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Students file into the Hoover Hall auditorium on the first day of classes. Iowa State now has its largest-ever enrollment of 34,732.

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Many students attended the GSB growth and enrollment open forum to hear and discuss issues dealing with increased enrollment. A panel of administrators were available to answer questions and take note of student concerns, including President Steven Leath.

Issues at hand By Oscar.Alvarez @iowastatedaily.com A student concerned with the health center, one concerned with overcrowding, one concerned with tuition increase and another who considers himself homeless all voiced their concerns Wednesday night at

the Government of the Student Body’s open forum. President Steven Leath, Provost Jonathan Wickert, Vice President of Business and Finance Warren Madden, Chief of Staff Miles Lackey and Associate Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Martino Harmon listened to students’ concerns about campus growth and enrollment.

The administrators and GSB coordinated the event because they said they are both still interested in creating solutions to any problems students feel were created by enrollment. “I’m pleased that so many people want to attend ISU. It speaks volumes of the experiences people have had,” Leath said. “We know if the student experi-

Permeable pavers Gradwohl answer building’s celebrates prayers to puddles 50 years of ISU labratory By Jace.Dostal @iowastatedaily.com

Buildings at Iowa State University are using effective new ways to reduce the runoff of excess rainwater. Sukup, Elings and the Biorenewables Building are using permeable pavers to help rainwater soak into the ground. “The biggest reason we are using them [permeable pavers] is that the west side of campus has some severe restrictions in storm water management,” said Kerry Dixon, coordinator of sustainable design with Facilities Planning and Management. When Sukup, Elings and the Biorenewables Building were built, off-flow of rainwater in the new and renovated buildings was required to be less than it was before construction, Dixon said. The new pavers were installed to help meet that goal. Permeable pavers control the flow of rainwater into the ground, said Mike Kunard, territory manager of AZEK Building Products, a company that manufactures permeable pavers. The average landscape can handle a flow rate of about 1 gallon of water per square foot per minute, Kunard said, but permeable pavers can handle 5 gallons of water per square foot per minute. “I love it,” Dixon said. “I was given a tour over at ABE [Sukup, Elings and the Biorenewables building] a couple weeks ago. It was absolutely pouring all morning. We get over there, it stopped raining, and [on] all of the sidewalks coming up were various puddles that everyone’s trying

to avoid, and you hit that plaza and it’s dry.” Driveways, patios, walkways and low slope rooftops are just a few of the places permeable pavers can be used, Kunard said. “We were looking for something that was lightweight and easy to handle, this [permeable pavers] kind of fit the bill,” said Gordon Woods, manager of heating plant maintenance. Recyclability is one of the best features of the new pavers, Kunard said. For every 1,000 square feet of pavers made, 500 tires and 1,500 one gallon plastic containers are removed from landfills. The pavers themselves can be recycled and made into new pavers. “That’s a benefit, that they do have recycled content in them,” Dixon said. “We’re trying to specify and use more products that have a higher recycled content. It’s just less product that’s winding up in a landfill somewhere.” The average price of AZEK pavers are about $8-$10 per square foot while the price of standard concrete is $5-$6 per square foot, Kunard Said. But Dixon said the increase in price shouldn’t prevent someone from using permeable pavers. “That is a first time cost, the long term cost for us not retaining the water on site is much higher,” Dixon said. “The use of permeable pavers pays for themselves very quickly,” Dixon said. Kunard sees the popularity of permeable pavers growing. He said people are becoming more environmentally conscious and they want to be more responsible for rainwater runoff.

By Kelly.Schiro @iowastatedaily.com Field school wasn’t exactly ideal, students had to live without running water and electricity for weeks. Not to mention working in the hot sun or rain during the days. It never stopped David Gradwohl from digging for artifacts. Gradwohl, professor emeritus of anthropology and founding director of ISU Archeological lab, was described as absolutely relentless by his early students. This year, the ISU Archeological Lab celebrates it’s 50 years of existence —if Gradwohl had not found a passion in digging for artifacts, the lab might not have been started. About Gradwohl “I attended the University of Nebraska, starting out as a freshman I had no idea what I wanted to do,” Gradwohl said. It was the summer after his freshman year when he had found his passion. Gradwohl went with a couple of buddies to do fieldwork in South Dakota. “We would live in a tent camp all summer without running water and without electricity,” Gradwohl said. It was his the first time working at a field site. They explored prehistoric and early historic Native Americans who had once lived along the Missouri River.

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A 4.5 percent rise in enrollment in the 2014-2015 school year has led to overcrowding in various places from dining halls to elevators.

Students voice concerns about campus problems at GSB open forum

ence suffers, enrollment suffers, and our reputation suffers.” Transportation was an issue that upset many students. Robert Dunn, senior in pre-business, challenged the administration to take a ride on CyRide to see the problems students face. “I will challenge you specifically to go on the 1 Red route going out to West Ames which is all

student housing and see if you’ll be able to actually get a seat during the entire ride,”Dunn said. Dunn also voiced his concern about rental rates on campus. “I lived in Ames before I became a student and the growth has affected rental rates. The demand for housing has made

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The ISU Archaeological Lab on its first field trip in 1964. Since then, the founder, David Gradwohl, has developed new courses for the anthropology program at Iowa State.

South Dakota State Historical Society was excavating the area before it was flooded by a reservoir. “I went from $1.375 an hour in union wages to $0.75 an hour and living in a tent camp without electricity and running water,” Gradwohl said. “But gee it was fun.” After his freshman summer Gradwohl took classes in anthropology and geology. Not only was the subject material interesting to him, but the instructors were passionate about the subjects they taught. “I always had an interest in rocks, minerals and fossils even as a kid,” Gradwohl said. After graduating, Gradwohl studied in Edinburgh, Scotland where he studied prehistoric archeology of Europe for a year. Upon returning to the U.S., he decided to pursue a degree in anthropology with a specialization in North American and European archeology at Harvard University. It was around this time when Gradwohl and his wife were interested in settling back into the midwest for family and to pursue Gradwohl’s interest in plains archeology. Coincidentally there was a position open at Iowa State for a full-time anthropologist. Gradwohl Begins at Iowa State Gradwohl was working to complete his Ph.D when he was hired at Iowa State, but his dis-

sertation wasn’t quite finished. Today, he wouldn’t have been able to get a job with an incomplete dissertation. Social science was blossoming in the 1960s. There were more jobs than qualified people to fill them, Gradwohl said. He was the first anthropologist hired to teach anthropology full-time at Iowa State. “I would never have the courage or naivete to do that again,” Gradwohl said. There was a lot of interest in social sciences and new courses had to be created. For Gradwohl, it was exciting to develop and create courses in the anthropology program. “It was the time in which President Robert Parks took over and he tried to install a program called ‘the New Humanism,” Gradwohl said. “It brought in new humanities and arts into what had been a university of agriculture, engineering and home economics.” Developing Classes Gradwohl said that often times professors with Ph.Ds weren’t required to take teacher certification classes. As a new instructor he tried to emulate professors he found effective when attending class. “The participatory aspect, I intentionally tried to incorporate,” Gradwohl said, “After we

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