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ISU Police seeks help identifying suspect in bookstore robbery The ISU Police Department is requesting that the public assist them in the identification of a male suspected of stealing numerous items from the Iowa State University Book Store.

The suspect is a white male with a medium build, and he has brown curly hair.

He has been seen in the store on several occasions and is believed

to have stolen items from the store on each visit, said Capt. Aaron DeLashmutt.

The suspect pictured has a red, yellow and green skateboard.

Anyone with information concerning the suspect’s identity is encouraged to contact ISU police at 515-294-4428.

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Donate to Stuff the Bus this weekend

By Elizabeth.Polsdofer Daily staff writer From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, various grocery stores across Ames will be accepting nonperishable food dontations for Stuff the Bus. Donation stations will be set up at HyVee (Lincoln Way and West Ames), Fareway (downtown and North Ames), Sam’s Club, and Dahl’s.

“It’s a great way to give back to the Ames community, and it’s a lot of fun,” said Shalee Hanson, junior in journalism and mass communication and public relations manager at the Iowa State Daily. “This year we’re donating to Mid-Iowa Community Action (MICA) and Food at First.”

Hanson said that CyRide buses will be parked outside each of the donation stations to be packed with non-perishable foods.

After receiving food donations, the buses will be driven to MICA and Food at First.

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Sign language course provides fresh take on deaf linguistics

By Rachel.Sinn @iowastatedaily.com Being comfortable with your body provides for better learning abilities when it comes to American Sign Language, according to Jonathan Webb, ASL instructor and interpreter and lecturer in world languages and cultures. This fall is the first semester ASL courses have been offered on the ISU campus, and the demand to learn is expected to grow.

“From what I understand, there’s been talk of offering American Sign Language here for 20 years,” Webb said. “With the advent of American Sign Language being offered, with kind of some crystal ball gazing, we’re assuming this program is going to grow. It’s going to flourish and it’s going to possibly offer some career choices to some individuals.”

Webb said that like all basic language courses, ASL 101 is based on conversation and giving someone a basic communication ability.

“People can expect a rigorous class,” Webb said. “There is still this pervasive idea out there that ‘Oh, ASL will be easier to learn than other spoken languages.’”

Webb suspects that for students who are coordinated with their hands, ASL will come more naturally.

“It really comes down to: Are you able to process and use a visual language? Can you kind of whiten out or ‘turn off’ temporarily that part of your brain that says language has to be lin-

Photo: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily Alec Barnum-Luna, freshman in linguistics, and Tiffany Bosse, freshman in kinesiology and health, converse in WLC105X, American Sign Language I.

ear and it has to be audible?” Webb said. “[Can you] move into a place where language cannot just be linear, but three-dimensional, and where it’s not audible, but it’s actually visual?”

Tiffany Bosse, freshman in kinesiology and health, loves the course and being able to practice and understand the language with classmates.

“When [classmates] see each other on campus, we will use some signs, and we will start laughing because

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■■ There are only seven universities in the United States that offer American Sign Language, or ASL, as a major. If Iowa State creates an ASL major, they will be number eight.

■■ Sign language is not the same in every country. If a person fluent in ASL visited France, they would be able to communicate using sign language. However, the

same person could not communicate using sign language while in the United Kingdom.

■■ The grammar structure of ASL is different than American English.

SignGenius.com, a website dedicated to ASL, gives the example: ■■ Written American English: “I am running in front of the car.”

■■ American Sign Language: “I in front of car running.”

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Asbestos discovered on 3rd floor of Parks

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Photo: Liz Zabel/Iowa State Daily Renovation of Parks Library is expected to be completed by Thanksgiving.

Chairs, tables and equipment are stored toward the front of the room, stacked on each other while other areas of the third floor are being worked on.

Renovations on the third floor of Parks Library began as a simple project to recarpet and revamp study spaces. This all changed when asbestos was discovered beneath the carpet.

Asbestos, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, is a naturally occurring mineral resistant to heat and corrosion used in materials for insulation, tile and building materials.

