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Election outcome City, school and hospital seat results released BY JACOB.SMITH @iowastatedaily.com Ames residents took to the polls Tuesday to elect representatives to the Ames City Council, Ames

Community School District School Board and Mary Greeley Medical Center Board of Trustees. Story County elections have historically had low turnout rates for students and adults, as the August election for the State Representative for District 6 had a voter participation rate of 5.29 percent, according to the city of Ames. Ward 4, Ward 2 and the at-large position were up for grabs on the Ames City Council.

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with three individuals running for one seat. For the first time since 2011, no one candidate received a majority of the vote, which means that a runoff election may be held in December. “A runoff election shall be held for positions unfilled because of failure of a sufficient number of candidates to receive a majority vote in the regular city election,” according to the Ames Municipal Code Sec. 6.13. Iowa State student Rachel Junck

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PHOTOS COURTESY OF CANDIDATES, BRONWYN BEATTY-HANSON PHOTO COURTESY OF CITY OF AMES, DESIGN BY MARIA ALBERS An election took place Tuesday for the Ames City Council, the Ames Community School District School Board and the Mary Greeley Medical Center Board of Trustees.

IOWA STATE DAILY The Ames Resource Recovery Plant began when the city of Ames started to look for an alternative way to keep the city sustainable.

Waste to go to landfills due to power plant complications BY AMBER.MOHMAND @iowastatedaily.com All of Ames’ solid waste will be going to the landfill due to power plant boiler tube failures. Since August 1975, the Resource Recovery Plant has recycled metals, processed garbage, added glass recycling and used waste as fuel for the power plant to generate electricity. The fuel is the burnable garbage sent to the power plant and co-fired with natural gas. Due to the scheduled repair discussed by the Ames City Council in September and unscheduled maintenance issue with the boilers at the power plant, there has been a disruption in the garbage collection and processing system in Story County, according to a press release from the city of Ames. The power plant is anticipated to have one of the two boilers and its waste-to-energy system operational by Dec. 9. Existing boiler tubes at the power plant will be replaced with specially coated tubes to alleviate ongoing maintenance issues and allow the power plant to resume electric production, according to the press release. “Repairs being made to the Ames Power Plant are a long-term investment in the future of local energ y production,” said Donald Kom, director of Ames electric services, in the press release. “At the same time, we are

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Student Government to review new bill BY JACOB.SMITH @iowastatedaily.com Student Government will be reviewing a bill Wednesday night that addresses recent controversial events and similar events on campus from past years. The bill, titled “Censuring The Department of Residence,” will be introduced by Senator Ian Searles for himself, Senator Ludwig, Senator Hanyang, Senator Zastrow, Senator Klein, Senator Sumael, Senator Greene, Senator Klaes, Speaker Culbertson, Vice-Speaker Schrader and Director of Diversity and Inclusion Hoffman, according to the document.

This censuring comes after Bean House in Geoffroy Hall was defaced multiple times with a racial slur, pictures surfaced of Student Government Adviser Alex Krumm with his face painted black previously posted on his Instagram and students protested the events by blocking off Lincoln Way, demanding to talk to President Wendy Wintersteen. “Racism has no place or protection on campus as it violates the University’s Principles of Community, and [...] There have been high profile events in recent years that have highlighted the systemic failure of the Department of Residence within the University to respond to incidents of harassment of protected classes,”

according to the document. The bill cites events dating back as far as 2016 and gives recommendations on how the university should address incidents. One resolution is to enforce a campus-wide policy of a 48 hour response time on all events to the parties affected whether or not the solution is clear. Additionally, “all impacted parties [will] be kept up to date on the status of the case within FERPA confines, and who exactly they can contact for support and/or information pertaining to the case,” according to the document. The bill will be looked at and voted on by the Senate at the meeting.

If passed, the resolution will be sent to Director of Residence Pete Englin, all members of the Residence Life Leadership Team, Vice President of Student Affairs Martino Harmon, Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion Reginald Stewart, Dean of Students Vernon Hurte, and President of the University Wendy Wintersteen. Additionally, Student Government will be reviewing funding requests by multiple organizations. The Greek Week Council committee has asked Student Government to assist in funding

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11.6.19 BRA (Bras to Recycle and Aid Women) Collection, Multiple Collection Boxes Throughout Campus, all day In partnership with I Support

the Girls, the Office of Sustainability is collecting gently-used and unwanted bras toward supporting Central Iowa women in need.

Open house: Strategic facilities plan, Veterinary Medicine commons at 8 a.m. Three drop-in

open house sessions are planned to collect input on how the university community uses its buildings and spaces. The information will be used to develop a strategic plan for future investment in design improvements or renewal of ISU campus facilities.

Workshop: Launching Your Faculty Career at ISU, Campanile Room, Memorial Union at 9 a.m. An introduction, for term faculty only, to

university resources, polices and programs that will

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11.4.19 Andrew Junior Brown, age 25, of 1210 Walton Dr. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with juvenile pickup order at 1618 Golden Aspen Drive (reported at 12:20 p.m.). Andrew Junior Brown, age 25, of 1210 Walton Dr. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with contempt, violation of no-contact or protective order, at 1618 Golden Aspen Drive (reported at 2:00 p.m.).

help them with a successful start. The discussion will include career paths and opportunities for development. Register via Learn@ISU.

Meeting: Professional and Scientific Council, Gallery, Memorial Union at 2:10 p.m.

The P&S Council is a representative body elected by, and responsible to, Professional and Scientific employees at Iowa State University. Meetings are open to the public.

Open house and dedication: Digital Accessibility Lab, 206 Durham Center at 3 p.m.

