Friday, Oct. 9, 2015 | Volume 211 | Number 33 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
Memorial held for victims Community remembers students who died in Oregon shooting By Mengwei.Xue @iowastatedaily.com
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Cyclones Against Gun Violence members organized a candle light vigil Thursday to honor the memory and lives from the Umpqua College shooting.
College shootings have been on the rise, however the rising number doesn’t numb the pain felt by the entire nation, especially for those on other college campuses. A memorial took place in front of the Fountain of the Four Seasons at the southern entrance of the Memorial Union Thursday night to honor the lost from the most recent college massacre. Nine people had lost their lives and about 10 were injured
from the campus shooting that took that place at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., on Oct. 1. The shooter, 26-yearold Chris Harper-Mercer, then shot himself. The vigil opened with a prayer led by Rev. Jennifer Suydam, a campus minister at Collegiate Presbyterian Church. After the prayer, prominent members of Iowa State and the Ames community gave speeches regarding the shooting. Megan Sweere, vice president of Student Government; Jerry Steward, chief of police at Iowa State; Ellyn Grimm, head of the
Iowa chapter of Moms Demand Action; and Heaven Chamberlain, president of Cyclones Aginst Gun Violence, all talked at the vigil. Chamberlain’s speech focused on wanting to raise people’s awareness about unregulated gun control and campus gun violence. The memorial helped serve as a means of delivering the message. “We need to mourn, but also be angry at the same time because there’s an average [of] one school shooting every week, a massacre every week,” Chamberlain said.
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Debt reaches deep end for students The Institute for College Access and Success survey ranks Iowa ninth in student indebtedness By Eric.Wirth
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Iowa ranked second in student indebtedness in 2005 and sixth in 2009. It was ranked ninth this year.
ISU hosts student-run Bacon Expo Attendees ready to devour about 300 pounds of pork By Anthony.Weiland @iowastatedaily.com Members of this year’s ISU Bacon Expo can pig out in the all-you-can-eat bacon event from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in the Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center. The year’s event will feature bacon, education, fun and some more bacon Attendees will also be educated on where their food comes from and how it gets from the “gate to their plate,” said Megan Andersen, sophomore in agricultural business and executive member and recruitment cochair for the Bacon Expo. The Bacon Expo is in its third year, this is the first year it is completely student organized with the assistance of a faculty adviser. Andersen said the Bacon Expo was originally assembled by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences as a teaching opportunity for the public. Andersen said the Bacon Expo organizers are focused on serving the public, specifically on agriculture education with a fun take on a more serious issue.
Student board members intend for an audience ranging from farmers to those not familiar with farming or agriculture whatsoever, including students, community members and families. Attendees can expect a variety of entertainment, including all-you-can-eat bacon, specialty bacon items, live 20-pound piglets, a bacon eating contest, coloring contest with prizes every hour, a corn pool for kids and most importantly, the education. All bacon items, except apparel, are free with the price of admission. With 14 different bacon vendors, a person’s bacon craving can’t help but find its fix. Specialty bacon items this year include maple bacon cupcakes courtesy of Scratch Cupcakery, beef bacon and bacon candy. This is Scratch’s third year attending the Bacon Expo. “We will be bringing 1,000 mini maple bacon cupcakes to Bacon Expo,” said Bre Stone, kitchen manager at Scratch Cupcakes in Cedar Falls. “Bacon Expo is a good thing for the community to attend to try different things and see different businesses.” Even though vendors play a key role in the event, students take great pride in their organization of the event. “Bacon Expo is the only student-organized bacon event in the nation,” Andersen said.
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Brynna Sankey from Scratch Cupcakery serves maple bacon and chocolate bourbon bacon at last year’s Bacon Expo, which took place Nov. 8, 2014 at the Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center.
Members have been planning the Bacon Expo for the entire year. About 300 pounds of bacon will be served. They start cooking it a week early, but it is only half cooked and is finished right before the event, so it has maximized crispiness and flavor.
For fun bacon facts and further details about the planning and execution of Bacon Expo, follow Iowa State Bacon Expo on Facebook and @ISUBaconExpo on Twitter. Tickets can be purchased through Midwestix.com or by visiting Bacon Expo’s website at
www.baconexpo.ag.iastate.edu/ tickets/. Tickets cost $12 for adults, $10 for ISU students with a student ID and $8 for children under 10. The event is for children 5 and under. Tickets prices will rise at the gate.