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Martin Luther King Jr.

Legacy of leadership

BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com

As a way to honor a man who inspired thousands, one day a year is set apart in recognition.

The Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) holiday Monday marked the 25th anniversary of the day of service that celebrates the Civil Rights leader’s life and legacy.

Observed each year on the third Monday in January as “a day on, not a day off,” MLK Day is the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service to encourage all Americans to volunteer to improve their communities, according to the Corporation for National and Community Service website.

“The MLK Day of Service inspires hundreds of thousands of Americans to come together to serve their community,” according to the Corporation for National and Community Service website. “Citizens in all 50 states deliver meals, refurbish schools and community centers and collect food and clothing.”

On MLK Day, volunteers can also recruit mentors, support job-seekers, build homes and provide other services for veterans and military families and help citizens improve their financial literacy skills.

After a long struggle, legislation was signed in 1983 to mark the birthday of King as a federal holiday. Americans first observed the holiday in 1986. In 1994, Congress designated the holiday as a national day of service and charged the Corporation for National and Community Service with leading this effort. This

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Farmers to install prairie strips on land

BY SAGE.SMITH @iowastatedaily.com Farmers in the U.S. will be able to collect federal conservation payments for installing prairie strips on their land, according to a news release.

Researchers at Iowa State helped to bridge the gap between the latest science and federal policy. Scientists at Iowa State have been conducting prairie strips research for more than 10 years. A range of environmental benefits associated with the practice have been documented.

The 2018 Farm Bill named prairie strips as a conservation practice eligible to participate in the Conservation Reserve Program for the first time.

Prairie strips is the strategic planting of small amounts of prairie within corn and soybean fields. These prairie strips reduce soil and nutrient loss from steep ground, provide habitat for wildlife and improve water infiltration.

A 2017 Iowa State study found converting as little as 10 percent of the cropped area to prairie conservation strips — compared with all-crop watersheds — reduced soil loss by 95 percent and phosphorus losses in surface runoff by 70 percent. The bird abundance and pollinator more than doubled.

The news release said most conservation practices aim for a single measurable benefit, but Iowa State experiments show prairie strips address multiple concerns.

Lisa Schulte Moore, professor of natural resource ecology and management, is a scientist on the Science-based Trials of Rowcrops Integrated with Prairie Strips (STRIPS) team.

COURTESY OF ANNA MACDONALD Iowa State has been conducting experiments at a field outside Iowa City since 2007.

Schulte Moore said prairie strips are among the least expensive conservation practices on a per-acre basis.

“The 2018 Farm Bill sent a clear signal from Congress and the White House that this is the direction we want our farm conservation programs to go,” Schulte Moore said in the news release. “We’ve heard from farmers who have been waiting so they can sign up portions of their fields for prairie strips. With last year’s heavy rainfall events, they are looking for good options to both slow erosion and deal with challenging acres.”

New signups for the Conservation Reserve Program opened in December. Farmers will receive a yearly rental payment from the Conservation Reserve Program for converting environmentally sensitive land from production

and establishing conservation practices.

Prairie strips are now an official practice under the Conservation Reserve Program Clean Lakes, Estuaries and Rivers Initiative (CLEAR). The initiative prioritizes water quality practices on the land that will help reduce sediment loadings, nutrient loadings and harmful algal blooms, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.

When developing a policy to implement this law, the United States Department of Agriculture sought input from Iowa State researchers who, over the last decade, developed much of the science on prairie strips, according to the news release.

The new prairie strips policy has been approved by the United States Department of Agriculture. Farmers can offer to apply prairie strips through the ongoing Conservation Reserve Program signup, located at their local United States Department of Agriculture Service Center.

Omar de Kok-Mercado, program coordinator in the natural resource ecology and management department, coordinated the efforts of the STRIPS team to develop technical specifications for the prairies strips policy.

“The new rules specific to prairie strips will provide greater clarity, flexibility and reliability for farmers who want to implement the practice,” de Kok-Mercado said in the news release.

Farmers can find out more about prairie strips and the Conservation Reserve Program by visiting their local United States Department of Agriculture Service Center.

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Spotify releases playlists for pets

BY OLIVIA.RUF @iowastatedaily.com Music is no longer just for humans but for our loyal animal companions as well.

Spotify has introduced a new feature where members can create custom playlists for their pets.

On Jan. 15, the Swedish streaming service Spotify announced they have created a process to “help you craft the ‘pawfect’ algorithmically generated playlist for you and your pet to enjoy together,” according to Spotify’s website.

Spotify conducted an online survey with 5,000 pet owners from the U.S., U.K., Spain, Australia and Italy. They included some factual information with the release of this new option on the streaming service.

“Fifty-five percent of pet owners think their pet enjoys the same music as them,” according to Spotify’s website. “Most pet owners also think that music can reduce stress, boost happiness and keep their pets happy.”

Other statistics Spotify found included 80 percent of pet owners believe their pets like music, 71 percent of pet owners have played music for their pets, 69 percent of pet owners sing to their pets while 57 percent dance with their pets and almost one in five pet owners named their pets after a music group or artist.

