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Doctoral students on the road to success Research and coursework Voting to open necessary to obtain degree for Student Government offices CAITLIN YAMADA/ IOWA STATE DAILY Student Government presidential candidates Lydia Greene, junior in political science, and Morgan Fritz, sophomore in political science, debated on Feb. 25.

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BY JACOB.SMITH @iowastatedaily.com Voting for Student Government president, vice president and Senate seats will be open Tuesday and Wednesday with results being announced Thursday evening.

Voting is open to all Iowa State students and can be done by going to vote.iastate.edu.

Results will be announced Thursday evening following the elections.

Two slates are r unning for S tudent Government president and vice president with their own platforms.

Morgan Fritz, sophomore in political science, is a presidential candidate running alongside Jacob Schrader, senior in economics and political science, for vice president.

The Fritz-Schrader campaign is running on a platform of college affordability, campus climate and sustainability on campus.

The second slate is Lydia Greene, junior in political science, a presidential candidate running with Joshua Hanyang, senior in entrepreneurship and management information systems, for vice president.

The Greene-Hanyang campaign’s platform points include diversity and inclusion, mental health awareness, green initiatives, student government transparency and an initiative to implement “ISU 101,” which is a one-credit, half-semester course.

Additionally, there are a total of 36 Senate seats up for grabs.

Seats available are as follows: two seats for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, two seats for the College of Business, one seat for the College of Design, four seats for the College of Engineering, two seats for the College of Human Sciences, three seats for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, one seat for the College of Veterinary Medicine, two seats for the Graduate College, four seats for the Inter-Residence Hall Association, one seat for Frederiksen Court, one seat for the Interfraternity Council, one seat for the Collegiate Panhellenic Council, one seat for Schilletter and University Village and 11 seats for off-campus representation.

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Doctoral students put a lot of work into the process of completing the requirements to receive their doctorate degree, including a dissertation.

“A Ph.D. is much more than the dissertation,” said Carolyn Cutrona, associate dean for the Graduate College. “A minimum of 72 hours of coursework are required by the Graduate College for all Ph.D. programs, but individual departments or majors may require more.”

All doctoral students have to submit a Program of Study and Committee (POSC) form. This form selects the major professor or adviser, appointment of a committee and development of a program of study.

It is suggested the committee be formed as early as the second semester of graduate study, according to the Graduate College’s website, and doctoral candidates have to have the POSC approved by the Graduate College no later than the semester before the preliminary oral exam.

David Wahl just presented his dissertation “Speaking Through the Silence: Narratives, Interactions and the Construction of Sexual Selves” on Wednesday and received his doctorate in sociology.

Wahl’s major adviser has been David Schweingruber, associate professor of sociology.

Schweingruber has a doctorate in sociology that he received from the University of Illinois in 1999. He said he had a lot of fun in graduate school and enjoyed it a lot. He advises sociology doctoral candidates and teaches the introductory sociology course. “[Major advisers] help you with everything,” Wahl said.

“They try to keep you sane, which is probably their biggest job, but they’re there for any support you need. They help you with every aspect of your dissertation. The worst thing a person can do is to keep their adviser in the dark about anything because that’s why your adviser is here — to advise you, to get you through this process.”

Advisers meet with their students to check in on their progress with research and talk about struggles they may be having.

“It’s hard; it’s a huge challenge,” Schweingruber said. “Particularly the last part because you need to design and conduct and write up an independent research project, and it takes a long time, and it’s a lot of hard work, and people need encouragement along the way.”

Wahl advises those seeking a doctorate to talk to everyone and gain experience. The major adviser and committee are there for the doctoral candidates to use when in need of answers.

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ReACT Exhibition #WomenKnowStuffToo Opening Reception, Reiman Gallery(lower level), Christian Petersen Art Museum, Morrill Hall at 4 p.m. Engage with the ReACT exhibition

#WomenKnowStuffToo that takes an in-depth look at the technical side of art-making and how women artists innovate in various media.

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.

(Sign Up starts at 7:30 p.m. until all spots are filled)

Faculty workshop: Preparing for a Successful P&T Review, Campanile Room, Memorial Union at 9 a.m. Associate provosts Dawn Bratsch-

Prince and Ann Marie VanDerZanden and VP for research Sarah Nusser will lead this presentation for tenure-eligible faculty. Mentors and department chairs are encouraged to attend in support of their mentees and new colleagues.

Naming celebration: Simon Estes Music Hall, Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, Music Hall at 5 p.m. On Feb. 5, the state Board of Regents

approved Iowa State’s request to name Music Hall for opera vocalist Simon Estes, the music and theatre department’s F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Artist-in-Residence since 2000.

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JEFF SPAUR/ IOWA STATE DAILY A first since 1993 During the Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championships, the men’s track team took home the team title with a total of 137 points over 19 events.

Brodrick Joseph Sevart, age 20, of 2116 Hawthorn Court Dr. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with simulated public intoxication, first offense, at 111 Duff Avenue (reported at 11:24 a.m.).

Brodrick Joseph Sevart, age 20, of 2116 Hawthorn Court Dr. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct at 111 Duff Avenue (reported at 11:24 a.m.).

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Brodrick Joseph Sevart, age 20, of 2116 Hawthorn Court Dr. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief, second degree, at 111 Duff Avenue (reported at 11:24 a.m.).

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JILL EVEN/ IOWA STATE DAILY More than 70 employers were set up with information about available positions for Iowa State education students at the spring 2020 Teacher Education Career Fair.

