Monday, November 28, 2016 | Volume 212 | Number 65 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
By Sarah.Muller @iowastatedaily.com
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Alli Schultz is not a sorority girl, she’s a sorority woman and Rachel Ramirez isn’t in a cult, she embraces her culture in her sorority. Greek community memebers remember their encounters with stereotyping while wearing their greek letters:
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that.” As she thought, Schultz explained she couldn’t imagine being better than women who encourage and empower one another. “I’m a better person because of that,” Schultz said. “I’ve constantly felt like I’m putting forth this energy to defend myself. It’s exhausting. But you get to a point where you just embrace it.” Leaving home and attending a large university with no friends from home by her side, Schultz’s mom suggested she join a sorority after having experienced it herself. She is now vice president of recruitment
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Bus driver who fatally hit ISU student fired
MLOs still defining role By Danielle.Gehr @iowastatedaily.com
By Alex.Hanson @iowastatedaily.com The city of Ames has fired the CyRide bus driver who fatally hit an Iowa State student in December 2015 and failed to report the accident, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Benjamin Clague, 24, hit 18-year-old Emmalee Jacobs, who was an Iowa State freshman studying business, on Dec. 14, 2015. Clague hit Jacobs while driving on Lincoln Way near Buchanan Hall shortly after 7 a.m. He served just 30 days in jail earlier this year after pleading guilty for failing to report the accident. Several other charges were dropped in a plea deal because prosecutors could not prove he immediately knew he hit the Iowa State student. Clague has been on paid administrative leave and has earned more than $28,000 since the accident, according to the AP. The city of Ames told the AP Wednesday that Clague was fired Tuesday. Clague, who was the only person on the bus at the time, continued driving, but stopped at the next bus stop and did a visual check. He continued on his route, but saw emergency personnel on the route after looping back. Clague failed to report the accident, and it wasn’t until late January that police and CyRide officials were able to conclude Clague was driving the bus that hit Jacobs. Police have said the rain and fog likely played a role in the accident.
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A number of years after the idea to implement a liaison for multicultural groups in the ISU Police Department, it took a confrontation at a Cy-Hawk tailgate to put the plan in motion. More than a year after a poster was ripped out of student’s hands and was followed by racial slurs, the ISU Police Department’s multicultural liaison officers spoke about their role that continues to be defined as well as recent events that have added to the necessity of their unit. “There are lots of folks working on this national issue and this local issue,” said Natasha Greene, one of three multicultural liaison officers in the ISU Police Department. “What can we add to that? Well, we’re police so we can talk about specifically the law; what hate crimes are and aren’t. How can we get more folks reporting those happening? Really focusing on that and then also focusing on what we as a department can do to enhance our officers’ abilities to be more culturally competent.” Initially, Dwight Hinson served as an unofficial liaison with the Black Student Alliance by going to the group’s meetings and speaking to the issues. After it was decided that it would make the role official, the department assessed that it would be too much work for Hinson alone on top of his normal duties, so it looked to the rest of the department for more volunteers. Nick Grossman was one officer who
Dwight Hinson, multicultural student affairs liason for the ISU Police Department stands at his office in the Armory. Natasha Greene and Nick Grossman are the other two multicultural liason officers in the department.
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Regents to vote on tuition increase By Alex.Hanson @iowastatedaily.com The Iowa Board of Regents will approve an across the board tuition increase for students, which also includes steeper increases for certain subject areas, at its December meeting. The plan, which has been criticized by Iowa State’s Student Government, would increase tuition for all students, regardless of major and resident or non-resident status, but also singles out certain areas that the school says needs more money to provide the education. The meeting, set for Dec. 5 and 6 in Cedar Falls at the University of Northern Iowa, also includes approval of upgrades to dorms on the Iowa State campus and renaming the Black Cultural Center after a former Iowa State vice president. The full agenda is available at iowaregents.edu.
TUITION INCREASE APPROVAL The plan to increase tuition, first voted on at the board meeting in September, would bump tuition up by 2 percent ($142) for in-state students and up by 3 percent ($614) for out-of-state students. Architecture students would also see an increase — $98 for in-state students and $106 for out-of-state students — under the plan. Over
three years, Iowa State plans to raise tuition for architecture to $1,600 from $1,282. The plan also calls for a $534 increase for upper division students in the following five programs: animal science, biology, computer science, industrial design and natural resources ecology and management. Graduate students in those areas would see a $374 increase. Upper division business students would also see a $190 increase for in-state students and $180 for outof-state students. Iowa State is also seeking an additional $500 increase for all international students — both undergraduates and graduates. This is the second in a three-part series that would increase tuition by $1,500. Students would see a $30 increase in the technology fee and a $24 increase in the health fee, if approved.
Wallace-Wilson dorms. Another $3.3 million would replace windows in Wallace-Wilson. The board was also asked to approve the $84 million for the construction of the Student Innovation Center on campus. “The Center would be a highly flexible, dynamic space that encourages experimentation and interdisciplinary investigation by providing space for prototyping, fabrication, and smaller-scale spaces for bench-top sized projects. It would also include state-of-the-art classrooms with easy access to specialized equipment, materials, tools, computer-aided design, and virtual reality,” according to documents. The project, which has been in the works for several years, would demolish the Nuclear Engineering Laboratory and the southeast end of Sweeney Hall.
UPGRADES TO DORMS
RENAME BLACK CULTURAL CENTER
Iowa State is requesting $17,444,170 for upgrades to dorms on campus. The first $11,444,170 would upgrade bathrooms in Richardson Court dorms — Birch, Welch, Roberts, Barton, Lyon and Freeman. The project would make the bathrooms Americans with Disabilities Act compliant and add more privacy. $2.7 million would replace flooring in dorm rooms, upgrade corridor lighting and paint the interior of the
Also on the agenda is a plan to rename Iowa State’s Black Cultural Center after Dr. George Jackson, who was the director of Multicultural Student Affairs when he began at the school in 1978. Jackson later became the assistant vice president of student affairs. Jackson died earlier this year in Sunrise, Florida. The Black Cultural Center is located south of Central Campus at 517 Welch Ave.
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Board of Regents President Pro Tempore Katie Mulholland looks over notes during a February meeting. Regents will vote on tuition increases at their next meeting on Dec. 5 and 6.
PURCHASE OF LAND Iowa State is asking the board to approve a $2,190,200 purchase of land south of the ISU Research Park. The land, currently owned by the Hunziker family, would be used for Phase III of the Research Park construction and for use by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
CITY OF AMES PARK USE If approved, the city of Ames would continue lease Iowa State land for use of city parks. Currently,
the city used university land to operate Brookside Park, Stuart Smith Park and Franklin Park.
UNI PRESIDENT APPOINTMENT The board is also set to appoint a new president of the University of Northern Iowa, following the resignation of Bill Ruud earlier this year. The board has been searching for potential replacements throughout the year, including narrowing down to four candidates. The board will convene in closed session, then announce its appointment.