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Audience members raise their hands in response to knowledge of a black community center on campus at the Students Against Bigotry discussion Wednesday evening.
ISU administrators admit they misunderstood multicultural struggles By Adam.Sodders @iowastatedaily.com Unsafe. Discriminated. Unwelcome. These are the words used to describe how multiple multicultural students feel on the ISU campus every day. And at the “Discussion on Racism, Diversity, and Inclusion at Iowa State,” a public forum hosted by the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs and Student Government on Wednesday night, they shared just how unwelcome they feel. About 550 ISU students, faculty and staff attended the event, which featured two panels: one of administration and one of multicultural students involved with the group Students Against Bigotry. The administrative panel included President Steven Leath, Senior Vice President for Student Affairs Thomas Hill and Dean of Students Pamela Anthony. The main areas of improvement Students Against Bigotry wished to focus on were safety, academic and empowerment for multicultural students, faculty and staff on campus. “As a community, we need to make an environment where people feel safe enough to report hate crimes,” said Maria Alcivar, graduate student in human development and family studies, who was a member of the Students Against
Bigotry panel. Alcivar discussed ISU Police and its response to the protests and poster-ripping during the Cy-Hawk tailgate Sept. 12. Alcivar tearfully described when a woman at the protest shoved a hand into her face and was told “you don’t belong here,” and little was done in response. “I know they have a difficult job,” Alcivar said. “Every cop does.” But she went on to say that ISU Police failed her that day. Leath said he knew police had checked the protest scene after calls about disparaging remarks, but said no calls were made to the department regarding problems at the demonstration as the day went on. Students Against Bigotry panel members expressed their desire for more diversity within the ISU Police Department. The hiring of more women, ethnic minorities and LBGT officers was one of their suggestions. “We recently expanded the (ISU) police force,” Leath said, adding that 18 percent of the force is made up of ethnic minorities and LBGT community members. Another 21 percent, he said, were women. Students on the panel also gave anecdotes from their time at Iowa State when they faced racism, sexism and other intolerant acts.
“I have to admit, my freshman year [at Iowa State] was hell,” said Jazmin Murguia, senior in journalism and mass communication. She said her first roommate made her halloween costume a “Mexican costume,” and used multiple negative stereotypes, such as a mustache. “I didn’t know how to respond to that,” Murguia said, and that she felt uncomfortable in the situation. Nautalia Black of Advance Services, spoke about her experience as an African American in the LGBTQA+ community. “You see the color of my skin, but you don’t know what it’s like to be black and lesbian,” said Nautalia Black of Advance Services. She presented her grievances in spoken-word poetry. “Freshman year, [I] found the words ‘n----- d---’ written on my door,” Black said. “Why can’t [people] see that racism is so much more than Confederate flags and white hoods?” Leath, Hill and Anthony listened to the experiences of the panel members and gave their responses to the students’ concerns. “I’m here for you, Tom’s here for you and Pamela’s here for you,” Leath said to the students. “We need to really look at our campus culture.”
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Pollard, Hoiberg refute Ames Tribune By Max.Dible and Ryan.Young @iowastatedaily.com Travis Hines, a reporter for the Ames Tribune, made waves Wednesday when he published a story detailing what he described as an “at-times troubled relationship” between the ISU basketball team and the ISU Athletic Department during Fred Hoiberg’s fiveyear tenure as head coach. Hoiberg left the program in June for a head coaching job with the NBA’s Chicago Bulls, signing a five-year deal worth $25 million to captain a team for which he once played professionally. The lucrative nature of the position, combined with its rarity, appeared the primary factors for Hoiberg’s leap to the next level. But the recent article from The Ames Tribune suggests that a rocky relationship with the ISU Athletic Department, namely ISU Athletic Director Jamie Pollard, at the very least helped push Hoiberg out of Ames. The article suggests that the men’s basketball team was “nickel and dimed” by Pollard and the athletic department repeatedly. In a radio interview conducted Wednesday afternoon, Hoiberg took exception to the insinuations.
