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Police leaders swap posts

Cmdr. Jim Robinson took over the position of now-retired, former investigations Cmdr. Mike Brennan. Other officers within the Ames Police Department will also shift positions as part of the department’s two-year rotation system. Photo: Whitney Sager/Iowa State Daily

By Kaitlin.York iowastatedaily.com The Ames Police Department created a rotation system between the administration in 2002. This was made to ensure equality and give the opportunity for each member to learn the different aspects of the department.

Every two years, the patrol

commander and investigations commander would rotate along with the lieutenants and sergeants.

Mike Brennan, former investigations commander, retired Jan. 7 after 30 years of working in the Ames Police Department.

“This year was a big year for rotations,” said Jim Robinson, investigations commander for Ames Police Department, “with Mike

By Thane.Himes iowastatedaily.com The Blue Sky Taskforce report available now is exactly what the taskforce turned in to him Dec. 1, Michael Whiteford, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, confirmed Thursday.

“Before the break, there were two meetings. At the first meeting, Dr. Chitra Rajan, chair of the Blue Sky Taskforce [and associate vice president for research and economic development], Whiteford discussed the report with the chair[persons] of the social science, humanities and communications areas of the college, along with my three associate deans and my fiscal officer. We looked at the report as a working document, and we discussed requesting the taskforce consider making some changes,” Whiteford said. “In the end, we felt we should accept the report as

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Ames Police Officer Geoff Huff speaks about his experience with retired commander of the Ames Police Department Mike Brennan at Brennan’s retirement reception on Friday, Jan. 7 at Ames City Hall. Friday was Brennan’s last day working for the department after 30 years of service.

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Mike Brennan, retired commander of the Ames Police Department, talks with Ames Mayor Ann Campbell at Brennan’s retirement reception on Friday, Jan. 7 at Ames City Hall. Friday was Brennan’s last day working for the department after 30 years of service. Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily

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Brennan retiring, this made a new position available for a lieutenant to be promoted.”

Along with a commander position becoming available, it also left open a lieutenant, sergeant and officer position. A series of evaluations were held before Geoff Huff was the chosen one for the promotion to patrol commander.

For the next two years, Robinson will be the investigations commander for the Ames

Police Department. Growing up in the Cedar Falls/Waterloo area, Robinson has worked in law enforcement since he was 21.

Robinson worked for the military police upon being hired in Ames.

“I’ve worked with Mike for several years and it was great; we worked well together. Now it is time to get Huff in and continue to have a well working team together,” Robinson said.

Dining

In-house chefs cater to greeks

Veterinary business sale OK’d

By Paige.Godden iowastatedaily.com The Board of Regents approved a request from Iowa State to purchase real estate and business assets of Iowa Veterinary Specialties, located in Des Moines.

“The purchase will allow the College of Veterinary Medicine to enhance and regain its academic premise in the United States,” said John Thomson, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine. “Being able to have a visible opportunity to serve the main metropolitan area in the state of Iowa ... gives our students and our faculty a chance to change veterinary care through real life training.”

Warren Madden, vice president for business and finance, said the acquisition cost about $4.5 million.

“Wells Fargo is willing to finance the building and real estate portion [$1.5 million] through a 10-year loan that would be paid for by the revenue of the operation of the facility,” Madden said.

The remaining $3.01 million will be paid for using a 1993 trust, which was the proceeds

By Karen.Jennings iowastatedaily.com ISU fraternities and sororities feed hundreds of hungry members on a daily basis. To do this massive task, many use Greek House Chefs Inc., a local company that caters to greek students and provides 24-hour access to salad bars, snack bars, milk and juice machines.

The chefs are professionally trained, and most went to culinary school, said Corey Hansen, chef and owner of Greek House Chefs Inc. Hansen has chefs who have served in the military, and even one who has cooked at the White House.

Greek House Chefs Inc. serves six fraternities and two sororities at Iowa State. The company also does special events such as dinners, parents’ weekend, founders day and tailgate events for the houses.

Durin the summer, The company also does full-service catering.

“We serve anywhere from 20 people a day at one house to 100 a day at another,” Hansen said.

Iowa State has 13 sororities and 27 fraternities in total. Those that do not use Greek House Chefs Inc., hire other chefs, cooks and restaurants or are catered by companies such as HyVee, said Jennifer Plagman-Galvin, assistant dean of students and director of Greek Affairs.

Hansen mainly works at the Gamma Phi Beta sorority. He has been working with the sorority for three years of the 16 that he’s worked as a chef.

“I like the food here, it’s more home cooked meals and fresh,” said Gina Gore, junior in community and regional planning and a member of Gamma Phi Beta.

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dents in fraternities and sororities, which saves them from having to cook themselves or get food from campus.

“I came to Iowa State in 2007, and saw the need for the service,” Hansen said. “There was one large, nationally-owned company doing a small amount of business on campus. I knew I could provide better service at a lower cost, so

Beautifying Campustown and organizing a task force to maintain its cleanliness was one of the main topics discussed by the Student Affairs Commission at its meeting Thursday.

“Something has to be done,” said Tim Gleason, Campustown business representative.

Gleason suggested creating a task force that would potentially include the Government of the Student Body, the Campustown Student Association and ISU faculty. He hoped that Campustown could tie in with the “Keep Iowa State Beautiful” campaign.

Complaints from Campustown business owners and students have included the trash,

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Members of Gamma Phi Beta fill their plates while going through the buffet line Tuesday night. The more than 60 women of the house enjoy meals that are prepared by a house chef. Meals are served two times a day, Monday through Friday, and at noon Fridays. Photo: Whitney Sager/Iowa State Daily

There are about 55 women in Gamma Phi Beta. Their favorite meal for lunch is chili, for dinner there is not a favorite meal because Hansen cooks everything, Gore said. “[Fraternities and sororities] set their budget for us, based on what they can afford,” Hansen said. “A typical fraternity of 65 to 75 men usually spends approximately $1,800 a week on food, including snacks, milk, juice, etc.”

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CAMPUS: Studying in Sloss House sun room Lisa Donaldson, senior in psychology, and Sara Letsch, senior in biology, study during their lunch hour Thursday in the sun room of the newly remodeled Sloss House. Photo: Abby Barefoot/Iowa State Daily

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FRIDAY

Dance Social When: 7:30 to 9:45 p.m.

What: Free dance social hosted by the ISU Ballroom Dance Club.

Singles welcome.

Dress is casual, but indoor shoes or socks must be worn in the studio.

Where: 196 Forker

Men’s Hockey When: 7:30 p.m.

What: Iowa State vs. University of Illinois Where: Ames/ISU Ice Arena

SATURDAY

SATURDAY

Men’s Basketball When: 5 p.m.

What: Iowa State vs. Baylor Where: Hilton Coliseum

Men’s Hockey When: 8 p.m.

What: Iowa State vs. University of Illinois Where: Ames/ISU Ice Arena

SUNDAY

SUNDAY

Argentine Tango When: 4 to 7 p.m.

What: Multi-level class with lots of time to enjoy the music and dance.

Where: Workspace

SUB Film: The Town When: 7 p.m.

What: Ben Affleck leads a troop of Boston thieves.

Where: Great Hall, Memorial Union

Sting reveals secret to happy marriage

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Buck Bowling When: Noon to 10 p.m.

What: $1 bowling, $ 1 shoes, and $1 soda.

Where: Underground, Memorial Union

Ames, ISU Police Departments

Dec. 24

(reported at 4:30 p.m.)

Kelli Barrett, 19, 1701 Pierce Court, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 1:18 a.m.)

Ciara Manuel-Green, 18, 126 S. Second St., was arrested and charged with interference with official acts, simple, and serious assault on a peace officer. (reported at 1:25 a.m.)

Rodney Taylor, 45, no address, was arrested and charged with driving while barred, driving under suspension, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and tampering with, or circumventing, an ignition interlock device. (reported at 1:46 a.m.)

Megan Umland, 26, of Nevada, was arrested and charged with driving under suspension, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. (reported at 1:46 a.m.)

Kyoung Cho, 31, 422 Stonehaven Drive unit 13, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 2:02 a.m.)

Hyun Na, 34, 422 Stonehaven Drive unit 15, was arrested and charged with public consumption. (reported at 2:02 a.m.)

Officers responded to a fire in a compost building. (reported at 4:44 a.m.)

Dustin Tapp, 24, 4136 Toronto St., was arrested and charged with driving under suspension.

He was subsequently released on citation. (reported at 7:13 a.m.)

Steven Dingman, 28, of Cambridge, was arrested and charged with probation violation. (reported at 5:30 p.m.)

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Tim McGraw learned to text when he was drinking heavily — he knew if he called his wife, Faith Hill, she would know he’d been indulging. But then even text messaging got him in trouble.

“I started slurring my texts and I figured, ‘Hell, I’ve got to quit drinking,’” he told On The Red Carpet. “That’s the only thing that’s going to work.”

McGraw, who has three daughters with Hill, gave up alcohol in 2008.

“Faith has kept me alive,” McGraw told PEOPLE.com. He said if it weren’t for his wife, “I’d be dead. I would have partied too hard ... she’s saved my life in a lot of different ways — from myself more than anything. She’s loved me through times when I didn’t love me.”

McGraw has been making the media rounds promoting his new movie “Country Strong,” which is in theaters now.

Michael Reger, 28, 2911 Cypress Circle, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated (second offense). (reported at 2:18 a.m.)

Dec. 27 Ronald Bayes, 52, of Boone, was arrested and charged with carrying a concealed weapon. (reported at 12:10 a.m.)

Laricia Brisbon, 39, 126 Welch Ave. unit 303, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated and driving under suspension. (reported at 1:14 a.m.)

Michael Stoecker, 22, 421 Hilltop Road, was arrested and charged with three counts of willful FTA. (reported at 1:45 p.m.)

Cody Hibbs, 22, 3708 Jewel Drive, was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver. (reported at 4:30 p.m.)