Teacher Education Career Fair hosts school districts

BY JILL.EVEN @iowastatedaily.com Students looking to meet and network with school district representatives in search of a job attended the spring 2020 Teacher Education Career Fair on Monday, which was hosted by the College of Human Sciences.

There were more than 70 employers in attendance from school districts such as Norwalk Community School District and Mason City Community School District.

Employers had booths set up supplied with flyers and brochures for students to take and get more information on available positions.

According to the College of Human Sciences’ website, meeting face-to-face with future employers sets you apart from the other applicants.

Students in attendance had various majors and specializations, but many were looking for networking opportunities to become teachers in their specialization.

Even if the students weren’t currently seeking employment, the career fair could be a chance to get their name to the school district representatives for potential future jobs or internships.

Many students were armed with their resumes and dressed in business attire. Some were smiling and conversing with potential employers, while some seemed intimidated, standing off to the side to prepare talking points for when they would gather up the courage to talk to a professional.

Chase Hough, freshman in elementary education, is looking for a job teaching second graders while being able to use his coaching endorsement in a high school setting. He is taking classes to learn how to become a successful coach in either football or basketball, in addition to teaching in an elementary school.

“I’d like to stay in Iowa,” Hough said. “It’s always been my dream to be a football coach and an elementary teacher.”

Jessica Hawk, sophomore in elementary education, said she would like to teach special education in an elementary school setting.

“I coach gymnastics, so that’s [with] younger kids. I helped at a daycare with younger kids, so I’m just kind of geared more towards younger kids,” Hawk said. “[I hope] to see what districts have different [job] offers.”

Kelly Olsen, senior in music, specializes in the violin. She isn’t sure exactly what she wants to do between going to graduate

school or being an orchestra teacher.

“I’m here to just kind of testing the waters and looking around, seeing what jobs are available,” Olsen said. “I don’t have much experience talking to professionals in the education field, and I just want more practice.”

Hannah Johnson is a freshman in family and consumer science education and studies.

Johnson said she would like to be a middle school family and consumer sciences teacher.

Monday’s career fair was her first time attending one. “[The career fair] was actually part of one of our class assignments for Education 219, but I think it’s a really good assignment in that we can get our feet wet and understand how this whole thing works before the pressure is on,” Johnson said. “Today, I think I would like to just feel out how it works.”

Iowa State’s School of Education works to prepare students to work in school settings such as elementary, middle and high school.

More information about the school, including degrees and programs for undergraduate and graduate education students, can be found on their website. The website can also be a place to explore more detailed information about those degrees and programs for students.

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign received an influx of endorsements from former presidential rivals while campaigning in Texas ahead of the Super Tuesday primaries.

“I’m sure it will make some difference in Biden’s favor,” said Mack Shelley, Iowa State professor and chair of the political science department. “I don’t think there’s anything automatic about a candidate endorsing another candidate. That means that candidate A’s endorsement of candidate B doesn’t guarantee that all A’s supporters will vote for candidate B.” Democratic voters across 14 states will take part in the single biggest election day of the 2020 Democratic primary cycle Tuesday. Those 14 states include some of the most populous in the country, with California, Texas and North Carolina among them. Together, they will allocate 34 percent of the delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention scheduled to take place in July in Milwaukee. Those delegates decide the party’s nominee.

Some voters may have already cast their ballots for candidates who have since dropped out, and late endorsements cannot change votes already sent in.

“So for the states that had early voting, fundamentally, that means California, [...] Texas too — you have others that are pretty sizable, North Carolina, Virginia and Massachusetts — I would imagine the deal is pretty much done as far as California goes anyway because [Sen. Bernie] Sanders had been running pretty high there,” Shelley said. “Texas, I don’t know, last I saw, Sanders was ahead in Texas by at least a small margin.”

Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke all endorsed Biden on Monday, speaking at events alongside him in Texas.

“You know, when I ran for president, we made it clear that the whole idea was about rallying the country together to defeat Donald Trump and to win the era for the values that we share, and that was always a goal that was much bigger than me becoming president,” Buttigieg said in Dallas. “And it is the name of that very same goal that I am delighted to endorse and support Joe Biden for president.”

Buttigieg ended his campaign late Sunday and hinted at a potential endorsement in his speech to supporters in Indiana.

“We need leadership to heal a divided nation, not drive us further apart,” Buttigieg said on Sunday. “We need a broad-based agenda to truly deliver for the American people, not one that gets lost in ideology. We need an approach strong enough not only to win the White House, but hold the House, win the Senate and send Mitch McConnell into retirement.”

Klobuchar ended her campaign Monday and flew to Dallas to offer her own endorsement to Biden, taking the stage alongside her husband, her daughter, Biden and former Second Lady Jill Biden.

“If you feel tired of the noise and the nonsense in our politics and if you are tired of the extremes, you have a home with me,” Klobuchar said. “And I think you know you have a home with Joe Biden.”

Students can develop skills in cybersecurity

BY AVERY.STAKER @iowastatedaily.com One student organization is working to help Iowa State students navigate the world of cybersecurity.

The Information Assurance Student Group (IASG) is a student-led organization for any Iowa State students interested in cybersecurity. The group has weekly meetings to discuss topics pertaining to the fields of cybersecurity, information assurance and educating students interested in those fields.

Since many STEM classes at Iowa State do not cover cybersecurity, IASG aims to supplement its members’ educations by talking about security-related news and teaching skills members will need in future information assurance careers.

“We do our best to be a lexicon of knowledge for students of all skill levels, from a hardened veteran to people who have never opened a terminal before,” said William Springer, IASG public relations chair and senior in cyber security engineering. “We emphasize safe and legal practices in our meetings,

so students are taught means to defend themselves in a way that keeps them out of trouble.”

