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State of the Union BY KATHERINE.KEALEY @iowastatedaily.com President Donald Trump delivered his third State of the Union address (SOTU) late Tuesday. “O ur agenda is relentlessl y pro-family, pro-growth, and most of all, pro-American,” Tr ump said as part of the opening of his address. The SOTU is an annual speech given by the president to a joint session of the United States Congress at the start of the year. Tr u m p’s s p e e c h d i s c u s s e d reviving the American dream by decreasing unemployment rates, cutting taxes, bringing jobs back to America, as well as illegal immigrant crime rates and terrorism. Prior to the speech, several Democratic lawmakers, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, arrived at the speech wearing white as a protest symbol against Trump. Pelosi said she has not spoken with the president since October. After the president was introduced by Pelosi, Congressional Republicans began to chant “four more years.” “Three years ago we launched the great American comeback,” Trump said. “Tonight I stand before you to share the incredible results: jobs

are booming, incomings are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging and our country is thriving and is highly respected again.” Trump said this is the “ blue collar boom” and claimed to have been the reason for the decrease in the unemployment rate. Unemployment among African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women, veterans and disabled Americans has reached an all-time low during his presidency, Trump said. “The vision I will lay out tonight will demonstrate how we are building the world’s most prosperous and inclusive society,” Trump said. “One where every citizen can join in America’s unparalleled success and where every community can take part in America’s extraordinary rise.” Trump said during the administration of President Barack Obama more than ten million people were added to the food stamp rolls, but under his administration seven million Americans have come off food stamp rolls and 10 million people have been lifted off welfare. In the three years of the Trump administration 3.5 million working

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Pro-family, pro-growth, and most of all, pro-American.” The vision I will lay out tonight will demonstrate how we are building the world’s most prosperous and inclusive society.”

My administration is also defending religious liberty and that includes the constitutional right to pray in public schools.”

The American nation was carved out of the vast frontier by the strongest, fiercest and most determined, men and women ever to walk on the face of the earth.”

CAITLIN YAMADA/ IOWA STATE DAILY Trump delivered his third State of the Union address on Tuesday. He claimed responsibility for economic successes that occurred during his presidency.

Democrats respond to Trump’s State of the Union address BY JAKE.WEBSTER @iowastatedaily.com

COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan gave the Democratic Party’s response to President Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address.

Touting policy initiatives undertaken by Democratic governors across the nation, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivered the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address late Tuesday. “Democrats across the country are getting things done,” Whitmer said. “Pennsylvania’s Governor Tom Wolf is expanding the right to overtime pay, Michigan is too. Because if you’re on the clock, you deserve to get paid. Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak and North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper are working to give hardworking teachers a raise.” Whitmer’s speech came shortly after Trump’s. The president achieved an all-time high approval rating in the Gallup poll, in a survey released early Tuesday. The poll found 63 percent approve of his handling of the economy. Trump’s reelection campaign press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, released a statement following the president’s

address highlighting the performance of the economy during the Trump presidency. “President Trump’s State of the Union address illustrated unmistakably that he has led the great American comeback, overseeing an unprecedented blue collar boom that would be reversed by the socialist government takeover policies of 2020 Democrats,” McEnany said in the statement. Whitmer seemingly responded to the economic figures in her speech. She spoke of several people who have to raise funds to pay for health care. “No one should have to crowdsource their health care, not in America,” Whitmer said. The upcoming November election was addressed in Whitmer’s response, she called 2020 a “big year.” “It’s the year my daughter Sherry will graduate from high school. It’s also the year she’ll cast her first ballot, along with millions of young Americans,” Whitmer said. “The two things are connected, because walking across a graduation stage is as important as walking in the voting booth the first time.”

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Lori Brown is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University and cofounder of ArchiteXX, a group working to raise awareness of women in architecture, create support and mentorship networks and take design actions to broaden the exposure of architecture in the world. She focuses on relationships between architecture and social justice issues with particular emphasis on gender and its impact on spatial relationships.

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interdisciplinary artist Louise Fisher works in the expanded field of print, using methods of layering, impressing and repetition for their literal and visual enactment of time and the body. She will give a public talk in conjunction with “Lucid,” a solo exhibition of her work on display in the College of Design’s Gallery 181.

POLICE BLOTTER 2.3.20 Demarkus Amura Coates, age 22, of 4345 Maricopa Dr. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with interference with official acts, all other offenses, at 4345 Maricopa Drive (reported at 3:16 a.m.). Demarkus Amura Coates, age 22, of 4345 Maricopa Dr. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with driving while barred at 4345 Maricopa Drive (reported at 3:16 a.m.). Demarkus Amura Coates, age 22, of 4345 Maricopa Dr. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance, marijuana third of subsequent offenses, at 4345 Maricopa Drive (reported at 3:16 a.m.). Ryan Jay Cowan, age 26, of 209 S Oak Ave. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with probation

violation at 111 Sherman Avenue (reported at 7:50 a.m.). Ryan Jay Cowan, age 26, of 209 S Oak Ave. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with contempt, violation of no-contact or protective order, at 111 Sherman Avenue (reported at 7:50 a.m.). Claudia Yaneth Lomeli, age 45, of 6100 W Lincoln Way- Boone, Iowa, was arrested and charged with providing false identification information at 400 University Boulevard (reported at 3:31 p.m.).