The top five artist-inspired pet names are Bob Marley, Elvis, Freddie Mercury, Bowie and Ozzy, according to Spotify’s website.

There are only four steps in creating a playlist for a pet.

Step one, listeners choose the type of pet they are making the playlist for. The list includes dogs, cats, iguanas, hamsters and birds. However, the website has yet to add fish and more exotic pets.

Step two asks for users to explain a little about their pet’s personality. Users measure their pet’s personality traits on a scale. A couple of questions ask if the pet is shy or friendly, or whether they are more relaxed or energetic. These personality scales help Spotify curate the perfect vibe for your pet’s playlist. The owner’s listening history also plays a large role in determining the pet’s music taste.

Step three is the playlist name and cover photo.

Users enter their pet’s name and submit a photo for the cover of their playlist. Users will also receive a personalized share card to send to their friends when sending other listeners a link to the playlist.

Step four is simply to “listen and share.”

The audio streaming company has also announced the launch of a podcast with soothing music along with “dog-directed praise” and reassurance intended for dogs who spend time home alone as a way of de-stressing them while their owners are gone. According to CNN, Spotify collaborated with animal experts in curating these playlists.

To create a pet playlist on Spotify, go to the Spotify website and login with a pre-existing account or create a new account. This feature is open to users with premium and free accounts.

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1.21.20 Wheel Pottery Class, Workspace at the Iowa State Memorial Union at 2:30 p.m.

Get your hands dirty and make beautiful things!

Start with centering clay and pulling cylinders, the building blocks to throwing on the wheel. Move on to forming bowls, mugs, vases and plates, and learn handle-pulling, glazing and finishing techniques. Open to beginners as well as those with experience who would like to improve their skills.

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.

Floral Design: Let it Snow Winter Arrangements, Reiman Gardens at 6:30 p.m.

From winter white flowers to delicate dried materials, these gorgeous winter displays will brighten up any room.

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

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POLICE BLOTTER 1.17.20 Cindy Marie Schuster-Villafane Sonpar, age 35, of 414 S 4 St. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at 123 Main Street (reported at 2:35 a.m.).

Brandon Maecell Young, age 21, of 205 S 5 St. Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with hold for other agency at 205 S 5 Street (reported at 1:05 a.m.).

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Dylen Wayne Gordon, age 26, of 712 Wilson Ave. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with contempt of court at 239 SE 16 Street and S High Avenue (reported at 6:36 p.m.).

Blake Daniel Buttweiler, age 22, of 712 Wilson

Ave. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at 4113 Maricopa Drive (reported at 3:21 a.m.).

Kalli-Ann Marie Kennel, age 26, of 518 Prairie Ridge Dr. - Huxley, Iowa, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated, first offense, at S 16 Street and Creekside Drive (reported at 3:49 a.m.).

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Liliana Cayla Solis, age 37, of 203 S 5 St. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at 203 S 5 Street (reported at 9:00 p.m.).

CAITLIN YAMADA/ IOWA STATE DAILY Icy conditions A snow storm covered Iowa in snow throughout Friday into Saturday. Ames accumulated five inches of snow depth over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.

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Liliana Cayla Solis, age 37, of 203 S 5 St. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with interference with official acts, simple/serious assault, at 203 S 5 Street (reported at 9:00 p.m.).

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New heat-free metal printing

Liquid metal used to make flexible electronics

BY ANNEKE.JOHNSON @iowastatedaily.com Researchers at Iowa State are printing flexible metal onto leaves, flower petals and more.

The process involves working with undercooled metal technology, developed by Martin Thuo, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, and his research team. Liquid metal is trapped below its melting point in oxide shells. When the shells are broken, the metal inside solidifies.

Researchers are now using this method to create metallic lines and traces on all sorts of materials, including flower petals, leaves, gelatin and paper.

One important quality of this technology is that it is heat-free, Thuo explained.

“Flexible and wearable electronics require we use plastics or other soft materials as the substrates for all the electrical components, but with such substrates, heat is a major problem,” Thuo said.

Thuo said the research was inspired in part by an encounter with a welder in Kenya who was working with minimal protection from the noise, light and fragments coming from the weld.

“I wondered what we can do to help such

COURTESY OF MARTIN THUO Martin Thuo and his research group have developed heat-free technology that can print conductive, metallic lines and traces on just about anything, including a rose petal.

workers,” Thuo said.

The project has advanced as researchers have discovered new ways of working with the technology.

“The students discovered ways of dealing with metal, and that blossomed into a million ideas,” Thuo said.

Today, it’s flower petals. But how could this technology be applied in the future? According to a press release, it could be used to monitor

crops, track the structural ability of a building and to collect biological data, among other things.

The technology has been tested in paper-based remote controls, reading changes in electrical currents when the paper is curved.

Thuo said his team is working with the company Safi-Tech to potentially apply this technology to wearable and flexible electronics.

