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3.10.20 Gallery Chat, Christian Petersen Art Museum, Morrill Hall at noon In conjunction with

the exhibition “Creating Global Understanding,” members of the World Languages and Culture faculty will lead informal discussions of the works of art they researched and interpreted. Registration requested.

Retirement reception: Ann Doty, Room 3150 Beardshear Hall at 2 p.m. Ann Doty, bene-

fits consultant and retirement expert in University Human Resources, is retiring from the university.

She has worked in UHR since August 1999.

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

represents the general faculty of Iowa State and participates in shared governance of the University with the administration. Senate meetings are open to the public.

Trivia Night: Game Changer, Farm House Museum at 4:30 p.m. Consider yourself a history

buff? Think you know Iowa State? Love game nights with friends?

Lecture: Three Ways to Disappear, Gallery, Memorial Union at 7 p.m. Katy Yocom was born

and raised in Atchison, Kansas, and currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky. In her debut novel, “Three Ways to Disappear,”Yocom explores the story of journalist Sarah DeVaughan. In researching the novel, Yocom traveled to India. “Three Ways to Disappear” won the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature and was named a Barnes & Noble Top Indie Favorite.

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Suffragette, Editor, Abolitionist: The Story of Mary Louise Booth, Sun Room, Memorial Union at 5 p.m. Join author Tricia Foley as she

walks through the extraordinary life of Mary Louise Booth, who was a founding editor of HarperâEUR(TM)s Bazar, wrote the first history of New York City, and a leader in the abolition and suffrage movements. Tricia is a home design and restoration expert, who has published 10 books about design and lifestyles. Part of the 100th Anniversary Events Commemorating Women’s Suffrage.

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CORRECTIONS In an article published Friday about the suspension of international travel, it was stated that Natalia Rios was in quarantine. The article has

been updated to correctly state that Rios is in a university-encouraged self-isolation. The Iowa State Daily regrets this error.

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Incite truth through poetry Student group provides platform

BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com A group on campus focuses on bringing truth to campus.

Student Poets Inciting Truth (SPIT) is a platform for Iowa State students to “share their narrative, discuss community issues and influence their campus through poetry and performance,” according to the Student Organization website.

SPIT provides a safe, creative space in which student poets at Iowa State can write, receive feedback and edit their pieces, according to the Student Organization website.

“The mission of this organization is to create a platform for Iowa State and Ames students to discuss community issues, share their narrative and influence their campus, city and state through the medium of poetry and performance,” according to the SPIT Constitution. “The main principles of SPIT are honesty, dynamic empowerment and community, and the main mode for expressing these narratives and principles shall be through community performances, outreach and poetry slams.”

SPIT has meetings from 6-7 p.m. every other Thursday. These weekly meetings are workshops and are

tools. Looks like being willing to be wrong, to be outdated, to be educated, to learn something new from someone different and strange.

There are so many important voices who never get the chance to find their greatness, shut down as they are by the insistence upon a dominant aesthetic even when we all know that mimicry can be deadly.”

Poetry is defined as writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response t h ro u g h m e a n i n g, s o u n d a n d rhythm, according to the MerriamWebster dictionary.

“Of my own medium, poetry, I have much hope, despite the ongoing attempt to colonize and capitalize its very existence via white supremacist tendencies in the academy and mainstream publishing world especially,” said Amy King, an American poet, in a post on the Poetry Foundation website. “Poetry has been a vehicle unmarried, so far, to any ultimate “official” authoritarian definition, and therefore, IOWA STATE DAILY it retains its powers of vastness, Student Poets Inciting Truth (SPIT) held their first annual poetry slam April 15, 2017, in the Cardinal Room of affordability and adaptability. It the Memorial Union. is the spearhead of language as it planned by club officers in which in group fundraising and to raise This student organization allows pierces, points out and pivots at the there is a theme for activities and money for different Ames charity students to speak their truth but bequest of many. writing prompts to aid in the cre- organizations. An end-of-semes- also form a sort of literary activism.

“Poetry continues to enjoy one ative process and give club members ter slam is also planned for both “Literary activism, to me, looks of the more remote luxuries of disa creative focus. Workshops are also semesters in which club members like opportunity,” said Samiya regarding monetized allegiances, a share time where club members can compete against each other for Bashir, an African-American/ at least as the least popular and can receive feedback and direction a cash prize, raised through dues Somali-American poet, in a post packageable medium, which is why from their peers. and slam entrance fees. on the Poetry Foundation web- you’ll find numerous poets in the Besides meetings, the club also Membership of SPIT is open to site. “Looks like loving attention, vanguard of articulating the least hosts performances throughout the both Iowa State students and com- like curiosity, like inquiry. Looks popular but most transgressive and year. One or two performances are munity members, and the current like the supportive sharing of eyes, challenging ideas going in any given planned for both semesters to aid number of student members is 13. ears, hands, minds, hearts and period, including the present.”

Students engineer quiet, fuel-efficient snowmobiles

BY JILL.EVEN @iowastatedaily.com Clean Snowmobile is a branch within Iowa State’s Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International Student Chapter. The official SAE international organization hosts a collegiate design series where they challenge students to engineer the most environmentally clean, quiet and fuel-efficient snowmobile.

This week-long competition is the only contest Clean Snowmobile participates in, and it is in different locations every year.

Clean Snowmobile members meet once a week for informal meetings and then host shop times at the Advanced Machinery Systems Laboratory on campus.

This is done throughout the week and weekends so students can get hands-on with the improvements. Members can choose how involved they are and which part they want to improve on the snowmobile, such as the engine or exhaust.

The snowmobile is continually tested during the engineering process by the testing team for the aspects of fuel efficiency, environmental cleanliness and sound. The team then records and collects this data to be used in their competition, as it shows the direct results of the improvements made.

