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Farmer pursues ‘the perfect pig’
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Lyndi Yoder, 20, of Prairie City, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Lot G3 (reported at 6:50 p.m.).
Tyler Roper, 18, 320 Maple Hall, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at State Gym (reported at 9:10 p.m.).
Kristen Enger, 20, 4625 Steinbeck St., Apt 2, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Lot G2 (reported at 7:10 p.m.).
Harris Midey, 23, of Polk City, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated at Lot G3 (reported at 9:05 p.m.).
Ashley Goslar, 18, 169 Linden Hall, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Lot G3 (reported at 7:36 p.m.). Craig Blass, 19, 4637 Twain St., and Haley Brenneman, 19, 1307 Coconino Road, Unit 314, were cited for underage possession of alcohol at Lot G3 (reported at 7:45 p.m.). Kelsey Schulte, 18, 141E Friley Hall, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Lot G3 (reported at 8:10 p.m.). Cody Calhoun, 20, and Doug Lintz, 20, both of Maxwell, were cited for underage possession of alcohol at Jack Trice Stadium
Chanae Kofron, 20, of Pilot Mound, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Lot G3 (reported at 9:14 p.m.). Karlyn Schori, 18, 1249 Willow Hall, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Willow Hall (reported at 10:17 p.m.).
Oct. 4 Brady Harmelink, 22, 2260 Welch Hall, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at 119 Stanton Ave. (reported at 1:02 a.m.). An individual reported damage to a bike at Friley Hall (reported at 1:39 a.m.).
Correction In Tuesday’s article titled “Community preservation leads to sustainability” it was mistakenly said the lecture took place in Dubuque, Iowa. The lecture took place in Ames. The Daily regrets the error.
Carl Blake, who is working to create the perfect pork, will describe his work with “In Pursuit of the Perfect Pig, with Carl Blake.” Blake, a computer consultant-turned-farmer from Ionia, Iowa, will focus during his lecture on his experience with breeding the perfect pig. “The student planners of the National Affairs Series on Innovation, working with the Committee on Lectures, thought Carl Blake would be a good addition to their series with his original approach to raising perfect pigs, after he appeared on the Stephen Colbert show,” said Patricia Miller, the program manag-
er of the lectures program, via email. Jake Swanson, president of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences student council and founder of the ISU Bacon Expo, said Blake appealed as an interesting person to bring to Iowa State. “I think Carl Blake has found a niche and has had a lot of success,” Swanson said. “I think specialty pork products are a hot topic.” Blake’s creation is a pig called the Iowa SwabianHall. According to an article in the Des Moines Register, the Iowa Swabian Hall is based off of a pig made by King Wilhelm I, of Germany, known as the SwabianHall. The Swabian-Hall was made by crossing a
Meishan, a pig from China, with wild boars to create muscled yet fatty meat. “Obviously, my pigs aren’t going to be exactly the same — there’s almost a century of breeding that went into them,” Blake said in the Des Moines Register article. Blake bought Meishan pigs from Iowa State and a Russian boar from a nature preserve and started creating his breed in 2007. Since then, he has gained national attention, including that of Andrew Zimmern from the Food Network, and of “The Colbert Report.” The Rustik Rooster Farm is home to Blake’s pigs, where now nearly 400 pigs are kept on 15 acres. Blake lets the pigs roam
ExerCYse program works to promote physical fitness among ISU students By Danielle.Welsher @iowastatedaily.com ISU students might think they hardly have any time at all to be physically active with midterm exams, homework and various other activities, but ExerCYse strives to show students that this isn’t always the case. ExerCYse, a kinesiology program at Iowa State, is part of a nationwide global initiative to show how health can play a positive role in people’s lives. “A lot of people feel like they don’t have enough time to exercise,” said Karissa Peyer, graduate student in kinesiology. “But every little bit helps.” Peyer is a student ambassador with the ExerCYse program along with 200 other kinesiology students. ExerCYse has started a number of initiatives, including one called TrekDesk that allows faculty and students to work while walking on a treadmill. The initiative was specifi-
cally designed for people who spend a lot of time sitting at a desk. The organization aims to help these people spend less time desk-bound and more time being physically active. ExerCYse has TrekDesks located in buildings all over campus, including in the bowling alley of the Memorial Union. They are currently open for all students to use. Another effort ExerCYse helped coordinate was the Healthiest State Walk. This walk, which took place on Oct. 9, had more than 298,000 participants. The students involved in ExerCYse helped promote the program and were in charge of chalking the course. Liz Cox, the project manager of Iowa’s Healthiest State Initiative, said: “The main purpose of the walk was to get people outside and be active. Secondarily, we wanted those people to connect so they can do other things in their community to make themselves healthier.”
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The walk also celebrated how Iowa has moved up from being the 19th healthiest state in the nation in 2011, to the ninth healthiest today. Cox said this was an opportunity to remind people that the state is making progress, but there is still work to do. Participants of the walk were asked to walk a minimum of 1 kilometer, which can be described as a 10 or 12 minute brisk walk. “We couldn’t have done any of this without the help of the people in the community,” Cox said. “And college students are a big part of that.” Peyer recommends that students try out different activities that involve physical fitness in order to find one that appeals to them. She also mentioned that looking for a support system can have its benefits as well. “Find someone to commit to exercising with you,” Peyer said. “A lot of people will stick to exercising if they know they have someone to do it with.”
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around in the dirt, and the pigs are not fed commercial feed. Instead, they receive canary grass and barley that is grown hydroponically. Although Blake’s lecture is not endorsed by the Bacon Expo, Swanson said his original idea was to bring Blake to Iowa State around the same time the Bacon Expo would debut. “If any of our attendees [for the Bacon Expo] are interested in hearing him [Blake] speak, this would be a great opportunity for them,” Swanson said. The lecture will be at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, in the Great Hall at the Memorial Union. The lecture is free and open to the public. The ISU Bacon Expo will be on Saturday at the Iowa State Center.
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