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Farmers face harvest delay Adverse Iowa conditions push back crop schedule

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City Council to discuss trafficking, ordinances

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BY AMBER.FRIEDRICHSEN @iowastatedaily.com Midwesterners know that when the leaves begin to fall, it’s time for farmers to start harvest. This year, farmers had a bit of a delay when it came to getting their combines started.

Many Iowan farmers are facing somewhat of a challenging harvest season, which can be traced back to the complications of planting season.

Farmers are harvesting their crops a little later than most years. A spring with above-average rainfall left some farmers

unsure of how to get their crops planted. Some planted too early, resulting in destroyed crops. Others waited for dryer conditions and planted very late in the season.

The unusual conditions led those in the agriculture industr y to wonder what yields

would look like come fall.

Chad Hart is an associate professor in the economics department and works as an extension grain markets specialist.

He said farmers are facing a later-than-normal harvest season.

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DESIGN BY TALIA TORPY Iowa’s corn harvest was 43 percent complete as of Nov. 4. At that time last year the harvest was 69 percent complete. The five year average is 72 percent complete, higher than both this year and last year. Adverse weather conditions have contributed to this year’s low completion percentage.

Campus climate survey efforts continue

BY DANE.DORIUS @iowastatedaily.com Implementations of reforms following the campus climate survey performed two years ago continue to move forward as student efforts to speak out on campus ramp up.

Recently, some students took part in a protest on campus to bring attention to controversial events occurring around campus and demand change.

On Friday, President Wendy Wintersteen sent an email to all Iowa State students, faculty and staff discussing the efforts and laying out changes. “[Thursday] night, in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union, my leadership team and I met with members of Students Against Racism,” Wintersteen said in the email. “The meeting was an opportunity to share a series of actions the university will take in response to student demands following recent acts of racism.”

Furthermore, Wintersteen brought up what changes would be coming to campus.

“At [Thursday] night’s meeting, my team and

IOWA STATE DAILY Martino Harmon, senior vice president for Student Affairs, talks about the campus climate survey results at an open forum Feb. 12 in Carver Hall.

I outlined 10 actions, including expanded and targeted training for administrators, faculty, staff and students,” Wintersteen said in the email.

“For starters, campus leaders — myself, senior vice presidents, deans and other senior leaders — will take cultural competency and cultural humility training before the start of the spring 2020 semester. The complete list of actions was

distributed at the meeting and is available here.”

The survey from the fall of 2017 was analyzed by grouping the data into four sections: undergrads, grad students and postdoctorates; faculty and merit staff; and professional and scientific staff.

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Ames City Council will discuss plans to prevent human trafficking and finalize its vacation lodging ordinances at Tuesday night’s meeting.

In hopes to prevent human trafficking, the Council will discuss a proposed ordinance having to do with massage therapy businesses.

The idea was proposed in August, and the Council unanimously voted to draft an ordinance based on six elements, and will be based on a model currently used by the city of Des Moines.

Th e ordinance will also require businesses to produce information about their business and practitioners when demanded by the city.

Managers of the business must be Iowa residents, be designated in writing, be held responsible to provide information and be compliant, and each practitioner should provide photo identifications on display within the waiting and therapy rooms and cannot provide massage services between midnight and 5 a.m, according to the document.

“Adopting regulations regarding massage has been encouraged by massage practitioners and others interested in eliminating the practice of illicit massage and human trafficking in the community,” according to the document The third passage for the vacation lodging ordinance will also be discussed at the meeting.

The Council has had an 18-month discussion about regulating areas with vacation lodging by drafting ordinances, which will establish legal definitions and specify zoning areas.

Th e ordinance’s purposes are to provide safety for the guests, owners and neighbors; limit the operations, number and concentration of the vacation lodging zones to protect the character of the city’s neighborhoods; and help maintain the housing supply for household living, according to the drafted ordinance.

The Council will vote to enact the vacation lodging ordinance.

Additionally, to regulate the city ’s greenhouse gas emissions, the Council will look at a climate action plan.

The plan will award a contract with a company to the greenhouse gas inventory, include forecasting and provide recommendations.

The study is planned to take six months to complete and cost $24,960, which the Council has budgeted $25,000 for, according to the document.

The Council will meet at 6 p.m.

Tuesday in the City Council Chambers at City Hall.

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11.12.19 Meeting: Faculty Senate, Sun Room, Memorial Union at 3:30 p.m. The Faculty Senate

Open Mic Night, The M-Shop, Memorial Union at 8 p.m. Open Mic Night gives students

the chance to show off their talents to fellow peers.

Many perform as musicians, comedians, and poets.

Enjoy a night full of talented Iowa State Students.

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Workshop: Exploring ways to create an inclusive learning environment, 2030 Morrill Hall or via Zoom at 4:10 p.m. The teaching-learn-

to explore when agriculture and art come together and contemplate the unique aesthetic quality of the Iowa State campus.

ing process is an inherently social act. Throughout the learning process students interact with the instructor, their peers and the course content, often simultaneously in a classroom setting. All of these interactions help shape their success in the course.

Lecture: Healing America’s Streams, Sun Room, Memorial Union at 7 p.m. Margaret A.

Palmer is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a leader in restoration ecology, with an emphasis on restoration of rivers, streams, and wetlands.

Men’s Basketball, Hilton Coliseum at 7 p.m.

Iowa State vs. Northern Illinois.

Art Walk: Agriculture and Art, Farm House Museum at noon Take a journey through campus

Veterans Center Community Supper, Great Hall, Memorial Union 5 p.m. The Iowa State com-

munity is invited to enjoy a free dinner in honor of those who serve and sacrifice. The public event brings together students, faculty, staff, administrators and community members in honor of the service and sacrifice of veterans and their family members. RSVP requested by Nov. 6.

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Open forum: University registrar finalist, Soults Family Visitor Center, Memorial Union at 11 a.m. The names of four finalists in the search for

the next university registrar will be announced one business day before they visit campus.

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Christie Pearl Pigman, age 40, of 316 N 7 Ave. Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with theft in the fifth degree, shoplifting, at 3105 Grand Avenue (reported at 5:27 p.m.)

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Research to help firefighters Iowa State study aims to increase protection

BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State researchers are now working to make the job of firefighters safer.

Many gloves used by firefighters and other first responders are made of thick, bulky material designed to protect them. However, these materials can severely limit comfort and dexterity for firefighters and first responders, according to a recent study by Iowa State researchers.

Guowen Song is an associate professor of apparel, events and hospitality management and the Noma Scott Lloyd chair in textiles and clothing. Song is leading the study and finding ways to increase not only safety for firefighters’ equipment, but also comfort and dexterity.