Those who attend the competitions are chosen strictly off of who puts the most work time into the club. Work time can vary because members can choose to be as involved as they wish. If there is a specific project a member is working on, they typically gain more work time, whereas members that are not working on a designated project may not put in as much time. Other aspects that are considered

are who visited with sponsors, consistently went to meetings and participated in fundraisers.

Ryan Greeley, senior in mechanical engineering, was a project director for Clean Snowmobile last year. In this position, he oversaw the team’s budget, transportation and sponsorships. This allowed him to gain other interdisciplinary skills.

“At the competition, there are all the dynamic events where you are actually riding the snowmobile,” Greeley said. “But then there is a design presentation, which is where you get up in front of all the judges and pitch your snowmobile, basically highlighting all the innovations, COURTESY OF ROBERT PETERSEN Iowa State students in Clean Snowmobile work to engineer a fuel-efficient and environmentally clean snowmobile for competition.

which are largely data-driven.”

Robert Petersen, junior in mechanical engineering, is the challenge project director and president for Clean Snowmobile. He got involved after seeing them at Club Fest with no prior snowmobile experience but an interest in mechanics.

“I liked the culture of the snowmobile team,” Petersen said. “We’re one of the smaller teams, and there are a lot more opportunities to get involved [...]. When it came to career fair, I was never short talking about experiences I’ve had dealing with people and project management.”

Katie Lyon, senior in mechanical engineering, is a general member of Clean Snowmobile. She said being a part of Clean Snowmobile was helpful when she was searching for

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Author talks Christianity, modern education and its impact on Western culture

BY KATHERINE.KEALEY @iowastatedaily.com Conser vative speaker and award-winning writer Andrew Klavan spoke Monday in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union about the role God plays in creating the world people live in today, the ways people think about God and how that affects the world they enter.

Klavan said he felt compelled to talk about this from a political perspective because it is so rarely done.

“What I am trying to do is convey to you that the situation you have is fluid,” Klavan said. “The things that you have that you love may not last; things that you have that you hate might not last. Nothing is going to be the same 10 years from now, and a lot of it is going to have to do with what you believe and the ideas that you bring to the table.”

Klavan said the United States is a Christian country that grew out of a Christian civilization, but he said saying this causes confrontation that is usually political because people have the mindset of winning the debate as opposed to listening or learning.

Klavan said every single founding father was shaped by Christianity, and so is every single person in the Western world.

He said separation of church and state stems from Christianity.

“The entire idea of a secular state is a Christian idea,” Klavan said. “It never existed in the minds of men until Jesus spoke the words, ‘Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and render on to God what is God’s’; before that moment, religion and the state were one.”

Klavan also discussed the dangers of socialism and how it has failed in the past. One attendee asked if the reason that leftists believe socialism is possible and fail to understand the “evils” of it is the outcome of modern education.

“That is exactly what it has to do with,” Klavan said. “It is tragic what has happened to universities. I don’t know this university, I don’t know if it happens at this university, but Howard Zinn’s book, A People’s History of the U.S., is just a scream against America, against freedom by a full-fledged communist and it is the best selling history book in the country, and it is nonsense, it is absolute nonsense.”

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Empowerment, sustainability focus of student business

BY REGAN.WYCKOFF @iowastatedaily.com

CAITLIN YAMADA/ IOWA STATE DAILY College of Design students work late nights and long hours to put together their projects. The level of dedication of design students is evident as the amount of hours and skills are increased throughout the first year of classes.

Dedication to design College of Design students put in long hours for projects

BY ARABELLA.HAU @iowastatedaily.com The work of students in the College of Design can be overlooked as they sit in studios for hours to focus on their projects. The students have different experiences but have one thing in common: they put in a lot of effort to get the job done.

“It looks like a lot of late nights in the studio sitting down on the ground laughing and sometimes crying with the other people that

are there, freaking out because you have a week to do an entire project,” said Kyra Troendle, sophomore in community and regional planning. “It’s a lot of seeing people for four or five hours straight and leaving for a half an hour and coming back for another three.”

Students in their first year at the College of Design can put in a lot of hours working on projects, assignments and their final portfolios.

Long hours and late nights are not a rare occurrence for students in design.

“I didn’t think my professor was serious when she said, ‘You’re in class six hours, you should be working on it outside of class for six hours,’” Troendle said. “But I remember one week I was averaging six hours in the studio a day.”

Sophia Allen, sophomore in pre-architecture, spends many of her nights in the studio working on her projects.

“One of the latest nights I’ve spent in the [College of Design] was this semester,” Allen said. “A couple nights before a final review, I

stayed in the studio working on a project until 8 a.m., where I then took a bus back to my dorm for a few minutes and then went straight to Hobby Lobby to get more supplies. Afterwards, I went to my classes and then back to Design to continue working. It was a very long day, but I managed to get all my stuff done.”

There’s an element of fun that goes into the long hours of work, though. To some students, late nights in the studio can feel like more of a family atmosphere when working with others.

The level of dedication needed by design students is evident in the hours they put in every week and the pressure they have to apply the skills they learn in classes in order to be accepted into the College of Design following their core year.

For most undergraduate paths in the College of Design, the first year of classes is completed through the Core Design Program. This is set

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Lecture reveals Grant Wood’s secrets

BY OLIVIA.RUF @iowastatedaily.com Grant Wood’s secrets were discussed in an author’s lecture on the famous artist and his legacy.

On Monday, Sue Taylor, professor emerita of modern art history at Portland State University and author of the newly published novel “Grant Wood’s Secrets” discussed hidden visual motifs and messages within Wood’s art in a lecture.

The lecture took place in Room 2019 of Morrill Hall. Attendees registered for a seat online, and the event was at capacity before the lecture began.