Maximilian Young, 25, 630 Garrnet Drive, was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.

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.

A vehicle was towed after an officer determined it was not registered or insured. (reported at 12:34 a.m.)

Shauntelle Johnson, 19, of Adel, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated. (reported at 2:52 a.m.)

Kelly Good, 33, 117 E. Seventh St., was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 4:30 a.m.)

Taylor Webber, 20, 3709 Tripp St. unit 211, was arrested and charged with third-degree theft. (reported at 9 a.m.)

Eric Donald, 23, 225 S. Fifth St. unit 1, was arrested and charged with fifth-degree criminal mischief and violation of protective order. (reported at 2 p.m.)

John Wernau, 18, 254 Village Drive, was arrested and charged with second-degree theft. (reported at 2 p.m.)

Lowery Honore, 24, 3811 Tripp St., was arrested and charged with driving under suspension. (reported at 5:30 p.m.)

Kayla Haas, 31, of Story City, was arrested on a warrant held by the Story County Sheriff’s Office. (reported at 6:12 p.m.)

Leroy Daniel, 40, 1504 Burnett St., was arrested and charged with third-degree theft. (reported at 7 p.m.)

Ross Davis, 19, 416 Billy Sunday Road unit 101, was arrested and charged with willful FTA. (reported at 9:30 p.m.)

Dec. 30 Phoebe Halladay, 24, 3014 West St. unit 2, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated. (reported at 1:02 a.m.)

Michael Munoz, 30, 5615 W. Lincoln Way unit 40, was arrested and charged with driving under suspension. (reported at 5:20 p.m.)

Francis Brewer, 25, 617 12th St., was arrested and charged with violation of protective order. (reported at 7:27 p.m.)

Derek Arnold, 21, 125 Campus Ave. unit 125, was arrested and charged with public intoxication (second offense). (reported at 11:42 p.m.)

Dec. 31 Ahmet Unsal, 21, 301 S. Fourth St., was arrested and charged with driving under suspension.

He was subsequently released on citation. (reported at 2:25 a.m.)

Aaron Edelman, 21, 1108 S. Fourth St., was arrested on a warrant held by the Story County Sheriff’s Office; he was additionally referred to DOT officials for an implied consent proceeding. (reported at 4:04 a.m.)

Katie Huddleson, 19, of Cambridge, was arrested on a warrant held by the Story County Sheriff’s Office. (reported at 4:04 a.m.)

Kiera Woolson, 25, 4719 Mortensen Road unit 204, was arrested and charged with simple assault. (reported at 4 p.m.)

Michael Hrabak, 41, 319 Eighth St., was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated. (reported at 6:12 p.m.)

Lauren Vandewall, 19, of Ankeny, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated. (reported at 11:52 p.m.)

Jan. 1 Kyle Norland, 23, of Dubuque, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 12:22 a.m.)

Carlos Kotlarz, 21, 215 Stanton Ave., was arrested and charged with public intoxication (third offense). (reported at 3:35 a.m.)

A vehicle that left the scene struck a car owned by Raymond Gruis. (reported at 1:46 p.m.)

Officers assisted staff with a broken water pipe. (reported at 3:17 p.m.)

Martin Soens, 54, 225 S. Kellogg Ave., was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. (reported at 7 p.m.)

Jan. 2 Allyssa Doran, 22, of Madrid, was arrested and charged with public consumption and possession of a controlled substance. (reported at 12:43 a.m.)

Helena Jones, 34, of Jewell, was arrested and charged with drug paraphernalia, operating while intoxicated and possession of a controlled substance. (reported at 2:23 a.m.)

Alec Johnson, 18, 3807 Welbeck Drive, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated and possession of drug paraphernalia. (reported at 3:54 a.m.)

Ashley Kinna, 20, 803 Furhman Drive, was arrested and charged with driving while barred. (reported at 5:30 p.m.)

Jan. 3 Sergio Saldana, 48, of Story City, was arrested and charged with driving under suspension.

He was also cited for an improper brake lamp and failure to install an ignition interlock device. He was subsequently released on citation. (reported at 1:02 a.m.)

An officer on patrol found a debit card, a cell phone and a phone charger in a parking lot.

The items were placed into secured storage until the owner can be contacted. (reported at 3:48 a.m.)

They’ve been together almost 30 years, but the spark still hasn’t gone out of Sting’s relationship with Trudie Styler.

The secret to their still-sizzling love affair? Tawdry sex, he tells February’s Harper’s Bazaar.

“Relationships aren’t easy, and I don’t think they’re particularly natural, but we’re lucky because we actually like each other,” said 59-year-old Sting, who wed Styler in 1992. “We love each other — that’s a given — but Trudie lights my world up when she comes into a room. I don’t take her for granted.”

Styler, 57, adds that communication is key in keeping things on track. “It’s important to have frank discussions about what the other wants. To be in a relationship that is like a little lifetime, that’s a challenge,” she admits.

While their careers keep them busy and sometimes separate from each other, the pair make up for lost time when they reunite.

“Being apart juices the relationship,” Sting said. “I don’t think pedestrian sex is very interesting. There’s a playfulness we have; I like the theater of sex.

I like to look good. I like her to dress up. I like to dress her up.”

Lady Gaga could earn more than $100 million in 2011 Lady Gaga might show up wearing filet mignon at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards — the 24-year-old singer is expected to make more than $100 million.

Forbes reports that Gaga is poised to be the top-earning music act of 2011, thanks to her new CD, touring, merchandising and endorsements.

The New York native will play 41 shows over the next six months, taking in an estimated $33 million, or about $800,000 per show.

Her new record, “Born This Way,” drops in June, and if past sales are any indication, it should rake in $10 to $15 million. Since Gaga also writes her own songs, she’ll likely get an additional $10 to $15 million in royalties from radio play.

With the release of “Born This Way,” Gaga may launch a larger, stadium tour in the second half of the year. That means an additional $45 million.

The savvy businesswoman also promotes a whole range of products, including Polaroid video sunglasses, Virgin Mobile phones and Beats by Dre headphones. The endorsements should get her another $5 to $10 million.

As Forbes sums it up, that’s $80-$90 million for touring and merchandise, $20-$30 million for album and radio play, and $5-$10 million for endorsements; which means Gaga could make between $100 to $130 million this year.

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Professor studies polymers Professor Research aims to reduce usage of petroleum

By Elisse.Lorenc iowastatedaily.com With petroleum becoming more of a scarce and expensive resource, two ISU professors have collaborated in developing self-healing polymers, a material that repairs cracks in plastics, ideally bio-plastics.

Initially Michael Kessler, associate professor of materials science and engineering, worked with implementing self-healing polymers into non-renewable plastics, primarily made from petroleum-based materials.

Five years ago, when he arrived at Iowa State, Kessler collaborated with Richard Larock, professor of chemistry, with the idea of implementing the healing agent into bio-renewable plastics.

“I started to collaborate with Larock to develop these vegetable oil polymers, and so the crux of this research project is to take that self-healing functionality which has been demonstrated in epoxy-based polymers into some of these vegetable-based polymers,” Kessler said.

There’s a lot of interest in the project now because of the increase in petroleum prices, Larock said.

“All these bio-based materials are much more economical, and when we start to run out of petroleum, there’s going to be much more available because they are a renewable source,” Larock said. “The problem is binding properties that will replace current petroleum-based plastics and give you all the same properties that everyone’s used to.”

The polymers function as a healing agent. When the plastic breaks, microcapsules stored inside the plastic release chemicals that fill in the crack and essentially repair the damage.

“One of the big problems with [plastic] breaking is fatigue micro-cracking or delamination, where you get small, little cracks that are inside the polymer, which you don’t see right away,” said Peter Hondred, graduate in material sciences and engineering. “Those can form randomly depending on impact or repetitious uses, and those micro-cracks are really what start the actual rupture in a damaged material.

“The idea is to come up with a way to heal those little cracks inside the polymer before they

start a problem, and the selfhealing work involves embedded components inside the polymer.”

The bio-based materials are competitive on a cost basis, Kessler said.

“The price of the vegetable oil-based polymers is attractive from that standpoint, Kessler said. “Traditional polymers are made from petroleum feedstock, and since petroleum is something that is not a renewable resource, being able to develop materials from other sources is important from an economic and national security perspective. Eventually we’ll have to have alternatives.”

The team also intends to create the healing agent from biorenewable materials. Kessler and Hondred are currently working with the properties of tung oil, an oil found in plants from east Asia.

“Right now, we’ve found a liquid oil that we’re interested in polymerizing, turning it into a solid plastic, that would be potentially a good candidate on the inside of the material and that’s the tung oil,” Hondred said.

“We’re looking at taking that reaction and slowing it down. The problem right now is that it reacts so fast for the catalyst that it takes fractions of a second. You

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Since I am local and on campus daily, I feel I can provide the dayto-day, on site management that the larger companies could not.”

As Hansen and the chefs make sure sororities and fraternities get the right nutrition, Hansen is also appreciative of his environment and the women of the house he works at.

“I love the kitchen they provide me, the board of directors are very accommodating, the women in the house are nice and respectful and I have the summers off,” Hansen said.

The work that Hansen does doesn’t go unnoticed by the students he serves.

Members of both sororities and fraternities have their own favorite meals, but there is definitely a difference in their favorite meals.

“Everyone in [Pi Kappa Alpha] is a fan of spicy chicken sandwiches and fries,” said Brandon Maske, junior in marketing and management and member of Pi Kappa Alpha. “I am also a big fan of steak dinners we have Monday nights at the formal dinners with the chapter.”

Pi Kappa Alpha, hired its own cook and gets along with her well, Maske said.

“She is great and very social when she is here,” Maske said.

“She always helps out around the house, and is great to talk to.”

Sororities and fraternities are big houses with many responsibilities. When the house has a crowded night, chefs like Hansen are put to work.

“On Monday nights, more girls come over so it’s at least 70 [that are being served],” Gore

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When it comes to chefs, sororities are a little more lenient because most houses aren’t as big as fraternities.