“The more we understand these materials and develop more methods of engineering their

properties, the more we will reveal their uses,” Thuo said. “Their use as heat-free solders is a low-hanging fruit that we demonstrated right away. This has immediate application in wearable/flexible electronics, and we have a company, Safi-Tech, that is advancing these materials into the marketplace.”

Thuo said he hopes the project will advance and that it will be a learning opportunity for the students involved.

“We are only scratching the surface on these materials, and we anticipate a lot more surprises,” Thuo said. “I am hoping to see my team make many more discoveries in this area. I also hope that more people will appreciate the beauty in these materials and adopt them beyond what we can achieve in our team. I am looking to recruiting more students into this project.”

Thuo and a team of researchers recently wrote a paper describing the technology. The paper was published by Advanced Functional Materials, a scientific journal.

“Most important, I want to learn and use these materials to teach my students about frugal innovation while also discovering unique uses for them,” Thuo said. “There is a lot of fundamental science and engineering to be discovered based on these materials.”

Ames Library hosts speaker Jennifer Harvey on raising kids to be anti-racist

BY OLIVIA.RUF @iowastatedaily.com CAITLIN YAMADA/ IOWA STATE DAILY Former Vice President Joe Biden visited Iowa State on Dec. 4 as part of his “No Malarkey!” tour.

Joe Biden to visit Ames on Tuesday

BY JAKE.WEBSTER @iowastatedaily.com Former Vice President Joe Biden will return to Ames on Tuesday as Democratic presidential candidates spring to the finish line of the Iowa caucuses in less than two weeks.

Biden will host a “community event” at 1:15 p.m. Tuesday at the Gateway Conference Center in Ames.

“Biden will lay out his vision for America and listen to voters’ concerns and ideas around restoring the soul of the nation, rebuilding the middle class and unifying the country,” Biden’s campaign said in a press release.

Sen. Herman Quirmbach, D-Ames, spoke on behalf of the Biden campaign late Saturday in Ames at the Story County Democrats annual soup supper.

Quirmbach said the Democratic Party will “unite” around whoever wins the party’s nomination, though he has endorsed Biden.

Biden has the support of other local

Democrats, including Story County Supervisor Lisa Heddens who cited a close relationship between Biden and her son as part of the reason she supports the former vice president in the 2020 election, calling it “very personal.”

Biden’s most recent visit to Ames included a town hall he hosted in Iowa State’s Memorial Union in December.

The former vice president has campaigned across the length and width of Iowa in recent weeks, undertaking an 18-county “No Malarkey” tour of Iowa across eight days in late November and early December.

The former vice president remains the frontrunner in polls of likely Democratic voters nationwide according to the RealClearPolitics polling average and has retaken the lead in the organization’s polling average of likely Iowa Democratic caucusgoers, with a 2.7 percent lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is in second place.

Biden has events scheduled in Iowa cities Fort Dodge, Mason City and Osage through the rest of the week.

Raising kids is never an easy task, but raising kids to be anti-racist can be even harder.

Ames Public Library hosted a workshop on “Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America” with Jennifer Harvey on Sunday.

On the day before Martin Luther King Day, Ames Public Library welcomed Harvey, a professor of religion at Drake University and faculty director for the Crew Scholars Program, to speak on her experience in multi-racial activism and her most recent work, “Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America.”

The event began with Harvey telling personal stories of how race has affected young children in and around her community and her experiences as a parent. She then began to discuss the challenges of teaching young children to be “color-blind,” or to not see race and how this type of thinking may be harmful.

“This is just not a parental problem, but a generational problem,” Harvey said. “It’s also not just about white kids. It’s a discussion for all of us.”

She then informed the audience of children’s ways of learning and how it is not only the parents that teach them about race but society as well. She offered ideas and ways that parents and family can fight familial transmissions of silence on racism.

“By the age of five, our children recognize that certain racial groups are treated differently,” Harvey said when discussing the power of racial scripts. “Kids notice everything: who is in this space, who is absent, who is in charge and who is not.”

After the briefing of Harvey’s novel was a short break, followed by a workshop where attendees were encouraged to make their own name tags and

OLIVIA RUF/ IOWA STATE DAILY Attendees asked questions about education on racial injustice during the event “Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America.”

join the conversation with Harvey. The workshop was an open panel discussion that focused on the challenges of raising children to be anti-racist.

Many Ames community members shared their own experiences with the crowd and asked questions in regard to education on racial diversity and injustice. It was a dialogue between audience members and Harvey about ways parents can teach about race openly and honestly with their children and help them to recognize how racial injustice still exists in such a racially diverse society.

Once the workshop concluded, there was a social hour, where copies of the previewed novel and many other of Harvey’s works were available for sale and signing. Attendees were welcomed to converse over light beverages offered by the library staff and talk one on one with Harvey.

“Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America” is the 2018 Foreword INDIE GOLD Winner for Family and Relationships. The novel was also named as one of 2019’s “books you should read this summer” by CNN. More information on Harvey’s workshops and writing can be found on her website.

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Iowa State’s Research Day Registration for presenters open now

BY SAGE.SMITH @iowastatedaily.com Presenters for the 2020 Research Day must register by Friday, and attendees should register by March 20.

