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International parallels Chinese student shares lessons learned during her time spent halfway around the world Editor’s note This is the ﬁrst part of a two-part series examining the international perspectives between two study abroad experiences. The ﬁrst article will focus on an international student from China studying at Iowa State and the second piece will share the experiences of an ISU student studying abroad in China.

By Lea.Petersen iowastatedaily.com A student has been hospitalized after being diagnosed with bacterial meningitis. The student is currently at Mary Greeley Medical Center and reported as being in stable condition, according to ISU News Service. “[Meningitis is] caused by the inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. The inflammation is usually caused by an infection of the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord,” said Penni McKinley, program coordinator at the Thielen Student Health Center. The severity of meningitis can vary. This was made evident last spring, when student Travis “TJ” Good, senior in civil engineering, died suddenly from bacterial meningitis. “There are two types of meningitis: bacterial and viral,” McKinley said. “Bacterial meningitis is

By Taysha.Murtaugh iowastatedaily.com While growing up in Xian, China, Mengmeng Liu always knew she wanted to attend college in America. However, for Liu, senior in accounting, the journey overseas proved to be more than an academic education.

Coming to America In order to study abroad in America, Liu had to prepare documents such as her high school transcripts and a personal statement. She also had to pass the Test of English as a Foreign Language. “It’s a very complicated process,” Liu said. “First of all I had to study English really hard. Some people don’t have to, because we have a program called [Intensive English Orientation Program]. If you didn’t study English in China, you can enroll in that.” The orientation program is not offered at all universities, said Pat Parker, assistant director of admissions at Iowa State. “One of the reasons we get so many Chinese students here is that we are a university that offers [the program],” Parker said, “and students need that training for their studies.” However, the application process doesn’t end there for international students. “It’s really hard for Chinese students to get approved to come to the United States,” Liu said. Liu had to apply for a student visa, a lengthy process that includes an interview at the Embassy of the United States in Beijing. “They test, from questions, if you’re really going to study in the United States or if you have other purposes,” Liu said. “At the time when I applied, only about 2 in 10 could get [approved].” Liu’s interview lasted only about two minutes. She said her father, who earned his doctorate at a U.S. university before returning to China, served as evidence that she would do the same. “After all, you are a foreigner,” Liu said. “They don’t want you to stay forever. They just want you to get your degree and come back.” Studying in America is also ﬁnancially challenging for international students. Liu pays out-of-state tuition, like many ISU students, but unlike American students, Liu has no access to federal or state aid. “The U.S. government requires that students coming to the U.S. on a student visa prove that

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Fraternity members arrested for burglary By Kaitlin.York iowastatedaily.com Mengmeng Liu, senior in accounting, studies in Parks Library. Liu came to Iowa State from China. Photo: Shiyao Liu/Iowa State Daily

they have adequate funds to cover their educational and living expenses for the duration of their study,” Parker said. This proof includes a promise of support for all years of study and a document showing they have the ﬁrst year of educational and living expenses in the bank. Parker said Iowa State does a lot to recruit international students. “We have two international recruiters who

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are full-time staff recruiters,” Parker said, “and they recruit all over the world. We don’t have any agents who we use abroad.” ISU recruiters visit college fairs and meet with students and their parents. Universities, including Iowa State, pay for advertisements to be placed in guide books that are created speciﬁcally for international applicants. Most of these print

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ISU freshman Campus-wide zombie need no longer game ended Monday wait for results By Paige.Godden iowastatedaily.com

By Matt.Wettengel iowastatedaily.com The agonizing wait for admission has become a thing of the past for prospective ISU freshmen. Applicants used to be subjected to a wait that lasted anywhere from a couple weeks to two months — depending on the time of year that they submit their application — to discover whether or not they had been accepted. Iowa State now offers a two-business-day turnaround on applications that U.S. high school seniors submit online. Now applicants can log online and submit their academic record online, including their class rank, composite ACT score, grade point average and number of years of courses in English, math, science, social studies and foreign language they will complete while in high school. This change was made due to the realization made

At least 1,000 zombies were stunned with socks on the ISU campus during the past month. The “zombie game” had 1,853 people attending on Facebook by the last day of the game, which ended Monday. The game had a list of rules on how humans could stop the pending takeover of the zombies. In order to get into the game students had to buy a red and green bandanna and then watch their backs. The red bandannas represented the humans and the green bandannas the zombies. Each zombie would have to tag one human a week or he would starve. The game was to stay inside campus limits, unless the

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Warren Hylton, freshman in aerospace engineering, and Jordan Babler, freshman in hospitality management, were arrested Tuesday at Beta Theta Pi and charged with burglary, said Cmdr. Mike Brennan of the Ames Police Department. Hylton was arrested for thirddegree burglary, public intoxication and assault while participating in a felony. Officers witnessed Hylton lying on the roof, who then proceeded running back through the fraternity and out into the parking lot, according to Hylton’s affidavit. In Hylton’s front pocket was a cell phone belonging to one of the residents of Beta Theta Pi and Hylton admitted he had attempted to steal a

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Zombie game instigator Micah Morgan, senior in liberal studies, wields his sock-covered weapons of choice in order to fend off lurking zombies around the campus. Photo: Bryan Langfeldt/Iowa State Daily

GSB is working to make U-Bill more explanatory to assist students with their ﬁnances. They want U-Bill to show what students’ tuition goes towards, so that students will be able to access that information. Julie Snyder-Yuly, Catt Center assistant director, and Dianne Bystrom, Catt Center director, spoke about the leadership certiﬁcate program. The program goes on students’ transcripts and implies a broader knowledge of how leadership works. The Student Union Board has come back for a second time to try to persuade GSB to allocate $10,000 to the Cirque D’OR Golden Dragon Acrobats. SUB would like the group to come April 4, 2011. It will be free to all students and community members. After much persuading, GSB decided to grant their request for the funding. KURE 88.5 FM is putting on a rock show called KURE Fest in the Maintenance Shop as an after break activity. GSB gave them $865 to pursue their event.

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SUB Film: “Salt” When: 7 and 10 p.m. What: Two showings of “Salt,” in which a CIA agent is on the run after she is accused of being a Russian spy. Cost is free. Where: South Ballroom, Memorial Union

THEATRE: ‘Caluculus, The Musical’ Sean Powell, of Missouri State University, preforms “Calculus, The Musical,” a blend of sketch comedy, musical theatre and classroom lecture Wednesday in Carver. Photo: Thao Nguyen/Iowa State Daily

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WORLD AIDS DAY: A day without art on campus As a reminder of World AIDS Day, the Fountain of Four Seasons, along with other art across campus, was covered up Wednesday. Photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily

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>>STUDY ABROAD.1A guides also have web searches, where students can search about higher education in the United States, either by geography or by major. “Those books are distributed free of charge to libraries and advising offices and agencies,” Parker said. “We do the same thing for U.S. students as well. Recruiting is a very multi-faceted thing, and it’s hard to condense all the things we do.” Parker said many international students apply based on university rankings. Liu said the fact that Iowa State is ranked in the top 25 most beautiful campuses was one of the reasons she chose to come to Ames.

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Liu transferred 45 credits to Iowa State from Northwest University of China. She said the academic work here is much more challenging than at her previous college. “[In the U.S.,] you’re required to read a lot and self-study a lot,” Liu said. “You really learn a lot ... not only professional knowledge but how to communicate with people around

>>APPLICATIONS.p1A by Phil Caffrey, senior associate director of admissions, and Marc Harding, assistant vice president of admissions, that high schoolers’ transcripts were causing a backup in the admissions process. “We receive more applications than students that actually enroll,” said Caffrey. “It’s a trend that’s evident nationwide, where students fill out applications for multiple schools and wait to see where they get accepted. This creates a large pool of applications, so we end up spending two-thirds of our time processing applications for students that never even enroll at Iowa State.” While falsifying academic records is a possibility, students who decide to enroll at Iowa State are required to submit an official transcript from their high school. Caffrey spoke with his counterparts at Rutgers University about the possibility of applicant dishonesty when they were considering the new system. “They found that a surprisingly small percentage of students will exaggerate their academic record,” said Caffrey. “They actually found that more students are actually likely to underestimate their record when they’re self reporting.” If this is the case and applicants

>>MENINGITIS.p1A more serious, and students should pay close attention if they have any symptoms of bacterial meningitis.” Symptoms include high fever, headache, stiff neck, nausea and sensitivity to light, McKinley said. “A lot of its symptoms are similar to those of the common cold or the flu,” McKinley said. “Students should monitor how they are feeling. If the aliments become severe rapidly, it may be meningitis.” Students should seek medical advice if any of these con-

