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The choice of Iowa State over the University of Iowa may be seen as a no-brainer for most Cyclones, but the decision of Pepsi versus. Coke is another question. Many Cyclones have returned from their summer vacation to find a new face across campus in dining centers and vending machines across campus. Iowa State is now the home of Coca-Cola products. While some die-hard Pepsi fans may view the switch to Coke products as a vendetta against their personal soft drink preferences, Warren Madden, senior vice president for Business and Finance, said the switch is about the numbers. “Pepsi has been the provider up until now,” Madden said. “So we got these bids back in, and it turns out the Coca-Cola bid financially appears to be a better proposal. They have a couple options, one of them in terms of the vending locations on campus and the places that are selling products. They had a component of that that is exclusive in a sense the only vending machines you would have on campus are Coca-Cola machines, and they would carry the variety of Coca-Cola products. The convenience stores located in the various dining complexes would still be selling products that are broader than just Coca-Cola.” Madden said soft drink contracts are something Iowa State deals with periodically. The purchasing department at Iowa State requests bids from soft drink companies to provide vending machines and soft drink dispensing machines in dining centers across campus. Also included in the bid are commissions for having Coca-Cola only vending machines and promotions such as free products for Iowa State during Veishea. A selling point in the Coke contract is the availability of state-ofthe-art vending machines from Coca-Cola. Madden said Pepsi’s unwillingness to upgrade their vending machines was a major factor in the decision to pursue a soft drink contract with Coca-Cola over Pepsi. “They’re in the process of converting from Pepsi to Coke,” Madden
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Entertainment: Free Cyclone Cinema opens with ‘Avengers’ By Frances Myers Daily staff writer The Student Union Board’s Cyclone Cinema has announced the fall 2012 lineup for their weekly showing of feature films. “The Avengers” will be the first movie of the semester. Cyclone Cinema movies are shown Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. in Carver 101. Concessions, such as popcorn, pop and candy are available for purchase during the showings as well. To see the full Cyclone Cinema lineup for the fall, check out the Student Union Board’s website at sub.iastate.edu.
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Art museum ‘renews relationships’
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By Katelynn McCollough Daily staff writer The Brunnier Art Museum will be opening a new exhibit titled “Relationships Renewed” on Tuesday. The exhibit, which will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., will take a look at the work of art faculty and other campus colleagues in their connections with art. Educational programs will be apart of the exhibit and offer the chance to understand visual art and its relationship with the sciences and humanities. The “Relationships Renewed” exhibit is the final exhibit of a five-part faculty Relationships exhibition and will be open until Dec. 16.
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Iowa State Center courtyard could get face-lift By Frances.Myers @iowastatedaily.com The courtyard at Iowa State Center was the subject of Monday’s open meeting in 179 Scheman Building. Those present discussed conceptual plans and ideas for the future of the green space as well as the raised sidewalks around it. Members of the Sasaki Associates design team presented the plans and ideas.
The project is worth $2.55 million, and a site master plan is part of the project that will upgrade and enhance the courtyard area. The project will be focused on addressing the Iowa State Center’s deteriorating elevated walkways and enhancing the green space areas and courtyard, as well as improving accessible parking on the west side as part of a long-term master plan. Partial demolition and repairs are two options for addressing the walk-
ways. Handrail replacements that will comply with current safety codes are another option. According to the ISU News Service: “Updated — and more efficient — walkway lighting also will be included.” The Iowa State Center courtyard project was originally approved by the Board of Regents back at its June 6 meeting. The first open meeting was a couple of weeks later on June 18 in order to give key stakeholders and the public a chance to share what they
had envisioned for the space. According to the ISU News Service, landscaping, pedestrian and vehicular access as well as special elements including artwork will be part of the plan. Facilities Planning and Management is hosting the project and was in charge of the meeting on Monday. Check the Daily’s website for coverage and check Wednesday’s paper for an in-depth story on what occurred at the meeting.
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National news Notes and events. Akin remarks put abortion at center of campaign debate WASHINGTON — Incendiary remarks by a Republican Senate candidate shifted the political focus Monday to abortion and women’s rights, causing certain GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s team to clarify the campaign’s abortion stance. Pressure from the mainstream Republican Party mounted on Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri to drop his bid
to unseat Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in November because of his comments about “legitimate rape” and opposing abortion in rape cases. Top congressional Republicans advised Akin to spend time considering what is best for his family, party and country — political code for urging him to withdraw. Missouri election rules allow a candidate to withdraw with little difficulty through Tuesday, which is 11 weeks prior to the Nov. 6 election.
Police Blotter: Aug. 17 A vehicle that left the scene collided with a parked truck at Lot 3. The investigation is continuing (reported at 5:06 p.m.). Vehicles driven by Xia Zhang and Tian Xin were involved in a property damage collision at Lincoln Way and State Avenue (reported at 9:26 p.m.).
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Jack Hartnett, 18, Crystal Lake, IL, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Ash Avenue and Sunset Drive (reported at 12:03 a.m.). Payson Kerns, 20, Edgewood, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Hunt Street and South Sheldon Avenue (reported at 12:14 a.m.). Ethan McCallum, 19, 4127 Buchanan Hall, was arrested and charged with public intoxication and carrying weapons at Buchanan Hall (reported at 12:22 a.m.). Delaney Waddill, 19, of Des Moines, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at the 2600 block of Knapp Street
Apple is now the most valuable company NEW YORK — As Apple’s stock rose to new high Monday, the technology giant set another record: It became the most valuable public company in history. Apple’s market value — the price of its stock multiplied by the number of outstanding shares — hit $623 billion in intraday trading. That eclipsed the previous record of $618.9 billion set by Microsoft on Dec. 30, 1999, said
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(reported at 12:35 a.m.). Colter Williams, 18, of Deer Park, Ill., was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Barton Hall (reported at 1:03 a.m.). Justin Hirae, 18, 216 Stanton Ave., Apt. 204, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Lot 62 (reported at 12:49 a.m.). Hunter Distad, 19, of Albert Lea, Minn., was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Friley Hall (reported at 2:10 a.m.). Mathew Bunting, 22, 1315 Mayfield Dr., Apt. 109, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated at Mortensen Road and State Avenue (reported at 3:08 a.m.). A vehicle driven by Chad Powell was involved in a property collision at Stanton Avenue and Storm St. (reported at 4:18 a.m.). Officers assisted residents with a stove fire at Schilletter Village. The flames were extinguished (reported at 3:56 p.m.). A 17-year-old male was taken into custody and charged with
Howard Silverblatt, S&P’s senior index analyst. Apple shares hit a new record of $664.74 per share. The anticipated September launch of the new iPhone, coupled with rumors of a smaller iPad and a more feature-rich Apple TV have lifted the stock in recent weeks. It’s a stunning achievement for a company that was a struggling also-ran when Microsoft was setting records in the late 1990s.
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The information in the log comes from the ISU and City of Ames police departments’ records. All those accused of violating the law are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
public intoxication at Willow Hall. He was referred to Juvenile Court Services and then released to the care of a parent (reported at 10:00 p.m.). A 19-year-old female was referred to DOT officials for a .02 civil violation at Bissell Road and Pammel Drive (reported at 11:52 p.m.).
Aug. 19 A 17-year-old male was taken into custody and charged with underage possession of alcohol and public consumption at Knapp Street and Stanton Avenue He was referred to Juvenile Court Services and then released to the care of a parent (reported at 12:12 a.m.). Jesse Rhodes, 18, 3334 Larch Hall, and Megan Bliven, 19, 3218 Frederiksen Court, were cited for underage pos-session of alcohol at Ash Avenue and Gable Lane (reported at 12:38 a.m.). Jacob Elser, 18, of Spirit Lake, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Friley Hall (reported at 12:12 a.m.). Alexander Furman, 18, 4720
Mortensen Road, Apt. 213, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Chamberlain Street and Lynn Avenue (reported at 1:03 a.m.). Jan-Benedict Evangelista, 22, of Cedar Rapids, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated (second offense), driving under suspension, and driving while barred at Lincoln Way and University Boulevard (reported at 1:09 a.m.). Officers assisted an 18-year-old female who was suffering from an alcohol overdose at Friley Hall. The individual was transported to Mary Greeley Medical Center for treatment (reported at 1:28 a.m.). Christian Siebert, 19, of Johnston, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at the 500 block of Welch Avenue (reported at 2:04 a.m.). A body specimen was requested from a driver who was suspected of operating while intoxicated at Lincoln Way and University Boulevard (reported at 2:18 a.m.).
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>>SODA.p1A said. “In addition to financially being a better proposal Coke is installing newer vending machines which Pepsi wasn’t willing to do, and some of these [new vending machines] have better electronics.” Madden pointed out a few of the things the upgraded Coke machines have, compared to the Pepsi machines. “You can email and do things with the vending machines that are the latest technology in vending distribution equipment and there was a fair amount of interest in having that available on campus.” A concern in the decision to switch from a Pepsi contract to a Coca-Cola contract is the lack of student involvement in the decision. As the contract is still being finalized and processed the decision on soft drink contracts was pursued at a time when the full ISU community was unavailable for full consensus. “Any decision made during the summer lacks the input needed from students, especially in the Division of Student Affairs,” said Jared Knight, president of the Government of the Student Body. “Cheaper rates and different kinds of machines would be available, but we didn’t talk too long about it,” said Arjay Vander Velden, finance director for GSB, regarding the information presented to the Special Student Fees and Tuition Committee by the director of ISU Dining, Nancy Levandowski. “I wasn’t involved with the whole student process so I don’t know how much input they actually got.” Knight said he did not believe there was any way to get a full student consensus. “I don’t think there will ever be consensus about what kinds of soda should be on campus,” Knight said when pressed on whether or not a consensus would have been reached if the full Iowa State community has given GSB input during the fall and spring semesters and not the summer semester.
Why Coca-Cola? Switch is about the numbers Coca-Cola bid is financially better proposal Convenience stores will still carry products broader than Coca-Cola Bid includes Coca-Cola only vending machines and promotions such as free products for Iowa State during Veishea Contract includes state-of-the-art vending machines from Coca-Cola Pepsi was unwilling to upgrade vending machines Coca-Cola upgraded vending machines have better electronics such as the ability to email and “do things with the vending machines that are the latest technology in vending distribution equipment” Iowa State would be able to cease sale of water bottles if university chose to pursue that direction
Do you agree with the decision to switch from Pepsi to Coke?
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37% No, bring back Pepsi. Photo: Adam Ring/Iowa State Daily Students returned from summer vacation to find several new Coca-Cola machines had popped up on campus. Iowa State is finalizing a new, exclusive contract with Coca-Cola Co.
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Levandowski said she is unable to comment on the Coca-Cola contract until the contract is finalized but will discuss the contract with GSB on Wednesday, Aug. 29. In the event the contract is finalized by Aug. 29, Levandowski said she will
comment on specifics of the contract, especially the water bottle issue. Last year student groups pushed for the ban of selling water bottles on campus. An attractive feature of the CocaCola contract, Madden said, was Iowa State’s ability to
cease the sale of water bottles if that is the direction the university chose to pursue. “There are a group of students who would like us to get out of the bottled water business, and that’s still a topic for conversation,” Madden said. “The vending
machines, if you’re downstairs [in Beardshear Hall,] right now are selling bottled water. ... We have the ability to tell Coke to not sell bottled water; we haven’t made that decision and I think that even the groups that are advocating less bottled water are completely clear on where they want to be on some of the venues. Madden said the conversion regarding the sale of bottled water was one that would be had this year at Iowa State. Meanwhile, water bottles will still be sold on Iowa State’s campus. The Coca-Cola contract is expected to be finalized within the first few days of classes. “I know we’ve been talking with [the department of] purchasing in the past few days,” Madden said. “They’re in the process of finishing up the actual contract. Right now Coke is a little bit at risk; they’re installing all this equipment and
trying to get the conversion done, and they don’t literally have a signed contract with the university.” The competition between Coca-Cola and Pepsi to be beverage providers is an investment not only in a financial agreement with a university but also a competition for lifelong customers. “Campuses are attractive to the beverage industry because they’re trying to get you to adopt life patterns once you leave Iowa State that you’ll be a customer of whatever you get committed,” Madden said. “They believe — and I gather marketing data indicates — they can influence your future career choices. “So part of this is not only about you’re doing while you’re a student at Iowa State, but it’s what you’re going to drink for the next 40 years after you leave this place, and they’re all interested in influencing that.”