Taylor began her lecture by honoring Lea Rosson DeLong, an art historian, curator and editor, working mainly in American art of the 1930s and contemporary art among publications for the University Museums of Iowa State.

In her lecture, Taylor explored and analyzed Wood’s iconic and lesser-known artworks and also analyzing subtle yet meaningful symbols in the artist’s artworks.

“Wood repeated secret ‘codewords’ in his artwork,” Taylor said.

“He has referenced the green carnation in his artwork, such as the Sentimental Yearner and the Radical. He also portrayed a red handkerchief in his painting ‘The Fruits of Iowa.’”

Taylor then went on to explain the messages that these symbols portrayed, such as how the green carnation was symbolic of homosexual attraction, and hanging a handkerchief out of one’s pocket was a way that gay men communicated who they were interested in sexually. These are just two of the few symbols that Taylor analyzed in Wood’s artwork.

She then explained concepts of masculinity in Wood’s artwork and

how he portrayed himself amongst others.

The artist typically dressed in overalls and expressed his love for the Midwest while also consciously utilizing regionalist strategies.

He posed as masculine, hiding his homosexuality from his rural community, which is why most art historians believe that he lived as a “double-man,” a term that Taylor used in describing Wood in her lecture.

“Wood came to experience himself as a double-man; he would show himself as a humble farmer and an urbane dandy,” Taylor said when analyzing a portrait of the artist.

In her lecture, Taylor also noted Wood’s precision when it came to painting images of botany and foliage.

“Wood had an interest in flowers that he inherited from his mother; in his easel paintings and

in his murals, he always took great care in the specificity in the plants he depicted,” Taylor said.

Examples of this can be seen in Parks Library in Wood’s murals portraying botany.

Much of Wood’s artwork portrays scenes of agriculture, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, aeronautical engineering, civil engineering, home economics, veterinary science and ceramics.

Wood’s murals located in Parks Library are some of the largest that he has created.

T h e G r a n t Wo o d Foye r, located behind Bookends Cafe in Parks Library, is Wood’s agrarian-themed mural, which is titled “When Tillage Begins (Breaking the Prairie).” Another one of Wood’s murals is located in the staircase leading to the upper lobby of the original Parks Library.

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Every day, Iowa State students are taking leaps toward their futures by being pushed further by professors and taking shots at new opportunities, like one Iowa State student did this past summer.

While some students are landing internships, leading clubs and studying abroad in new cultures, another student is running her own international business. This business is changing lives across the globe after competing in Iowa State’s Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship College-by-College Pitch-Off this past summer at the Iowa State Fair, where she was a finalist.

That student is Archana Edmond, graduate student in apparel, events and hospitality management. After pursuing her master’s degree at Drexel University, she worked in the fashion industry in both Philadelphia and New York before coming to work towards her doctorate at Iowa State.

The business is Azhagu Beauty, an accessories and lifestyle brand centered around sustainability and women’s empowerment, especially to the women of Edmond’s home in South India.

The name Azhagu translates to “beauty” and is derived from Tamil, a nearly 5,000-year-old language that is still used in India. One of the most unique parts of Azhagu Beauty is the way it incorporates Chennai. The earrings sold by the company are reflections of the artisan work that takes place in South India.

“The artisans kind of move away from their family trade and move into the city, fearing that there is nobody to buy the art,” Edmond said.

Edmond said a strong goal of Azhagu Beauty is to “bring the unique artisan work to the Western world” and to honor the South Indian culture that is seldom displayed on this side of the world.

Edmond said she was inspired to pitch her business idea for the Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship College-by-College Pitch-Off at the Iowa State Fair because of an entrepreneurial course she took.

During the Pitch-Off, as she spoke about her ideas, Edmond’s handmade earrings that were passed around gathered a lot of attention. She has been making these earrings for years, as she started the process as an undergraduate student after taking an “inspiring” jewelry-making class.

From this competition, Edmond said she was inspired to use these earrings in her business plan. The earrings are unique in the fact that they are made from a paper and silk blend and are designed to feel “completely weightless.”

“When you go to art museums, all you’re seeing is the Northern Indian art,” Edmond said. “We want to really highlight the Southern Indian art, show the diversity of India and give them a platform to know their art is still valued.”

After going to India after seven years of not being there, Edmond was moved to do something about the struggling wages of working women in India.

“A dollar a day is not OK at all,” Edmond said.

“Women are not seen as equal in a lot of ways as men in India, and this is something we can do for them, especially paying them the right amount of money that they require.”

Edmond designs the earrings first and sends the designs to the women, who are able to be employed and paid a livable wage.

“Teaching them the art and making them create, I think that is the main goal of my vision, to empower women,” Edmond said.

Although she is only selling earrings now, she has plans for her brand to expand and continue producing natural, sustainable products. She is only selling in the U.S. for now, but there are buyers from around the country.

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A campaign against Sen. Bernie Sanders Democrats are too focused on Biden winning the nomination

GABBY LUCAS/ IOWA STATE DAILY Columnist Zach Johnson believes former Vice President Joe Biden has what it takes to win the Democratic nomination.

Joe Biden has a smoother path to the nomination over Bernie Sanders

BY OLIVIA.RASMUSSEN @iowastatedaily.com Regard less of whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican or somewhere in between, there’s no denying what’s currently happening to Sanders.

Trump has even tweeted, “They’re staging a coup against Bernie!” Once the clear front runner, Sanders has recently been under extreme strategic attack and has now taken a seat in a close second place. When Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg abruptly dropped out within a day of each other to endorse centrist candidate Joe Biden before Super Tuesday, the situation became more dubious than usual. “ K l o b u c h a r, B u t t i g i e g a n d O’Rourke’s endorsements of Biden is the clearest sign yet that the establishment plans to coalesce around Biden in hopes of denying Sanders the nomination. Call it Operation Bernie Block,” Andy Kroll of the Rolling Stone said.