A $1.5 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency will allow Song and an interdisciplinary team of Iowa State researchers to work on the safety and function of heat-protection gloves as

COURTESY OF JOINT BASE CHARLESTON Iowa State is researching how to make the gloves used by firefighters and first responders easier and safer to use.

Guowen Song, associate professor and the Noma Scott Lloyd chair in textiles and clothing, is leading the study.

part of the personal protective equipment system for firefighters and other first responders. “ The current gloves are not really engineered to meet the basic requirements of protection, comfort and good manual performance,” Song said in a press release.

“Firefighters lose more than 50 percent of their manual dexterity.

With our combined expertise and advanced facilities, we can focus on these challenges and develop the next generation of personal protective equipment for better safety

and health.”

The study is a collaborative effort with Iowa State researchers in textiles and clothing design; human physiology; numerical simulation; mechanical, chemical and biochemical engineering; performance evaluation and simulation; as well as fire departments and manufacturers.

Other members of the research team include Ellen McKinney and Chunhui Xiang, associate professor and assistant professor of apparel, events and hospitality management, respectively; Warren Franke and

Ceremony honors fallen

BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com As part of the Veterans Day celebrations at Iowa State, the Gold Star Ceremony took place Monday.

In the Great Hall of the Memorial Union, people young and old gathered to hear the stories of four former Iowa State students who died serving in the United States military.

The ceremony started off with a presentation of the Colors by the ROTC color guard and the singing of the National Anthem.

Then Steve Winfrey, director of the Memorial Union, addressed the attendees. He talked about a coin each of the families of the former students would be receiving at the event.

“On one side of the coin is a gold star and the words ‘for thee they died,’ reminding us of those who have gone before us,” Winfrey said.

“On the other side are the words ‘Iowa State University’ and the motto ‘learning to return services to those who served us.’ It is meant to serve as a reminder that these honorees are always a part of us.”

Lt. Col. Michael Hanson, Iowa State alumn and 18-year veteran of the United States Air Force, was next up to speak.

“Iowa State veterans have made our university proud,” Hanson said.

“The four men we honor today from two wars help us understand the

James Lang, professor and assistant professor of kinesiology, respectively; James Rossmanith, associate professor of mathematics; Lizhi Wang, associate professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering; Xinwei Wang, professor of mechanical engineering; and Daniel Russell, professor of human development and family studies.

The gloves are just the beginning for the team. In the next stage, researchers will be able to apply what they learn to other types of protective gear, such as boots and

Bazaar game night shows inclusion

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LOGAN METZGER/ IOWA STATE DAILY Lt. Col. Michael Hanson, Iowa State alumn and 18-year veteran of the United States Air Force, spoke at the Gold Star Hall Ceremony on Nov. 11.

why of courage and service. Each of our veterans has our own why.

Although each of these students chose to serve for different reasons, their dedication to our country was the same and through their stories we honor their memory.”

Army Lt. Col. Jeremy Paul spoke about John Fuller.

In 1938, Fuller came to Iowa State University to major in general engineering. Here, he joined the Delta Upsilon fraternity, he was a member of the band and he was the leading editor of Iowa State’s yearbook, “The Bomb.”

After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Fuller enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps on Jan. 15, 1942.

In August 1943, Fuller was deployed to England as a member of the 2nd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division — known as the “Screaming Eagle Battalion.”

On June 6, 1944 — D-Day — the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions flew toward France with the goal of dropping 6,600 paratroopers behind enemy lines to establish a beachhead from which they would capture Cherbourg, France.

Anti-aircraft artillery was intense, forcing flight formations from their original paths. Despite this setback, the Screaming Eagles took Cherbourg.

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The International Student Council (ISC) hosted a bazaar night, the second event of International Week, Monday in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union.

The event had many different countries represented through popular games and historical events to represent important pieces in their culture.

Six total organizations participated in this event: the Vietnamese International Student Association, the Iranian Student and Scholars Association, the Arab Student Association, the Hindu Yuva, the Japan Association and the Pakistan Student Association.

The Vietnamese International Student Association brought a game from Vietnam and a board to provide information on the historical war between Vietnam and China.

The card game, called Tien Len, or “Go Forward,” is a game is often played in Vietnam.

There are typically four players who play with a standard 52 card deck.

The point of the game is to begin with the lowest card and the subsequent players each try to beat each other with cards of a higher number.

The Pakistan Student Association presented their culture by bringing a history board and displaying traditional clothing from Pakistan.

One of their representatives, Qamar

helmets, for firefighters and other emergency responders.

Using a sweating hand model, Song and others have conducted a series of experiments to measure how parts of the hand and fingers respond to heat, wind and cold. The database they created will be able to provide a foundation for the team’s work to develop a hand-specific thermal regulation model.

For example, the database shows how cold affects the forefinger and pinky finger differently. The researchers can use this information to select and design materials for the glove to maximize protection and comfort.

In a 2017 study published in Textile Research Journal, Song and his colleagues found the combination of moisture from sweating and heat interacting with different protective fabric systems can contribute to skin burn injuries — another factor to consider with the gloves.

The sweating hand model, developed in the Lab for Clothing Comfort Performance, sweats like a human hand, so researchers can test the performance of different textiles, materials and products.

The lab is also equipped with a full-size sweating mannequin to test for comfort with all types of protective gear. In the Lab for Heat and Thermal Protection Research, the researchers can test how textiles respond to various hazards including fire, hot liquid and steam.

Farooq, a graduate student in chemistry, also wrote people’s names out for them in their native language, Urdu.

Next was the Japanese Association.

Their display boasted a poster about Japan’s most popular anime and video game franchises, along with a poll about participants’ favorite animes and three activities.

The activities included a game called kamizumo, kendama and origami.

Kamizumo, or paper sumo, is a game where players tap on the edge of a wooden game board and try to knock their opponent’s wrestler down or out of the ring.

Kendama consists of a handle with three cups, two on each side and one on the end, a spike on the other end and a ball connected by a string. This game improves coordination and reflex.

The final activity the Japanese Association had was origami. This art of paper folding is done by manipulating a single sheet of paper to create various pieces, whether they are simple or complex.

The Arab Student Association gave students Henna tattoos as a representation of their culture. Henna, a form of temporary body art, is typically used for weddings and other types of celebrations, according to Joyee Leong, a junior in chemical engineering and a member of the ISC. Hindu Yuva is an organization that promotes the culture of India that was designed to reach out to everyone who was interested in being involved.

They brought with them a game called kanche. Kanche, a popular game in the 90s, is a game that uses marbles.

Players place their marbles in a circle and try to hit others marbles out.

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Youth vote increases Candidates focus on youth in campaigns

BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com

BY MALLORY.TOPE @iowastatedaily.com Young voters are turning out at the polls in their highest numbers in recent years.

In the 2018 midterm elections, the percent of voters who turned out between the ages of 18-29 was 36 percent, which was 16 percent higher than the 2014 midterms, according to the United States Census Bureau.