Previously, IASG has hosted guest speakers from Boeing, the FBI, the Air Force and many more international and government organizations at their weekly meetings. This has given many members opportunities to network with professional cybersecurity experts and find potential internships and careers. Students can also contact IASG Leadership to present information on a topic of choice.

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Educate on diversity in art New art course to complete U.S. Diversity credit

BY DAI’TYNN.COPPAGE-WALKER @iowastatedaily.com A new course that will take place at Iowa State will discuss diversity, social justice and culture and how it all can be expressed through art.

This course, titled “Diversity in Art,’’ is a one-credit art course that will meet the U.S. Diversity requirement for students that need it. It will take place from 3:10-5 p.m.

Wednesdays and start March 9 this semester.

It will be structured around current events and contemporary art. Students will be able to understand how art can help interpret what is going on in society. This course will impact critical thinking and cultural empathy and work towards the intersectionality of art and how it implements diversity and social justice.

This discussion-based course will not have any artwork assignments. Students have to be willing to think, talk and challenge themselves in order to develop visual analysis skills.

“We are trying to do it from a lens of current events, but because of that, it also brings historical social structures that marginalize people,” said Nancy Gebhart, graduate student of education and graduate teaching assistant for the Women’s and Gender Studies Department. “We talk about white privilege and try to emphasize critical whiteness and how we represent art through storytelling. We also talk about how white people will profit off of the stories of marginalized people but didn’t really share that experience.”

Gebhart said the inspiration from this course came from recurring events of protesting that happened during the fall of

IOWA STATE DAILY Nancy Gebhart, graduate student of education and graduate teaching assistant for the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, will lead a new course at Iowa State titled “Diversity in Art,” a one-credit course that will meet the U.S. Diversity requirement.

2015 when Trump got invited to speak on campus, and the student groups that were protesting against Trump had their banners broken by students who were supporters of Trump. This event sparked the conversations of the lack of representation and not having a voice on campus.

“Many students were talking about the lack of representation of students of color on the art on campus, and the only representation that they had was in a tokenized way, which is the statue of Jack Trice and George Washington Carver,” Gebhart said.

This course highlights many artists who are against oppression and advocates for equality, such as Brenda Jones, a university

professor in art and visual culture. Students can work with local artists in the community to create an environment that allows people to advocate for social justice.

“Having them meet artists who are on campus and live in Iowa who create art to talk about oppression is important, and to create a course on campus that inquires about artwork to be shown on campus that will address the lack of diversity and representation,” Gebhart said.

One of the important features students will be able to take away from this course is to understand the underlying messages and how it is affecting one’s interpretation about what they are seeing, Gebhart said.

The intention is to teach students how to build cultural empathy. “ The [Iowa State] Principles of Community will guide everything that they do in the classroom,” Gebhart said. “Trying to build an environment that is brave and that is challenging, that is open to feelings such as anger and that is open to whatever kind of expression that we have, but that it’s done with care and thought and consideration of others. I hope people have strong emotions, but with respect.”

The class still has seats open at the time of this article’s publishing. Students can register by going to AccessPlus. The course name is DSN S 145.

Iowa State introduces land acknowledgment statement

BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State now officially has a land acknowledgment, which recognizes ownership of the land before it became the university.

In collaboration with Sebastian Braun, director of American Indian Studies, Iowa State developed this land acknowledgment statement, which was approved and posted Feb. 18.

“A land acknowledgement is a formal statement that recognizes and respects Indigenous Peoples as traditional stewards of this land and the enduring relationship that exists between Indigenous Peoples and their traditional territories,” according to the Northwestern University website.

This official Iowa State land acknowledgment statement is as follows.

“Iowa State University aspires to be the best land‐grant university at creating a welcoming and inclusive environment where diverse individuals can succeed and thrive,” according to the land acknowledgment statement. “As a land‐grant

institution, we are committed to the caretaking of this land and would like to begin this event by acknowledging those who have previously taken care of the land on which we gather. Before this site became Iowa State University, it was the ancestral lands and territory of the Baxoje (bah-khodzhe), or Ioway Nation. The United States obtained the land from the Meskwaki and Sauk nations in the Treaty of 1842. We wish to recognize our obligations to this land and to the people who took care of it, as well as to the 17,000 Native people who live in Iowa today.”

Braun said he wanted to create an official land acknowledgment statement for Iowa State after seeing many different attempts by different groups, but the attempts were not always correct.

“I have seen land acknowledgments done here that were just absolutely wrong,” Braun said, “I think that is where this was born to, the need that the university has to have one came out pf the realization that if the university doesn’t have one, then people will say all kinds of things that range from all

IOWA STATE DAILY Sebastian Braun, director of American Indian Studies, helped Iowa State develop the newly approved land acknowledgement statement.

this land was stolen to all this land was won in the war.”

Braun said his interest in creating the statement really began at a meeting between administration and students.

“Honestly, where this process started for me was that event in the fall, at the meeting between the administration and Students Against R acism,” Braun said.

“S ome students stood up and tried to give a land acknowledgment statement and then got that

response, which was, ‘We won this land in a war, and we are not going to give it up.’ That is where the obligation for me for the university to have a land acknowledgment became clear.”

Braun also said he wanted to clarify both parties were wrong when it came to the land acknowledgment.

“To make things clear: one, this land was not all stolen,” Braun said.

“Two, no, you didn’t win this land in a war; there was no war over this land. There was a treaty signing

and, therefore, treaty obligations.”

Along with the land acknowledgement statement, the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost also approved a “land history” document to be published alongside it.