It has been said that if Warren had dropped out before Super Tuesday and endorsed Sanders, he would have won more delegates.

Why aren’t progressive candidates rallying behind Sanders the way centrist candidates are rallying behind Biden?

Elizabeth Warren had not been planning to drop out, but her low polling and delegate count didn’t stand a statistical chance in either gaining first place or defeating Trump. Plenty of Warren supporters are sharing their rightful disheartenment but realize that backing the other progressive candidate is the realistic and discerning choice to make. Warren’s policies nowadays are more alike with Sanders’ than they are different.

W hen centr ist c andidates ta lk about Sanders, they do so like he’s the enemy, which poses the question: why? Sanders wants to enact a tax plan that will increase taxes on those who make $250,000 and beyond annually, which makes elites who don’t want to pay their fair share nervous. Sanders is adamant on ending corporate greed, which includes keeping corporate dollars out of politics and ending the influence of corporations at the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Most of his policies include putting the power back into the hands of the people of

BY ZACHARY.JOHNSON @iowastatedaily.com

CAITLIN YAMADA/ IOWA STATE DAILY Columnist Olivia Rasmussen believes Democrats have lost sight of the goal at hand: defeating Donald Trump. Instead, they’re focused on defeating Bernie Sanders.

this nation rather than in the hands of billionaires and corporations.

The DNC is just that — bribed by money, influence and self-interest. This will be their second time aiming to elect a centrist candidate by trying to silence and undermine Sanders. Hillary Clinton’s nomination and loss in 2016 will repeat itself in 2020 if Biden is the nominee. Not only does Biden not have the momentum or the multigenerational, multiracial working-class coalition, but his mental cognition and memory is greatly suffering and in decline.

Trump is running an ad amplifying this. The ad shows Biden losing his train of thought midsentence, incoherently speaking and even forgetting where he is. Other compilations of videos show him saying that he’s running for the United States Senate rather than the presidency, telling his voters to “vote for the other Biden,”

not being able to effectively speak on his policies in full and completely losing his train of thought. This has sparked great concern generally but not so much from his supporters or the Democratic establishment. These are the same people who criticized Sanders after his heart attack, even though he released multiple medical records and statements from reputable doctors ensuring his health and fitness for the presidency. Biden supporters seem to either be completely ignoring his dementia-like mental decline or they simply are unbothered by it.

By the Democratic establishment sadistically propping up a centrist candidate who is suffering memory loss simply to defeat Sanders makes the party laughable at best. The disastrous Iowa caucus caused embarrassing dismay for the DNC, and now the establishment is rallying behind a candidate who has no real chance of defeating Trump.

Since the Democratic Primaries on Super Tuesday, it has been an almost-clear path for Joe Biden to be the Democratic nominee.

All of the past eight of the national polls for the democratic nomination race have favored the former vice president, but what is more damning for his opponent Bernie Sanders is that the polling for states that are coming up from Super Tuesday are all in Biden’s favor. The past two polls from the pivotal state of Michigan that are worth anything, according to FiveThirtyEight, JHK Forecasts and myself, are in favor of Biden as he looks to get a big victory in the most important state on that lineup of primaries.

This has, however, been the case for a while and has been Sen. Sanders’ biggest barrier to victory that has been looming on the horizon: working class Democrats from the blue-collar-heavy states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In the eyes of voters, Biden already has a sort of home-field advantage in a state like Pennsylvania as it is a quasi second-home state for him, giving him a baseline with the voters who find winning these states ultimately important.

It has been a narrative for a while that Democrats have fear regarding the upper Midwest, and they feel as though this is overwhelmingly the path to victory and to fulfill their ultimate goal. Pennsylvania was one of the more surprising states that Hillary Clinton lost in the 2016 presidential election with FiveThirtyEight (a group that was one of the more generous to President Donald Trump), giving her a 77 percent chance of winning the state. There was an overall sense of extreme confidence that Democrats had heading into that race that has very much affected how they have ran this one.

This fixation of the Democrats on the ever-omnipotent “electability” trait has absolutely been the most important thing to voters of all states, and Super Tuesday was a prime example of it. It is an overwhelming sense that we simply need someone who will beat Trump. No more, no less.

My dad is an example I use of someone who is a working-class independent and someone who has a decent propensity to not vote. In the 14 years my family has lived in Iowa, I, as a 20 year old, have caucused more times than my father, and it is people like my dad that the Democratic party is seemingly catering to for this next cycle. My dad voted for John McCain in 2008, Barack Obama in 2012 and Clinton in 2016. He didn’t like Clinton but, like many, has such a disdain for Trump that he voted strategically. He has told me that he would vote for Bernie Sanders if he was the nominee but that wasn’t saying much, as he also said he would vote for Mitt Romney over Trump (someone he had previously voted against).

The party is reading the writing on the wall that people don’t want things shaken up; they want things to go back to normal.

Thankfully for Joe Biden, he’s a pretty normal guy.

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Championships approaching quickly

BY STEPHEN.MCDANIEL @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State returned home after a second-place finish at the 2020 Big 12 Wrestling Championships in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Cyclones were the runner-up with 116.5 team points to Oklahoma State, that won its eighth-consecutive team title with 147.5 team points.

Iowa State crowned two individual titles and two individual runners-up in Tulsa. Ian Parker (141 pounds) and David Carr (157) walked away with Big 12 titles, while Alex Mackall (125) and Gannon Gremmel (285) fell just short in the finals.

STRUGGLES FOR SMALL When Todd Small injured his knee during Iowa State’s final regular season dual against North Dakota State, his status for the Big 12 tournament was up in the air.

Miraculously, Small recovered from the knee injury and took part in the Big 12 tournament, trying to capitalize on the eight allocations at 133.

However, the tournament didn’t work out well for Small.