“Younger voter turnout basically doubled between the 2014 and 2018 off-year elections, which is largely what helped Democrats and liberal-type candidates do well in 2018,” said Mack Shelley, Iowa State professor and chair of the political science department.

The 2018 midterms produced a Democratic majority in the United States House of Representatives by flipping more than 41 previously Republican seats and bringing in hundreds of new Democratic members of state legislatures.

Younger voters’ participation could help swing elections in a major way, as with the 2018 offyear elections, Shelley said.

“There is a greater diversity of younger voters, and they grew up in a far more diverse culture and society compared to older voters,” Shelley said.

Today, the voting eligible population is almost equal between millennials and baby boomers. 62 million millennials are of eligible voting age, and there are 70 million

New group advocates for students on campus

IOWA STATE DAILY Cheryl Binzen, volunteer for the League of Women Voters, talks to students about voting at Women’s Equality Day on Aug. 26, 2016, outside Catt Hall.

baby boomers eligible to vote.

“Voting and politics are how our society makes decisions,” said Hector Arbuckle, senior in biology. “If young people were to vote in large numbers, issues like climate change would become a very important issue for politics and politicians.”

In 2018, there was a surge in social media to get youth to vote.

Celebrities and social media influencers live-streamed and tweeted to urge young people to vote.

Taylor Swift urged her followers to research their candidates and cast their vote.

“Voting turnout for everyone has increased due to many candidates and campaigns [...] targeting voters,” said Dave Peterson, professor of political science.

The voter tur nout f or the 2018 midterm election was 53.4

percent, compared to 41.9 percent in 2014, according to the United States Census Bureau. According to the bureau’s write-up accompanying the data, the jump in turnout among the youngest cohort of voters is in part behind the jump in overall turnout.

“Voting is a habit,” Peterson said. “Once people start voting, they tend to continue voting.”

Organizations such as Humans Rights Campaign, League of Women Voters and many more are tabling, calling and emailing voters to help increase the youth and overall voting turnout for the 2020 election.

Presidential candidates are also targeting younger voters for the 2020 presidential campaign by visiting college campuses and holding events on campuses.

“Younger voters provide the

energy and talent that campaigns need to be successful,” Shelley said.

Iowa State students are getting involved with the upcoming election by volunteering with campaigns, learning about the caucus and getting others registered to vote.

“No matter who you are voting for, our campaign team always asks if you are registered to vote and will help you register because no matter who you are, your voice deserves to be heard,” said Ashlyn Dunn, a student volunteer for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign and freshman in agricultural and life sciences education.

Turning out to vote for primary elections and caucuses is especially important, otherwise candidates are “pre-selected” for voters, Arbuckle said.

Water sustainability in Iowa Lecturer to talk conditions of water bodies

BY AMBER.FRIEDRICHSEN @iowastatedaily.com Margaret Palmer, distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, is set to speak at Iowa State about the condition and restoration of streams, rivers and other bodies of water at “Healing America’s Streams.”

The lecture is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union.

Palmer will be speaking about the water sustainability in the United States. Grace Wilkinson, an assistant professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology at Iowa State, said Palmer is a world renowned expert in stream restoration.

“She has gone on diplomatic missions and she has [testified] in Congress and other court cases when it comes to stream restoration and the ecological issues there,” Wilkinson said. “[She’s]

very well known for her work, very respected.

We are very excited to have her here.”

Palmer’s lecture is part of the Forbes Ronald lecture series. Wilkinson said the series of lectures specifically supports female leaders in water sustainability.

“It’s a really unique opportunity to be bringing women who are leaders in the United States and around the globe in water sustainability issues,” Wilkinson said.

Palmer’s area of expertise is in mountaintop mining. According to earthsjutice.org, mountaintop mining is a destructive mining practice which ruins drinking water for millions of people.

Though there are not issues with mountaintop mining in Iowa, there are other ways human activities affect our water supply in the state. Wilkinson said nutrients leave Iowa’s soils through streams and rivers and end up in the Gulf of Mexico.

“We have a lot of work to do here, thinking about how we can restore streams and water on our landscape in order to handle those nutrients,” Wilkinson said.

Palmer is expected to bring a different perspective to the concept of water sustainability to listeners. With Palmer’s background in

COURTESY OF IOWA STATE EVENTS CALENDAR Margaret Palmer will speak about the restoration of rivers, streams and wetlands Tuesday.

mountaintop mining and the issue of nutrient reduction in the state of Iowa, Wilkinson predicts an engaging lecture.

“I think there is going to be a fantastic opportunity to learn from Palmer,” Wilksinson said.

“The ways she thinks about stream restoration in mountaintop mining is a lot different than the high nutrient pollution that we have here in the state, but there is some similar issues as well, so [it will be] a great opportunity to learn and exchange ideas.”

A new group has formed on campus with the intent of supporting students.

This group is known as Advocates for Cyclone Success (ACES) and was formed by Laura Kilbride, student service specialist for the College of Human Sciences, as well as other individuals on campus.

“Our group formed a few months ago,” Kilbride said. “It started out with a few staff members across campus and we had been voicing to one another our passion for helping to students and how upset it makes us when we hear about the situations they are in.”

Kilbride said the group found common ground and created the group on the basis of meeting and coming up with ideas on how to help students.

The first big event ACES is doing is a series of listening sessions so the group can hear from students.

“We want to hear students’ stories,” Kilbride said. “We want to hear, are what our students going through on a day to day basis making it difficult for them to graduate with a college degree?”

There are five listening sessions currently planned, all of which are taking place next week.

These sessions are 3 to 5 p.m.

Monday; 10 a.m. to noon and 4 to 6 p.m. Nov. 19; and 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m. Nov. 20. The sessions will take place in different rooms on campus.

“A listening session will be eight to 10 students per group and two to three staff members,” Kilbride said. “We have reserved various rooms across campus at different times. We are there to listen, to hear whatever they have to say. What can we do to help? What things are we doing that just put up more barriers?”

During a listening session, students can share anything they wish to or don’t have to share much at all. The session is completely led by students and will progress based on their comfort level.

If a session does not work for students or if they have experiences they want to share but not with a group, they can contact Kilbride directly at kilbride@iastate.edu.

Kilbride said one of the main reasons the group formed was because people on campus do not believe that some students at Iowa State are currently homeless and/or food insecure.

“We want to do these listening sessions to hear it from the students, so we have the information that these students do exist,” Kilbride said. “We are going to advocate for them and see what we can do for them.”

After gathering the information from students the group will then convene together and brainstorm ideas for helping students.

“What creative ideas can we come up with that may help these students?”

Kilbride said. “What can we do as a group to help these students? What services on campus are missing that we can advocate for? We are acting as a voice for students in these situations.”