Greek House Chefs Inc. caters to its houses based on what the sororities and fraternities can and cannot eat.

It caters services to people with allergies, vegetarians, etc., Hansen said.

To avoid any allergic reactions happening to anyone in the house, chefs keep in mind the fact that people in the house have their own preferences.

“Last night he made chicken pot pie and he knows there’s a girl in the house who is lactose intolerant so he made a separate plate for her and left her name on it,” Gore said.

The chefs provide wholebalanced meals, taking out the whole-processed foods and incorporating fresh fruits, vegetables, dairy and grains with each meal, Hansen said.

Chefs adjust their cooking to benefit the sororities and fraternities that they serve.

“All of our recipes comes from our experiences,” Hansen

said. “Most of the cooking is 95 percent from scratch. We have a lot of stable recipes that we use.

About 80 percent of our menu items are just off the top of our head.”

Greek chefs are open to a broad assortment of food.

“It is always a variety,” Hansen said. “You’ll never see the same menu again.”

Chefs and cooks are a lot cheaper than a meal plan with ISU Dining, Maske said.

“You know what is going in your food and it’s not what you pick everyday,” he said. “It’s about nutrition and it goes for a healthy diet.”

Greek House Chefs Inc. make recipes based on requests.

The chefs get to know the students’ preferences.

“We had a student bring in their grandmother’s meatloaf recipe and we made it for her and the rest of the house one evening for dinner,” Hansen said.

To provide students with the best food possible, chefs maintain a cooking style that reflects their personal specialties and that fits the houses that they cook for.

“All of our chefs have specialties and unique recipes,” Hansen said. “I have one chef that can put a fresh, delicious Asian twist on almost all of his menus. Another chef is a fantastic southern chef.

I think they all have a signature style, and that is how we decide which house suits each chef.”

While the chefs who cater to the various students on campus differ depending on where students live and what services they choose to pay for, one fact remains the same: All chefs cater to students and aim to provide them with the healthiest meals possible.

would continue to be operating as a separate facility using ISU equities, which hasn’t had any business since WOI. “We will restructure this or-

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A five person board will oversee the operations of the clinic

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put the catalyst in, it immediately starts to polymerize, and we want to make sure this liquid fills into the entire crack.”

What jump-started Kessler’s project was a career proposal from the National Science Foundation, supporting the professor with a $400,000 grant, Kessler began working with Larock and Hondred.

“The concept of self-healing materials was something that really attracted me early on in the field of material sciences.

For example, if you are injured, if you have a cut, then there’s a healing process that takes place at the site of injury, and trying to take that idea into synthetic polymers and synthetic materials was very intriguing to me,’ Kessler said.

With what progress has been accomplished with the polymers, Kessler and Hondred wish to find ways to improve the strength and adhesion of the healing agent. Hondred stresses the idea of preventing any repetition of micro-cracking within the plastic.

One thing you still have to worry is even though you have a polymer that fills in there well, if it doesn’t adhere to the crack surface on the inside, then you just get de-lamination and you have the problem all over again.”

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By Ben.Theobald iowastatedaily.com Brian Mennecke, associate professor of supply chain and information systems, predicts technological trends will have an impact on business in the new year.

Employment was one of the points Mennecke discussed on how business is expected to be affected by technological trends.

“One of the technologies that was talked about that relates to employment is what we’ve seen for almost a decade in the ability of people to communicate with others through things like video conferencing and email,” Mennecke said. “Organizations can very effectively manage teams of people that are not collocated.

They’re often referred to as virtual teams, meaning bringing somebody to work for a company is no longer required.”

The technological trends make it more convenient for the company financially.

“We don’t have to worry about moving someone and paying for their moving expenses,” Mennecke said.

“We’re going to see more contract-based work where people work more in sort of a spot market fashion, the idea being that if you look at why we tend to take employment longer term with a firm is often because of the fact that the transaction cost associated with an employee’s perspective.”

The trends also change the requirements employees need to bring to work for an organization.

“The skill sets have been changed,” said Anthony Townsend, associate professor of supply chain and information systems. “Students will need to bring more skills sets, meaning there will be more double majors.

Students will need to demonstrate that they have those technological skills to show their area of specialization.”

Another aspect Mennecke discussed was contextaware devices and their issues.

“It was predicted in 2003 that there would be the ability to feed people content based on where they are,” Mennecke said. “The issue there though is, with that context ... what people are traditionally missing is that they tend to push content to a massive group of people, which can be a hit or miss proposition.”

The service can also monitor its customers’ actions as well as their location.

“You can identify where people are at, infer what they are doing, perhaps identify who they’re with and tie that to the location of other things around them,” Mennecke said. “This is referred to as location-based services.”

Products and services will be advertised based on past choices that person made.

“Advertisements for a product will be based on behavior,” said Kevin Scheibe, associate professor of supply chain and information systems.

“The really interesting stuff comes into play when you start looking at people who are going to be encouraged to participate in these systems,” Mennecke said, “and that’s not just going to be spam from a local retailer, but tie that in with social media and peer-to-peer sorts of arrangements where people are going to want to participate.”

The context awareness gives marketers the chance to upgrade its service to customers, but at the same time brings up concerns on privacy: How much private information are we willing to give for a service?

“We’re often willing to sacrifice our privacy if we’re getting something out of it,” Mennecke said. “These technologies are really going to enable that.”

The services are convenient enough that customers are willing to risk their private information just to obtain them.

“People are willing to do that because they get something out of it,” Mennecke said.

With an increase of these purchasing services, it doesn’t seem – in the near future – that people will stop risking privacy for their services.

“In this Internet generation, we’re comfortable with a lower level of privacy,” Scheibe said.

These practices are nothing new when it comes to people making risks with every buy they make.

“When you use a credit card, credit card companies see that and sell that information to companies of products you have been purchasing,” Scheibe said. “You don’t own that transaction information.”

With these technological trends, organization now seems to play a larger role in a person’s life.

“There is going to be more of an interaction between organizations and individuals,” Mennecke said. “Most of the time, you’re going to opt in by just turning on your cell phone because you’re already interacting with a firm.”

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Arizona shooting

FBI analyze bag thought to be Loughner’s

By Ross Levitt and Susan Candiotti CNN Wire Service TUCSON, Ariz. — A bag that contained ammunition and is believed to belong to Arizona shooting suspect Jared Loughner has been transferred to FBI custody for analysis, said Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jason Ogan.

Police say Loughner’s father, Randy, recalled that his son was carrying a black bag the morning of the shooting that left six people dead and another 13 wounded.

Police found ammunition in the bag, which was the subject of an argument with his father just hours before the attack, said Pima County Sheriff’s Department Capt. Chris Nanos.

The bag was found when a teenager walking his dog spotted it in a dry river bed near where Loughner’s family lives on Thursday morning, Nanos said.

The teen then turned it over to a neighbor,

who called police.

“We certainly believe this is the bag,” Nanos said.

On Wednesday, Richard Kastigar, bureau chief for the sheriff’s department, said Loughner was carrying the bag early Saturday when he had a brief discussion with his father in the Loughners’ front yard.

“The father asked him questions similar to ‘What are you doing? What is that?’ and Jared mumbled something back to his dad, and his dad said he didn’t understand what was said,” Kastigar said. “It was unintelligible, and then Jared left.”

The elder Loughner got in his vehicle and tried to follow his son, but could not find him, he said.

The bag will be tested for DNA, fingerprints, hair — anything that might link it to Loughner.

Investigators also likely will show it to Randy Loughner to see if he recognizes it, Nanos said.

Several boxes of ammunition and receipts

A candle-lit memorial burns brightly outside the University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz., on Sunday morning. Inside, 10 of the 18 victims from Saturday’s shooting rampage at a shopping center were being treated, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Photo: CNN Wire Service

were found in the bag, a law enforcement source said Thursday.

The source did not say where the receipts were from, but a law enforcement source has said previously Loughner purchased ammunition at a Walmart store.

Investigators believe Loughner spent the night at a Motel 6 the evening before the shooting, Nanos said.

Authorities would not say how they discovered that information, but say they recovered a

credit card from Loughner after the shooting.

The processing of the crime scene was complete Thursday morning, authorities said, and cleanup efforts were under way before the shopping center reopened to the public.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, whom police said was the target of the shooting, remains in critical condition, but her doctors have been pleased with her progress.

CNN’s Bill Mears and Paul Vercammen contributed to this report.

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Australia battles record floods

By Hilary Whiteman CNN Wire Service

BRISBANE, Australia — Emergency services and Australian military personnel stepped up the search Friday for dozens of people still missing in Queensland as authorities and residents tried to assess the damage caused by the state’s worst flooding in decades.

Floodwaters that carved a muddy trail of destruction through Brisbane, the state capital, have started to recede, but officials warn the cleanup will take months.

More than 20,000 homes were inundated after the normally subdued Brisbane River turned into a raging torrent as weeks of rain pushed it to more than 13 feet at high tide early Thursday.

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh fought back tears as she described the damage inflicted by the state’s “worst natural disaster in our history.”

The death toll rose to 15 on Thursday, officials said, as about 200 people, including Australian Defence Forces,

Special Emergency Services and police, searched vast tracts of land and swollen waters for the 55 people still considered missing.

The search was concentrated to the west of Brisbane, near Toowoomba, which was all but submerged when a wall of water tore through the town on Monday.

“There has to be an expectation of further deaths and further bodies. ... We have to steel ourselves for that terrible outcome,” said Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith.

Residents in Brisbane were being urged not to enter floodwater because of the risk of illness after sewage plants along the river were inundated.

Sightseers were warned to stay clear of the Brisbane River or risk hampering emergency service operations.

Aerial views of Brisbane showed islands of roofs and treetops jutting from a sea of muddy brown water — or stranded high-rises jutting starkly from murky river overflow.