The mineral is infamously linked to negative health effects, such as lung cancer and mesothelioma, which result from breathing in the hazardous fibers.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration highly regulates the now well-known dangerous material.

Although scary and inconve-

nient to discover, Olivia Madison, dean of the library, has handled the situation with confidence. She said as they began recarpeting in the summer, they had discovered far more asbestos than they thought they would.

After taking samples on the third floor, they discovered some areas with asbestos, but this was far worse than they had imagined, slowing the project dramatically and making it much more costly.

In order to deal with the dislodged asbestos, they needed to remove all the carpeting, even under the stacks, which, Madison said, is not a simple task. They had to lift and move each stack with a hydraulic lift. Afterwards, they were able to chemically remove the asbestos.

The areas in which the asbes-

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Jonathan Petersen, 35, of Correctionville, was arrested and charged with public intoxication in the 100 block of Welch Ave. (reported at 1:55 a.m.).

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Cole Gutschenritter, 20, of Creston, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Lincoln Way and Welch

A staff member reported food items were dumped throughout a kitchenette at Wallace Hall (reported at 12:50 p.m.).

An individual reported damage to a motorcycle at Lot 112A (reported at 4:11 p.m.).

Jordan Gheer-Bertrand, 24, 3410 Emrald Rd., was arrested and charged with criminal mischief in the fifth degree and public intoxication (reported at 1:45 a.m.).

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Correction: In Thursday’s article about the debate, Obama was misquoted as saying “...[he] would be a perfect president...,” but Obama actually said, “...[he] would ‘not’ be a perfect president...”

In Thursday’s article about the third party candidates, Roseanne Barr was stated to be running for the Green Party.

Jill Stein is running for the Green Party and Barr is running for the Peace and Freedom Party.

In Wednesday’s article about the Republican elector resigning, it was stated that Melinda Wadsley was asked to resign on Dec. 13, 2011, when in fact it she was asked on Sept. 13, 2012.

The Daily regrets the errors.

>>SIGN LANGUAGE.p1 we know what the other person is saying,” Bosse said.

ASL courses use a variety of different methods to test students on their knowledge. The midterm, for example, is divided into three components. A written portion will be given to test students on the structure of ASL and its history. An expressive portion must be completed where students video tape themselves signing their autobiography. The third portion tests reception of the messages given by Webb with a series of stories told to students who listen and answer questions.

Webb spends 60 percent of his time teaching and 40 percent of his time interpreting for students through Student Disability Resources.

“Minority groups tend to go where they feel comfortable, and part of the reason why this position has been established with Student Disability Resources is because they want deaf individuals to feel

>>ASBESTOS.p1 tos abatement was occurring were sectioned off from unpermitted tenants to make sure everyone was kept safe.

In addition to these barriers, the Facilities Planning and Management employees were making sure to follow all proper health codes, Madison said.

“There’s no way anything is getting out,” Madison said, adding they are following the strictest standards for removal. “Technology for asbestos removal is much more advanced than in the past … [and] it’s not in the heating ducts or airborne, which makes a huge difference.”

Madison found it a mystery that asbestos appeared in only some areas of the floor. When

comfortable coming to campus,” Webb said.

Webb hopes that ASL eventually becomes its own major at Iowa State and provides a chance for teaching careers to expand the knowledge of the language.

“There’s nothing that’s been decided, but there is talk of a major in American Sign Language,” Webb said. “There’s talk of interpreter education taking place here, where individuals will become fluent in the language and then be educated and trained in the process of actually simultaneously interpreting between English and ASL.” Alejandro “Alec” Barnum-Luna, freshman in linguistics, said as an active learner, he enjoys being able to use his hands to communicate.

“I’m thinking about switching this to my major once they build it to sign language interpretation or something. I love working with my hands, and being involved and using [ASL],” Barnum-Luna said.

Among many misconceptions about

they renovated the fourth floor, built in the same time period, they didn’t find any asbestos.

When they went to recarpet the lower level over the summer, they also discovered asbestos, but because it hadn’t been dislodged, it was safe to install “carpet on carpet” — a way to recarpet without removing the existing carpet by adding a second layer — which Madison said is becoming more and more common, especially when dealing with older buildings.

