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HONEST TEA Drink company goes undercover to calculate ISU’s honesty
By Cody.Timm @iowastatedaily.com ISU students’ honesty was tested when a company set up an experiment to see just how honest they are. Honest Tea, founded in 1998, is a company based on honesty between customers and the company itself, according to it’s website. Honest Tea uses all natural ingredients to create its organic teas in order to make them less sweet, but more flavorful. The company is in its third year of an experiment developed to test the honesty of their customers. Katelyn Jones, representatives from Honest Tea who watched over the stand at Iowa State, said the company wants to see if their customers are as honest as Honest Tea. Jones explained that Honest Tea sets up an unmanned tea stand
What is Honest Tea?
According to it’s website, Honest Tea is a company based on honesty between customers and the company itself. Honest Tea uses all natural ingredients to create its organic teas in order to make them less sweet, but more flavorful.
and advertises its teas for $1 a bottle. Customers can either put $1 in a box, or they can simply take the tea and go about their business. An Honest Tea representative watches the stand to see who pays and who doesn’t, and at the end of the day they calculate the number of teas gone and the amount of money collected to determine how honest the customers were, Jones said. In 2013, the company took the experiment nationwide. From July 8 to 18, they conducted the experiment at 61 locations all across the United States. All the money collected from the experiment will be donated to FoodCorps, which “connects kids to real food and helps them grow up healthy,” according to its website. The company since has taken the experiment to college campuses all over the nation as well, such as Iowa State, known as the “HONEST Campus” tour. On Oct. 15, Honest Tea set up a stand near the Union Drive Community Center. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., representatives from Honest Tea sat inside UDCC and observed.
At the end of the experiment, they counted the money and amount of teas taken and reported the results to Iowa State. Out of the 78 bottles of tea gone after the experiment, 76 had been paid for. This means that 97.4 percent of the students who took a bottle also paid for it, said Brittney Rutherford, program coordinator of ISU Dining. In comparison, during the experiment in cities all over the United States, Honest Tea found that 98 percent of customers in Iowa were honest. The results from the national study in cities all over the United States found that 92 percent of their customers were honest. All 50 states and Washington, D.C., were tested, and 47 of the 50 states had a large enough sample size to determine a value. Iowa State’s value ranks ninth out of 48 sites, with the highest values coming from Alabama and Hawaii, who had values of 100 percent. Texas, West Virginia and Washington D.C. were the least honest places in the United States, with values of 87 percent, 85 percent and 80 percent, respectively. Rutherford said that Honest Tea came to Iowa State through the beverage contract the university has with Coca-Cola. “[Coca-Cola] presents us with different things that they can bring to campus from time to time,” Rutherford said. “It just kind of comes up sporadically, and this Honest Tea thing hap-
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Open forum to connect students with legislators, Board of Regents By Brian.Voss @iowastatedaily.com ISU students will have the opportunity to have their opinions heard by several Iowa politicians. ISU Ambassadors, a group on campus that seeks to bridge the gap between students and political representatives, is holding an open forum for all students to attend on Friday. Beth Wessell-Kroeschell, state representative; Herman Quirmbach, state senator; and Robert Donley, executive director of the Board of Regents, will be in attendance. The event will take place from noon to 2 p.m. and will be in the Gold Room of the Memorial Union. Free lunch will be provided. The first hour will consist of a panel of the legislative and Board of Regents members in attendance. The second hour will be an open house where students will have the opportunity to mingle with legislative and Board of Regents members. Spencer Hughes, president of the Government of the Student Body, said it will be a great time to
ask questions about issues both education and noneducation related. “Really what it’s meant to do is help facilitate those conversations,” Hughes said. “If students have questions about what the board is, what the board does, or what are the priorities in the Legislature in terms of tuition and in terms of anything else education related or anything else not education related.” Shannon Goes, executive director of the ISU Ambassadors and junior in chemistry, said the purpose of the open forum is to open a dialogue between students and their Legislature as well as the Board of Regents. Goes said students whom she has talked to seem excited about the event. “I think it’s always great when you get to talk to your representation directly,” Goes said. Goes said the event will be a great opportunity for students to voice their opinions about the tuition freeze. “Some students might be interested to voice their opinions about the tuition freeze applying to out of state students, because right now as
the bill is written it would only apply to in-state students,” Goes said. Goes also said it is a chance to thank members of the panel for putting together a tuition freeze last year. The tuition freeze was the first in 30 years. Hughes said he believes the biggest issue that students will want to address at Friday’s open forum is, in fact, tuition. “When students go and ask the regents why they only pushed for a resident undergraduate tuition freeze … they can ask legislators if they plan to support the proposed 4 percent appropriations increase and how they plan to get that accomplished,” Hughes said. The Legislature and Board of Regents are the two bodies that control tuition. Goes said panel members might address issues dealing with Iowa State’s expansion, which is currently she said has put strains on dining and housing. Last year GSB hosted an open forum with ISU administration. Hughes said the open forum was popular and that students seemed to appreciate it.
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Outdoor Recreational Services will offer bicycle repairs at the State Gym on Mondays and Thursdays from 3 to 6 p.m. On Sustainability Day, Recreational Services noticed a need for convenient bike repairs on campus.
Outdoor Rec to start giving bicycle repairs Service will sell replacement parts, tires at State Gym By Julie.Paulson @iowastatedaily.com
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LOUD NOISES: Yelling like hell with Homecoming spirit
Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Gamma Rho and Kappa Sigma compete in the second cuts for Yell Like Hell. Homecoming Week kicked off with the first cuts on Sunday where the faternities and sororities performed unique, spirit-filled exhibitions. See more photos on page 7.
Students with bicycles will soon have an on-campus option for maintenance and advice besides taking their bikes to mechanics in Ames. Outdoor Recreational Services will be offering minor bicycle repairs and tune-ups from 3 to 6 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays at State Gym, starting soon. “We’re still getting the infrastructure set up,” said Chris Hendricks, coordinator for the Outdoor Recreational Program. “Hopefully, [the service] will be available sometime next week.” The services offered will include free safety inspections, which include seat and handle adjustments, along with minor repairs and tune-ups. Flat tire replacements will be offered for $10, bike and gear adjustments for $7 and
individual appointments with student mechanics will be available for $14 per hour. “The idea is providing minor repairs to students on campus,” Hendricks said. “We offer free brake maintenance on Sustainability Day. … We saw the need for on-campus repairs. If [students] need help, they have to find a car or load their bikes onto the CyRide to get to a repair shop. [With this service] minor repairs can be done, and if more extensive work is needed, they can ride to another repair shop.” Safety inspections, tire replacements and brake and gear adjustments will be offered to walk-ins during service hours. Complimentary chain lube and tire inflation will also be offered with adjustments, according to the Outdoor Recreation Services’ website. If more time is needed with a mechanic, an appointment can be made depending on the schedules of both the student needing service and the mechanic. “It’s a great service,” said Merry Rankin,
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