Designed as a welcoming and inclusive space, the Digital Accessibility Lab will allow students with disabilities to work together using assistive technology that includes speech-to-text software, text-to-speech software, gaming hardware and software, screen magnifiers, virtual reality headsets and more.

Stacy Danele Anderson, age 44, of Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged for a parole violation at 111 Sherman Avenue (reported at 2:15 p.m.).

CLAIRE CORBIN/ IOWA STATE DAILY Iowa fall Fall in Iowa has consisted of the changing and falling of leaves, along with a quick change to winter conditions leaving parts of Iowa with snow for a short period of time.

Camie Louise Hubbard, age 34, of 2505 Jensen Ave. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with child endangerment, aggravated/felony assault, at 2505 Jensen Avenue (reported at 6:50 p.m.).

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Camie Louise Hubbard, age 34, of 2505 Jensen Ave. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of prescription drugs at 2505 Jensen Avenue (reported at 6:50 p.m.).

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Reflecting on LAS Dean talks improving programs in college BY LYDIA.SAMUELSON @iowastatedaily.com Beate Schmittmann stepped up to the role of dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2012 to take on the responsibilities of the college. As dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Schmittmann is responsible for the college’s personnel, budget and assuring courses and programs are delivered at a high quality level. She also travels, talking to donors and alumni about the importance of student scholarships and providing faculty support. According to Schmittmann, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences contains 18 departments and the Greenlee School, making it one of the largest colleges on campus. In addition to being the administrative home to the three ROTC programs, Schmittmann said the college also has around 20 cross-disciplinary studies, such as African American studies, international studies and more. There are also many activities run through the college that students can engage in. These activities include areas such as theatre and music, with prime examples being music ensembles and the ISU Marching Band. “We probably have a wider range of programs than the other colleges on campus,” Schmittmann said. “We literally engage every Iowa

State student [...] we teach mathematics and physics and chemistry and English [...] to everyone. All the other colleges, all the other majors rely on [College of Liberal Arts and Sciences] to provide some of those foundational courses for their majors.” The college is constantly changing and improving their program to better suit their students. One recent improvement is the new learning communities for open option students. “That’s a large group of students, about 600 students, who we really didn’t have learning community options for them in the past,” Schmittmann said. “Over the past two to three years we’ve really built up learning community options for students in open option.” Open option students — those coming in to Iowa State without a declared major — have access to advisers, career assessments and skill tests, according to Schmittmann. With all of this available aid, Schmittmann said most students find a major within their first year. For students not involved in open option, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has new opportunities on the horizon. “I have a team that’s hard at work developing an entrepreneurship program for [College of Liberal Arts and Sciences],” Schmittmann said. “President [Wendy] Wintersteen has made it one of her priorities to really make Iowa State University stand out for innovation and entrepreneurship. All the colleges are developing programs that are uniquely tailored for their students but with a lot of partnering and collaboration. We are working on an entrepreneurial program which gives students in [College of Liberal Arts and Sciences] [a chance] to

The Iowa State College of Veterinary Medicine has entered an agreement with the Universidad De Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, located in the Spanish Canary Islands. The agreement opens up a student exchange program between Vet Med and the Spanish university. Mercedes Serracin, coordinator of international programs and program assistant in the veterinary medicine administration department, said this agreement has been in the works since approximately 2015. The y or iginal l y corresponded with Universidad De Las Palmas through email, then met face to face with representatives at the NAFSA: Association for International Educators conference. Alejandro Ramirez is the coordinator of international programs, interim assistant dean for academic and student affairs and assistant professor for veterinar y diagnostics and production animal medicine department, and said the agreement works to create an equal student exchange

Digital Accessibility Lab to open in Durham BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com

COURTESY OF COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES Beate Schmittmann is the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State. Schmittmann has been in the position of dean since April 2, 2012.

explore entrepreneurial ideas and innovations.” The entrepreneurial program could be implemented as early as the fall 2020 semester. The college also recentl y invested more into Iowa State’s Career Services in Carver Hall with interview rooms students can reserve to have interviews or calls in a professional setting. According to Schmittmann, the college is doing its best to boost students into their future careers by also offering LAS 203X: Professional Career Preparation. It is a half semester class to teach students how to present themselves professionally and successfully in the world beyond college. “I want this college to be a place where people like to work and

study,” Schmittmann said. “One of the things that gives me personally a lot of satisfaction is when I create spaces, environments, [...] where people feel comfortable, where people want to work, work hard and really make a contribution. So if I can create that for people that means a lot to me.” Before coming to Iowa State, Schmittmann served as the department chair of physics at Virginia Tech, where she said she came to realize why she enjoys being a dean. “[I] enjoyed the opportunity to have a broader impact on programs,” Schmittmann said. “Not just my own students and my own classes, but have the ability to make a difference for a whole department and for faculty, for students.”

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between the two universities. Ramirez said the program allows students from the Universidad De Las Palmas to come receive hands-on training at Iowa State, and in return, fourth-year veterinary medicine students may travel to the Universidad De L as Palmas De Gran Canaria for training. Serracin said she estimates the program will begin sending approximately two students as early as summer or fall 2020 for a two-week rotation in the Spanish Canary Islands. “What we do is we send a student over there,” Ramirez said. “[The student] pays tuition here. Students from Spain pay tuition over there and don’t have to pay tuition when they come here.” Ramirez said the students are required to cover the price of housing and cost of living arrangements when traveling abroad. The estimated expenses for the students will be around $2,000 to $3,000 based on previous similar exchange programs, according to Serracin. The Spanish Canary Islands are located off the coast of Morocco. Ramirez said the

