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University of Missouri students confront then-university President Tim Wolfe in Kansas City, Mo., on Friday.

Racial tensions boil over By Danielle.Ferguson @iowastatedaily.com

Cutrona and others in the Department of Psychology decided to openly discuss racism in a series of op-ed articles. Cutrona also said she wants to see more discussion and study of racism in psychology classes. Sociology can also give insights into the concept of racism. “There is an element of race

What students, faculty and football players did to protest racially-charged events and comments at the University of Missouri is an act ISU senior Markus Flynn would call “revolutionary.” Tension on university campuses across the country boiled over in recent weeks as students and faculty have protested university responses, or the lack thereof, to racial tensions on their campuses, causing multiple administrative resignations and garnering national media attention. Though the most recent events at the University of Missouri, Yale University and Ithaca College — each institution seeing its students call for administrative resignation due to a lack of response to minority student concerns — have come to light this fall semester, the feeling of oppression minority students have has been present for years, said Flynn, who is president of the Black Student Alliance. “I think that shows you how deeply ingrained that issue was, that that many people felt it was necessary [to take action],” Flynn said about the joint efforts between the faculty, students and athletes at the University of Missouri prior to the resignation of its president and chancellor. “There are racial instances on any college campus.” Iowa State is also in the midst of a minority student-led call for action. “[Iowa State’s] just didn’t manifest the same way [as Mizzou’s],” Flynn said. “We have our own form; we deal with microaggressions every single day.” A group of ISU students demanded administrative action regarding longstanding multicultural issues on campus that have been bubbling up this semester

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Redefining Race Katy Klopfenstein/Iowa State Daily

Professors in the psychology department plan to include lessons on diversity and race in their classes as a response to student actions in September and campus discussions, which revealed how multicultural students experienced Iowa State.

ISU psychology department places emphasis on diversity By Adam Sodders @iowastatedaily.com

taff and faculty in the psychology department at Iowa State have decided to put special emphasis on race in their curriculum. Slavery, the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights Movement and today’s rhetoric about Latin American immigration are some examples of how, in the past and the present, racial differences continue to be a significant part of American culture. Pychologists and sociologists view the concept of race in

humans differently than most people. “Humans have normal perception processes,” said Craig Anderson, distinguished professor of psychology. “[Humans] categorize people, things, groups, everything.” Anderson, a social psychologist, is an expert on aggression and violence. He said aggression can manifest when racial prejudice is used against a person. Every human develops stereotypes of people who are different than them, Anderson said. It is natural for people to do this and even necessary to detect threats. There is a caveat, however. “Racist can mean a lot of things,” Anderson said. “Categorizing becomes negative when it’s used to treat people in a harmful way.” Harmful behavior isn’t al-

ways obvious, even to the perpetrator, Anderson said. Microaggressions, or subtle behaviors that reflect racial stereotypes or hurt someone’s feelings, aren’t always clear. “The outright use of slurs isn’t the only way racism manifests,” Anderson said. “It can be in our tiny reactions, our subtle behavior.” Carolyn Cutrona, professor and chairwoman of the Department of Psychology, gave some information about the mission to educate on race and racism. “I got my faculty together, and we talked about racism,” Cutrona said. “The faculty of color said they had experienced racism, like many students.” Cutrona said she is dissatisfied by some politicians’ and candidates’ rhetoric, which she sees as racist. She mentioned Re-

publican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Republican U.S. Representative Steve King, of Iowa’s 4th District. “Some of the things [King and Trump] have said are openly racist,” she said. “I’m afraid this kind of aggressive rhetoric is catching on in popularity.” After talking to her faculty and hearing the stories of multicultural students at Iowa State,

ISU remembers fallen

5K honors veterans

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By Alex.Connor @iowastatedaily.com “AAS” written in chalk with an arrow pointing in some direction marked the sidewalks on campus during the weekend. The chalking was for the Arnold Air Society, an organization within the Air Force ROTC Charlie Coffey/Iowa State Daily unit, which hosted a 5K Saturday Participants of the inaugural Arnold Air Society 5K begin running Saturday morning. The morning to commemorate this 5K was started to raise money for student veterans at Iowa State. upcoming Veterans Day. The O’Neil Squadron — ing to take place in September the Arnold Air Society has hosted named after ISU alumni broth- to honor 9/11 victims and the a 5K, but it anticipates making it ers Charles and James, who died American Red Cross, but after an annual event. during their service in World speaking with Jathan Chicoine, While most of the planning War II — works to commemorate who is the veterans services co- for the 5K ran smoothly, the soveterans, work on service projects ordinator, Mlcoch said Chicoine ciety faced some obstacles when and advocate the support of aero- gave the group the idea to focus gathering permits and meeting space power. on student veterans at Iowa State. university regulations. Scott Mlcoch, junior in civil “All of our proceeds will be Mlcoch credits one of the engineering and squadron com- going to benefit student veterans bigger obstacles the group faced mander for the Arnold Air Soci- on campus,” Mlcoch said. This to the fact that it couldn’t accept ety, said the organization aims to includes more than 800 student credit cards. He also said the “build better cadets and officers” veterans at Iowa State. group hopes to move the run off as well as provide service opporThe cost to register for the campus next year. tunities for its community. run was $20 to $25, depending Planning the route for the One of the ways it wanted to on sign-up date and a $5 dis- run was easy, however, as two do this was to start a 5K to honor count for students and military of the cadets in the program had those who were in the service. members. Originally, the 5K was goThis was the first time that 5K p4

All eyes fell to the front of the hall as the color guard presented flags to the hum of the national anthem. The annual Gold Star Hall Ceremony took place at 3:15 p.m. Monday in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union to remember the men and women who died in service. The Gold Star Hall, through which more than a 1 million people will pass each year, remains an active memorial to the ISU alumni who gave the ultimate sacrifice, from World War I to the most recent Global War on Terrorism. To begin the ceremony, Richard Reynolds, director of the Memorial Union, opened with a short history of the ceremony. “Today we continue the act of remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to this country,” Reynolds said. “The Gold Star Hall Ceremony celebrates the lives of those who served our country so selflessly.” Reynolds said the ceremony is about telling the stories of individuals, not about human conflict or the justices and injustices of war.

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LT. Col. Ethan Dial speaks at the Gold Star Hall Ceremony on Monday at the Memorial Union. Dial presented remembrances from the honorees of the ceremony.

The individuals honored in this year’s ceremony were Ted Rule and John Pooler from the Vietnam War, and Walter Wilson from World War II. Thomas Hill, senior vice president for Student Affairs, then took over the podium. Hill, who had served in the military, said he always feels honored when he is asked to speak at occasions such as this one. While speaking about the men honored at the ceremony, Hill said he can’t help but think that they became a part of the fabric here at Iowa State.

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