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Health
One student faces life’s biggest hurdle Branden Sammons puts college on hold to take on cancer By Rachel.Sinn @iowastatedaily.com Most people do not think about the possibility of getting cancer at the age of 18. Plans of college, a future career and the next step in life after high school graduation are often main thoughts during the summer. For Branden Sammons, however, cancer became a reality and an obstacle before getting his chance to begin college. Branden, a native of Orient, Iowa, has always been an active Cyclone fan. So when it came time to commit to a college, Iowa State was his first choice for their architecture program. With a dorm secured, classes scheduled and tuition paid for, all that was left for Branden was the big move. Things were not to be so easy, though. Everything changed when a lump located on his neck, previously tested and cleared as noncancerous, began to grow in size. “This June, all of the sudden [the lump] just swelled
It kind of creeped me out when the doctor called, because we were supposed to meet with him Aug. 4. I thought if he wants us to come in this early, something’s not right.” Branden Sammons
up,” said Branden’s mother Renee Sammons. “We went into the doctor July 11, and they said the needle biopsy was negative for cancer.” After some consideration, Branden and his family decided it would be best to have the lump removed to ease their mind. On July 22, he went in to get it removed. Only three days after surgery, the doctor called the Sammons family to discuss the results of the tissue removed and sent to the lab, but Branden had an unsettling feeling that something was wrong. “It kind of creeped me out when the doctor called, because we were supposed to meet with him Aug. 4,” Branden said. “I thought if he wants us to come in this early, something’s not right.” The feelings were confirmed with a diagnosis of stage III Hodgkin’s lymphoma cancer. Emotions were mixed among the family, but shock was something they all agreed upon. Renee described the realization as an emotional roller coaster while Branden was mainly just angry in the beginning. “It made me mad that I could not go to Iowa State,” Branden said. “I was like ‘No!’” Per the doctor’s advisement, Branden was suggested not to begin Iowa State until the spring semester after chemo rounds had been finished. Becoming sick by others on campus as a result of his low immune system is a big concern, along with his energy level and ability to attend classes which is critical in a design program like architecture. “I was going to have the best year of my life and now it’s on a six month hold,” Branden said. “I feel like I have a bad disadvantage.” Good news did make an ap-
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Photos courtesy of Branden Sammons Branden Sammons, a lifelong Cyclone, accepted his offer of admission to Iowa State, filled out his housing contract and even paid his tuition before doctors told him he had stage III Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He now faces a six-month delay to the start of his schooling.
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Physics
A gift of knowing without seeing ISU professor ‘gets’ superconductivity, receives award for it By Elizabeth.Polsdofer @iowastatedaily.com Most people struggle with physics. It is full of differential equations, laws, Greek letters and words like “electromagnetic” and “inertia.” =Even with extensive tutoring and hours hitting the stacks, many people will never “get” physics or become physicists even as they watch its fundamental laws like gravity, conservation of momentum and simple harmonic motion each day. Perhaps that is what makes John Clem, distinguished professor emeritus of physics and astronomy and senior scientist emeritus at the U.S. Department of Energy Ames Laboratory, so special. Not only does Clem “get” physics and its many hidden, intricate laws, but he has the rare gift of knowing without seeing. Clem is a world-renowned condensed matter physicist who specializes in superconductivity theory. “John is probably one of four or five people in the world who does this kind of work, which is electromagnetic structures in superconductors, and John is always right,” said Doug Finnemore, distinguished professor emeritus of physics and astronomy. “I have never seen him make a mistake. Now I’m sure he has made a mistake but it’s rare.”
A brief history of superconductivity Superconductors are conductors — usually metals or ceramics — that can conduct electricity with zero resistance at cool temperatures. Since their discovery nearly a decade ago, superconductors have been the superstars of the condensed matter physics world. “What really got me involved in research in superconductivity — I guess it was during my second year — I was taking quantum mechanics
Photo: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily John Clem, distinguished professor emeritus of physics and astronomy and senior scientist emeritus at the U.S. Department of Energy Ames Laboratory, is reknowned around the world for his work on superconductivity.
from Bob Schrieffer. He’s the ‘S’ of the ‘BCS Theory of Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer’ and ... I was number one in his quantum mechanics class,” Clem said. “He said he was impressed with my work, and he said, ‘Would you like to do some calculations with me and do some work with me?’ I said, ‘Well, that sounds great,’ except I had a teaching assistantship at the time and I couldn’t get out of it.” The Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer Theory, also known as BCS theory, is the fundamental theory of superconductivity. BCS theory is the first theory to examine what happens to superconductors at the atomic level.
Inside a theorist’s mind “I’m a theorist; I’ve never done any experiments in superconductivity, but I’ve always enjoyed stopping by a laboratory and seeing how things were going,” Clem said. “Sometimes I even had the opportunity to turn a dial or something like that to see what happens. ... I remember a very pleasant experience when I was collaborating with a fellow physicist at Argonne National Laboratory, and he and his co-workers went off to lunch one day, and he let me sit in his lab and play around with the apparatus. I didn’t break it, and it was okay. I got to turn up the current, then turn down
the current, turn up the magnetic field; it was a lot of fun.” Finnemore, who works with experimental condensed matter, recalls when Clem asked advice on how to patent an invention Clem had theorized under the guise of wanting to collaborate on an experiment. “I said, ‘Do you have a data book?’” Finnemore asked Clem. “Data book? I’ve never had a data book,” Clem told him. Finnemore said Clem showed up in office again the next day with all the data Clem needed for the patent. “It was in the afternoon John showed up at my office. I don’t know how much he had, maybe 50 pages,
in this data book for his invention and he patented it and the patent went through: ‘BOOM,’” Finnemore said. “Didn’t need an experimental verification; it worked, didn’t need anything. Took us about three years to actually build one, and it worked.” “My work tends to believe in the applied side because I’ve always been interested in applications of superconductivity,” Clem said. “I would like to have the feeling that what I do has some, if not immediate, eventual application in superconductivity. ... There are some theorists who like the idea of just the mathemati-
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Photo: Megan Wolff/ Iowa State Daily Kevin Wenceslao, senior in biology, and Theresa Fischer, senior in biology, look for new art to purchase at the poster sale Monday in the Cardinal Room of the Memorial Union.
Photo: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily Above middle: David Acker, associate dean of global agriculture programs, hands out apples to students in front of Curtiss Hall on Monday for the first day of classes. Photo: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily Above bottom: Lizzy Bertelson, senior in materials engineering, hands out water Monday to students passing by on their way to the first day of the fall semester. Photo: Adam Ring/Iowa State Daily Right: Students get back into stride for the start of class at Iowa State. Monday was the official start to the fall 2012 semester.
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FIRST STEPS
Photo: Megan Wolff/ Iowa State Daily Top: Michael Plantenberg, sophomore in aerospace engineering, gives campus maps to new students Monday near the library. Photo: Yanhua Huang/Iowa State Daily Alan Russell, professor of materials science and engineering, begins his first class for Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering I on Monday.
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8A | NEWS | Iowa State Daily | Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Photo: Rachel Sinn/Iowa State Daily Branden Sammons faces a hurdle in his life as he goes to battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
>>SAMMONS.p4A pearance in August, when the doctor downgraded Branden to a stage II Hodgkin’s lymphoma because the cancer in his abdomen was found to be not active yet. Financially, the family was relieved to find they had decent insurance coverage for all the new medical bills, but friends and family also plan to host fundraisers to help pick up the slack. The Iowa State’s Accounts Receivable understood the family’s situation and refunded all paid tuition and allowed scholarships awarded to be put on hold for next semester. “Our goal would be to welcome him to the Cyclone family healthier and when [Branden] is able to be with us,” said Laura Doering, Registrar and former staff member of the ISU Academic Service Center. “We have a Tuition Appeals Committee comprised of people from accounts receivable, student financial aid, and the director of student health.” Doering explained that in cases of severe health situations or military service member deployment, the tuition refund appeal is granted almost always. Other situations where the student already knew of their health problems before beginning the semester but still attempted may not result in a 100 percent refund. “Iowa State is about the student first, I really believe that about this environment here,” Doering said. “We’re not
looking to penalize a student when something unfortunate happens.” Doering wished the best for Branden and hopes he will be here next semester. “[Branden] just wants to be a Cyclone, and we want him to do that and without a bill from the prior term,” Doering said. “He may have other priories for that money now and we do hope he gets better and can come to [Iowa State] when the time is right.” Although pulling out of classes and waiting a semester for his big move was frustrating, Branden is determined to stay positive and busy with activities. He plans on taking two classes through Southwestern Community College and continue working his job at the local hardware store. He also plans on tutoring math at Orient High School. Renee advises all parents to stay on top of their children’s health and encourages people to stay up to date with physicals. “The doctor’s found [the lump] originally; we didn’t even notice it,” Renee said. For those families dealing with cancer, Branden advised them to stay positive. Renee now looks at Branden’s cancer journey as a set of hurdles. “You have to take one day at a time, once one hurdle is done then you’re on to the next, pretty soon you’re over the big one,” Renee said with a smile to Branden. “Branden, it’s just a huge hurdle. We’ve just got a bunch of little ones to go, and we’ll make it over the big one.”
Timeline July 2011: Lump was found by doctor during a routine sports physical August 2011: Branden was sent to an EMT doctor who performed a scope inspection down through his nose and a needle biopsy; Came back negative for cancer; said it was just a swollen lymph node January 2012: Had blood drawn to check for cancer again: negative June 2012: The lump swelled up July 11, 2012: Doctors performed a needle biopsy which also came back negative July 22, 2012: Had the lump removed July 26, 2012: Results came back that it was cancerous July 30, 2012: Went in for a CT scan with dye which showed he had swollen cancerous lymph nodes in his neck, his chest and his abdomen; he was put at a stage III Hodgkin’s lymphoma because it was above and below his diaphragm August 4, 2012: Went for a PET scan August 6, 2012: Got his port device put in August 8, 2012: Was put at a stage II Hodgkin’s lymphoma because the only live cancer was in his chest and neck August 14, 2012: Received first round of chemo treatment
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>>THEORIST.p5A cal world, just the theoretical world and just working in that world without any thought of an actual experimental applications or experimental manifestations. I’m not that sort, but I respect those people. That just never interested me.”
World-class editor “For my point of view, one of the big things he did was when high temperature superconductivity broke, about 1987, there was just a flurry of activity. Everybody jumped on it, and there was maybe 30 to 50 publications per week, and John would read the preprints that were sent here, and he would give little paragraph synopses and organize them,” said Bruce Harmon, deputy director of U.S. Department of Energy Ames Laboratory and distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State. High temperature superconductivity was a breakthrough in the world of condensed matter physics because superconductors with higher operating temperatures mean less expensive cooling costs. Superconductors could one day be used to deliver electricity to commercial and private industries, but the technology is not quite there yet. The discovery of high temperature superconductors made the reality of superconductors in everyday life a little more hopeful. “At the time, the web was not yet well-developed, so the communications were still very slow. You see, you send an article to journal, it will take a few months to be accepted and then published. So the information moved slow, on a much slower pace than it does now,” said Vladimir Kogan, adjunct research associate professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State and scientist at Ames Lab. “Initially, we sent this out to everyone who provided information about preprints
— and so it meant that people who were not at the national labs, but provided us with information as a courtesy — with ‘High-TC Update’ as a courtesy,” Clem said. “This very quickly became international and the ‘High-TC Update’ became an extremely valuable resource to people, particularly in the Soviet Union and in the Soviet Bloc who had very poor library services.” “It was just an incredible amount of work to read through those and make comments on these things so I appreciated what he was doing for most of the year. He did that for about 10 years we had that publication so that really put Ames on the map,” Harmon said. “He read all the papers and made comments on them and the thing that was terrifying to me was if John wanted to go to a meeting or something he would say: ‘Bruce, could you do it this week?’” “High-TC Update” was most regarded for its “nota bene,” which is where people look in the book to see its most notable points. Clem put the preprints he found most promising in this section and was surprised one day to find the astute regard and seriousness on Nobel Prize laureate took regarding the “nota bene.” “One time I reported on what I thought people would recognize as an absolutely ridiculous prediction ... expecting that physicists would immediately recognize that this was absolutely ridiculous,” Clem said. “I got — I wouldn’t call it a hate mail, but a kind of bitter comment from P.W. Anderson, a Nobel Prize winner, saying, ‘How could you include that in ‘nota bene’?” Clem, however, did not choose to publish “High-TC Update” or the fame or limelight but considered reviewing these preprints as part of his duty as a professor. “I did this for many years, spent many hours, and I appreciate my wife’s patience with me, that I would be working until three in the morning doing this to meet a deadline
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John is able to do ... pages of long, long calculations and there are no mistakes whatsoever. He has a kind of incredible ability of that sort.” Vladimir Kogan for the next day for ‘nota bene,’ but I knew I was doing it as a service to the superconductivity community,” Clem said. “I knew that even though they wouldn’t know who I was, I knew that they would appreciate this.”
