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Motion for a mobilized scooter pilot program fails

Be careful when consuming and producing content on TikTok

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given that right up and that ’s some thing that is concerning to me.”

T ikTok’s Terms of Service also states that “You also waive any and all rights of privacy, publicity or any other rights of a similar nature in connection with your User Content, or any portion thereof.”

People may wonder if it actually matters if they give up all rights to the content they produce and post.

Ellasandra Muse, freshman in psychology, has over 4,000 followers on TikTok. She joined TikTok after hearing a lot about it and watching the children she nannies for be on the app.

Muse said she didn’t read or skim the terms of service, but said she’s not worried about giving up the right to content as she is on the app because she finds it entertaining.

“I don’t know, I think I just literally got addicted to it because watching it is so fun and funny just scrolling through,” Muse said. “And then I thought it was DE

The popular TikTok app has become a prominent part of many young people’s lives, but there may be harmful effects of t h e video streaming being missed.

Just like any social media platform, when signing up for TikTok there are terms of service people must agree to before creating an account. There are over 27,000 words in the terms and most people probably skim just the first few paragraphs, if any of it at all.

Agreeing to the terms waives all moral rights of user content. In the ‘UserGenerated Content’ section, the terms of service states, “To the extent any moral rights are not transferable or assignable, you hereby waive and agree never to assert any and all moral rights, or to support, maintain or permit any action based on any moral rights that you may have in or with respect to any User Content you post to or through the Services.”

M i c h a e l Bugeja, distinguished professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, teaches media ethics and technology and social change at Iowa State.

“So if I’m an artist and I want to put music that I compose or artwork that I composed on TikTok, and they decide they’re going to use that and maybe change the content, you can’t claim moral rights that they’ve ruined your message or they’ve obfuscated the artistry of your music or content,” Bugeja said. “You’ve

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After the motion to pursue a pilot program for motorized scooters failed, the Ames City Council voted to create a list of priorities regulating micromobility.

In June 2019, the staff was directed by the Council to investigate how other cities regulated micromobility, specifically focusing on motorized scooters and the consideration to offer them in Ames.

Micromobility includes several modes of transportation, though the defining factor is the gross vehicle weight is less than 1,100 pounds.

A committee that consisted of Iowa State and the city of Ames staff studied and reviewed the information and identified benefits and concerns of scooters.

The scooters could reduce the carbon emissions as well as create more jobs, according to the city of Ames staff report, while contributing to the fun factor within the Council’s goals. Additionally, the scooters would complement the existing form of public transportation.

“Among students, I have heard only support for [the pilot program]—albeit those people probably aren’t thinking about the harms and they’re thinking a lot about the fun—I think there is value in that,” said ex-officio Devyn Leeson. “I mean one of our Council goals that we just adopted and talking about is making Ames a fun place, right?”

Leeson said with more information, Iowa State Student Government could be more supportive of the decision.

One of the primary benefits discussed was the fun factor they would bring, while the biggest concern was potential safety hazards.

A primary concern of scooters is safety, and it is dependent on the jurisdiction of where and when they are operated. There is also a concern of enforcement and who

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Wintersteen and Board of Regents to discuss online class switch

BY JACOB.SMITH @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State President Wendy Wintersteen and the Iowa Board of Regents updated students and families telling them to prepare for the eventuality that classes may go online-only after spring break.

“Following the identification of COVID-19 cases in Iowa, the Board of Regents has asked the three Regent Institutions to move as quickly as possible towards the ability to deliver instruction virtually,” Board President Michael Richards said in a statement. “It is important for students, faculty and staff to prepare for this eventuality this week prior to spring break.”

Specific information will be provided by the individual universities no later than 8 a.m.

Thursday, according to the statement.

In an email soon after, Wintersteen addressed the Iowa State community and said Iowa State

has been preparing for this event.

“Iowa State University has been planning and preparing for this contingency with our emergency management leaders and working groups, and we will share more information very soon,” Wintersteen said in the statement. “The Board of Regents also announced today it will be extending the 30-day international travel ban by 7 days each Monday, effective March 9, until conditions improve. The travel ban initially took effect March 5 and applies to university-sponsored international travel for students, faculty, and staff.”

The Board discussed the travel ban more in the statement.

“With regard to university-sponsored domestic travel, at this time it is an institutional decision,” Richards said in the statement. “However, the Board will continue to evaluate daily and its current recommendation is to avoid areas with high numbers of identified cases of COVID-19.”

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3.11.20 Panel discussion: Des Moines Gay Men’s Chorus, 2019 Morrill Hall at 4 p.m. Members of

the Des Moines Gay Men’s Chorus will talk about their history, community impact, important figures and more. Presented by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

SUB Member Meeting, The M-Shop, Memorial Union at 5 p.m. Come hang out with Student

Union Board and learn more about their upcoming events, and how you can get involved, at their bi-weekly general meetings! FREE and open to ALL ISU students!

Suffragette, Editor, Abolitionist: The Story of Mary Louise Booth, Sun Room, Memorial

Union at 5 p.m. Join author Tricia Foley as she

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

Grandma Mojo’s Moonshine Revival Comedy Troupe, The M-Shop, Memorial Union at 9 p.m. This group is great for those who love

the improv comedy humor of their fellow college students and can’t get enough of location, occupation, means of death.

POLICE BLOTTER 3.9.20

GARRETT HEYD/ IOWA STATE DAILY Troxel Hall Sunshine peaked out over the afternoon, making it feel nice out on Tuesday! Clouds moved in shortly after with the rise of the chance of overnight rain.

John Brian Lamberts, age 63, of 323 Mulberry Blvd. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at 1111 Duff Avenue (reported at 5:51 p.m.).

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Ronnie Lo Vang, age 37, of 225 Kellogg Ave. Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with driving while barred at 600 Carroll Avenue (reported at 2:41 p.m.).

Jacob Francis Thompson, age 35, of 205 Woodland St. - Maxwell, Iowa, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated, second offense, at 129 S Duff Avenue (reported at 5:51 a.m.).