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Tanya Marie Gomez, age 37, of 1502 Manor Ave. - Albert Lea, Minnesota, was arrested and charged with driving while revoked at 1502 Manor Avenue (reported at 3:06 a.m.).

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Buttigieg holds narrow lead with 71 percent reporting BY JAKE.WEBSTER @iowastatedaily.com Pete Buttigieg narrowly leads partial results of the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses after the Iowa Democratic Party’s (IDP) release of 71 percent of precinct results following unprecedented delays. Buttigieg slightly trails Bernie Sanders in the popular vote but leads in state delegate equivalents (SDE). Speaking at a press conference broadcast live from Des Moines, the IDP Chair Troy Price said just before 4 p.m. Tuesday results from 62 percent of precincts from all 99 Iowa counties would be released in “just a couple of minutes.” During the press conference, Price called the circumstances surrounding the caucuses that took place late Monday “unacceptable.” “As chair of the party, I apologize deeply for this,” Price said. “Last night we were faced with multiple reporting challenges and decided out of an abundance of caution to protect the integrity of the Iowa caucuses and their results by taking the necessary steps to review and confirm the data. A thorough transparent and independent examination of what occurred yesterday will follow. But let me be clear, my number one priority has been ensuring the accuracy and the integrity of the results, and we have been working all night to be in the best position to report results.” Shortly after Price’s press conference, the partial results appeared on the IDP’s results webpage at https://results.thecaucuses.org/. Further results were added after 10:40 p.m. Tuesday. While Buttigieg leads with more state delegate equivalents than his closest opponent Sanders, the Vermont senator led Buttigieg in the popular vote according to the partial results as of 11 p.m. Tuesday. Buttigieg had 419 SDEs to Sanders’ 394, while Sanders led Buttigieg in the first preference votes by 31,322 to 27,418 and in final preference votes by 32,673 to 31,353 according

PHOTOS BY ASHLEY MARTINEZ-TORRES (RIGHT), CAITLIN YAMADA (LEFT)/ IOWA STATE DAILY Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Bernie Sanders are in a close race for victory in Iowa’s caucuses after partial results were released Tuesday.

to the IDP results page. The former South Bend, Indiana mayor had seemingly declared victory on caucus night. “[B]y all indications we are going on to New Hampshire victorious,” Buttigieg said to supporters late Monday in Des Moines. No official results had been released at that

point, though major campaigns kept track of results in precincts around the state and released partial internal campaign data of results throughout Monday night and Tuesday. In an interview with CNN after the initial release of results, Buttigieg said the results amounted to a “remarkable victory for our

campaign’s vision and message.” “I’m just so humbled by the support that we got from as far as I can tell — and I haven’t seen the very latest map — but as far as I can tell, every different part of the state, different

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Horticulture Club hosts Valentine’s Day rose sale BY NICOLE.MATTSON @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State’s Horticulture Club is celebrating this year’s Valentine’s Day by selling roses to students around campus. Wednesday is the last day to preorder the flowers for a cheaper price. The preorder price is $4.50 per stem for the roses. They are also selling alstroemeria and carnations for $2 per stem. For the day of sales, prices will rise to $5 and $2.50 respectively. Justin Wigdahl, an Iowa State senior and the chair of the Horticulture Club’s Rose Sale Committee, explained sales benefits and why they put on the sale. “We do [rose sales] primarily to give club members an opportunity to arrange flowers and practice those skills,” Wigdahl said. “All of our proceeds also go directly to the club. We use those for club meetings. [...] A lot of that money will go towards trips to competitions and to industry tour trips that we take.” The trips give club members the opportunity to learn more about horticulture in nearby cities, and the competitions allow them to test their knowledge of horticulture. There are also plant identification competitions as well as plant and produce judging. “Usually once a year, the club tries to do at least one trip to a nearby larger city such as

Minneapolis or Chicago to tour some nurseries,” Wigdahl said. “Some greenhouse production areas and other horticultural-related businesses. On top of that, we do about one competition per semester. [...] We will actually be hosting the fall semester competition in two years.” Wigdahl explained that the price of each individual rose pays for more than the flower. “I know that a lot of people are kind of taken back by the price of each rose,” Wigdahl said. “What is included in those $5 is complimentary greens, and then we actually package all of that up into tissue paper with a plastic sleeve so it is all put together and ready to give to whoever is the lucky person getting the flower. So the $5 goes towards all of that, not just the flower.” The Horticulture Club was created in 1900, making it one of the oldest clubs at Iowa State. It was the first agricultural departmental club on campus, according to the Department of Horticulture’s website. The Valentine’s Day rose sale has been a part of the Horticulture Club’s fundraising for the last several years. Students can preorder roses from the Horticulture Club through Feb. 5. All other orders can be made in person Feb. 12 through the 14 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the lobby of Carver Hall.

COURTESY OF JUSTIN WIGDAHL Iowa State’s Horticulture Club created flower arrangements for their annual Valentine’s Day rose sale in 2019.

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Board of Regents to hear project requests

IOWA STATE DAILY The Board of Regents held a meeting on Feb. 27 in the Reiman Ballroom.

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The Ames Human Relations Commission looks to find out how citizens feel about living in Ames.