“Indigenous peoples have lived in Iowa for over 10,000 years.

Since about 3,000 years ago, Native people, in what is today Iowa, have been farmers,” according to the document. “They built villages and towns, burial and effigy mounds, ridged fields and large earthworks.

They were involved in a network of trade that spanned the continent.

Native people have been shaping this land just like they have been shaping its history and its current society and culture from time immemorial. Today, the state of Iowa is home to around 17,000 Native people from all over North America.”

T h e d o c u m e n t s t a t e d I ow a acknowledges the histories of the land it is built on and that it ’s where students, faculty and staff gather to learn, educate and live.

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The Confederate flag’s impact We should continue to learn about the flag’s history without banning it

BY JOHN.ROCHFORD @iowastatedaily.com At the end of last week, Marine Corps Gen. David Berger circulated an order to begin permanently removing Confederate flags from Marine Corps bases. This includes images and other rebel flag paraphernalia. A congressional hearing concerning the rise of extremism in the military was the catalyst for such an order.

Personally, I have no problem with the order. Contemporary politics aside, this country’s military organizations should not display a flag that represented a rebellion against the United States, a United States that military personnel are sworn to protect.

In a similar vein, in the year 2000, the South Carolina legislature voted to remove the Confederate flag from flying on the capitol dome. Fifteen years later, the state completely removed the flag from the state capitol grounds.

I do not disagree with those removals. The stars and stripes represent the federal government, as they do the governments of the states (along with their state flags).

However, there must be a balance.

Over the past half-decade, there have been rampant and vitriolic arguments over the display of Confederate monuments and symbols across the country. Broadly speaking, the “sides” in the debate take shape as something like “heritage vs. hate” or “history vs. harmony.”

The debate can be extremely complex in several ways. Even here in Iowa, one might see the Confederate flag flying on a truck, on a garage or on a bumper sticker.

I have seen the stickers for “heritage not hate” a few times over the past couple years here in the Northern U.S. Perhaps those people are of Southern origin or their families are, but there are plenty that use the symbol that are not.

So what does that mean? Do people that possess the flag or fly it represent the country’s worst? Generally, I do not think so,

Columnist John Rochford believes someone should not be judged for owning a Confederate flag.

although certainly there are uses of both the Confederate and American flags (and other symbols like the sickle and hammer and swastika) that have historically and in small numbers, contemporarily, represented racism, hatred and violence.

Many people that I know or know of who fly the Confederate flag fly it out of historical ignorance. I do not use the word “ignorance” as disparaging, but literally. For those people, flying the flag often simply represents “rebel.”

Not enough words are allotted for me, but suffice it to say that slavery sparked the American Civil War. One cannot get away from that fact. The preservation of slavery is why the Confederacy existed, but it is not why every individual fought for the Confederacy (indeed, the Confederate government instituted the first military draft in American

history due to the need for manpower).

Flying or possessing Confederate symbols as an individual does not necessarily make a person a racist or a bigot. However, if one does fly the flag, you must understand that the complex good, bad and ugly that has been associated with it over the past more than 150 years applies still. The “rebel” interpretation does not exist in a historically independent vacuum.

Completely destroying or removing the Confederate flag or other symbol-like monuments does us no good either. Last July, officials canceled the annual Civil War days in Lake County, Illinois, over concerns relating to the Confederate flag.

A local activist claimed on social media, “That reenactment was culturally insensitive and had no place in Lake County. The reenactment was just glorifying the white

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man. It’s whitewashing history to glorify the white man.” In the many attempts to remove, destroy or ban Confederate symbols, the pendulum cannot swing so radically far.

We need to be able to continue to learn and create interest in our history so that we can understand.

How can we learn if we destroy and ban?

I have two books in the backseat of my car that have the Confederate flag as the primary cover design. One is a Civil War memoir of a South Carolinian, and one is a collection of primary sources relating to Pickett’s Charge. I study the Civil War, but if one saw those books without context, what would the assumption be?

In the debate over the Confederate flag, both sides need to strike a realistic balance and understand the interwoven complexities.

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World wildlife awareness is important

BY ISD EDITORIAL BOARD Living in Iowa, one might not stop to think about wildlife that are on the verge of becoming extinct.

In 2019 alone, nearly two dozen species were declared extinct or nearly so.

Among the list are different types of birds, fish and many other types of animals. Adding onto the list, many of these animals have been declared ‘possibly extinct’ due to being unseen for decades.

Of course, when it comes to living in Iowa, many people don’t think there is much we can do, so they simply brush it off and continue on with their lives. Most of the critically endangered animals live in other parts of the world, but that does not mean we should be ignorant about it happening.

In 2018, the French brand of Lacoste temporarily changed their signature crocodile logo to 10 threatened species. The company produced a specific number of shirts that represented the population of the remaining animals in the wild that

corresponded with the logo. Wildlife experts said that they hoped this project would inspire other brands to start projects of their own that will help bring awareness to endangered species.

Since then, not many brands have taken after Lacoste’s example, but there are multiple brands that provide funds in forms of donations for endangered animals without directly altering their brand for the cause. Nonetheless, some help is better than no help at all.

On a positive note, according to the world’s leading travel brand of Trafalgar, there are six animals that are no longer considered endangered.

The first one is the Southern white rhinoceros. As of right now, their conservation status is considered to be near-threatened with population increasing. Giant pandas and Arabian oryxes (originally thought extinct) are now only considered vulnerable. Next, the Northern brown kiwi is no longer critically endangered, and its population seems to be growing at a steady pace.

