictured above, a still of Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) from the Netflix series “You.”

Jason Schwartzman, the worst postman at his esteemed father’s postman academy, and how he is banished to the fictional town of Smeerensberg to learn how to properly deliver 6,000 letters within one year. Once there, the spoiled Jesper goes through amazing character development as he makes friends with and devises toy deliveries with the town recluse, Klaus, voiced by the legendary J.K. Simmons.

If holiday-themed stories aren’t desirable, the art style alone makes “Klaus” worth a watch.

Instead of the common three dimmensional style of animation that films such as “Frozen” and “Toy Story” use, “Klaus” is instead animated using the two dimensional animation style that has existed since the late 1800’s.

Every single frame of “Klaus” is drawn by hand. The pure dedication that the animators had for this film alone should warrant a watch from everyone with a Netflix account.

BEST: “RARE” BY SELENA GOMEZ Selena Gomez has taken the back seat in the music spotlight since announcing a hiatus after her 2015 album “Revival.” Well, her album “Rare” has placed Gomez back in that spotlight.

Gomez has been very public with her recent struggles in life. Her worsening Lupus, kidney failure/transplant, mental health difficulties and highly publicized break-ups have taken a toll on the singer.

The trauma and growth that Gomez has experienced from these hardships are expressed beautifully in her newest album.

“Rare” is meant to make an “I’m back” statement from Gomez, which is does in a vulnerable yet wonderful way.

Her title song, “Rare,” is upbeat and catchy.

It’s simple rhymes make it easy to sing along to after just one listen. It’s also a good self-esteem boost to both the singer and listeners alike as the lyrics describe how one doesn’t need anyone else to feel good about who they are, as they are a rarity.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, “Lose You to Love Me” is a very slow and sad yet empowering ballad about someone who needed to leave behind someone toxic in order to grow into who they are.

Overall, Gomez’s “Rare” is a feel-good but sympathetic album that can serve as relaxing background music or as good old fashioned music to cry to.

WORST: “CATS”

Director Tom Hooper should be ashamed of what he has done to Andrew Lloyd Weber’s beloved Broadway musical, “Cats.”

Based on the 1939 poetry collection “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” by T. S. Eliot, Weber originally debuted his musical in 1981 at the New London Theatre in the United Kingdom.

Oh, how far the mighty have fallen. While being responsible for directing instant classics such as “The Danish Girl” (2015), “Les Miserables” (2012) and “The King’s Speech” (2010), Hooper has left a permanent black mark on his reputation by also being responsible for the new “Cats” film.

While this movie contains a lot of star-studded power, with the likes of Taylor Swift, Jason Derulo, and Jennifer Hudson all appearing, it’s unintentionally horrifying and uncanny depictions of what are meant to be bipedal, humanoid cats is too much to overlook.

The only factor “Cats” can rely on for entertainment, besides its somewhat “Rocky Horror Picture Show” level of weirdness, are the songs that were originally composed by Weber.

The only way to get some semblance of entertainment by watching “Cats” is to go to the theatre, put a blindfold on and listen to the music without subjecting your eyes to the nightmare fuel that are the cats themselves.

WORST: CANCEL CULTURE This relatively new concept has stemmed from online social media platforms aiming to “cancel” anything and everything that the majorities do not agree with.

“Cancel culture” comes from a sense of groupthink and rejection of anything that brings discomfort and confusion to the masses.

Rather than listening and respectfully debating viewpoints different from their own, people who subscribe to this ideology choose to shut down or “cancel” those who dare contradict those views.

In some cases, there are people, groups, and events that deserve to be “cancelled.” Actors and directors whose careers that have been nullified due to illegal activity, such as with Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein, deserve to be “canceled”.

The problem with cancel-culture comes from the fact that pretty much anything and everything that the majority of society doesn’t agree

“Rush” is a progressive rock and roll band that consists of members Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart. The drummer, Peart, sadly passed away on January 7, 2020.

Rush has been described as equal parts Led Zeppelin and King Crimson when is comes to their music. Their heavy rock has earned them a cult following which spans over their 40 year career. Their 1976 magnum opus “2112” is still enjoyed by both long term and new fans over 44 years later.

Peart died Tuesday following a lengthy battle with brain cancer.

Multiple bands, including Rush and Metallica, have paid tribute to the incredible music that Peart helped create over the years.

Lars Ulrich, Metallica lead guitarist, wrote a heartfelt message to Peart on Instagram this past Friday.

“Thank you Neil,” Ulrich said. “Thank you for inspiring me and for all your help and advice along the way, especially in the early days when you took the time to talk to a young green Danish drummer about recording, gear and the possibilities that lay ahead…”

Peart will surely be missed by his fellow band members, other musicians and fans alike.

WORST: “UNDERWATER” William Eubank’s “Underwater” has garnered, at best, mediocre reviews and box office numbers, and at worst, it has been deemed “hard to love.”