Tracking Discrimination Ames Human Relations Commission seeks information on discrimination in Ames

BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com With a new year already well underway, Ames is looking to find out how citizens are feeling about living in Ames. The Ames Human Relations Commission (AHRC) is interested in hearing from citizens about their experiences living in Ames. Of special interest to the AHRC is how much citizens feel included in Ames and what experiences they have had related to hate, bias and discrimination. The AHRC also seeks feedback in learning what the city of Ames could do better or differently to become a more inclusive and equitable community. AHRC’s overall purpose is to promote goodwill among various religious and ethnic groups, partner with other organizations to develop programs designed to eliminate racial, religious, cultural and intergroup tensions as well as studying the existence of

discrimination within the community and working collaboratively to minimize or eliminate it. “ With that purpose in mind, the Commission is gathering feedback on experiences our residents have had in Ames, and we are looking for opportunities to become a more welcoming community,” said assistant city manager Deb Schildroth, who serves as the staff liaison to the Commission. “By completing the survey, you will be helping the AHRC become more responsive to these needs in the community.” The survey is available online at the city of Ames website with the deadline to take the survey at 5 p.m. Feb. 20. Anyone who lives in Ames can fill out the survey, including Iowa State students. “We are especially interested in learning about how included citizens feel, what experiences they have had related to hate, bias and discrimination, and in learning more

about what the city of Ames could do better or differently to become a more inclusive and equitable community,” according to the survey website. “Responses are anonymous and will not provide information for individual follow-up.” The survey is a set of 17 questions, which range from basic identity questions to deeper questions that ask about a person’s experience in Ames. One question asks “Do you/your family members feel included in Ames?” with subsets of work, school, public areas, medical providers and others. Another asks “What, if any, experiences have you had with discrimination, hate, or bias in Ames?” with subsets requesting the survey taker to share more information if they feel comfortable. The AHRC generally meets at 5:30 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month in Ames City Hall.

Pronoun use creates gender inclusivity BY MADISON.MASON @iowastatedaily.com

GRANT TETMEYER/ IOWA STATE DAILY Blank pronoun buttons sit on a table at the LGBTQIA+ Community Welcome Aug. 27 in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.

At Iowa State there are many different people who hold many different identities, however, there is still confusion surrounding the importance of gender identity and the use of pronouns. This confusion and lack of knowledge and education about gender identity may be connected with a lack of understanding about the term and identity, cisgender, and how it plays a role in the conversation about gender identity. Cisgender or cis is derived from the Latin word meaning “on the same side.” The identity, cisgender, is for someone who exclusively identifies as their sex assigned at birth. Someone who identifies as cisgender or a cis person is not

transgender. According to Trans Student Educational Resources, the term cisgender is not indicative of gender expression, sexual orientation, hormonal makeup, physical anatomy or how one is perceived in daily life. Andra Castle, assistant director at the Margaret Sloss Center for Women’s and Gender Equity, said the term cisgender is often used as an identity to differentiate from others who identify as transgender. They said it encourages the idea of not just identifying the people who are different, rather creating a more equitable space for everyone. “By not using the term cisgender, people are setting up the gender binary as a default,” said David Wahl, graduate

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The Iowa Board of Regents will be reviewing three project requests from Iowa State University (ISU), a recommendation to rename the Music Hall and hear from ISU President Wendy Wintersteen. The Properties and Facilities Committee will meet to discuss a request from ISU to proceed with the project planning for the East Gateway Bridge to be near Jack Trice Stadium. “The project would build a gateway bridge over South University Boulevard, east of Jack Trice Stadium, and an elevated walkway connecting the bridge to the stadium’s east concourse,” according to the document. “Not only would it create a safer pedestrian route between the stadium and parking, but would enhance entry into the ISU campus. The estimated project budget of $8 million to $12 million would be funded by Athletics Department Operations and Private Giving.” Additionally, the committee will discuss approving the schematic design, project description and budget for pavement replacement in parking lots around campus and improvements to the Power Plant’s central control system. “This [parking lot] project would replace parking areas in three parking lots and install ADA parking improvements, while replacing select underground utilities,” according to the document. “The project budget of $3,830,000 would be funded by Institutional Roads Program Funds (DOT funds), ISU Parking, ISU Utilities and University Funds.” Within the current power plant, the equipment is obsolete and does not meet safety requirements, according to the document. “This project would replace the 50-year-old ‘station power system,’ the Power Plant’s central control system, using 12 phases of construction through 2027,” according to the document. “The project budget of $16 million would be funded by the Utility Repair Fund and the Utility Infrastructure Fund.” The committee will discuss a potential naming of the Music Hall on campus. The proposed name is the “Simon Estes Music Hall” after Adjunct Professor Dr. Simon Estes. “Simon Estes, 81, is an adjunct professor of music and The F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Artist in Residence in the Department of Music and Theatre at Iowa State University. He is an internationally acclaimed opera vocalist, humanitarian, and philanthropist,” according to the document.” “[...] At the age of 81, Dr. Estes has and continues to bring tremendous pride to the state of Iowa and Iowa State University.” The meeting wil l begin 9:15 a.m. Wednesday at the Board of Regents Office in Urbandale, Iowa.