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program allows students to interact with the more diverse species living on the islands as well as work with different clients and different languages, allowing for an immersive cultural experience. “They have a lot of marine animals and obviously here in Iowa that’s not something our students get exposure to,” Ramirez said. Ramirez said many of the College of Veterinary Medicine students have an interest in working with clients while using and practicing the Spanish language, and that

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The Digital Accessibility Lab is being opened for students with disabilities on campus. From 3 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in Durham Center room 206 on campus, speakers are scheduled from 3 to 3:45 p.m., followed by tours of the lab in Durham Center room 108. Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend and refreshments will be served. According to a press release, the Digital Accessibility Lab will allow students with disabilities to work together using assistive technology that includes speech-to-text software, text-to-speech software, gaming hardware and software, screen magnifiers, virtual reality headsets and more. “Many Iowa State students experience daily barriers to their educational goals, and creating barrier-free access to hardware and software through initiatives like the Digital Accessibility Lab offers students greater opportunities to increase their course engagement and succeed during their time at Iowa State and beyond,” said Tonya Tienter, communications specialist for Information Technology Services, in a press release. The Computation Advisory Committee (CAC) recently approved a $24,264 funding request back in May. The project was originally outlined in March and received final approval from Iowa State President Wendy Wintersteen at the end of April. The new assistive technology lab will be located in an approximately 200 square foot space on the first floor of Durham Center, previously used as a collaborative student workspace. Information Technology Services (ITS) is providing the physical space and will also sponsor the furniture needed for the lab, allowing the $24,264 of start-up funds provided by CAC to be used to purchase assistive technology hardware and software, including speech-to-text and textto-speech tools, a screen reader, a Braille display and a screen magnifier. The lab will be overseen by Cyndi Wiley, ITS digital accessibility coordinator, and staffed by two graduate students and an undergraduate student, whose positions will be sponsored by ITS as well. Students will be able to visit the lab for training opportunities and use the provided equipment for projects, with the possibility of a check out system being implemented in the future. Although the space is predominantly student-oriented, faculty members will also have the opportunity to use the lab to learn how to use assistive technology in the classroom and make their coursework digitally accessible. “There is not currently a centralized physical space on campus for students with disabilities to work together using assistive technology, or a place for them to try out new technologies that can increase their course engagement,” Wiley said in a press release. “Digital accessibility is not only the production of course materials, websites and communications in an accessible manner; it is a mindset related directly to the student experience. Fully experiencing content and materials using assistive technology is essential in supporting that mindset.”

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Reforms change the way votes count BY KATHERINE.KEALEY @iowastatedaily.com Most elections in the United States are winner-take-all. The concept of “winner-take-all” is also known as “first-past-thepost.” In this election process voters indicate on a ballot which candidate they would prefer win the election. In this process’ purest form, the candidate with the most votes — no matter how small a percentage of the total that is — would be elected to that position. This is the election process used not only in most elections in the U.S. but also in Canada, the United Kingdom and several other democracies with origins in the British Empire. Other countries including Germany and Israel use systems of proportional representation for their election processes. The purest form of proportional representation is supposed do what its name implies: represent the voting population proportionally. Mack Shelley, professor and chair of the political science department, said it is supposed to be a closer representation of what voters want to see from their elected officials, but this is not always the case. “When you have this pure [proportional representation] system, which actually no one has a pure [system], you would get pretty much exactly the proportional representation in the national legislature that reflects voter preference, that is different from first-past-the-post,” Shelley said. Germany has a representation threshold of 5 percent, Shelley said. This means if a party does not achieve at least 5 percent of the votes

IOWA STATE DAILY A “Vote Here” sign waves in the wind in front of the Ascension Lutheran Church where Ames residents cast their ballot for the 2016 presidential election on Nov. 8, 2016.

in the national election those votes can become wasted votes and the party will receive zero seats in the legislature. Thresholds like this are why no country has a pure form of proportional representation, just as the U.S. does not have a pure form of first-past-the-post voting. It is common in first-past-thepost systems for elections to be centered around geography, resulting in gerrymandering and further skewing results from representing the popular vote. “If you try hard enough you can influence and rig any kind of political system, whoever and whatever makes the rules pretty much determines the outcome,” Shelley said. There have been reforms in recent

years in the U.S. to attempt to better represent voters’ preferences than first-past-the-post elections are capable of. Beginning with the 2018 elections in Maine, voters rank their choices in elections in the state. Their second and third choices are added up should no candidate receive at least 50 percent of the vote in the first round of voting. New York City voted on a similar measure Tuesday to approve or reject ranked choice voting for primary and special elections in the city. If New York voters approve the measure, it will become the largest jurisdiction by population in the U.S. to use a method other than first-pastthe-post to conduct its elections

starting in 2021. Andrew Yang offered his support for the measure on the ballot in New York in a tweet Tuesday. This style of election is used in countries including Ireland and Australia. Nothing in the U.S. Constitution directly states how elections should be run, other than dictating it is up to the states to decide how to do so. Maine is one of two states along with Nebraska that do not award the state’s popular vote winner all of their electors in the electoral college. Instead, electors are awarded based on not only the winner of the statewide popular vote, but also the winner of each congressional district. Through this method, Donald

Trump was able to add an electoral vote to his electoral college total from Maine despite losing the statewide popular vote to Hillary Clinton. Most Americans are aware the system for electing their president is not a purely national first-pastthe-post election, though polling suggests most would prefer such a system to the currently used electoral college. A coalition of state governments are currently in the process of working to circumvent the electoral college through the “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.” This compact has been adopted by 15 states, accounting for 36.4 percent of all electoral votes. Once adopted by enough states to account for a majority of electoral votes, the states’ party to the compact would award their electoral votes to the national popular vote winner – ensuring the popular vote winner would always win the presidency, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The electoral college was designed by the founding fathers to not necessary elect the candidate the people want, Shelley said. This is supposed to act as a barrier to the average person and it was not designed by accident. “It was implemented in the U.S. Constitution to provide something like the mechanism by which kings were selected in late medieval and early modern Europe,” Shelley said. “The idea was a council of elders [...] would make a choice based on who would be the best person to run the country, not based on who the people really want to run the country.”