“As long as you don’t destroy the carpet and therefore cause problems with asbestos getting dislodged, you don’t have to go through what we’re doing on 3rd floor,” Madison said.

Although asbestos became

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sign language, Webb said, one of the most common is that ASL is universal.

“If I was to go to France, I would be able to communicate with deaf people fairly well, but if I was to go to England, where our spoken languages are shared, I wouldn’t be able to communicate with them,” Webb said.

According to SignGenius.com, an ASL website, sign language was not established in America until the mid-18th century when Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet traveled to Europe to visit a sign language institution in Paris and met Laurent Clerc, a recent French deaf school graduate.

Together they developed a sign language that would be better suited to Americans.

Alicia Galloway, senior in environmental science, said the class has expanded her view on communication.

“Just being able to see the concept of something versus just the meaning of the word and visualizing things more,” Galloway said. “I pay more attention to people’s body language now.”

an issue and elongated the renovation at Parks library, Madison said the addition was about much more: evaluating how students really use the building and accommodating for those needs.

Madison said the third floor is seen as the “noisy floor,” where students go to work in collaboration.

Passonneau said they received strong negative feedback about the older part of the building, north of the glass wall, where the study carrel desks were located, especially from graduate students.

“Graduate students said the carrels had got to go,” Passonneau said. “[They were] dirty, too small and didn’t fit their needs.”

To accommodate the needs of these students, not only graduate but also undergraduate, Madison decided to take on the challenge of removing them.

Madison said the carrels must have been built to last 100 years, if not more, because

when they went to remove them, they had to rip them out, basically destroying the wall.

In place of the cramped carrels, there will be a study space for every two former cubicles: easily able to seat one person comfortably, but two or even three people could work together.

Chairs, tables and lighting will also be replaced, vastly improving not only the aesthetics of the study area but also energy efficiency.

This renovation, Madison said, is only Phase One of the transformation. She said she hopes to plan for Phase Two: a much more resource-intensive design, emerging technology and learning.

Passonneau said, “It’s really meeting the needs of 21stcentury students.”

Madison said students have been amazingly patient, and she hopes the renovations will provide them with a much more appealing learning environment: a space which students are really proud to use.

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Question concept of intellectual

Home affairs drive, define 2012 election There may be disagreement on the specifics, but this year’s national election is and will be defined by domestic policy. In the words of CNN, “The economy, unemployment, taxes and how to manage the federal government’s $14 trillion debt will be leading issues in the 2012 campaign.”

A substantial majority of Americans agree. According to one of CNN’s polls, 46 percent of Americans believe the economy is the most important issue facing the country. Fifteen percent of Americans thought the most important issue was the federal budget deficit, 14 percent thought it was health care, and 10 percent thought it was education. Only 4 percent thought the most important issue was Afghanistan.

Foreign affairs rarely gain much attention. That is especially so when President Barack Obama’s rhetoric focuses on the middle class and — ­ still — the economic crisis that began during President George W. Bush’s second term and set the stage for his first. Nor do Mitt Romney’s credentials as CEO of Bain Capital and governor of Massachusetts help bring events abroad into campaign issues.

Yet, it is in foreign policy that the president has the greatest latitude. It is as the representative of the United States, interacting with other heads of state, that the president can act with greatest flexibility.

In that arena, expediency governs action, and discretion is essential.

There is not enough time to consult Congress and expose matters of national security; the president can take whatever measures are not prohibited by Congress. In foreign affairs, the president is the commander-in-chief and does not need to persuade other agents of the United States. There, he can simply command.

The first presidential debate was about domestic issues and both the vice presidential debate and second presidential debate will be split between foreign and domestic issues, but that approach does not allow the candidates to shine in the area for which they are responsible.

After all, it is Congress that has the power to make laws and, if the president fails to carry them out faithfully according to the Constitution, to impeach and put on trial the president. That approach does not allow the American people to vet the candidates in light of purely and exclusively presidential powers.