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Ronnie Lo Vang, age 37, of 225 Kellogg Ave. Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with theft in the fifth degree, shoplifting, at 600 Carroll Avenue (reported at 2:41 p.m.).

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Changes in file privacy Bill in Iowa Senate could impact contract confidentiality

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to do with outside private companies that come in to do business with the University of Iowa, Iowa State University or the University of Northern Iowa,” Lehman said.

Ultimately, students would not have access to records that are evidence of business that is done with a private company. Regardless of if they immediately impact students, they would not have access to them.

Lehman said students at regent universities have little to worry about, saying, “this doesn’t affect students.”

Any information that could impact students will be kept confidential, which could allow the university to see benefits.

Lehman said the bill could have some benefits for outside companies.

“These changes would protect any proprietary information those outside companies have during those business dealings, by keeping that proprietary information confidential,” Lehman said.

Along with confidential information, the bill also could affect community health centers, such as the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

It could prevent the disclosure of information about “patient care quality,” “process improvement initiatives in a meeting of a public hospital,” or “marketing and pricing strategies” or similar proprietary information where public disclosure would harm a hospital’s “competitive position when no public purpose would be served by public disclosure.”

Size-inclusive clothing options Iowa State Bookstore provides range of sizes

BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com W hen looking at c lothing sizes, finding the right size can be an issue for many people.

The Iowa State Bookstore has been working to fix these issues through working with the community.

“People are always welcome to call with suggestions,” said Sadie Anderson, the apparel buyer for the bookstore. “People call with suggestions all the time. One guy just emailed in this morning wanting a gold polo in a [quadruple extra-large].”

Anderson said that although she was not able to fulfill that request because the Iowa State Bookstore does not sell gold polos due to poor sales, she does keep a log of all requested items so that when she gets ready to place an order she can look back at customer requests to see what she can help provide to the community.

She said customers will always get some kind of response from their staff, whether it is a “yes we can help you” or that they are unable to.

“Ultimately we are here to

The story of Mary Louise Booth to be told at lecture

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BY LAUREN.RATLIFF @iowastatedaily.com A bill in the Iowa Senate could impact the confidentiality of records at educational institutions in Iowa governed by the Board of Regents.

Senate File 2284 would allow regent universities to keep certain files confidential.

Proprietary intellectual property owned or held under contractual agreements by the regents or by an institution of higher education under the board’s control could be kept confidential, according to the legislation.

Josh Lehman, a spokesperson for the regents, discussed impacts of the bill.

“The purpose is to amend Iowa’s confidential record law to allow proprietary intellectual property owned or held under contractual agreements by the Board of Regents or any of its institutions to be considered confidential records,” Lehman said.

Iowa State, along with the University of Iowa and the University of Northern Iowa would all be affected if the bill is enacted.

If a company were to do business with a regent university, the files and records that are associated with the company and the university may be kept confidential.

“These proposed open records changes have

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LOGAN METZGER/ IOWA STATE DAILY When it comes to women’s clothing, the Iowa State Bookstore generally provides sizes from extra-small to double extra-large.

serve the university,” said Gayle Mastbergen, assistant manager of marketing for the bookstore. “ We are a ser vice to the university, we are not for profit. Of course, students are our customers, but we also run the alumni store so that opens up a range of customers as well. Our students, faculty, staff, our fans and our alumni are who we cater to.”

Mastbergen said the bookstore tries to aim for the middle and serve as many people as they can, but there will always be outliers that they also try and serve the best they can.

Anderson said the bookstore sells a wide variety of clothing types, in both men’s and women’s styles as well as infant, toddler and youth sizes.

“ We have ever ything from your basic T-shirts, short-sleeved T-shirts, long-sleeve T-shirts, sweatshirts, crewnecks, hooded s w e a t s h i r t s , w e h a v e yo u t h apparel, we have men’s and women’s, we have outdoor apparel, we have dressier options, we have polos, we have cardigans,” Anderson said.

Anderson said like most other clothing retailers, clothes come in and out of season, so some things may not be available yearround or may only be in stock for special events, and sizes of these items may be limited if customers come later into the sale of those items.

The Iowa State Bookstore is more than a “plus one model,” which means it buys from a

variety of retailers for its clothing, not just one or two. “ We b u y f r o m m u l t i p l e people,” Anderson said. “There are a couple local screen print and embroidery companies that we use here in town. I purchase a lot from Hanes corporation, w h i c h i s C h a m p i on , U n d e r Armour. We are a Nike sideline school so we buy from Nike, we also buy from BCS. A lot of our dressier men’s clothes come from Antigua Clothing.”

Matt Laurich, retail manager for the bookstore, said the number of retailers the bookstore purchases from fluctuates.

“There is the core that Sadie talked about and then we like to have the ability to if she is at a show or we find something and we want to try to bring it in, ‘okay let’s bring in company xyz and let’s see how it works.’ If it does, do they replace somebody?

If it doesn’t, fine, we tried and we know, let’s move on. You have to always be willing to try those things to see if you can make things better.”

Due to the number of retailers the bookstore purchases from, sizing may not all be the same from company to company, but it is then Anderson’s job to find a way to balance those differences.

“Just like sizing anywhere you go, a small in this brand is not a small in this brand so it is nice to be able to flux your size run per

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Women’s suffrage activist Mary Louise Booth will be the topic of a lecture presented by a restoration expert Wednesday.

Tricia Foley will present the lecture “Suffragette, Editor, Abolitionist: The Story of Mary Louise Booth” at 5 p.m.

Wednesday in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union as a part of the 100th anniversary events commemorating women’s suffrage, “Hard Won Not Done.”

Hard Won Not Done is a commemoration of the ratification of the 19th TRICIA Amendment from an FOLEY Iowa perspective.

Foley is a self-acclaimed home designer and restoration expert, lifestyle authority and has become a published author of over 10 books about design and lifestyle.

Her lecture will cover the history of Mary Louise Booth.