Iowa State’s Research Day 2020 is scheduled for March 25. For those who have attended or presented at Research Day events in the past, familiar activities expected to return.

New and enhanced ways for campus researchers and scholars to participate with this year will be presented by the Office of the Vice President for Research, according to a press release.

Attendees looking to present a poster demonstrating their interests in research and project results are encouraged to consider using a new poster design. The design, called the #betterposter, is designed to improve the experience of the presentations for the researchers and viewers.

Michael Dahlstrom, professor and interim director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, is a member of the Research Day Faculty Advisory Committee.

In the press release, Dahlstrom said poster presentations are a great way to share the importance and excitement of their work visually with others, or they can be a messy compost heap of manuscript scraps.

“The #betterposter design helps to focus the content and layout of a scientific poster to communicate what an audience actually wants,” Dahlstrom said.

The #betterposter design template highlights critical information, has consistent color schemes and uses plain language.

Multiple instructional sessions will be

COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH Attendees at a previous Iowa State Research Day. Research Day is a way for people to present their research and network with others.

offered before the Research Day by the Office of the Vice President for Research.

The sessions have the purpose to help presenters learn about the #betterposter design and how it can communicate research effectively to the public.

The posters using the #betterposter design will be printed and paid for by the Office of the Vice President for Research.

After registering to present at the 2020 Research Day, they must qualify. To do so, the presenters should select the option for #betterposter during the event registration.

They will then attend one of the training sessions and submit their poster(s) for event approval by March 2.

This year, the Research Day Steering Committee has specified time during the activities of the day for attendees to participate in a Grand Challenge networking event.

The networking event will allow participants to have a chance at meeting with colleagues from various disciplines and explore initiatives related to Iowa State’s five grand challenge themes, which include promoting

healthy lives, developing global citizens and vibrant societies and more.

Other opportunities to be expected at Research Day 2020 will include attendees giving talks about the focus of their research and information about campus research services.

“Research Day is a valuable platform for bringing the entire Iowa State research community together,” said Vice President for Research Sarah Nusser. “Focusing this year’s networking event specifically on our grand challenge themes will bring a sharper focus to this important opportunity for collaboration and help spark big ideas that ultimately lead to interdisciplinary exploration of new solutions that benefit society.”

More details for Iowa State’s 2020 Research Day and past Research Day events can be found on the Office of the Vice President for Research’s website.

Those wishing to attend and present at Research Day 2020 can register online, also on the Office of the Vice President for Research’s website.

MLK Day brings Ames community together

BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day celebrates the life and legacy of a Civil Rights leader and the community service he strived for.

There are no classes, and university offices are closed on the holiday, Monday. However, the annual MLK Day community birthday celebration took place that evening in the Ames Middle School auditorium.

The celebration began with MLK birthday cake during a social time from 6 to 6:30 p.m., with music by the Ames High School Jazz Band I. During this time, the cafeteria of the Ames Middle School quickly filled with Ames residents of all ages. Over 200 people filled the cafeteria.

A program followed the social time from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Ames Middle School auditorium, where Vanessa BakerLatimer, housing coordinator for the planning department for the City of Ames, served as the M.C. Over 600 people filled the auditorium.

“2020 marks the 52nd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination, and although his death was tragic and violent, he left us a great non-violent legacy in which to strive to bring together communities,” Baker-Latimer said.

The main part of the program was the 2020 keynote speaker for the event, which was Reginald Stewart, Iowa State’s vice president for diversity and inclusion.

Stewart started his keynote by asking the

audience to keep the “power of choice” in mind throughout.

“Choice is the fundamental thing that Dr. King gave us,” Stewart said. “For a lot of us, the world right now is very, very hard. But this power to make a choice is something no one can take from you. So ask yourself this, what motivates you? What makes you ignore the haters and believe in yourself?”

Toward the end of his keynote, Stewart talked directly to the audience and asked three specific groups to do specific things.

“Children, I am going to talk to you first,” Stewart said. “Perhaps the most important choice as a child that you can make is who you are friends with. You should choose the friends who believe in you; you should choose your friends who are positive and uplifting.”

Stewart then spoke to educators and asked them to switch the term “at risk” to “at promise” because everyone has a choice of seeing their children “at risk” or “at promise,” and believing in them is more important.

“For the rest of us, nobody knows what you are inside, and if you don’t believe, nobody else will,” Stewart said. “You owe it to Dr. King to try, and more importantly, you owe it to yourself to try.”

Linda Murken, chair of Story County Board of Supervisors, and John Haila, mayor of the City of Ames, also spoke at the celebration.

Murken brought up multiple points about how people shy away from serving their community, such as thinking that they are not worthy of helping or have nothing

worth providing, and countered those points by using quotes from King.

“One of the values that Dr. King held was that of selflessness,” Haila said. “He said, and I quote, ‘Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

So to honor Dr. King’s memory and with a view of making Ames a more friendly and richer community, I ask, what are each of us doing for others? How can we learn what they need and how can we find out?”