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The importance of emotional intelligence BY EILEEN.TYRRELL @iowastatedaily.com I was having a conversation with a friend over coffee the other day when she told me a funny anecdote about a child she was watching at Dance Marathon a few weeks ago. The little boy was playing a game when he got knocked over pretty hard and immediately started crying. She rushed over to make sure he was okay; he was choking out sobs when all of the sudden, his face brightened into a smile. “I’m just” — sob — “I’m just so happy,” he cried. “You know, little kids,” she concluded the story. “He didn’t know how to process his emotions.” It’s true, children don’t understand or know how to process their emotions, which is part of what makes them so entertaining, and so difficult. But that got me thinking — why don’t we teach them? Why do we treat emotional intelligence like it’s something innate, rather than a skill that can be learned? If understanding and processing our emotions came naturally or easily to us, I doubt almost half of American households would have someone seeking mental health treatment. I doubt one in five Americans would be experiencing mental illness, as is the case now. “We don’t know much about emotions, even though we think we do,” UCSB sociologist Thomas Scheff said in a 2017 TED article. “That goes for the public and for researchers.” Few people think about understanding your emotions in the context of a learning environment; from my fairly typical public education experience I can recall many awkward classroom discussions about puberty and what that meant for my body, but virtually nothing about my emotional growth. This is probably true for the vast majority of Americans, and

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this should change. “Improved emotional regulation leads to benefits in all areas of a child’s life,” child therapist Kenneth Barish writes in an article for the Huffington Post. “Emotional regulation means being able to think constructively about how to cope with feelings.” This skill — being able to think constructively about one’s emotions — could benefit people of all ages, but I think it would especially help people in Iowa State’s typical demographic: 18-22 year olds. This time of our life is so tumultuous — relationships beginning and ending, becoming a real person in the world, having true independence for the first time — there are a lot of new experiences and complicated emotions to grapple with, and not everyone can do that successfully. This is true for everyone, but especially so for men, who “are relegated to an impoverished emotional landscape” and learn to “reject feelings of weakness” as early as five years old, according to Peggy Orenstein in her article “The Miseducation of the American Boy.” Girls are given much more emotional leeway than boys growing up, and this allows them to process and cope with their emotions in a much more whole way, although there is room for improvement all around. So what might that improvement look like? How CAN we teach emotional regulation? Schools should include emotional intelligence and regulation as a part of their curriculum, from

the time students enter kindergarten and pre-k. One such program that does this is called RULER, developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. RULER, which is an acronym for the five goals of the program, focuses on teaching kids to process their emotions thematically and constructively, rather than getting swept away in the feeling. It is woven into all their subjects, and has shown demonstrable benefits in students who are taught this way. Emotional education should continue all the way through high school, where it could be interwoven with more serious and complex education about mental health (which should also be taught to children). This will require change not just on an individual or group basis, but also structurally. It will take structural change for “mental health days” to become acceptable and valid excuses for sitting a day out, for emotional regulation to become a part of school curriculum and for therapy to become a more regular and normal part of the average person’s life — all things that are crucial to developing good emotional health within a person. After all, our emotions are the primary and first way that we experience the world around us. Emotions define the human experience and color our existence in ways that we don’t even fully understand yet. Being able to understand them is absolutely something that can be learned, and therefore absolutely should be taught.

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We need ranked choice voting BY ZACHARY.JOHNSON @iowastatedaily.com The absolute disarray surrounding the Iowa caucus is indicative of the muchneeded change in how we select our nominees. Don’t get me wrong. I loved my first experience caucusing. Having the opportunity to be some of the first people to put forth meaningful feedback on these candidates was an incredible experience to have for the first time on Monday. I went from having never met a Klobuchar supporter to attempting them to bring them over to my side and seeing her get two delegates from my precinct. While there is a lot of value in this process that I was able to experience I understand, of course, that I am uniquely in a position to go to these sorts of things.

Many people have a hard time putting aside the time to vote let alone the long and uncertain amount of time that it takes to go to these caucuses. This is a difficult barrier to entry to overcome for many who might not have extremely strong preferences but whose preferences should be taken into account regardless. It is no secret that general elections are far more accessible for people and, being the most voted in elections in the country. No matter how impressive the caucuses turnout is, it will pale in comparison to an election where a ballot is cast and the voter can simply leave afterwards. If we look at the results of the 2016 Democratic caucus, there were simply a few coin flips between Clinton and Sanders taking the crown in that contest. The 2016 general election is characterized by the disdain between the two

candidates and how unpopular they were with the general public. Even Democrats disliked Clinton at an incredible rate throughout the race and while you can point to many things as the cause of this, I think I can conjecture that if more people had been a part of the caucus process, it would have better represented the Iowa voting public and (though this is contentious) would better represent the Democratic electorate generally. I would argue the two big appeals of caucusing are the ability to elect to support your second choice and the ability to have conversations with those who disagree with you. Ranked choice voting keeps the former attribute while bringing with it ease and effectiveness of quality control that makes for a more representative for more Iowans and more Americans.