“Tricia Foley is going to be speaking about the biography that she wrote on Mary Louise Booth,” said Karen Kedrowski, director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center. “Mary Louise Booth was from New York, the Long Island area. She lived in the 1850s to the 1870s in that period.

She was an abolitionist. She was a suffragist. She did translating, and she founded Harper’s Bazaar magazine and helped establish fashion as a legitimate journalist enterprise so we’re very excited to have Mrs. Foley come in and talk about that.”

“Mary L. Booth: The Story of an Extraordinary 19th-Century Woman” by Foley tells the tale of Booth, a writer, historian, editor, translator, abolitionist and suffragist. The illustrated biography tells the story of Booth’s family background, her early days as a journalist, her connection to Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty and the American Pre-Raphaelites and consists of 120 period illustrations and photographs of Booth and her friends, her office, her New York City townhouses and letters from literary colleagues that bring to life her 19th century world, according to Amazon.

From 1845, Booth taught in her father’s school in Williamsburg, New York, before transitioning to contributing tales and sketches to various newspapers and magazines, reporting and book reviewing for educational and literary journals.

In 1856, she compiled a marble worker’s manual and three years later she agreed to write a history of New York within a year. In 1861, at the beginning of the American Civil War, she procured the advance sheets in French, of Agénor de Gasparin’s “Uprising of a Great People,” and hurried to Scribner’s with it to ask if they would publish it if she would translate it. Following the Civil War in 1867, she was offered the editorship of Harper’s Bazaar where she worked up until her death in 1889, according to historyswomen.org.

To learn more about Booth, Iowa State students, staff, faculty and Ames community members are encouraged to attend the free lecture Wednesday evening sponsored by the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics and the Committee on Lectures funded by Student Government.

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Students improve food quality Experience helps fuel future food science jobs

BY JULIA.BENDA @iowastatedaily.com Students in food science gain experience through research and internships to improve the quality, safety and nutrition of food while also working to develop new products.

Kate Moody, senior in food science, said she started college in a different major but knew she wanted to pursue a science-related field.

“Food science is something that I did not know was a major until I came to college,” Moody said. “A lot of people think it’s more of dietetics and nutrition but it’s actually a lot of the microbiology and chemistry behind the food and how the ingredients interact with each other, the safety, the quality aspects of it.”

Moody had an internship where she worked on food safety research.

Her two main projects were looking at various meat products and seeing the different time and temperature regulations and experimenting with temperature abuse situations.

COURTESY OF IOWA STATE CULINARY SCIENCE CLUB The Culinary Science Club meets every other Tuesday night to discuss food-related world happenings. Members of the club gathered for a ‘friendsgiving’ event.

Moody talked about how she discovered food science as a major and why she chose to take that path.

“I sat down with my sister my freshman year and we went through tons of majors and did a bunch of research and contacted a lot of people and I just came across food science,” Moody said. “I like science, I love food, I love eating food, so that’s honestly how I picked it.”

Moody is graduating this spring and has a position set up with Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota.

“My job title [will be] associate

quality and process control supervisor,” Moody said. “So I will be in their corporate food plant managing four to 10 quality assurance technicians.”

Ruth MacDonald, assistant dean of food science and human nutrition, has been the chair of the department at Iowa State for 15 years.

MacDonald said an activity the food science department offers is a competition for students to participate in during the spring semester. Students are given ingredients to make a food product and then demonstrate their products before judges. The judges

look for how the students made their food, technical issues they had when making the product and the marketing and price of the product.

Students in the food science department also work with plastics, packaging, reducing packaging waste and improving packaging quality. Students study the science of how the packages interact with different products.

“Food science is a career path that has so many opportunities,” MacDonald said. “It is a global industry. There are food companies here in Iowa that are global in their scope. The

opportunities are unlimited as far as the kinds of jobs you can have in the food industry.”

MacDonald said there are many components to food science and food science careers besides what people usually think of. Jobs are available with ingredient companies, packaging companies, marketing food products and with the instruments and equipment that go into processing plants.

Lindsey Landego, senior in food science, has always been passionate about science and food.

“I love chemistry, physics, biology, all those things,” Landego said. “I’ve also always loved cooking with my family and as I got older I started to cook more extravagant things and making it as cool and unique as I could [...]. When I found out I could combine two of my loves - cooking and science - I was like ‘why not’ and fell in love with it.”

Landego is graduating this spring and also accepted a position with Hormel Foods to work with quality and process control. Landego said food science is full of science-heavy concepts and sometimes people don’t understand what it really is.

“It is not a very common field of study,” Landego said. “I wish people understood that we are the people that put food in the grocery store. We are the people that make sure food doesn’t kill you from bacteria and is safe to consume.”

Joe Biden extends lead over Bernie Sanders

BY KYLEE.HAUETER @iowastatedaily.com Voters in six different states went to the polls Tuesday to vote for their favored Democratic presidential candidate.

Across the states of Washington, M i c h i g a n , I d a h o, M i s s o u r i , Mississippi and North Dakota, 352 delegates were available.

Michigan had the most delegates up for grabs with 125 delegates set to be awarded. Washington gave out the second most amount of delegates, awarding a total of 89.

Going into Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden had a comfortable lead after a successful Super Tuesday with victories in 10 states.

As of ear ly Tuesday, Biden had 53.5 percent support among likely Democratic primary voters nationwide according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, while Sen. Bernie Sanders had 33.5 percent support.

The way the current primary system is set up, either candidate may win delegates whether they win the popular vote in a given state.

Dirk Deam, associate teaching professor of political science, said this will extend Biden’s lead and help his campaign grow.

“The proportional rules by which Democrats award delegates mean that even in states where Sanders

COURTESY OF LECTURE PROGRAM Amy Blackstone, professor of sociology at the University of Maine, will lead the lecture “Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence.”

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might win the largest number of votes, Biden will still add to his delegate count,” Deam said. “Michigan will tell us a lot. [...]If Sanders doesn’t win big there, he’s in trouble.”

