GIVING 100% Senior women’s basketball player Seanna Johnson is entering the season as healthy as she’s ever been. SPORTS p6
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MInvision Architects recommended $55.5 million additions to the Memorial Union.
MU study suggests additions
PUERTO RICO Iowa State outside hitter Genesis Miranda was born in Puerto Rico and played for national junior volleyball teams.
By Jenna.Hrdlicka @iowastatedaily.com The Memorial Union could see changes in the future based on a feasibility study on space usage in the building. The changes, including both renovations and an expansion to the building, were recommended by Invision Architects, the architectural firm that conducted the study of the Memorial Union. On Tuesday, Corey Williamson, interim director of the Memorial Union, and Michael Snook, student board of directors member, presented an update on the study to the Iowa State Daily. •During the presentation, they outlined various recommendations that include: •Expand dining seating options •Improve and expand student organization and student activity spaces •Reorganize offices to make some more accessible to students based on location in the building •Enhance the multicultural student space and resources •Expand space for the Veteran’s Center •Discontinue the hotel operations •Discontinue the bowling operations Along with the proposed renovations, a 24,000-square-foot four-level addition on the northeast side of the building, directly opposite of the Multicultural Center, also was recommended. At the time of the feasibility study, the addition was estimated to cost $55.5 million. Since the study began about two years ago, a process has taken place that has included compiling the recommendations from the architects and soliciting feedback from multiple stakeholders, including students on campus, Williamson said. Seeking student feedback on
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After winding path, Genesis Miranda feels at home at Iowa State
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o matter where she is, Genesis Miranda has to start each morning with her cereal. Corn flakes, to be exact. But while her bowl of cereal has never changed, the place she has called home has been anything but consistent. Geni, as all her Iowa State teammates call her, is a junior transfer volleyball player from the University of Evansville — a small school in Indiana with an even smaller volleyball presence. While currently with the Cyclones, the Puerto Rican product felt that her experiences playing volleyball for the Puerto Rican national team garnered a more competitive style of play, one that Evansville, a Missouri
EVANSVILLE, IN Miranda moved to America in 2014 to pursue a volleyball career collegiately. But she didn’t feel at home so far away from her family in Puerto Rico.
Miranda transferred to Iowa State this year and has taken a role on the volleyall team. She has been more involved with the Puerto Rico community in Ames.
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Bike locks no guarantee Hurricane impacts ISU students
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Bike thieves at Iowa State haven’t let bike locks get in their way.
By Danielle.Gehr @iowastatedaily.com It is a common saying that the best security to keep your bike from getting stolen is having a rusty, archaic bike. Unfortunate-
ly, at Iowa State, where bike theft is rampant, this is not the case. Just by walking through campus, people can see that biking is a popular mode of transportation for Iowa State students. With bike racks full around every corner, skillful bike thieves have made careers out of stealing bikes of all worths without letting bike locks get in their way. “It has been indiscriminatory as far as I can tell, from what i’ve heard. I’ve had people get old junker bikes stolen, fancy bikes. I had people have two bikes on a porch––one nice, one crappy and the crappy one gets stolen for whatever reason,” said Erik Jones, who has been the manager and a head mechanic at Bicycle Plus for the past eight years and has seen a rise in bike theft first hand. Jones said it has been about three or four years since Bicycle Plus has purchased used bikes, a practice it had been doing for
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By David.Perrin @iowastatedaily.com With a death toll of well over 250, Hurricane Matthew is showing little evidence of slowing before ravaging the coasts of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. The tropical cyclone is anticipated to have a lifespan of nearly five days total — five days of 158 mph, hurricane-force winds, and in some places, up to 40 inches of water. The storm is scheduled to expand its path all the way up to Florida, Georgia and even North Carolina by Sunday morning. “This is a very unique hurricane; it’s uniquely devastating,” said W. Peter Deveaux-Isaacs Jr., junior in political science and president of the Pan-Caribbean Community. “Normally it would break up on the mountains or the higher terrain of Cuba and depreciate in intensity, but this time it’s circling around Cuba.”
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Hurricane Matthew is scheduled to reach the East Coast by Sunday morning.
Because of the strange trajectory that the storm is taking, it’s able to hit and damage many of the islands throughout much of the Caribbean. “The route that it took — it circumvented a lot of different Caribbean countries — especially in the north,” Deveaux-Isaacs Jr said. “Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Jamaica
— these places have been hit very hard by the devastating Category 4 hurricane.” The impact the hurricane has on the small islands is not only affecting day-to-day life for people but also impacting their futures, their homes and even their families. Homes and possessions are being destroyed on an hourly basis. “I saw pictures of people in Haiti — kids holding their last belongings above their heads while walking in water up to their chests,” said Devin Wilmott, junior in kinesiology and health and member of the Pan-Caribbean Community. Those who are directly impacted aren’t only in the Caribbean. Some are at Iowa State. “We have about 10 to 15 students that are suffering right now because they have their families are combating Hurricane Matthew,” Deveaux-Isaacs Jr. said.
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