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you and how to do group work well. But in China ... once you get into college, you’re safe and secure and you just have fun. Basically you have nothing to do every day. You can skip class ... there are no tests or homework.” Currently, Liu is taking 12 credits and studies every day for three to four hours. She is also a teacher’s assistant for some Chinese courses and has an internship at North American Protein Inc. in West Des Moines. The language barrier adds to the difficulty of the coursework. “So it’s like two barriers,” Liu said. “One is English, one is professional knowledge.” Liu speaks English very well compared to most Chinese students, so studying is less time-consuming for her than it is for others. “But when I read textbooks,” Liu said, “I surely spend a lot more time than Americans because I read slower.” The language barrier makes social interactions more difficult, too. “When I first got here, my English was not that good,” Liu said. “My writing and reading and listening was OK, but when I would start speaking. I

underestimate their academic record, they will receive a notice that with the information they submitted they don’t meet the admissions requirements, but their application will be individually assessed by the admissions office, Caffrey said. Iowa State is the first to offer such an admissions program in the Midwest. Students who apply and meet the requirements for freshman admission are notified of the status of their application via e-mail within two business days whether or not they are accepted. On the third day their official admission letter is mailed. Lorraine Duitsman, post-secondary strategist at Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs, works with seniors applying for college and scholarships and sees the benefit that such a quick turnaround on applications as for students. “If you think of scholarships and everything, the sooner [students] know whether or not they’re accepted the better,” Duitsman said. “Knowing if you’re accepted so quickly allows students to apply for things like their housing soon and can ultimately help them decide [which school they’ll attend].” Caffrey hopes the new system puts Iowa State at an advantage for recruitment.

ditions appear. Bacterial meningitis can be treated with antibiotics that can prevent severe illness and reduce the spread of infection from person to person, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There is also a meningitis vaccine to be used as prevention, not medicine. The CDC recommends college students get the meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine or meningococcal conjugate vaccine. Iowa State does not require the meningitis vaccine prior to enrollment, but Lois Smith, staff nurse at Thielen Student

>>CRIME.p1A Macbook laptop that was left on the roof. Hylton smelled strongly of alcohol and had poor balance and coordination. Before being placed in handcuffs, Hylton kicked at officer Ryan Hauge, who later suffered a sore right knee. Hylton was transported to the Story County Sheriff’s Office. Babler was arrested and charged with burglary. He was spotted walking away from the fraternity through the parking lot and told Ames Officer Steve Spoon he was walking home from Stanton to Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. After releasing Babler from the scene, Spoon

would use the wrong words and it was really embarrassing ... I was very scared to talk to people.” Despite these challenges, Liu made an effort to talk to Americans and immersed herself in the English language. She made flash cards whenever unfamiliar slang words or expressions came up in conversations. “Trying to know Americans is still a challenge,” Liu said. “If you want to make friends with Americans, you have to be active. You have to start talking to them first. They won’t start talking to you first. “That is kind of hard because you’re scared,” Liu said. “You don’t know how to speak English to start a conversation, and you don’t know if they accept you, so it’s hard to make this move.” Liu said some Chinese students find it difficult to socialize with Americans because their views may be different. For instance, Liu said Chinese girls tend to be more traditional and less outgoing. “If you’re not open-minded enough or you’re too traditional,” Liu said, “it’s hard for you to evolve in this environment ... it’s not a personality

“If a student finds out two days after they apply that they were accepted it might impact their decision if they have to wait longer to find out if they’re accepted to other schools that they applied to,” Caffrey said. “In this day and age, given the technology, the typical consumer expects a response automatically so they’re no longer happy with waiting.” Along with helping prospective students make decisions about their college education more efficiently, the new process for admissions will also help the employees of the admissions department. The burden that once accompanied the approximately 15,000 applications from U.S. freshmen each year has been greatly lessened with the addition of the self-reporting process. “I estimate that there will be about 10,000 fewer high school transcripts that we will have to deal with,” Caffrey said. “This is an enormous relief in terms of the burden of processing these applications. It allows us to process other applications for transfer, graduate or international [students’] applications.” Aside from time and manpower, the new process will save the admissions department thousands of dollars in overtime expenses that they would usually incur at this time of the year, Caffrey said.

Meningitis symptoms High fever Headache Rash Stiff neck Nausea Vomiting Discomfort when looking into bright lights Confusion Sleepiness

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reviewed the statements and noticed someone had seen a second suspect walk out of Beta Theta Pi. Babler was contacted at his home and Mirandized before admitting he had entered the home, after checking the doors and windows, with the purpose of stealing computers, pencils and other items. Babler agreed to turn over several pencils, a calculator and ping-pong ball he had in his pockets from the fraternity. Babler was then transported to the Story County Sheriff’s Office. “Some of the fraternities and sororities are easy to enter and don’t have much security,” Brennan said.

thing; it’s just a cultural thing.” Liu said the most convenient way to know American students is by going to parties, but a lot of Chinese students — especially girls — are afraid to go, so they lose out on that opportunity. “If you really want to get involved and not feel isolated, you have to step out and make the first move,” she said. There are also student organizations at Iowa State devoted to acclimating Chinese students to American culture, including the American Culture Acclimation Society and the Chinese Student Association. Zhong Zheng, senior in mathematics and president of the Acclimation Society, said his club is “a place for international students to relax, get real, make friends, and jump out of their bubble and try to do different things.” The society introduces activities that represent American culture to international students, such as football, pot lucks and movie nights. “Hopefully some of the American students can learn different perspectives from our international students as well,” Zheng said.

>>ZOMBIE.p1A zombie or human wore his bandanna off campus, which made him fair game for an attack. Academic buildings, dorm rooms, dining centers, Parks Library, Jack Trice Stadium, Lied Recreation Facility and stairwells were off limits. Zombies didn’t have to lurch. The fifth rule was, “There is no visible limit to the strategies zombies or survivors can employ in groups, or solo, to further their respective species.” Micah Morgan, senior in liberal studies, came to the game prepared when it started the Friday of Homecoming Week. “I think I took it too seriously, but I had a lot of fun with it,” Morgan said. He made it to the end of the game as a human, but said it wasn’t easy. Morgan had to dodge many zombies and had to face some that were on bikes and scooters. He had a narrow escape with a zombie on a bike. “I jumped in a building, but then he started circling the building, so when I thought he was gone I ran out a back door. He was still there, though, so I ran toward the building I needed to be in for class

In her free time, Liu enjoys going to parties. She said her group of friends is generally mixed. Even though the majority of her friends are Asian, Liu said they try to speak mostly English. “[Some people] think that Chinese students are not mature, or that they’re always in a group talking, not caring about what’s going on around them,” Liu said. She said she thinks Chinese students should speak English while they’re around American students to avoid misunderstandings. “You just have to follow the culture of the country you’re in,” Liu said. “It’s not that you have to abandon your own culture, but once you start to accept another culture, you have to make a little sacrifice even though sometimes it’s not comfortable.” Liu said she has never felt like she was treated differently because she is an international student. “If you want people to treat you well, you have to make efforts,” Liu said. “You show your sincerity and you show that you’re being active and outgoing. It all depends on you ... and then people will decide how to treat you.”

and there was another guy in front of the nearest door,” Morgan said. “I yelled, ‘open the door,’ and he looked around and then opened the door and I dived in.” He said during the past month he got used to navigating around the campus buildings. “I just kept moving from building to building. I avoided large open areas and I learned a lot about the buildings on campus,” Morgan said. In order to better defend himself, he had a Nerf gun with a vest of bullets stuffed with socks. Socks would stun the zombies for 10 seconds. He said some people didn’t like the Nerf gun idea, but he had heard of zombies jumping out of cars, and said he figured if they could jump out of cars, he could shoot a Nerf gun at them. Morgan said he thought the whole game was started as an event similar to those held on other campuses such as the University of Minnesota Duluth. He would like to see the game expand into a club, or have an online database for the next game, as he had heard of other events assigning numbers to each person, then they could report if they were a human, zombie or if they had starved so it was easier to tell when the game was over.

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Economy has countries wary of U.S. dollar

While we were all enjoying being home for the week, China and Russia made a big joint announcement Nov. 24: They are no longer using the U.S. dollar as the currency used for trade between their countries. They are now going to use their own national currencies for bilateral trade. This, in and of itself, may not seem like the biggest of deals, but it’s a political move that has major repercussions on the global scale. The Chinese, especially, have been worried about the decreasing relative value of the dollar, and have been talking more and more in favor of the euro. A lot of lip service has been paid to this particular issue in Chinese politics of late, but the recent agreement between the Chinese and the Russians is the first big international action that’s been taken in response. The feeling, though, has been building for some time, both in China and in the rest of the world. The recent economic troubles that we’ve been having haven’t just affected us; they’ve affected the entire world’s economy. This is partly because of factors within the various countries of the world, as we’ve seen with Ireland in recent weeks, and partly because our recession affects our trade with everyone, but that’s not all there is. It’s also partly because of the investment that other countries have in our currency — China alone has $2.6 trillion of our currency in their reserves in the form of U.S. Treasuries. Many countries, China included, use the dollar as the baseline for evaluating their own currency — $1 is worth about 6.8 yuan, although some people think that number is artificially inflated by China to encourage American consumers to buy more Chinese products at cheap prices. Either way, this means that the value of the dollar has a great deal of importance to the world’s economy, and as such people start to get worried when the dollar is in trouble. We’ve all seen the effects of inflation over the years, and I’m sure you can remember some curmudgeonly old guy ranting about gas prices having been under 20 cents 60 years ago. Part of the price increase since is due to the increased demand for gas around the world, but part is also due to our dollar becoming less valuable with time. This has, in recent years especially, become so bad that some countries are looking for a different standard currency by which to measure their own forms of money. Some plans call for an international standard currency to be used for trading between countries, while others are calling for the euro to be the new standard. So what does this mean to you? Well, that’s a tricky question. It may not necessarily mean anything. During the last few days, the value of the dollar has been steadily increasing, and that’s something that’s likely to continue as the economy recovers. If this is the case, then we’re OK. On the other hand, if the value of the dollar does end up being too much of a risk for other countries to trust, they may release their reserves of the dollar. This is something to be avoided, as the sudden increase in the number of dollars in circulation worldwide would cause massive inflation. We might not be looking at, for example, the post World War I German mark, but it certainly won’t be pretty. We’re on the road to economic recovery. But we may need to work faster if we want to restore the trust the world has in us, in our economy and in our dollar.