Research station sells produce on campus BY AMBER.FRIEDRICHSEN @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State students have the opportunity each week to purchase fresh produce grown at the Horticulture Research Station, located north of campus. Students at Iowa State get food from many places, such as dining centers, cafes and convenience stores. Students may not know that every week, fresh produce is available for sale. Customers can place an order online every Thursday until noon and pick up their order between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Friday outside of the Harl Commons at Curtiss Hall. This concept of selling produce is the result of a project carried out by Azucena Castillo, senior in agronomy. She began working on the farm at the Horticulture Research Station and later developed a business. “Originally I just started working at the farm and they offered me this opportunity to have this student plot,” Castillo said. “Basically I got to choose what I wanted to grow and plant. I took care of it all summer and then when it [became] available, we sold it all here.” Nicholas Howell, superintendent of the research station, said along with students growing produce, researchers also do all kinds of studies on the farm.

“We have an organic practices research project where they are using a special kind of netting to exclude insects so that you don’t have to spray,” Howell said. “We have a project involving peppers where they are looking at biodegradable plastic mulch. We’ve had a sweet potato project where they are looking at nutritional requirements.” Howell said once data is collected from the experiments, the crops that were produced are turned over to the farm. They are sold and profits supplement the budget of the farm. One way the farm sells these crops is through their online webstore. Howell said this not only allows students to be a part of the growing and harvesting process, but also the marketing process. Marketing crops is exactly what Castillo has done with her project, selling the farm’s produce on campus. She said one of her favorite parts of the business is the preparation before sales. She said she worked on the preparation process this summer before she had the obligation of classes. “During the summer, I’d go to the field, harvest what needed to be harvested, and then run it through the produce washer or wash it myself and then bag it,” Castillo said. “It’s a very busy day because we do it all in one day — the day before the sale.” Sales vary during different parts of the year, and some times are busier than others. Howell said in the fall season, there are

GARRETT HEYD/ IOWA STATE DAILY Apples sit in crates in the coolers at the Horticulture Research Farm after being picked on Nov. 5. Students and staff have the opportunity to purchase produce by ordering it online.

particular crops that customers seek out. “[The most popular is] apples, for sure,” Howell said. “We are having a good time selling sweet potatoes right now. As stuff comes into season, people are kind of waiting for it and there’s always a huge interest as soon as it’s offered.” As Castillo stood outside of Curtiss selling this seasonal produce, she said she

reflected on why she enjoys what she does. “For me, the best part about this whole learning experience was seeing [the plants] planted and then seeing it on someone’s table,” Castillo said. “In agronomy, you don’t always get to see the final product.” Anyone who is interested in purchasing produce from the Horticulture Research Station can visit the website to place an order.

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Tips to combat social anxiety BY CONNOR.BAHR @iowastatedaily.com Halloween has just passed us by. Hopefully, all of you got the fright you deserved, but here I am going to talk about a fear that you wouldn’t pay to experience. To preface this, let me explain that I have social anxiety. Any sort of social interaction makes me incredibly anxious. This includes being the center of attention, any encounters with strangers and icebreakers (Syllabus week is a living nightmare). I’ve been dealing with it for a long time and, as such, have picked up a few tricks that I think can help people who suffer from social anxiety as well as people who do not. The first, and probably most important, tip is to face your fears. If there is one thing I could tell my younger self, this would be it. By taking risks, getting outside of your comfort zone and doing things that would normally be considered insane in your mind, you will learn a lot of hard lessons that you can use in the future to better yourself. And what better time to do that than college? There are so many people on campus to meet and so many experiences to make that even if you only get a tiny fraction of them, you will have made memories that will last a lifetime. And even if things go wrong, you may never have to see those people again. Such is the beauty of meeting people that you don’t live or work with. When I realized that I could hardly hold a decent conversation with anyone in high school, I took it upon myself to learn. This is tip number two. Watch the people around you and begin to “re-learn” the social norms that you are supposed to be upholding. While you are sitting in class, listen to the people around you chatter and see if you can pick up patterns in how they interact with each other. Attempt to practice these habits with strangers, which ties back into tip number one. Through observation and practice, you can begin to learn to hold a conversation without falling into an awkward silence. Tip number three would be to learn to

COURTESY OF GETTY IMAGES Columnist Connor Bahr offers tips for those who experience social anxiety, including doing things outside of your comfort zone. As someone who personally suffers from social anxiety, Bahr hopes his advice can help others with similar struggles.

be yourself. I fell into the bad habit very quickly of simply conforming to whoever I was around. This resulted in two negative consequences. I found that it was ver y difficult to have more than a surface-level friendship with anyone, as I felt I couldn’t be truthful to anyone. I also found that,

when I was alone, I didn’t really know who I was. As I realized this, I started to build my own personality and became very passionate about things that actually excite me. Find who you are, and be proud of that person, even if not everybody is. Stand by your ideals

even if it means awkward interactions. I hope that by sharing my story and some help, I am able to make someone’s life easier. Even if you have tried these tips and are still struggling to keep your head above water, remember you are not alone and it is never shameful to get help.