The Louisiana black bear was endangered due to loss of habitat, but with the restoration of its home, it seems to have made a comeback and is no longer considered endangered.

The last, but certainly not the least, animal on that list is the gray wolf. At the beginning, it became endangered due to lack of prey and conflicts with farmers. Since receiving protection from the Endangered Species Act, its population size has increased, but there are rising concerns that the gray wolf ’s numbers will once again decrease soon due to hunting.

Multiple people have been guilty of when they find out a species has been declared extinct, they share it on social media with a caption expressing how heartbreaking it is and that people need to do something about it. Although it is indeed heartbreaking, let that person be you who does something about it.

You would be surprised of how loud your voice can be when you are passionate about something you want to see change in.

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Cyclones fight through day four Personal bests led to a fourth-place finish at Big 12 Championships

BY MEGAN.TESKE @iowastatedaily.com

Cyc lones, when juniors L ehr Thorson and Martha Haas placed third and eighth to grab 27 points for the team.

Thorson’s third-place finish at 2:14.41 is now the fourth fastest time in Iowa State history.

The Iowa State swim and dive team left West Virginia with a fourth-place finish at the Big 12 Championships.

After starting tied for fourth and falling to fifth on the second day, the Cyclones were able to fight back by day four to place fourth with 459 points.

The University of Texas claimed its spot at the top on the first day and finished in first with 1,012 points, while Kansas remained in second throughout the competition and ended with 831 points. TCU rounded out the top three with 534 points, and West Virginia finished last with 448 points.

DAY FOUR FIGHT After starting the competition out at the bottom and remaining in fifth through day two and three, the Cyclones had to come out strong on day four to finish out of last place.

The Cyclones did just that. Out of the seven events that took place on the final day, nine of the women medaled in their respective events. “[I’m] very proud of how our women fought back today,” Head Coach Duane Sorenson said in a press release. “We had almost a perfect prelims session and put ourselves in great position to catch West Virginia. It was nip and tuck and had

TEXAS TAKEOVER For the eighth year in a row, the Texas women won the Big 12 Championships, this time with relative ease.

Texas and Iowa State don’t get the chance to compete in a dual during the season, so this was the first time each team saw each other this season.

Through the women’s 21 events, Texas won 18 of the events and placed in the top three in 20 of them.

Its first place finishes accounted for 460 of their 1,012 total points.

TATE WEAVER/ IOWA STATE DAILY Then-sophomore Lehr Thorson swims the 200-yard breaststroke on Jan. 18, 2019, at Beyer Pool.

a lot of touch-outs against them at the end of the meet to secure our fourth place.”

In the women’s platform diving, senior Dana Liva placed fourth overall with 266.25 points, adding 15 points to the team score.

Freshman Nolwenn Nunes and senior Keely Soellner placed fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 1,650 yard freestyle to give the Cyclones 29 more points.

The 200-yard breaststroke was the highlight of the day for the

PERSONAL BESTS SET Multiple Cyclones were able to improve their personal best times over the course of the four-day competition.

On the first day, junior Kennedy Tranel recorded a new personal best in the 100-yard freestyle time trials with a time of 52.09. During day two, 11 Cyclones set new personal bests, eight of them set during the preliminary events.

“We had a real solid day [two]; we had a number of personal bests turned in,” Sorenson said in the release.

Day three saw more personal bests recorded.

Thorson achieved a personal best time in the 100-yard breaststroke finals with a time of 1:01.02, which is just 0.56 seconds later than the school record. Haas also set a personal record in the event, landing in sixth with a time of 1:02.06.

In the 100-yard backstroke, junior Wyli Erlechman earned herself a personal record in the preliminary rounds with a time of 55.75.

In total, seven Cyclones set personal bests on day three.

On the last day of competition, junior Br yn Ericksen and redshirt freshman Jennifer Roessler grabbed personal bests in the 200yard breaststroke consolation finals.

Ericksen had a time of 2:18.45 and Roessler had 2:19.28.

Freshman Liz Richardson also had a personal best in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 1:59.38.

The time earned her a No. 1 spot on the freshman record list in the event.

Five swimmers set personal bests during the preliminary rounds of the day.

The Iowa State swim and dive team will next see a number of divers compete in the NCAA Zone Diving Championships on March 9 through 11 in Dallas. A number of swimmers and divers will compete in the NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18 through 21 in Athens, Georgia.

Last home game gives seniors a chance to avenge a previous loss

BY ZANE.DOUGLAS @iowastatedaily.com The senior send-off will be on for the Cyclones as they play in their last home game of the season, which will feature Hilton saying goodbye to two rotation pieces.

Iowa State’s seniors will play in front of a home crowd for the last time Tuesday with the Cyclones taking on West Virginia.

The two main pieces leaving after the season ends will be seniors Michael Jacobson and Prentiss Nixon — two upperclassmen transfers who have earned starting roles for the Cyclones.

“I don’t think I would trade it for anything,” Jacobson said. “I think a big thing would be the fans. The support is unbelievable, and they definitely make it a special place and a special environment.”

Jacobson is a Waukee, Iowa, native, and his grandpa played football for Iowa State.

Jacobson had a promising high school football career, but he elected to play basketball instead.

The Nebraska transfer has come alive lately on the court with some of his best games of the season coming in the final stretch. He’s had a down year compared to last season, but he’s stepped up his game as the season has wound down.

One of Jacobson’s more underwhelming performances of the year came in Iowa State’s last meeting with the Mountaineers.

Jacobson finished with only 4 points on 2-4 shooting, but he did grab seven rebounds in only 22 minutes.