The Human Relations Commission presented its annual Humanitarian Award to Janet Hopper, Ames resident and former Roland-Story High School counselor.

“Each MLK Day, we celebrate the winner of the Human Relations Commission Humanitarian Award,” said Jill Crosser, member of the Human Relations Commission. “This year’s award is Janet Hopper. Janet, as a former RolandStory High School counselor, has gone above and beyond to support her students; her nominator also indicated that she has adopted families in need by helping to provide groceries, gas, clothing and support in other ways.”

The program also featured a high energy performance by the Ames High Step Team, a singing performance by Meeker Elementary students who sang “Martin Luther King” and other musical selections, a short video from the Volunteer Center of Story County and an original performance

by Peter Thompson, sixth-grade band teacher for the Ames Middle School, and Abdul Muhammad.

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day of service helps to empower individuals, strengthen communities, bridge barriers, address social problems and move us closer to King’s vision of a “Beloved Community.”

“Everyone can be great because everybody can serve,” King said.

Observing the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday through service is a way to begin each year with a commitment to making every community a better place.

“Your service honors Dr. King’s life and teachings and helps meet community challenges,” according to the Corporation for National and Community Service website. “Service also brings people together of all ages, backgrounds and abilities.”

The MLK Day of Service encourages all types of service, particularly projects that have a lasting impact and connect participants to ongoing service. The most successful projects connect to the life and teaching of King, meet a pressing community need and include time to reflect on his teachings, according to the Corporation for National and Community Service website.

“King was a vital figure of the modern era and a pivotal figure in the Civil Rights Movement,” according to the Corporation for National and Community Service website.

“His lectures and dialogues stirred the concern and sparked the conscience of a generation. His charismatic leadership inspired men and women, young and old, in the United States and around the world.”

Following in the footsteps of his father, in February 1948, at the age of 19, King entered the Christian ministry and was ordained at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.

King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation.

In 1954, upon completion of graduate studies at Boston University, he accepted a call to serve at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. While there, he was an instrumental leader in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, made famous by the nonviolent resistance and arrest of Rosa Parks.

The boycott lasted 382 days. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed and he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time, he emerged as a leader of the first rank. On December 21, 1956, the Supreme Court of the United States declared the laws requiring segregation on buses unconstitutional.

King resigned this position in 1959 and moved back to Atlanta to direct the activities of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

In 1957, he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement.

The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi.

In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over 2,500 times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest and action; and meanwhile, he wrote five books as well as numerous articles.

In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience and inspiring his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” a manifesto of revolution, according to the Nobel Peace Prize website.

King planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of people of color as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, “l Have a Dream”; he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of 20 times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; he was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and he became not only the symbolic leader of American black people but also a world figure.

At the age of 35, King was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement, according to the Nobel Peace Prize website.

From 1960 until his death in 1968, he served as co-pastor with his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church.

On the evening of April 4, 1968, King was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he and his associates were staying while leading a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city when a sniper’s bullet struck him in the neck. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later at the age of 39.

Shock and distress over the news of King’s death sparked rioting in more than 100 cities around the country, including burning and looting. Amid a wave of national mourning, President Lyndon B. Johnson urged Americans to “reject the blind violence” that had killed King, whom he called the “apostle of nonviolence,” according to the History Channel website.

Opinion

Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Iowa State Daily

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COLUMN

Superficial instead of substantial Debates are made to be a bigger deal than they should be

BY ZACHARY.JOHNSON @iowastatedaily.com Debates should not play as big a role in how we determine nominees or the president.

Debates are soundbite machines which see candidates grandstanding and blatantly not answering the questions by the moderators.

The way I see it, there is almost no purpose for the moderators to be there, as in every single debate, every candidate has frequently only briefly answered the question asked and have gone on to simply restate pieces of their stump speeches until the moderators cut them off.

This gets away from what’s truly important about what we need in a president, and that is a leader who will bring our government to a place where it will help the most people in the most effective way.

When we see these big personalities (see Donald Trump) we look at only the superficial and exterior traits of these candidates and less at the substantive parts, which can and should be seen as the more important parts.

There have been some egregious cases of presenting these debates like they are sporting events being put on in the same way, something like the Super Bowl would be (CNN is the worst offender in my opinion).

This creation of a pseudo-event (see works

by Daniel Boorstin, Walter Lippmann or any

Columnist Zachary Johnson believes people shouldn’t put as much weight on debates as they do.

class taught by associate teaching professor Dirk Deam at Iowa State) is simply the creation of a machine that churns out soundbites for the people of Twitter to consume (Nate Cohn has a great article on the people of Twitter). This leads to a broader and more widespread discussion of the election, sure, but I think it also makes the discussion less of a deep one.

I am not refuting that debates do have some effect on the public opinion of these candidates; I am instead positing that there is a more robust, accurate and effective way to do so.

When you are considering who to support in this Democratic primary process, it’s important to make your decision not from the soundbites that you hear on Twitter but by reading about their record, reading about their policy and reading about how they have performed as a lawmaker or other profession in the past.