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Racial power is not ideal for society

BY JOHN.ROCHFORD @iowastatedaily.com The root of many conversations around racial issues today centers around the concept of power. Power, however, is a tricky and risky concept to coalesce around.

Indeed, even the “new” or more modern definition of racism (or any -ism) is no longer defined by the dictionary definition.

Racism, in certain academic settings, is defined as power plus privilege.

In other words, any individual who possesses power, privilege or both is eligible to be a racist or is a racist automatically.

If one subscribes to “ White Fragility” author Robin DiAngelo’s theories, simply by virtue of being born white. In the minds of the adopters of this racial definition, there is no question about the privilege aspect: white people, or any numerically larger populations, have privilege; minority populations do not.

In the end, according to the definition, whites can be racist, but black or brown people cannot be racist. The definition is convenient and indeed a tool to those who put its use into practice.

Stark examples of the cognitive dissonance that is needed to subscribe to the power plus privilege definition occurred at a university of our neighbor to the north, Canada, about three years ago. They are described in the aptly titled article, “Dear White People, Please Stop Pretending Reverse Racism is Real” published by Vice.

The group named Racialised Students’ Collective at Ryerson University kicked white journalism students out of a meeting because they were not “marginalized or racialized.” In another incident, Black Lives Matter – Toronto refused to sell T-shirts to

COURTESY OF THE BLUE DIAMOND GALLERY Columnist John Rochford argues racism defined as “power plus privilege” can be manipulated to suit different circumstances. Rochford believes a society formed around racial power is not ideal.

whites during a Pride parade. At a panel for queer black people, whites were asked to move to the back to make space for black attendees.

The motive of the article, as the title suggests, claims that these actions are not racist because minorities have no power or privilege to enforce their ideas.

Interesting, since those same people in power of the events refused to sell products based on racial preference and held seating orders based upon race, engaged in the same discriminatory practices they claim to fight.

Cognitive dissonance indeed!

The same types of practices occurred at the University of Missouri, where racial lists of demands and attempts to prevent media from covering the events based on race occurred more than once.

Another occurrence nearly brought down a small but historic bakery near Oberlin College, and this past summer I wrote about an event where ticket prices where differently priced based upon race (more expensive for whites).

These are a few, but certainly not exclusive, examples of such ways in which this definition can be maneuvered to engage in acts that would otherwise be considered discriminatory.

To base our society of ideas like this is simply not a good idea.

In the last few weeks, and perhaps right on schedule, Halloween season brings out the nearly guaranteed discussion on cultural appropriation.

In the Iowa State Daily two weeks ago, I was surprised to see a student quoted in

an article arguing that the United States is erroneously a mixing pot of cultures and that appropriation manifests beyond Halloween: “[Appropriation] can be seen abundantly through the Halloween time as white people are dressing as another race and in most cases, representing rappers or criminals. Cultural appropriation is seen all over from cornrows to making your skin darker, to twerking, to using slang or altering your voice to sound like another person, to achieving bigger lips, to utilizing the term ‘spirit animal.’ It is seen in everyday life, not just Halloween, because more and more white people are observing other cultures and picking and choosing what they like and adopting it as their own.”

The implication is, essentially, appreciate other cultures’ existence, but do not partake.

Stick to your own cultural practices.

Of course, cultural appropriation is perfectly acceptable according to author Jenna Jackson, who said “Minority groups can mock white people. They can mimic dominant culture. They can even completely assimilate into ‘respectable behavior’ if they so choose. There are levels of social benefits and costs to doing so. But, minority groups will never be able to appropriate ‘white culture’…”

If a society is formed based around racial power, that society probably is not a good one, but that path is a two-way street. There should be a level of caution in suggesting society is simply a struggle for power, for in some ways it legitimizes your opposite or opponent’s attempts to capture that power and in the end, society would be — in some ways naturally — at conflict with each indefinitely along racial lines.

That is certainly not an ideal society to live in.

GUEST COLUMN

My habitual gender language is no excuse

BY JOHNATHAN STURM jsturm@iastate.edu At the Campus Conversation last Monday in Parks Library, I heard the pain, the frustration, the need for action from all our students in the room who felt that Iowa State is not providing them a safe learning and living environment.

My heart hurts for these students, and as president of the Iowa State University Faculty Senate this year, I want to do something that is meaningful to make Iowa State a campus where all students feel safe to learn and to live. And I mean all students.

But my own inadequacies came quickly to the surface in a conversation following the meeting when I invited a student to provide me input about creating change on campus. During this brief conversation, I accidentally mis-gendered an acquaintance of theirs three times in the space of a minute.

I am grateful to the student for correcting me each time I misspoke. I apologized to them for creating the need to do so.

It is exactly this kind of speaking out of habit — in my case a habit formed over nearly 60 years of speaking gender-binary English — that in part gives rise to the exhaustion some students, faculty and staff currently feel.

They say they are swimming upstream every day against a current of habit, not to mention even stronger currents of

intolerance, bigotry and racism in their daily work and lives.

In the instance I mention above, I was genuinely not trying to be insensitive, intolerant or bigoted; I was speaking casually with a student, and my habitual gender language was voiced before I had given myself time to think. It is a reason, not an excuse.

Not malicious, perhaps, but exhausting for the student nonetheless, and I saw it in their eyes — “more of the same” to them.

I am being educated by my students that even if my intent is benign, the impact of my words on them has a real and potentially damaging effect, and one that I might not immediately perceive. And while I work hard to make my failures few and far between, every failure creates a moment of stress for the recipient, and I know I can do better.

This one minute in which I failed to be the best leader I could be for the students who are entrusting their education as well as years of their lives to me as an Iowa State faculty member served as a wake-up call and a teaching moment that perhaps I can share through the Iowa State Daily.

As faculty we spend considerable effort and attention upon the content of our speaking — the knowledge we share with our students. But we must consider with every sentence, with every word, our impact as well.

Is what we are saying, even out of habit, causing a blockade to the ease with which

our students learn from us? Or perhaps even their willingness to learn from us?

What I heard from them at the Campus Conversation is that, indeed, it does.

Self-examination requires that we ask if we have, over a career or a lifetime, become habituated to language the impact of which is hurtful in our present day.

Instances might involve views of gender, race, ethnicity and identity; or language we intend as motivational, but which is heard as bullying; or other concerns that have become habitual for us from a past time when, though the underlying issues and oppression existed, the culture treated the oppression differently.

Our language may seem benign to us, but because our past experiences are narrower than the experiences of our audience, they create stress and exhaustion, if not pain and suffering.

In one minute yesterday I understood, personally, a little more clearly the need, the pain and the exhaustion some students face daily at Iowa State, and I pledge to be better.

I am grateful that I live in a country where the ideal is that all people are equal and free to live as they choose. We all know the reality does not yet align with the ideal.