This came in the middle of a stretch for Jacobson where he couldn’t quite find a ton of shots on offense, but in his last five games,

Jacobson has averaged 12.2 points and 8.6 rebounds — a far cry from his 7.5 points and 5.9 rebounds per game that he is averaging for the season. “[ Jacobson’s] a guy that has his degree, that’s gonna play basketball for a long time and then do really well in whatever business that he chooses,” Head Coach Steve Prohm said.

Nixon has had a similar year, but his games have taken a turn for the worse. After a 10-game stretch with no double-digit point games, Nixon put together a three-game stretch of high-scoring games.

The season looked like it was turning around for the senior, but Nixon was met again with rough shooting culmination in his worst game of the year, a 1-10 game against TCU. Nixon has had his struggles, but Prohm had kind words for his starting guard. “[Nixon] brings a great deal off toughness and an edge to our team, and he’s another guy that’s handled himself well through all the ups and the downs that this season has had for us,” Prohm said.

In the short term, Iowa State has a game to attend, and it’ll be a revenge game in context where it was outmatched down low and on ball screens.

West Virginia won that game 76-61 and was a force in the rebounding department.

The Cyclones were outclassed on the boards 46-28, including 18-9 on offensive rebounds.

Iowa State was also fooled on ball screens often, leading to easy buckets and good positioning for West Virginia.

“I think just moving the ball and trying to get up and down, get the pace up, is something that we’re gonna really focus on,” Jacobson said.

The Cyclones have been without their

best player for six games now, and leadership is coming from all areas, despite the below average record.

Iowa State will have to rely on senior leadership as the season ends, but it won’t have Nixon or Jacobson on the team for much longer.

Nixon said something that will be important to him moving forward is the success of his teammates.

“Maybe me and [ Jacobson] were here in our senior year to help young guys and teach them to where they can go on and have long, successful careers here,” Nixon said.

“If I had to sacrifice some wins at the end of my career for those guys to go win Big 12 Championships and get to the NCAA Tournament, then I’ll be the happiest person in the world.”

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The dynamics of dating are changing for young people in the age of Tinder and hookup culture.

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Dating trends in the new generation Tinder and hookup culture have changed the way college students date

BY HANNAH.SCOTT @iowastatedaily.com

It’s a tale as old as time: the boy meets the girl at a college party or sitting in class, and the rest is history. However, as time moves forward, this story may be less of a reality and more of a rare tale within the younger generation.

Generation Z and millennials have been a topic all their own for the past few years. With their changing ideals on society, style and living, it’s no wonder that they often clash with the older, often more traditional, generations. However, one of the largest topics of debate among many is one surrounding relationships, and more specifically, a certain question: is Generation Z improving

dating culture or making it worse?

“I think a lot of it has to do with changes in women’s roles and their goals,” said Susan Stewart, professor of sociology at Iowa State. “It’s kind of thought that the women are always the ones who want to get serious; that is not true. Women have plans: you want to go to grad school, go get a job or move to a new city. Well, you can’t do any of those things if you have a serious boyfriend.”

Back not even two decades ago, it was incredibly common for life to have a pretty clear roadmap. Go to college, meet somebody, graduate, start a career, get married and have a family. It was simply the way of the world, and many were slow to question the standards that had been set.

However, as the current generations have grown up, we have begun to see a large shift in how individuals are choosing to live their lives.

“I think it’s developmentally very normal to not be in long-term, committed relationships, and you can see that if you look at the average age of marriage, which is 30 for men and 28 for women,” Stewart said.

However, women are not the only ones whose lives may not be ready for a more serious commitment. In fact, it may be more normal than one thinks for younger individuals to simply not want to settle down.

College students are at an incredibly pivotal time in their lives, often trying to figure out what they want to do, who they want to be and where they want to end up in a very short span of time. This can commonly mean that priorities among young people will not be the same, and it can be difficult to find somebody who may share your view on relationships or what you want out of one.

Casual dating can sometimes be used as an escape from the pressure young people feel during this time of their lives.

“Our generation has put more of an emphasis on casual dating and hookups, so I think it’s harder to find someone who wants a long-term relationship in college,” Alainna McAuliff, junior in marketing, said.

Hookup culture has been an idea that has existed for years and certainly before Generation Z or millennials. But for many, coming to college may be the first time they ever felt open to that experience, which may largely be the reason for hooking up being so widely seen as a college phenomenon.

“I do want to point out that young people, even though they’re doing this hooking up and causal sex, it’s still that the majority are only seeing one partner at a time. It’s a short-term deal, and a lot of them do turn into something more serious,”

Stewart said. “But the point of hooking up versus not is just that there’s no commitment and no promise, which can make things really confusing and can cause a lot of hurt feelings.”

This clash of ideologies can often put individuals in a tough position. Sometimes people may feel inclined to act a certain way, even if it may not be how they really feel, or try to create a facade around who they really are in order to try to make themselves seem more appealing.

Oftentimes, people simply don’t know how to act in dating scenarios.

“As a woman, I think there is still a lot of stigma for how we should act in a relationship,” McAuliff said. “For example, you want to show you care, but you don’t want to come off too strong because many men see that as clingy.”

On the other hand, men may often feel as though they need to seem ultra “masculine” or “strong” in order to impress women and suppress any emotion or strong feelings.

“Often, young men are in a very difficult position because they are told these very traditional messages of how to be a man and to be tough and strong and not cry,” Stewart said. “But on the positive side, a lot more young men are being taught about consent, which can improve the relationship, and in terms of the quality of sexual relationships, it’s much better.”