Small lost his opening match to South Dakota State’s Zach Price, sending Iowa State’s redshirt junior to the wrestle backs.

In the wrestle backs, Small lost again, this time in a rematch with Northern Iowa’s Jack Skudlarczyk, whom Small had beaten earlier in the season.

Just like that, Small found himself in a mini bracket to determine a true ninth-place finisher.

Small won his first match against Air Force’s Jared Van Vleet in a major decision but lost to Utah Valley’s Taylor LaMont in the true ninthplace match.

Small finished the Big 12 tournament in 10th place, while LaMont ended up winning the true eighth place match, stealing the last auto bid for NCAAs. Now, Small’s future rests in hoping for an

COURTESY OF O’COLLY Iowa State’s Todd Small (right) fights for position with Utah Valley’s Taylor LaMont at 133 pounds March 8 at the Big 12 Championships.

at-large bid to join his teammates in U.S. Bank Stadium.

STRAW PUNCHES HIS TICKET If Chase Straw wanted to make his way to U.S. Bank Stadium for the NCAA Championships in two weeks, he needed to have a clutch performance. He did just that.

The redshirt senior was listed as the sixth seed in a 165-pound weight class that was given only four auto bids to the NCAA tournament.

Realistically, there were only two spots that Straw could have stolen a bid with Oklahoma State’s Travis Wittlake and North Dakota State’s Andrew Fogarty claiming two bids.

Straw’s first opponent, Jordan Robinson on Northern Colorado, upset the No. 3 seeded Randy Meneweather of Air Force before eventually losing to the Cyclones’ redshirt senior.

Straw lost to eventual runner-up Fogarty in the semifinals and was placed in an extra match to determine a true fourth-place finisher for the last auto bid.

Straw found himself in a sudden victory period with Fresno State’s Adam Kemp, tied 8-8, with the winner moving on to Minneapolis.

In the clutch, Straw recorded the match-winning takedown that ensured him a spot in Minneapolis.

NCAA QUALIFIERS Straw isn’t the only one who got his ticket punched for the NCAA tournament in Minneapolis.

Iowa State will be sending seven other wrestlers, alongside Straw, with auto bids for NCAAs, although getting the auto bids weren’t nearly as intense as Straw’s run to get an auto bid.

Mackall (125), Parker (141), Jarrett Degen (149), Carr (157), Sam Colbray (184), Marcus Coleman (174) and Gremmel (285) have all earned themselves an auto bid with their individual performances at the Big 12 Championships.

Colbray comes with an asterisk because while he placed fourth and earned an auto bid with five allocations awarded to 174, he had to medically forfeit his match with Oklahoma State’s Joe Smith.

This causes some concern with Colbray’s current status and if he’ll be healthy for the upcoming NCAA tournament.

The only two Cyclones that didn’t earn auto bids were Small (133) and Joel Shapiro (197).

Small and Shapiro will have to hope for an at-large bid into the NCAA tournament if they want their season to stay alive in Minneapolis.

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Don’t expect repeat magic from the Cyclones in the Big 12 Tournament

BY MATT.BELINSON @iowastatedaily.com Throw out the past success. Throw out the numbers. It doesn’t matter for the Cyclones, not this year.

I’ll make this short and sweet for those Cyclone fans out there that still have hope that no matter how bad the Cyclones have been this season, that can all change once they arrive in Kansas City. But there is no way around the honest reality if you have truly been watching this team all season: Iowa State will not make a run in the Big 12 Tournament; that’s a guarantee.

Now, I know history is not on my side in this one, but I feel pretty confident considering how poor the Cyclones have been all season that any shot of a run in the Big 12 Tournament is out of the question.

Iowa State may have won the tournament in 2000, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2019, and that’s nice and all, but those wins have no baring on how bad this year’s team is and why they have no shot at attempting a serious run at the tournament crown.

There is no Marial Shayok (2019 Big 12 Tournament MVP), Lindell Wigginton or Talen Horton-Tucker

walking through the doors into Iowa State’s locker room. Iowa State is stuck with what it’s got — and it isn’t much to have confidence in.

If injuries persist for Rasir Bolton and Prentiss Nixon leading into Wednesday’s opening round matchup with the No. 8 seeded Oklahoma State Cowboys, it’ll be a lineup of horrors for the Cyclones to try and muster together a level of competitiveness against the Cowboys. That said, I would expect that Bolton could be available to return after having over a week without live game action, but if there is one thing that has been clear about this season, it is that Iowa State never gets the good news.

But let’s assume for a moment that both Bolton and Nixon aren’t available for the Cyclones on Wednesday — still feel like they have a shot?

How about a potential Solomon Young, Michael Jacobson, Caleb Grill, Tre Jackson and Terrence Lewis lineup? If the game against Kansas State gave any answer to what the Cyclones look like with a thrown-together lineup with their best available options, the outcome is going to be ugly.

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JEFF SPAUR/ IOWA STATE DAILY Rasir Bolton handles the ball against West Virginia in Iowa State’s final home game of the season March 3 in Hilton Coliseum.

in Bolton and then losing Nixon to an ankle injury will obviously make it much harder to generate any sort of offense, but ending the season with a 16-point loss to the worst team in the Big 12 really adds insult to injury (no pun intended) on a forgotten season.

Even before Nixon left the game with an injury, Lewis and Jackson showed their inexperience and fouled out, leaving Iowa State with even less options than before. Walk-on Nate Jenkins had to come off the bench and step in amid the firestorm for Iowa State and play 11 minutes.

The continued lack of discipline, depleted roster and just an overall lack of talent makes Iowa State a

non-threat for any team in the Big 12 Tournament.

Now, if Bolton and Nixon were to come back, Iowa State’s lineup is improved no doubt, but is it enough to make a legitimate run at winning it all? No chance.