“I have absolutely zero issues with how [Pollard] ran our basketball program. I have a great relationship with Jamie,” Hoiberg said on KXNO-AM. “For somebody to try to paint one of the reasons I left Iowa State [as being] because of how our basketball program was handled is absolutely false.” The story also describes an incident in December 2013 after the team won the championship at the Diamond Head Classic tournament in Hawaii. One anonymous source claims that the team went without hotel rooms in order to save the athletic department from paying an extra night’s rate while it waited to return home. Hoiberg disputed the incident, however, saying that it wasn’t an issue and was misrepresented in the story. “We had to find five hours of stuff to do in Hawaii, big deal,” Hoiberg said on KXNO-AM. “My twins were going out and swimming in the pools with the players. It was a really fun thing to watch them interact with our players. It’s not a big deal.” Questions have been raised by Pollard as well as other skeptics about the reporting that went into the Tribune’s story, which cited “near double-digit sources” depicting the rift between Pollard
and Hoiberg, all of whom were quoted anonymously. While the nature of the information is highly sensitive — potentially lending itself to a necessity of anonymity for those who provided it — Pollard’s primary question is simple. Why quote nearly 10 sources anonymously and then choose not to include Hoiberg when he was willing to go on record refuting what those sources claimed? Hines said he reached out to Hoiberg on several occasions and received no reply. But Pollard said he first learned about the article during the week of the Iowa State and Iowa football game after Hoiberg informed ISU athletic department spokesperson Mike Green that Hines had contacted him. Pollard then referenced a conversation he had with Hoiberg at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, the day before the article ran in the Tribune, saying that Hoiberg called him from his car as he drove to his first practice with the Bulls. During that conversation, Pollard said Hoiberg directly refuted Hines’ claims in the story that Hoiberg was “unavailable” for comment. The following quotes attrib-
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U.S. Congress avoids second shutdown By Alex.Hanson @iowastatedaily.com Hours before the federal government’s legal authority to spend money was set to lapse at midnight Thursday, Congress passed a shortterm spending bill Wednesday to avert a government shutdown. It had been unclear for the past several weeks if Congress would be able to pass a spending bill amid hard-line conservative opposition to funding Planned Parenthood. The U.S. Senate passed funding until mid-December on a vote of 78-20. The House passed an identical version 277-151. “The American people deserve better, which is why Congress passed a budget that balances,” said U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa. “Congress must work together in an open and collaborative dialogue to find the best path forward in order to ensure the government runs efficiently and effectively.” Ernst said Congress needed to pass the “clean” funding bill, even though she supported the plan to defund Planned Parenthood. U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa,
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The Student Government Senate voted down a bill that would have affected the way student organizations request funding from the governing body at Wednesday’s meeting. With a vote of 14 to 21, the Senate failed to pass a bill that would eliminate a bylaw that restricts student organizations from requesting funding from the Student Government under specific circumstances. Vice Speaker Michael Snook said student organizations are not currently allowed to ask for funding from both Student Government and its college constituency councils. This current bill, he said, would do away with that. “I don’t see why we should exclude a certain portion of constituency councils in regards to funding,” he said, pointing out organizations can currently receive funding from both housing constituency councils and Student Government. Snook said it will take some effort on the Senate’s part to educate constituency councils that this does not open the flood gates because not every organization will be eligible for funding. The bill to fund Iowa State Singers was tabled indefinitely with a unanimous vote. Grant Luther, the vice president of Iowa State Singers, said the group was invited to perform in Carnegie Hall in New York City as the premiere choir during Easter weekend. “We’re just asking for any help we can get so everyone would be able to go on the trip and not have any financial trouble at all,” Luther said. The Senate also passed a bill by a vote of 37 to 0 to fund the Iranian Students and Scholars Association, which requested $1,675 for a Nowruz event. The Senate passed a bill by a vote of 30 to 6 to fund ISU Bowling, which requested $3,092.55. A bill unanimously passed that funded the Puerto Rican Student Association $1,275 for a Puerto Rican Cultural Night. PRSA is hosting the event, which is meant to share the group’s culture with the Ames and ISU community.
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who was also opposed to any funding of Planned Parenthood, introduced four amendments to the spending bill earlier in the day. The amendments would defund Planned Parenthood, the Iran nuclear deal, President Obama’s immigration initiatives and the Affordable Care Act. King’s amendments were not added to the bill, and he voted against the final short-term spending bill. “The American people are expecting leadership from the House of Representatives on the issues they care about the most,” King said. U.S. Reps. David Young, Republican from the 3rd District, and Dave Loebsack, Democrat from the 2nd Distirct, both voted for the bill, while U.S. Rep. Rod Blum, Republican from the 1st District, voted against it. 2016 presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham missed the Senate vote record because of campaign activities. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, who are also running for president, voted against the bill. Negotiations for a long-term spending bill are expected to begin.
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