Sehba Faheem, senior in biological systems engineering and co-president of the College Democrats at Iowa State, also said prior to the primaries Tuesday she believes the former vice president’s lead will grow because he is a “safe bet.”

“I think Biden’s lead will definitely grow,” Faheem said. “People are overwhelmed by the idea of another four years of Trump and want someone who seems like a safe bet.”

Biden won Tuesday’s primaries in Michigan, Mississippi and Missouri, according to projections by the Associated Press.

Complete results from Michigan are not expected until a later date due to a backlog of absentee ballots that were not able to be opened until the day of the primary, but polling before the primary favored Biden and he led partial results on election night.

Biden and Sanders will compete on the debate stage in Phoenix on Sunday, the first head-to-head debate of the primary cycle and the first debate without a live audience due to concerns about coronavirus.

Lecture to discuss the idea of being ‘childfree by choice’

BY LORETTA.MCGRAW @iowastatedaily.com The childfree movement and why people are a part of it will be discussed at a lecture Wednesday.

Am y B l ac k s t on e, p ro f e s s o r of sociolog y at the University of Maine, will lead the lecture “Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence” at 7 p.m. in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union.

The lecture is free and encourages Iowa S tate students and community members to attend and learn about the culture and

discrimination that surrounds not having children for women, men, gay and lesbian couples and transgender persons. It will also discuss the history of the childfree movement and its future.

Blackstone is a professor of sociolog y at the University of M a i n e, w h e re s h e re s e a rc h e s childlessness and the childfree choice, childfree families, workplace harassment and civic engagement. Blackstone is the co-creator of the blog “ We’re {Not} Having a Baby ” and the author of the novel “Childfree by

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The Trump administration is not prepared for COVID-19

BY EILEEN.TYRRELL @iowastatedaily.com America is not prepared for the coronavirus and the president is making the situation worse thanks to his favorite pastime, lying to the American public.

When the outbreak first began in Wuhan, China, they cracked down with its typical authoritarian playbook, sending drones to scare civilians into wearing masks, blocking virtual private networks and arresting people for spreading misinformation. However questionable these tactics may be, the crackdown gave us time to organize and prepare for the inevitable pandemic.

We squandered that opportunity.

W hen we should have been preparing hospitals and test kits and mass-producing appropriate masks, the administration stalled, with President Trump claiming that the U.S. “pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”

Clearly that has no factual basis, considering the U.S. now has over 700 known cases with likely thousands more undiscovered. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been slow to react; lack of accurate reporting due to limited access to testing has hindered the governmental

CAITLIN YAMADA/ IOWA STATE DAILY Columnist Eileen Tyrrell believes the Trump administration is not prepared for coronavirus. She writes that the administration stalled when it was time to prepare for coronavirus, so it is on us to reduce the spread.

response and sowed confusion about what steps citizens should actually take to protect themselves.

Not only that, the country is wildly unprepared to deal with a pandemic of any type — in 2018, the Trump administration got rid of the entire pandemic response chain

of command in the government. In no uncertain terms — we are not ready to handle the coronavirus.

It seems to me that regardless of how systematically unprepared our country is, the very least we should be able to expect from our government is factual information and the

promise that it is taking this threat seriously. Yet we have received neither from the president. Instead of tweeting out basic hygiene tips and advice, Trump has somehow blamed the Obama administration for lack of coronavirus test kits and made it another issue on the partisan

battleground. He has downplayed the threat of the virus the whole time and also spread misinformation, such as stating that “Anybody who wants to get a test gets a test” despite the fact that fewer than 2,000 have been conducted in the U.S. so far and tests are nowhere near widely available.

There is certainly a call to keep people calm and allay their fears, as I wrote about in my last column, but not at the sake of reality. And reality, right now, is looking pretty daunting. Disregarding the truth at this point and lying to the public to save face isn’t just frustrating at this point, it’s dangerous. Lives are actually on the line. Trump is gambling with them in his effort to minimize the threat we face.

I wish I could say that we can count on the Trump administration to step up and take necessary measures to reduce the spread of coronavirus, but that seems increasingly unlikely. Instead, the responsibility is on us, as individuals. Wash your hands frequently and stay away from sick people. If you think you’re sick, stay home from school and work and self-isolate. Wear a mask. We can each do our part to keep each other safe — and cross our fingers that our government does the same.

EDITORIAL

Points for Student Government to focus on next school year

BY ISD EDITORIAL BOARD As we start thinking about next school year already, there’s a lot to plan and consider. Registration is happening soon for upperclassmen and summer internships and jobs are right around the corner. Even here at the Iowa State Daily we are talking about preparations for next year and applications for our leadership positions are opening.

Iowa State’s Student Government recently had their elections for new leadership, with a new president, Morgan Fritz, vice president, Jacob Schrader, and numerous new and old senators and representatives being elected to serve our student body.

It’s great to have a mix of veteran and fresh representatives to bring different perspectives to Student Government. After seeing this past year’s Student Government and administration, these are issues that the ISD Editorial Board thinks are important for Student Government to focus on next year.

Action and getting things done and accomplished is the major goal the board has for the new representatives. If you want something to change, go out and talk to people, get people together. You have a

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CAITLIN YAMADA/ IOWA STATE DAILY The Iowa State Daily Editorial Board identifies some key points they think the newly elected Student Government should focus on, such as diversity and transparency.

platform to show what a lot of students are thinking and are actually concerned about, so please use it effectively.

Being transparent and educating people on the process of what Student Government does is another point we would like to emphasize. People in clubs and organizations usually know how the process works to request funding, but other than that a lot of people can’t name a few things that Student Government does.

So doing education outreach, tabling outside of Parks Library, putting out informative posters or fliers that students can keep easily are all ways to keep this up.

The Instagram account is a great start, the

recaps are great.

Finally, diversity and representation are key points we think should be focused on. Student Government represents over 30,000 students who come from all different backgrounds and have all different experiences. You can’t serve your community if you don’t know about those in it or take everyone into consideration.

We encourage Student Government to make the most of their time in office and understand the chances they have to make real, true change on our campus. You represent different groups on campus and our ideas so get out into your communities and listen, engage and learn.