Nor does it force the American people — constituents, voters and representatives alike — to take responsibility for acting to fix whatever ails the country. Often, popular discourse indignantly asks, “Why doesn’t the president do something?”

Well, he can’t. The People can.

Each branch of government has a separate sphere, and we need to consider them within those spheres.

Photo courtesy of Thinkstock According to Daily Ian Timberlake, “intellectualism is valuing rational thinking and reason in everyday life, provided you don’t already believe yourself to be an intellectual. It does not mean actually being intelligent...”

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hat men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”

That is one of my favorite quotes of all time. Truer words than these by Aldous Huxley are rarely uttered. In his book “Brave New World Revisited,” Huxley also wrote, “Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.”

The accuracy of this statement about a lack of intellectualism in the masses makes the first quote remain true.

What I do not understand is why the word “intellectual” even exists. Using that concept creates two distinct groups: intellectuals and people opposed to them.

Normally, the opposition is characterized by standing upright and proud in their ignorance, not by valuing rationality and facts.

Using the phrase “intellectual” to describe people lumps them into identities rather than considering them in terms of how they argue and act. It could stem from everyone’s desire to follow the crowd to enact “populism.” To those within the populace, a fish that swims upstream can come off as elitist and/or arrogant.

To call someone an “intellectual” is ultimately to reduce yourself — to belittle your own capacity to rationalize and learn.

Intellectualism is valuing rational thinking and reason in everyday life, provided you don’t already be-

By Ian.Timberlake @iowastatedaily.com lieve yourself to be an intellectual.

It does not mean to actually be intelligent, though most people who are might be called “intellectual.”

Chided by a Facebook friend in a comment about some of the articles I write, I was told I needed to “...spend less time trying to be a high intellectual...” if I wanted to be taken seriously. This led me to thinking about how peculiar such a statement was. Isaac Asimov once said: “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

Intellectualism has colloquially lost its value, and it seems this isn’t a recent occurrence — or maybe, rather, it was never valued to begin with. Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth were in part founded to combat anti-intellectualism by people such as Puritan John Cotton, who wrote a book in 1642 denouncing the “intellectual.”

Every human being on Earth should strive to be an intellectual.

All it takes is the value of thinking for yourself, critically, and having

taboo. The quickest way to solve societal problems and overcome difficulties is to detach yourself from what you believe to be true and instead focus on logical education.

At a university such as Iowa State, we already have a high ratio of intellectuals in comparison to society. Being redundant, this is not to say that intellectuals must go through university, but that university seems to be the hub for intellectual thought. The act of being an intellectual is no more than maintaining the status quo of the success of humanity. To do anything less would be subverting the human species one profound thought at a time.

The idea of “intellectualism” needs to go away. It creates an unnecessary dichotomy within society: the “thinkers” and the “nonthinkers.” Or stereotypically, the “snobs” and the “normal.” It disenfranchises people’s ability to advance society and makes room for actual elitism.

People, regardless of level of education attained, should not only think of themselves as intellectuals but should actually be intellectuals. Also, the funny thing is that everyone has that capacity upon birth. People only lose it through many years of intellectual devaluing.

IanTimberlake is a senior in aerospace engineering from Chicago, Illinois.

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a desire to learn. It also requires the ability to converse within the taboo. Breaking the taboo is a must. Ignorance might be bliss, but knowledge is power, and it should be valued— especially here at a prominent university.

Albert Einstein wrote, “Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.” “Equanimity” is synonymous with “mental calmness,” and with that, Einstein was voicing his opinion on the taboo as well as likening the majority to sheep.

To be an intellectual, you must be willing to doubt; doubt anything and everything. Run an experiment yourself or accept only that which has gone under considerable objective scrutiny by other so-called “intellectuals.”

Einstein said, “No amount of experimentation could ever prove [my theory of general relativity] right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” Feynman, the acclaimed successor to Einstein, said, “We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize the ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty — some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.”

You also must be willing to go against the crowd and fight the

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hat if?”

Like many others, I often find myself asking this question. What if I had chosen a different major or a different school? What if I had never met so-and-so? It’s easy to be trapped by these questions and guilt. We are often advised to live our lives with no regrets, especially by older generations. Is this possible?