As I work to make my own actions and language support this ideal in ever greater detail, I hope most of all that students will feel safe to educate me in return for the education I provide them.

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SPORTS

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Depth on display at Cyclone Open Shapiro and Small stand out as Cyclones to watch

in the final.

Colin Valdiviez, an unattached wrestler from Northwestern, had over three minutes of riding time in his favor as Small held a 4-2 advantage.

A reversal earned Small two cushion points to an eventual 6-4 win. One year after placing second at the Cyclone Open, the redshirt junior grabbed first.

Still, Dresser quickly pointed out things that Small needs to improve on if he wants to remain successful at this level.

“We’ve got to do some work on the mat,” Dresser said. “He got by up to this point in his career with just wrestling a little in and out; can’t do that now. He’s going to have to wrestle the whole time.”

BY ZACH.MARTIN @iowastatedaily.com The Harold Nichols Cyclone Open on Sunday was the first time in the 2019-20 season that members of the Iowa State wrestling team took the mat in Hilton Coliseum.

The Cyclones crowned six champions total from the open and fresh/soph divisions, and multiple wrestlers earned top-six finishes.

More than anything, clarity — at least for the time being — was seen at a crucial weight class for Iowa State.

SHAPIRO GETS STARTING NOD When the Cardinal and Gold wrestle-off finals were released over a week ago, the bout at 197-pounds between Francis Duggan and Joel Shapiro was one that had high anticipation.

That’s one of the three weight classes that Iowa State will have a new starter from last year. Duggan and Shapiro, two redshirt freshmen, were expected to provide an insight on who would be the number one guy.

It never materialized, as Duggan was held out of the wrestle-off final due to a small injury.

On Sunday for third place at 197, the matchup finally happened.

Shapiro defeated Duggan 3-1 to claim third and all but confirm that he will be the guy at 197.

IOWA STATE DAILY Then-redshirt junior Chase Straw gets a takedown against then-redshirt freshman Spencer Heywood during the first match of the Iowa State vs. Utah Valley dual-meet Feb. 3 in Hilton Coliseum.

That confirmation came from coach Kevin Dresser afterward.

“He’s the number one guy,” Dresser said.

Shapiro is making the move from heavyweight to the starter for the Cyclones’ regular season, opening dual in five days against Bucknell.

Even though the Des Moines native is slated to get the start, Dresser said it will be a fluid weight class.

“I’m really looking for the guy that wants to step up and improve all year long,” Dresser said. “That’s going to be an open weight class until one of them really steps up and decides that they’re the guy.”

SMALL SHINES AT D1 LEVEL Obtaining back-to-back NJCAA National

Championships is a feat that is no short order — and Todd Small did just that in his first two years of collegiate wrestling at Iowa Central Community College.

Now, he’s embarking on his first year wrestling at the NCAA Division I level.

He got off to an impressive start, putting together three wins by decision to claim the open division crown at 133 pounds. “[He’s] super talented,” Dresser said. “He’s never had a Division I schedule, week in and week out, and that’s a grind, and you got to go after guys.”

It was clear early on that Small is comfortable on his feet. In every match, he showed confidence when he was neutral with his opponent.

Small even got out of possible trouble

DEPTH SHOWS AT 165 Of the seven wrestlers listed on the Cyclones roster at 165 pounds, five were in the open division.

All five placed in the top six. The other wrestler — Caleb Long — got third in the fresh/soph division.

The open final was between Chase Straw and Isaac Judge. Straw won 4-2 after he defeated Zane Mulder in the semis.

Mulder battled Logan Schumacher in the third place match, where Schumacher defeated his teammate 6-4.

Taylan Entriken lost his quarterfinal match to Mulder but ran through the wrestle backs before falling in the fifth place bout.

Even though Dresser said Straw has separated himself from the pack, he’s pleased with the progress of the other wrestlers at that weight.

“I like every one of those 165 [guys] we got, they add a lot to the team,” Dresser said.

Cyclones see up and down weekend

BY MEGAN.TESKE @iowastatedaily.com The Iowa State swimming and diving team took care of South Dakota Friday evening, but couldn’t overcome a close matchup against Rutgers the next morning.

In a back-to-back meet weekend, the Cyclones competed against South Dakota on Friday evening and won 212-84. Saturday, they fell to Rutgers in a closer-than-it-appeared meet, 134-166.

Head coach Duane Sorenson said he doesn’t think the loss to Rutgers had anything to do with having a meet the night before because Rutgers also had a meet the evening before in which they lost to the University of Iowa 199-100.

THE LITTLE DETAILS The Cyclones were on pace with Rutgers in each event for the entirety of the meet, sometimes missing out on first or second place by tenths or hundredths of a second. When final scores can come down to less than a second, it’s important for swimmers to not only focus on the race, but also the little things that can help them get that extra push.

“We had way too many close races,” Sorenson said. “Unfortunately we didn’t pull out the close touchouts we should have done at home.”

One of the swimmers who won because of a minute detail was junior Martha Haas in the 200 yard breaststroke. In the last length, Haas was slightly behind Rutgers swimmer Aleksa Ignatova, but overtook her on the turn and ended up placing first.

“Their [Rutger’s] swimmer took that little extra stroke at the end,” Sorenson said. “Martha went underwater and their swimmer went over the water and [Martha] ended up winning it.”

Sorenson also said the athletes were trying too hard and needed to trust in themselves to win the race.

“When you’re in this sport and try harder, sometimes you don’t do better,” Sorenson said. “Just trusting themselves and staying under control and trusting their stroke and their pace and their tempo, they can go a lot further.”

JUST KEEP SWIMMING Sorenson said Iowa State had good performances both meets, but they just weren’t able to finish against Rutgers like they did South Dakota.

He also reiterated how the swimmers need to relax and just swim.

“They’re trying to put too much on their shoulders,” Sorenson said. “Some of them swam events and they just went out and had fun [Friday night] and they swam faster. Just learning how to attack the races in the right way and right mindset.”

Sorenson said it was a mix of being able to have fun in the meet as well as locking in and racing to win.

CYCLONES WIN THE METER DIVE In both meets this weekend, the Cyclone divers performed and placed well in the 1-meter diving event.

Against South Dakota, Iowa State took the top three spots. Sophomore Michelle Schlossmacher Smith placed first, freshman Jayna Misra placed second, and senior Dana Liva placed third. All three divers earned an NCAA zone qualifying score in that meet as well.

The Cyclones also did well on the 1-meter dive against Rutgers, placing first and second.

Schlossmacher Smith again took first and Liva took second.

“I was very consistent in all of my dives,”

Foster commits to the Cyclones

BY NOAH.ROHLFING @iowastatedaily.com

NICK NADING/ IOWA STATE DAILY Iowa State and South Dakota swimmers start the 50 free event Friday. The Cyclones won the meet 212-84.