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Iowa State takes on No. 13 West Virginia in road game BY MATT.BELINSON @iowastatedaily.com As if coming off a two week stretch with three losses to show for it — two of which came to both the best and one of the worst teams the Big 12 has to offer — wasn’t challenging enough for the Cyclones, they will hit the road once again for a matchup with the No. 13 West Virginia Mountaineers. The No. 13 Mountaineers are not in the same spot they found themselves in just a season ago, sitting 1-7 in Big 12 at this time. Now the Mountaineers sit as a top-15 team and hold the same Big 12 record through eight games (5-3) that the Cyclones held just a season ago. But it’s not just the record that has changed for West Virginia and Coach Steve Prohm and his team knows it. Prohm said he has seen the return of what has made West Virginia a consistent threat in the conference and the NCAA tournament over the last decade: defense and toughness around the glass. Prohm said this year ’s West Virginia team has returned to playing its press defense, suffocating offenses and creating turnovers to make its offense as efficient as possible. Defending the boards and being willing to attack the press that West Virginia throws out will be the key for Prohm and his team. “You gotta attack all 40 minutes, you have to make play after play on the offensive end and on the defensive end you gotta be physical at every position,” Prohm said. After West Virginia finished

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4-14 in conference play and 15-21 overall last season, Prohm said he has seen how much effort and commitment Bob Huggins — the coach of the Mountaineers since 2007 — has put into this year’s season in hopes of making it a rebound from last season. “You could tell [Bob] Huggins was determined to get his team back right after obviously last year’s season,” Prohm said. Iowa State brought a new starting lineup to Austin, Texas, on Sunday with freshman guard Tre Jackson taking the place of Prentiss Nixon. Jackson made his mark in his first career start on the offensive end, knocking down all three of his

three point attempts. Jackson’s success from distance may have been a spark the Cyclones counted on against Texas, but against the Mountaineers, Prohm said his message to his freshman is to stay relaxed and not look to make the big-play every possession. With the press collapsing in on each player on the floor, taking away the open space Jackson might need to connect on his threes, Prohm said it will be vital for him to look to make the simple plays, rather than give West Virginia exactly what it wants. Prohm related Jackson’s would-be approach to how a baseball player should approach their individual

at-bat, making sure the right play is made, not looking to hit big plays every time. “You just really talk to him about slowing down, hitting singles; don’t try and hit doubles, don’t try and hit a triple, don’t try and hit a home run, you just hit singles against West Virginia and make simple plays,” Prohm said. Jackson has never played — much less started — a game against West Virginia in Morgantown, making his decision making and playmaking a focal point for how the Cyclones will fair in Wednesday’s matchup. Jackson hasn’t had trouble lighting it up from three point range,

shooting 11-25 (44%) in Big 12 play, but said ahead of his first matchup with the Mountaineers that he and his teammates will just do what they do. The reputation West Virginia holds and has held for many years hasn’t escaped Jackson and he expects to face a physical team with plenty of size to bout. “I’m anticipating them to be a real physical team, we just gotta go out there and do what we gotta do in order to win,” Jackson said. Jac kson’s teammate George Conditt has also had very limited experience playing West Virginia, getting a combined total of 16 minutes against them last season. Conditt only played four minutes the first time around, hitting both of his free throw attempts, ending his night with two points and one rebound. In the second meeting, Conditt had much more of an impact in his 12 minutes of playing time, finishing with four points, seven rebounds and two blocks. Conditt was asked to describe what playing West Virginia will be like to a young freshman like Jackson and said that the Mountaineers will bring pressure nonstop and will make it tough to find a rhythm on offense. “They’re gonna pressure you every inch of the court, they are going to try and deny you the ball, try and deny all the right actions,” Conditt said. “[...] They are a very tough team, if we thought Baylor was tough, then we got a heck of a week this week, just gotta go in there and challenge ourselves.”

Cyclones to face Oklahoma State Iowa State seeks to bounce back after loss to West Virginia BY JOHN.MILLER @iowastatedaily.com The Iowa State Cyclones (12-8, 4-5 Big 12) will face Oklahoma State (12-9, 3-6 Big 12) 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Hilton Coliseum. The Cowgirls are coming in off three straight losses to Texas, TCU and Texas Tech. Their last win came against an opponent that Iowa State struggled with on Sunday — the West Virginia Mountaineers. “This is a big week for us, no question,” said coach Bill Fennelly. “Trying to compare scores in our league is impossible this year, so you just gotta go out there and compete.” In their first meeting with Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Oklahoma, the Cyclones pulled out a 64-63 victory. Oklahoma State led by 12 by the middle of the third quarter, but Iowa State showed its resilience, cutting that lead to one by the end of the period.

Iowa State eventually pulled out a late win thanks to an Ines Nezerwa layup with 30 seconds remaining. Ashley Joens logged 37 minutes in that game, something that she does often for Iowa State. But in the loss to West Virginia on Sunday, Joens only played seven minutes in the first half due to three fouls. “I can’t let that affect the way I play,” Joens said. “I just have to keep going out and playing the way I know how.” It also didn’t help the Cyclones that Rae Johnson was playing in her first game since a back injury put her out. To couple that with other players that have limited minutes, it makes it tough to put a lineup out with players in the best position, which was the case on the court for the Cyclones against West Virginia. “Basketball is a lot like life, I tell my players; you have to find ways to get through it, even when it gets tough,” Fennelly said. When Joens returned for the second half when the Cyclones were down by nine, the offense looked out of rhythm. It wasn’t until a minute left when the team finally made its push. But it was too little, too late.