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What we want to see from the newly elected BY ISD EDITORIAL BOARD Dear newly-elected City Council, Congrats on your victory in the Ames City Council election. Hopefully your election to this office represents a majority of your constituents and not simply a plurality. And if that can’t be true, may your actions as a council member benefit all of your constituents and not just those who voted for you. Among the many challenges you face as a council member, the Iowa State Daily Editorial Board would like to highlight three issues that we believe are important for you to address. First and foremost, we implore you as a council to build upon past efforts to increase the level of safety present in Ames at all hours of the day. Even before Celia Barquín Arozamena’s murder last year, Ames has been plagued by random acts of violence.

As a college town with many young adults out late at night, safety should be the utmost priority of the Ames City Council. By making safe transportation even more accessible and funding further efforts to make Ames a safe place to walk alone at night, you can radically change the current perception of our city. The Iowa State Daily Editorial Board also recognizes that housing is an important issue in Ames, especially to many Iowa State University students who are somewhat at the mercy of landlords. To the victor of the Ward 4 election specifically, your constituency has a high percentage of temporary college students who rely on your action to protect them. It is your duty to listen to and address the concerns of your constituents, no matter the circumstances. Finally, the Iowa State Daily Editorial

Board challenges the Ames City Council to meet the ambitious goal of making Ames a carbon-neutral city. As Iowans, we have access to clean air and water that many people in more urban and suburban areas don’t have. Many of us have grown up with these privileges and sometimes take them for granted. Don’t. Be ambitious in your goals to make Ames a greener city. Without a doubt, a carbon-neutral city will be hard to achieve, but don’t let that stop you. Nothing worth doing is ever easy, but the long term financial and health benefits are worth the initial effort. Ames City Council: Safety, housing and carbon can be the defining issues of your terms. Don’t let these items distract you from keeping Ames a vibrant city with much economic opportunity. Instead, use them to your advantage to mold Ames into a better version of itself.

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Oklahoma week has arrived Cyclones to contend with dynamic OU offense

are filled with dynamic athletes and a Heisman candidate transfer quarterback, right? Right. Alabama transfer Jalen Hurts has taken over the keys to the car, and he’s been largely unstoppable. In fact, the Sooners’ attack is more efficient than last year’s recordbreaking offense was with Kyler Murray. His top target in the passing game has been junior wideout CeeDee Lamb, who has the potential to be a first-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft should he go pro. Plays like the touchdown against Texas and a 70-yard score against the Wildcats highlight his massive big-play potential. Campbell said he knows the team will have difficulties trying to stop the duo. Marcel Spears said Hurts’ ability to hurt a defense with the pass and the run makes it hard to guess what he’ll do next. “You really don’t know what he’s going to do, just because he’s that caliber of player,” Spears said. “ You just prepare for him appropriately.”

BY NOAH.ROHLFING @iowastatedaily.com Oklahoma week is here for Iowa State football. In one of the biggest games since Campbell has taken over the Cyclones program, Iowa State’s Big 12 Championship hopes rest on an upset over the No. 10 Sooners. Coming off a bye week, Matt Campbell discussed health; his counterpart and former teammate Alex Grinch; and CeeDee Lamb’s energy. Let’s go through some quick hitters from his Tuesday press conference.

OKLAHOMA’S NEW DEFENSE Disaster loss to Kansas State aside, the Sooners have looked improved on the defensive side of the ball — in large part due to a new direction under defensive coordinator Grinch, who was an assistant with Ohio State last year. Grinch built his pedigree at Washington S tate, tr ansf or ming a pre viousl y-bad defensive unit and making it a strength for Mike Leach’s team. Grinch was also a college teammate of Campbell at Mount Union, where they were both on the defensive side of the ball. Campbell said he knew right away he could be a good coach. “Alex was, I think, very similar to the way I approached football,” Campbell said. “[Grinch was] also a guy that really studied the nuances of football.” Campbell added that the Sooners’ defense has shown a shift in mentality from prior

JACK SHOVER/ IOWA STATE DAILY Defensive back Greg Eisworth, who was last season’s Big 12 Newcomer of the Year, answers questions at Iowa State’s media day Aug. 1. Eisworth led the team in tackles last season with 87.

coaching, with players flying around and a better energy on tape.

INJURY UPDATES The bye week for the Cyclones came at a critical time, with injuries to key players and a general week for rest allowing the Cyclones to get to what Campbell called “a great place.” The most important development he had was on the health of Greg Eisworth, the junior safety and anchor of the Iowa State defense. Eisworth has been hobbled by a shoulder injury, which caused him to miss time against Texas Tech and re-injure the shoulder in the Oklahoma State game.

Campbell said Eisworth will “definitely be ready” for the game against Oklahoma. It’s a big boost for the Cyclones, as grad transfer safety Justin Bickham said the Cyclones could rely on his ability to make plays on the back end. “We all look at him as a leader; even though he’s a junior he acts like a senior,” Bickham said. “He brings a certain type of energy that players can just gravitate towards.”

CONTAINING LAMB AND HURTS With a record-breaking offense over the past few seasons, Oklahoma’s identity is still in the hands of offensive wunderkind Lincoln Riley — so that means the Sooners

PENALTIES AND THE MARGINS Campbell always preaches about winning in the margins — something that has let the Cyclones down in each of their three losses this year. A muffed punt against Iowa, a glut of penalties against Baylor and missed tackles against Oklahoma State have cost Iowa State dearly. But the Cyclones still rank at the top of the Big 12 in least penalties per game, and Campbell said it was a credit to the team’s commitment to the margins. “That’s who we are,” Campbell said. “The margins are what allow us to win or lose games.” According to tight end Charlie Kolar, the margins are what let Iowa State down against Oklahoma State. The redshirt sophomore said the team used the bye week to reflect and adjust. “It’s nice to get some time to reflect on the first eight games of the season, watch film from that and pick up some details,” Kolar said.