As a junior, I have begun to feel the imminent reality of graduation and the future.

Admittedly, this overwhelmed me at the beginning of the year. I panicked about whether I had chosen the right major or not. This was mostly due to the fact that I had zero desire to go to graduate school (which is arguably necessary being an English major), and I also couldn’t picture being content with one job or career that my undergraduate studies had supposedly prepared me for.

Truthfully, I wanted to open a coffee shop.

As great as my experience has been at Iowa State, I wanted to get out of Iowa and move somewhere new and begin a grand adventure.

I had already “chosen my adventure” at Iowa State, and I needed a new one. I began to regret the time I had seemingly wasted at college when I bounced around from major to major. I tried history, Spanish, German and linguistics and finally decided on English. And I hit a point when I thought I should simply quit “wasting time” and drop out, so I could pursue my dreams.

Luckily, I was able to take time to consider my decisions that had led me to this point, and I realized that I could have this dream and be happy with all of the things I had done to get to this point in my life. My best friend Kate and I began planning on opening a coffee shop after we graduate next December. Of course, we are still figuring out details and making this dream happen will take a lot of work, but I am happy to look toward the future and move on.

Sharing dreams and talking through decisions is vital, and we have the potential to inspire each other and help each other realize our hopes and goals for the future.

I recently read an interesting story about decision-making in college in a blog post titled “The Regret Fallacy.” The author, Dan Shipper, also happens to be a college junior, and he wrote about a conversation he had with an old teacher

By Kristen.Daily @iowastatedaily.com and mentor.

He posed the question of whether he should stay in school or drop out. He was concerned about missing opportunities and how he would live with his decisions about the future.

The conversation then turned to the subject of regret. Shipper explained that he had read that you end up “regretting the things that you don’t do, rather than the things that you do.” So regrets come from times when you decide not to do something.

His old teacher and mentor countered this statement by asking, “But isn’t every decision not to do something also a decision to do something else in disguise?” With this question, the older man pointed out the meaningless distinction. Of course, there are right decisions, and there are wrong decisions, but we can’t always know which is which. Sometimes we simply have to decide and see where the path leads us.

The turning point of their conversation was when Shipper’s mentor explained regret as a function of hindsight. Since we can’t see into the future, we never have the benefit of hindsight, but it doesn’t make any sense to judge decisions made without the benefit of hindsight and then beat yourself up emotionally.

He said that all we can do is make decisions carefully — sometimes we will choose right, and sometimes we will choose wrong. If we make the wrong decision, the best thing we can do is try to learn from our mistakes and move on. It does no good to dwell on past mistakes.

The last point he made was that “regretting a pivotal decision basically means you want an entirely new life… And so the only time you ever regret a decision is if you’d rather give up every single part of your life from [the moment of your decision] until now… that, my friend, is the regret fallacy.” These words made all of the difference to me. I realized I can’t regret any decision that has led me to where I am today. It is the unique set of choices I have made, people I have met and places I have lived that have brought me to where I am today.

So don’t be frozen with fear or guilt. All we can do is stop asking “What if?” and try to make the best decisions we can with all of the information we have available and move on.

Kristen Daily is a junior in English from Orange City, Iowa.

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Texas Christian University Fort Worth, Texas Private university Enrollment: 9,518 Student-to-faculty ratio: 18-to-1 A 72-year member of the now-defunct Southwest Conference, TCU was part of the WAC, Conference USA and Mountain West before joining the Big 12 on Oct. 10, 2011.

Gary Patterson is in his 11th year as TCU coach (110-30).

As an at-large bid, TCU won the 2011 Rose Bowl and is just one of 11 teams to have played in all modernday BCS bowls (Rose, Orange, Sugar, and Fiesta).

TCU is 3-0 all time against Iowa State in football.

Iowa State will host first games against TCU, West Virginia

By Dan.Cole @iowastatedaily.com The ISU soccer team takes to its new home field for the first time this weekend as it plays host to TCU Friday and No. 16 West Virginia

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The Cyclones (8-6, 0-3 Big 12) will get their first chance to play at the new Cyclone Sports Complex Friday night against the Horned Frogs.