Shoulders of giants Although Clem said he did not have much contact with his thesis adviser, it is clear Clem takes well after John Bardeen, one of only four people to have won two Nobel Prizes and the only one to have won two in physics. “When I was a graduate student, I tended to be a very independent student. So my contacts with Bardeen were rather limited,” Clem said. “He was a very quiet individual. Everybody knew he was very quiet and he had the reputation of being so smart that when reverent people had a problem they couldn’t do, they would go into his office, describe the problem to him, and he would get out a 3x5 card, write the solution, and give it to them.” Those colleagues who know Clem best describe his uncanny ability to always be right about a physics problem. Clem describes Bardeen as a very “mild mannered” and “modest man,” something that is also true for Clem regarding this gift for theoretical physics. “He’s able to do long, long calculations. We are theoretical physicists, we are writing formulas, developing all kinds of conclusions from mathematics, and when I do it’s just inevitable that I make mistakes, so I come back and do it again and do it until I am sure that what I have is correct,”
Photo: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily This year, John Clem will receive an award for his contributions to superconductivity from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Council.
Kogan said. “John is able to do pages after pages of pages of long, long calculations and there are no mistakes whatsoever. He has a kind of incredible ability of that sort.” “I remember one time I had told [Bardeen] what all I had done and he said, ‘I think you have enough here for a thesis.’ That was music to my ears, and so I began writing my thesis,” Clem said with a smile. “When various chapters were completed, I would send them around the world, wherever he was visiting, and finally I had my Ph.D. exam in the August of 1965.”
A passion for music For all his numerous accomplishments as a theorist Clem is also known for his gift for music. Clem’s colleagues were equally eager to disseminate that Clem could have been a professional musician as they were to name Clem a world-renowned theorist in superconductivity. “I have always been, throughout my lifetime, interested in music and when I was in my college days I played in the University of Illinois bands. I was a part of the Marching Illini and I sang mainly in my fraternity. When I became a graduate, I didn’t have enough time for that so I dropped music for awhile,” Clem said. But music came back to Clem. He took voice lessons at Iowa State and participated in Music Antiqua, a group dedicated to playing antique instruments and performing music from earlier centuries. “I sang with Music Antiqua. It was a group that performs in costume, and I had the costume of an English nobleman from the 1520’s. Seafoam green tights, a tunic, a nice hat, and a thing that looked like a big jewel in the middle,” Clem said, laughing heartily. Clem emotionally recalled fulfilling a desire to sing all of “Winterreise,” a song cycle by Franz Schubert, with a fellow colleague in the department of physics who also played the piano. “We had this opportunity to work on ‘Winterreise’ and it was a challenge for a pianist as well as a singer so I spent the whole year at my voice lessons getting ready for that,” Clem said. “It was a great opportunity, I’m really emotional about this, to get together with him to do that. We got up very early to do that, maybe fiveo’clock in the morning to do that, so we went through the entire ‘Winterreise’ and really enjoyed doing that.”
During a workshop in Israel, Clem and his colleague performed three of the songs from “Winterreise” in front of a physics conference. “I was doing an awful lot of travel and am so grateful that my wife stayed with me after all this time because. ... it probably added up to two months I was gone during the year when you added up all the weeks,” Clem said.
A devoted husband Physics and music were two loves of Clem’s life, but the third and most telling love of Clem’s life is the love he has for his wife. Judith Paulsen Clem, or simply Judy, has a brick on the Plaza of Heroines outside Catt Hall. She worked part time as a registered nurse before serving on the Board of Trustees of Mary Greeley Medical Center. Judy’s life took a turn for the worse when doctors discovered she had a brain tumor. Clem now dedicates his life to superconductivity theory and being a primary caregiver to his wife. It is clear from the emotional way he talks about his time with her that only the deepest passion for physics could take him away from her side during the day time hours. “Of course I spend time with her in the evenings on weekends, and I read to her and things of the sort. She has excellent comprehension and she has a great sense of humor. Very wonderful sense of humor and good spirits all the time, so she’s a joy to be with,” Clem said, both smiling and keeping tears in check. “Besides, I owe her a lot, because all she put up with for the rest of her marriage, so she’s built up a lot of credits during the time before she had the brain tumor. So I’m happy to be her primary caregiver so she’s doing very well.” Clem himself is battling mesothelioma. As a young man Clem worked in a factory that handled asbestos before it was well known that asbestos caused cancel. Like his colleagues, Clem attributes his mesothelioma to working in the factory. “Even though companies maybe knew there was a danger of asbestos they didn’t tell their employees about that. They didn’t tell people to wear masks or things of that sort, and I’m sure I breathed in a lot of asbestos dust. The asbestos particles have little prongs on these little fibers and you can’t cough them up. So they were in there for a long time before they start producing this me-
World-renowned condensed matter physicist who specializes in superconductivity theory Took quantum mechanics from Bob SchriefferSchrieffer was the “S” of the BCS Theory of Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer BCS Theory is the first theory to examine what happens to superconductors at the atomic level Was asked by Schrieffer to assist him with calculations Works in the theory realm of physics Established “High-TC Update,” a publication that reviewed preprints of academic papers about superconductivity: Most regarded for its “nota bene” Was advised by John Bardeen, the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes in physics and one of four people to have won two Nobel Prizes Also well-known for his gift of music: played in the University of Illinois band; sang mainly in his fraternity; took voice lessons at Iowa State; participated in Music Antiqua, a group dedicated to playing antique instruments and performing music from earlier centuries Battling mesothelioma and is on chemo to treat the disease Is receiving the 2012 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Council on Superconductivity Award for Significant and Sustained Contributions to Applied Superconductivity
sothelioma,” Clem said. “It’s incurable, but it is treatable and so I’ve been on chemotherapy for the last two and a half years and the chemotherapy has arrested the progress of this.” Taking things in stride, Clem said he was happy he had more hair than his father ever did, despite the chemotherapy. “He’s doing very well — much better than statistics would predict,” Kogan said.
Celebrating a legacy This year, Clem will receive the 2012 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Council On Superconductivity Award for Significant and Sustained Contributions to Applied Superconductivity. The award will celebrate the achievements of his work as a superconductivity theorist and recognize his contributions to the field of condensed matter physics. Clem has spent most of his career as a Cyclone, worked under some of the brightest minds in superconductivity theory to have ever existed and has helped Iowa State build a legacy in excellence of superconductivity research. “He’s been here for pretty much his whole career and he is, I would say without a doubt, the world’s leader in applied superconductivity theory,” Harmon said. “It’s exciting that he got that award. It’s a career’s worth of effort that goes into something like that.”
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MyState app provides info for on-the-go students
By Levi.Castle @iowastatedaily.com A mobile application specifically tailored for campus life has been reworked, refitted and re-released as the brand new MyState app. Released for Android and iOS, MyState is a free application that stems off of the university’s previous official app, called ISU CoE. While MyState looks very similar to the old app, which launched in January 2012, new features have been added to make it an upgrade from the ISU CoE app. Travis Ballstadt, digital media coordinator for the College of Engineering, is very optimistic about what’s being done with the new application. “Shortly after the original app was released, we were contacted by the [Government of the Student Body] about doing an app for the whole of the university, and we thus morphed into MyState after deciding to essentially improve the old app by releasing a new one,” Ballstadt said. “Users will find it similar but improved.” Both applications feature beneficial tasks and options that are especially accessible for anyone with a smartphone, as a constant data connection will allow full, uninterrupted use of the services provided. Among these services are various icons that lead to different sources of information. There are news, events, laundry, directory, athletics, navigation, CyRide and dining icons to choose from, in addition to others that are equally as helpful. Accessing these different icons allows the user to get a better understanding of anything having to do with campus. For instance, tapping “Map” opens an up-to-date campus map that looks very similar to the default map system on the device being used.
The map is different from others, however, because it has been designed with students in mind.Every individual street, building and important location is labeled. Even parking lots are designated on the map, and more or less information can be viewed by pinching to zoom. Additionally, a “Locations” tab lists every building and location on campus, listed in alphabetical order with a search feature as well. Choosing a location will display a drop pin on the map, which will show a student how to get to where he/she needs to go. The map also utilizes the device’s native GPS to locate and display where a student is on campus, making getting around a breeze for new students or visitors. Speaking of transportation, the CyRide feature of the app is beneficial for those that want something more advanced than a folded up map in their back pocket. With options like “Today’s Routes” and “Route Maps,” the app constantly updates with the most current routes in relation to time of day and location. Selecting a bus color will show the locations and times of where that bus will go. Using the color maps in combination with the interactive mapping system creates an experience sure to ease the stress of getting around campus. Another feature unique to the app is the “Laundry” icon, which opens up a menu of different laundromat locations on campus. Selecting a location brings up a list of all washers and dryers in that building, along with their actual availability and how long each will take before they are open. Using this part of the MyState app allows residents to check the laundromat without even leaving their couch to see if a machine is available.
Development for these two diverse and informative applications requires the attention of numerous students, organizations and officials. In a collaboration between GSB and the College of Engineering, support for the ISU CoE app was dropped (leading to the app being removed from the iOS mobile platform) because it was felt the app had the message it was only useful for engineering majors instead of the entire student body. After GSB and College of Engineering teamwork regarding development, the MyState app is catered to help anyone regardless of their study interests. Though the first app is now gone, the ideas and motives behind it still linger and influence its successor today. “Years ago when the Apple app store opened, it was suggested that an app be developed by computer engineering students as a sort of senior project,” Ballstadt said. “This was when Tyler Bell came onto the scene and helped propel the app into existence.” Bell, senior in computer science, has been working with the College of Engineering developing iOS applications since spring 2011. He developed both the ISU CoE and MyState apps, along with the Innovate app as well. As the sole iOS developer with the College of Engineering, Bell is responsible for designing, testing and fixing any and all applications (and their respective updates) having to do with the College of Engineering. Bell said development has certainly been different this time around for MyState compared to the ISU CoE app. “The original app had features that every student could use and enjoy, but the CoE
MyState Has information about news, events, laundry, directory, athletics, navigation, CyRide and dining “Map”: Find the quickest route to next class “CyRide”: check the next scheduled pickup at the closest stop “News”: read and share the latest updates from across campus “Events”: workshops, lectures, games “Laundry”: check your dryer without leaving room “Directory”: easily find people, offices on campus “Videos”: about friends, professors and campus “Connect”: interact with others on Facebook and Twitter “Labs”: find an open lab with the software needed “Dining”: choose meals, track calories and more Scan the QR code with your iPhone to download the app.