Iowa State’s last push to start with West Virginia BY JACK.SHOVER @iowastatedaily.com Closing in on the end of the Big 12 season, Iowa State faces West Virginia at home Wednesday in a must-win game for the Cyclones. The Cyclones, who have a record of 14-8 overall (5-5 Big 12), are sitting in fourth place in the conference standings and are two games behind third place Oklahoma. The Sooners are 7-3 in conference play. Last season, a 9-7 conference record and thirdplace finish only got the Cyclones in the NIVC Tournament and not the NCAA Tournament. Against West Virginia, the Cyclones have a winnable matchup — the two teams will square off at 6:30 p.m. in Hilton Coliseum. The Mountaineers have an overall record of 11-12 and are currently 2-8 in the Big 12, with their only two wins coming against Kansas State. Iowa State beat West Virginia 3-0 on the road Oct. 5, and coach Christy Johnson-Lynch said the Cyclones will be playing a team that hasn’t seen significant changes since. “We’re a very good passing team, defensive team and then our offense

can be very electrifying too, so I think if we get all of our key components going then we’ll be able to pull out a win [against West Virginia],” Eleanor Holthaus said. Johnson-Lynch identified Holthaus as a player who has been playing well as of late, and said she had a really good week against TCU on Oct. 30 and Baylor on Sunday. In both games, Holthaus out-paced all Cyclones for the most kills with 11 kills against TCU and 16 kills against Baylor. She had a hitting percentage of .333 against TCU and a percentage of .294 against Baylor, a team JohnsonLynch said is really good defensively. This season, Baylor is the best team in opponent hitting percentage and has only allowed an average of .156. Despite getting swept by Baylor, Jaiden Centeno said the Cyclones came in with the right mindset against the second-best team in the conference. “I think we came in with a lot of intensity and we came in pretty prepared for the game, but I just think we needed to push through at the end,” Centeno said. The Cyclones almost stole a set from Baylor when they pushed the

Lady Bears in the second set before Baylor took the set 29-27. Baylor hit .379 against the Cyclones on Sunday, but Johnson-Lynch said the Cyclones have been improving on the defensive end this past month. “We’ve kind of stopped shuffling people around; we did have our defensive players kind of moving around a little bit,” Johnson-Lynch said. “We’ve tried to kind of keep them in the same spot and let them get really comfortable.” During the month of October, the Cyclones had eight Big 12 games and only allowed their opponents to hit .168. Part of that success is the work of middle blocker Avery Rhodes, who leads the Cyclones in blocks per set and ranks in the top-10 in the Big 12 in that category. With that being said, Rhodes has been limited due to shin pain, but the Cyclones have been limiting her workload during practices, so she is fresh during games. Johnson-Lynch said with Rhodes’ experience, she only needs a few reps in practice to stay sharp and be effective in games. With Rhodes not at 100 percent,

COLLIN MAGUIRE/ IOWA STATE DAILY Sophomore right side Eleanor Holthaus serves against Kansas State on Oct. 26. The Cyclones beat the Wildcats 3-0.

Iowa State can alleviate some pressure against West Virginia with its serving, which Johnson-Lynch said will be important against the Mountaineers. If the Cyclones — who rank second in the Big 12 in service aces a set — are able to force aces and poor passes, they will be able to tally up easy points from aces and blocks by forcing West Virginia’s setter away from the net and forcing her into tough situations setting.

Centeno said an issue for the Cyclones the last time they met the Mountaineers was the Cyclones’ slower pace on the attack, which is not the team’s playing speed in that facet of the game. With tournament season fast approaching, the Cyclones winning out could be the difference between a spot at the NCAA Tournament or the NIVC Tournament, and it all begins with West Virginia on Wednesday.

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VOICES

COURTESY OF GETTY IMAGES Queer and Trans People of Color is a student organization that focuses on building an inclusive community for people of intersectional identities on Iowa State’s campus.

A safe space on campus

Student organization welcomes intersectional identities BY VICTORIA.REYNA-RODRIGUEZ @iowastatedaily.com Q ueer and Trans People of Color, or QTPoC, is a student organization dedicated t o n a v i g a t i n g a p re d om i n a t e l y w h i t e institution while also fighting structural racism on campus. QTPoC founders Max Moore, Xarius Mickens and Rosie Rowe said, “QTPoC at its most basic level is a space for Queer and Trans people of color to simply and safely exist entirely within our intersectional identity. We don’t have to leave a piece of our identity at the door.” Some main topics of discussion at QTPoC are building a resilient community; navigating the intersections of being LGBTQ+ and people of color; getting around campus; accessing university services; and community support and wellness, according to their website. Merriam Webster defines intersectionality as “the complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups.” S paces f or people in the LGBTQ+ community and people of color have existed at Iowa State for a notable amount of time, but the founders of QTPoC recognized that a space was needed for people who identified with multiple marginalized communities or groups, which is where intersectional identities come into play. “ The shared experience of having intersectional identities is our motivation in bringing the QTPoC community at

ISU together for a monthly meal in an environment that celebrates us and centers the needs of our community,” Rowe said. “QTPoC are some of the most visible leaders in the practice of transformative justice on campus, often because we don’t have a choice.” According to the Center for LGBTQIA+ Student Success website, they noticed that there was a pattern of queer and trans students of color feeling isolated and alone. “ D ur ing e vents and in one-on-one meetings with our staff, many queer and trans students of color have shared feeling like they are ‘the only one,’ that they do not know how to find other QTPoC students and that they are afraid if they come out in their campus or social networks that they will lose the support of their peers,” according to the Center’s website. The Center inevitably had to step back and realize that queer and trans students of color felt the programs and center space were reported to be inaccessible or unwelcoming by many queer and trans students of color at Iowa State, based on direct and indirect feedback from students, according to their website. Knowing this, the Center found it necessary to create spaces that are closed to self-identified queer and trans students of color. Their website says the Center staff is committed to using their energy and resources to support these spaces, while they will also continue to work to make all of their programs and center space welcoming to and inclusive of queer and trans students of color. QTPoC hosts a dinner ever y second Friday from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Sloss House. There is always free catered food and

COURTESY OF THE CENTER’S WEBSITE The Center for LGBTQIA+ Student Success is a place for all queer and trans people of color.