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Tough decisions can ease national debt, let us focus on higher education

he average college student finds himself or herself with $24,000 of education-related debt upon graduation. The Project On Student Debt — an initiative from the Institute For College Access & Success — provides this and other harrowing statistics. For example, the average student debt in Iowa for those who attend public, and private non-profit, four-year institutions is $28,883, with 74 percent of students graduating in debt. Embarrassingly enough, only one state graduates debt-ridden students in greater proportions: South Dakota, at 78 percent. Looking at the statistics on Iowa State reveals that 71 percent of those who graduated in 2009 left with debt. The average debt of a 2009 Iowa State graduate was a staggering $30,411. The lower classes in this country are increasingly having a difficult time paying for higher education. Countries like China and India are pumping out more graduates than we are at an exponential rate. College is free or nearly free in most European nations. It is time for an audacious solution: Make public college education free, or as close to free as possible, for everyone in the United States. Everyone can benefit from a wellinformed populace. The poor and middle classes would have the same opportunities as the wealthy to send their children to college. Those without the heavy burden of student debt would be free to pursue what they wished, instead of pursuing a large bank account. A free college education would breathe new life into under-appreciated and underpaid areas of employment, like teaching and social work. These societal benefits would arrive in tandem with numerous economic benefits. An example from history: The G.I. Bill provided free college education to more than seven million World War II veterans. The bill set the stage for a prosperous middle class by returning nearly $7 to the economy for every $1 spent on it. Indeed, a wellinformed workforce drives our economy through innovation and demand.

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that a college-educated person will earn $900,000 more during the course of their lifetime than a high school graduate. Free from encumbering student loans, graduates would spend this money on everything from entertainment to houses. More demand creates more jobs; this stimulates the economy. Furthermore, the government would earn more in tax revenue. This considerable increase in funds could then be fed back into the education system. To critics who believe that students would never fully appreciate something that is simply given to them for free: For every two years of college, require students to participate in a volunteer program of some sort — like the Peace Corps or Teach For America — for one year. Placing more welleducated people into these programs would undoubtedly help society at large. Financing such a vast undertaking can be done in a variety of ways. Bloated bureaucracies means billions of dollars end up lost in administration. Reducing the wasteful and unnecessary expenditure our military enjoys or taxing the rich — who put their tax cuts in the bank, unlike the lower classes who actually use their monetary relief — are also practical ideas. For those who want some hard numbers from the actual budget, The New York Times recently did an analysis of ideas that could be implemented to help balance the federal deficit. In projected savings by 2015, returning the estate tax as well as investment taxes to Clinton-era levels results in $50 billion and $32 billion respectively. Allowing the Bush tax cuts for those in the top 2 percent of households on the income distribution to expire would net us $54 billion. The creation of a new 5.4 percent surtax on income above $1 million would result in $50 billion. Enacting key parts of the Bowles-Simpson plan, which would eliminate tax loopholes, reduce tax breaks for companies and individuals, and lower tax rates, could save us $136 billion — depending on the implementation. The elimination of legislative earmarks would save $14 billion. A tax for banks based on the size of their holdings and the perceived riskiness of those holdings: $73 billion. Cutting 50 percent of the Pentagon’s current budget — which would return us to the level of defense spending seen in 2002 — would net us $342.55 billion each year. This

can be accomplished at no risk to national security in myriad ways: reducing or eliminating our nuclear arsenal; cutting space weapons spending; cutting the military to pre-Iraq War size; reducing troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, Asia and Europe; reducing our Navy and Air Force fleets; canceling some expensive and needless weapons programs; and reducing non-combat military compensation and overhead. My above suggestions as they stand would result in a not-so-modest $1.7792 trillion by 2015, meaning we could be spending an average of $444.8 billion per year, just on education. The handful of changes I suggested could be augmented with further cuts of wasteful spending or a thorough overhaul of our tax system to pump money into our primary and secondary schools. The money is there: The Office of Management and Budget estimated that the federal government made $98 billion in “improper payments” during the 2009 fiscal year. None of my calculations even took into consideration things like the $35 billion or so in Pell Grants the U.S. Department of Education gives out each year. New sweeping policy changes can be made while simultaneously reducing our country’s deficit. Today, there are roughly 13.5 million post-secondary students who attend public institutions in the United States — 6.2 million attend two-year schools, 7.3 million attend four-year schools. The average public four-year out-of-state student in the United States spends $20,000 per year for tuition and books. That leaves $174.8 billion that can be pumped into faculty salary, university upkeep or even stipends for room and board. Imagine it: You and all of your friends attend a college properly staffed by knowledgeable, well-paid professors while not having to pay a dime for tuition or books, and the government sends you a check if you need help with room and board. All of this in exchange for taxing the rich a little more and cutting back on how much money we waste, be it on guns, bombs or bureaucracy. Education reform is the most important issue of the day because it literally affects every other issue. Nothing could be better for the United States — politically, economically or socially — than a well-educated populace. We can achieve this end by making a good college education available to everyone. It is feasible and demanded by virtue of the future benefits.

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Faith gives people roots in Ames I love adventure. After graduating from Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois with a major and three minors I had plenty of opportunities to teach and coach in the 1960s. I settled in the Quad Cities. When my jobs ended I matriculated to Ames to work on a Masters in guidance and counseling at Iowa State finishing in 1975. In the interim I delivered Winnebagos to all parts of the United States and worked at a few jobs. I’ve been blessed to have traveled to each state and been in 35 countries. Fast forward: I worked at the Hub on campus for more than five years, retiring in 2001. Since then I’ve been substitute

Everett Cherrington, Ames resident

teaching in Ames and Ankeny and loving it. I’ve been gifted in interacting, entertaining and influencing young minds. Occasionally I travel delivering straight trucks out of terminals in California and Indiana. For many years I taught teens to drive and I love to drive myself. Why is Ames such a great place to live? First it’s the people, who are friendly and from all over the world — thank you Iowa State. There are cultural activities, a nationally ranked university, a splendid library, good public

schools, a top notch police force, a well managed city council, a first class mayor and city manager, plenty of sports to participate in and watch, arts and musical; the list goes on and on. Oh yes, and Ada Hayden Park and lake where the fishing poles will line the banks as trout were introduced Nov. 19. Forward backwards: From a spiritual standpoint Ames offers many varying centers of faith. When I first arrived on campus I witnessed a preacher near the Campanile. I had accepted Jesus as my personal savior as a 16-year-old. My growth as a follower was sporadic at best. In attending noon Bible studies at the

Memorial Union, starting to read the Bible and applying what I learned, I grew in my faith. The people I met at Stonebrook Community Church were genuine, but sinners just like me and became great friends. I rediscovered my relationship with the Lord. That’s what the Christian life is about: a personal relationship with our creator, God. When a person admits his/her sins and asks for God’s forgiveness then asks Him to come into your heart you are born again. When death calls, then Heaven becomes your home, a great city Ames now becomes Jerusalem, the city of God.