Screenshots of MyState app Iowa State’s official app has been reworked, refitted and re-released as the brand new MyState app. This app can be used to find information on events, dining, CyRide and more.
branding made it appear to be a CoE-only application. The new MyState app is geared up and ready to help any student or individual with their oncampus needs at Iowa State,” Bell said. “With the CoE app, we were developing [it] for ourselves at the College of Engineering rather than the whole of campus,” Bell said. “With MyState, we worked with the GSB to bring in new minds and discuss the potential of what MyState is and will be.” Bell’s iOS development is paralleled with senior in computer engineering Joshua
Schroetter’s work as the lead Android developer, as one of the MyState app’s improvements over its predecessor is that it is now on Google Play (previously known as the Android Market) as well as the iOS app store. For Bell and Schroetter, the collaboration between the College of Engineering and GSB has made their development ultimately possible. Likewise, GSB and College of Engineering are content with what their agreement has produced for the university. Jared Knight, president of GSB, said they did not have
the personnel to make a successful application for many years. When Ballstadt and his students came along, a partnership was made, and the MyState app was born. “The CoE app quickly made us realize that studentwide availability was definitely possible and practical,” Knight said. Students are encouraged to try out the app on their Android and iOS devices.
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WAC league football on the way out DENVER — The commissioner of the Western Athletic Conference says it has become apparent the league is “unlikely” to have enough football members to compete next season. Jeff Hurd tells The Denver Post the conference is now emphasizing simply having enough members to remain a Division I nonfootball league. Hurd told the newspaper that in July “it became apparent that it was unlikely we could continue with football.” The WAC still needs to add two to three new members for 2013 in order to have the seven required by the NCAA to be a Division I conference. Hurd says the conference will do everything possible to avoid shutting down, but “There aren’t any obvious answers out there.” The WAC now has seven football members, though five have plans to leave next year. — Associated Press
NFL: Rams stadium renovation put into proposal By R.B. Fallstrom AP sports writer ST. LOUIS — The agency that operates the home of the St. Louis Rams released a new renovation plan Monday that it believes will put the 17-year-old stadium among the top tier in the NFL. The 30-year lease that lured the Rams from Anaheim, Calif., in 1995 allows for the franchise to leave after the 2014 season if the Edward Jones Dome is not deemed among the top 25 percent of all NFL stadiums. The Rams and the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission, which operates the facility, entered arbitration this year after rejecting each other’s proposals. The CVC’s 128-page plan submitted to the Rams on Friday calls for, among other things, replacing the existing roof, expanding concourse levels and adding about 3,000 club seats. It also calls for a new glass exterior. CVC president Kitty Radcliffe said the biggest addition to the plan is replacing a 50,000 square-foot building connecting to Baer Plaza with the glass exterior. Rams chief operating officer Kevin Demoff had no comment about the proposal.
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Photo: Kendra Plate/Iowa State daily Andie Malloy, freshman setter and outside hitter, poses for a photo during the Aug. 9 media day for the women’s volleyball team at Hilton Coliseum. The No. 6 ranked recruiting class was topic of much discussion.
Freshman players make known their presence Recruiting class has potential for playing on ‘another level’ By Cory.Weaver @iowastatedaily.com
With the No. 6 ranked recruiting class in the country, it is difficult for ISU volleyball coach Christy Johnson-Lynch to contain her enthusiasm for this season and her acclaimed freshman class. “This is big time, that’s how I feel,” Johnson-Lynch said. “I think this class has the potential to take a program to another level.” For a squad that advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament last season and only graduated four seniors, there are not many open spots for Johnson-Lynch’s largest recruiting class since she arrived at Iowa State in 2005. However, recruiting classes with this caliber of talent don’t come around for any team very often and Johnson-Lynch said some will make their presence known right away. “I do anticipate some of them playing,” Johnson-Lynch said. “Honestly I couldn’t even tell you yet who it’s going to be, but I know that two or three or four are going to contribute, no doubt.” The seven-player class features student-athletes from across the country with all sorts of playing experience. Named to ESPN HS’s 2011 All-American team and ranked one of the top recruits in the country, setter and outside hitter Andie Malloy headlines Iowa State’s 2012 class. A graduate of Lovejoy High School in Allen, Texas, Malloy helped her team make history as the first team to win four consecutive 3A state titles in Texas. The 6-foot-2 utility player also traveled the globe with the U.S. Junior National Team and hopes her experiences can transcend to her teammates. “Having to practice with such a high level of intensity and being around competitive players from all over the world just teaches you a lot about the game,” Malloy said. “I just
Freshman facts 1 Jenelle Hudson Setter, 5-foot-8 San Diego (Bonita Vista) High school All-American Mesa League Player of the Year 2010, 2011 CIF-SDS Player of the Year
2 Mackenzie Bigbee Right-side hitter, 6-foot-1 Williamsburg, Iowa (Williamsburg) 2012 Des Moines Register Female Athlete of the Year 2011 Under Armour All-America first team Member of USA Volleyball 18U Junior National Championship team USAV 18U National Junior Olympic MVP
5 Natalie Vondrak
Middle blocker, 6-foot-1 Sioux City, Iowa (Bishop Heelan) Three-time all-state selection 2011 state all-tournament team
7 Caitlin Nolan
Libero, 5-foot-8 Southlake, Texas (Carroll) Ranked 40th by PrepVolleyball.com All-Texas team honors as a senior All-American honors as a senior Named the district’s top defensive
feel that really has helped me become a better player so hopefully it can be contagious.” Libero Caitlin Nolan from Carroll, Texas, is Malloy’s sole Texas counterpart in this year’s class. The Southlake High School alumna helped guide her team to three consecutive all-district championships and played a role in her club team’s second-place finish at the Amateur Athletic Union Junior National Championship last season. With Big 12 newcomer Texas Christian just 30 minutes away from her hometown of Carroll and a hand-
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8 Andie Malloy
Setter/Outside Hitter, 6-foot-2 Allen, Texas (Lovejoy) Ranked 35th by PrepVolleyball.com 2011 Under Armour First Team All-American ESPN top 25 volleyball player Named the state all-tournament MVP Played with USA Youth National Team
15 Bria Rasmussen
Libero, 5-foot-9 Grand Island, Neb. (Grand Island) Letterwinner in basketball and soccer Ranked first in her academic class All-state honorable mention by Lincoln Journal Star
16 Morgan Kuhrt
Outside Hitter, 6-foot-1 Waverly, Iowa (Wavely-Shell Rock) Under Armour All-American in 2011 Prepvolleyball.com All0American in 2010 Won four conference championships and two state titles Ranked sixth in her academic class
ful of Texas schools to choose from, Nolan said she got some flack from friends for going to a conference rival. “It’s competitive; [I] get to play a lot of friends, especially because a lot of my friends went to Texas schools, so I’ll get to see them at least twice a year, which is good,” Nolan said. Last season, Big 12 Libero of the Year Kristen Hahn was the only libero on roster for the Cyclones. This year, not only Nolan joins the team but Nebraska-native Bria Rasmussen
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A sea of cardinal and gold rushed onto the field at Jack Trice Stadium on Nov. 18 to the surprise of most of the nation and to the dismay of oddsmakers, who had pegged Oklahoma State as a 27-point favorite against Iowa State. On paper, the Cowboys had Brandon Weeden at quarterback, who at the time was a potential Heisman candidate. They also had eventual first-round NFL Draft selection Justin Blackmon at wide receiver. While 10-0 and ranked No. 2 in the nation, Oklahoma State was not able avoid defeat by the heavy underdog Cyclones in double overtime. After all, there is pretty good reason they say games cannot be played on paper. Sports can be pretty unpredictable, but that does not stop anybody from making the attempt to solve the puzzles before they unfold. Oddsmakers have the ISU football team at an over/under of 4.5 victories for the 2012 season. In coach Paul Rhoads’ three seasons, the Cyclones have often been predicted to win less than a handful of games by the many who make the predictions. While far from a powerhouse, Iowa State has won seven, five and six games respectively since Rhoads arrived, and they have advanced to two bowl games. For those in the guessing game, the team has been hard to predict. But trying to make those predictions, through polls and weekly picks, is part of what makes sports, and football especially, so interesting. Fans and writers alike cannot stay away from seeing what others have to say and they crave seeing who tops each weekly list voted upon by writers and coaches. This season’s Associated Press Top-25 preseason poll has ranked Southern California at No. 1 to start the season. But as projections often go, that may not mean much. Last season writers placed high hopes in Oklahoma, placing the Sooners at No. 1 in the preseason poll. Oklahoma would come in at No. 16 when all was said and done. In fact, out of the 25 teams in the initial poll last season, seven were nowhere to be found when the season was said and done. During the past decade, only one time — in 2004 with USC — has a team been named No. 1 in the top-25 preseason poll and found itself still at the top in the final poll at season’s end. With what has been called one of the toughest schedules in the nation — they have even been named underdogs against Tulsa — Iowa State in the eyes of many will not go over that 4.5-win mark placed by oddsmakers. In 2009 the Cyclones weren’t supposed to beat Nebraska, but who could account for eight Cornhusker turnovers? The next season in 2010 Iowa State wasn’t supposed to beat Texas, but the Cyclone defense kept the Longhorns to just six points through three quarters. And last season, Oklahoma State should have run away with a Friday night, nationally televised victory to move one step closer to the national championship. But there is always chance: chance of injury, chance of poor play, chance of weather and chance of maybe, just maybe the team rising above expectations to a new level. Sports are not simple to guess. We can put as much attention into preseason polls, total victory odds and game-by-game picks all we want, but in the end we are limited to guessing. Sometimes we just have to wait to see what happens on the field. And who knows, that might have fans storming the field in a game that was supposed to send fans home after halftime.
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File photos: Iowa State Daily Potential 2012-13 quarterbacks Steele Jantz, left, Sam Richardson and Jared Barnett handle the ball. Last season, Jantz and Barnett split time as Iowa State’s starters.
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ast season was an exciting one for the ISU football team — very few would disagree, I’m sure. The lasting images of students and fans alike storming the field — twice — still reverberate freshly in my memory and probably will for some time. A thrilling triple-overtime victory against rival Iowa and a colossal double-overtime upset of No. 2 Oklahoma State — the largest in school history — on an ESPN prime-time Friday night are pretty hard to top for a team that had won a combined five games in the two seasons before the arrival of coach Paul Rhoads. It goes without saying, those upsets would not have been possible had it not been for consistent play from the
By Jake.Calhoun @iowastatedaily.com quarterback. “Quarterback is the most important position on the field,” Rhoads said Saturday, Aug. 18, after his team’s final scrimmage. “People kid themselves if they don’t feel it’s that way. If people say it’s not, it’s because they’ve got a lot, a lot of other talent around that they’ve just got to drive their car and not worry about the other.” Coming into the 2012 season, the team is once again faced with a quarterback
controversy involving Steele Jantz and Jared Barnett. They split time as the starters last season, with Barnett’s upset of Oklahoma State trumping the victory against Iowa orchestrated by Jantz. Barnett and Jantz showed great poise and resiliency in their wins last season, but they also showed moments of weakness. In the team’s seven losses last season, Barnett and Jantz had a combined completion percentage of 48.6 percent, threw nine interceptions — six from Jantz — and were sacked 20 times for a total loss of 104 yards. In covering the team last season, the feeling in the press box was that of anticipation —
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File photo: Gene Pavelko/Iowa State Daily Quarterback Steele Jantz looks to pass on Sept. 10, at Jack Trice Stadium. Jantz is one of the candidates for the 2012 season quarterbacks.