Schlossmacher Smith said. “That’s mainly what I’m looking for this time of the season.”

Diving coach Jeff Warrick said he was happy with how his divers did this weekend in both meets.

“I think we’re going to take away that we’re a strong team,” Warrick said. “If we put our minds to it and keep working we’re going to be in the mix, we’re going to be shooting for winning these competitions.”

The diving team now has two weeks off for practice until they go to the Mizzou Invite, which is Nov. 21 to 23.

“I’m really excited to go compete at an invite,” Schlossmacher Smith said. “It’s a lot different of an atmosphere, more teams and a lot longer wait time.”

While the divers will be down in Columbia, Missouri, for the Mizzou Invite from Nov. 21 to 23, the Iowa State swimmers will be down in Topeka, Kansas, for the Kansas Classic from Nov. 22 to 24.

Iowa State’s next home meet will be Dec. 13, when the Cyclones face off against the Iowa Hawkeyes in the annual Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series.

Iowa State men’s basketball got the week off to a strong start M on d ay m o r n i n g w i t h a b i g in-state recruiting victory.

Four-star 2020 recruit Xavier Foster of Oskaloosa announced at his high school that he was committing to the Cyclones, choosing Iowa State over his other finalist — the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Foster immediately becomes one of the best recruits in Iowa State history, according to Alex Halsted of 247Sports.

The 7-foot-tall big man will help fill a stretch post role currently filled by senior Michael Jacobson.

The No. 59 overall recruit and No. 10 center in the 2020 class according to 247, Foster’s commitment moves the Cyclones’ four-man class inside the top-15 in the country.

As of Monday, the Cyclones sit No. 14 in 247’s team rankings — behind only Baylor and Kansas State in the Big 12.

Foster joins fellow commits D a r l i n s t o n e D u b a r, D u d l e y Blackwell and Jaden Walker in the 2020 recruiting class for coach Steve Prohm.

LIFESTYLE

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Chi Omega raises awareness

Philanthropies support late alumna, Make-A-Wish

BY ISABEL.GEBERS @iowastatedaily.com

Iowa State’s chapter of Chi Omega (Eta Beta) supports the Liz Kirke Foundation, an Iowa State-only philanthropy, and the MakeA-Wish Foundation as their main philanthropy.

The Liz Kirke Foundation is Chi Omega’s fall philanthropy and the money raised goes to a scholarship fund for College of Design majors in the name of Liz Kirke, a late Chi Omega and graphic design major.

Kirke was a senior at Iowa State in 1985 when she was diagnosed with primary pulmonary hypertension, a rare lung disorder that causes the blood vessels in the lungs to narrow and increase pressure in the pulmonary artery. At the time of diagnosis, Kirke had no available treatment other than to get a heart transplant.

“She was put on a [heart] transplant list in the fall, and she was just waiting for that heart,” said Emma Gellerstedt, junior in dietetics and philanthropy chair of Chi Omega. “And following winter break of that year, she passed away on January 15, 1986.

The following semester after she passed away, in the spring, for Greek Week, Chi Omega made a float in her honor. Then that inspired the philanthropy chair. In the fall, they started the Liz Kirke Foundation, and I think the first event was a bowl-a-thon.”

Ever since the first event in the fall of 1986, Chi Omega has held a yearly event to raise money for the Liz Kirke Foundation.

This year’s event to honor Liz Kirke was

COURTESY CHI OMEGA AT IOWA STATE Chi Omega members pose with Liz Kirke’s sister, Katie Wengert, at Chi O Corndogs on Oct. 10. Chi O Corndogs was Chi Omega’s annual philanthropy event in support of the Liz Kirke Foundation.

Chi O Corndogs on Oct. 10. Gellerstedt worked to make sure people at the event understood who Kirke was and how important it is they honor her memory as well as enjoy themselves, which is an important aspect to philanthropy events.

“When I got to this position, there were girls who had never seen a picture of Liz before and [had] not even known what she looked like,” Gellerstedt said. “So I thought it was important that when people — not just our girls — walked into the event, they knew why they were there. We had a plaque with her face on it. We had pictures of her all over the place. It was cool to have her family and friends there because when guests interacted with them, they could see that it really meant something to other people.”

Gellerstedt had Kirke’s family at the event

and had Kirke’s sorority sister and pledge little come talk to Chi Omega members at a chapter meeting. Learning more about Kirke made members feel more connected to their cause.

“We got to be in contact with her family,” said Miranda Rokes, junior in industrial design and Chi Omega member. “I feel connected to her; we were involved in a lot of the same things.”

Along with the Liz Kirke Foundation, Chi Omega’s national philanthropy is the MakeA-Wish Foundation. The Make-A-Wish Foundation grants wishes for kids fighting critical illnesses to provide hope and strength to keep fighting. Iowa State’s Chi Omega specifically supports Make-A-Wish Iowa.

“Make-A-Wish is like a big partnership with Chi Omega; we’re very lucky to be a part

of that partnership, and as an organization, Chi O has raised over $20 million and volunteered over one million hours since 2002,” Gellerstedt said. “It’s cool we get to support Make-A-Wish of Iowa ... it’s cool to know that we’re making an impact on kids within our own communities, and so many girls have ties to Make-A-Wish.”

Multiple members have had family members who have received a wish — connecting them even further to the cause — including Chi Omega’s President, Makenzi Zikas.

“My experience with the Make-A-Wish Foundation began when I was in eighth grade when my brother’s wish was granted,” Zikas said. “My family traveled to Hawai’i so my brother could golf at a PGA tour golf course.

This trip gave my family a glimpse of hope during a very scary time, so I truly understand how significant this foundation is for families in situations similar to mine.”

To raise money, Chi Omega’s spring event has been the Chi O Rodeo for the past three years. Last year, this event hosted singer Ellie Mae Millenkamp from The Voice as a performer and had yard games to play and a photo booth. This year, Chi Omega is hoping to have a family come talk about their experience with the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

“One of the main things that we’re going to focus on this year is to somehow tie in an event with the kids,” Gellerstedt said. “Somehow getting maybe a family to come to our event or getting a family to tell their story at a chapter meeting, like what we did with Liz’s sister.”

Both philanthropy events provide Chi Omega with opportunities to raise awareness and funds for organizations and causes that are important to them. When choosing a sorority or fraternity, philanthropies can help to make the decision for a member, depending on how much it means to them.

Once a philanthropy chair is elected for the current school year, Chi Omega will begin the planning process of future philanthropy events for the remainder of the school year.

Juggling and Unicycling Club challenges members

BY MEGHAN.CUSTIS @iowastatedaily.com The Juggling and Unicycling Club is creating an atmosphere of fun and challenge for its members.