The Brisbane River, which

Flooding continues to affect many areas around Brisbane, Australia. Photo: CNN Wire Service

slices through the city, peaked Wednesday at more than 15 feet, about 3 feet below initial predictions and below the level set by the last major flood in 1974.

Officials had predicted a crest at 17.1 feet.

Bligh said 11,900 homes in Brisbane were fully flooded and 14,700 were partially flooded.

In addition, about 2,500 businesses were fully inundated and 2,500 more were partially inundated, she said.

Bligh said the damage is severe enough that many of the structures will never again be habitable.

“There’s a lot of heartache and grief as people start to see, for the first time, what has happened to their homes and their streets,” Bligh told ABC News 24. “In some cases, we have street after street where every home has been inundated to the roof level.”

CNN’s John Raedler contributed to this report.

submerged roads. One family sat perched on the roof of their house, their predicament broadcast on television.

With more rain in the forecast, authorities have ordered evacuations for at least 5,000 families living in especially perilous areas, Agencia Brasil said.

Another 3,000 families from a mountainous region were homeless and sheltered in schools and gymnasiums, the news agency said.

“The most important thing right now is to assist the homeless population and reach the most critical points,” said Rodrigo Neves, the state secretary of Social Welfare and Human Rights.

State health officials pleaded for people to donate blood that will be sent to the Serrana region, where only 36 units of blood were available.

The death toll near Rio climbed Thursday to 483, with 214 in Nova Friburgo; 210 in Teresopolis; 40 in Petropolis, according to Civil Defense numbers. Another 19 deaths occurred in Sumidouro, according to Agencia Brasil.

In Teresopolis, schools and police stations served as morgues where people waited to identify their family and friends.

Mayor Jorge Mario Sedlacek declared his city a natural disaster area.

In neighboring Sao Paulo, at least 24

people died as rain continued to batter the area, authorities said.

Aline Silva told Agencia Brasil that she and her three children narrowly escaped a landslide in Rio de Janeiro’s Feu district.

She said they heard a thud, and then ran out with a few vital documents and the clothes on their back. They lost everything else.

Rescue operations by ground and air continued Thursday but collapsed roads and bridges made it difficult for rescuers to reach some areas.

Sao Jose dos Campos, about 62 miles from the heavily populated city of Sao Paulo, has been hardest hit by the flooding in that state, a Sao Paulo fire official said.

Freiburg was without electricity, water and gas and most businesses remained shuttered Thursday.

The weather also caused delays and cancellations of flights at airports, Agencia Brazil said.

The deluge in this part of Brazil began with the new year and rain is predicted to continue until the end of the week. On Tuesday alone, about 8 inches of rain fell in the affected areas.

Luciani Gomes, Fabiana Frayssinet and Helena DeMoura contributed to this report.

By CNN Wire Staff

Airport terror plot

Plea results in 15 year sentence According to court documents, Nur attempted to locate al-Qaida explosives expert Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah, and introduced the other plotters to Yasin Abu Bakr, leader of Jamaat Al Muslimeen, a group that had engaged in terrorist attacks aimed at overthrowing the government of Trinidad.

The men were charged in 2007 with conspiracy to attack a public transportation system, conspiracy to destroy a building with fire and explosives, conspiracy to attack aircraft and aircraft materials, conspiracy to destroy an international airport and conspiracy to attack a mass transportation facility.

Kadir also was charged with surveillance of a transportation facility.

DeFreitas was a cargo worker at JFK. Kadir had served as a member of Guyana’s parliament.

In the trial of Kadir and DeFreitas, prosecutors said the men tapped into an inter-

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A criminal complaint accused the men of obtaining satellite photos of the airport and using DeFreitas to conduct surveillance.

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DeFreitas described the symbolic importance of targeting JFK, the complaint said.

“Anytime you hit Kennedy, it is the most hurtful thing to the United States,” the complaint quoted him as saying. “If you hit that, this whole country will be in mourning. It’s like you kill the man twice.”

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revoked a permit for one of the nation’s largest mountaintop removal mining projects Thursday, saying it would destroy water, wildlife and Appalachian communities in West Virginia.

The controversial decision was condemned by the permit holder, Arch Coal Inc., and mining representatives, who said it would hurt industry investment and the economic recovery.

But adversaries praised the ruling as “a major victory” for environmentalists opposed to surface — or mountaintop-removal — mining, which uses dynamite on hilltops to expose underlying coal.

The EPA invoked the Clean Water Act in killing a permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the Spruce No. 1 Mine project, proposed for a more than 2,200 acre area in Logan County, W.Va. The agency has used that authority only 12 times since 1972.

Coal industry representatives suggested politics was behind the ruling. Regulators under Republican President George Bush, viewed as friendly to the coal industry, approved the permit, but agencies under Democratic President Barack Obama’s administration moved to veto it, prompting lawsuits.

One industry leader called the ruling “unprecedented.”

The Sierra Club called it a “historic step” in dealing with “this mother of all mountaintop removal coal mines.”

A West Virginia mining historian, who opposes another hilltop mining project at a state historic site, said the decision could merely force the industry to deploy the more costly method of traditional shaft mining, instead of the cheaper mountaintop-removal technique.

Despite industry objections, the EPA insisted “coal and coal mining are part of our nation’s energy future,” one official said in a statement Thursday.

St. Louis-based Arch Coal Inc. described the ruling as “chilling” to the industry and contended that the project would have infused the local economy with $250 million and 250 “well-paying” jobs.

“We believe this decision will have a chilling effect on future U.S. investment because every business possessing or requiring a permit under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act will fear similar overreaching by the EPA,” said Arch Coal spokeswoman Kim Link in a statement.

“We remain shocked and dismayed at EPA’s continued onslaught with respect to this validly issued permit,” Link said.

Arch will “vigorously” defend the permit, now in court, and assert its right to have a predictable regulatory environment, Link said.

In response, the EPA said that 100,000 projects are approved by the corps every year, translating to millions of permits during the 39 years of the Clean Water Act. The EPA has only twice revoked a permit under the section cited by the coal firm and added in its statement that the large scale and nature of the Arch permit are issues “unlikely to be repeated for other permitted Appalachian surface coal mining projects.”

“Despite EPA’s willingness to consider alternatives, the company did not offer any new proposed mining configurations in response to EPA’s concerns based on science and the law,” the agency statement said. “We don’t think people in West Virginia have to make the false choice between healthy waters and a healthy economy. They can have both.”

The plaintiff who began the fight to stop the mine, 70-yearold Jimmy Weekley, said that he was elated at the decision.

Weekley sued the government in 1998 for issuing the permit, saying Pigeonroost Hollow where he lives would be obliterated by the mine.

“This is another victory. They were fixing to destroy this,” he said, referring to his property in Blair, West Virginia.

“I hope it’s considered that all mountaintop removal permits will now stop,” he said.

That hope is what triggers fear among industry leaders and the coal-mining families of West Virginia.

“It’s absolutely mind-boggling to grasp,” said Linda Dials, 51, of Clothier, W.Va. Her husband, James, 48, is a surface miner, and his job is now in jeopardy, she said.

Hilltop mining is cheaper because it employs fewer miners, and the EPA decision may force the industry to deploy traditional underground methods, which are more labor intensive, said C. Belmont Keeney, an instructor at Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College in Logan, W.Va. Robert Howell and Dave Timko contributed to this report.

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A man who pleaded guilty last summer in a plot to blow up fuel tanks and the fuel pipeline under New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison.

Judge Dora L. Irizarry handed down the sentence against Abdel Nur, one of four people charged in the plot. Nur, a native of Guyana, pleaded guilty on June 29, to providing material support to a terrorist conspiracy.

Three other defendants had pleaded not guilty in the plot. Two of those men have been tried and convicted.

Abdul Kadir, also a native Guyanan, and Russell DeFreitas, a U.S. citizen, were convicted in July of engaging in a terrorist conspiracy. Kadir was sentenced in December to life in prison, and DeFreitas is scheduled to be sentenced in February.

Kareem Ibrahim, a native of Trinidad, is still awaiting trial on the same charges as Kadir and DeFreitas.

EPA revokes hilltop coal mining permit

By Michael Martinez CNN Wire Service

Brazil flooding affects thousands RIO DE JANEIRO — Thousands of families living on mountain slopes or on riverbanks near Rio face extreme risk of being washed away in the heavy rains and flooding that have killed nearly 500 people, authorities said Thursday.

Officials feared that many more were dead, buried in landslides or washed away by gushing waters. Mud rushed down hillsides and into towns and cities in Rio de Janeiro state, as murky brown rivers cut through lush landscape.

President Dilma Rousseff flew over the affected areas Thursday and landed in a slushy, trash-littered soccer field in the city of Friburgo, the official Agencia Brasil news agency said.

She trudged through mud in her rain boots to talk to residents in a neighborhood where four of seven firefighters attempting to rescue people were buried under mud. Three others were rescued.

“We are going to take firm action,” to help the devastated areas, Roussef said.

Brazilian authorities have been criticized for a lack of disaster planning and allowing people to build homes in areas known to become treacherous in the rainy season.

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Concealed carry allows right of choice Last summer, Chet Culver signed legislation that freed Iowans’ liberties to carry firearms from being arbitrarily by the whims of sheriffs.

As of the first of this year, this is no longer the case.

Everyone who wants a permit to carry a dangerous weapon and is eligible will receive one, and there will be no stipulations attached. If you have an old permit, the stipulations on that permit remain.

What we are getting at is you can expect to see more people openly carrying firearms on their sides in the very near future, and there will be more people walking around with firearms concealed on their person.

It’s going to be OK, don’t panic.

Some people’s reaction to this news is one of dismay or surprise; but don’t react in a negative fashion, this is a good thing.

First and foremost, this is a return to the Constitution and to the freedom of the individual.

Secondly, this means that more “good guys” will be able to arm themselves; people that can be considered “bad guys” aren’t concerned with what Iowa’s legislation says the laws are, their lack of concern for the law is one of the inherent things that makes them criminals.