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Theater

Spidey on Broadway: can’t miss By Edward.Leonard iowastatedaily.com

Musical unlikely to be any worse than third movie

h Broadway, what have you done this time? Your recent affinity for the “rock musical” hasn’t left me wanting. “Spring Awakening” was absolutely phenomenal, and introduced us to the talent of Lea Michele, Rachel from “Glee.” Then comes “American Idiot,” this summer — perhaps a not the most ambitiously creative project, turning a rock opera into a musical, but effective and, from what I have heard, a very good performance. Green Day is a pretty safe bet to write music for a rock show. So, I’ve been excited to see where this new trend takes us. I’ve been keeping an ear to the ground. Then, in what was called “one of the greatest anticipated Broadway shows ever,” Broadway revealed its masterstroke.: “Spider-Man.” That’s right, folks, your friendly neighborhood SpiderMan has left the silver screen and is returning as the hometown hero. In a musical. This is a great idea. Not only is it completely revolutionary to have the leading man sing behind a soundmuffling mask, but that singer will, in fact, not have ever been on Broadway before. Instead of someone who knows what he’s doing, the creators of this groundbreaking musical have cast the role to Reeve Carney, singer for the band creatively named “Carney,” as the web-slinger. I don’t see how this can miss. In addition to the typical Broadway singing, dancing, and acting, Spider-Man will add another, more spectacu-

“Spider-Man,” the musical, is a high-risk project with potential for almost certain ridiculousness — whether ridiculous in a good way or a bad way remains to be seen. Courtesy photo: OnlineMoviesHut.com

lar element to the Broadway show. You can’t have a webslinger without a little webslinging, and naturally the best way to do this is to have Spider-Man, the Green Goblin and just about everyone else hurtle through the sky. Not just on stage, mind you, but over the audience. In fact, the stunt double — yep, Broadway is using stunt doubles now — for Spider-Man was injured in the practice for one of the ﬂying sequences. It would, though, be a pretty spectacular end to the show if Spider-Man beats

Goblin by snapping his wires and sending him plummeting to his death, crushing several audience members in the process. The story will follow the creation of Spider-Man, radioactive spider-bite and all, through to Spider-Man’s saving Mary Jane from the clutches of the Green Goblin. It will include such highlights from the original comics as the ﬁght with Bone Saw McGraw and the death of Uncle Ben. Never fear, though, it won’t be an exact copy of the movie. Broadway is making a few

minor tweaks to the original Spider-Man story to make it more Broadway-ish. Spider-Man is reportedly going to come up against The Sinister Six, a gang of ﬁve traditional “Spider-Man” baddies — who were all actually in The Sinister Six; so far so good — plus the world’s newest super villain, “Swiss Miss.” Yep. It’s a superhero versus the Swiss Miss girl, the most evil entity in the history of hot chocolate. It should be noted that Swiss Miss is transgendered, as Sean Samuels will play him.

I, for one, am very excited to see this corporate icon of comfort turn evil. The real focus, though, as with any Broadway production, is the music. This particular rock extravaganza is being written by none other than Bono, who also came up with the name of the production: “Turn Off the Dark.” He will be assisted by The Edge, and, so far, the musical numbers are actually sounding pretty decent, all things considered, with a very U2-esque sound to most of the songs. And despite all the

experience he doesn’t have with Broadways, the Reeve is, at least, a competent singer. So, this is the supremely anticipated Broadway production of the year? Apparently. In fact, it’s already sold more than $1 million worth of tickets to opening night. It’s set to open in January, and has the primetime spotlight: 8 p.m. showings Monday through Saturday, and 3 p.m. on Sundays. With all of this risk, there is at least one bright side: It will almost certainly be better than “Spider-Man 3.”

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Keep oil’s paws off refuge Tax cuts for highest earners Dec. 6 marks the anniversary date of a monumental decision to protect a bountiful natural ecosystem in northeastern Alaska. Fifty years ago, the Secretary of the Interior during the Eisenhower administration signed a Public Land Order establishing 8.9 million acres as the Arctic National Wildlife Range. This move to protect a vital piece of Alaska was a move towards protection of fragile environments that contain species that are at high risk from human development. In 1980, President Carter’s administration continued the legacy by signing the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. It expanded the Range to 18 million acres, designated much of the land as protected wilderness and it was renamed the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Today, at 19.6 million acres, the Refuge is the largest single unit of public land in the United States; 1.5 million acres of the Refuge, adjacent to the Beaufort Sea is known as the Coastal Plain. The Native Gwich’in Nation refers to it as the “sacred place where life begins” because it serves as the biological heart for the refuge where hundreds of species bear their young. One of those species is the iconic polar bear. When female polar bears are disturbed, they abandon their dens leaving their cubs to die. As a result, the survival rate for cubs is reduced. Since it is the most signiﬁcant onshore polar bear denning habitat in the United States, the Coastal Plain must remain untouched. The Gwich’in Nation relies on the intact Coastal Plain because their subsistence lifestyle for the past 20,000 years has depended on the Porcupine Caribou herd of 125,000 who annually travel nearly 1,500 miles to and from their ancestral calving grounds to give birth. As one of the last undisturbed Native populations in the United States, this Nations’ survival relies on the permanent protection of the land. In addition, permanent protection of the Coastal Plain will ensure that more than 180

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migratory bird species will keep their sanctuary forever. These bird species land in parks, farm ﬁelds and backyards throughout the United States and six continents. Many land in Iowan’s backyards serving as a small oasis for birds foraging for seeds, insects and berries. Clearly, the symbiotic relationship between the native animal species and the Native population must be left intact. Unfortunately, proponents of oil exploration and development are pushing to open the Arctic Coastal Plain in order to begin pumping to the lower 48 states. These proponents have used recent oil price spikes as the reason to begin pumping. After the vast array of pipelines, pumping stations and sprawling industrial infrastructure have been constructed, any discovered oil would not be available for at least a decade. The U.S. Geological Survey found that there is only a six-month supply of economically recoverable oil in the Arctic Coastal Plain. Opening the Arctic Coastal Plain will have next to no effect on overall oil prices because the supply is too small and the Persian Gulf oil that we currently purchase is far too cheap. Kudos to both the Eisenhower and Carter administrations for the 50 years of protection for the Arctic Refuge, but this protection is constantly in limbo. The Arctic Coastal Plain is one of the last frontiers in the world that sustains Native communities and countless endangered species. As Americans, we must be cognizant of the potential environmental injustice, disruption and endangerment issues that can arise if we do not insist that President Obama designate the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as our newest National Monument. Declaring the Arctic Refuge a National Monument will provide a historic legacy of Americans devotion to our ﬁnal frontier.

People who support continuing the Bush tax cuts on taxable income beyond $250,000 usually give two basic reasons.: First, they say the tax cuts on the wealthy help in job creation. And second, because of this alleged positive effect on jobs, they say the economy grows and the deﬁcit shrinks. But let’s take a look at the record, which speaks very clearly for itself. Except for the Hoover presidency, which covers 1929 to 1933, the George W. Bush presidency had the worst record of job creation since 1921, the earliest year

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shown by the Bureau of Labor Statistics figures. So almost 10 years of Bush tax cuts have coincided with an unprecedentedly abysmal record of job creation. How about the deficit? Can we see positive effects there? Just the opposite. Bush was inaugurated in January 2001. On Sept. 30, 2001, the final year of the Clinton presidency budgets, the national debt was $5.8 trillion. On Sept. 30, 2009, the final year of the Bush budgets, the national debt was $11.9 trillion. The debt

Editorial ignored facts about aggression from South Korea The Iowa State Daily’s editorial “We’ve got Seoul but we’re not soldiers” omits two important facts. Fact one: South Korean military drills preceded North Korea’s attack on Yeonpyeong Island. These drills included the ﬁring of artillery shells into disputed waters just miles off the coast of North Korea. So it is incorrect to state that the North’s attacks were unprovoked, certainly when the North warned that it

Theodore Wolff, ISU alumnus would respond if the South continued its military drills. Fact two: South Korea did not restrain itself after the attack. The South’s government responded by ﬁring howitzers and dispatching ﬁghter jets. But the Daily’s editorial makes it sound as if South Korea responded with only a promise of retaliation.

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more than doubled during the Bush presidency. This increase was not despite the tax cuts; according to analysis based on the Congressional Budget office figures, the Bush tax cuts are the single largest cause of the Bush presidency deficit; the Iraq war is second. Extending tax breaks on taxable income exceeding $250,000 when social security recipients are asked to economize, civil servants are told to step up, and the unemployed face cessation of their benefits is not only unconscionable, it is unjustified by the economic facts.

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Cyclones fall to UNI

Panthers’ slow game pace suffocates Cyclones’ attack By Jake.Lovett iowastatedaily.com CEDAR FALLS — For the first time all season, Iowa State found itself unable to control the pace of the action. For the first time under first-year coach Fred Hoiberg, the Cyclones (6-1) didn’t reach the 70 point mark and suffered their first loss of the season, 60-54, at the hands of in-state rival Northern Iowa (3-2) on Wednesday night in Cedar Falls. “Tip our hat to Northern Iowa,” said coach Fred Hoiberg, “They did what they had to do to win the game.” The Cyclones got up early, taking a 14-5 lead with 12:39 left in the opening frame. However, from there, the ISU offense went cold and got outscored 21-11 over the rest of the first half to give the Panthers a 26-25 lead going into the locker room. In the second half it was more back-andforth basketball, with four lead changes, three ties and the largest lead being only a six-point Panthers’ lead. “I knew it was going to be a close game,” said UNI coach Ben Jacobson, “I just didn’t know if it was going to be close at 60 or close at 90. We knew we had our hands full, and we did.” The ISU offense was suffocated all night, both by the UNI defense and the slow pace that the Panthers play. Northern Iowa has only allowed an opponent to reach the 60-point mark twice, happening in both of its losses. “It was a kind of a different style that we haven’t played yet,” said ISU guard Diante Garrett. “Those guys did a good job of slowing us down on our break.” Iowa State was only able to shoot 18-of-54 from the field for 33.3 percent. The ISU offense also struggled from behind the arc, hitting only 6 of its 20 three-point tries. The Cyclones’ leading scorer, Garrett, had 17 points on 7-of-23 shooting. “It was just one of those nights,” Hoiberg said after the game. “You hope they don’t happen very often, but every team has those nights.” The Panthers’ defense was able to hold the normally high-powered ISU offense well under its season average of 84.3 points per game, thanks in part to the Cyclones’ poor shooting. ISU guard Scott Christopherson, who had been shooting 50.8 percent from the floor for the season, struggled to find a rhythm against the tight UNI defense. The junior was only able to get 10 points on 3-of-10 shooting. Meanwhile, senior Jamie Vanderbeken struggled with just three points for the Cyclones. “Christopherson and Northern Iowa Vanderbeken, those guys have been shooting the Iowa State ball so well, it makes it so hard on your defense because Garrett, [Jake] Anderson and [Melvin] Ejim drive the ball so well, something’s got to give,” said UNI coach Ben Jacobson. The UNI defense backed off on the ISU shooters, challenging them to make shots early.