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>>RECRUITS.p1B does as well. Rasmussen notched 5.71 digs per set for Grand Island High School last season and was recognized as an all-state honorable mention by the Lincoln Journal Star. While being part of such a highly touted recruiting class is an exciting time for this year’s freshmen, Rasmussen said it’s no time to be satisfied. “It’s obviously really high expectations to perform like the No. 6 recruiting class,” Rasmussen said. “You just have to prove it to everyone that you really are that good and just keep the standard up there.” One luxury this class has is none of the players are being asked to come in and fill a starting spot right off the bat. That isn’t to say none of the freshmen will get a chance to start, but it allows them to get acclimated to college and the increased level of play. “I’m a middle, so Tenisha [Matlock], Jamie [Straube] and Tori [Knuth], just looking up to them and learning from them has been nice because you kind of take little steps and get better every day,” said Natalie Vondrak. Vondrak, a native of Sioux City, Iowa, averaged more than 4.2 kills and 3.5 digs per set at Bishop Heelan High School last season. Vondrak helped lead her team to a state championship appearance as well, posting 24 kills in the loss to Waverly-Shell Rock. For those who follow the ISU volleyball team, WaverlyShell Rock might ring a familiar tune. That is because outside hitter Morgan Kuhrt, another one of the 2013 recruits, was on the winning side of that championship match. Last year marked Kuhrt’s second state volleyball title with Waverly-Shell Rock and fourth conference title while averaging four kills per set during her senior campaign. Not only does Kuhrt bring a powerful swing to the Cyclones, but some familiarity as well. In addition to playing against Vondrak in the state
Photo: Katie Hansen/Iowa State Daily The Cyclone volleyball team plays its Cardinal and Gold Scrimmage on Saturday at Hilton Coliseum. The intrasquad scrimmage was one of the team’s first chances to show off the skills of its class of freshman players.
championship last year, Kuhrt played with and won a national championship with fellow freshman Mackenzie Bigbee in 2011 with their Six Pack Club team. Kuhrt said the familiarity helped make the move to Iowa State much easier. “It’s really nice and I always know that she’s going to be there and we’re roommates,” Kuhrt said of Bigbee. “I’m always with her and it’s nice to have someone to talk to and just have support there.” After Kuhrt committed to Iowa State, the right side hitting Bigbee followed suit and
It’s obviously really high expectations to perform like the No. 6 recruiting class. You just have to prove it to everyone that you really are that good and just keep the standard up there.” Bria Rasmussen the former teammates are just that once again. In addition to being on the USA Volleyball Junior National championship team with Kuhrt, Bigbee was named Most Valuable Player and finished off the title match with the winning kill. The Williamsburg, Iowa, native said it’s a big step from
playing at the high school and club levels but added she wants to help the team exceed its already high expectations. “I’m just hoping that whatever I do I can help contribute to the team and help them reach their goal,” Bigbee said. The last player to commit for the cardinal and gold
was setter Jenelle Hudson. Hudson hails from San Diego and is an All-American out of Bonita Vista High School. Hudson said she made her decision later than normal because she was considering many different places to take her athletic ability. After checking out Ames, she knew it was the right fit for her. “I was looking at a lot of schools at the end and I just got recruited the first tournament and I came out here on my trip,” Hudson said. “I loved the coaches and the team is really nice and their volleyball program is really good, so when I
came here I just felt like it was right, so it was just a go after that.” One thing all the recruits have in common is they all played on high school and club teams that had a lot of success. Johnson-Lynch said it’s no coincidence and players like that bring a little extra to the table. “You want players that have played under pressure, that have played at a high level [and] who have won a lot,” Johnson-Lynch said. “When you’re winning a lot, that player probably has something to do with it and that’s what we like to recruit.”
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File photo: Iowa State Daily Linebacker Jeremiah George moves the ball around his opposition during the annual spring game on April 14 at Jack Trice Stadium. The Cardinal team defeated the Gold team with a final score of 7-13.
Photo: Adam Ring/Iowa State Daily Linebackers A.J. Klein (47), Jeremiah George (52) and Jake Knott (20), run a drill Aug. 3 during the Cyclone football team’s first fall practice of the 2012 season. The team is preparing for its Sept. 1 season opener when the Cyclones host Tulsa.
ISU linebackers find dynamism in George By Dean.Berhow-Goll @iowastatedaily.com It has been said by many coaches of the ISU football team that linebacker Jeremiah George came on strongly this offseason. When coach Paul Rhoads was asked Saturday if there was anyone else besides George who had broken out or shined in the fall training camp, still the linebacker’s name was the first thing out of his mouth. “Jeremiah George,” Rhoads said. “He continues. He continues to get better, which is very exciting to let us play more three linebacker schemes as we go along.” George, now a junior, was a player who only managed four tackles his freshman campaign and last year played in all 13 games, but was only able to record one tackle. Now, Rhoads believes George is a player who can contribute in a major way this season. “Jeremiah really came on at spring ball,” Rhoads said. “The light goes on at different times [for] different players and the light really started to go on for him this spring. We look forward to that continuing this fall.” This spring season and now after fall training camp, defensive coordinator Wally Burnham said he has been impressed and is hopeful to get him on the field as much as he can. “Our problem with that is against spread offenses we’ve got to play a nickel back,” Burnham said. “If you play in your base, you can’t run all of your coverages, so we’ll be playing a lot of down-and-distance situations with him and we’re going to have him out there on the field every snap that we can because he’s a productive football player right now.” Last year on defense, the Cyclones had Matt Tau’fo’ou
p l ay i n g middle linebacker in their base defense. Then in passing s i t u a t i o n s, Rhoads Ta u’ f o ’o u would be replaced by Deon Broomfield or C.J. Morgan in the 4-2-5, which allows Burnham A.J. Klein and Jake Knott to play in the middle while still adding depth in the secondary with that exGeorge tra defensive back. Even with the amount of offensive firepower in the Big 12 — five schools in the top 13 on offense — and the amount of spread offenses, which promote speed and passing, Iowa State still hopes having George in the middle will allow it to run more out of the base 4-3 and defend those types of offense. “You’d love to play your base defense first and second down and keep those guys on the field,” Rhoads said. “With Jeremiah being able to do that [at Mike linebacker], A.J. slides out to that Sam linebacker position and we can keep that group on the field.” Even preseason All-Big 12 linebacker Jake Knott is excited to have George playing between himself and another preseason All-Big 12 player, Klein, to complete the linebacking corps. “We’ve got the linebackers to do it,” Knott said. “Usually in the past, we didn’t have a guy that could go out there and cover like that, but now that we have three athletic linebackers that are physical and know the defense, we can go into that more, which is great. It gives us a new dynamic.”
Jeremiah George. He continues. He continues to get better, which is very exciting to let us play more three linebacker schemes as we go along. ... The light goes on at different times [for] different players and the light really started to go on for him this spring.” Paul Rhoads
Defensive line takes group approach Coach Paul Rhoads said, much like the running backs, the defensive line is taking a committee approach. Instead of playing with four regular down lineman, the defense could go with as many as 10 or 11 lineman within a game. Rhoads said he was happy with the improvements that the line made over fall training camp. “The improvements are it’s a front four by the number of guys that are on the field at one time, but it’s a front 10, front 11 when you look at the numbers. That’s an improvement,” Rhoads said. “We’ve got a number of guys that can go out there and play hard for as many snaps as we can get out of them and then we can get them off the field and that’s the case with defensive lineman versus the offenses that you face throughout college football let alone the Big 12. You want to keep those guys fresh. Before we would have worried about taking a guy off or that guy off, but now whether it’s the end position or the tackle position, we’ll continue to roll those guys and be smart in critical situations with whom we have on the field.”
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Oct. 12 Aug. 22
CYCLONE FAMILY WEEKEND
WelcomeFest When: 4 p.m. What: The Student Activities Center holds WelcomeFest to let students experience local businesses, community organizations and ISU departments. Where: Great Hall, Memorial Union
The Yellow Rose of Suffrage When: 2 p.m. What: A one-woman play performed by ISU theater professor Jane Cox. The play is about Carrie Chapman Catt, an 1880 ISU graduate who played a major part in the women’s suffrage movement for 33 years. Where: Ames City Auditorium
Sept. 1
ISU football vs. Tulsa (Ames, Iowa) File photo: Iowa State Daily Megan McDonald, left, freshman, undecided LAS, signs autographs for Katie Currans, 8, of Ames, on Oct. 2 at the Family Weekend tailgate Oct. 2.
Sept. 5
CLUBFEST
What: The ISU football team will play the University of Tulsa in Ames. Where: Jack Trice Stadium
Sept. 3 Labor Day
What: University offices are closed. Classes not scheduled.
Sept. 5 ClubFest
When: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. What: ClubFest is an event that allows students to find out more about Iowa State’s 250 clubs and organizations. Where: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Sept. 8
ISU football at Iowa What: The ISU football team will play the University of in Iowa City. Where: Kinnick Stadium, Iowa City
Sept. 12
Imagine: How Creativity Works File photo: Iowa State Daily Students browse though clubs and orginizations looking for new ways to get involved during ClubFest on Jan. 18 in the Great Hall. ClubFest brings over 250 clubs and orginizations twice a year.
When: 8 p.m. What: Jonah Lehrer, author of “Imagine: How Creativity Works,” will discuss how creativity is in every person.
Where: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Sept. 15
ISU football vs. Western Illinois (Ames, Iowa) What: The ISU football team will play Western Illinois University in Ames. Where: Jack Trice Stadium
Dragoon River Romp When: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. What: Volunteers will cleanup parts of the Des Moines River. Canoes will be provided. Where: Des Moines River in Boone County
Sept. 19
Planet Money LIVE When: 8 p.m. What: Adam Davidson, of National Public Radio, and Alex Blumberg, of This American Life, will explain money in a witty and humorous way. Where: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Sept. 20
Masters of Illusion When: 7:30 p.m. What: World famous names in magic will perform amazing feats. Where: Stephens Auditorium
You Can Change the World — Bill Nye When: 7 p.m. What: Bill Nye “The Science Guy,” famous for hosting a weekly television series on the Disney Channel, will appear at Iowa State as part of Engineers Week. Where: Stephens Auditorium, Iowa State Center
Sept. 22
Vilsack v. King debate When: To be announced What: Christie Vilsack, D-Ames, will debate incumbent Steve King, R-Kiron. Vilsack and King are competing for Iowa’s 4th Congressional District. Where: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Sept. 29
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Nov. 13
CNN political correspondent Candy Crowley
When: 7:30 What: CNN award-winning political correspondent Candy Crowley will discuss the 2012 election results as the Fall 2012 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics. Where: Sun Room, Memorial Union.
Nov. 14
Vienna Boys Choir When: 7:30 p.m. What: The famed boys choir is composed of members who are 10 to 14 years old. Where: Stephens Auditorium
Nov. 17
ISU football at Kansas
File Photo: Iowa State Daily Jared Barnett takes the QB draw to gain a few extra yards in the fourth quarter of the Nov. 5, 2011, game. Barnett becomes the 28th Cyclone to rush for 100 yards against Kansas.
Sept. 22
VILSACK VS. KING DEBATE
What: The ISU football will play the University of of Kansas in Lawrence, Kan. Where: Memorial Stadium
Nov. 18
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Nov. 24
ISU football vs. West Virginia (Ames, Iowa)
What: The ISU football team will play University of West Virginia in Ames. Where: Jack Trice Stadium
Nov. 29 Exercise for Success in School and Career When: 8 p.m. What: Adele Diamond will discuss the social, emotional and cognitive aspects of physical activity and their benefits to professional success. Where: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Nov. 30
The Daily Show Live — Indecision Tour 2012 When: 8 p.m. What: Rob Riggle and Al Madrigal, two correspondents of The Daily Show, and Adam Lowitt, a writer-producer of The Daily Show, will discuss the 2012 election and how The Daily Show is produced. Where: Stephens Auditorium, Iowa State Center
Lorie Line - ‘Immanuel’ When: 3 p.m. What: “Immanuel” will feature Christmas music. Line, a pianist, will be joined by her Fab Five Where: Stephens Auditorium
Dec.10 to 14
Nov. 19 to 23
Dec. 11
Thanksgiving break
What: No classes during Thanksgiving break.
Nov. 22 to 23 University holiday
What: University offices will be closed.
Final exams
What: Finals for classes will be given during this week.
Dailey and Vincent — A Bluegrass Christmas When: 7:30 p.m. What: Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent will perform “A Bluegrass Christmas.”
Dec. 14
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ISU football vs. Kansas State What: The ISU football team will play Kansas State University in Ames. Where: Jack Trice Stadium
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How Has the Supreme Court Reshaped American Law When: 8 p.m. What: Thomas Goldstein, who has argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court, will be the Constitution Day speaker. Where: Sun Room, Memorial Union
National Symphony of Cuba When: 7:30 p.m. What: The National Symphony of Cuba will stop in Ames on its 21-city tour of the United States. Where: Stephens Auditorium
Oct. 20
ISU football at Oklahoma State What: The ISU football will play Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Okla. Where: Boone Pickens Stadium
Oct. 27
ISU football vs. Baylor (Homecoming) What: The ISU football team will play Baylor University in Ames. Where: Jack Trice Stadium
Oct. 29
Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture When: 8 p.m. What: Ecologist Erle Ellis will discuss a new, forward-thinking approach to environmentalism. Where: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Oct. 26 Nov. 1 Sophomore registration
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What: First day of assigned Spring 2013 registration dates for students projected as sophomores.