One bright spot did emerge from the game though. Junior Kristin Scott stepped up in place of Joens, and had one of her best games of the season, scoring a team-high 16 points. “[Kristin] has the range, the game inside and can rebound,” Fennelly said. “When our team is at our best, she creates the matchup with Ashley that makes it hard for other teams to guard.” Scott has been one of the top three-point threats for the Cyclones this season, despite playing the center position. In the last game against Oklahoma State, she shot four of five from the three-point line. It is a performance that Iowa State is hoping to see again against Oklahoma State with a small difference between the teams. “We just have to keep battling in there and knock down shots to build up that momentum,” Joens said. But with the offensive promise comes a defensive concern for the Cyclones. The Cyclones gave up 79 points to a West Virginia offense that ranked ninth in the Big 12 in scoring. Oklahoma State holds the bottom spot of scoring in the conference, averaging 67.24

points per game. But this game is an opportunity for the Cyclones to step up on that end of the floor. “When our teams have really good, we’ve been really good at executing a game plan on how you guard certain people, and we haven’t done that this year,” Fennelly said. Vivian Gray (19.8 point per game) and Natasha Mack (17.4 points per game) are the two players who scored the majority of Oklahoma State’s points. Mack, six-foot-four inches tall and Gray, sixfoot-one, pose some mismatches for Iowa State. But Joens knows the Cyclones must play together to execute defensively. “Defense turns into momentum for offense, so we just need to tie some stops together,” Joens said. In one of the most competitive conferences in the nation, Iowa State will likely need nine or 10 wins in conference play to make the tournament, so every game counts, especially ones that are not favored in either way like this. “Your record at the end of conference play is always dictated by who you sweep and who you allow to sweep you,” Fennelly said. “And you want to certainly be on the good side of that.”

Wednesday, February 05, 2020 Iowa State Daily

Voices

SARAH HENRY/ IOWA STATE DAILY Bernie supporters cheer as supporters of Andrew Yang move to join them during the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses on Feb. 3 in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.

Why Iowa State students vote Students voice views on importance of caucusing

BY VICTORIA.REYNA-RODRIGUEZ @iowastatedaily.com Nationwide, eyes are upon the presidential race. From rallies to caucuses, American citiz ens ever ywhere are participating. According to the United S tates Elections Project, more than 58 percent of all eligible voters voted in the 2016 general election, and over 138 million Americans total voted altogether. Every four years, millions of Americans exercise their constitutional right, but what drives them? Opal Rustad, sophomore in performing arts, participated in the Iowa caucus Monday night and said, “It’s important for my voice to be heard, I have a right to vote, and I’m here just to vote for who I want.” It has been made clear through past elections that not everyone who can vote does. Rustad said she encourages everyone who is capable to exercise their constitutional right and vote. “I think they just need to go get out there and vote, it doesn’t even take that long, just really quick, and your voice gets to be heard,” Rustad said. Emma Vanzante, senior in architecture and fellow caucusgoer, agreed with Rustad that every vote and voice matters.

“One vote does a lot here,” Vanzante said. “One person’s voice persuades tons of others and eventually that can change the entire dynamic of one group to another. You can go from one person in one group, from a hundred people in that group, just from one person speaking up [...] we need everybody here.” This year’s 2020 caucus was Vanzante’s second caucus she has attended, and just as good of an experience as the first. “I love caucusing, I did it my first time four years ago back home in Urbandale, Iowa, and it was a lot of fun to get together with the community and it’s just a great experience,” Vanzante said. “A lot of people aren’t always as involved and this is a great way to get people involved with the political elections every four years.” For many, Monday night was their first opportunity to participate in the caucuses. Thomas Wilson, senior in English, caucused for the first time this year. “Because the last election I was too young to get involved, and because of how it turned out I knew I’d need to do my part,” Wilson said. “It’s your right to say who you want to become president, and if you don’t make your voice heard, your preferred candidate will suffer because of it. One vote doesn’t seem like a lot, but when a large portion of people think that way, then there are a lot of voices that aren’t being expressed.” Nicolais Mulhern, senior in psychology, also saw large importance in caucusing and speaking up during this political season. “People should caucus because it is their responsibility as a citizen in the richest and most powerful country in

the world, and also a massive privilege,” Mulhern said. As shown by previous caucuses and elections, there are many American citizens who have the power to vote, but choose not to. Mulhern expressed why he feels this can be harmful. “People all over the world have to live with the consequences of our elections and they would give anything to have a vote in our election — something our citizens regularly throw away without a second thought because they ‘don’t do politics,’” Mulhern said. “It is ridiculously privileged and hypocritical to stay out of the democratic process and then complain about the state of our nation and the world.” Mulhern also had advice for those who are debating voting, or feel their single vote won’t make a difference in such a large election. He shared a personal story from caucusing Monday night. “After first alignment the Bernie camp needed three more heads to be considered viable and the Klobuchar group needed six,” Mulhern said. “We managed to get the people we needed from the Yang and Steyer group as well as an independent — but the Klobuchar group ended one person short of viability.” Though one vote compared to hundreds, thousands or even millions seems small, every effort makes a difference. “This one person was the difference between Amy getting a delegate from our precinct and 30 people going home empty handed. There is no massive movement without individual voices. I encourage people to have some respect for themselves and realize that they are important enough to make a difference in this world,” Mulhern said.

ASHELY MARTINEZ-TORRES/ IOWA STATE DAILY Supporters waiting for the Pete Buttigieg watch party to begin during the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 3.