The right to arm yourself is one that is guaranteed by the Constitution.

It is the right of self-empowerment, but much of this right requires self-education.

If you plan on getting your permit to carry, you need to do your research.

We’d love to be able to include every word of every piece of legislation, but we simply do not have the room.

However, we can point you in the right direction.

An Internet search of “Iowa Senate File 2379” will bring up the legislation you need to read. Visit the Iowa Department of Public Safety website at www.dps.state.ia.us/ and read the Frequently Asked Questions page that is linked from there.

These are simple things to do that will start to prepare you to responsibly exercise your right to bear arms.

If you aren’t willing to do these simple things, then maybe you should leave carrying a weapon to others.

You need to take advantage of your ability to exercise your constitutional rights, don’t let them stagnate.

There will be those that turn their nose up at you if you decide to use your First Amendment right and defend the civil rights of the LGBT community.

Likewise, there will be those who act shocked if you decide to take up arms.

You are your own person; make your own decisions whether or not you will exercise your rights. They are yours, and no one else’s.

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Column battle: mo Gun control is about regulating for safety first

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ared Loughner tried to buy ammunition at a Walmart on the morning of Jan. 8 — before he allegedly opened fire at a “Congress on Your Corner” event in Tucson, Ariz., killing six and injuring 14 others, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. He was refused.

So how did he get the bullets?

He went to another Walmart.

In case you were wondering, Loughner didn’t happen to pick up an N.W.A. CD with a Parental Advisory sticker while he was there.

You can’t buy those at Walmart. But if you’re a 22-year-old with a death wish for a congresswoman, they’ll sell you some ammo.

How is it that this individual, refused bullets by one employee, was able to turn around and get his ammunition from another location so easily?

In the United States, it’s not surprising that this could happen. There’s nothing in place to stop it.

It’s not surprising, but it’s horrifying.

In Canada, in order to obtain a Possession and Acquisition License or a Minor’s License, one must satisfy the requirements of the Canadian Firearms Safety Course. In the United States, any person above the age of 18 or 21, depending on the class of weapon, can obtain a firearm, with no demonstration of competency or awareness of gun safety required.

In 2008, the U.S. firearm homicide rate was five times that of Canada, based on firearm homicides per 100,000 people. But let’s not stop there. A 2010 study confirmed that based on 2003 data from the World Health Organization, among 23 populous high-income countries, 80 percent of all firearm deaths occurred in the United States. In addition, the study reported that the firearm homicide rate in the United States was 19.5 times higher than that of the remaining 22 countries.

The unintentional firearm death rate in the United States? It’s 5.2 times higher than that of all of those countries.

A key difference between the United States and the rest of these countries? The ones with lower numbers in the categories just mentioned all have stricter gun laws than the United States does.

Some legislation has been introduced, in the wake of the shooting in Arizona, that aim to place restrictions on how many rounds a clip can contain, and around whom guns cannot be carried.

While Rep. Carolyn McCarthy and Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s proposed legislation is an understandable reaction to Loughner’s use of a 33-round magazine, and Rep. Peter King is right to think of the safety of government officials, these proposed bills are not the answer. They focus on the minutia, rather than looking at the big picture.

It’s not that U.S. citizens shouldn’t be allowed to privately own guns. It’s not that lawmakers should tell people that 33 rounds are too many, but 12 are OK. And determining which members of society are deserving of protection in the form of a 1,000-foot no-gun radius is likely to be a slippery slope. What we need to look at here is the fact that right now, it was all too easy for a clearly disturbed young man to obtain weapons and ammunition — legally.

Think about it this way. Before you’re given a driver’s license, you spend hours of training behind the wheel of a vehicle, and often more in a driver’s education classroom. Why would we not extend the same treatment to operating firearms?

It’s been said that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees Americans the right to own guns, free of government-imposed rules or bans. This is not the case.

The Second Amendment reads, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Before you reach the word “militia,” you’ll

By Jessica.Opoien iowastatedaily.com find the call for something “well regulated.”

What else do we regulate? Did you know we have designated “free speech zones” in this country, and even on the ISU campus? What about members of the military? Their speech is limited while in service.

Freedom of speech is protected by the First Amendment, which reads, “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech…”

The Second Amendment calls for something to be “well regulated,” while the First says, “Congress shall make no law.”

And yet, First Amendment freedoms are regulated with little to no public outcry, while Second Amendment rights that are supposed to be “well regulated” are barely touched.

Would it be so bad if “well regulated” meant “dangerous people do not have easy, legal access to firearms and ammunition”?

I’ve heard the argument that gun violence varies from case to case, but the number of gun-related deaths in the United States as compared to countries with stricter regulations paints a different picture. I’ve heard this is about individual responsibility and personal accountability, but that argument assumes that everyone is rational — that everyone is responsible enough to not attempt an assassination on a congresswoman, killing and wounding many others in the process.

That argument gets people killed.

Why is gun control the untouchable issue? Why is it wrong to say that people like Jared Loughner, Steven Kazmierczak and Seung-Hui Cho should not be allowed to own guns? The argument for individual responsibility has gone out the window in these cases and so many others.

Will people like Loughner be able to obtain firearms illegally?

Sure. But does it have to be so easy for them to do so within the law?

We can make the United States safer without infringing on the rights of rational people to own firearms.

Who in Congress will vote to maintain Jared Loughner’s ability to go from one Walmart to the next until someone gave him the bullets he sought?

In 1985, 21 lawmakers opposed a ban on armor-piercing bullets. In 1988, four voted against a ban on plastic guns that could go undetected by airport security. Even Dick Cheney, who opposed both measures, said in 2000 that he would authorize funds for the bans.

“Cop-killer” bullets and plastic guns posed major threats in the 1980s. This is our major threat, today — the fact that this country allows someone like Jared Loughner easy, legal access to firearms.

This is not an untouchable issue. It’s not about taking away your rights.

It’s about regulating this Constitutionallyproclaimed “militia” of U.S. gun owners, so that the horrifying might, one day, also be the surprising.

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tragedy occurred Jan. 8 when representative Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot in the head while meeting with ordinary citizens outside a Safeway grocery store.

Miraculously she wasn’t killed and remained in critical condition at the time of this writing. Her doctors said in a CNN report that they were “cautiously optimistic” about her recovery. She wasn’t the only one shot; six people happened to die that day; 19 people were injured.

No doubt this will rekindle the national gun debate, but that’s something I would like to set aside for another day. What I would like to draw attention to is media sensationalism and outright stupidity of some people claiming Sarah Palin orchestrated the attack.

The story behind this is that Republican dominated districts that voted for Democrats were plotted on a map of the United States with crosshairs on the districts by Palin and her cronies, according to a Huffington Post article. This map was published on a website, and appropriately taken

By Yun.Kwak iowastatedaily.com down after the shooting. Because United States with her gun crazed one district they plotted happened Republicans. to be the district of representative Well unfortunately for those Giffords. The liberal media outlet who believe in this, the fantasy is a didn’t go far as to directly blame far cry from reality.

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Authorities have charged the When most liberals don’t regard 22-year-old, according to a BBC her to be one of the sharper knives article. The BBC states that Jared in the drawer.

Loughner could face the death Perhaps the conspiracy penalty for what he has done. theorists believe that maybe she’s So that’s the reality of the story. pretending to appear stupid to An unfortunate shooting that create a facade so she won’t draw wasn’t masterminded by anyone. attention to herself and starting Just a shooting planned out by a with this event will take over the 22-year-old.

It’s sort of strange to see the things people will do when something terrifying takes place. They wet their pants and start to play the blame game without looking at the facts first. In the end, the true victims of unfortunate disasters are often lost amidst the hyperbole of the blame game perpetuated

by National News Media.

Could I ask you why would a highly respected official like Palin would do something unthinkable that goes against the very foundation of this country? The answer is that they wouldn’t think of it in the first place because this is a country for the people, by the people.

So let us join together in our hopes that Giffords will recover quickly from her wounds and those responsible will be punished appropriately.

Let us respect those who were personally affected by the tragedy and not believe in wild stories that make no sense and only seek to empower those who want to take advantage of the situation. Because that’s exactly what they’re doing, and it disgusts me greatly.

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Thoughts from around the country:

By RJ.Green iowastatedaily.com (R-MI) U.S. Rep.

Gun bans have ‘rationale every bit as thin as the paper it’s printed on’

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don’t fancy myself a professional journalist, despite insistence to the contrary from my lovely emperor-in-chief on the other page. Swanky job title and newspaper section notwithstanding, I have hang-ups with taking on such a label when “mass media” comes off the tips of tongues as a pejorative term.

The instantaneous, on-demand nonsense permeating our daily lives in the form of smart phones and social media is precisely why I dread wasting $80 of my meager salary on the colonic Sprint passes off as “phone service.”

I don’t read, hear or see the news, just a barrage of sensationalism and hyperbole. We’ve devolved to the point where information and poignancy take the backseat, with hysteria taking the wheel and theatrics riding shotgun.

With the breaking news of the Tuscon tragedy came the instantaneous calls for legislative intervention. The requisite ‘experts’ representing the extremes of both ideologies are busy making their rounds, paid to spout whatever garbage suits whatever special interest group funds their spectacle.

Now, you have folks vehemently opposed to the very existence of firearms introducing all sorts of ham-handed legislative “bans” on scapegoat weaponry, while simultaneously pontificating on national television that they’ve never owned, fired or even held the very weapons to which they’re so opposed.

I’ll spare you the gritty details regarding the hours of research I did on the Clinton-era weapons ban, and be completely comfortable in printing the following statement: It didn’t work. After a very, very modest drop the year the legislation was introduced, 1994, the number of firearm-related fatalities, statistically, didn’t budge.

Mouths have indeed been a-flappin’ this past week about the need to re-instate the federal assault weapons ban, despite a precedence of failed attempts since 2004.