All of these ideals put together can often cause a strain on students and become just another part of their stresses in college. Some may even put off the idea of dating in order to avoid all of the complications that can seemingly come along with it.

“Overall, I think the ideas are negative because we put so much pressure on ourselves to find the right person that it adds a lot of stress and anxiety,” McAuliff said. “I think it can have negative impacts on our other relationships too because we try so hard to find that right person that we can end up hurting other people in the process.”

However, it is important to realize that perhaps these ideals are also simply coming from the change and freedom that the current generation is allowing themselves.

“I think we are becoming more individualistic as a society and, in general, more often keeping our options open, and there’s so many more opportunities,” Stewart said. “I think people are shying away from commitment, in a way, in many parts of life.”

Ultimately, however one feels about the new era of dating that is being ushered in, it is clear that people feel more freedom of choice than ever before. Waiting longer to make large life choices may not be such a bad decision but simply more of a thoughtful way to plan out your life.

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program, don’t close yourself off,” Wahl said. “Use the support that’s all around you. Don’t ignore your committee until the last minute; let them know what you’re doing.

Keep them in the loop. Keep everyone in the loop. I’ve known too many people that they just shut themselves away, and they have a much harder time either emotionally, mentally or with the actual work.”

Praise Farayola is a second-year graduate electrical and computer engineering student, currently working to obtain his doctorate degree. He said he chose Iowa State because it’s one of the top schools for engineering and is well known in his field.

Farayola hasn’t set up his committee yet as he is only a second year student but said he should do it by the end of the semester. He does have a major adviser whom he said has good relationships with companies he wants to work with.

Farayola said he wants to be a p ro f e s s o r w h i l e c on t i n u i n g research. He plans on getting his doctorate in a total of five years, so he only has the beginning of his dissertation.

“I have some few people, some few research results,” Farayola said.

“I have them in writing; they will form part of my dissertation.”

There are many steps people take to earn their doctorate degree.

Each major has a list of requirements for courses to take. There are also required research credits and a minimum of two important exams, Cutrona said.

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The exams are the preliminary oral exam to test the knowledge the student has learned from the courses and research they have taken part in.

The preliminary oral exam process can be different for ever y department and university.

For Wahl, the preliminary oral exam was more pressure than the final. He said doctoral candidates at Iowa State used to be presented with a set of questions, and the candidate would spill everything they know for the questions.

“That’s the old way of doing it,” Wahl said. “ They changed that because it’s not as beneficial as they thought it would be. So basically what it is in sociology now, you have three questions, you have six weeks to write it. It’s 30 pages, 30 pages max. And it’s basically a dissertation proposal: here’s what I’m going to be doing on my dissertation, here’s how I’m going to be going about it, here’s some of the studies that are involved in this. So it’s a lot of pressure because if you don’t pass your prelim, you can’t go onto your dissertation.”

Then there is the final exam, which must occur no later than three weeks before the end of the term of graduation.

“The final exam, which is typically the presentation, explanation and answering questions about their dissertation research project,” Cutrona said. “The dissertation research project must be an original research project, which adds new knowledge to the student’s field.”

The final oral exam is presented to the doctoral candidate’s committee. This is when the

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“This land carries the histories within it, and the people on it establish relations to the land through the ways in which they remember and acknowledge those histories,” according to the document. “Those histories are complex. If we listen to them, we learn how to relate. If we ignore them, we run the danger of tapping into some of the darkest stereotypes and untruths.”

Like Braun said, the document stated all of Iowa was ceded to the United States through treaties with sovereign Native nations between 1824 and 1851. This means everybody living in Iowa is bound by the treaty obligations specific to where they live. Those obligations are, according to the U.S. Constitution, “the law of the land.”

Those treaties, in accordance with the policy of removal, aimed at resettling tribes in “Indian Territory,” according to the document. Most tribes from Iowa were first removed to Nebraska and Kansas, and most were then again removed to Oklahoma. “ The treaties came out of a strategy aimed at making Native nations dependent on American trade goods,” according to the document. “President [Thomas] Jefferson outlined this strategy of economic dependency leading to political submission in 1803. In many cases, tribes ceded lands so they could pay their debts. For these tribes, treaties were offers they could not refuse.”

These treaties also acknowledge Native nations to be sovereign nations. Native nations are inherently sovereign. They were sovereign before the United States was established, and their sovereignty was never extinguished, according to the document.

Braun said there are two different types

doctoral candidate defends their dissertation.

Something that surprised Wahl when defending his dissertation was not getting grilled in the private defense after everyone except his committee had left the room.

“I was really expecting, because I’ve heard just horror stories of you know, people three hours of just getting crucified,” Wahl said.

“I didn’t have that. I was expecting that; when it didn’t happen, I was surprised.”

Instead, Wahl’s private defense lasted 45 minutes, and he said they talked more about what he wants to do, which is study sex and human sexuality, write books and continue teaching.

If one committee member votes not to pass the candidate, then each member has to forward to the Dean of the Graduate College with a justification for their vote. If more than one committee member votes not to pass, the candidate does not pass the final exam.

A doctoral candidate only has two tries to pass their final exam; if they do not receive their doctorate after two defenses, then they do not receive that degree.

Cutrona said while she doesn’t have specific statistics on how many people receive their doctorate degree on the first or second try, most people pass the final exam the first time.

Schweingruber said when considering what to focus their dissertation on, doctoral candidates should commit to something they actually want to learn. “ We l l , I t h i n k t h a t t h e y should, they need to pursue

of land acknowledgements, political and stewardship.

He said the political type of acknowledgment focus on the ownership of the land and what rights the people currently on the land have to it.