Nov. 3
ISU football vs. Oklahoma What: The ISU football team will play University of Oklahoma in Ames. Where: Jack Trice Stadium
Nov. 8
Freshman registration What: First day of assigned Spring 2013 registration dates for students projected as freshman.
Pride and Prejudice When: 7:30 p.m. What: The LA Theater Works will present Pride and Prejudice, the romantic tale of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Where: Stephens Auditorium
File photo: Iowa State Daily Students participate in “Yell Like Hell,” an annual competition where greek students create an original skit where everything is shouted and sung.
Nov. 10
GOLD STAR HALL CEREMONY
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Nov. 12
What: The ISU football will play the University of Texas in Austin, Texas Where: Darrell K. Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium
An Evening with Branford Marsalis When: 7:30 p.m. What: Grammy-winning saxophonist and Tony Award nominee Bradford will pair with pianist Joey Calderazzo to perform. Where: Stephens Auditorium
Nov. 12
Gold Star Hall Ceremony When: 3:15 to 4:45 p.m. What: Honors fallen soldiers who are former ISU students. Stories are told and photos are shown to remember the fallen soldiers. Where: Great Hall, Memorial Union
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When: 7:30 p.m. What: The musical, which is based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks film, is about an ogre who rescues a princess. Where: Stephens Auditorium
When: 7:30 p.m. What: The Tony Award-winning musical tells the tale of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. Where: Stephens Auditorium
Feb. 15
March 13
When: 7:30 p.m. What: The Montana Reptertory Theatre will perform Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues, a comedy about young men going off to war. Where: Stephens Auditorium
When: 7:30 p.m. What: The story about an up-and-coming girl singing group in the 1960s. Where: Stephens Auditorium
Feb. 21
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Voca People When: 7:30 p.m. What: Eight snow-white, ruby-lipped aliens will perform a capella singing, comedy and beat boxing in this theater musical performance. Where: Stephens Auditorium
March 2
China National Symphony Orchestra
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March 18 to 22 What: Classes will not be in session during Spring Break.
March 25 and 26 Blue Man Group
When: 7:30 p.m. What: The group will combine music, comedy and multimedia theatrics to create a unique performance. Where: Stephens Auditorium
When: 7:30 p.m. What: The program will include the first movement of Xia Gua’s “Requiem for the Earth,” Sibelius’s “Violin Concerto” and Richard Strauss’ poem “A Hero’s Life.” Where: Stephens Auditorium
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When: 7:30 p.m. What: The show combines the circus with street performance to create a highenergy performance.
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April15 to 21
VEISHEA 2013
Arrival - The Music of ABBA When: 7:30 p.m. What: Arrival is an ABBA tribute band. Where: Stephens Auditorium
Veishea 2013 What: The annual ISU celebration is one of Iowa State’s oldest traditions. The event was created to showcase the ISU community.
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we sort of knew an interception would be thrown or a fumble would be lost, we were just waiting for it to happen. A few times we were pleasantly surprised, but the -11 turnover margin — 17 of the team’s 35 turnovers being interceptions — is a cry out for much-needed improvement. This season, Rhoads said Barnett and Jantz have been evenly matched with redshirt freshman Sam Richardson, who is also in contention for the starting spot. Richardson is somewhat of an outlier at this point since not much has been said about him. Barring any major development like last year’s academic ineligibility ruling of Jerome Tiller, however, this season’s quarterback decision will most likely come between Jantz and Barnett. Some fans are optimistic about one or the other, and I’m not saying you shouldn’t be. Both can scramble and make something out of nothing, but both have been known to buckle under pressure. Jantz has admitted to not
trusting his offensive line when he needs to — causing him to take off on more impromptu scrambles that sometimes lead to sacks — and Barnett has recognized his passing is his biggest area of improvement, so they aren’t in the dark in regards to their flaws. Both Barnett and Jantz said they have improved since last season and while some of that may be “jock speak,” some fans can still hope that learning from last season’s mistakes will pay dividends in the Cyclones’ upcoming gauntlet. In all that I have heard so far from fall camp interviews, I honestly couldn’t say who I think the coaches are leaning toward choosing. Both have their upsides, both have their flaws, but saying the race has been a dead heat is far from an exaggeration. Whoever is chosen, I’m sure it will be interesting to cover, fun to follow and entertaining to watch.
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senior in journalism from Urbandale, Iowa.
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Major League
Roger Clemens returning to baseball By Kristie Rieken AP sports writer
File photo: David J. Phillip/Associated Press Roger Clemens pauses while throwing at batting practice during a workout at the Houston Astros minor league spring training facility Feb. 27, 2008, in Kissimmee, Fla.
HOUSTON — Roger Clemens’ signing with the Sugar Land (Texas) Skeeters has some wondering if it is the first step in a return to the majors. The 50-year-old Clemens signed with the Skeeters of the independent Atlantic League on Monday and he is expected to start for the minor league team on Saturday at home against Bridgeport. “His fastball was clocked at 87 mph. All of his pitches were working,” said Randy Hendricks, Clemens’ agent. “He threw a three-inning simulated game after an extensive workout warm-up.”
Clemens and Skeeters manager Gary Gaetti have been talking about this “for months,” Hendricks said. Clemens is expected to discuss his decision Tuesday during a news conference in Sugar Land, about 20 miles southwest of Houston. Clemens, acquitted in June of charges he lied to Congress when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs, hasn’t played for a team since pitching for the New York Yankees in 2007 at the age of 45. He went 6-6 in 18 games with a 4.18 ERA that season. Texas Rangers pitcher Roy Oswalt, a former teammate of Clemens with the Astros, is excited about his friend’s return to baseball.
“I think he’s going to show everybody that all that stuff that he had to go through had nothing to do with the success he had in the big leagues,” Oswalt said. “He said he’s going to do it a little bit and see how his body responds. I wouldn’t be surprised next year if he’s pitching in the big leagues for somebody.” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said it is difficult to get that urge to compete out of your blood. “He’s always loved to compete,” Girardi said of Clemens. “That’s who he is. He kept coming back. There were times he felt he couldn’t quite go a full season, but he gave it as much as he had. He loved to compete.”
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Goldstein shines with pair of weekend wins UNO, Creighton prove ‘dynamic,’ but ISU outlasts By Dan.Cole @iowastatedaily.com The ISU soccer team won both of its games in Omaha this past weekend, defeating the University of NebraskaOmaha 4-0 on Friday and Creighton 1-0 on Sunday. The Cyclones (2-0) outshot the two opponents by a combined total of 42-15 during the weekend. Sunday’s victory was an exciting one for the Cyclones, as they defeated Creighton (0-01) 1-0 in overtime. ISU junior Emily Goldstein buried the game-winning goal 91 seconds into the overtime period. Goldstein is off to an impressive start for Iowa State, recording two goals and an assist through Iowa State’s first two games. She was named to the TopDrawerSoccer.com National Team of the Week on Monday.
“It was nice to see four different people score goals. It’s good for us to get a chance to see everybody play in the game setting. It’s not often you get that opportunity.” Wendy Dillinger
“Creighton is a very good team. They’re athletic, dangerous, dynamic,” said ISU coach Wendy Dillinger. “To be able to weather that storm then come out right after kickoff in overtime and score, I think, is big for us. That’s not something that we’ve done before.” Iowa State has not lost its season-opening game since 2008, a trend that continued on Friday as the team outshot Nebraska-Omaha by an 18-1 tally. Every player on the Cyclone roster saw playing time in Friday’s game, with four different players netting goals. After a somewhat slow start, ISU senior Megan Longobardi scored the first goal of the season for the Cyclones 24:27 into the match. Goldstein would follow with a goal of her own just 19 seconds later, swinging the momentum sharply in Iowa State’s favor. Junior Jennifer Dominguez and sophomore Julia Adler would both add goals of their own in the second half. “It was nice to see four different people score goals,” Dillinger said. “It’s good for us to get a chance to see everybody play in the game setting. It’s not often you get that opportunity.” Junior goalkeeper Maddie Jobe picked up the victory in both games for the Cyclones, making a total of six saves during the weekend, all of which came in Sunday’s game. Iowa State’s defense has
played well to start the season, having yet to concede a goal. Despite this weekDillinger end’s success, Dillinger knows there is always room for improvement. “There’s definitely Longobardi some things that we need to clean up a little bit this week in training,” Dillinger said. “We had chances early in the game Dominguez [Sunday] to finish. We had a couple players get in on breakaways that didn’t finish them. That’s Adler something we have to fix. We have to score goals early.” T h e Cyclones return to the pitch this Jobe weekend for the Husker Invitational in Lincoln, Neb., where they will face New Mexico on Friday and Virginia Tech on Sunday.
Goldstein named to National Team of the Week To start off her school year, ISU junior midfielder Emily Goldstein was selected for the TopDrawerSoccer.com National Team of the Week on Monday, Aug. 20. Starting in all 19 Cyclone matches during the 2011 season, Goldstein continued to succeed in her soccer career with the kickoff of a new season Friday evening. With goals in both games so far this season,
Goldstein has helped the Cyclones start the season 2-0. On Sunday, Goldstein scored the winning goal to beat Creighton in overtime 1-0. Goldstein will travel next to compete with the Cyclones at the Husker Invitational Friday against New Mexico.
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Photo: Mark Humphrey/Associated Press Tennessee Titans quarterbacks Matt Hasselbeck (8) and Jake Locker (10) talk during NFL football training camp Aug. 8 in Nashville, Tenn.
Titans pick Locker over Hasselbeck as starting QB Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans aren’t waiting any longer: Jake Locker is their starting quarterback. Titans coach Mike Munchak said Monday that Locker will start this season over veteran Matt Hasselbeck, choosing to go with the passer Tennessee hopes to build around after drafting Locker out of Washington in April 2011. Munchak announced the decision after practice, saying Locker gives the Titans their best chance to win the AFC South as their quarterback this season and hopefully for many seasons to come. “By no means has this job been given to him,” Munchak said. “He’s earned it.” The Titans (No. 21 in the AP Pro32) had let the quarterbacks compete through the offseason, with each starting a game this preseason and splitting snaps in practice. Munchak says Hasselbeck was way ahead of Locker last season, but Locker caught up and won the job with his ability to move the team and score points. “It’s really cool,” Locker said of the decision. “It’s something I’m proud of, but it’s not going to change my approach on how I practice or my preparation for a game. That will still all be the same, but it is cool to be given this opportunity.” Locker also said the competition with Hasselbeck allowed both to push each other in a positive way. “It forced you to come back and try to rebound or build on what you had done before,” Locker said. Munchak said giving Hasselbeck the news was a tough conversation. Munchak helped talk the veteran into signing a three-year deal with the Titans last July after the NFL lockout ended, and Hasselbeck turned in the fourth-best season in yards passing in franchise history. Only Hall of Famer Warren Moon had thrown
for more. Hasselbeck also helped Munchak go 9-7 in his debut season as head coach, just missing a playoff berth on a tiebreaker. Munchak said Hasselbeck was exactly what they needed with his leadership and experience. The veteran said he’s been in Locker’s shoes and knows it’s an exciting move for the young quarterback. “I had the chance to help lead a franchise and help build a program, and I had a chance to be the guy under center, and he’s got that chance right now,” Hasselbeck said. “As hard as it was, Munch made his decision, and as hard as it was for me to hear that, I’m also excited for Jake. I’ll help and support him any way I can, and I’ll be happy to do it.” Locker has the mobility Hasselbeck is lacking going into his 14th season. Combined with his toughness and strong arm, Locker started 40 games for the Huskies, throwing for 7,639 yards with 53 touchdowns and 35 interceptions. With the Titans, Locker threw for 542 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions coming off the bench in five games as a rookie. “When Jake did get a chance to play last year, he was ready to go,” Munchak said. “He played well and handled situations. He moved the team. He brought excitement and energy, and when the season ended, we thought we had something special, like we did when we drafted him.” In his NFL debut as a starter last week — a 30-7 win at Tampa Bay — Locker struggled and was intercepted on his second pass. He was just 4 of 11 for 21 yards but also ran twice for 24 yards, including a long scramble of 21 yards. It’s that mobility paired with a revived Chris Johnson that the Titans hope will rev up an offense that was next to last in rushing last season.