It was that year the Senate voted down re-incorporation of the ban in an 8-90 vote. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy was adamant about the re-authorization of the ban in wake of the Virginia Tech shooting. I didn’t bother digging up just how soundly her efforts were defeated, but there was a bit of a stir caused after Tucker Carlson pointed out to Ms. McCarthy on prime time television that the ‘high-capacity ammunition clip’ she so emphatically opposed weren’t used in the shootings to begin with.

Yet here we are, a week after a tragedy instigated by a man who, not to mince words, was a complete lunatic, and I can’t get on Facebook without five of my lefty friends calling for an all-out ban on firearms in my mini feed.

This is a slippery slope, ladies and gentlemen. The NHSTA said there were 38,648 automobile fatalities in 2006. In that same year, the FBI reported 30,896 deaths via firearm; 12,793 of which were homicides and 16,883 suicides.

Here’s the part where I make my Rube Goldberg argument: Cars killed far more people than handguns.

A 2,000-pound vehicle traveling at 55 mph does this trick just as well as the 8-gram bullet going 830 mph.

As a society, we get a bit liberal with whom we allow to drive, and anyone who begs to differ should try taking a jaunt down I-35 during the next blizzard.

Without guns, we wouldn’t have handgun homicides. Without cars, there would never be another drunk driving fatality.

I err on the side of lax gun laws. I’d rather give people the luxury, and ability, of defending their homes and livelihoods. I’m not the guy who’s going to sit here proselytizing on the dangers of weapons and the adequacy of the police forces.

Legislative bans designed to impede or avert a situation that can only exist after a sequence of catastrophic failures resulting in a worst-case scenario have rationale every bit as thin as the paper it’s printed on.

Banning firearms seems like an easy solution to an infinitely complex problem.

If only life were so simple.

Reaction legislation ineffective

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ow that the nigh-comical crossfire concerning whether a graphic with crosshairs on it constitutes culpability has been conversed upon ad nauseam, we are left with the punditry that follows the “Safeway Massacre.”

Should we ban high-capacity magazine because one was used to shoot a Congresswoman?

And the simple answer is, “I guess?” But “I guess?” a column does not make.

I think most people are shaken following this tragedy. It’s disturbing to think that an insane individual would betray the trust and openness of a Congresswoman standing defenseless on a street corner. Most disturbing is that it actually happened.

But there’s little merit in reactions to this tragedy. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., said on Fox News, “Guns kill. And those who glamorize gunplay or worship gun ownership do no service to humanity.”

McCarthy means well, I’m sure. I want to be safe when I walk down the street, and the represen-

tative does too. She has more of a stake in it than I do; McCarthy lost her husband in 1993 to a gunwielding maniac who killed five other people in a rampage on the Long Island Railroad.

My question to McCarthy is this: Had Loughner been unable to procure a firearm, is it unreasonable to believe he would have attacked with a different weapon?

We’ll never know, certainly, but I suspect Jan. 8, 2011, would have been a dark day no matter the methods.

I suspect this, because guns themselves do not kill people. A gun on a table will not kill a man any more than the table will. It is easier to kill a person with a gun than a table, yet to presume a murderer would be deterred from killing his target once it becomes inconvenient assumes we comprehend the logic of a cold-blooded killer, and Loughner’s mind is anything but logical.

The day after McCarthy’s comments, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., said that he was working on legislation along with McCarthy to ban the manufacture

and sale of extended magazines such as the one used by Lougner in his spree.

The move is full of good intentions, but the trend of “passive adaptation,” in which we adapt to problems after they’ve occurred, is getting us nowhere. The TSA is now checking the underwear of every American because one time, some guy put a bomb in his underpants. They check your groin after they check your shoes because a different guy once hid a bomb in his.

While TSA restrictions and legislation such as this are similar, they also have similar shortcomings, chiefly that they treat the symptoms of their respective problems, but not the cause. The ineffective nature of passive adaptation is evident in the painful fact the TSA has not yet caught any terrorists for all of its efforts.

In the case of the LautenbergMcCarthy bill, it is clear that the problem is not the existence of extended magazines or loose gun control laws.

Gun control laws did nothing to stop Eric Harris and Dylan

Klebold from perpetrating the Columbine Massacre; both were underage at the time and ineligible for the purchase of firearms. Gun control laws did nothing to stop Seung-Hui Cho from murdering 32 before turning his gun on himself in the Virginia Tech Massacre.

Gun control laws did nothing to stop Major Nadal Hasan from cutting down 13 fellow soldiers at the Fort Hood Massacre.

Harris and Klebold bypassed the law, Cho followed it and the law did not apply to Hasan, who was instead under the UCMJ. Simply put, these unthinkable tragedies are machinated not by ease of obtaining handguns but by the desire to do so; by the determination to realize sick ideas in sick minds. Banning high-capacity magazines means the next Jared Lee Loughner will only take three lives instead of six.

While McCarthy and Lautenberg have great intentions, I fear their bill will have little effect on future incidents such as the tragedy in Tucson.

Three dead is still three too many.

Mike Rodgers Bad guys are going to get guns, they’re going to get clips and they’re going to do bad things because that’s what their intention is. We should not divert our attention from what the real problem was here. We had an individual who has expressed violent intent who clearly had some mental instability along the way. Getting into a debate — should it be three rounds or eight rounds or 30 rounds is irrelevant. The fact is that they’re going to have access to firearms, and we still have the Second Amendment in the United States.”

(D-VT) U.S. Sen.

Patrick Leahy Gun control is probably not a winning issue.”

U.S. President

Barack Obama At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized — at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do — it’s important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.”

MSNBC Talk Show Host

Rachel Maddow Whether political rhetoric motivated this kid or not, whether this kid was sane enough to process political rhetoric as sane people understand it or not, whether we will understand sooner or later or never the motivation behind this kid ... here’s the question: Do we have any tools to stop the next gun massacre?”

Alleged gunman: Jared Lee Loughner

The Loughner family There are no words that can possibly express how we feel. We wish that there were, so we could make you feel better. We don’t understand why this happened. It may not make any difference, but we wish that we could change the heinous events of Saturday. We care very deeply about the victims and their families. We are so very sorry for their loss.”

C.J. Karamargin, spokesman for

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Our boss is a fighter, and she’s fighting.”

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Men’s basketball

Cyclones move on to face Baylor Big 12-leading scorer Dunn, Bears come to Hilton

By Jake. Lovett iowastatedaily.com Wednesday night against Kansas, ISU coach Fred Hoiberg thought his team made too many mistakes against a talented, Big-12 opponent.

Saturday, his team will take on another tough Big 12 foe when it plays Baylor at 5 p.m. at Hilton Coliseum.

The Bears (12-3, 2-0 Big 12) were ranked No. 14 in the preseason USA Today coaches poll, but lost three of four to close out the month of December, causing their fall from the top 25. Since the rough December, though, Baylor has won four straight, including wins at Texas Tech and against Oklahoma to open Big 12 Conference play.

To combat the Bears, Iowa State (13-4, 0-2) will need to play more mistake-free basketball after committing 15 turnovers in Wednesday’s loss to Kansas and 14 in a one-point loss to Nebraska on Saturday.

“Just got to watch film and see what we can do to correct the mistakes that we went through in today’s game,” said guard Diante Garrett following the loss. “Some of the mistakes that we had in the first half, some of the mistakes that we can change and fix in practice and just being focused the whole time.”

Baylor poses several challenges for the ISU defense, but none more than guard Hoiberg LaceDarius Dunn, who leads the Big 12 in scoring at 22.5 points per game.

The ISU front line figures to be challenged Garrett again, too, after getting pounded much of the night by the bigger, more physical Jayhawks.

The Bears’ top two interior threats, Quincy Acy and Perry Jones, each average 13 points and seven rebounds a game.

“Our guys have got to trust the game plan,” Hoiberg said after the game. “We’ll watch a lot of film on this one and come out and give it a shot on Saturday against Baylor.”

Garrett is fifth in the conference in scoring at 17.6 per game, including 22 a game over his last three.

The senior from Milwaukee has struggled recently, with 12 turnovers to 12 assists over that same span.

He had 86 assists to just 38 turnovers in the team’s first 14 games.

“Some nights I’ve got to score a lot, some nights I’ve just got to dish it and find Jamie, Jake, Scott and all of those guys,” Garrett said. “Do whatever I’ve got to do to help the team out.”

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Iowa State (13-4, 0-2)

Baylor (12-3, 2-0)

Where: Hilton Coliseum When: 5 p.m. Saturday Media coverage: Cyclone Radio Network Cyclone Television Network ESPN3 Daily writers Jake Lovett and Chris Cuellar will be chatting live from the game at iowastatedaily.com Notes: Iowa State has dropped its first two Big 12 Conference games by a combined six points.

Baylor guard LaceDarius Dunn leads the Big 12 in scoring at 22.5 points per game.

Baylor has never won a game in Hilton Coliseum.

Baylor by the

Numbers Scoring offense 74.5 points per game Scoring defense 58.5 points per game Field goal percentage .480 3-point percentage .360 Rebound margin 38.7-to-29.2 Assists 12.5 per game Turnovers 233

Guard Diante Garrett attempts a layup over a Kansas opponent during Wednesday’s game against Kansas at Hilton Coliseum. Garrett helped the Cyclones fight through a loss to the Jayhawks with 27 points. Photo: Zhenru Zhang/Iowa State Daily

Wrestling

Battered wrestlers to host No. 5 Minnesota

By Darrin. Cline iowastatedaily.com With mediocre performances at the Midlands and National duals behind them, the ISU wrestling team will look to get back on track when they host the fifth-ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers on Sunday.

The Cyclones claimed eighth at both of their winter break events, with senior Jon Reader again leading the way. The newly-minted No. 1 ranked wrestler at 174 pounds, Reader claimed the only individual title for the Cyclones at the Midlands and stayed undefeated throughout the National Duals.

Reader will welcome one of his stiffest challenges of the season when he faces eighthranked Scott Glasser. Glasser is one of seven Golden Golpher wrestlers ranked in the most recent Intermatwrestle.com standings. All seven grapplers have risen to the top 10, with Mike Thorn leading the way as No. 2 in the nation at 141 pounds.