“I think the other form is an acknowledgment that people have taken care of this land, and so there is a continuity of the people who take care of it now, and they have to acknowledge the people who have taken care of it before them,” Braun said.

“It is less about property and more about stewardship and care-taking.”

Braun said the second type of acknowledgement is the type Iowa State is aiming for, due to being a land grant university and the university caring for the land.

Even though land acknowledgements can be made with good intentions, Braun said they may not always be the best.

“Indigenous peoples today find that land acknowledgments are actually not only unnecessary but actually detrimental because they see it oftentimes as a rhetorical dismissal of actual obligations,” Braun said. “You make the statement to basically absolve yourself of any guilt. [...] If land acknowledgment statements are made by themselves without any interactions, then they become a reinforcement of colonial relations, not a solution to them.”

Braun said land acknowledgements can be good things if they are done right.

“I think when land acknowledgment statements are used in a good way and when they lead to critical thinking and engagement, then I think they make a ton of sense and are helpful,” Braun said. “However, if they are just a statement that somebody reads at any one event that may not have to do with anything, then it becomes a meaningless rhetorical statement.”

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a project that they are excited about,” Schweingruber said. “They shouldn’t spend time pursuing someone else’s dream or trying to become someone else. They should investigate something that they think is interesting because along the way, you’re going to get sick of the project.”

The Graduate College website has a “Dissertations & Theses” page, which may be helpful to doctoral students as it has some guidance on preparing to write the dissertation and what to keep in mind when thinking about graduation.

“A Ph.D. means that the individual is an expert in their field of study,” Cutrona said. “They are trained to teach, conduct original research and consult on their topic of expertise. They are paid more, in most cases, than people who have a master’s degree or a bachelor’s degree.”

Universities usually require a doctorate to be a professor, but something Cutrona said nationally many people don’t know is only about 20 percent of doctoral graduates go on to be professors.

There are various jobs those who have a doctorate can have. Most go into industry, working for a company, non-profit organization or in government, Cutrona said.

W hile working on courses and research to receive a doctorate, there can be ups and downs, Farayola said. He is part of the International Friendship Connection organization, which he said allows him to relax with friends after a stressful week.

Sometimes there are meetings with their major adviser where the

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Occasionally, cabinet members will have presentations catered toward beginner students with little to no experience.

“IASG is a great resource for anyone interested in cybersecurity,” said Evan Hellman, IASG member and senior in computer science. “It has taught me and many other members much of what we know about cybersecurity in our chosen fields.”

Other events IASG hosts include the Halloween Capture-the-Flag, where students find flags hidden in a computer network and win prizes, and weekly network puzzles and challenges.

The organization also assists in advertising and coordinating all five of Iowa State’s Cyber Defense Competitions (CDCs).

These competitions take place at different times of the school year in various buildings around campus. Among the CDCs, there is a national competition, a community college competition and a high school competition, which was the first high school CDC in the country.

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constitutional amendment on the ballot.

In November, Student Government passed a bill titled “Court Reform Constitutional Amendment.”

The bill overhauls the current Student Government Supreme Court and establishes rules and procedures for its members to follow in addition to other major changes.

“A summer working group was convinced of President [Austin] Graber, VicePresident [ V ishesh] Bhatia, Election Commissioner [Emily] Rizvic, Vice-Speaker

candidate doesn’t have much of an update because they don’t have the research results or are stuck for another reason, which is when the adviser can provide guidance.

Cutrona said there are two primary methods on how the major adviser is decided for the doctoral student as they work through courses and research.

One of the methods is called “direct admission,” where students describe interests on their graduate school application.

With this method, Cutrona said faculty look at those interests, and if they have similar interest in the same specific topics and the student has a good record of undergraduate grades and sometimes test scores, the faculty member may choose to work with them. This is a method used in majors like psychology.

Another method has the adviser decided by students working as a teaching assistant or rotating through lab experiences until they decide which facult y member would be a good match to work with.

“For here, in fact, everyone that I know, they kind of came here with someone in mind,” Wahl said. “Like for me, when I was finishing my master’s degree, I was accepted by four places, and when I came here, I already knew that if I came to Iowa State, I wanted to work with David Schweingruber.

S o we had a meeting before I committed to Iowa State just to see if he’s someone I wanted to work with and whether or not I was someone he wanted to work with.”

Additionally, IASG provides its members with the opportunity to rent cybersecurity equipment as a resource to prepare for realworld situations commonly seen in information assurance careers.

“IASG is a great community of passionate individuals who work together and help each other learn and grow,” Hellman said.

IASG is open to all students, not just cybersecurity majors and minors. Everyone is welcome to attend the weekly meetings at 5:15 p.m. Mondays in Hoover 1312, and recordings of each meeting are posted on IASG’s YouTube page. IASG also has a Slack channel, which is an online forum to discuss cybersecurity-related topics.

“The concepts brought about in IASG will be useful to anyone with an interest in computers or security,” Springer said. “For students pursuing the cybersecurity major, many of the concepts presented on beginner’s nights are the same concepts encountered in required courses. For students not in a cybersecurity focused major, knowing about cybersecurity concepts will make you a better producer of products wherever you go.” [ Jacob] Schrader, Senator [ Jacob] Ludwig and Senator [Kaitlyn] Roling to evaluate the national environment for over 70 Student Government courts, and [...] Rules Committee split into subcommittees that discovered the necessary changes for each area of change requested by Senate,” according to the document.

The constitutional amendment requires a majority vote of students who cast ballots to pass. Additional information about the amendment and elections can be found on the Student Government website at stugov. iastate.edu.