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Lights out for Merriman after being cut from Bills’ roster By John Wawrow AP sports writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — It’s lights out for Shawne Merriman in Buffalo after the Bills cut the one-time star pass rusher Monday. General manager Buddy Nix said the decision was based in part on the potential the Bills saw in two younger players who had been competing with Merriman for the fourth defensive end spot. “We think we’ve been patient, but it comes to a point where we felt like we needed to move on and look down the road,” Nix said shortly before the Bills returned to practice from a two-day break. “We need to look past this week. We need to look further down the road.” Though Nix wouldn’t say which two players were competing for the roster spot left open by Merriman’s release, the Bills’ latest depth chart had Robert Eddins move up into the backup position behind Mario Williams. Kyle Moore, a third-year player signed off Detroit’s practice squad last November, has also looked impressive through the first month of training camp. Nix said Merriman’s health wasn’t an issue and added he made the move now to provide the player a better chance to sign with another team. Merriman’s release was regarded as a mild surprise for a former three-time Pro Bowl selection, who described himself as being in his best shape in years after having season-
Photo: David Duprey/Associated Press Buffalo Bills’ Shawne Merriman (56) runs a drill with Cordy Glenn (77) during NFL football training camp July 26 in Pittsford, N.Y.
ending surgery in November to repair a partially torn right Achilles tendon. It’s an injury that had nagged him for much of the previous two seasons. The Bills had kept their faith in Merriman, believing the 28-year-old had an opportunity to play a key backup role on a defensive line that was revamped in free agency this offseason with an eye on pressuring quarterbacks. Buffalo signed Williams to a six-year, $100 million contract, and then landed passrushing defensive end Mark Anderson. Merriman had spent much of training camp backing up both Williams and Anderson. Merriman posted a note on his Twitter account shortly after being released, thanking the team, coaches, his teammates and fans for his time in Buffalo. Coach Chan Gailey called
Merriman expendable because the Bills have three veteran defensive ends, including Chris Kelsay, allowing the team the opportunity to develop a younger player. “He was doing a good job, but it wasn’t where we thought he needed to be as far as the other guys that were playing the position,” Gailey said. He also questioned whether Merriman was better suited to play the linebacker spot in a 3-4 defense, as opposed to trying to fit in as a defensive end after the Bills made the switch to a 4-3 this offseason. “I feel young,” Merriman said in May. “Anybody that will get a chance to watch me this year will see I’m moving around as I did when I came into the league.” Gailey credited Merriman for his perseverance in the face of injuries.
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Apple faces record stock values as new iPhone looms NEW YORK — Shares of Apple set another all-time high on Friday on growing expectations for an upcoming wave of new gadgets. Apple’s stock rose as high as $648.19, besting the previous high set in April, before closing the day just a few cents lower at $648.11. The company’s shares blew through a series of record highs in the first four months of the year but had then been in a funk since May, when Apple reported that its iPhone sales had plateaued. Apple badly missed Wall Street’s sales and profit forecasts last quarter and delivered a weak financial outlook for the current quarter. But the anticipated September launch of the new iPhone, coupled with rumors of a smaller iPad — and perpetual Apple TV whispers — have lifted the stock once again. Apple is believed to be planning an event for Sept. 12 at which it is likely to unveil its next smartphone. The new iPhone’s upgrades are expected to include 4G wireless support and a larger screen. The iPhone has become by far the largest driver of Apple’s success. In quarters that Apple launches an updated smartphone, the company has typically posted record sales and profit. Last year, after Apple launched the iPhone 4S, it had the second-most profitable quarter in U.S. corporate history. As Apple’s stock rises, it is approaching another milestone. If shares reach $663.68, Apple will become the most valuable company of all time, eclipsing the record Microsoft set in late 1999, according to Howard Silverblatt, S&P’s senior index analyst. Apple is the most valuable company in the world, but with a market capitalization of $607.5 billion, it is still shy of Microsoft’s record $618.9 billion, set Dec. 30, 1999, during the dot-com bubble. — CNN wire service
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NEW YORK — Streaming video game service OnLive laid off most of its staff and sold itself to an unnamed buyer late Friday, in what appears to be a move to keep the service from going out of business. It’s a startling turn of events for the 3-year-old OnLive, whose ideas for on-demand video game content were once viewed as a possible future blueprint for the entire industry. While OnLive did not file for bankruptcy, the wording of the company’s announcement — saying it had been acquired into “newly-formed company” and “backed by substantial funding” — indicated OnLive was struggling to stay in business as a stand-alone company. The drama surrounding OnLive started Friday afternoon with a series of blog posts saying that the company had laid off its entire staff and shut down. OnLive’s spokesman pushed back against the reports, saying, “We don’t respond to rumors, but of course not.” By the evening, though, it was clear something was afoot. IDG News reporter Martyn Williams staked out OnLive’s Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters. “In the last 20 mins have seen three people walk out of OnLive with leaving boxes,” Martyn tweeted. He later posted photos of packed-up boxes in OnLive’s parking garage. OnLive said late Friday that many of its assets have been acquired by a new owner, and that the company will transition to a “new form.” It added that the new company plans to re-hire “a large percentage” of OnLive’s laid-off staff, and that its services will continue uninterrupted for customers. But OnLive’s original vision may no longer be a fit for the fast-changing gaming field. —CNN wire service
File photo: Iowa State Daily Students receive information from the Campustown booth at the 2011 WelcomeFest in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. Each year, local businesses set up booths to attract the attention of students and then to promote their businesses out in the Ames community.
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Local businesses attract students with giveaways By Frances.Myers and Trevor.Werner @iowastatedaily.com
WelcomeFest is an event hosted by the Student Activities Center every year. It is a place where local businesses can display their services, products and employment options to the incoming students at Iowa State. This event brings together roughly 4,000 students and more than 100 businesses and departments together to welcome students to the
university and educate them on both the businesses in the Ames community and the various departments here at Iowa State. Every year at WelcomeFest businesses will do almost anything to attract students to their booth. Some businesses will feed, massage and give out free items to students. Other booths offer job opportunities and ways to get involved in an effort to recruit students to their business. Students who attend WelcomeFest will often come out of the Memorial Union carrying bags full of free stuff including but not limited to: koozies, condoms, makeup, cupcakes, junk food and
water bottles, among other things. A major feature point of WelcomeFest is the free items that students can get from the businesses that attend. When signing up for WelcomeFest, businesses are specifically told (original emphasis retained): “WelcomeFest is advertised as a FREE event to students. Selling foods/services/products at the booths is NOT allowed, but you may give away samples, employment applications, invitations or information in regards to the products/services you offer to the ISU community. Credit card solicitation is prohibited at Iowa State University,” ac-
cording to the WelcomeFest registration form available on the Student Activities Center website. In this regard, students can rest assured they are attending an event that will not be emptying their wallets but, rather, filling their bags. Businesses can request a booth on the ISU website. The cost is $150 for any business and is free to students. This event will be from 5:30 to 9 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. Parking for this event will be provided by the university in the Memorial Union parking ramp. Each business will receive one parking pass.
WelcomeFest When: 5:30 to 9 p.m. Aug. 22 What: More than 100 businesses and departments participating. Roughly 4,000 students attend each year. Last year, 109 vendors were at WelcomeFest, up from the usual number, which is usually in the lower 90s. Where: Great Hall, Memorial Union
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Portobello Road brings London flair to Welch ISU graduate prepares for opening of store with British background By Trevor.Werner @iowastatedaily.com A taste of London will soon be joining the store fronts in Campustown. Portobello Road, a business on Welch Avenue near Paddy’s, is store owner Talia Jensen’s dream come true. A 2009 graduate from Iowa State, Jensen got her degree in apparel, merchandising and design with a minor in entrepreneurial studies. “This is the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do,” Jensen said, “I wanted a job that reflected my major but still allowed me to work for myself and implement my own ideas and this was really the only way I could do it.” Jensen’s inspiration for her new business endeavor lies across the ocean at the original Portobello Road Market in London. The original Portobello Road is located in the Notting Hill district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London. The market is open to patrons throughout the week, with Saturdays being notably busy.
The market is famous for second hand clothes and antiques. In addition to that, Jensen every August it is the location for the Portobello Film Festival. Following this example, Portobello Road in Ames carries a wide variety of unique fashion and vintage merchandise as well as dorm decor. All of the clothes Jensen sells come from other companies and designers, but she also adds her own creative touch by changing minor details. “My passion is putting together displays,” Jensen said. “I’m not really interested in designing my own clothes. I get all of the clothes I sell from other designers in Atlanta, New York and Los Angeles. I just alter them slightly with dyes and bleach to add my own personal touch.” The grand opening for the store is scheduled for Saturday, with a special open-
Photo: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily Portobello Road is a new store in Campustown, featuring clothes and decor for dorms and apartments. The grand opening is Saturday.
Photo: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily Portobello Road is named after the antique market in London. Like its namesake, Portobello Road in Campustown sells vintage merchandise and unique fashion items.
ing party Friday for friends and family. The store will be open every day but Sunday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. During the
weeks leading up to the grand opening she will be passing out cards with special deals on them to people she meets. “I’m hoping the opening is
going to go great,” Jensen said, “and in the future I am hoping to incorporate some Iowa State design students to help me in my store.”
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Politics needs not climb up on its soapbox Now that we have had a full day to digest this year’s installment of the annual extravaganza that is the Iowa State Fair, including all the fried butter on a stick, it is time to examine the highlights of those 11 days. Buried within all the livestock showings, concerts, museums and contests, were a few soapbox appearances by important politicians. One of them stands out: Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney’s pick for vice presidential candidate. One polarizing figure in Washington and perceived as a contributor to the nearly unprecedented political partisanship that makes that city stand out, Ryan mounted the soapbox on Aug. 13 to stand and deliver a 12 minute speech in which he laid out the Romney campaign’s five-point plan “for a stronger middle class, to get this country back on track, get this country growing jobs again and get us back on the path of prosperity.” Unlike typical political rallies, not all the 3,000-person crowd was made up of Romney-Ryan supporters. That was apparent right from the get-go, when two women from the organization Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement disrupted Ryan by shouting and nearly jumping onstage with him before he really had a chance to say anything. At last, after months of harping on Republicans and conservatives for their partisanship in Congress, among media pundits and on the stump, there is a highly visible example of distasteful ideology from the liberal wing of American politics. Ryan was right about at least one thing when he spoke on that soapbox: The two ladies must not be from Iowa or Wisconsin. Their failure to treat him as an equal in the political world is not what politics is supposed to be. The political world is one of collaboration, not dueling adversaries. Heckling does not mean disruption; it means questioning the mob mentality that accompanies crowds, dissolving it into an assemblage of individuals. We can hold people accountable for their actions and speeches and ask hard-hitting questions, while remaining polite. If we expect decency from our politicians in their plans for programs such as Medicare and Medicaid or in tax policy, we must exercise discretion and be decent when we have the opportunity to deal with them. The times to be forceful and unpleasant are few and far between. Like Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s original opinion of pornography, we’ll “know it when we see it.” Ryan’s final words on the soapbox are a testament against partisanship in Congress and the crowd before him: “But you know what it is, at the end of the day? We are Americans.”
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File photo: Iowa State Daily Iowa citizens protest about the possibility of retaining Iowa’s Chief Justice Marsha Ternus and judges David Baker and Michael Streit in 2010. Three of seven judges were up for and lost retention that year; now 2012 brings the next judge, David Wiggins, up for a retention vote.
Judicial review is obvious Voters should remember review is not activism Editor’s note: This column is part one of a two-part series in which the author examines the power of judicial review and the relation of the judicial branch of government to the executive and legislative, in light of efforts by Republicans in 2010 and 2012 to prevent the retention of Iowa Supreme Court judges who ruled that Iowa’s law restricting marriage to heterosexual couples was in conflict with the Iowa Constitution. Look for part two of the series to publish on Aug. 28.