Teaching each other new skills and tricks is at the core of what the Juggling and Unicycling Club offers. The friendships made and life lessons learned are what keep the club tight-knit.

Club president Cole Reiman, junior in agricultural and life sciences education, has been juggling since he was a child.

Reiman loved performing, and juggling was a unique outlet for him to perform. He became a member of the club as a student at Des Moines Area Community College before transferring to Iowa State.

The environment of the club is what Reiman believes is so special.

“We’re creating that environment where it’s okay to not be great but just allowing that vulnerability of allowing others to teach you,” Reiman said.

Reiman recalled a practice weeks before when he looked up from what he was working on and saw three veteran members working

with three new members.

This is a common practice within the club: the older members teach the new.

“If someone in the club wants to learn how to do something, and someone else knows how to do it, we just build off each other,” Reiman said.

Hannah Clubb, freshman in genetics, knows firsthand how compassionate the club members are. Clubb said she started juggling just over a month ago.

“I went to the first practice and thought I was going to make a fool out of myself, and I was juggling three balls by the end of the night,” Clubb said.

The Juggling and Unicycling Club is a place Clubb can count on to be cheered up. She said the members can always find some way to put a smile on her face. She also notices the growth the club has given her outside of just learning a new skill.

“I don’t consider myself a daredevil by any means,” Clubb said.

“But this definitely brings some of that out.”

Paul Scott, age 56, has been a member of Juggling Club on and off since his time at Iowa State in

the ‘80s. He views juggling as a way to give back to the community, performing with the club at events like the Ames Walk to End Alzheimer’s, which took place earlier this year.

Scott and other Juggling Club alumni also participate and perform in RAGBRAI each summer.

“It’s kind of like a reunion of old Iowa State Juggling Club people,” Scott said. “You’ll have a bunch of people who are old ISU Juggling Club members who have never met each other, but they can all juggle together.”

Scott connects juggling to many aspects of life. He said he views it as a metaphor for how to succeed.

“It teaches you a really important life lesson,” Scott said. “And that is, if you want to learn how to do something complicated, you have to break it down into pieces that are doable and then practice those pieces.”

The Juggling Club and its members are a connection Scott values as true friendship. He laughed as he said his kids are older than some of his best friends who are members of the Juggling Club.

Cameryn Schafer, freshman in pre-dietetics, was new to Juggling

MEGHAN CUSTIS/ IOWA STATE DAILY Members of the Juggling and Cycling Club at Iowa State agree that while the club challenges them, it also pushes them to step outside of their comfort zones both in and outside of the club.

and Unicycling Club when she joined in early November. She came after Reiman asked if she wanted to learn how to unicycle.

Unicycling is a way for Schafer to challenge herself at Iowa State.

“I really enjoy being at college, but I felt like I wasn’t stepping outside of my comfort zone enough,” Schafer said. “Learning how to unicycle would make me step outside of that comfort zone in a way I hadn’t before.”

Schafer realizes the club isn’t

related to her major but sees value in it regardless.

“My friends will say, ‘Well, that doesn’t apply to anything,’” Schafer said. “I say, ‘It doesn’t have to, it’s pushing me to do something new, and I’m scared of doing it, so that’s even more reason to do it.’”

The Juggling and Unicycling Club meets 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays and 8 to 10 p.m. Thursdays in State Gym. Anyone from any skill set is welcomed to join in on the fun.

08 HARVEST

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“Right now, what [farmers] are wrestling with is just trying to get the crops out of the field,” Hart said.

“When you plant late and the crop develops late, you’re going to harvest late, and that’s exactly what we are seeing out there.”

Some of these farmers can be found walking to class on Iowa State’s campus. Many students go home every weekend to help out on their family farms, especially during the busy harvest season.

Daniel Kluesner, freshman in animal science, returns home on the weekends to help out on his farm in Greeley, Iowa. Kluesner’s family runs a beef operation and also farms approximately 1,500 acres of corn.

“Basically, I go home on the weekends and do whatever needs to be done,” Kluesner said. “My main role [during harvest] is mostly driving trucks up and down the road.

Sometimes I run the combine, but mostly I’m hauling corn.”

Kluesner said he experienced an unfavorable planting season along with most Iowa farmers. The excessive rain made it difficult to plant.

“It was very wet, and we had a hard time getting [the crop] in,” Kluesner said. “I know we started the planter one Monday morning, and we didn’t quit planting until the next Thursday — just kept it running the whole time because we knew we had to get the corn in, and we were behind so bad.”

Despite the delay, farmers are currently in the fields and trying to work up to where they would usually be around this time of year.

There is still a lot of work to be done, though. Hart said farmers will still face challenges before the season is over.

Before assessing yields, farmers need to get their crops out of the field. Just as farmers struggled to get their crops planted, they are now

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Senior Vice President for Student Affairs Martino Harmon was part of the team that reviewed the results of the survey.

One common refrain across the groups surveyed was a request for further inclusivity and diversity around campus. “[The undergrad section proposed to] assemble a group of individuals that can assess opportunities and spaces on campus where we can enhance and increase inclusive images via art, redesign of spaces and ensuring that spaces are more inclusive,” Harmon said.

Another multi-level issue spotted in the survey is a desire for better child care for parents on campus.

This is being addressed by getting a dedicated task force, which will be “meeting soon if they have not met already,” according to Harmon.

A proposal emerging from the work groups is a “Cy for Civility” campaign.

The campaign’s goal is to change the campus culture at large and make sure everyone is treated civilly by ensuring the treatment of others is fair.

The graduate and postdoctoral student plan was a five-point scheme “[To] improve messaging and information flow throughout the student/ postdoc experience on reasonable expectations and support resources, [...]

IOWA STATE DAILY With adverse factors such as frequent rain and early snow falls, Iowa farmers are experiencing delays in their harvests this season. Despite the setbacks, farmers Cody Baumler and Daniel Kluesner agree their crop yields are not a concern.

struggling to get them harvested.

Snow has already fallen and impacted the progress being made.

In most years, farmers haven’t had to worr y about snow being an obstacle. This year, the snow has made it even more difficult to harvest crops, as it makes the fields too wet to operate on.

“When you have fields that are as wet as they are right now, you don’t need any more water, so the snow doesn’t help,” Hart said. “It’s kind of a double whammy in terms of you’re going to get hit with both winter weather conditions all at the same time as you’re trying to catch up with the late crop.”

The snow not only delays the use of machinery for farmers, but it also poses issues when it comes to the condition of the crop harvested.

Cody Baumler, freshman in agricultural systems technology, also travels home on the weekend to assist in harvest. He works for a Institutionalize Cy’s Grad Checklist for graduate students and their supervisors. [...] Formalize the process for annual (at minimum) evaluations, [...] Create seamless and easy-to-navigate support processes for graduate assistants with documented disabilities [... and to] add best practices for mentoring to the recently implemented training of new graduate faculty,” according to the Final Report on the Campus Climate Survey for Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Experience.

