Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016 | Volume 211 | Number 84 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
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Lori Reesor, candidate for the vice president for Student Affairs position at Iowa State, spoke at an open forum Monday.
Student Affairs candidate visits ISU
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Redshirt senior forward Abdel Nader goes up for a shot against Kansas on Monday night at Hilton Coliseum. The Cyclones were fueled by a second-half run to knock off the Jayhawks, 85-72. It was Iowa State’s fourth win against Kansas in the last five matchups.
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Lori Reesor, vice president for Student Affairs at the University of North Dakota, spoke at an open forum for the search of the new vice president for Student Affairs at Iowa State. The forum took place Monday morning in the Pioneer Room of the Memorial Union. Reesor is one of three candidates for the administrative position to replace retiring Tom Hill, senior vice president for Student Affairs. She is the first to address campus. Reesor graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in business management before earning her master’s in higher education at Iowa State. Reesor also has a doctorate in leadership and educational policy from the University of Kansas. Reesor said she is excited to be selected as one of three finalists for this position because it “feels like coming home.” “It’s a way to come home, but it’s really about the reputation of the institution,” she said. “This organization has a great reputation nationally … so to have that privilege to continue that and to take it to the next level would be fabulous.” Reesor’s plans to take Iowa State to the next level include student retention and success, diversity and inclusion and learning how to prioritize certain needs. “The goal is to have students fall in love with Iowa State, to be proud alumni of Iowa State and to want to continue to give back,” Reesor said. She plans on accomplishing these goals by creating an inclusive environment through having what she calls “difficult discussions.” Iowa State has reached a record in enrollment for the 2015-16 year, which means resources aren’t as available and abundant. Reesor said the best way to combat this issue is by building relationships with the staff and finding what is most important. “We can’t keep doing more with less. That means we have to prioritize,” she said. “That goes back to the difficult conversations
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By Alex.Hanson @iowastatedaily.com The three Democratic candidates for president were able to pitch their ideas to Iowa voters watching from home one last time during a forum broadcast on CNN. Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley talked about a wide range of issues while they took questions from members of the audience that gathered at Drake University in Des Moines. Here are five takeaways from the event — just one week out from the Iowa Caucus on Feb. 1. 1) It’s still Bernie vs. Hillary on health care
The Democratic race has turned nasty during the past week as Sanders and Clinton have gone after each other over their proposals on health care. Clinton has touted a plan to continue tweaking the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, while Sanders has said he wants to get rid of the private insurance system and transition to a “Medicare-for-all,” or a single payer system. Clinton has argued that Sanders’ plan would scrap any successes made by Obamacare. Sanders has refuted the claim, saying it would only add to Obamacare by insuring more. Sanders was asked two questions on his plan at the forum: Would it raise taxes and why he would implement a new plan instead of keeping Obamacare. Sanders once again took issue with the premise, saying his plan would strengthen gains that have been made with Obam-
acare. He added that he thought Obamacare has done well and he appreciates the gains it has made — especially since he helped write it as a member of the U.S. Senate. But, “I believe as a principle, everyone should be entitled to [universal health care],” Sanders said. “Will we raise taxes? Yes we will,” Sanders said, but he argued the overall tax increase won’t matter because Americans will not be paying a private insurance premium, which will end up costing them less overall. 2) ISU student asks O’Malley question Joi Latson, ISU sophomore in global resource systems, was able to ask O’Malley a question. She asked specifically how O’Malley would implement policies to address racial inequality in the country. O’Malley pointed to his tenure as governor of Maryland. Some critics, though, have said
his tough-on-crime policies have contributed to problems in the state. “I never stopped searching for the things that work,” O’Malley said. He pointed to policies that broke up gang violence, decriminalized some drug use and reforms that “police the police” in the state — which has made use following high profile police shootings of minorities that ended up being unarmed. 3) Sanders embraces ‘socialist’ label When asked about his own embrace of the term “socialist,” Sanders had no problem defending the label and sticking up for the political ideology that has made him stand out in the Democratic race. Sanders went on to say he defines “democratic socialism” in the United States as the idea that everyone is enabled to cer-
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Sanders: ‘There is so much more to be done’ By Shannon.McCarty @iowastatedaily.com
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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders touted his plan for tuition-free college, ending income inequality, as well as responding to Hillary Clinton’s criticism during a rally at Iowa State on Monday. Sanders, who is the independent senator from Vermont, spoke at Stephens Auditorium as part of the Presidential Caucus Series. With Sanders only 2 percentage points behind Clinton in the latest Bloomberg Politics and Des Moines Register poll, Clinton has increased her criticism of Sanders. Clinton recently said Sand-
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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders hosts a town hall meeting at Stephens Auditorium on Monday.
ers’s health care plan would cause the country to “start over”
and destroy all of the hard work it took to get the Affordable Care
“The Affordable Care Act has done a number of many positive and important things,” Sanders said. Sanders listed those positives, which included making those with pre-existing conditions insurable, allowing people to be on their parent’s insurance untill the age of 26 and insuring an additional 17 million Americans. “We have yet a long way to go,” Sanders said. “There is so much more to be done.” Sanders supports universal health care, allowing for all U.S. citizens to be insured through the government. “I believe health care should be a right for all people,” Sanders said.
Sanders said Republicans wanted to cut off insurance to 27 million people covered by Medicaid or the Affordable Care Act in the last congressional budget plan. “What the Republicans did in their budget is essentially go to war against the elderly, the children, the sick, the poor and working people,” Sanders said. Republicans were not the only ones the Vermont senator called out. Sanders also criticized the Walton family of Wal-Mart during the rally. “The middle class of this country is subsidizing the Walton family because they are not paying their workers a living wage,”
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