Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015 | Volume 210 | Number 83 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
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The Gung-ho Globies, a group organized by Mikayla Sullivan, will present their original invention at the Thought for Food Challenge next month.
Student group prepares to present invention in Portugal By Elaine.Godfrey @iowastatedaily.com
GSB forms committee, outlines semester goals
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magine a device that could help reduce food waste while improving nutrition across the globe. A tool that is efficient, portable and easily accessible to citizens living in some of the world’s poorest countries. Five ISU students imagined such a tool and their creation has earned them a trip to Portugal and a chance to win $10,000 in the 2015 Thought for Food Challenge. Founded in 2011 by Christine Gould, senior public policy manager at Syngenta, the Thought for Food Challenge is an annual competition for teams of university students across the globe to “uproot the status quo” by presenting innovative solutions for feeding Earth’s growing population. In September 2014, Mikayla Sullivan, a thensophomore in global resource systems, organized a team with her fellow global resource systems students called the Gung-ho Globies. Students in global adjective wholeheartedly enthusiastic and loyal; eager; zealous resource systems who volunteered for the team include seniors Clayton Mooney and Elise Kendall, sophomore Ella Gehrke, and Alexandria Wilson, freshman in animal science. Together, the five created KinoSol, a personal food dehydrator with unique capabilities. And out of 336 entries from 51 different countries, the Gungho Globies team was one of 10 chosen to attend the challenge. Courtesy of Gung-ho Globies “The main point of the project is to come up with KinoSol, engineered by five ISU students, is a food dehydrator that
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can be used to save unused food in developing countries. These students will showcase the device in Portugal on Feb. 13 and 14.
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Parking illegally includes consequences By Jace.Dostal @iowastatedaily.com Parking on campus can present some issues to students if they do not know the Department of Public Safety parking division’s policies. Some violations are warrant to receiving a ticket, while others can result in having your car get towed. According to the DPS parking division manual, penalties include: - The Department of Public Safety may remove any vehicle considered to be abandoned, left unattained on a street or a traffic hazard in a parking lot. - Any vehicle with an accumulation of three unpaid violations may be subject to impoundment and held until payment is made. The violations must be more than 15 business days old, and not under appeal. - Impounded vehicles are the responsibility of the vehicle’s registered owner, according to DPS Parking Division records. - Impounded bicycles may be claimed within a three month period after impoundment upon proper identification, penalty payment and a $5 impoundment fee. - Impounded bicycles not claimed after three months will be sold at an auction. Proceeds will go to ISU Surplus. Most violations are not intentional according to Mark Miller, parking manager with the Department of Public Safety. “We try to contact people before we tow the car. A lot of times people will say ‘thank you’ because they didn’t realize they were parked illegally and they will move the car right away,” Miller said. Miller said that cars are usually towed because they have a counterfeit permit, or they are in a fire lane or blocking a road. The day before a football game is always the busiest day for towing on campus. Miller said when cars are still
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Make sure to read the signs before parking in a particular lot. If the sign requires a certain permit, make sure to have that permit visible from the outside of your car. Otherwise, you run the risk of having your car ticketed by the parking division.
parked in the lot the day before a game, they send out two emails. Then if there is no response, the vehicle is towed. To some ISU students, the parking problem can be easily fixed. When asked about parking on campus, Mark Serovy, freshman in industrial technology, responded with a satirical “good luck.” “I wish they had more parking closer to campus, like parking ramps,” Serovy said. According to Miller, the parking division has two full-
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GSB President Hillary Kletscher addresses the Senate, outlining goals and explaining the creation of the Transportation Committee, which will handle issues pertaining to crowding on campus and the bike share program.
time officers and 15 to 20 student officers, depending on people’s schedules. These officers can be seen patrolling the campus and issuing citations when needed. If a student receives a parking ticket, they can pay it in six different ways, according to the ISU parking division website: - Mail citation via campus mail to DPS parking, Room 27 Armory. - Mail citation through U.S. mail at DPS parking, Room 27, Ames, IA 50011. - Drop citations in the drop
box at the customer service counter of the parking office at room 27, Armory Building. - Bring payment to the parking office, Room 27, Armory Building during regular business hours. - Pay through Accounts Receivable (U-Bill). - Mail a check to the Treasurer’s Office, 1220 Beardshear Hall, Ames, IA 50011. According to the ISU parking division, if your car has been towed, it can be found at Elmquist Deckers.
By Makayla.Tendall @iowastatedaily.com At Wednesday’s meeting, the Government of the Student Body created a new committee to focus on solving problems with campus transportation, specifically how it relates to the bike share program. After members of GSB recognized problems with traffic and transportation around campus and especially on Osborn Drive, the Transportation Committee was created and will meet biweekly for eight weeks. Members will gather information and opinions from faculty, administration and students to see if they would like to see GSB reconsider supporting a bike share program that could alleviate traffic around campus. The committee will also look to see how to solve issues created with traffic and CyRide routes if a bike share program was implemented. Mechanical engineering, industrial design and community and regional planning students took up the bike share program in a 300-level industrial design class after GSB decided not to fund it last fall. Since then, a 70page feasibility study report was completed. One of the reasons GSB decided not to fund the program last semester was because a feasibility study had not been completed. Transportation Committee members will be able to see the report soon and determine whether or not to support the program. At the end of the eight weeks, the committee will provide a report of their findings to the Senate for review. Senators Abbie Lang and Austin Thielmann, along with Vice Speaker of the Senate Dan Breitbarth, were seated on the committee. President Hillary Kletscher also delivered her State of the Student Body address, outlining the upcoming goals she wishes to accomplish for the next semester and updating the Senate on the improvements made last semester. “When reflecting on the academic year so far, I thought of the Government of the Student Body’s Mission Statement: ‘to serve students and improve the student experience through advocacy and empowerment,’” Kletscher said. “What have we done? What are we planning to do? And where else can we serve the student body?” At the end of last semester, GSB created a list of three things they asked the administration to try to improve immediately to ease the strains of enrollment growth. On that list was expanding hours of operation and increasing staff at Thielen Student Health Center and Student Counseling Service, alleviate the long lines at testing centers and addressing the need for more parking and less traffic on campus. Finance Director Abhijit Patwa and Sen. Evan Abramsky met with the administration and a consulting firm to determine how to expand the Student
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