I think it is dangerous how much weight the public puts into the surface level aspects of these candidates. It is this sort of attention paid to this part of a politician that led to Donald Trump, who managed to get elected president

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based only on how he made his voters feel and not what he is actually doing.

Politics should not come down to who has the best brand and who rakes in the most money (or has it in the first place, in the case of candidates like Bloomberg and Steyer) and can therefore spend it on getting their quick, 10 second long clip saying a great bumper sticker line.

We need to learn from our mistakes of 2016 and focus on substance rather than what’s on the surface.

EDITORIAL

Understanding opinion and its content

BY ISD EDITORIAL BOARD The Iowa State Daily offers a variety of content for each of the sections it has. No two stories are the same, especially when it comes to the opinion section.

As a news organization, much of the content aims to be unbiased and informational for all our readers to take in and formulate an opinion of their own. On the other hand, the opinion section tends to work a bit differently when it comes to the content it provides.

To begin with, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, an opinion is “what or how one thinks about something; judgement or belief.”

The opinion section focuses on being a gateway for people to express their opinions, so long as it is appropriate.

It does not matter what view you believe or whether you agree or disagree with the opinions previously expressed in the section. The opinion section is where you can express your stance on an issue or topic that you feel strongly about.

However, not a lot of people are familiar with the different types of opinion-related content the section provides. There are columns, guest columns, editorials, cartoons, letters from the editor and letters to the editor.

COLUMN Columns are 500-700 word articles written by columnists who write regularly

for the opinion section. In their article, they take a stance on a topic they feel strongly about and explain to readers why they have such a belief. Columns can range from humorous–sarcastic satire to serious controversial topics regarding issues in our world. Opinions expressed in these columns are opinions that the authors have themselves and not of the organization.

GUEST COLUMN Guest Columns are opinion articles written by anyone not part of the Iowa State Daily staff and usually over 300 words.

People who write guest columns usually come from people who wish to share their opinion with a large mass and want to highlight on something important in regards to their opinion. Like regular columns, opinions expressed in these articles are of the author alone and do not represent the opinion or stance of the organization as a whole.

EDITORIAL Editorials are joint-opinions expressed and agreed upon by all the members of the editorial board. Members meet once a week and discuss topics that they believe to be of importance in our community. Members are not required to share the same point of view, but in order for editorial to be functional there must be a consensus on the topic being discussed. Therefore, opinions are discussed, and editorials focus on the opinion that all the members were able to agree upon and share the same opinion.

CARTOON In a way, cartoons are the visual representation of what a column would consist of. Cartoonists visually voice their opinion through caricatures and humorous drawings of a certain topic that expresses their own opinion.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Letters labeled as ‘letter from the editor’ are letters written by either the opinion editor or the editor-in-chief of the Iowa State Daily. These pieces are usually written as a message to the student body as well as members of the community that happen to read our content. These pieces can be things such as visions for the semester to come, important announcements and introductions.

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by Iowa State alumni, students, Ames residents and sometimes people from completely different states. These letters can be submitted through our Iowa State Daily website or emailed to the opinion editor.

The letters tend to consist of a word count of 300 words or less. Like columns and guest columns, letters expressing any sort of opinion are beliefs that the authors themselves have in regards to the topic they are discussing. Publishing of a letter does not mean that the Iowa State Daily agrees with the opinion expressed.

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Sports

Iowa State Daily Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Iowa State earns win in Brookings More questions arise from South Dakota

BY STEPHEN.MCDANIEL @iowastatedaily.com With plenty of snowfall and heavy winds, Iowa State and South Dakota State huddled up in Frost Arena in Brookings, South Dakota, for a Big 12 dual.

Plenty of questionable things stood out in Iowa State’s 22-17 win over the hosting Jackrabbits.

COLEMAN’S PERFORMANCE AT 184 The dual against SDSU marked the fifth dual since redshirt junior Sam Colbray and redshirt sophomore Marcus Coleman swapped weight classes, with Colbray dropping down to 174 pounds and Coleman making the jump up to 184.

Colbray, for reference, has tallied a 4-1 dual record — only losing to the No. 10 ranked Anthony Valencia of Arizona State since he cut the 10 pounds and is just outside of InterMat’s top 10 rankings, where he comes in ranked at No. 11 amongst 174 pounders.

Coleman currently holds a 2-3 dual record since the switch, picking up wins in the Utah Valley dual and the Harvard dual. “ We n e e d t o f i n d t h e o l d M a r c u s Coleman that goes out and goes after guys,” said Head Coach Kevin Dresser. “He’s got to figure it out; he’s not doing the job for us right now.”

Prior to SDSU, Coleman’s losses came in sudden victory against Campbell’s Andrew Morgan and a 20-8 major decision against Arizona State’s No. 1 ranked Zahid Valencia.

The dual against SDSU started off at 174, where Coleman lost in another major decision to start the dual off with SDSU’s Zach Carlson.

CARR RUNNING OUT OF GAS Friday’s dual saw something unusual out of the No. 3 ranked David Carr.