CEDAR FALLS — It was tense from the beginning, and with one swift kick from freshman guard Melvin Ejim through a bench chair, the Cyclones undefeated run to start the season came to an end. On a frustrating night in Cedar Falls, Northern Iowa dictated the pace and forced the shorthanded Cyclones into foul trouble. Whether it was the relentless barrage of whistles, missed shots or the fact that this young team was on the road for the first time, coach Fred Hoiberg’s club buckled Wednesday night and now have to figure out where to go. “We did not lose because of the lack of effort tonight,” Hoiberg said. “It’s their style, they frustrate you by slowing down the pace of the game, and I think that was the bottom line for the game tonight. They’re disappointed in that locker room, and they should be. Losing stinks and it hurts and it should hurt. Now we’ve got to bounce back.” The Cyclones shot a seasonworst 33.3 percent from the field in the game, made a season-low six three pointers and were outrebounded by 11. It simply was not their night. “We had a lot of shots that were there that we normally make,” said senior guard Diante Garrett. “We just didn’t make a lot of shots today.” The tempo that had sustained Iowa State’s 84 points per game came to a halt, and Northern Iowa was able to continue their lowscoring, grind-it-out style that got them to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament last season.

Rec center provides outlet for all players Intensity, friendly competition describes game play on all basketball courts at Lied By Dean.Berhow-Goll iowastatedaily.com

Iowa State’s Jamie Vanderbeken, right, blocks a shot by Northern Iowa’s Kwadzo Ahelegbe, left, during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday in Cedar Falls. Photo: Matthew Putney/The Associated Press

Unfortunately for the squad, the shots didn’t fall and the offense could never get rolling. “They switched every screen, packed in where we couldn’t get our penetration going,” Garrett said. “We had a lot 1 2 final of open shots and a lot of easy shots that we missed 26 34 60 that we normally make.” Anderson was able 25 29 54 to put in 14 points, while the freshman Ejim only scored seven and fouled out late in the game. The Cyclones were frustrated with foul trouble for much of the game, as Ejim and the big men Vanderbeken and Calvin Godfrey each had two at the end of the first half. Vanderbeken,

Godfrey and Anderson all finished the game with four fouls. Several ISU fouls came in the lane and around the basket. The Panthers have more size on the front line than most of Iowa State’s first six opponents, and it was something the Cyclones struggled to deal with. Northern Iowa also outrebounded the Cyclones 41-30. “I said at the very first press conference that rebounding was something that was going to keep me up at night,” Hoiberg said. “We have to get bodies on guys if we’re going to go out and get rebounds, and we weren’t doing that.” With the win, Northern Iowa moves to 3-2, and has now won 18 straight games played in

Frustrated Cyclones end undefeated run despite satisfactory execution of play By Chris.Cuellar iowastatedaily.com

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Scoring under 30 points in both halves and converting zero fast break points, the Cyclones broke down. Hoiberg “I thought we executed fine,” Hoiberg said. “We got the matchups we wanted. It seemed like there was a lid on that rim tonight.” Ejim’s outlet of anger on his chair on the bench happened just feet away from athletic director Jamie Pollard, after the true freshman fouled out on his lowest scoring-output of the season. The chair wasn’t everything. It was the outpouring of emotion that built up during the game that pushed the Cyclones over the edge at the McLeod Center. “We’ve just got to find a way to overcome that,” ISU guard Jake Anderson said. “We’ve all got to find a way to bring a lot more effort to an away game.” The shooting wasn’t the only thing that upset the Cyclones, as the Panthers also shot a paltry 32.7 percent from the floor. Even with just eight turnovers, 22 fouls — and many at bad times — were critical to killing the pace that Hoiberg’s team have come to love. “There were some points where Iowa State was missing some shots that they’ve been making, and we were fortunate,” said UNI coach Ben Jacobson. “We just felt like we had to work hard to keep the basketball in front of us when we could.” The loss drops Iowa State to 1-1 against in-state opponents this season, but stretches Northern Iowa’s home win streak to 18 and gives them a win in their first Iowa

Northern Iowa’s Austin Pehl tries to pull down a rebound over Iowa State’s Diante Garrett and Bubu Palo in the first half the game in Cedar Falls. Photo: Matthew Putney/The Associated Press

game. “It’s a big win, because it’s in-state and Iowa State was undefeated and playing some good basketball,” said Panther forward Lucas O’Rear, who was sporting a mullet. “We protected the home floor, and we played all right.” Junior guard DeMarcus Phillips didn’t make the trip from Ames for the game, and the Cyclones missed the effort of another fresh body on the floor, as only eight players saw action for the team. Despite the youth and the loss, the players want to be ready for the next challenge.

“A lot of shots weren’t falling for myself, or the team,” Anderson said. “We’ve just got to find a way to take our show on the road.” The demeanor of the squad wasn’t all doom and gloom at the end of the night and maybe that, along with hanging tough late in the game, could provide the spark for this squad to make the quick turnaround for the visiting California Bears on Saturday. “I should retire,” Hoiberg said jokingly. “We were due for a night like this to come out.” Ejim was held under 10 points for the first time in his Iowa State career, finishing with just seven.

As you walk into the Lied Recreation Athletic Center for the first time there are a lot of things to take in. You see the climbing wall and the workers behind the desk, and then you see the enormous gym. Court No. 1 is reserved for the premier games. Every night the best come to play on court No. 1. Game after game, the intensity heightens, the fouls get harder and the trash talk picks up. During one particular game, someone hit the game-winning 3-pointer, but a player from the opposing team called it a two because the shooter’s foot was on the line. Everyone started arguing, and eventually they all decided to resolve the problem by redoing the possession. The same guy took the ball and landed an unmistakable 3-pointer to win the game. Even with the altercation, the trash talking was over when the game was over. As with your brother or sister, no matter how much you may fight with them, you always make up afterward — just like what happens during these games. “All of this is in our competitive nature,” said James Baldwin, freshman in pre-architecture. “We may not be playing D2 or D3 basketball, but that competitiveness goes with us every day, even in the classroom.” Baldwin came all the way from Philadelphia to go to Iowa State. Just like every other student here, he deals with stress from school, and Lied is one of the places where he can come to play out his stress. “Basketball at the Rec is for everyone who still have those hoop dreams,” said Eric Bates, freshman in kinesiology. “They’re still focused on school, but this is the place to relieve stress and have fun.” Bates is from Compton, Calif. He went to a school with about 500 kids per class, so Ames is a big transition for him. “Coming to Ames has been a huge adaptation,” Bates said. “Everyone here is a lot nicer and friendlier.” Bates and Baldwin both make their home on court No. 1, but they both know the Rec. Center is here for everyone. Bates said the game style is totally different than in Compton, but the intensity is just as high. They play hard and go at each other’s throats, but in the end they’re really just a group of brothers who love to play basketball. “All of the guys here are tight,” Baldwin said. “We’re really all like brothers. Basketball brings everyone together here. All of us are different, you know, but it still brings us together.” Bates and Baldwin are both extremely athletic guys who have been playing basketball for a long time. They come to Lied almost every day they can. The Rec is a second home to these guys, and it’s very easy to tell that these guys aren’t just friends who play basketball against each other, it’s really a brotherhood. These guys aren’t the only ones who come to play at the Lied, though. One interesting person who comes to the Lied more than almost anyone is 69-year-old Stan Crull. Crull has been coming to the Rec. Center every day that he has been able to since 1973. His wife was a professor at Iowa State, and now they’re both retired. “Well, when I started playing here we shot granny-style free throws and had short shorts,” Crull said. “Now when I come to play here, these young men are so fast and so athletic, I can hardly keep up watching them.” Although Crull can’t keep up with the guys on court No. 1, he still gets a game going anywhere else in the gym. He usually grabs anyone who is standing around and gets them to join the game. “I love all the kids here,” Crull said. “Even though I can’t play on court [No. 1], I love to get all the kids involved. Especially the ones that don’t play on court [No. 1]. Those are the kids I like on my team.” Crull said lately competitiveness is the highest he has ever seen. He knows that playing at the Rec. is extremely intense, but he prefers to focus on the joy of playing basketball and the fun that he has playing with people of all ages. “I definitely bring the average age up,” Crull said, laughing, “but I still love to play with whoever can play. The Lied isn’t just a place for those big guys on court [No. 1]; it’s also a place for people who just want to have fun, like me.” At the Rec. there are players of all ages and skill sets. There are people who just shoot around, people who play lackadaisically with friends, loners who are just looking for a game, and even the brotherhood of court No. 1. But no matter what type of player you are, it’s obvious that the Rec is a place for everyone.