Thorn’s opponent in the dual is still to be determined,

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Minnesota

Where: Hilton Coliseum When: 2 p.m. Sunday Notes: Iowa State finished eighth in each of its meets during Winter Break, the Midlands Championships and the National Duals.

Minnesota has seven wrestlers ranked in the top 10 of the Intermatwrestling.com rankings.

Minnesota hasn’t beaten Iowa State since the 200607 season.

Iowa State’s Jon Reader is ranked No. 1 at 174-pounds and is unbeaten so far this season.

There are X ISU wrestlers ranked in by Intermat, including Reader, Chris Drouin, Andrew Sorenson and Jerome Ward.

as a highly anticipated match with Chris Drouin is questionable due to injury. Drouin showed strong improvement in the past month, garnering

Jon Reader wrestles against Iowa’s Ryan Morningstar on Dec. 6 at Hilton Coliseum. Reader, ranked number one in the nation, has remained the only undefeated Cyclone wrestler so far this season.

File photo: Manfred Brugger/Iowa State Daily

fourth at the Midlands before breaking a finger during the National Duals.

Drouin is only one of several ISU wrestlers questionable for the dual. Nationally ranked 197-pound Jerome Ward is also working his way back from knee surgery, which limited him to only one match at the National Duals.

Phil Hawes has stepped up in Ward’s absence and is likely to fill the role again if Ward is unable to go. Max Mayfield has also started making varsity ap-

pearances at 149 pounds, taking the spot from Nate Carr Jr. Between injuries and weight management issues, the Cyclone wrestling team has been forced to dig deep into the roster and put new faces in the lineup. With the mid-season grind picking up pace, the coaches have utilized more of their available athletes in order to give the battered lineup a chance to rest and recoup.

However, with legendary coach J Robinson at the helm,

the Golden Gophers can be expected to bring their usual fire and intensity, according to the polls. Minnesota is the odds on favorite, but the Cyclones have had their number. The Gophers last won the annual dual during the 2006-2007 season, 19-13.

2011 has been an up and down year for the Cyclone wrestling team thus far.

With a myriad of roster questions and a 2-3 dual record, including a victory over top-10 ranked American

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University, the team has both positives and negatives to draw from.

The battle tested team will have a chance to upset one of the premier programs in the nation.

Sunday afternoon’s dual will kick off a series of home meets that aim to give the Cyclones an advantage in the friendly confines of Hilton Coliseum.

Women’s basketball

Prins returns home for final Colorado matchup Cyclones focus on finding scoring success in first half

By David. Merrill iowastatedaily.com While sophomore center Anna Prins didn’t get to go home for the holidays, she will get that chance this weekend, as Iowa State plays Colorado at 5 p.m. Saturday in Boulder, Colo.

The game serves as a homecoming for Prins. She grew up in Broomfield, Colo., just a short drive from Boulder.

Prins, who is averaging 18 points and nine rebounds during the past three games, is excited to get back home and play in front of familiar faces.

“Last year my sister had a

game that day,” Prins said. “My sister didn’t even get to come.

This year there is no conflict so she is going to be there to see me play.”

While Prins is going to have some extra motivation, the Cyclones’ focus defensively is going to be on stopping the Buffaloes’ two dynamic scorers, senior forward Brittany Spears and sophomore guard Chucky Jeffery.

Spears is averaging 18 points and eight rebounds per game while Jeffery is putting up 15 points, nine rebounds and five assists per game.

“They have one of the best players in the conference in Brittany Spears,” said ISU senior shooting guard Kelsey Bolte. “She’s been good all four years. Knowing what she likes to do and frustrating her a little

bit are going to be some of our focuses.”

Bolte has also been playing well as of late, particularly in the second half. During the last two games, she is averaging 18.5 points in the second half, where the Cyclones have been doing the majority of their work. In the team’s first two conference games, Iowa State has been outscoring opponents by 14 points in the second half.

While the team’s second half ability is reassuring, they know that they have to put two good halves together to have a chance of winning as the season goes on.

“We want to start much better than we have the last two games,” Bolte said. “I think now that everyone on the team knows that we need to, hope-

fully we can do some things differently.”

Saturday’s game will mark the Cyclones’ final one in Boulder, as Colorado will leave for the new Pac-12 next season. Iowa State has won the past five meetings between the two teams.

They are under the direction of first-year coach Linda Lappe, a Burlington, Iowa, native. With a new coach, coach Bill Fennelly is anticipating some changes in the way they play, despite the roster remaining largely the same as last year.

“They have players that can take over games on both offense and defense,” Fennelly said. “They’ve added a couple new pieces and any time there is a new coach, there is renewed effort and enthusiasm.”

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Iowa State (13-3, 1-1)

Colorado (9-6, 0-2)

Where: Coors Events Center, Boulder, Colo.

When: 5 p.m. Saturday Media coverage: Cyclone Radio Network Notes: Saturday’s game will be the final time Iowa State and Colorado will meet as conference opponents before the Buffaloes’ move to the Pac-12 next season.

Center Anna Prins aims for a shot over Nebraska opponents during Wednesday’s game at Hilton. Prins helped the Cyclones to a 64-43 win over the Huskers with 11 rebounds and 18 points. Photo: Rebekka Brown/Iowa State Daily

Iowa State has won eight games in a row against the Buffaloes, including winning 13 of the last 14 meetings. Colorado’s last win was in 2007.

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Illini bring ďŹ nal series for full ISU team Hudson, coach prepare for World University Games

By Dan. Kassan iowastatedaily.com Serving your country, in any form, is always a great honor. Beginning this month, coach Al Murdoch and goalie Erik Hudson will receive that honor, as they travel to Turkey to play in the World University Games.

This weekend’s matchup against the University of Illinois marks the last time both will be with the team until the ďŹ nal series of the year against Lindenwood University in February. “You know, it’s been a dream of mine since I was young,â€? Hudson said. “It’s an honor, it’s a privilege, and I can’t take it for granted.â€?

Team USA competed over Christmas break in Vermont against three NCAA Division I teams. Their ďŹ nal tune-up will be next week in Chicago before the start of the Games on Jan. 27.

Before all that takes place, Hudson, Murdoch and the rest of the Cyclones square off against an Illinois team that has a similar team setup. The Illini are a young team that, be-

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cause of their unique ice arena, use speed to control the puck and create opportunities. “They split with [No. 1] Lindenwood last weekend,�

Murdoch said. “They’re wellcoached. I have all the respect in the world for Chad Cassel, their coach. He prepares his team well.�

Iowa State has a reputation for being well condi-

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Iowa State (13-14)

Illinois (12-8)

Where: Ames/ISU Ice Arena When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, 7:30 p.m. Saturday Notes: ISU coach Al Murdoch and goalie Erik Hudson will play their ďŹ nal games with the Cyclones before representing the United States in the World University Games. The two will rejoin the team in February.

Illinois split a weekend series with No. 1 Lindenwood last weekend.

In the teams’ ďŹ rst meetings this season, the Cyclones earned a split.

Illini goalie Nick Clarke is third in the ACHA in goals allowed, surrendering 1.38 per game.

tioned. Murdoch coaches his team to be the better-prepared team when the second game of a two-game series arrives. But ISU players acknowledge Cassel similarly focuses on conditioning with his players. “I would describe them like pests,� Hudson said. “They never go away, they work hard.

If you get up on them by four or ďŹ ve goals they won’t go away, they keep working hard.â€?

So how do you get rid of these ‘pests’? Attack early and often. “It will set the tone for Saturday if we get on them early Friday. We deďŹ nitely want to intimidate them and get them out of the way early, as quick as possible,â€? Hudson said.

In late October, the Cyclones took their ďŹ rst road trip of the season to Champagne, Ill. Iowa State dropped the ďŹ rst game 2-1, but came back in traditional fashion and beat Illinois to earn the split. In the history between these rivals, the Cyclones hold the all-time edge. But recently, it has been Illinois who has come out on top. “We know it’ll be good hockey,â€?

Murdoch said. “Illinois is a very fast team, but we’re fast too. We’ve been showing what we’re capable of speed-wise, last two weeks.�

Associate coach Brian

Goalie Erik Hudson and a few of his teammates stop an attempted goal by a Lindenwood opponent during the Dec. 3 match at the Ames/ISU Ice Arena. The Cyclones fell to the Lions 4-2 and take on Illinois this weekend. File photo: Rebekka Brown/Iowa State Daily

Wierson will be taking the reigns in the absence of Murdoch, and sophomore Paul Karus and freshman Scott Ismond will split duties between the pipes in place

of Hudson. Hudson expects nothing less at home during his ďŹ nal series. “In my mind, we need a sweep,â€? Hudson said. “We need our forwards to step up

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Peace of Mind.

64 Texas city on I-40 65 Colorless gas 66 With composure 67 “__ Waldo?”

ACROSS 1 Illustrative words 7 Burst 15 Casual top 16 Intimate meeting 17 Baroque composer Cavalieri 18 Apple delivery vehicle?

19 Lobbying gp. bigwig?

21 Great Seal symbol 22 Lab complaints 23 CD-__ 25 Hardy’s “Pure Woman” 26 “S” on an invitation 27 Label for many Elton John hits 29 Ready-to-mail item: Abbr.

31 Ristorante suffix 32 Pittypat, in “Gone With the Wind” 34 Aiming aid in some gun sights 38 Fourth-qtr. month 39 Trap for large reptiles?

41 Reveal, poetically 42 Glacial ridges 44 It parallels the radius 45 Radar’s rank: Abbr.

46 Fish-eating bird 48 Pollster’s query 49 Heartache 50 Homer Simpson’s mom 53 Chestnut horse 55 Cartoonist Walker 56 Nailing, as a test 58 Coalition celebration?