Dean of the Graduate College William Graves was the chair of the Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars team.

One thing they did to solve the problems was “[distribute a checklist that] is intended to improve communication between graduate students and their major professors,” Graves said.

The three other implementation teams and final reports can be found at campusclimate.iastate.edu/survey.

Graves said the five points of the graduate and postdoctoral student plan have already been addressed. He said they are developing a process for graduate students with disabilities and improving messaging and formalizing annual evaluations of graduate students.

The Action Team for Graduate Students and Postdocs hosted four focus group sessions in the spring of 2019 before submitting the team’s

farmer in Worthington, Iowa, who has approximately 600 acres of corn.

A problem Baumler said he has noticed this season is the shortage of liquefied petroleum.

“When I go home, I’ll help haul corn,” Baumler said. “A lot of farmers are dealing with the [liquefied petroleum] shortage. They can’t dry their corn.”

The snowfall this season has made crops like corn have above normal moisture levels. This, along with the hurry farmers are in to complete their late harvest, results in a high demand for liquefied petroleum.

Liquefied petroleum, or propane, is what farmers use to fuel grain dryers. According to the Iowa Agriculture Literacy Foundation, dryers are used to remove moisture from the crop. When farmers sell their crop, it must be at a certain moisture level.

A high moisture content makes a crop heavier. Since crops are sold

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by weight, they must meet requirements for the amount of water they consist of. This prevents one farmer from receiving more money for a heavier crop that is weighed down with water. The requirements are meant to maintain fairness when selling crops.

Farmers also use dryers to dry crops they are planning to store.

Sometimes farmers store crops in hopes of markets improving, as they could have a chance at selling their crop at a higher price. Putting grain in a bin that is too wet could cause it to mold and result in a loss of the crop.

“My boss has a wet bin that is full of corn right now,” Baumler said. “He bought three loads [of corn] from a neighbor, but he can’t put it in [a bin] because he needs to dry it first.”

This shortage of liquefied petroleum has made harvest season even more of a problem. To make up for

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By December 1944, the German army appeared near defeat, but on Dec. 18, 1944, Germany launched a counteroffensive against allied forces in Western Europe.

Eight German divisions surrounded the Screaming Eagles during the Battle of the Bulge. They were bombarded with artillery. On Dec. 23, 1944, six days into the counteroffensive, Fuller was killed near Bastogne, Belgium.

He was temporarily buried in Europe, but his body was returned to a permanent resting place in Fairview Cemetery in Cedar Falls on Feb. 5, 1949.

Retired Navy Capt. Paul Fuligni spoke about Schuyler Wheeler.

Wheeler enrolled in Boone Junior College before starting at Iowa State to major in dairy industry, just as a new milking parlor had finished construction on campus. He took a job at a creamery in Peoria, Illinois, until he joined the U.S. Army on July 12, 1942.

Wheeler was deployed to France on Aug. 1, 1944, as a member of the 95th Infantry Division of Gen. George Patton’s Third Army.

On Dec. 15, 1944, the day before the Battle of the Bulge began, Wheeler’s division established

bridgeheads across the Saar River in preparation for an assault on German troops in Ensdorf, Germany.

As Wheeler entered the city, trying to help liberate it, he was killed by German machine gunfire.

After a temporar y burial in Europe, Wheeler’s body was returned to Boone to be permanently laid to rest in Mackey Cemetery.

Retired Marine Corp Lt.Col. D a n i e l D e v i n e s p ok e a b o u t Meredith Winter.

Winter came to Iowa State Universit y in 1938 to study chemistry.

He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in September 1943. While Winter technically received his bachelor’s degree that December, he wasn’t at the ceremony due to being ordered to active duty.

Winter arrived in Guam as part of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 21st Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, where he was tasked with patrolling against Japanese forces.

On Feb. 19, 1945, after two months of naval bombardment, approximately 70,000 Marines led the invasion of Iwo Jima.

Two days later, Winter became one of them as the 3rd Marine Division landed on Yellow Beach.

On Feb. 28, 1945, two days after his 26th birthday, Winter and five

lost time, farmers are quickly combining their fields of grain that are too wet. They need more liquefied petroleum than normal to keep up with the hurry of the season, but companies that provide the liquefied petroleum cannot keep up with the demand, Baumler said.

According to agriculture.com, as of Nov. 4, Iowa’s corn harvest was 43 percent complete. At that time last year, the corn harvest was 69 percent complete. Both of these statistics are lower than the five year average, which is 72 percent complete.

There seem to be many factors that could result in a less than desirable harvest this year, but the 43 percent of the harvested and evaluated crop still has a more promising yield than what was expected.

Kluesner said most of what has been harvested on his farm has yields just as high as other years.

Hart said this seems to be the trend with farmers across the state as well.

Once the crops are out of the field, farmers have many uses on the farm, like feeding livestock. Farmers may also choose to sell their product and have to keep an eye on the always fluctuating markets. As far as crop prices go right now, Hart said they aren’t as good as farmers would like, but things could be worse.

“Farmers are sort of wishing they could have prices they had back earlier this summer when there was a lot of concern about how well this crop would produce,” Hart said.

“They’re not as bad as they were a year ago, but they’re not as good as they were, say, four months ago.”

Despite the challenges farmers have faced this year, such as the unpredictability of the crops, Hart said it is nothing to worry about.

“The last few years have been really good crops,” Kluesner said.

“On the grand scheme of things, looking over a farmer’s lifetime, this will be a really good production year, just not a great one.” other Marines were killed by a Japanese mortar during heavy fighting. The Battle of Iwo Jima is one of the bloodiest in Marine Corps history, claiming the lives of 7,000 Americans.

Winter was initially buried in the 3rd Marine Division Cemetery on Iwo Jima. On May 5, 1948, his body was returned to Dysart, Iowa, for permanent burial.

Retired Navy Cdr. Daniel Buhr spoke about Kennith Tapscott.

Tapscott was born Nov. 9, 1945, in Charleston, South Carolina. He came to Iowa State in 1963 on a Navy ROTC scholarship.

In 1970, the United States was in the midst of the Vietnam War. The sight of anti-war protests upset Tapscott, so he enlisted in the U.S. Navy.

Tapscott began his tour on June 3, 1970, as a member of the Riverboat Squadron as a Naval Intelligence Liason Officer (NILO).

On Aug. 6, 1970, Tapscott was on patrol near Song Ong Doc in South Vietnam when his unit was ambushed, and he was killed when a B-40 rocket struck him in the chest.

He was one of only three NILOs lost during the entire Vietnam war.

The ceremony closed with a moment of silence for the honorees, followed by retrieval of the Colors.