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11.19.2019 Vol. 220 No. 061
Fall Monday Monologues end with poetry BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com
BY ZANE.DOUGLAS @iowastatedaily.com A fractured hip for quarterback Tua Tagovailoa ended his season and left questions about his future on Saturday. Alabama was left with no experienced quarterback on its roster to fill the void. More than one thousand miles north, Iowa State quarterback Brock Purdy
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DESIGN BY TALIA TORPY Iowa State quarterback Brock Purdy proves himself to be one of the football program’s best players in his first full year as a starter.
The rhyme and flow of poetry echoed through the Grant Wood Foyer in Parks Library on Monday. This week’s Monday Monologue performance went from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. and was the last performance of the semester. “When I reached out to Deb Marquart about doing something at Monday Monologues again this semester, she was excited to let me know she is teaching a poetry class this semester,” said Susan Jasper, program coordinator for Parks Library. “It is an opportunity for new budding poets to share their works.” After Jasper’s introduction, Debra Marquart, a distinguished professor of English and the Iowa Poet Laureate, explained the plan for this Monday Monologue. “I volunteered this class to do a reading before class started,” Marquart said. “I appreciate that some brave souls agreed to go along with this experiment. We have about 11 readers with one poem each.” The Marquart started with a poem of her own, titled “Kablooey is the Sound You’ll Hear.” The poem described the time Marquart’s sister fired a shotgun into the ceiling of her brother’s room. “Kablooey is the sound you’ll hear, then plaster falling and the billow of gypsum, after your sister blows a hole in the ceiling of your brother’s bedroom with the shotgun, he left loaded and resting on his dresser,” Marquart said. Next was Ellen Sattler, senior in horticulture, who read a poem titled “Heavy Handed Grace.” “Sometimes my words flow out faster than I can manage,” Sattler said. “Muscles wove my face into a million emotions as I narrate a bold attempt, a hilarious misunderstanding, an eventful day.” Next was Pauline Miller, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute selection committee member, who read a poem connecting to Native American Heritage Month.
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Textbook return nears with Finals Week BY SAGE.SMITH @iowastatedaily.com The deadline for students to return their rental textbooks is the Wednesday after Finals Week. Carl Arbuckle, Bookstore specialist, is a course materials buyer at the Iowa State University Bookstore. Arbuckle focuses on the print textbooks, rental program, buyback program and student choice e-book. The Bookstore offers buyback almost every day it is open. Students can return their rental books any day during business hours as long as they take the rentals to the Bookstore. Students can also sell back textbooks and return their rentals in one transaction. “As far as buyback goes, we recommend if you can wait until finals week when we set up the
big buyback,” Arbuckle said. “That’s when we’re paying highest prices, so if it’s a week until Finals Week or Dead Week and you want to sell a book back, I would wait a few extra days because you could get a lot more money back.” The big buyback will begin the Thursday of Dead Week, Dec. 12. The buyback can be found in the Bookstore. “We’re typically less busy earlier in the week,” Arbuckle said. “If they wait until Tuesday, Wednesday,Thursday of Finals Week, they might have to wait in a line, although the wait in line really is never as long as it looks like. If it looks like there’s a big line, chances are it’s only about 10 minutes. The lines have been pretty short the last few semesters.” Arbuckle said another thing the Bookstore wants to educate students on is they will take
books as long as they are books they currently need. It doesn’t matter where the books were purchased from, such as from Amazon or fellow students. In addition to the big buyback the Bookstore has at the end of the semester, they do offer several off-site locations for students to return their rented textbooks. Some of these locations include Frederiksen Court, Union Drive Community Center and Maple-Willow-Larch Commons. “One thing we did change this year is we used to do a set up out at the Towers, but we had so little traffic the last couple years, so we discontinued that,” Arbuckle said. “So we won’t be at the Towers this year; that’s a change. But we’ll be at all our other normal off-site locations.” Students have the chance to return their books at these locations beginning the Thursday of
Dead Week, and they will be available until the middle of the Friday of Finals Week. A common problem the Bookstore and students can experience is the situation of a damaged rental textbook. If a student damages a book with drinks, food or other substances, they will not be able to return the book. Arbuckle said if the Bookstore rejects a book for damage, he recommends students get it taken care of the same day while at the store. “We do have a policy where if you take care of it in the store that day, we’ll let you pay just the difference between your rental fee and the purchase price,” Arbuckle said. “So you’re really only paying the same as if you would have bought it in the first place.”
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