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Photo courtesy of CyRide This new bus style will be implemented after Spring Break on the orange 23 route. These new accordion buses are 62 feet long, have 60 seats and will hold an additional 60 standing patrons at a time. The buses will help take care of overcrowding on one of the busiest routes on Iowa State’s campus.
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New buses ■■ 62 feet long ■■ 60 seats, 120 person capacity ■■ $1,374,826 for two buses ■■ 1,519,827 riders on the Orange Route for the 2011 Fiscal Year ■■ Nova Buses, Plattsburgh, N.Y.
Following a six-month delay, this spring, ISU students will be able to set their eyes on a new style of transportation. The Orange Route, which is currently the busiest bus route in the state of Iowa with 1,519,827 riders during the 2011 fiscal year, will see the addition of two new Nova articulated buses, better known as “accordion buses.” These buses were originally supposed to be delivered to Iowa State in August 2012, prior to the start of the fall semester. The buses are now expected to arrive at CyRide sometime in February and could make their debut — at the earliest — on the Orange Route after spring break. According to Sheri Kyras, director of transit for CyRide, the buses were delayed for several reasons. CyRide’s new buses are some of the first buses to feature Nova’s new interior design,
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Michael Eric Dyson, a sociology professor at Georgetown University and influential scholar and American Book Award recipient, will speak Jan. 31 in the Memorial Union Great Hall. His lecture, titled, “Race, Racism and Race Relations in America,” is a part of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. series. The event will be free to the public and begins at 8 p.m. -By Daily staff
The first of a three-part “brown bag” lunch series will be at noon Friday in room 2030 of Morrill Hall. The series provides an informal setting for people to learn more about the Fulbright Program. -By Daily staff
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and there was a delay in production because Nova had to work out some bugs with the new interior design. The second reason for the delay had to do with new paint standards for buses. Kyras stated that there are only a few places in the United States that meet the new paint standards, therefore CyRide’s buses got stuck behind other companies during the painting process. “We are frustrated; we would have loved to have them to begin the fall semester,” Kyras said. “On the other hand, we chose the manufacturer because of what they offer.” The articulated buses measure 62 feet, which is currently 22 feet longer than CyRide’s largest bus. They seat 60 people but can, including standing room, hold a total of 120 people. The buses have a stainless steel frame, which gives them an increased lifespan. They contain wider aisles for easier move-
a part of the greek community. Both students described going through greek recruitment week as a new experience. Oeverli said the amount of girls was terrifying at first, but learned to embrace it. “It was different in a cool way,” Huang said. Huang is a fresh-
What began as Ray Schmidt’s attraction to the colors of Anderson Erickson yogurt lids became roommate Ben Shaffer and Schmidt’s dorm room decoration. Schmidt, sophomore pre-graphic design, and Shaffer, freshman civil engineering, have taken lids from yogurt containers and placed nearly 600 on the ceiling of their Helser Hall dorm room bringing color and attention to their room. This unorthodox room decoration led to Schmidt and Shaffer’s nickname “the Yogurt Guys.” “I’m a design student, so the bold colors [of the lids] stood out to me,” Schmidt said. “I thought there had to be something I could do with them.” The lids were originally collected when Schmidt added yogurt regularly to his meal bundles at Clyde’s before winter break. Shaffer then contributed to the collection as well and began using the lids to line their loft beds. “I was eating a lot of yogurt then and just held onto the lids,” Schmidt said. Shaffer said that the number of lids reached a point where they could no longer be used to just line the lofts. That was when the lids began covering the ceiling. “We started sticking them to the ceiling with sticky tack,” Shaffer said.
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Photo: Yanhua Huang/Iowa State Daily Ryan Huang, freshman in mechanical engineering from Xiamen, China, joined the FarmHouse Fraternity when he came to Iowa State. Huang said he became interested in joining a fraternity after seeing one in pop culture.
Greek life goes international greek system at Iowa By Tedi.Mathis @iowastatedaily.com State. Ryan Huang and Elisabeth Oeverli are students at Iowa State with different majors, different backgrounds and are from different countries, but both made the decision to join the greek system on campus. There are few international students in the
“We really don’t do any special recruiting for international students, and we don’t keep that demographic,” said Cindy Marquardt from Office of Greek Affairs. This did not discourage Huang and Oeverli, and they are glad they made the decision to become
Photo: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily Ray Schmidt, sophomore pre-graphic design, places a yogurt lid on his ceiling. Schmidt and his roommate, Ben Shaffer, have placed almost 600 yogurt lids on the ceiling of their dorm.
More info about the ‘Yogurt Guys’ ■■ Helser Hall dorm room ■■ Nearly 600 collected so far ■■ Goal is to cover their dorm room ■■ Accepts all colors ■■ Donation box located at Clyde’s
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