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Morris ready for smaller workload By Luke.Manderfeld @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State guard Monté Morris didn’t get much time to relax during games last season. Morris averaged 38.0 minutes per game, which ranked fourth in the nation. His large workload came from a bit of necessity and a little bit of coach Steve Prohm’s preference. But nonetheless, it took a toll on Morris, especially down the stretch when Morris was dealing with a shoulder injury in his shooting arm. But this season, his workload could take a cut — and it’s for the better. “[We want him to play] 30 to 32 minutes
with gusts up to 40,” Prohm said with a grin. “If he we can keep him to the 30 to 32-minute range, that would be great. Because I think it does keep him healthy. It keeps him pushing the ball at the tempo that he needs to play with.” Incoming transfer Donovan Jackson, a junior, will take some load of Morris’ shoulders and is expected to play the 1 as well as the 2 for the Cyclones. Even though Morris’ playing time will take a cut, he isn’t complaining. “I think it’ll help me for sure,” Morris said. “I know that there is longevity in the seaons and I’ve just got to be as fresh as I can be. It’s great to have a guy like Donovan on the roster that can take pressure off of me.” Morris, who returned this season after considering going to the NBA Draft, is nearing a couple of Iowa State all-time records. He also enters the season with 551 career assists, which is 114 less than Jeff Hornacek’s all-time mark of 665. He also is 40 steals away from swiping the all-time steals record from Hornacek, who racked up 211. Morris put up 241 assists and 62 steals last season, and he even believes that he could break the record before the conference season begins. Morris’ cut in playing time likely won’t affect his ability to break those records, as he’s well within striking distance. He’s certainly not worried. “With these shooters we got and the playmakers that we have in here, I don’t think it will be that much of a problem,” Morris
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Weiler-Babb’s ‘NBA potential’ By Ryan.Young @iowastatedaily.com Nick Weiler-Babb has been around the Iowa State basketball program a long time. He is now, finally getting to see the court for the first time. Nick transferred to Iowa State from Arkansas following the 201415 season and then redshirted due to NCAA transfer rules. And after sitting out all of last season, Iowa State coach Steve Prohm had high praise for the redshirt sophomore at the team’s annual media day on Wednesday. “When you talk about NBA potential, [Nick] may have the most NBA potential — when you’re just looking at straight NBA potential — on our roster,” Prohm said. Now, that may come as a surprise to many Iowa State basketball fans. But looking at his family history, it’s fitting that Nick be placed in that category. His brother, Chris, played at Iowa State from 2010 to 2012 and quickly made a name for himself as one of the leagues top defenders. Following his success at Iowa State, Chris continued his career in the NBA D-League. He also had two stints with the Boston Celtics and briefly played for the Golden State Warriors last year. Currently, Chris has signed to play in Europe for the upcoming season.
Nick is following in almost identical fashion to that of his brother, who transferred to Iowa State after two seasons at Penn State. As a freshman at Arkansas, Nick played in just 26 games and averaged only 4.8 minutes per contest. His career high with the Razorbacks was a mere five points. But Nick has come a long way since then, which he credits mostly to his year off. “The year off has probably been the biggest thing that helped me to get me to where I am so far,” Nick said. “Being able to get to the sideline and kind of just watch and see, knowing that he’s not going to call my name, but I still have to know how he likes to play and get up and down the court. “Just sitting out every day [I knew] that this is my chance to get better. I can lift every day. I can [play basketball] every day.” More specifically, Nick’s offensive game has improved immensely since his freshman season. He said he’s not just a defensive player anymore. “I think I’ve been able to score it a lot better since I’ve been at Arkansas. At Arkansas, I was more of a defensive, hardnosed guy,” Nick said. “Here, I’ve still been that
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Bill Clinton makes surprise visit in Ames By Alex.Connor @iowastatedaily.com
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Former President Bill Clinton makes a surprise visit at the Starbucks in Ames on Wednesday afternoon.