QTPoC centered conversation. This serves as a monthly opportunity for community building and effective discussions. “QTPoC has the ability to really become a home for queer and trans people of color,” Rowe said. “The meetings have good vibes and great conversations.” QTPoC is first and foremost a safe space. While created to officiate change on campus, it is also a place to relax and have a community you can be yourself around. The founders of QTPoC said that they want their organization to be a home and family for students. “We wanted to provide a space that allows us a little rest — and a lot of rejuvenation — and validation so that our community continues to flourish on campus,” Rowe said.

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ELECTION

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had the highest percentage of the vote, receiving 592 votes; Chris Nelson had the second-highest percentage, receiving 416 votes; and Joe Van Erdewyk received 194 votes. One vote went to a write-in candidate. Junck received 49.21 percent of the vote, barely coming short of a majority vote. She was 10 votes away from reaching the majority vote. “I’m really proud of the turnout that we’ve had for the election this year, especially the number of students that haven’t voted before that voted in this election, and I’m excited for a runoff,” Junck said. The city of Ames will be canvassing for votes through 3 p.m. Wednesday for absentee ballots. If Junck receives those 10 votes, she will be elected. The runoff election would be held on Dec. 3 between Junck and Nelson. Junck’s campaign focused on making Ames carbon-neutral, lowering waste production and investing in Ames’ housing market. A carbon-neutral Ames would mean making no net release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

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continuing to explore cutting-edge ideas to use [waste] as a fuel to provide electricity to our customers.” In the meantime, the city said in the press release residents are asked to use glass recycling bins, to consider composting and to decrease the amount of garbage they generate during the coming weeks. Decreasing garbage produced while the Ames Power Plant is undergoing maintenance will reduce the amount of municipal solid waste diverted to local landfills.

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Alex Sheen, founder of nonprofit social movement “because I said I would,” on March 31, 2020 at Hilton Coliseum. The bill asks for $35,000 to be transferred from the Excellence account to help fund Sheen. $13,000 would go to the speaker fee, $2,000 would be for paying for their travel, $18,000 for renting Hilton Coliseum and $2,000 for “Educational and Promotional Material,” according to the document. Ethos Magazine has also asked for $4,000 to be transferred from the Senate Discretionary account to provide for magazine printing. A cross-discipline event called Symphony of Diversity has asked for $6,752.13 to be transferred from the Special Projects account to pay for the hall rental for the event. Additionally, the United Arab Emirates Student Association (UAESA) has asked for $4,736.76 to pay for an event on Dec. 2 to celebrate the United Arab Emirates’ national holiday. $500 would go to reserving the Great Hall in the Memorial Union and $4,236.76 would go to paying for a catering fee. Each funding bill is separate and will be voted on individually by the Senate. Student Government will then vote on a bill seating Senator Greene to the Student Initiatives Committee. Internal funding matters by

If she was elected, Junck would have been the youngest woman to ever win a seat on the Council in Ames’ history Nelson’s campaign was centered on creating a greenhouse gas inventory using data to develop a greenhouse gases income plan and to create a quality of life plan, as well as finishing the Ames 2040 plan. The Ames 2040 plan is a comprehensive 20-year plan that gives a long term trajectory to where and how Ames can expand. Nelson previously told the Daily that if elected, this would be his last term. Van Erdewyk ran on addressing the affordable housing crisis in Ames and creating a way for single-family homes to be back on the market. Van Erdewyk graduated from Iowa State in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in history and currently volunteers as a tutor at the Ames Public Library and works as a transit driver for CyRide.

WARD 2 Tim Gartin ran unopposed to represent Ward 2 on the Ames City Council and was unanimously elected. Gartin received 1,316 votes, a 98.06 percentage of the vote. 26 votes went to write-in candidates. “ We recommend the Environmental Protection Agency’s waste hierarchy for citizens to keep in mind when considering how to handle their waste. The guideline begins with source reduction and reuse followed by recycling and composting,” said Bill Schmitt, resource recovery superintendent, in a press release. “Next is energy recovery, like we accomplish through our waste-to-energy system, and the last option is disposal at a landfill.” Merry Rankin, Iowa State director of the Office of Sustainability, said ways to reduce waste is by using reusable products such as

Student Government will also be reviewed at the meeting. T h e R u l e s C om m i t t e e h a s requested a special election to pass a court reform requiring $2,900 in total from the Special Projects account to pay the Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology for a two-day survey. $2,850 will go to paying for labor and $50 will go to an office supplies fee. Funding for the residency fair will also be reviewed. They are requesting $336.78 to be transferred from the Special Events account to pay for the raffle and advertising for the event. $26 will go to a mass email, $100 to printing, $10 for shirts, $40 for hoodies, $11.99 for water bottles, $89.99 for a JBL Speaker and $58.80 for cinnamon rolls. A d d i t i o n a l l y, t h e S t u d e n t Initiatives Committee is asking for $719.13 for funding Winter Weather Safety Bags. The request $9.80 for paper bags, $29.90 for hot chocolate packets, $167.79 for hand warmers, $209.79 for gloves, $209.60 for chapstick packages, $71.64 for tissues and $20.61 for cough drops. Each funding bill is separate and will be voted on individually by Student Government. For more information or to contact your senator, visit stugov.iastate. edu. The senate meetings are open to the public at 7 p.m. Wednesdays in the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union.