Iowa State still doesn’t have a true point guard, as much as Prohm wants Bolton and Nixon to play the point at the same time, which, as we have seen this season, hasn’t worked out smoothly as they have not been able to create any sustainable offense.

The Cyclones’ post play is spotty at best, and with George Conditt and Jacobson creating more negatives than positives when they are on the floor,

at this point in the season, Iowa State sits with bad options, with or without injuries.

Nothing is really in the Cyclone’s favor. Injury-stricken, no real playmakers who can take over and win games and no talent or competitive edge over any potential team they’ll face; it all combines to end in Iowa State having a quick exit in the tournament.

But let’s entertain the idea that Iowa State beats Oklahoma State on Wednesday and moves on to Thursday afternoon.

Beat the Cowboys, No. 1 Kansas will be next, the same Kansas team that beat the Cyclones by at least 20 points in both meetings this season.

In both of those matchups, the Cyclones played with a much healthier roster than what it might have come Wednesday.

By some miracle from the heavens, if Iowa State can take down No. 1 Kansas, then a matchup awaits with either Texas or Texas Tech. Both options aren’t ideal for the Cyclones, with both teams edging the Cyclones this season. The Red Raiders stomped Iowa State in both matchups, and the Longhorns are riding into the tournament as the No. 4 seed after ending 5-1 in its last six games.

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Lush has been a leading brand in sustainable beauty and health products that markets itself as cruelty-free and vegan.

Brands embrace cruelty-free testing methods for products Popularity has increased for clean cosmetics

BY SIERRA.HOEGER @iowastatedaily.com Cruelty-free cosmetic brands are increasing in popularity and importance as more states ban testing products on animals.

On New Year’s Day, Illinois became the third state to ban animal testing on products. The state joined Nevada and California in what seems to be a slow-moving ideal.

Cruelty-free brands strive to save animals like bunnies, mice, hamsters and other animals from the harmful effects of product testing; however, some brands haven’t discovered the ethical practices yet that allow them to not test on animals and still reap the benefits of selling a successful product.

A leading brand in the world of cruelty-free cosmetics is Lush. The closest location is in Jordan Creek Mall in Des Moines.

Lush does its best to promote and practice ethical methods when it comes to testing their products by only doing so on human volunteers. They have also created the Lush Prize, which awards those who are helping to find new ways to avoid or prevent testing on animals.

Jesse Howard, junior in apparel merchandising and design, is one of two makeup directors for TREND magazine.

“I’m not going to lie, I still use brands that aren’t technically cruelty-free, but a majority of big brands are cruelty-free,” Howard said. “And if someone’s really cautious about it, there’s websites where you can look up what brands are cruelty-free.”

On the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) website, there are 91 pages filled with companies who don’t test their products on animals. There are also six pages of companies that still test their products on animals.

“I started getting into makeup when I was a sophomore in high school, but I wasn’t very aware of [cruelty-free cosmetics] at that point because I was just playing around with it,” Howard said.

Howard said she started realizing the impacts of cruelty-free makeup about a year or two ago, and that impacted the way she shopped for and used makeup.

Howard said brands she has previously used have lied

about their cruelty-free status, which has hurt their brands.

One popular makeup brand among young adults is Wet N’ Wild. According to crueltyfreekitty.com, it was revealed that they lied about their cruelty-free status and actually test on animals.

It’s brands like these that make shopping for authentic cruelty-free brands far more difficult. However, more brands are starting to recognize that in order to stay relevant, they need to keep up with trends such as sustainability, cruelty-free practices and organic or vegan products.

However, other popular makeup brands such as Tarte Cosmetics and Urban Decay are authentically cruelty-free, which is evident through their websites and the products they sell.

Tarte Cosmetics strives to be a leader in producing cruelty-free, vegan, “eco-chic” skin care products by using naturally derived ingredients.

Urban Decay promotes “kindness over cruelty,’’ producing long-lasting makeup through cruelty-free methods.

Howard said she thinks more brands will go cruelty-free in the future.

“A lot of people our age are into [sustainable and cruelty-free products], so I think it’s going to keep impacting the world,” Howard said. “I think it’s just going to keep growing.”

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BY SYDNEY.NOVAK @iowastatedaily.com Relationship boundaries can be difficult to define in the work place, especially if you consider your co-workers your peers. It’s important to remember the nature of these friendships and how they can potentially help or harm you in the long run.

“The biggest issue [when it comes to hanging out outside the workplace] is going to be when there are significant power differences,” said Patrick Armstrong, associate professor of psychology.

Armstrong said he suggests avoiding conflicts of interest, particularly when there is the issue of evaluation and power differences between two people engaging socially.

When the stress of work starts to negatively impact your personal life, it’s important to remember what kind of balance you want in your life overall. An issue many young people face in the professional world is entering the workforce at an entry-level job that more often than not is looking to “test” your capability. This competition in

the work place naturally pushes you to do more.

Young people entering the work force can often be taken advantage of if they are not careful. When it comes to salary negotiations, the interviewer asks the question of desired salary for two reasons. They are interested in gauging how much (or little) they can pay you, as well as how much you actually know about the value of this position, Armstrong said.

The importance of knowing what you are capable and entitled to in terms of compensation is going to be very critical to having an ideal work-life balance and from letting either one take over the other. Setting boundaries with co-workers and remembering the importance of maintaining appropriate relationships with superiors can make work a lot easier.

“People also invest a lot of their identity in their careers,” Armstrong said. “One of the first questions you ask somebody is, ‘What do you do?’”

This personal investment in your career and in the professional world may be questionable if you don’t love the job you do. It’s important to find other elements of life that you identify with and to not let work consume your entire life.