“Underwater” is the story of cryptic creatures that hunt and terrorize crew members aboard a research station located seven miles deep in the ocean.

That’s about all there is to say about this film. It is a very cookie-cutter format of a creature-feature. Kristen Stewart as one of the main crew members does not help this film in any way. Similarly to her other appearances in the “Twilight” series, her performance is as wooden as ever.

One unique element of “Underwater” is exactly that: it takes place underwater. The location of the plot does add an element of both claustrophobia and thalassophobia that not every monster movie has.

Despite its silver linings, “Underwater” is a movie that easily flies under the audience’s radars.

WORST: “STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER” J.J. Abrams concludes the most recent trilogy in the “Star Wars” universe on a disappointingly flat note.

While having a strong opening weekend in the box office, the following weekend housed a huge loss in ticket sales.

Within the first 48 hours of opening, “Rise of Skywalker” raked in $177.4 million in sales.

This number dropped by over $100 million by the following weekend, which brought in only $72.4 million.

The significant drop in sales was most likely due to the news of its low quality traveling by word of mouth between fans.

The lack-luster script and character development in addition to the over reliance of nondescript action sequences are what sadly place “The Rise of Skywalker” into the mediocre-at-best category.

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each hour reserved for specific classes or assignments. After the first few weeks of the semester, students can adjust their time as certain classes may require more time and effort.

It also may be helpful for students to think about their assignments differently. Thinking about what the assignment is trying to teach them, what the purpose of the class is and reading the syllabus may allow students to see the value in their school work.

“The things in your syllabus are incredibly resourceful,” Rothweiler said. “Especially [because] people never read the course objectives, but if you want to know what the point of this course is, you have to read the course objectives.”

Rothweiler said something she has adjusted to when teaching the psychology 131 course after hearing student feedback is talking more about procrastination. Figuring out how students choose to procrastinate and avoiding those habits is discussed by Rothweiler in her class.

“Finding the behaviors that you like to procrastinate with and preventing yourself from doing them until you have all of your work done is something that I really like to talk with my students about,” Rothweiler said.

While technology often distracts students when trying to focus on work, there are ways it can aide students in their work. Mobile time management apps are an example of how technology can potentially help students stay on top of their school work. “[Technology] can also be extremely helpful if you use it in the right way,” Toftness said. “It can help you stick to a schedule, for

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focal points in things like individual student support, so consultations, referrals and connecting students with resources. The position will really serve as a pillar coordinator for a lot of our community development and some of our leadership development programs as well.”

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example. It can help you feel more invested in sticking to the schedule.”

One app students use is PocketPoints, which is a free app that rewards students for staying off of their phones. Students earn a certain amount of points based off of how much time they aren’t using their phones, and the points can then be used for student discounts.

Various companies, such as Lulus and Insomnia Cookies, have coupons available on the PocketPoints app. The discounts serve as an incentive for students to avoid going on their phones and instead focus on what school work they need to accomplish.

Another app Toftness said he loves to talk about in his Academic Learning Skills

course is called Forest. The app is free on the Google Play Store and costs $1.99 on the App Store.

In the Forest app, a virtual tree is planted as a seed and it grows over the course of a predetermined time. The tree will die if the person exits out of the app.

Forest is a unique incentive for students to refrain from scrolling through their Instagram feed or checking for notifications.

Forest also partners with the Trees for the Future organization to plant real trees, keeping students off their phones and doing good for the planet.

Slipping out of a schedule and routine happens to just about ever yone. W hen busy schedules get overwhelming, students’

academic performance can suffer.

Rothweiler said when life falls into chaos, it comes back to the schedule. When students lose track of their schedule, Rothweiler said the first step is to reevaluate and think about what went wrong and what steps to take to overcome it.

“It’s that part about, ‘What steps do I need to take?’ that leads people to be anxious,” Rothweiler said. “That ‘Can I do these steps?

Do I know what I’m doing because now my life is in disarray already, and I am part of the reason that it’s like this.’ And it’s just the willingness to try something new to get yourself back on track is all you need; you have to try it.”

After reevaluating, students can make the needed adjustments to their schedule and rebuild their routines. Students can also reach out to family, friends and instructors for help with their academic struggles or even just talk through their feelings of stress.

Resources on campus that are available for the academic and personal lives of students include the Academic Success Center, Student Counseling Services, academic advisers, Supplemental Instruction sessions, tutors, academic advisers and more.

“The resources are a very good thing to know about before you need them,” Toftness said. “In the same way that once you’ve fallen into a hole, you already want the rope with which to climb out in your backpack; you don’t want to have to make a rope when you’re already in the hole.”

Toftness said he feels like his biggest piece of advice is to talk to other people because they may be going through similar things they can relate to and let them know it is okay to struggle a little bit.

include assisting with development, implementation, management and assessment of sexuality and gender programs including the Speakers Bureau Program, Thrive Leadership Program and the Center Squad.