At first glance, Carr’s 16-5 major decision victory over Colten Carlson doesn’t seem so

CHRIS JORGENSEN/ IOWA STATE DAILY Iowa State then-redshirt freshman Marcus Coleman pauses during his match against Missouri on Feb. 24.

ordinary from the redshirt freshmen, but Iowa State fans in Brookings may have noticed something different.

Carr was on the verge of a tech fall against Carlson before he pulled an uncharacteristic move and got tired.

“I give David credit for going out really hard and trying to bonus point and get extra points for the team,” Dresser said. “He doesn’t have that extra minute, and that’s on him to figure out how to get that extra minute to close it out.”

It’s an unfamiliar sight to see out of Carr, but there was a very noticeable drop off from the David Carr who went up by as much as 12-1 and the David Carr who let up two takedowns.

Carlson took advantage of the tired Carr, saving him and SDSU from a potential tech fall.

JACKRABBITS MISS OUT ON UPSET

The final score of 22-17 can show the dual in Frost Arena was a close one, but it’s not unrealistic to see the scenario where the Jackrabbits come out with an upset win.

There were two matches specifically that SDSU had an opportunity to capitalize on, which may have made the difference between win and loss.

At 285, Gannon Gremmel walked away with a 4-3 decision victor y over Blake Wolters after recording a late takedown in the third period. If Wolters is the one who grabs the late takedown, SDSU walks away with three straight wins to start the dual and a 11-0 lead.

“I felt we had some really good performances and a few not so good performances,” Dresser said.

The other match that may have had a

different outcome came at 149, where Ryan Leisure faced off with the No. 11 ranked Henry Pohlmeyer.

Pohlmeyer walked away with a 1-0 decision win over Leisure after earning an escape in the third period. Pohlmeyer has proved how good he can be after defeating then-No. 7 Max Thomsen in a major decision.

A lack of aggressiveness from the Jackrabbits’ sophomore in the dual with Leisure is a big reason why the dual only ended 1-0.

If Pohlmeyer taps into the aggressiveness that they saw in Cedar Rapids, the 149 match in Brookings had the potential to end with a bonus point victory for the Jackrabbits.

If those two matches went in the favor of South Dakota State, there’s a chance the Jackrabbits pick up another big win, and the Cyclones leave Brookings with loss.

Close Cyclone victory confirms the ‘Iowa State Way’

BY JOHN.MILLER @iowastatedaily.com The Iowa State Cyclones (10-6, 2-3 Big 12) squeaked out a 64 to 63 victory over Oklahoma State (11-6, 2-3 Big 12) on Sunday afternoon.

It was a big conference win for the Cyclones, considering that Oklahoma State was in a similar conference position.

THE IOWA STATE WAY Coach Bill Fennelly has instituted a foundation of getting his team to play the “Iowa State Way.” The idea around it is to get his players to do things the right way. This means not worrying about things out of their control, and on Sunday afternoon, the Cyclones couldn’t have showed that mentality any better.

Down 43-31 in the third quarter, Iowa State could have folded.

But they clawed back and were able

to take a 48-47 lead heading into the fourth.

In a game with only four lead changes, Iowa State showed the ability to battle under adversity while being down.

OFFENSIVE INCONSISTENCY While the team was able to erase the large deficit, the offense had its share of dry spells. To begin the fourth quarter, Oklahoma State held Iowa State to zero points and was able to take a 55-48 lead with five minutes remaining in the game.

In the first half, Iowa State shot just 29 percent from the field. That subpar shooting percentage was a main reason why the Cyclones trailed by nine at halftime. This was after a first quarter where the Cyclones started with seven straight points and then allowed Oklahoma State seven straight points in return.

Basketball is a game of runs, but

the Cyclones seem to be on the wrong end of many of them this season.

SCORING OPTIONS OUTSIDE OF JOENS Due to the offensive inconsistency Iowa State is looking at the scoring options outside of Ashley Joens.

Joens has been a dominant force this season for Iowa State, as she leads the Cyclones and the Big 12 in points per game (21.9 points per game).

She was held to an uncharacteristic 17 points on Sunday. In the fourth, Joens scored only one point.

Oklahoma State made it a focal point of their defense to limit Joens.

Kristin Scott scored 17 points as well and went four of five from the three-point line. Ines Nezerwa also scored 11. Iowa State sometimes struggles to have the ability to score outside of Joens, especially when the other team focuses on it.

COLLIN MAGUIRE/ IOWA STATE DAILY Kristin Scott tries a three-pointer against Southern women’s basketball on Nov. 7.

Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Iowa State Daily

Lifestyle

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Iowa State alum chases dream How Travis Horn went from DJ to pro wrestler

BY SYDNEY.NOVAK @iowastatedaily.com The dance floor of his junior homecoming dance is where Travis Horn first recalls finding his confidence and passion for dancing that he still has to this day.

For Horn, high school usually left him feeling like an outsider or like he didn’t belong. After the night of that homecoming dance, he found opportunities, including dancing with his school’s drill team for a coed event, dancing at clubs that were 18+ on the weekends and joining Iowa State’s ISU Hip Hop Club (DubH) student club, the largest campus club.