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“Especially since there is such a variety of alternative poses, you can have a super stretchy yoga flow, you can get the flexibility and you can get the strength and the mindfulness,” Kavlock said. “There is a whole slew of benefits. I’ve even found outside of yoga, it helps me with people skills and helps you approach problem solving and arguments with more of an open mind.”

Kavlock said she doesn’t want people to get discouraged because yoga can be for everyone. She wishes more people gave it a chance because of the many benefits.

“I think if people would have more of an open mind to it, they’d be able to experience the same things we get to experience in class.”

Another class Iowa State Recreation Services offers students is boxing, a way for people to relieve stress and aggression.

Leah Riese, senior in kinesiology and health and boxing instructor for Recreation Services, first learned how to box from her sister and now has been teaching it for three-anda-half years.

Riese said boxing is a healthy way to relieve stress and aggression because it takes your mind off things and puts them in perspective.

It also helps to relieve pent-up stress because it’s so high intensity and you’re actually contacting the bag.

“It’s almost like a transfer of energy,” Riese said. “It helps you blow off steam.”

Jacob Jorgensen, junior in kinesiology and health and boxing instructor for Recreation Services, added that boxing helps get out a lot of aggression and stress in a short amount of time.

“It’s a really quick and easy way to work out,” Jorgensen said. “I can work myself out in five minutes of boxing if I tried to; you can come out and get a whole lot of aggression out, and afterwards, you feel much more calm.”

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boxing combinations, Riese said boxing can become therapeutic because it helps clear your mind, and you’re relieving stress without even knowing it.

Jorgensen said boxing can be more beneficial than other workout forms because of the contact part of it.

“If I’m angry at somebody, I’m not going to physically hit them because that’s just wrong,” Jorgensen said.

“But I can take it out on the bag.”

Riese added it also helps with releasing the built-up tension and stress in people’s muscles.

“Since this is such a physical thing to actually hit the bag, you’re letting go of the tension as you hit the bag,” Riese said. “I would say that would be the main way [boxing is more beneficial than other workout forms].”

Riese said she likes the fast-paced style of boxing while Jorgensen said he likes how creative and individual it is.

“People get super into it; you can just tell people really enjoy it,” Riese said. “[...] Here we keep it in a safe environment, and people still get the physical point of boxing; that’s what I really like about it.”

Sargent said all the services provided by Recreation Services help to relieve stress and aggression, including fitness classes, weight lifting and the track for running.

Outside of Recreation Services and working out, students can relieve their stress and aggression in other ways, like throwing axes.

Ax throwing places are popping up all over the place as it starts to gain traction in the United States; sometimes, it’s even shown on ESPN. But what exactly do you do?

“You know where to stand to get a nice solid stance,” said Scott Gardner, co-owner of Ironside Axe Club. “The throw we teach everyone to do is a two-handed throw because we have ages 3 to 93. [...] To keep it stable, we teach two hands like a golf grip, and you just bring it straight over the top of your head like you’re going to chop

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up to help students become better designers with the basic foundations and principles that will be necessary in their later studies.

“It’s very overwhelming at first,” Troendle said.

“It’s a lot to take in; you kind of just get thrown right into it. Leading up to it, people are always like, ‘Oh, first-year design is the worst, it’s so awful,’ but I had such a positive experience with it.”

In the first-year program, students of all backgrounds and experience levels meet for classes and studios, a dedicated time for students to work on their projects with instructors.

Ryan Poppert, freshman in pre-architecture, said even students who have never taken an art class prior to their college education would still have the opportunity for success because of the structure of the Core Design Program.

“It’s a really cool system because it’s like everyone starts out at step one,” Poppert said. “You can come in with whatever experience you have, but at the end of the day, everyone’s going to be treated equally in the work that they have, and everyone’s going to start at the same spot [...].”

Many students in design are required to create a portfolio of their work that they will submit at the end of the school year. The portfolio is a very large piece of criteria that will be looked at for their potential admission into the College of Design and may even be the determining piece in whether or not students will continue their design career at Iowa State.

Following specific guidelines, students include a

wood, and instead of chopping the floor, you throw it at the wall.”

Gardner has been ax throwing for over 20 years, and he said he thought he could use that to open a place people could come to ax throw for fun.

On a busy day, usually Fridays and Saturdays, Gardner said they get as many as 300 people in a day; during the week it’s usually slower.

Gardner said people can relieve stress and aggression through ax throwing because it’s “cathartic.”

“You wouldn’t think so, but what it amounts to is you’re doing something you know, as a child, you’re not supposed to throw the ax in the house,” Gardner said. “[...] Just doing it, there’s something about an arm over your head, throwing something, [...] that will get the stress out.”

Ax throwing is a bit different than yoga or boxing. Gardner said you’ll get a better workout with boxing, but what he likes about ax throwing is how it caters to everybody.

He spoke of a time when a 19-yearold who didn’t have any hands had a birthday party at the venue.

“I found an ax that worked for him, he was bound and determined to do it, it didn’t take him that long,” Gardner said. “For this, it filled the need he had for doing something, a challenge. You might think, ‘How’s a guy going to throw something if he doesn’t have hands?’ He overcame that.”

Like boxing and yoga, ax throwing can be therapeutic too.

Larry Anderson, event sales manager at Lumber Axe, said the fact that people are mastering something that requires a mental acuity and physical skill is similar to mastering puzzling or anything else you can master.

“You are trying to train your brain to think the same way every time you’re approaching [the target],” Anderson said. “To tell your arms and your mechanics to do the exact same thing every time. [...] You’re training yourself a whole new skill; you’re focusing on it so intently for

handful of studio projects in their portfolio.

For some projects, students display their process work, first rough drafts, the final product and a brief description of each project.

Students are required to provide documentation of their process work, pre-design models, brainstorming abilities and an in-depth description of the story behind the art for other specific projects in their portfolio. A small amount of personal work can also be submitted within the portfolio.