61 Court dispute over footwear?

63 Prepare for a break

43 Hyundai model 47 Cricket violation 50 Family nicknames 51 Carol opening 52 Battery acronym 54 Magnalium, e.g.

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9 Workout target 10 Carry 11 Like some films 12 Compact item 13 Things with ltrs.

14 Hockey ploys 20 Pipe cleaner 24 Wrapped garment 27 Prefix with economics 28 Insertion point indicator 30 Biological bristles 33 Mountain West Conf. team 35 Employee using a word processor?

36 Auspicious 37 Sends, obsolescently 40 Dallas suburb

Yesterday’s solution

Jokes For the Day My best friend ran away with my wife.

It’s only been three days and I really miss him. ...

I took my mother in law out last night.

One punch what a beauty. ...

A: Just look at that young person with the short hair and blue jeans. Is it a boy or a blonde?

B: It’s a blonde. She’s my daughter.

A: Oh, I’m sorry, sir. I didn’t know that you were her father.

B: I’m not. I’m her mother

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Daily Horoscope : by Nancy Black and Stephanie Clements

Daily Sudoku

Capricorn: Invent An Exciting Future Today’s birthday (01/13/11). Just do it.

It’s the perfect year for communication.

Take care of your creative instincts, whether this means reading or writing books, keeping a blog, painting a picture every day, dancing the tango, making cookies, writing love letters or solving math equations. Share it.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Your intuition may be challenged by lack of self-confidence today, especially when it comes to money. Choose what feels ethically right.

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Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 6 -- You may be entering a phase of repeating old patterns that could limit your creativity. Get counseling from an elder to get past your blocks.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 5 -- Gather with friends for inspiration.

The three weeks ahead look promising for project management. An opportunity develops to shift everything.

is a 5 -- Accept an older person’s suggestion, and acknowledge their contribution. More work comes your way. Harvest the fruit before distributing it.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -Intense work lies ahead for three weeks.

Take advantage of the situation. The intensity could affect health issues. It’s important to relax, and pace yourself.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- You feel good about yourself, and you’re looking good to superiors. Your conclusion is most likely valid. Invent an exciting future that delights you.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- The next few days are good for travel.

Watch out for your own arrogance.

Listen and learn from others instead.

There are more ways than one.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -- Listen for words of wisdom.

Friends want to contribute. Your financial situation is on the upswing.

Make an investment for your physical comfort.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Enjoy the process of building or cooking something from scratch. When in doubt, friends help you understand.

Your status is enhanced by day’s end.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Take time to express your feelings. Get in touch with a distant friend, as well as with your closer loved ones. Be intimate, and others will be moved.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Show respect to your elders, and accept tutoring gratefully from an expert. This builds your team and knowledge. Friends help make an important connection. Feel rich.

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To those people who think that starting the weekend on Wednesday night is a good idea: I hope its worth it tommorow.

••• To my sexual active friend...

Im jealous ••• To the boy who broke my heart: I still think about you every second of the day.

••• To the hot red headed guy I saw today, this red headed girl wants to keep our kind alive.

••• To the guy from the bars last night. You MAY have been cute but that just makes the satisfaction of turning you down 10 times better. Did you really think you were going to get some.

••• Since we both have the same tests next week you should probably ask me to study with you hint hint. I know we dont have Anatomy but id really like to study that with you too!

••• Really? Hatin’ on my undies? You realize that my choice of undergarments has nothing to do with my physical appearance.

••• To the guy that lives above me, do you weigh 400lbs, or just drop bowling balls every time you walk?

••• To the boy who sits next to me in Music class, please stop farting then looking around to act like it wasn’t you..........!

••• To all the people who smoke on campus....when I cough while walking past you, it isn’t because I have something stuck in my throat. Thanks for slowly killing me. Just Sayin’ ••• Will the people that play their headphones so loud that everyone in the room can hear it plz stop! Its way annoying and rude!

••• “To the people that stay in all weekend and study I remember the first time I was in college!!

••• Dear Roommate: Although you’re a chronic finger licker and apparently terrible at using your words, you’re hands down my favorite person in the entire world. Just sayin’ ••• I would rather be late for class than caught sprinting to class and be mistaken as a freshman... Just saying.

••• To my roommate, do your own dishes.

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Administration

Faculty review examined

gum and cigarette butts that litter the sidewalks in the area.

“The main objective would be the trash,” said Matt England, senior in aerospace engineering and the ex-officio student representative on the Ames City Council.

Some ideas for how to clean up Campustown were possibly painting the trash cans along the streets, adding ash trays and installing solar trash compactors like the ones on campus.

Gleason said that unless something is done to keep Campustown clean, the new buildings that will be constructed in the Campustown redevelopment project in the next year will have the same dirtiness.

However, Steve Schainker, Ames city manager, pointed out that when Campustown redevelopment does begin, the area will be additionally messy because of construction.

Another issue the Student Affairs Commission discussed was the plan to design DZ Triangle, a small area of land south of campus, known as a location where students gather and burn couches. These activities have been a concern of student and city organizations for

Senate forms task force to improve ineffective post-tenure review policy

By Kaleb.Warnock iowastatedaily.com The faculty senate will be voting on changes to Iowa State’s current policy on post-tenure review. Faculty senate commissioned a task force to examine it because the policy is more than 10 years old and considered to be largely ineffective.

“It was time to review and improve it.

I think the review will certainly help improve the review process,” said Steven Freeman, faculty senate president-elect.

Contrary to what many students believe, tenure is not an absolute guarantee of continued employment and absolute academic freedom. Every seven years, full- and part-time faculty members are up for evaluation in order to “result in recommendations for enhancing performance and provide a plan for future development,” according to Sec 3.5.3 of the Faculty Handbook.

The post-tenure review policy was instated in 1999 at the request of the Board of Regents and is loosely modeled after the University of Iowa’s policy.

However, Iowa State’s policy is intended

to be more peer-based and allows individual departments and faculty members to review their own colleagues.

The current policy states that faculty “should address quality of the faculty member’s performance in the areas of teaching, research/creative activities, extension/professional practice and institutional service,” and will result in recommendations for changing and improving a faculty member’s performance, rather than clearing out sub-par instructors.

“The post-tenure review policy itself will not lead to dismissal,” Freeman said.

“The post-tenure review process is really a peer-review process to help members improve.”

The section does not explicitly state that a poor evaluation could be grounds for dismissal, but it does cite the section of the handbook that outlines the procedure and causes for dismissal of professors. Freeman also said that refusal to comply with the recommendations of the review could be a conduct violation, which can be grounds for removal from post.

The task force has determined that

>>BLUE SKY.p12 it was to be the final version.”

Currently, LAS is still in the data gathering and feedback process that is expected to be the case until “around February.” As announced earlier this week, open forums are to be held to discuss the Blue Sky report, as well as other drafts of ideas and proposals released this week.

“The Blue Sky report was to get people thinking,” Whiteford said. “We are looking for additional ideas and input from faculty and students.

From there, we develop some proposals that we would carry to the faculty senate and the representative assembly.”

One of the most prominent recommendations from both the Blue Sky report and the other proposals was to increase interdisciplinary work for graduate studies, doctoral programs and research projects.

While it may seem like a daunting task to conduct a

the current policy does not provide for an effective process for evaluation.

Therefore, it has not been sufficiently implemented at Iowa State and is relatively ineffective.

The task force concluded their report with recommendations that a new policy reduces the cycle to every five years, considers inter-departmental review boards, links salary increases to reviews and uses them to enforce individual faculty members’ personal responsibility statements. They hoped to have an amendment to the policy passed that would provide a defined process for review.

Faculty senate also commissioned a new task force to be in charge of amending the old policy, but it will not conform completely to the recommendations of the post-tenure review task force. The new task force will be presenting its revision at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the faculty senate meeting in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.

Other schools like the University of Kansas, University of Iowa and University of Nebraska have similarly vague policies.

several years.

England said that currently the DZ Triangle project is “still in the holding area” while they wait for architecture students to create the plans. He added that ideas were brainstormed during break, and now that the students are back in school, they can begin to form groups and take action on the plans.

In terms of funding for the project, England said they plan to approach GSB for money, as well as apply for a $5,000 Neighborhood Improvement Grant. As it is a matching grant, the students would have to come up with the other $5,000 in either cash or in labor.

Another update England reported at the meeting was that the new city of Ames website is on schedule to be revealed to the public by the end of February.

Schainker also informed the group that the city is looking to hire a company to do a citywide brand envisioning that will include focus groups and a survey in order to find a “common vision” in the community.

“There will be a lot of different ways to get input,” Schainker said.

The Student Affairs Commission will meet again in February.

Poll Anthropology Would you attend an open forum to discuss the Blue Sky report?

No 31%

Yes

31%

Maybe

38%

•Core Interdisciplinary Coursework at the undergraduate level •Core graduate level courses

get them by themselves.”

The drafts and proposals currently open to the public focus a great deal of attention to the social science aspects of LAS. One of the drafts specifically focuses on the idea of re-merging the departments of political science, anthropology

Interface with Soc & Anthro

•Rural Sociology •Social Inequality •Methods and Measurement •Criminology

Interface with Anthro & Pol Sci

Interface with Soc & Pol Sci

Sociology

Vote in this and other polls at iowastatedaily.com broader spectrum of study and research, Whiteford believes it may be the right direction to take.

“Interdisciplinary collaboration is what it takes to acquire those big grants,” Whiteford said. “In most cases, no single researcher is going to

•Globalization •Cultural Differences •Human Evolution

and sociology into one intertwined department.

“I think there can be some really exciting synergies around themes the three departments have in common,” Whiteford said.

But Whiteford stressed

•Domestic and International Politics •Public Policy and Local Government •International Conflict

Political Science

Information: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

that nothing is definite yet.

“No policy decisions have been made,” Whiteford said.

“We are still collecting suggestions. We want to weigh all our options.”

Once feedback and addi-

tional information have been gathered, the next step of the process is for a specific and official proposal to be made.

The current goal is to have such a proposal out by spring break.