Among Iowa State’s notable and unique alumni network, Horn is a 2008 graduate with a bachelor’s degree in apparel, merchandising and design. Iowa State’s apparel, merchandising and design program allowed Horn to intern for Lip Service in Los Angeles, California.

Horn said he knew he wanted to go to Iowa State, and he wanted to do something he could use his creativity skills with. Before Iowa State, he obtained an associate arts degree from Iowa Central Community College.

In high school, Horn described himself as being “really artsy.” He decided to see where life would take him if he pursued art, even when some were skeptical.

“People would tell me there’s not a lot of money in anything art related, so I never got my hopes up,” Horn said. “But I also felt I got the same reaction as when I was younger and told them that I wanted to be a pro wrestler; they would just kind of role their eyes.”

During his time in Ames, Travis danced for DubH, the campus-wide hip hop dance club.

Horn said he loved the energy and performance aspect of dancing and still loves to dance.

Despite loving choreography, his favorite thing is to freestyle.

When he wasn’t dancing with DubH, Horn built a career for himself DJing for the local bars in the Ames area. He continues to DJ in his free time today under the name “DJ Click N Play” and has a great appreciation for music and the role it has played in his life.

“You experience things, and there can always be a song on in the background that you will associate that moment with,” Horn said. “So

Travis Horn, Iowa State alumnus, dancing for DUBh hip hop dance troop.

rather I look back on my time DJing, dancing or even wrestling; there are little bits of music that factor into these moments.”

Yes, wrestling. Horn now wrestles at the professional level after he began training at age 30.

After graduating from Iowa State in 2008 when he was 23, he worked in the Ames area and continued to DJ and dance locally.

At one point, he worked in Des Moines and commuted from Ames. For several years, Horn worked in retail, DJed and danced, but he harbored a desire to wrestle professionally, despite having very little experience.

Recalling this time in his life, he said he remembers feeling as though he needed to make a change and that it was time for him to get serious about something. He knew he was not really using the degree he had worked hard to earn.

Six years ago, about the time Horn said he was feeling most stagnant in his life, he was gifted tickets to “WrestleMania,” which is the biggest World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) event of the year, and it was held in California. He said he felt as if this was the luckiest opportunity in his life, and it proved to be true.

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The winner of WrestleMania in 2014 was Seth Rollins, Iowa native and, later, Horn’s mentor and trainer. Rollins was not even supposed to be in the championship fight; however, he ended up taking advantage of a “money in the bank” opportunity.

Money in the Bank is a specific type of match WWE fighters take part in by climbing a rope ladder to reach a briefcase. The briefcase contains a contract promising the winner a championship match, which they choose the time and place for, within a year. “[Rollins] won the WWE Championship when he wasn’t even supposed to be there or in that match,” Horn said. “I remember looking at him on the stage that night celebrating, and I knew I was meant to be there, that I was meant to see this guy from Iowa win, and this is a sign; I need to do this.”

Black and Brave Wrestling Academy is where Horn took the next steps in his career. He began training with Rollins three days a week, three times a day for three months while maintaining his own workouts outside of his training days.

The academy also trains all their students in cross-fit in addition to the wrestling practice.

Most people will rarely experience the persistence it takes to train for any sport professionally. Horn said this kind of investment can be demanding and doesn’t come at any easy cost.

A normal week for Horn consists of getting a healthy amount of sleep, waking up and working, going to cross-fit and eating a healthy meal before going to bed. It’s extremely important he doesn’t stray from this routine to get the most out of his training regimen and the best for his body.

On the weekend, he will start Friday night off with a cross-fit class before having anywhere from one to three shows Saturday and Sunday.

He is still working hard and persistently to take the next steps in his career. In the coming decade, he said he hopes to be contracted with WWE. What Horn said he considers his proudest moment in his career was fighting for WWE when he was cast in a nationally televised match.

He had also worked with WWE before. They filmed a live episode of Monday Night Raw and a holiday episode. Horn also had a match with Erick Rowan, a six foot, eight inches tall and 315 pound WWE fighter.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF AJS ULTRA LOUNGE Travis Horn, Iowa State alumnus, DJing at A.J’s Ultra Lounge.

Horn said he was very humbled to have this experience. He has always wanted to work for WWE and looks forward to working with them again in the future.

“To go out, do something I thought was really cool, then come back and it’s over in a flash, which is just like what a good night of DJing feels like,” Horn said. “You can start at 10 p.m., and then you look down and before you know it, it’s 2 a.m. and you can’t believe it’s over because the night went so fast.”

Although his wrestling career started only five years ago, Horn said he is excited to see where it will take him next. He said he hopes to take the recent publicity he has gotten from his Monday Night Raw appearance to move his career forward.

“I’m really proud of myself that I took a huge leap in life and become as healthy as possible,” Horn said. “That way I can do this as long as possible and inspire others through health and fitness.”

Of all his accomplishments, Horn said he is most proud of the fact he was able to turn his life around when he was 30 years old to pursue his dream career.

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