Venti black coffee. Just in case you were wondering what former President Bill Clinton ordered during an unannounced stop at a Starbucks in Ames on Wednesday afternoon. The former president, who is currently on a bus tour across Iowa in an effort to encourage Iowans to vote early, told reporters that he is “beyond being moved or surprised” by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and that he “has been for a long time.” Bill Clinton said that he was “really proud” of his wife for the way that she handled Sunday’s presidential debate against Trump, but that most of all he “felt bad for the citizens who were sittin’ on the stage.” “[They] had been told if they came here they could ask questions about what they really care about that affects their lives,” he said. “And very few of them got to.” Bill Clinton was in Indianola, Iowa earlier Wednesday at Simpson College to show support for his wife and Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and push the main issues of her campaign. United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack also made a surprise stop at Starbucks with the former president, telling the Iowa State Daily that he is “really pleased with the positive aspect of his [Bill Clinton’s] message, which is that there is a great deal of opportunity in the United States and that there is a great opportunity for a brighter and better future.” Vilsack campaigned with Bill Clinton during the 2008 presidential election and Iowa caucus season. The former Iowa governor said that he thinks campaigning today is a great opportunity to reconnect with the [former] president. “He believes Secretary Clinton — with her energy policy [and] with her infrastructure investment — will bring us a stronger economy and build on the work that was done and [build] a fairer economy,” Vilsack said, adding that Bill Clinton is spreading a “real positive message.” “I was proud of her [Hillary] and I looked at her and I realized she was gonna — that’s the kind of person you want to be president,” Bill Clinton said. “[She’s] calm
and relaxed and focused on other people. That’s what the election ought to be about. I mean it’s a clear choice.” Julie Hartung, a Starbucks employee present for the surprise arrival of the former president, said that it was a really exciting experience. “We saw that there were police in here earlier and we didn’t know what they were there for and then we heard through the grapevine… he was coming in,” Hartung said. “And then we saw the bus come up and we were all excited and we got to just serve them coffee. I think they all just got black coffees.” Taking time to individually meet, greet and chat with students, Bill Clinton worked his way throughout the small coffee shop for over 30 minutes. Before his arrival, there were roughly 30 people at the location, but upon leaving, hundreds of people were gathered outside to see the former president. Rena Knutson, a senior in finance, who was at the surprise appearance said that she voted for Hillary Clinton on Monday and that it was really exciting to see Bill Clinton.
ISU Police look to hire Mandarin speaker By Danielle.Gehr @iowastatedaily.com With 11 percent of the student population being international students, the language barrier is often a major issue that makes the transition for these students rather discouraging. After an increase in international students, International Student Services looked at different parts of the university that worked closely with these foreign exchange students in order to find new ways to make their learning experience more comfortable. This eventually led the Iowa State Police Department to put out a national posting to find a Mandarinspeaking cop. Aaron DeLashmutt, the interim chief at the ISU Police Department, said, “We’re excited for it and fingers crossed that we’re going to be successful. I know that it is a pretty specific skill set that we’re looking for. I was pleased with the response.”
Out of all of the international students, the most common native language is Mandarin. That is why ISU Police decided that a cop with that skill set would be useful to the university. ISU Police officers have had situations where they have seen firsthand the usefulness of these language abilities. Currently, they are limited to resources throughout the university to help them with that language barrier, and other Mandarin-speaking students are not an option for aid since there is no way of knowing how reliable that student may be. “We’ve had instance in the past where we could’ve utilized that ability, that skill set on hand,” DeLashmutt said. ISU Police has one officer who is proficient in American Sign Language and another who has some skills in it, DeLashmutt said. As far as he knows, there are no other officers with fluent multilingual skill sets. The department opened the application process in early
September and has since ended it. It has received several responses, and since it does not require prior police experience, it has people of all different skill sets. DeLashmutt said the department hopes to start its assessment period by the end of the month. DeLashmutt also acknowledged that another difficulty with trying to hire someone of this skill set is it may be hard to keep them in Ames. Such specific skills may make this officer an attractive candidate for other departments around the country. “I’ve got to imagine that they’ll be a hot commodity for other departments and stuff so we’ll have to try to keep them hidden for awhile,” Delashmutt said. The department’s goal, Delashmutt said, is to have someone hired by February. This will give it the opportunity to get the hiree into the spring police academy and have them out on the force as soon as possible.
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Student Government Vice President Cody West (left) consults Vice Speaker Conner Tillo on Wednesday.
Staudt voices concern over possible tuition hike By Linda.Brown @iowastatedaily.com and By Travis.Charlson @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State Student Government discussed campus security, student tuition and seated three new senators during the weekly Senate meeting on Wednesday.
Student Body President Cole Staudt expressed his concerns about the next wave of tuition increases that are being proposed by the Board of Regents later this month. President Steven Leath’s initial proposal for a campus-wide, two-tiered tuition model on top of the increase also was a topic of discussion.
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