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Iowa State’s Matt Gibson prepares to take on Boston’s Kevin Innis during the meet Nov. 11 at Hilton Coliseum. File Photo: Manfred Brugger /Iowa State Daily

Similar styles clash in heavyweight class By Jake.Calhoun iowastatedaily.com Standing at 6 feet, 6 inches, both Kyle Simonson and Matt Gibson have been confused for basketball players on the campus of Iowa State. However, Simonson and Gibson are both heavyweight wrestlers in contention for the starting spot at that weight class on the team. “Those guys are pretty even,” said coach Kevin Jackson. “It could go either way in the wrestling room with those two guys.” The team’s “too tall tandem” has split time in its four dual meets so far this season, ﬁghting for the spot vacated by David Zabriskie, who won the national title as a senior last season and is the only three-time All-American at heavyweight in school history. Filling the big shoes Zabriskie left has stirred up some competitive scrapping between the two.

“We push each other to wrestle harder,” Simonson said. “That makes us both stronger by having good practice partners to push each other.” Despite some minor advantages either may hold in one category or another, both of their wrestling styles are strikingly similar. “We’re pretty much the same,” Gibson said. “Me and Kyle are pretty similar in a lot of areas.” Interestingly enough, despite their uniquely similar build and style of wrestling, Simonson and Gibson hail from very different environments. Simonson, a native of Algona, Iowa, was never pushed to participate in athletics but took to sports on his own accord. “I made myself the best that I could be without having too much pressure put on me or anything like that,” Simonson said. “I think that helped a lot.” In high school, Simonson placed eighth and third in the state at 189 pounds his sophomore and junior seasons before winning the state title

at 215 pounds his senior season. In his career at Algona, Simonson posted an overall record of 82-22 before coming to Iowa State to continue wrestling. So far at Iowa State, Simonson has an overall record of 49-18 with a dual record of 4-1. This year, he has a record of 13-1 with a 2-0 mark in dual meets. One day after pinning then-No. 14 Brendan Barlow in Iowa State’s dual win over Kent State, Simonson came back from a first-round loss in the Hokie Open to reel off six straight victories to place fifth in the event. The following week, he dominated his competition en route to a firstplace finish in the Cyclone Open. Gibson’s background, however, doesn’t reflect his rival’s. Growing up in Vallejo, Calif., Gibson was not heavily influenced by his environment to wrestle. However, he became motivated to pursue a career in wrestling after being told he had a talent in the sport. In the California state high school wrestling tournament, Gibson placed fourth at 189 pounds his junior year and third at 215 pounds his senior year while wrestling for Jesse Bethel High School. Jackson and then-assistant coach Chris Bono had begun building a rapport with Gibson in December 2009 while he was wrestling at Sierra College in Rocklin, Calif. At the end of that season, Gibson would go on to win the California junior college state title at heavyweight as a redshirt freshman. Gibson transferred to Iowa State for the 2010-2011 season, a move he does not regret. “It’s something I’ve wanted to do for so long since I was little,” Gibson said after his 13-2 major decision victory over Kevin Innis in Iowa

State’s dual meet victory over Boston on Nov. 11. “I grew up watching Iowa State and then I’m finally able to wrestle here. It’s a really good feeling.” In his first-ever match at the Division I level, Gibson fell in a 7-4 decision to David Marone in the Cyclones’ season-opening dual meet against Virginia Tech. The loss would later be avenged by an 11-8 decision against Marone in the championship match of the Hokie Open the next day. Gibson is 5-3 on the year with a 1-1 mark in dual meets and is currently ranked 20th by InterMat. The competition between Simonson and Gibson has heated up as the season has progressed, showing signs of what is at stake for them both. “The live [practice matches] are a little bit more intense between us now,” Gibson said. “It used to be a little bit laid back, just like a normal live go in practice, and now it’s a lot more like there’s something on the line. It’s definitely more intense.” Jackson has initiated wrestle-offs between the two at numerous points throughout the season to determine who competes in what event, but says the ultimate decision on who will earn the starting spot should become clearer after the Midlands Championships in late December. “As we move forward and as we get to Midlands we’ll know for sure after Midlands who our guy is, and that guy will be thrown out there every single time,” Jackson said after his team’s dual victory over Boston. “I’m very, very happy with what we have at heavyweight. I wish we had that kind of competition at each and every weight class.”

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ISU holiday tradition Decades-old annual concert to feature vocalists, orchestra performing holiday favorites By Lynne Reiter Ames247 Writer With winter comes holidays, and with holidays comes traditions. Even the ISU music department has a holiday tradition of its own, the ISU Holiday Festival. For decades Iowa State has been putting to-

gether and performing an annual holiday concert that contains a medley of holiday carols and musical pieces. “It’s been going on for a long time, longer than I’ve been here,” said David Stuart, professor of music and theater. “Before it was in CY Stephens, they played in the Armory.” This year, the ISU Holiday Festival will be made up of an assortments of holiday musical compositions including vocal ensembles by Iowa State’s two womens’ choirs, Cantamus and Lyrica; Iowa State’s mens’ vocal choir, The Statesmen; and Iowa State Singers, a mixed group. Following the vocal ensembles the ISU

Symphony Orchestra, then plays a collection of holiday pieces. Finally, the concert ends with a finale of all the performers, nearly 500 in all, gathering on stage to present their last performance of the evening. The ensembles will be performing an array of familiar holiday music pieces. “Pop holiday favorites, is a good word for it”, said Jacob Harrison, symphony orchestra director. The ISU Holiday Festival takes place at 4 p.m. Dec. 5 at Cy Stephens Auditorium. Admission is $10 for the public and $5 for students. Tickets will be available at the door or at Stephens Box Office.

Friday’s WinterFest events cover entirety of campus WinterFest will be Friday, and all events will take place at the Memorial Union unless otherwise noted. Events will include food, shopping, crafts, music and other entertainment.

Food Open house at the Knoll: 3 to 6 p.m. Empty Bowl Project: 5 to 7 p.m. Campanile Room. Memorial Union Market and Cafe Seasonal beverage samples: 5 to 8 p.m.

Cookie decorating and hot chocolate: 6 p.m. Memorial Union commons

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Shopping University Book Store holiday open house: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Block and Bridal cheese and sausage sale: 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Horticulture Club poinsettia sale: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Art Mart: arts and crafts sale: noon to 7 p.m. at the M-Shop Veishea merchandise deals: 5 to 8 p.m.

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Snowflakes: 5 p.m. in the Multicultural Center Winter crafts: 5 to 9 p.m. at the Workspace Photo snow globes: 7 p.m. in the Multicultural Center

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Other Activities

Carillon music by Tin Shi Tam: 5 p.m. Illumination Ceremony: 5:30 p.m. at the South Campanile Lawn Farm House museum open house: 5 to 8 p.m. Campanile tours: 6 p.m. Carriage Rides: 6 to 9 p.m. Meet at the north side of the Memorial Union. Optional stops at the Farm House Museum

Andy Albright Jingle Jog: Register at 4 p.m. Fun Run at 5:30 p.m. Underground open house: 7 to 10 p.m. Ice Skating: 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Ames/ISU Ice Arena Snowball Dodgeball: 10 a.m. to midnight at Beyer Hall

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The Snacks When: 10 p.m. Where: Headliners What: Jeff Karnowski and Mike Pfaff, of The Dirty Little Rabbits, put on an energetic two-man show of tunes ranging from hip-hop to piano rock.

Empty Bowls Project When: 5 to 7 p.m. Where: MU Campanile Room What: Purchase a bowl and get soup. Proceeds to Oxfam and Mid Iowa Community Action. $8 students, $10 community, $6 children. Canned good gets $1 off.