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Cyclones head to Kansas City

BY ZANE.DOUGLAS @iowastatedaily.com The whole season has led up to this moment.

The Iowa State men’s basketball team will play in the Big 12 Tournament starting at 6 p.m.

Wednesday to determine whether its season will end or get closer to reaching the NCAA Tournament. The tournament will start off with the No. 8 seeded Oklahoma State Cowboys facing off against No. 9 Iowa State, with the winner advancing to play No. 1 Kansas at 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

Iowa State and Oklahoma State split the season series with each team taking its home game and losing on the road. Oklahoma State is 2-1 in neutral site games with wins against Syracuse and Ole Miss and a loss to Minnesota.

The Cyclones are only 1-2 in neutral site games with a win against Alabama and losses to Seton Hall and Michigan.

The two will meet in Kansas City as the first game of the tournament.

Iowa State will be without its best player, sophomore guard Tyrese Haliburton, who suffered a wrist injury during the middle of the season that required season-ending surgery.

The Cyclones might be missing a couple more players as well.

Sophomore guard Rasir Bolton and

senior guard Prentiss Nixon are nursing injuries that could see them sit out against the Cowboys.

Bolton was taken out of the game against West Virginia after being fouled and landing hard on the ground, causing concussion-like symptoms. Bolton was forced to sit out against the Kansas State Wildcats on Saturday.

Nixon played against Kansas State, but suffered an injury to his leg. He sat out the rest of the game, but the depth at the guard position is being stretched thin by injuries.

Junior guard Terrence Lewis and freshman guard Tre Jackson have been the most consistent guards other than Haliburton, Bolton and Nixon, but the duo — especially in Lewis’ case — hasn’t seen much time as the primary ballhandler.

Freshman guard Caleb Grill played 38 minutes against the Wildcats with all the injuries, but was held to only five points and he shared the floor with walk-on guard Nate Jenkins at times.

The Cowboys have won their final three games — including one against the Cyclones — and have looked like a different team as their record has rocketed up to 17-14. They’ll have an outside shot of being considered for the NCAA Tournament if they can string some wins together.

Oklahoma State is led by Cameron McGriff and Lindy Waters in the

JEFF SPAUR/ IOWA STATE DAILY Rasir Bolton helps Prentiss Nixon up on March 3 against West Virginia in Iowa State’s final home game of the season at Hilton Coliseum.

scoring department.

McGriff is scoring 12.2 points per game while Waters averages 10.7. Like the Cyclones however, the Cowboys lack shooting, and while McGriff and Waters are leading the charge as scorers, the two have struggled from three on the season.

For Iowa State, it’ll have to lean on Bolton and Nixon if they can play and if not, the offense will be mostly

down low. In some of Iowa State’s best games this season — including its win at home against Oklahoma State — the Cyclones have been able to find redshirt junior forward Solomon Young for post production.

Young only had eight points on 2-6 shooting in Stillwater, Oklahoma, but in Ames, Young had his best game of the year.

Young had 27 points on 7-8

shooting, nine rebounds and a 13-15 day at the charity stripe. Iowa State only won the game 89-82 after a late surge from the Cowboys made it look close.

With both teams having struggles this season, the Cowboys have found themselves in a decent spot to string together some important wins to end the season, but Iowa State will have the chance to play spoiler.

A jump in the rankings for men’s golf

BY TONY.LIEBERT @iowastatedaily.com With the majority of Iowa State’s winter sports nearing an end, men’s golf will likely begin to creep into the minds of Cyclone sports fans.

The attention is coming at the right time.

The Iowa State men’s golf team is continuing to improve, coming off its best finish of the season. At the Colleton River Collegiate, the Cyclones finished in a season-high second place, led by junior Lachlan Barker, who finished tied for third in the tournament.

RANKINGS INCREASE Iowa State began the spring season ranked as the 84th best team in the country, according to GolfStat’s rankings.

After a relatively slow start to the spring season, it has seen a dramatic jump in GolfStat’s latest installment of rankings. The Cyclones are now viewed as a top-60 team in the country, positioned at 55th in GolfStat’s rankings as of March 3.

GolfStat’s rankings are always a subjective list and they don’t always tell the whole story.

When the Cyclones’ senior leader Tripp Kinney was asked about his thoughts on the list, he had to be honest.

“It is definitely something that I will keep an eye on,” Kinney said. “We’re still very far from where we think we can be, and if we keep getting better we’ll hopefully move up the rankings throughout the spring.”

Although national ratings do not reflect a team’s success directly, they do take into account how teams perform against one another. If the Cyclones keep moving up GolfStat’s leaderboard it will certainly mean their play is not lacking on the golf course.

CHRIS BAKER’S PGA SUCCESS Chris Baker attended Iowa State in the mid2000s as a member of the men’s golf team. His time in Ames, Iowa, was quite successful during his four year collegiate career, as he recorded 17 top 10 finishes and closed out his career by breaking the single season program stroke average at the time of his senior season, with an average of 71.46.

Since Baker left Ames, he has had quite the professional golf career. He spent time on the Web.com Tour and most recently the Korn Ferry Tour, two alternative professional routes for golfers.

After a tumultuous path to the top, Baker recently earned his PGA Tour card in September after a top 25 finish in the final Korn Ferry Tour standings, where he finished in 15th place. Baker became the first Iowa State alumni to ever officially hold a spot on the PGA Tour.

To begin the season, the Brownstown, Indiana, native missed the cut in all four of his first four tournaments, but then something changed. Iowa State’s current Head Coach Andrew Tank was fortunate enough to come in contact with Baker, a golfer he never coached. In November, the current Iowa State team was fortunate enough to soak up all the golf knowledge the former Cyclone had to offer.

“In November, we were playing in a tournament in Houston and we were able to meet with Chris, who was playing in the same area,” Tank said. We were able to spend about an hour just talking with him about his experiences both as a college player and now.”