Although the program is very competitive at times as students are working to fill the limited amount of seats in the design program they desire to be a part of, collaboration is a pivotal element in the College of Design.

In drawing classes, students participate in “pinups,” which provide students with the opportunity to present work to other students in the class.

Students are able to view other students’ progress with their projects, ask them questions about their work and processes and find inspiration in their creations.

“You can always learn from the way that other people design and the way that other people let their design thinking take over,” Poppert said. “The best thing about it is that it’s kind of like an allfor-one, one-for-all kind of thing because if you work with the other students in the studios, not only are you making your work better but you’re making their work better and you’re also building a relationship with those individuals.”

Students also participate in critiques, which provide them with the opportunity to receive advice on their projects from College of Design students

a 90-minute session.”

Lumber Axe also has other activities to do in their building. Escape chambers and a whiskey bar are a couple of them, but ax throwing may win the popularity contest.

Anderson said about 50 percent of the total number of people who come into the building are there for ax throwing, which replaced the laser tag that used to be there.

Anderson said that ax throwing helps relieve stress and aggression by the release of endorphins and the adrenaline rush people get from the natural hurtling of the ax. They also will be bringing back a special night to get out specified aggression.

“We’ve done something in the past that we’re going to be bringing back here soon,” Anderson said. “It’s called ‘Axe Your Ex Wednesday.’This could be a picture of an old lover, it could be a picture of your last credit card bill or student loan; whatever it is you want to put up on the board, you can throw an ax through it.”

Whichever healthy way students decide to get out their stress and aggression, it’s important not to keep it bottled up too long. According to webmd.com, students who don’t relieve it can endure physical and mental changes that can harm them in the long term.

Keeping stress and aggression in can also impact mental health.

“It’s important for students to be prepared, healthy and commit to a wellness routine in order to maintain their mental health,” Sargent said in an email.

Sargent also gave resources that students can utilize through Student Health if and when the stress gets to be too much.

“Student Counseling Services offers various groups including ‘Self Love’ and ‘Anxiety Group’ as well as workshops such as ‘Create Your Own Calm,’” Sargent said in the email. “Counselors and mental health providers are available at both Thielen Student Health Center and Student Counseling Services.”

who are further in their academic years and have taken the core classes in the past.

“We’d do the critiques,” Troendle said. “And everybody’s putting their stuff up, and everyone’s like, ‘Oh my gosh, I love how you did this part of it. I loved how you did that,’ and everybody’s just so positive about it. Even the critique itself was never like, ‘Oh, this is what you’re doing wrong,’ it was always, ‘This is what I want to see you push further to make your artwork look better and what I think can really take it to the next level.’”

Though students put a lot of time and effort into their work while in the College of Design, a lot of students seem to agree it’s all worth it in the end.

“It’s hard; you have to be cut out for it.”Troendle said. “The thing is, already it’s rewarding for me just to see the progress I’ve made already from the end of August to now, about two months out from the end of the school year and hopefully in my longawaited journey into the [department] of architecture. It’s an amazing program.”

In the end, the hard work can pay off for students when they look at the positive things and allow themselves to focus on the good they can find.

“As much as we like to complain about having to go in and having to do our projects, there’s nothing more rewarding than finishing a project and getting to see it and just feel proud of where you are, remembering the nights that you sat sleep-deprived in the studio working on it,” Troendle said. “There’s this sense of pride that you get from it, which is so great. It seems really overwhelming when you start it, but it’s one of the best experiences.”

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an internship. Lyon now has a cooperative with BorgWarner focusing on emissions and thermal systems.

“Since it’s kind of a smaller club and it’s not a giant company where there is a lot of leadership hierarchy in place, you can see all the different aspects in snowmobiles and all the different projects,” Lyon said. “My favorite thing about the club is the versatility and how much you can do and see.”

The funding for the team is from fundraisers and sponsorships with organizations such as Polaris Inc., Arctic Cat, Saylorville Dam Snowmobile Club, Hypersports, Link Engine Management, Caterpillar Inc., Stainless Works, Danfoss and Send Cut Send.

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These murals were commissioned by former Iowa State President Raymond M. Hughes to plan murals for the library in the 1930s.

The cleaning and restoration of the murals was completed by conservator Margaret Randall Ash in September 1974. Under the university’s system for regular preservation maintenance of artworks, Ivan Hanthorn, former head of the Library’s Preservation Department, removed the accumulation of remodeling dust in 1988.

“As an art historian, we know that the artist doesn’t own all interpretations of the art. New readings accumulate over time, making these works universal,”Taylor said in response to an audience member asking how Wood’s artwork carries such relevance decades after his passing.

After the lecture was an open house event, where lecture-goers could purchase Taylor’s novel “Grant Wood’s Secrets” as well as get the novel signed after the lecture.

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“It’s been a diverse group: moms, college students, fashionable women,” Edmond said.

The company’s social media and website work is done by Edmond’s assistant Kajsa Hallberg, senior in apparel, merchandising and design.

Hallberg had Edmond as her AMD 178 teacher during her freshman year.

After being Edmond’s teaching assistant and working on a focus grant with her, Hallberg was asked to be a part of Edmond’s up-and-coming business.

“Kajsa’s extremely hardworking and dedicated,” Edmond said. “And her goals in life and her vision are very similar to mine.”

Hallberg has an emphasis in creative and technical design and a minor in sustainability, something she is passionate about as much as Edmond. Together, they have learned and envisioned new ideas for the future of Azhagu Beauty.

“It is always a really rewarding experience just because [Edmond] really knows how to help you achieve your best with everything,” Hallberg said.

They have been active with giveaways and social media postings and are going to continue to work with student organizations such as sorority houses for other competitions and giveaways. Their Instagram displays students wearing their earrings with links to purchase them. Further designs can be found on their website.