All the Way - alternative Who Wants to Know King Bam and the Love Monkeys - alternative The Sun Company blues, jam band 9 p.m. at Capone’s 21+

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Damon Dotson -Singer-songwriter 10 p.m. at Mother’s Pub $5, 21+. The Snacks -Lounge 10 p.m. at Headliners 21+

Keepers of the Carpet grunge, powerpop with Histo - punk The Wheelers - post-punk Peace, Love and Stuff punk, blues 8 p.m. at the Ames Progressive $5, all ages. Matt Woods and the Thunderbolts -Blues 9 p.m. at West Towne Pub No cover

The League -Rock 10 p.m. at Headliners 21+ Mr. Baber’s Neighbors -Bluegrass, jam band 10 p.m. at DG’s Tap House $5, 21+. Salsa Vibe Band 10 p.m. at Capone’s 21+

SATURDAY Parlours - rock, folk with Nuclear Rodeo - powerpop Wolves in the Attic - shoegaze If Ever Was A Fire - rock 8 p.m. at the Ames Progressive $5, all ages.

Shannon McNally and Hot Sauce Americana, roots music 10 p.m. at DG’s Tap House $7, 21+.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Morning Gloryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; not very glorious By Gabriel.Stoffa iowastatedaily.com

orning Gloryâ&#x20AC;? is a fairly by-the-book story of an underdog struggling to overcome adversity. Rachel McAdams is the underdog completely dedicated to her work. She gets ďŹ red and then is given the opportunity to rejuvenate a small morning talk show. Naturally, the place is a complete wreck that wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have even been on the air when she arrived there, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll just overlook that bit for now. To get things going, McAdams pairs Diane Keaton, the long-time â&#x20AC;&#x153;starâ&#x20AC;? of the morning show, and Harrison Ford, the award-winning but frustrated newscaster, to make the perfect match that will make everything hunky-dory. Yeah, basically the plot is bland. McAdams has daddy issues that Ford sort of ďŹ lls, while Ford has a family that he has ignored and so ďŹ nds himself caring for McAdams by proxy. Keaton is just trying to be noticed, and so goes from dull to doing anything and everything possible to gain the spotlight. Then a love interest is tossed in. Patrick

Wilson is a smart, successful employee of another show by the studio, and he ďŹ nds McAdams interesting. They have a rushed and awkward meeting and come together through honesty, and blah, blah, blah. Frankly, the love story is so recycled that even though it is familiar and pleasant, it is just dull. The only interesting part I found was the underlying message of their relationship: There is a scene in which McAdams and Wilson have just made with the sexy time, and are going to bed. Wilson wakes only an hour or so later to discover McAdams doing her workaholic thing. He tells her itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all right, and that if she really wants to leave she can. McAdams thanks him for understanding and takes off, leaving him alone in bed while she focuses on her career. From what I can tell, that situation is supposed to be nice because the guy is letting the girl do her thing and giving her the space to ďŹ nd herself and further her career. But what bothers me is how if the tables were turned, if the guy

left the girl right after getting down and dirty, women would be angry that the guy just got action and left. I had a problem with the whole thing, but I guess audiences are just supposed to allow those little gender norm differences to slide as long as the man isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t putting one over the woman. Despite the mediocre events making up the plot, there are laughs. All the actors are funny, though the talent they have all shown in other movies is hardly even present in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Morning Glory.â&#x20AC;? The outlandish events used to increase audience approval are actually a strong commentary on the tactics needed in real television today to appease a YouTube-centered attention span. The situations and family feel of the production staff as the talk show comes together really make things warm and fuzzy for the audience. Then, the story jumps into this awful series of wrapping-up events where the characters all

express their inner feelings and start to come to terms with what is wrong with them as people, and blah, blah, blah. This would be ďŹ ne if it were scattered throughout the ďŹ lm, or if there was some sort of reasonable transition into it, but there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. It is just shoved into the audienceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face and breaks the ďŹ&#x201A;ow of the ďŹ lm to the point of almost no return. Luckily the ending is predictably wholesome and ďŹ lled with ooey-gooey warm feelings of accomplishment and beautiful possibilities for the future, so the rotten attempts at explaining the root of all the conďŹ&#x201A;ict are ignored like a magic trick, distracting you from the reality and forcing you to focus on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;magic.â&#x20AC;? Basically, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Morning Gloryâ&#x20AC;? is an OK date movie. I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recommend seeing it when you have other options, but it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a bad way to spend 90 minutes, especially for the scenes of Ford being a gruff jerk and McAdams in her skivvies â&#x20AC;&#x201D; well, the McAdams undies might just be really appealing to me.

James Taylor to play in Des Moines Singer-songwriter James Taylor, known for hits like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Carolina In My Mindâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sweet Baby James,â&#x20AC;? is set to play the Civic Center on March 2 in Des Moines. Tickets for the show go on sale at 9 a.m. Friday for $68.50 and $88.50, for sections B and A respectively. Taylor will also play March 11 in Davenport. Taylor has been performing for more than 40 years, and has continued to release albums throughout his career, gaining notoriety after the release of his album â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sweet Baby Jamesâ&#x20AC;? in February 1970. Taylor will be playing with his son Ben Taylor, a folk singer who will release a new album entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Listeningâ&#x20AC;? at the beginning of the tour. This will be the ďŹ rst time James Taylor has toured with his son. By Ames247 staff

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Where: Fisher Theater When: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3, 4, 10 and 11; 1 p.m. Dec. 5; and 2 p.m. Dec. 12. Cost: $11 students

Iowa Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Charlie Brownâ&#x20AC;? includes the following: Megan Maller, Joseph Smith, Deanna Martinez, Mitchell Nieland, Ethan Peterson and Michael Reza Heath as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Peanutsâ&#x20AC;? ensemble. By Ames247 staff

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Brian Stout, junior in music education, performs with the Mumfords at the Ames Progressive. Photo: Kaleb Warnock/Iowa State Daily

KURE Fest returns after absence By Allison Suesse Ames247 Writer KURE can be heard over the radio waves 24/7, but in January, KURE will host a live show featuring a few of the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite lo-

cal acts. Darren Hushak, general manager of KURE and senior in electrical engineering, said KURE Fest will be a great opportunity to support local music. This will be the ďŹ rst time in approximately ďŹ ve years

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that KURE Fest will be held, and Hushak said he hopes the response is positive. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping to pack the [Maintenance] Shop to the rafters,â&#x20AC;? he said. With an eclectic mix of genres and free admission, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible music lovers

could amass in high volume. Hushak said thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something for everyone to enjoy. Hushak said he hopes that if someone attends for one act, he or she will stay for the entire show and maybe become a fan of a new band. KURE Fest is managed by the student-run radio station that has been on campus for â&#x20AC;&#x153;quite a while,â&#x20AC;? Hushak said. The station is also working with the M-Shop and Student Union Board, and has gotten a grant from Wilson-Toyota Scion and the Government of the Student Body. KURE Fest will be from 7 to 11:30 p.m. Jan. 22 at the M-shop in the Memorial Union.

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No curtain call for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;1972â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The musical, â&#x20AC;&#x153;1972,â&#x20AC;? written and directed by Clark Ford, associate professor for food science and human nutrition, will be canceling its performances scheduled to appear Dec. 10 at the Maintenance Shop. The event was hosted by the Iowa State Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center as a fundraiser for the Margaret Sloss house.

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Holiday show to mix vocal, instrumental, dance talent The Central Iowa Symphony will perform ďŹ ve pieces this weekend featuring the Coâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Motion Dance Theatre and Good Company choral group for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sounds of the Season.â&#x20AC;? The Symphony, under direction of Eric McIntyre, will perform the pieces, ranging from the classical to modern era, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Ames City Auditorium. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors, $5 for ISU students with an ID and free for kindergarten through high school students. Advance tickets are available at Rieman Music. During Hindemithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tuttifanchten Suite,â&#x20AC;?

Keeping warm Upon returning to Ames after break, we were greeted with sinfully cold weather and, occasionally, snow ďŹ&#x201A;urries. Winter has ďŹ nally arrived, and sometimes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better to opt out of venturing outdoors to brave the elements.

the Symphony will feature Elizabeth Ferreira and Silvina LĂłpez Barrera from Coâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Motion Dance Theater performing a dance choreographed by Valerie Williams. The Symphony will also feature female chorale group Good Company during a performance of Tchaikovskyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Waltz of the SnowďŹ&#x201A;akesâ&#x20AC;? from â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Nutcracker.â&#x20AC;? Along with the pieces by Hindemith and Tchaikovsky, the Symphony will perform pieces by Humperdinck, Stamitz and Gossec. By Ames247 staff

Talent outshines lackluster persona By John.Lonsdale iowastatedaily.com

Kanye releases intriguing album full of wit, humor

He is on top of his game with the keyboard samples that made â&#x20AC;&#x153;Late Registrationâ&#x20AC;? so special, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as if he made his greatest hits album here, except with songs that sound new anye West is a self-described â&#x20AC;&#x153;doucheand exciting at the same time. The only disapbag,â&#x20AC;? an egotistical man-diva with gold pointment at times with the album is that it chains the size of Nicki Minajâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appalltends to drift into â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kanyexperimentalâ&#x20AC;? territory ing a** and most of all, a musical genius. and less-catchy verses that were so prevalent His ďŹ fth studio album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Beautiful Dark on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Graduation.â&#x20AC;? Twisted Fantasyâ&#x20AC;? is the most Kanye has been compared versatile and interesting album to Lil Wayne when VH1 tries to of Kanyeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career. With theatrical do the Best Rappers Alive conGrade: tracks such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Monsterâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a song test every year. But although worth listening to all the way to Wayne may be the best rapper the end for the Nicki Minaj verse alive, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter, because â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the phenomenal â&#x20AC;&#x153;Powerâ&#x20AC;? Kanye is already ahead of and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Runawayâ&#x20AC;? are easily the him and everyone else â&#x20AC;&#x201D; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best on the album along with the making beats and music that opener that offers classic verses doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sound like anyone but like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;So much head I woke up in Kanye. Sleepy Hallow.â&#x20AC;? On â&#x20AC;&#x153;Power,â&#x20AC;? Kanye letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s us With the ďŹ&#x201A;op of his auto-tune-sob-story, all know, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m livinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in that 21st century, doinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;808s & Heartbreak,â&#x20AC;? Kanye fuses the introsomethinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mean to it, do it better than anybody verted songs of that album with his witty and ever seen do it.â&#x20AC;? humorous rhymes apparent in songs like the And with that, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to give my toast to this Bon Iver-assisted â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lost In The World.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;douchebag.â&#x20AC;?