Even Baker seemed to use this meeting as momentum, as he went on to finish top 35 in his following two events. More recently, he has had some life-changing experiences. At the Farmer Insurance Open in January, the former Cyclone was able to golf with future PGA Hall of Famer, Tiger Woods.

Kinney and the rest of the current Cyclone

roster have been able to follow Baker during their own season.

“It is something that we have been following, it is cool to see him doing well,” Kinney said.

Overall, Baker’s highest finish this season was his tied-26th at the Mayakoba Golf Classic in late February. He currently ranks 172nd in the FedEx Cup standings and he will have plenty more opportunities to improve that score throughout the rest of the season.

RICKY COSTELLO’S LETTER JACKET Last week, Iowa State University celebrated the tradition of the Iowa State Letter as it presented the newest group of Cyclone letter winners with their Iowa State letter jackets. Junior Ricky Costello was the lone member of the men’s golf team to receive his jacket.

In order to earn a jacket, you must start 40 to 50 percent of your team’s events and keep a 3.0 GPA or higher.

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Student Assistance offers resources

BY VICTORIA.REYNA-RODRIGUEZ @iowastatedaily.com

Iowa State’s Office of Student Accessibility has the goal to be a part of student’s journeys to success by providing support and connection.

According to the Student Assistance website, they “seek to create a safer, caring, and enriching environment for all students and members of Iowa State community.”

M e g a n Va n H e i d e n , s e n i o r a s s i s t a n t d i re c t o r o f S t u d e n t Accessibility, says she feels grateful to be a part of this student service at Iowa State.

“I want every single student here to know that there’s at least one person here that cares about them,” Van Heiden said. “Oftentimes, if not every time, there’s a lot of folks.

But if I can be one person that helps a student feel connected, that helps a student feel heard and supported, that’s what my goal is here.”

Student Assistance wants to make sure they are a form of support for students; and if they can’t help them, they hope to connect them to someone who can. Van Heiden said the office will often describe itself as a bridge, if you don’t know where to start at Iowa

State, Student Accessibility is your place.

“Whether it’s ‘I can’t get a hold of my instructor and I have a question for them,’ to ‘I just lost a loved one and need to go home,’ anything that a student is navigating.

What we do is help connect them to resources, support or options,” Van Heiden said.

She also mentioned ways that Student Assistance can be of help to faculty and staff on campus.

Van Heiden said whether it is in the classroom or when advisers are meeting with students, life often comes up.

“If they give us a call and say, ‘hey I’m really worried about this student can you reach out to them?’ we would be happy to and want them to let us know,” Van Heiden said.

Van Heiden says the staff at Student Assistance are well-informed of all the different policies and processes that are available to students. One example could be talking to a student about the academic grievance process.

“That ’s a process not a lot of people are aware of,” Van Heiden said. “It ’s in place if a student feels that their instructor is unfair or unprofessional, they can go ahead and move forward with the

academic grievance process.”

Va n H e i d e n s a y s S t u d e n t Assistance is happy to sit down with any student, form a process and walk them through it. “ We also work with students that are experiencing food insecurity,” Vain Heiden said. “So if it’s helping connect to shop here on campus, the give a swipe program, so getting swipes added to their meal plan, whatever that may be.

Financial assistance, if it’s letting them know about opportunities in the Office of Financial Aid, or opportunities within each academic college. There’s a lot of different options.”

Student Assistance is also able to refer students to so many different resources on campus. Van Heiden says they work really closely on referring students to counseling services, to Thielen Student Health, academic advisers, student organizations and many more.

“Iowa State is a huge campus and it’s really difficult to know all of the different support that’s here for students,” Van Heiden said.

Staff at Student Assistance are always able to schedule a time to speak with a student one-on-one at their office, but they are also available via email and phone if it works better for a student. Van Heiden

COURTESY OF MEGAN VAN HEIDEN Megan Van Heiden, senior assistant director of Student Assistance. Van Heiden is part of the staff that helps students be successful by providing them with support and resources when needed.

says Student Assistance wants students to be successful here at Iowa State and part of that is supporting them outside of the classroom too.

“Our hope is through that connection, through that support and that care, students are able to create a plan moving forward

Student organization protects child rights

BY COOPER.PIERCE @iowastatedaily.com In order for an organization to be recognized by the Student Activities Center at Iowa State University, it must have at least five members. While the Iowa State chapter of Save the Children Action Network (SCAN) only has three members, it still carries the support of a national political organization that has an influence on local and federal policy.

SCAN is the political advocacy division of the Save the Children charity. SCAN’s Iowa Manager, E.J. Wallace, says SCAN helps build bipartisan will and voter support to increase access to quality early childhood education and childcare. It also advocates to help girls be more successful around the world and aims to protect children and families as they seek asylum at the southern border.

SCAN volunteers work through community action teams who meet with lawmakers and spread awareness through their communities.

From June 2018 to the Iowa caucus in early February 2020, SCAN volunteers visited more than 120 presidential campaign events in an attempt to get candidates to commit to investing in kids.

Mack Shelley, political science department chair, is serving as the academic adviser for Iowa State’s SCAN chapter.

“What they’re doing is just unimpeachable great stuff, they’re helping out people who have a hard time helping themselves,” Shelley said.

“They provide for social justice when its often hard to get […] it’s hard to turn down an organization that does good work like that.”

Shelley says SCAN sees students as a valuable asset to spreading awareness about children’s

where they can be successful,” Van Heiden said. “Sometimes that means stepping away from Iowa State, sometimes that means creating that plan, having something tangible and sometimes that means just talking to someone about what they’re feeling.”

issues. Students play an important role in getting the word out to their family and friends about the organization and the work it does.

Wallace also sees how students playing a vital role in the organization’s success. Young people are going to decide what the world looks like in their generation, Wallace said.

“Students are really important in terms of educating their fellow student bodies so young people can vote accordingly […] we want to make sure all students are prepared to speak to the needs of children and families,” Wallace said.

Amy Yager, junior in child, adult and family services, got involved with SCAN because she values children’s issues and often saw them overlooked.