Some of which, like the Speakers Bureau Program, have been put on hold this last semester with Freihoefer being the sole staff member.

This position will also allow Iowa State

students greater access to the Center’s staff due to there being more than one staff member in the space.

“Having the assistant director role filled will provide students increased access to staff, which we have definitely heard students are looking for,” Freihofer said. “ It will also allow us to move forward with some programs and initiatives, and that is really exciting.”

Miller-Bailey will begin her time in the Center on Monday, just as the spring semester is beginning. Freihoefer said a welcome event will be hosted, but the details are still in the works.

“To allow students to meet Cheltzie, we will do an official welcome where it will kind of be an event and social moment here in the Center, and we will be sharing information this week,” Freihoefer said.

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public at large and they believe families might attend with their children, that would not be considered a youth program and the organization does not need to fill out the form.

After completing the required forms and submitting the event, an organization will be able to track its status by logging into the University Event Authorization system and navigating to the “My Events” tab.

After the appropriate departments have received the form, the organization may or may not receive communication back from these departments and may or may not be assigned tasks to complete. The organization will receive this communication in either the “Tasks” or “Messages” tab in each of the event’s activities.

After everything has been filled out and completed, the Event Authorization Committee, which has meetings every Thursday, will review the event and its activities. Not every organization is required to meet with the committee in order to have their event approved. If a group is required to attend a meeting, the event coordinator, president, treasurer and adviser will be notified via email of the time they are supposed to attend.

When an activity/event is approved, the event coordinator will receive an email notifying them of the approval. If an event is denied, the event coordinator will receive an email informing them with the specific reason why.

A new University Event Authorization Training is also available in the Student Organization Database to help student organizations learn how to navigate the new site and successfully submit an event to the system.

This training is an online training consisting of 14 slides of information that covers the background, location reservations, navigating the website, creating an event, pre-event planning questions, work requests and attachments, activities, approving events, tracking events, Event Authorization Committee meetings and approved/denied events.

The training is free and open to anyone.

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just weeks from the Iowa caucuses set for Feb. 3.

In December, Buttigieg undertook a tour of Iowa counties that flipped from Barack Obama in previous presidential elections to Donald Trump in the 2016 race.

Buttigieg previously served as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, his tenure as mayor ended at the beginning of 2020. He has noted his Midwest upbringing and work as mayor in television ads, during presidential debates and stump speeches.

“As the mayor of an industrial city for the past eight years, I’ve seen the cost of this corporate recklessness written in abandoned factories and vacant homes,” Buttigieg said in a guest column in The Gazette newspaper. “I’ve watched what it does to a family

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the Council said they wanted to increase communication between the Council and the community.

At-large Rep. Amber Corrieri said another challenge is accepting the lack of engagement.

“Another challenge is all of us accepting the fact that as engaged as we say the community is, we do not have an engaged community at all,” Corrieri said.

“I think sometimes we need to accept the fact we don’t have an engaged community, and we may never have a fully engaged community; and the engagement we do get is often not representative of the entire community.”

In addition to the engagement, the Council also discussed methods to

— not just to its pocketbook, but its pride — when they don’t know how they’ll pay the bills at the end of the month.”

The latest “Iowa Poll” conducted by Selzer & Company for the Des Moines Register, CNN and Mediacom found Buttigieg in third place with the support of 16 percent of likely Iowa Democratic caucusgoers.

Buttigieg, who led the poll when it was last conducted in November, is behind the new Iowa frontrunner Bernie Sanders who has 20 percent support and Elizabeth Warren who has 17 percent support.

Buttigieg is just ahead of Joe Biden who has 15 percent support. Biden struggles in Iowa despite retaining frontrunner status in most polls of likely Democratic primary voters nationally. The Iowa Poll’s margin of error is plus or minus 3.7 percent.

increase the quality of communication during public input sessions.

“I’m talking with residents from South Dale of their drainage issues; I had people in that neighborhood meeting say, ‘we brought things to Council 10 years ago, and Council didn’t care,’” said Ward 1 Rep. Gloria Betcher. “So they aren’t recognizing this is not the same council that said ‘no’ 10 years ago, but they’ve beaten down and decided it’s not worth it to re-engage.”

Betcher said she wants the Council to make an effort of reaching out to the community rather than the community reaching out to them.

“But we don’t really make a concerted effort to continue to go out, you know, show up to other places, we want people to come to us,” Betcher said. “Or we have

the one big meeting at the library or the one big meeting on campus, and it’s not a regular thing. So if you don’t feel like this is something we care enough about to keep coming out, why should you keep coming out to us?”

In addition to connecting to the community, Ex-officio Devyn Leeson said from speaking with the Iowa State community, his goal is to have new city developments carbon neutral, while Ward 4 Rep. Rachel Junck said she wanted to adopt a goal to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and set aside funds for a climate action plan in the 2020 budget.

The goals will not be official until the next goal setting meeting, which will be 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in the activity room of the Parks and Recreation center.