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age people have joined the workforce, Trump said. Mack Shelley, Iowa State professor and chair of the political science department, said it can be difficult to gauge the effect a president has on unemployment rates. “It is hard to get a direct [...] connection between any given presidential action and economic performance, there are a whole bunch of different variables, including what happens in other countries that have an effect here,” Shelley said. “Pretty much, by definition, presidents have no real direct control of what other countries do. Any president is going to claim credit if the economy looks like it is in good shape, it would honestly be pretty stupid not to.” Shelley said it is common for people to claim this is the best economy ever, but Shelley said he is concerned with Trump’s claim of rapid income growth for lower income people opposed to those at the top. “I don’t think that is accurate, I suppose it depends how you spin numbers, but there are claims like that, that don’t really ring true at all,” Shelley said. Throughout his speech, Trump mentioned multiple times the economic improvement for African Americans that has occurred as part of a “blue collar boom.” Shelley said it is not wrong to claim that the economy is doing fairly well and Trump’s use of this to “bash” previous administrations is nothing out of the norm. Trump also used this tactic to condone the work of U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) while criticizing radical politicians of providing sanctuary for “criminal illegal aliens”. “In sanctuary cities, local officials order police to release dangerous criminal aliens to prey upon the public, instead of handing them to ICE to be safely removed,” Trump said without offering evidence.

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kinds of communities, a lot of those counties that famously switched from President Obama to Trump and now we need to bring back into the fold,” Buttigieg said to CNN. “It’s just an extraordinary validation for our belief that we can unify people and unify people both to lead and to win in an election that we can’t afford to lose.” Should Buttigieg prevail in the caucuses, he would be the first openly gay person in American history to win a state presidential nominating contest. A Sanders campaign adviser, Jeff Weaver, released a brief statement in the wake of the release of partial results by the IDP. “We want to thank the people of Iowa,”

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student in sociology. “Which is insulting and holds ideals that are no longer true about this post-modern world. As well, people don’t realize that by using “cis” you are connecting your gender to your sex. If you just use male or female that doesn’t automatically connect your gender to your sex. So when someone says “well, I’m male,” well yes, that’s your birth sex. How does your gender play into that?” Brad Freihoefer, director of the Center for LGBTQIA+ Student Success, said by not using the term cisgender there is often a burden placed on transgender, non-binary or gender non-conforming people to have to share their identity, instead of normalizing talking about gender and having the term cisgender really allows that conversation and burden to be opened up and to be shared. Using the term cisgender also focuses on the importance of cisgender people presenting their pronouns in social, work and personal situations. Castle said gender expressions like hair and clothing aren’t a reflection of gender identity, so with a lack of presentation of pronouns, it causes assumptions to be made about one’s gender identity. In which those assumptions

Trump then went on to tell the story of the rape and murder of a 92-year-old woman by a “criminal alien” who had been previously arrested but released under New York sanctuary policies. Ryan Hurley, sophomore in pre-business and president of the College Republicans, said it was stories such as this one that really pulled heart strings and it was important to amplify his messages while not using the stories for political gain. Members of the College Democrats at Iowa State did not respond to a request for comment. Shelley said telling stories such as this can be used to make it appear America is threatened and police and ICE are the only things standing between Americans and chaos. “Immigrants have about the same, and some cities even suggest, lower crime rates than people who are born in the U.S.,” Shelley said. “This is a tactic that presidents use pretty commonly, [Ronald] Reagan did it quite effectively to use a story to overcome facts and that is kind of what he was doing. It was an argument for police dominance and not as much for people’s rights that might get trampled in the process.” Trump touched on education and prayer in school in his speech. “My administration is also defending religious liberty and that includes the constitutional right to pray in public schools,” Trump said. “In America we don’t punish prayer, we don’t tear down crosses, we don’t ban symbols of faith, we don’t muscle preachers or pastors. In America we celebrate faith, we cherish religion, we lift our voices in prayer and we raise our sites to the glory of god.” Hurley said there is no harm in praying in schools and views this as beneficial for students. “I don’t really see how students praying in school can harm somebody,” Hurley said. “I think a traditional prayer before a meal or something to that effect for Christians is

Weaver said in the statement. “We are gratified that in the partial data released so far it’s clear that in the first round and second round more people voted for Bernie than any other candidate in the field.” Elizabeth Warren trailed the top two candidates in the two rounds of preferences votes and in SDEs. Behind Warren in the partial results were Joe Biden in fourth place and Amy Klobuchar in fifth. In Story County, with about 77 percent of precincts reporting, Sanders led Warren with roughly 32 percent of SDEs to Warren’s roughly 26 percent. The IDP had never before delayed results or released such a high proportion of the precinct results all at once. The IDP did not respond to emails by deadline requesting information

can be hazardous or detrimental to someone whose gender identity doesn’t match their gender expression. A way this can be prevented is by using pronouns, which ultimately prevent assumptions being made. By cisgender people presenting their pronouns, it can create an environment that can be very supportive, safe and inclusive for everyone. Freihoefer said pronouns are a part of a conversation that has to do assumptions and how they are made about someone. When pronouns aren’t shared, assumptions can be made due to gender expression, which is sometimes not accurate to the pronouns someone may use to identify themselves. “Which is why it’s important that when cisgender folks indicate what pronouns they’re using, we’re having a shared conversation and normalizing the conversation as well,” Freihoefer said. When having conversations about gender, those who identify as cisgender can acknowledge the privilege that comes with being cisgender to acknowledge the disadvantages transgender and gender non-conforming people face. Castle said the world of gender is set up and prepared for cisgender people, whereas those who are transgender

