Friday, Oct. 23, 2015 | Volume 211 | Number 43 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
Board of Regents discusses fees, tuition By Mitchel.Anderson @iowastatedaily.com The Iowa Board of Regents concluded its two-day meeting Thursday in Iowa City, where it discussed the addition of a new center at Iowa State, as well as a retention incentive for graduate and professional students and 2016-17 tuition. A group of graduate and pro-
fessional student government members from the three regent universities presented their proposal Wednesday of a financial retention incentive to keep young professionals in Iowa. The proposal included a 50 percent tax break for graduate or professional students who chose to stay in Iowa after graduation, as well as a 75 percent tax break for graduates employed outside of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa City
and Des Moines metropolitan areas. No action was required from the board, and the graduate and professional student governments involved have presented their proposals to Gov. Terry Branstad. Hundreds of protesters also showed up Wednesday at the main lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union to voice their displeasure over the board’s selection
of former IBM executive J. Bruce Harreld as the University of Iowa’s next president. Protesters held signs and chanted, “Hey-hey, ho-ho, the Board of Regents has got to go” after entering the Memorial Union, where they handed over a petition — which had more than 1,000 signatures — that called for the resignation of Harreld and each member of the Board of Regents.
The board discussed and approved Thursday the creation of a new center at Iowa State called the Center for Statistics and Application in Forensic Evidence. Iowa State will be the lead university, partnered with Carnegie Mellon University, University of Virginia and the University of California Irvine, to provide a national research center in forensic
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The Lawn Chairs perform at Bluestem Music Stage in Ames on Oct. 3 and opened for Pieta Brown and Bo Ramsey. The ISU landscape architecture band is composed of an associate professor and ISU students.
Take a seat with The Lawn Chairs Passion for music sparks connection for ISU students, associate professor
By Ashley.Green @iowastatedaily.com
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group of landscape architecture students, faculty and alumni have an extracurricular hobby one might not expect: they’re in a band.
The Lawn Chairs have been performing together since 2012, when the members went on the annual Traveling Savanna Studio. The studio, a second-year landscape architecture learning community, goes on two threeweek-long road trips to different savanna landscapes in the United States.
Michael Martin, associate professor in landscape architecture, was driving a group of students when two of them began to sing along to the radio. The singers in question were Molly Murtha and Morgan Van Denack, who are now seniors in landscape architecture. This particular moment is credited with
the band’s beginning. “These two initiated the band,” said Kyle Schellhorn, senior in landscape architecture and fellow band member. “They just started singing together, and then [Martin] just was like, ‘Oh, well we have a band here.’”
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Campustown adds new hire Campustown Action Association’s new director looks into transportation By Audra.Kincart @iowastatedaily.com
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Jeb Bush Jr. visits with ISU students and Ames community members at West Street Deli on Thursday to campaign on behalf of his father, Jeb Bush. Bush Jr.’s visit is a part of his goal of visiting 450 campuses across the United States to discuss issues students may face.
Candidate’s son visits ISU Jeb Bush Jr. speaks with students about Bush Sr.’s 2016 campaign By Elizabeth.Gray @iowastatedaily.com In an effort to reach out to college students, Jeb Bush Jr., the son of Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, visited with ISU students Thursday afternoon to talk about his father’s campaign for president. The visit was a part of a Bush campaign effort to visit as many college campuses as possible this election cycle. Bush said he has a goal of reaching 450 colleges on behalf of his father’s campaign and plans on making an effort to spend equal time in every state he visits. He opened with a brief introduction about his father and his campaign, and he then quickly
opened it up for questions in regards to Bush’s plans on policy and campaigning. Several students in attendance asked questions, with most focused on student debt and agriculture policy. “Enough is enough,” Bush said on taxes. “The way dad talks about that is, ‘Listen, the most exotic tax plan from Washington D.C. doesn’t even address our debt issues.’” He then continued to explain that, as governor of Florida, Jeb Bush cut taxes every single year. Florida doesn’t have a state income tax, so he had to find other ways to cut taxes within the state to help grow its economy year after year. When asked about Bush’s plans to scale back regulations
put in place by the Environmental Protection Agency to help farmers, he said, “The EPA has been totally out of control with the Fresh Water Act and overregulating and jumping into state and local rights.” He explained that most of what the Department of Interior deals with occurs in the Midwest. He said that Jeb Bush wants to move that department to the Midwest to make it more efficient. Many of the reactions after the meet and greet were regarding the way Bush spoke about his father. Throughout the whole event Bush constantly referred to Jeb Bush as “dad.” Samantha Rodriguez, fresh-
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Campustown Action Association recently hired a new director and can expect to see more spontaneous events in the district. Rebecca Olson was selected as the new director for the Campustown Action Association, beating more than a dozen applicants from Texas to Ames. “She had a great fit and great energy,” said Anne Taylor, past president of Campustown Action Association and owner of Dogtown University. “We’d like to get a wide variety of opinions, not just necessarily our membership.” A committee of four filtered the applicants and narrowed the search to three interviewees. Two separate committees then conducted the interviews. The past director of the Campustown Action Association, Kim Hanna, was the director for three years before resigning this summer. During her tenure as director, Hanna changed the purpose of the position. “It’s a lot more face to face, one-on-one visiting in the area as well as different residential areas on campus and more outreach,”
Taylor said. Olson received her bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University in sociology and has worked at Smithfield, one of the world’s largest hog producers, in Ames, as well as the city of Ames for the planning department. “It seemed relative to exactly what I want to do with my life, which is making the world a better place,” Olson said. The goals of the Campustown Action Association include making Ames a destination for students and the community, creating more business diversity and improving the visual appeal and cleanliness of Campustown as well as addressing transportation issues and furthering business relations. Of the goals described, Olson is focusing on transportation as a priority. “One of the biggest things is getting people to use the Intermodal Facility,” Olson said. As she becomes director, Olson has to connect with businesses and is doing so through a grassroots approach. “The character of Ames, we have so many things here that are a grassroots beginning,” Olson said, adding that Campustown was built on and is sustained using this similar approach.