“As a mother I have seen policies that affect my children, they don’t really have the ability to say, ‘hey this is wrong, and it affects me,’ I like that you can be a voice for children through SCAN,” Yager said.

Cody Neeper-Burris, freshman in political science, got involved with SCAN last semester.

She wanted to get involved with a political organization that would actually make a difference.

“I’m involved in a couple other clubs, but this one has a real-world impact,” Neeper-Burris said.

Neeper-Burris said she found SCAN a way to help mobilize other students in an effort to create a large-scale change. The chapter has been reaching out in an attempt to increase visibility on campus. Neeper-Burris said one long-term goal for the chapter is to increase awareness and help students know what SCAN is.

SCAN is working to increase awareness and build support for the bipartisan Girls’ Leadership, Engagement, Agency and Development (LEAD) Act. Iowa State’s chapter is also promoting the LEAD Act. They will be screening a documentary called “Girl Rising.” It follows nine girls as they overcome obstacles to obtain an education. The screening will be held at 6 p.m.

March 26 in Lagomarcino Hall.

“If you want an organizational connection where you can actually do real serious good, particularly to benefit for children, benefit for women, provide for more social justice and more economic opportunity and equality, SCAN is for you,” Shelley said.

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kind of cool that you can get on the for you page and get followers and all that stuff so easily because it’s just by chance instead of like Instagram, you have to have followers.”

Michael Wigton, associate teaching professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, teaches a social media class mostly focused on public relations and advertising.

“People are uploading the content because it’s fun, and that’s what viral stuff has to be,” Wigton said. “It has to be fun, it has to be something people talk about, something that’s exciting and unusual and all those kinds of things.”

In Wigton’s social media class of about 30 students, the majority of them said they don’t read the terms of service when creating social media accounts and if they do look at the terms it is only to glance through.

When asked why they don’t pay attention to the terms, most students

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said they just want access to the social media and don’t want to miss out on the fun of the platforms.

“It is one of the worst terms of services that you can ever imagine,” Bugeja said. “You’re granting them the right to go into your phone and view your emails and text messages so that they can send you advertising.”

Most of Wigton’s students said they were unaware that by signing up for TikTok and agreeing to the terms of service that they were allowing the Beijing-based company ‘ByteDance’ to access their sent and received texts and emails.

None of the students were that concerned as they said they’re pretty used to hearing about their information being stored. Some of the students mentioned they think things like their Snapchat photos are probably being stored by the government.

One concern the students expressed, which Muse agreed she does think about, is the potentially harmful trends of TikTok. Muse said she notices some

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vendor because you kind of know that this brand typically runs bigger or smaller,” Anderson said.

Though the differences in clothing sizes per brand may be there, Anderson said she tries to have a wide range of options available.

“For women’s, we run an extra small to [double extra-large] and then we have plus one, plus two and plus three,” Anderson said. “The plus sizes, when we order from a vendor, we have to hit a certain number before we are able to buy a certain item. For the plus sizes, we are very limited in what our vendors offer us so I really try if it is a good piece to bring in the plus sizes of because I know we have a market for it.”

Anderson clarified that not every piece in the bookstore comes in extra small and not every piece comes in plus size; most women’s pieces come in small to double extra-large.

“When it comes to the male/unisex pieces, generally I can buy small through [triple extra-large] in most things,” Anderson said. “We do have some things I am able to buy extra small, which I have bought more extra-small in unisex especially in the past couple months because we are seeing a trend where college-age girls are shifting toward the unisex pieces instead of women-specific pieces.”

Anderson also said there are specific cases where she can buy up to quadruple extra-large and quintuple extra-large sizes in some things. She is also able to buy extra-large talls, double extra-large talls and triple extra-large talls, but she said the tall pieces are from very specific vendors.

Though there are a wide range of sizes available, not all sizes are available in the same number as other items, such as sizes on the extra-large end or extra-small end being limited.

“I do feel like we have a broad range that goes across the board, with that being said with our ordering system online we have to have a certain number of each size for our system to recognize it as ‘in stock’ because we don’t want to oversell, so a lot of those times we may have two or three pieces in each size but our system may not recognize us as actually having it in stock.”

Anderson said that when this happens people are interested in certain sizes that may read as “out of stock” can call into the bookstore to check if there are items available in those sizes.

“By all means come talk to us about anything,” Laurich said. “If there is a demand out there and we hear about it, then we will make some changes or do what we can.”

Though Anderson, Laurich, Mastbergen and all the staff at the Iowa State Bookstore do their best to provide the Iowa State community with the best options they can with clothing, not every retailer does, and that is part of something called “thin privilege.”

“Size privilege, sometimes referred to as thin

popular content creators on TikTok will joke about topics of mental health and substance abuse. Some of these jokes consist of a trend of girls being obsessed with nicotine-addicted boys and there’s a popular TikTok sound of when life gets hard, “just get a tattoo.”

“When I see popular creators doing that I’m like ‘oh no’ because everyone looks up to them and I don’t want these little kids on this app thinking that that ’s cool or glamorizing,” Muse said. “I don’t think that we should be lifting up those things.”

TikTok is known for having a large audience group under the age of 18, this can bring in the question of how safe the app is, specifically in regards to the trends and “challenges” of TikTok that may be of more mature content.

“I feel like so many young kids are on it and I don’t think parents realize that there’s some pretty inappropriate and vulgar stuff on it, especially like a lot of things are sexualized on

privilege, is a byproduct of a culture’s belief that the thin body is the norm and thus the acceptable and preferable body,” said Amanda Arp, a graduate student in English. “It refers to how people with thin or thinner bodies receive the benefits of being thin in a society that rewards and is built for thin individuals. On the other hand, people with fat, thick or large bodies can often experience detrimental effects due to being on the less privileged side of size privilege, such as body shaming.”

Arp said thin privilege can affect people of different sizes in different ways.