very nice. I think that he is harkening back to Reagan, and I think that is a good thing in that regard.” Hurley said he appreciated the general focus on the U.S. and his presidency has exposed the battle of “Americanism against globalism.” Shelley said Trump’s speech seemed more like a tactic to solidify his “followers,” and possibly recruit more for the next election and had moments that seemed to empathize with divisiveness opposed to unity. “There was sort of a classic element in political symbolism that was evident tonight and I guess you can argue it has to do with arguments in favor of unity and arguments in favor of things that are meant to be divisive,” Shelley said. Shelley said an example of this was Trump’s $50 million increase towards neonatal care, and then went on to talk about abortion policy. “[Trump] shifted in pretty much the same sentence from a unity message of bringing the country together, to one that is designed to be very divisive,” Shelley said. “His campaign to get into the White House and presidency for the last three years has been defined by extreme combativeness, deliberately dividing the country.” Trump ended his speech by praising the people who “built” the U.S., and how he plans to continue to keep it “great.” “The American nation was carved out of the vast frontier by the strongest, fiercest and most determined, men and women ever to walk on the face of the earth,” Trump said. “Our ancestors braved the unknown, tamed the wilderness, settled the wild west, lifted millions from poverty, disease and hunger, vanquished tyranny and fascism, ushered the world to new heights of science and medicine. [...] And ladies and gentlemen, our ancestors built the most exceptional republic to have ever existed in all of human history, and we are making it greater than ever before.”

on whether further results would be released Tuesday and did not answer a phone number provided for press inquiries. The historic delay in the results process led to an intervention by the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez. “What happened last night should never happen again,” Perez said in a statement. “We have staff working around the clock to assist the [IDP] to ensure that all votes are counted. It is clear that the app in question did not function adequately. It will not be used in Nevada or anywhere else during the primary election process. The technology vendor must provide absolute transparent accounting of what went wrong. Our immediate goal is to ensure that every vote is counted as quickly as possible. Accuracy is our guidepost.”

and gender non-conforming struggle with certain aspects like bathrooms and clothing, where cisgender folks don’t have social conflict with their identity, and experience the world as it is set up for them. “Just the fact that when we use the word cisgender, folks don’t understand what it means or that it might be a reference to an identity that they hold is apart of cis privilege,” Freihoefer said. “We’ve been normalized that everyone and everything is applied to being cisgender.” When trying to understand what the identity that cisgender is, and the privilege it holds, there is also controversy over the term “cisgender.” Castle said the controversy usually happens because of a lack of understanding. “I usually see people feeling personally attacked when they’re called cisgender, like there is something wrong with them because they’re being labelled and that they have a certain level of privilege because they aren’t experiencing this social conflict of not identifying with the gender they were assigned at birth,” Castle said. “A lot of it has to do with conversation, because often people feel attacked when being called cisgender, which is not the case. There is nothing wrong with being cisgender.”

Nevada is the third state to participate in the Democratic Party’s presidential nominating process, its caucus is slated for Feb. 22. The chair of the Nevada Democratic Party, William McCurdy II, released a statement on their scheduled caucuses. “[Nevada Democrats] can confidently say that what happened in the Iowa caucuses last night will not happen in Nevada on February 22nd,” McCurdy said in the statement. “We will not be employing the same app or vendor used in the Iowa caucus. We had already developed a series of backups and redundant reporting systems, and are currently evaluating the best path forward.” The next state with a presidential nominating contest is New Hampshire, its primary election is scheduled for Tuesday.

Freihoefer and Wahl also come to similar conclusions, this controversy is due to ignorance and a lack of education, which sets up the gender binary in which society is trying to escape from. When talking about different gender identities and pronouns, there is also the conversation about the oppression that comes with misgendering someone by not using correct pronouns. Wahl said by not using someone’s correct pronouns on purpose, it is an act of aggression people participate in due to ignorance over the subject matter. He said either people are doing it because they’re homophobic or transphobic or because they think it’s a stupid request, however, it is really just an attack on others. However Castle, Freihoefer and Wahl had a similar conclusion that ultimately, by not using someone’s correct pronouns, it would be like not using someone’s correct name. “It’s like knowing someone’s name, but you decide that it’s not the name you want to use for that person so you just make up a new name for them,” Castle said. “It just tells someone that you don’t respect them or how they identify.” With the different ways people misuse pronouns, a conversation can be had on how to improve the use of

pronouns. Castle said when someone is introducing themselves they should mention their pronouns, and if someone is uncomfortable saying it out loud to use pronoun pins. Other common ways to encourage pronoun use is by putting pronouns in email signatures and on name tags. Someone can also put pronouns in ‘about me’ sections or biographies on social and professional scales. Castle said by encouraging pronoun use, it encourages conversation about gender and how it’s used in so many situations. “Just keep making more conversation about it,” Freihoefer said. “If someone wants to engage, come on in and chat, as well as educate yourself by learning terminology and looking stuff up online.” Resources that can be used to learn and talk about gender identity and pronouns are participating in conversation at the Sloss Center and the Center for LGBTQIA+ Student Success, where they provide a safe space to engage in conversation. People can also check out the Center’s website at https://center.dso. iastate.edu to learn more about pronouns and gender. People can also use the Pronoun App to practice using different pronouns.