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Additional ‘white heritage’ posters found
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By ISD Staff Roughly three weeks after the discovery of “white heritage” posters on campus, more were placed around Iowa State detailing a similar message. One poster that was placed outside of the Student Services Center featured a white family with two parents and three children, with text that reads, “In these times of degeneracy, this is true rebellion.” The previous posters that were found on campus in late October contained messages such as, “White students you are not alone be proud of your heritage,” and, “In 1950 America was 90 percent white, it is now only 60 percent white. Will you become a minority in your own country?” About 20 posters were found at that time. The original posters were removed because they violated the facilities and grounds use policy, according to Iowa State. The posters may have also violated Iowa State’s discrimination and harassment policies. Austen Giles, sophomore in public relations, said that he saw the poster outside the Student Services Center this morning and proceeded to report it to the Dean of Students Office. Giles said he was told that there were more “posterings going on this morning.” Clare Lemke, assistant director of the LGBTSS center, and Brad Freihoefer, director of the center, said they were going to release a statement via social media in response to the posters. Lemke said that other staff members found similar posters on other buildings around campus. The Daily reached out to the Dean of Students Office and the Iowa State Police Department, as well, in regard to the “white heritage” posters, but did not hear back
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Individuals share obstacles with being transgender in health care system By Nik.Heftman @iowastatedaily.com
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other’s Day 2012. Hayden Moffitt decided to take his mother out to eat to celebrate. Moffitt came out as gay two years prior, but his mother was unaware of the transition that Moffitt had started. “I was studying for a test at the time and my mom had been running errands all day,” Moffitt, senior in Architecture, said. “I was like ‘hey it’s Mother’s Day, let’s go get lunch. It was just us two.” Moffitt was carrying a men’s wallet, an accessory that Moffitt’s mother was not fond of. “She asked me if I wanted to be a boy,” Moffitt said, “and in the simplest way possible I said ‘yeah.’ [Her reaction] was not good at all.” Moffitt is now the president of Gamma Rho Lambda, a social sorority for the LGBTQ and ally community. Though his family has grown to accept his identity, Moffitt faces challenges
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Council hearings focus on land development By Thomas.Nelson @iowastatedaily.com
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Ames Mayor Ann Campbell listens to a presentation during an Ames City Council meeting.
The Ames City Council heard several hearings regarding land development around the city during its weekly Tuesday meeting. The main hearing of the night focused on apartments that were being considered to be developed near the Research Park by the Hunziker Development Company, LLC. The development plans involve the following areas: 2036, 2041, 2105, 2121 and 2135 of Cottonwood Road and 3201 University Blvd. The same hearing also considered a landscape plan for 2036 Cottonwood and 3201 University Boulevard. It would create a shared-use path on the west side of the development.
“The traffic flow doesn’t seem amenable for roads like that,” Chris Nelson, Ward 4 representative, said in regard to the path having a distinct 90-degree turn to University Boulevard. The development would prospectively have a shared-use path leading to Slater, Iowa. The resolution for the landscape plan passed. A resolution was also passed during the meeting for the re-roofing of CyRide with a contract for Academy Roofing and sheet metal of Des Moines. The reroofing could cost upward of $307,000. A hearing and resolution was also passed that included revising the Campustown Revitalization Area plan. The City Council also had a hearing on the Urban Revitalization Area for 2700, 2702, 2718, and 2728 and 114 Hyland and passed a resolution approving its plan. It also passed a resolution for a
development agreement with the River Caddis development project for a fiveyear period and a motion to purchase excess energy from customers using solar energy at a fixed cost method. The council also voted to hear more on the issue in the future and agreed to hear a report in the future. The only council member to vote against the measure was Amber Corrieri, at-large representative for the city of Ames. “I think we should have a study group first before we start charging people,” Corrieri said. The City Council rejected a landscape ordinance concept provisions that used points and sent it back for more planning and work. The City Council also established parking regulations and a 25 mph to 35 mph speed limit on Hyde Avenue that was formerly known as Grant Avenue.
Indigenous Film Series showcases Native perspectives By Keegan.Kearney @iowastatedaily.com The Indigenous Film Series wrapped up its third event this semester on Tuesday in Carver 101, playing the indigenous-made film “Rhymes for Young Ghouls.” “Rhymes for Young Ghouls” takes place in 1976 and centers around a young girl living on a Crow reservation who goes to great lengths to avoid being sent to the Indian Boarding school system of Canada, which was notorious for its mistreatment of young Native children. The film was shown as part of the Indigenous Film Series hosted by Iowa State’s American Indian studies program in honor of Indigenous Heritage Month, and showcases films made by Native people to expose Iowa State students to the indigenous perspective. Previous films that have been shown this semester include “Smoke Signals,” which touched on the stereotypes many Americans expect of modern Native people and “Winter in the Blood,” which dealt with issues of identity loss for Native culture after the trials of the Native American genocide. The series is brought to Iowa State every year to help provide a cultural context for non-Native students who may not have much experience with true, modern Native people. Jen Coppoc, who teaches an American Indian Studies course at
Iowa State, hosts the event. “Film is more or less a Western medium,” Coppoc said, “and so for Native filmmakers to use that Western medium to have their voices heard, which have been traditionally marginalized in Hollywood, it’s them their telling their stories through their lens. It’s really important to me to expose people to those voices.” The film industry often presents misleading ideas about Native people, with films such as “Pocahontas” and “Dancing with Wolves.” Coppoc said movies made by modern indigenous people present more accurate depictions of how they live and act, which is oftentimes shown to be not so different from how any other human lives. “I think one of best things that Native films do is they humanize Native people,” Coppoc said. “If nothing else, they show the audience that Native people have good, and bad, and light, and dark. Problems and victories and struggles just like any other people.” Coppoc hopes that by changing how we think about Native people, Americans can work toward righting some of the wrongs imposed upon them in the past. After years of violence and wars against the tribes inhabiting this continent, the American and Canadian governments manipulated and sometimes forced Native nations onto reservations, and sent their children to residential schools
designed to bleach the culture from them. These boarding schools were run by men and women who sexually and physically abused the children, and often did not properly feed or care for the children, leading to malnutrition and disease. The extent of abuses in Canadian residential schools was only recently revealed to the general public, and it is projected that more than 50 percent of the students in these schools either died or were killed by employees at the schools. There have also been reports of pregnancies from sexual abuse, and taking advantage of forced labor to reap profits off of the students. Despite all of the horrors that decimated indigenous populations in the past, Coppoc believes it is important for modern people to realize that the Native people are still here today, and are just as complex as the rest of the human population. “They’re still here, and they’re vibrant!” Coppoc said. “They are modern people, who have their own set of issues and problems. All of the films shown don’t glorify Native people. We don’t want to go the opposite way of stereotypes.” The next and final showing in the series, “Lost Nation: The Ioway,” will be shown Nov. 29 in Carver 101. The film is a documentary about two Ioway brothers who signed the deal that ceded the land we know today as Iowa to the U.S. government, and the forgotten people who once inhabited it.
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Students watch the film “Rhymes for Young Ghouls” during an event Tuesday for Indigenous Heritage Month in Carver Hall.