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s clear as crystal and without question, courts such as the Supreme Court of the United States and the Iowa Supreme Court are vested with the power to determine whether a law is constitutional and, if it is not, to strike it down. Nevertheless, with another judicial retention vote drawing near among the elections of Nov. 6, the Family Leader has launched a campaign, begun on Aug. 8, against Iowa Supreme Court Judge David Wiggins. That effort is a continuation of their campaign of 2010. The backstory, in brief, is that on April 1, 2009, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in the case Varnum v. Brien that Iowa’s definition of marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman violated equal protection guarantees in the state constitution. Conservatives such as Bob Vander Plaats saw in the case an example of judicial activism, and supporters of traditional marriage congregated at the capitol building to demand a constitutional amendment defining marriage to be between a man and a woman so they could then vote on it. While they shouted, “Let us vote!” from the rotunda, marriage equality groups such as OneIowa held dueling protests. In the next year’s elections, three of the seven judges were up for their usually nonpartisan retention votes. Groups associated with Vander Plaats and the Family Leader, such as Iowa for Freedom, ran a campaign to reject the retention of Chief Justice Marsha Ternus and judges David Baker and Michael Streit. They
By Michael.Belding @iowastatedaily.com were successful. In a move similar to that of Vander Plaats, the chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa, A.J. Spiker, issued a statement Aug. 1 encouraging Iowans to vote against Wiggins’ retention because “we must be a state based on laws and not the whims of unelected activist judges attempting to impose their personal views on the public. ... Instead of allowing the people of Iowa to decide this issue at the polls, these judges instead chose to impose their will upon the state and rewrite history without weighing the merits of our laws and values.” Aside from the fact that judges are not bureaucrats or their ruling was not arbitrary (for the love of God, read it for yourself rather than taking my or anyone else’s word for it; Iowa’s Supreme Court carefully cited case after case and constitutional provision after constitutional provision in making the ruling), such attitudes reflect either a genuine misunderstanding of constitutional principles or a rejection of the power of judicial review despite the easy accessibility of explanations from the founders of what role the judiciary should play. Formally, the power of judicial review has existed since the Marbury v. Madison decision of 1803, in which Chief Justice John Marshall wrote: “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases, must ... expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each.” Alexander Hamilton, writing with John Jay of New York and James Madison of Virginia (who is credited with writing the document) in 1787 and 1788 to support the United States constitution’s ratification, devoted six of the 85 Federalist Papers to the judiciary and explained fully its role in a constitutional system
as well as its relationship to the executive and legislative branches. Although Hamilton admitted the principles of Marshall’s Marbury ruling are not explicitly written into the Constitution, he argued that judicial review was, simply, the judiciary’s function. In Federalist 81 he wrote: “There is not a syllable in the plan which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution, or which gives them any greater latitude in this respect than may be claimed by the courts of every State. I admit, however, the Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give place to the Constitution.” The writers of the Iowa constitution upheld that conviction. Article XII, Section 1 of our state’s governing document states: “This constitution shall be the supreme law of the state, and any law inconsistent therewith, shall be void. The general assembly shall pass all laws necessary to carry this constitution into effect.” The power of judicial review, Hamilton believed, was obvious, implied in the very existence of a judicial branch: “This doctrine is not deducible from any circumstance peculiar to the plan of the convention, but from the general theory of a limited Constitution; and as far as it is true is equally applicable to most if not to all the State governments.” As citizens of the republic of the United States, they ought to know better in the face of such obvious proofs. As Republicans, members of the party of Lincoln and Roosevelt, they ought to know better than to set a precedent that would allow judges to be removed from office because a million uneducated voters thought they were legal experts. Instead, they favor electoral democracy to the rule of law. Their campaigns show they prefer court decisions ratified by the masses to opinions written by judges chosen by a professional group of lawyers after distinguishing themselves as legal scholars.
Michael Belding is a senior in history and political science from Story City, Iowa.
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Adapt laws through open-source I celand leaves no leaf unturned. Iceland rewrites and updates its constitution, open-source, through social media platforms. As your jaw retreats back to its skull, read that again. This time last year, 25 representative citizens turned in the first draft of a “crowdsourced” constitution constructed via the Internet that would become the new governing document of the nation. This was a result of the 2008 economic collapse the nation saw that sent them from towering as one of the richest nations in the world to less than empty pocketed. It was the greatest collapse any nation has suffered (relative to its size) in economic history. In 2010, Iceland decided to start “ný,” or fresh, as we might call it. Upon liberation from Denmark in 1944, Iceland adopted its constitution, a near carbon copy. The only practical alteration was that the term “king” was changed to “president.” Being progressive, Iceland decided to push the boundary of what the rest of the world might consider acceptable politics. Thus, heralding in a new age of government deliberation. Opening up to the citizens of Iceland
By Ian.Timberlake @iowastatedaily.com online government forums, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media platforms, a new constitution was assembled through suggestion and inquisition. Many thousands of people from the small nation contributed, giving their take on exactly what the new constitution would entail. The 25 citizen representatives were to analyze the information and create drafts of the constitution, presenting the drafts live, online. A literal evolution of the document took place, perpetuated by the people. The result? A perfectly compromised constitution in that it guaranteed freedom and protection of the people, maintained government balance and order and was as close to systemically pleasing as possible. I am surprised it took me two years to hear
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia The capitol building of Iceland stands in Reykjavik. The country adapted its constitution based on open-sourced input directly from its citizens. The input was collected from several social media platforms.
about this. I feel like news of this sort is acute to the 21st century and a glimpse into future global government and politics. I recently heard about it because the citizens are making a referendum this October for a number of things: abolishing the state church in favor of separation of church and state, declaring public ownership of natural resources and
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Boy Scouts, Iowa State Leath’s pay increase shows neglect for ISU and the United Way O
ur university, for a number of years, has dedicated enormous amounts of time, energy and resources annually to successfully promote and collect monetary donations for the United Way, a global organization, according to its vision and goals “envisions a world where all individuals and families achieve their human potential through education, income stability and healthy lives.” The United Way Worldwide represents itself as “the leadership and support organization for the network of nearly 1,800 community-based United Ways in 40 countries and territories.” While I find the goals of United Way extremely laudable, I also find myself torn for a number of reasons with critical questions and deep concerns over our university’s consistent support and focus on this organization. Firstly, by concentrating our charitable fundraising efforts solely or primarily on United Way, other equally deserving organizations are ultimately restricted in the donations they receive. And secondly, United Way distributes some of its donations to the Boy Scouts of America, an organization that has this year reaffirmed its long-standing policy of rejecting gay, bisexual and transgender scouts (youth members) and scouters (adult leaders). According to their past position on homosexuality: “Boy Scouts of America believes that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the obligations in the Scout Oath and Scout Law to be morally straight and clean in thought, word, and deed.” While no one is advocating same-sex sexual conduct between scouts or between scout leaders and scouts, their position statement confuses conduct with identity since the organization rejects membership also in terms of one’s identity. In addition, no atheist or agnostic need apply either since the Boy Scouts of America “Anthem” proclaims that “The Boy Scouts of America maintains that no member can grow into the best kind of citizen without recognizing an obligation to God. ... The recognition of God as the ruling and leading power in the universe and the grateful acknowledgment of His favors and blessings are necessary to the best type of citizenship and are wholesome precepts in the education of the growing members.” In June of 2010, the Chief Scout Executive and national president, Bob Mazzuca, convened a special 11-member committee to evaluate the “anti-homosexual” policy to determine wheth-
Warren J. Blumenfeld is an associate professor in the school of education.
er it was in the best interests of the organization. It concluded the policy reflects the beliefs of BSA membership. Mazzuca announced in a written statement on July 17: “The vast majority of the parents of youth we serve value their right to address issues of same-sex orientation with their family, with spiritual advisers, and at the appropriate time and in the right setting.” No one disputes parents’ and guardians’ “right to address issues of same-sex orientation with their family [and] with spiritual advisers.” Allowing gay, bisexual and transgender scouts and leaders in the organization does not infringe on parents’ and guardians’ rights and abilities to discuss issues, and I question whether BSA leadership actually undertook a scientifically valid and reliable poll of its full membership. Instead, 11 members of this “special committee” met secretly behind closed doors. The Girl Scouts of America and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America organizations, on the other hand, proudly welcome members and leaders of all sexual and gender identities. So what are the available options? I have come up with some, and I’m sure there are many more. First, our university can continue to officially fundraise for United Way as it has in the past with no changes. Second, individuals who donate to United Way can designate that their contribution cannot be given in full or in part to BSA. Third, while continuing to sponsor its official campaign, university officials as well as individuals can contact United Way in writing stating clearly that they oppose BSA’s policies and suggest that United Way sever its relationship with BSA until it reverses its discriminatory policies. Fourth, the university can rotate the charitable organization on which it will focus its campaign each year. In this way, members of the university community can gain the satisfaction that they are supporting a diverse number of worthwhile organizations. Regarding BSA, I would welcome a national response opposing its current policy in the form of a letter writing campaign, boycott of funds and for those so inclined, abandonment of the organization as scouts and as leaders until BSA joins with other youth organizations to honor and welcome diversity of the human experience and of the human spirit.
I am an educated person. I watch C-SPAN. I have seen President Steven Leath speak in hearings regarding the cost of attendance for students. I have been impressed at his desire to see students leave school with less debt. However, I must say something I read on KCCI.com has me frustrated. Leath is getting a 2 percent pay increase, after the Regents approved a 4 percent pay increase last year. Granted, he only started in January, but his current pay rate of $448,000 is kind of ridiculous. While Iowa State tries to maximize class sizes and reduce costs to the university, Leath is lapping up the riches while students are facing a decrease in the cost of attendance, as the cost of living overall increases. Does this seem preposterous to anyone but me? Students are noticing this semester that Financial Aid has adjusted the cost of attendance for all undergraduates — dependent and independent alike. This cost of attendance comes at a time when as a society we are facing inflated grocery and gas costs. To me, it would seem that if Leath wanted
>>CONSTITUTION.p2C state-provided Internet access, among other things. What we are seeing is a shift in government policy making, at least in Iceland. With the election looming, American citizens and Iowa State’s students alike would benefit from understanding the fundamental ideology Iceland has created. I am too cynical of our citizens to think open-sourcing our constitution would be remotely helpful; we already have a work of art as a constitution. However, I suggest we take the idea of opensourcing and apply it to political discourse and voting. Americans should vote not on the basis of party and/or ideology, but on policy that is best suited for the whole of the nation. For example, there is a slight yet stark difference between being Republican because you align yourself with the ideologies, and being Republican because it closest fits your own personal ideology. The open-sourced constitution of the Icelandic people removes partisanship association. You might argue partisan politics is necessary. What if I told you that we no longer live in an age where either party is ideal? If the winner of the presidential race always was the most well suited for the nation, then each presidential inauguration would come with
Tara Parrott is a senior in child, adult and family services from Grinnell, Iowa. to show his dedication to the University and ensuring that we are better able to provide to students the classes and curriculum they require to be successful, he would have suggested that the 2 percent be funneled into the cost of education. Even if the 2 percent weren’t funneled into actual equipment or the cost of hiring new lecturers, it could have been utilized to create extra grants for students. However, I think when the Board of Regents approves a salary that is more than the president of the United States makes, then perhaps it is time to look at exactly how well our schools are performing, and if perhaps some of those increases in tuition should be put into the education of students, and not put into the pockets of the upper echelon of administration. a seamless continuation or evolution of the previous president, and we don’t see that. Gridlock in decision making has made it nearly impossible to progress in policy making. Iceland’s open-sourced constitution brings the possibility to have politics (as opposed to just constitutional law) always move the nation in the direction most desirable. There would no longer be a constitution tugof-war across the aisle but rather self-perpetuating compromise between all citizens. Voting for a party comes with a catalog of presuppositions, some of which I might be in favor of and others I might not be, leaving me with a vote toward the lesser of two evils. I say we become an open-source society. Leave the constitution be, but allow the citizens of America to debate and “write” future laws into official government practice. Not simply voting but actual law writing, without the need to lobby and/or strongarm. Oxford psychologist Susan Blackmore has said we are no longer gene machines, but in fact “meme-machines.” Just as in genetics, the most adaptive society is the most successful society.
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