The new complex, located at the intersection of Mortensen Road and Welch Avenue in Ames, is a brand-new, $13 million facility. The state-of-the-art complex includes a

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Cyclone Sports Complex The ISU soccer team gets its first chance to break in the brand new Cyclone Sports Complex this weekend.

■■ Cost: $13 million ■■ Location: Intersection of Mortensen Road and Welch Avenue in Ames ■■ Capacity: 1,500 people ■■ Amenities: Home and away locker rooms, team meeting rooms, athletic training room, press box, scoreboard ■■ The Cyclone Sports Complex is home to the ISU softball and track and field teams, as well.

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Decision-making will be key versus TCU

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File photo: Iowa State Daily ISU running back Jeff Woody breaks through the offensive line Dec. 3, 2011. Woody says sound decision-making will play a key part in this weekend’s game against TCU.

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For the second straight year, the Cyclones have started conference play 0-1 after a bye week.

On Saturday, Iowa State (3-1, 0-1 Big 12) will travel to Fort Worth, Texas, to play the No. 16 Texas Christian (40, 1-0). The Horned Frogs hold an all-time record of 3-0 against the Cyclones.

Entering Saturday, the Horned Frogs hold the longest active NCAA winning streak at 13 games.

“We embrace that challenge that we are the Big 12 and we get these opportunities, and this is another one of them,” said ISU coach Paul Rhoads. “That’s a great challenge and a great opportunity.”

After a loss to Texas Tech last weekend, the Cyclones will head down to Texas with hopes of avoiding another four-game losing skid like the one the team experienced last season after starting 3-0.

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The offense has been hard at work perfecting the key components within its system and trying to pick apart a possibly confusing TCU defense, which ranks seventh in the nation in fewest yards allowed.

“We have got to spend a lot of time this week and have spent a lot of time this week getting to know their [types of] coverage,” said offensive coordinator Courtney Messingham.

TCU is tied for second nationally in interceptions with nine. In the loss against Texas Tech, Iowa State’s Steele Jantz threw three interceptions and now has seven for the season.

In order to keep the TCU interception statistic at just nine, the offense has been working on the running back rotation this week in practice.

“We need to run the ball well, but we also have to understand if it’s Shontrelle, if it’s James [White], Jeff Woody or DeVondrick Nealy, we have to block it up front and make a crease so they can go make a safety miss,” Messingham said.

The Horned Frogs’ rush defense is currently ranked No. 8 in the nation, allowing just 78.75 yards per game.

ISU running back Jeff Woody said the offensive line and running backs have been working together to clear up some running lanes.

“The splits for the offensive line got a little tight; they started to condense down, which clogs down the running lanes,” Woody said. “So, opening those back up is good for the running backs.”

TCU’s true freshman Devonte Fields leads the Big 12 in sacks with five; he also has 8.5 tackles for loss.

Rhoads said when the offense isn’t moving, there is more to the art of keep-

By Clint.Cole @iowastatedaily.com Coming off a weekend of blowout victories, the No. 10 ISU hockey team returns to the Ames/ISU Ice Arena this Friday and Saturday for a pair of games against No. 3 Arizona State.

A new ranking will come out Friday and ISU coach Al Murdoch thinks there is a strong chance Arizona State (3-0-0-0) will be ranked No. 1 when the new ranking is released.

No. 1 Lindenwood was upset last weekend by Central Oklahoma 4-3 at home and will likely drop in the rankings. No. 2 Ohio swept No. 22 Pittsburgh last weekend while the Sun Devils swept No. 19 Arizona.

“It’ll be a toss-up between Ohio and Arizona State on who’s No. 1,” Murdoch said. “My money would be on Arizona State, but Ohio is very good too.”

Last weekend, Iowa State (6-1-0-0) swept Kansas in two blowout games, winning 9-1 on Friday and 9-0 on Saturday.

ISU forwards Jon Feavel and J.P. Kascsak both had hat tricks last weekend. The three goals last weekend brought Feavel’s point total to 11 (nine goals, two assists). Kascsak now has 10 points (five goals, five assists).

