Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014 | Volume 210 | Number 43 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
GSB funds student service groups on campus By Makayla.Tendall @iowastatedaily.com
YUVA and second year Ph.D. student in electrical engineering. Singhal also said different sections of Hinduism, like Jainism and Sikhism, celebrate Diwali but for different historical reasons. “This festival signifies good over evil. Everything related to the light is good. It symbolizes everything: hope, morality, strength, courage, etc.,” Singhal said. The energy was high as the diyas were lit, and some people began exchanging memories of what Diwali was like back in
The Government of the Student Body discussed funding the Student Loan Education Office and the Iowa State Daily during Wednesday night’s senate meeting. A bill to fund the Student Loan Education Office with $116,821.87 was passed by GSB, but senators initially debated funding only half of the initial amount at this point. The office would provide one-on-one student loan counseling and would replace the Financial Counseling Clinic that GSB decided last year was not meeting students’ needs. The more than $116,000 will be put toward paying the salaries of professionals in the office. The Finance Committee for GSB created an amendment that would fund the Student Loan Education Office a little more than $58,000 initially. They said they do not yet know the amount of students who will take advantage of the office, and therefore, they do not know how many faculty members the office will require. Multiple senators said GSB should fund the bill completely or not at all. However, others said the administration would commit the other funding to make up for what GSB may not fund at this point. Hillary Kletscher, GSB president, said she wanted to see the senators fund the bill in full. In her experience, she said she has heard the majority of ISU students’ concerns about their own student debt and how they don’t know how their student loans are structured. “It’s such a real issue. This is something that affects our students in such a real way. To me, I think we should absolutely fund it in the full amount. We want to help them get the most services possible,” Kletscher said. “There are very few things that students get excited about.” ISU students graduate with an average of $30,000 in debt, among the highest of students in Iowa. On average, Iowa students have the sixth largest debt in the nation. “62 out of every 100 students graduate with student debt. Just imagine the number of students we would help by funding this,” said Abhijit Patwa, finance director. While some senators did not understand the need to fund the full bill at this time, Patwa said the university is not required by law to create any office like the Student Loan Education Office and GSB should stand up for students’ needs. The GSB also voted to approve funding the Iowa State Daily an additional $30,000 to the already-funded $110,000 for the 2014-2015 academic year. Senators debated on whether or not the Iowa State Daily needed an additional $30,000 and if they were serving students’ needs in the best way. Some senators said they had talked to many students who said the Iowa State Daily had not been meeting their needs or printing stories that students wanted to read. One senator also said that though the student newspaper has a tradition of serving students for 125 years, traditions can be changed. Another publication may take the Daily’s place if it ceases to exist, they said. Other senators said a student newspaper provides the
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Sam Kammermeier, senior in nutritional science, and AJ Tjaden, junior in international business and marketing, display their bow ties on Wednesday at the Delta Upsilon house.
The bow t ie guys ISU students look to bring back the ‘classic’ bow tie trend By Kenzi.Mongar @iowastatedaily.com From flying pigs to polka dot patterns, the bow tie is making a comeback. ISU students Aj Tjaden and Sam Kammermeier collectively have more than 50 bow ties. They can be seen two or three times a week sporting them around their necks on campus. Their uncommon fashion accessory has given them the nickname “the bow tie guys.” Kammermeier, senior in nutritional science, had his own bow tie business during the summer. The business, Better Men Bow Ties, made just less than $500 in one month. He learned to sew for the purpose of making his own bow ties, which he sold for $15 each. “I realized that was a lot of work. I was taking a lot of time to make bow ties that weren’t the best quality, so I stopped sewing them and started buying them,” Kammermeier said. He registered his business and was able to purchase bow ties wholesale, but then he began
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Together ISU students AJ Tjaden and Sam Kammermeier have more than 50 bow ties. The collection features various colors and patterns including polka dot, stripes and paisley. Among the collection are special “conversational” statement bow ties as well.
an internship and didn’t have the time to do it anymore. Kammermeier and Tjaden met when they noticed each other wearing bow ties all of the time. “Any guy that wears a bow tie can tell you it’s sort of an odd thing to wear, so when you see someone wearing a bow tie it’s like an instant connection,” Kammermeier said.
Tjaden, junior in marketing, said his bow tie hobby was sparked in college when his friends brought back bow ties from their study abroad trips for him. Kammermeier started the hobby in high school at his prom because he wanted to be the unique kid with the bow tie.
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Diwali night makes students feel at home By Morgan.Kelly @iowastatedaily.com
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Abhinav Venkatraman lights a candle at a Diwali celebration at the Memorial Union fountain. The event, which took place on Wednesday, is a celebration of the victory of light over darkness and is celebrated by many cultures in Asia.
Shouts of “Happy Diwali!” bounced off the walls outside of the Memorial Union as members of Hindu YUVA lit diyas, small lamps or candles, on top of the Fountain of the Four Seasons. Members of the Hindu YUVA, or Youth for Unity Virtues and Action, and others gathered around the fountain to celebrate night two of Diwali. Diwali is a Hindu celebration of the return of Lord Rama after he defeated a demon, said Ankit Singhal, president of Hindu