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Hope 4 Africa hosts Marriage equality still under debate following fundraiser evening vote to unseat justices Program provides Kenyan students with scholarships By Frances.Myers iowastatedaily.com ISU student organization Hope 4 Africa will host a fundraiser at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Collegiate United Methodist Church and Wesley Foundation. This fundraiser will feature an authentic African meal, and will give people a chance to look at displays on African culture. A silent auction will be held after the dinner with items including crafts, artifacts, gift baskets, photographs taken in Africa by club members and a basketball autographed by ISU men’s basketball coach, Fred Hoiberg. Throughout the night, Hope 4 Africa president, Moses Bomett and other organization members will be speaking about the situation in Africa and giving out information as to what the club is doing about it. “The money raised will go towards sponsoring students to attend school in Kenya,” said Jonathan Upchurch, junior in world languages and cultures and vice president of Hope 4 Africa. “We recommend that people come early and stay for as long as they can in order to catch as much of the program as possible. This is a ﬁrst time event, so we really don’t know what to expect, but we are deﬁnitely optimistic.” Hope 4 Africa became an official ISU club in the fall 2009 and has been working to raise awareness and funds to go toward improving education in Kenya.

The club raised $3,000 from its ﬁrst fundraiser this year, Computers 4 Hope. Upchurch said Hope 4 Africa hopes to raise at least $1,000 more during Hope 4 Africa Night. Since its debut, Hope 4 Africa has worked to set up numerous events for fundraising and to raise awareness of the lack of resources available to African schools. “We’ve co-sponsored two Open Mic Nights at the M-Shop, at which we shared our story, collected donations, and sold shirts and artifacts,” Upchurch said. “In the spring of 2009, we ran what we called the Books 4 Hope greek campaign, which was a contest between 20 greek houses on campus to raise money for our Books 4 Hope program.” The biggest event Hope 4 Africa is connected with is the annual Hunger-Out 4 Hope. The goal of Hunger Out 4 Hope “was to fast without eating any food or drink any drinks but water to fundraise for our Books 4 Hope program,” Upchurch said. “Participants were required to raise $30 to take part in this event. The all-night event was parked full of group activities/games, sport related games, video games, board games and movies.” Books 4 Hope was a project Hope 4 Africa started when they realized the dire need for textbooks and supplies for partner schools in Kenya. Through this project more than $8,000 was raised. Computers 4 Hope, another project courtesy of Hope 4 Africa was created when two club members, Kyle Upchurch and Marisa Wilson, junior in political science, went to Africa to complete a previous fundraising project Books 4

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Hope. Upon their return, Hope 4 Africa began researching potential projects for their partner schools. They came up with the idea to raise money to provide a computer lab for one of the schools. They appealed to supporters to help raise money by going to a website, www.tippingbucket.org. The current project Hope 4 Africa is working on is Hope 4 Students, which is a student sponsorship program that helps students fund their education. “The cost of attendance for the schools that we support tends to be in between $10 and $15 per month, and many students can’t afford this,” Upchurch said. “We pick the students that are performing admirably in school despite coming from very impoverished backgrounds. One student is named Stella. She lost her dad at a young age and her mother left her. She has consistently been near the top of her class but is recently struggling because she has to miss class to earn money to take care of her younger brother.” Through the program, Hope 4 Africa works to provide scholarships to students who are academically talented but lack the means to pay for their tuition.

By Adam.Hayes iowastatedaily.com Since three of the Iowa Supreme Court justices were voted out this past election, marriage equality has become a topic of debate once again. Chief Justice Marsha Ternus and Justices David Baker and Michael Streit were the three judges ousted in November after a campaign was launched against the judges led by Republican Bob Vander Plaats. Iowa officially legalized same-sex marriage April 3, 2009, after nearly two years of debate. The original marriage ruling was issued in August 2007. But the ruling would eventually have a stay put on it shortly after Judge Robert Hanson’s ruling. “I don’t put much stock in these patchwork quilts of ‘one state here and there.’ We need a federal marriage equality law and a federal equal protection law,” said Warren Blumenfeld, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction. “We will not be safe until we have that federal legislation.” Three years ago, Terry Lowman and Mark Kassis became the ﬁrst same-sex couple to be legally married in Story County. The two married Sept. 2, 2007, at the Unitarian

Universalist Fellowship of Ames after being together for 30 years, but their Ternus wedding was rushed because of knowledge that the ruling could have a stay put on it. Baker “We had about 49 hours to plan our wedding,” Lowman said. In just 49 hours, Lowman and Kassis managed to get 230 guests to their wedding after the ruling. “I didn’t think I’d ever live long enough to see it happen,” Lowman said about the Iowa Supreme Court’s ruling. Brad Freihoefer, coordinator of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Student Services, has witnessed same-sex marriages in the past. “It’s amazing. Sometimes not enough people see the love and the care and commitment folks are making,” Freihoefer said. “I think that’s a pretty beautiful thing.” Although same-sex couples are legally able to get married in Iowa, the federal government still does not recognize them, Freihoefer pointed out. He believes there is still

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Annual Jingle Jog to raise money for scholarship fund By Frances.Myers iowastatedaily.com The fourth annual Andy Albright Jingle Jog will take place Friday during Winterfest 2010 — and organizers are expecting an alltime record turnout. The Jingle Jog is a 5k fun run that is held by ISU Freshmen Council each year since 2007. It is a race in memorial of Andy Albright, a member of freshmen council before his untimely death in the fall 2005. The race raises money for a scholarship fund in his name that is given to freshmen. In years past it has only been open to members of freshmen council, but this year it is open to all freshmen. In order to participate in the race, students must make a payment of $15, which can now be paid at registration and check-in. This year about 500 people are signed up to participate in the fun run. “Last year we had about 250 people register,” said Natalie [Stowe] Heiderscheit, sophomore in pre-business and fundraising cochairwoman for freshman council. “Our goal this year was 500, and we hit that mark about a week and a half ago.” Andy Albright was a sophomore majoring in agricultural studies and a third generation member of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity. His grandfather, father and two brothers had also been members of the fraternity. During his time at Iowa State, he “was active in Alpha Gamma Rho, serving on the fraternity’s executive board. He also was a member of the ISU Ambassadors and Cy Squad homecoming committee,” according to a news release from the Iowa State University Foundation. Albright worked closely with freshmen in the fraternity, assisting the new initiates to get them active and settled into their fall semester courses. He was also a member of freshmen council, serving on the fundraising commit-

Andy Albright Jingle Jog When: Friday Check in starts at 4:30 p.m. in the Sun Room at the Memorial Union. The race begins at approximately 5:30 p.m., immediately following the WinterFest Illumination Ceremony. Cost: $15 registration fee. Can be applied to U-Bill, or checks or cash are accepted. All checks should be made out to Freshmen Council.

tee. It was in the fall of 2005 that he was killed in a car accident while he was returning from a class at Des Moines Area Community College in Boone. In honor of Albright’s memory, a scholarship was set up in his name to recognize students of Alpha Gamma Rho who display similar characteristics as Albright’s to include, but not be limited to, “a sense of humor; observed leadership as evidenced by active participant/ leadership roles in student activities, professional or community organizations; compassion to fellow fraternity brothers; and dependable and responsible to the chapter and its members,” according to the Andy Albright Memorial Scholarship criteria. Normally the scholarship is around $750, but that changed in 2010. “Our original goal was to be able to raise enough money to move the scholarship to $1,000.” Heiderscheit said. Due to the increased amount of participants in this year’s fun run, the increase in the scholarship fund has been made a reality. In 2010, the amount of participants has hit an all-time high since the fun run started in 2007. The 5k fun run/walk Jingle Jog will start at the fountain behind the Memorial Union. Participants will follow a path lit by Christmas lights in a roundabout way throughout campus and will end up at Curtiss Hall.

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