Feavel said the tone at the rink has been very different from last week, when they were preparing for Division II Kansas.

“Last week we were more focused on school … and this week we’re definitely focused on these games,” Feavel said. “We

File Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily Forward Jon Feavel fights for the puck Jan. 28. The Cyclones are focusing on their upcoming games against the Sun Devils this weekend. Iowa State is ranked No. 10, while Arizona State is ranked No. 3.

know we have to be ready, and we know we have to bring it.”

After having a three-goal game last weekend, Feavel said he isn’t focused on doing that again.

“Three goals to help the team is great, but it’s the W,” Feavel said. “As long as I help the W, and that’s more the emphasis this weekend.”

The Cyclones and the Sun Devils face off at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Ames/ISU Ice Arena.

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“Having a new facility is such a blessing,” said ISU junior Jessica Stewart. “Your touch is so much better because the surface is just so clean. It gives us a home field advantage, which is exciting, and it’s a beautiful facility.

It’s just a good atmosphere to play.”

The Cyclones have spent some time practicing on the new field in the last week, which has helped motivate the team for this weekend’s games.

ISU coach Wendy Dillinger said the new facility has become somewhat of a recruiting tool, as well.

“We’ve had a number of recruits on campus and have been able to take them on a tour of the facility,” Dillinger said. “[They’re] just wide-

File Photo: Grace Steenhagen/Iowa State Daily The women’s soccer team forms a quick huddle before the second half of Sept. 21’s game. The team is looking forward to playing in the new Cyclone Sports Complex this weekend.

eyed, very excited. It’s definitely a different look than what they see when they go to our current facilities.”

Iowa State faces TCU on Friday night for the second time in the program’s history and the first time as a Big 12 opponent. The Horned Frogs (5-6-1, 0-2 Big 12) are also winless in conference play thus far and are currently riding a three-game overall losing

streak.

Despite TCU’s struggles, the Cyclones realize that no Big 12 opponent can be taken lightly.

“It’s conference, so they’re going to come out hard,” said sophomore Hayley Womack.

“Everybody’s out to get wins in the conference, and I think it’s just going to be a battle the whole game.”

Unlike TCU, West Virginia

has started its first Big 12 campaign in impressive fashion.

The Mountaineers (7-3-3, 3-0 Big 12) are currently positioned atop the conference standings and have won their last five games by a combined score of 17-3.

“They’re new to the conference, so I think that’s exciting, just not really knowing what to expect,” Stewart said. “I think it gives us a cool opportunity to surprise them, and I think that it’s just exciting to see new teams and to get to play against new competition.”

This weekend’s games kick off at 7 p.m. Friday against TCU and at 1 p.m. Sunday against West Virginia.

Iowa State (3-1, 0-1 Big 12)

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No. 16 TCU (4-0, 1-0 Big 12)

Where: Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas When: 2:30 p.m. Saturday Media: Fox Sports Network (TV), Cyclone Radio Network (Radio), iowastatedaily.com Notes: Follow ISD football writers Jake Calhoun (@JakeCalhoun75) and Stephen Koenigsfeld (@skoenigsfeld) on Twitter for live updates. They will provide coverage directly from Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas.

TCU’s Pachall suspended TCU quarterback Casey Pachall has been suspended indefinitely from the team after being arrested for driving while intoxicated early Thursday morning.

According to the TCU 360, the student newspaper, Pachall was pulled over by police after driving through a stop sign near the TCU campus in Fort Worth, Texas, early Thursday morning.

“Casey Pachall has been suspended indefinitely from competition. My job as a head coach is to win games, educate our kids and help them with their lives,” said TCU football coach Gary Patterson in an email.

ing the quarterback safe.

“It’s not just the running backs and it’s not just Steele Jantz when the offense isn’t moving,” Rhoads said. “It’s the receivers blocking down field at the second level, the offensive line opening up holes and the running back pressing the right spot.”

Rhoads and Woody both said sound decision-making will play a key part in this week’s game against TCU. Kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m.

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