“For example, a slim or average individual could go into almost any clothing store and find sizes that would fit him or her. A person with thin privilege could be unaware that they benefit from said privilege,” Arp said. “In contrast, those on the less privileged end of size privilege, typically those with fatter or larger bodies, can experience sizeism in the form of other people commenting that he or she should lose weight, not buy certain foods or not wear revealing clothing. Size privilege can also impact access to certain experiences, for instance flying in economy seating, wearing certain uniforms, riding a roller coaster at a theme park or going to a movie where the seats don’t move.

Due to the prevalence of such situations, people who do not benefit from size privilege sometimes have to plan their lives to avoid or account for restrictive situations.”

Arizona State University has created a “Thin Privilege Checklist” based on an article written by Sharon Ridgway in Feminism Magazine. The list allows people who aren’t sure what thin privilege is to check themselves against a list that portrays examples of size discrimination.

Arp said that thin privilege does happen at Iowa State, even if it is not always noticeable at first.

“According to the ongoing results of the research study that my research partner, Cassidy Boe, and I have been doing, I would say that size privilege is sometimes a factor at Iowa State,” Arp said. “For instance, some flip-style desks with limited area between chair and desk are inaccessible or uncomfortable for someone with a larger or fatter body.”

Arp said thin privilege can also go beyond just desks and seating, but also into clothing, like those sold at the Iowa State Bookstore.

“Clothes range in size and stores range in the sizes of clothes that they carry,” Arp said. “The larger and fatter that an individual is, the more restricted their options are for clothing. People who are tall, short, curvy or are extremely thin can also sometimes have accessibility issues due to the clothing size that they need.”

Arp said thin privilege in clothing can look like not being able to get the size you need. She provided the example of a student needing a triple extra-large or a quadruple extra-large T-shirt, but the only sizes that exist are small, medium, large, extra-large, and double extra-large.

the app,” Muse said. “I don’t think parents realize that but TikTok does do a decent job of deleting videos that are too out of hand.”

The discussion of what is safe for children to be exposed to and what isn’t is a discussion that happens a lot in life.

“I think that we’ve had these same conversations for decades,” Wigton said. “It was TV like ‘oh you’re kids shouldn’t watch TV, it’s going to ruin them,’ and all these commercials and stereotypes. I think in general, as parents, we just have to have conversations with our children about what they’re seeing and do [they] have any questions if [they] see something that’s not appropriate.”

Bugeja said he tells his students to be aware of what they post on all social media platforms because of their professional lives. Companies often check someone’s social media presence when they apply for a position or are currently working there. “ They also don’t want you in your off hours to use social media

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Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence,” which will be the main feature of this lecture.

“The primary focus of the book is the lived experiences of childfree women and men today, set in historical and cultural context,” Blackstone said in an interview with medium. com last year following her novels publishing. “I also examine the social, economic and environmental impact of the childfree choice. There have been childfree people for much longer than many folks realize, but it is only in recent decades that we’ve come to see them and talk about the reality that parenthood is and should be a choice rather than an inevitability. Plenty of good research on the childfree choice precedes my own, but I think one thing that sets my book apart is its scope.”

Blackstone is a childfree woman and is no stranger to a wide range of negative responses when she informs people she doesn’t have or want kids. Married twice and divorced,

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will be responsible for enforcing the parking of scooters. The staff reported the police department or another city department would not be advisable to assign this task to.

Councilwoman Rachel Junck, representing Ward 4, said the responsibility could rely on the business.

“I would be supportive of doing a pilot program, I’m not 100 percent sure that this is going to work in Ames [...] but I think a lot of the policy questions with enforcement and geofencing in particular, could be answered and we could figure out the specifics in how these scooters work,” Junck said. “So I’d be interested in doing a pilot program if maybe limiting the number of scooters or the amount of companies that can come in and start so we can really understand how the ordinances work and how we can have the enforcement work.”

Several pilot programs have been launched within the United States, including a 30-day program in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, according to The Des

inappropriately, perhaps being sexist or using profanity because any time you are doing that online, it can be reported and that affects a company’s image,” Bugeja said. “So I often tell my students to scrub their social media and then to use privacy controls on who can see that social media and who can’t.”

Students can be conscious of using accounts for their personal lives that are separate from those they use for work-related purposes. If something someone does online is deemed inappropriate and reported to the organization they work for, it could have a negative result on their career.

“You have to take the consequence for what you post, it’s as simple as that,” Bugeja said. “If you are using TikTok or Instagram or Facebook or Twitter or any other social media appropriately, and you see offending material there is always a way to report that. And you should. Because you don’t want others infecting the digital environment in which you choose to invest your time.”

Blackstone has felt plenty of backlash in part by significant others that desired children unlike herself, as many have faced when choosing a childfree lifestyle.

She is not alone. More people than ever are choosing to forgo parenthood, which is still widely viewed as taboo in many cultures, despite it being a personal choice or preference. Blackstone has been studying the childfree choice since 2008, but the movement has existed long before then.

To learn more, Blackstone’s book is available for purchase on many platforms, including by ebook at GoogleBooks or at her lecture tomorrow evening, which will discuss the novel.

This lecture is provided in part thanks to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Human S ciences, Ames P ublic Libr ar y Friends Foundation, Women and Gender S tudies, the Universit y Library, Psychology and Sociology Departments and the Committee on L ectures funded by S tudent Government.

Moines Register. There, the scooters cost $1 to unlock and 15 cents per minute to operate.

The pilot program in Cedar Rapids prohibited users from riding on downtown sidewalks and instead use available bicycle lanes. The Register also reported the scooters could be abandoned “almost anywhere” though there are designated painted parking areas as well as bicycle sharing stations.

This form of enforcement also rose concern regarding the relationship between the business and its customers, Councilman David Martin, who represents Ward 3, said.

“So we have to look at those companies’ relationships with their customers who are our residents and when I look at the contracts the companies have with their users—I’m not very impressed,” Martin said. “The users have to waive significant rights [...] the users of these devices take all risk [...] Some of this is business as usual this day in age but again, we’re entering into a partnership with a company that is getting people [to] agree to this, in order to use the products. It makes me uncomfortable.”