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Gartin has been on the council for six terms and said this will be his last term. Gartin previously ran for Iowa Senate in 2010 and lost to incumbent Herman Quirmbach (D) by six percent of the vote. His goals are to make Ames a more inclusive place and to create a better community in Ames where people want to get jobs and settle in after graduation.

AT-LARGE Bronwyn Beatty-Hansen was reelected to fill the at-large position on the Ames City Council. Beatty-Hansen received 3,818 votes, a 97.2 percentage of the vote. 110 votes went to write-in candidates. Beatty-Hansen’s focus is on evaluating the greenhouse gas inventory process data and creating affordable housing and transportation throughout Ames. Additionally, she serves on several committees for the Council and works at W heatsfield Cooperative to deal with sustainability issues affecting residents in Ames.

School District School Board. Seven individuals ran, with three falling short of election to the others. Sabrina Shields-Cook, Alisa Frandsen, Michelle Lenkaitis and Allen Bierbaum were elected to the at-large director position on the school board. Shields-Cook, Frandsen, Lenkaitis and Bierbaum received 2,390, 2,337, 2,282 and 2,205 votes respectively. The three candidates who were not elected, Amy Edwards, Awein Majak and Alexi Yakobson received 1,779, 1,170 and 515 votes respectively. 66 votes went to write-in candidates.

SCHOOL BOARD Voters also elected four individuals to represent them on the Ames Community

HOSPITAL BOARD Three incumbent Mary Greeley Medical Center Board of Trustees were all unopposed in reelection. Sarah Buck, Ken McCuskey and Brad Heemstra were all reelected to the board. Buck received 3,591 votes, McCuskey received 3,211 votes and Heemstra received 3,282 votes. 67 votes went to write-in candidates. Each trustee ser ves three-year terms. Current trustees Mary Kitchell and Beth Swenson’s terms expire in 2021 and their spots will then be up for election.

water bottles and utensils and defining the difference between a “want” and a “need.” An example of this is thinking through purchases at a grocery store. “Being really cognizant in that way — can we reuse, no matter the incredible deal, can we really reuse what it is that we’re considering purchasing and do we need to have it?” Rankin said. In a previous article about reducing waste, Rankin said bringing a grocery list can help community members from over-buying products. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency,

94 percent of waste is thrown away into landfills. “If you buy some enormous package of something, if it’s food, it can go bad and you’ve wasted all that money,” Rankin said in the article. “So the sale is not a good investment at all because you’ve wasted all that money.” Reusing glass containers such as pickle or jelly jars, recycling them in grocery stores or composting fall vegetables used for décor such as pumpkins — which can be dropped into bins outside the Resource Recovery Plant — are other ways to reduce waste.

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this opportunity will allow them to immerse themselves in the language. “I think it’s the same way when students come here — it’s a great influence,” Serracin said. “They are sharing the same activities and hands-on components. They might have another language. [...] And the students become really good friends.” The recent agreement with Spain adds to the several exchange programs the College of Veterinary Medicine already offers. “Right now we have two students here from Poland,” Serracin said. “We have received students from Norway [...] and France. Our students have been in England.” Serracin said when students travel internationally they may also have the opportunity to work in animal rehabilitation. Students have had the opportunity to work with monkeys and watch macaws released into the wild after five years in captivity. “I think by working in that experience they feel like we are doing something for the future of the fauna of that countr y,” Serracin said. “The students always come back with amazing stories.” Students also may have the chance to work with different medical resources while abroad. Ramirez said the differing medical resources between the United States and other countries often leads to new

insights on how procedures are performed at Iowa State. “Sometimes even just suture material in other countries might have limits,” Ramirez said. “They might have to use something that might not be the perfect material [...] but that’s all they have available.” Before leaving for their trips, students often look for supplies from around the college to bring on the exchange as donations. “They go out before the trip and try to secure supplies and donations and some resources to share,” Serracin said. “To [the students] it ’s amazing there is so much needed that’s not there.” The program is currently looking to work with Mexico and China to create additional abroad opportunities for students. “All the time we are receiving requests for students to come to Iowa State because of the hospital,” S erracin said. “[Other schools] know how good the programs are for the students.” Serracin said a common problem when developing these agreements is making sure there ’s enough space to accommodate the incoming students. Ramirez said all incoming foreign students for study abroad and exchange programs are nominated by their universities and are proficient in English. A problem with the programs, according to R amirez, is the decrease in the amount of Iowa

State students participating, which is primarily due to student debt. R a m i re z s a i d a n i n c re a s e d awareness of student debt among veterinary medicine students has led to more caution when considering foreign exchange and study abroad programs. Despite pending debt, there are available scholarships for students to help aid the cost of the programs.The college recently awarded 10 Hutton International Veterinary Scholarships to students in the last academic year to help with the cost of participating in these programs. “ We are trying to figure out more ways to be able to help support our students because we feel [the programs are] a valuable experience,” Ramirez said. It is not uncommon for Iowa State students going overseas to want to go back following their completion of their program. “ We have a few people that really want to go back to Uganda in the different years that they have gone over,” Serracin said. “I think they realize that they have an impact in that area with what they know.” Serracin said the agreements created with other universities are usually in effect for five years. The most recent agreement with the Universidad De Las Palmas De Gran Canaria is set for four years due to restrictions set by the Spanish Canary Islands, according to Ramirez.