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JUST OUT OF REACH New lineup produces familiar losing result
By Luke Manderfeld @iowastatedaily.com For the first time this season, Iowa State football coach Matt Campbell trudged out a starting lineup that will emulate what his lineup of the future could look like. Quarterback Jacob Park, who had been on the short end of snaps with Joel Lanning through the middle of the season, started the game and threw every pass but one for the Cyclones. In the process, the staff did away with its constant alternating between quarterbacks that fans saw in the past few weeks. Running back Mike Warren was cleared to play after injuring his ankle last weekend, but wasn’t Tyler Coffey/Iowa State Daily “ready.” True Evrett Edwards defends Dede Westbrook. freshman
running back David Montgomery started in his place. The first pass of the game was to a tight end — a position that had five receptions on the season entering the game. But even a changed lineup couldn’t turn around the Cyclones’ recent woes and their inability to finish close games. Iowa State’s (1-8, 0-6 Big 12) 34-24 loss to No. 12 Oklahoma (7-2, 6-0 Big 12) on ESPN’s Thursday primetime game at Jack Trice Stadium was the predictable result and the Cyclones’ fifth straight loss. “I was proud of how our kids played,” Campbell said. “I thought they played all the way until the end of the football game. We had opportunities to win the game.” Park took the reins at quarterback in the second half in last week’s 31-26 loss to Kansas State. As was the case then, Park was the passing quarterback for Iowa State while Lanning jumped into the offense for designed run plays. Park struggled Thursday night and cost the Cyclones a crucial fourth down conversion late in the game
as he finished the day 16-for-29 with 160 yards through the air and two touchdowns. “I made a few plays but I didn’t make the one that counted,” Park said. “I should’ve kept that drive alive. We had a chance to come back and win the game, but I didn’t make the throw.” Park continued to lead the offense early — he went 11-for-17 with 94 passing yards in the first half — as the Cyclones inched closer and closer to the Sooners in the second quarter. Park found a wide-open Allen Lazard for a 31-yard touchdown reception early in the second quarter to pull the Cyclones within four, at 14-10. Lanning was a big part of that first-half surge. On a 4th-and-2 play late in the second quarter, Lanning found a hole and ran it in for a touchdown from 41 yards out, giving the Cyclones their first lead of the game at 17-14.
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P&S Council discusses Fair Labor Standards Act By Keegan.Kearney @iowastatedaily.com The Professional and Scientific Council focused largely on changes being initiated due to the new Fair Labor Standards Act during its monthly meeting Thursday afternoon. The Fair Labor Standards Act mandates changes to staff overtime compensation, requires new policies regarding timekeeping and job classification, as well as other policies. Although the due date for compliance with these standards is set for Dec. 1, Director of Classification and Compensation Emma Houghton said the full implementation of the changes may take years to finally navigate.
“FLSA certainly does not die on Dec. 1,” Houghton said. “It will continue to live with us as we move forward.” Houghton said that in order to make sure all employees and their work hours are classified fairly during the upcoming process, employees need to constantly communicate with their supervisors, who will be making these classifications. More information on the development of changes due to the FLSA can be expected at the council’s next meeting in December. Faculty Senate leader Jonathan Sturm also gave some details on the upcoming Faculty Senate meeting that is set to take place Tuesday. The meeting will address topics such as recent incidents of
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The P&S Council meets Sept. 1.
racism and bigotry on campus — possibly including the recent “white heritage” posters around campus. Sturm will address the issues regarding this type of racism as well as how the issues can be approached while still respecting students’ freedom of speech. The Faculty Senate will also discuss President Steven Leath’s use of the university plane, and
the media coverage of Iowa State in response to the incidents. “Basically, we will be stating faculty support for how the president has interacted with faculty, and we will be pretty open and transparent about that,” Sturm said. Samone York, vice president for equity and inclusion, announced that WiSE, Women in Science and Engineering, will celebrate its 30th anniversary with the an award ceremony on Dec. 3, which will recognize individuals, groups and organizations involved in promoting gender equity in STEM fields. Nominations for the awards are due Nov. 11. Nominations are also due on Nov. 11 for the Martin Luther King Jr. Advancing One Community award, which is awarded
to people who have shown a commitment to King’s goals and values over a sustained period of time, including using nonviolent actions to bring social change aimed at decreasing injustice in the community. York also announced the details of the memorial service for the late ISU administrator and professor George Jackson, who served as director of minority affairs and worked passionately for underrepresented students during his time at Iowa State. Jackson died at age 75 in Sunrise, Florida. The service will take place at 5 p.m. Nov. 12 in the South Ballroom of the Memorial Union. The next Professional and Scientific Council meeting will take place Dec. 1 in the Gallery Room of the Memorial Union.
Opposing campaigns slug on as Election Day approaches By Shannon.McCarty @iowastatedaily.com As Election Day nears campaign workers in swing states are pounding the pavement, knocking on doors and dialing phones to get voters out for their respective candidates. “The main goal is to get out your base,” political science professor, Mack Shelley, said. “Make sure you’re getting your people out to the polls.” The race for Iowa is close with Real Clear Politics showing Republican nominee, Donald Trump, with a 1.4 spread over Democrat nominee, Hillary Clinton. Clinton has continued to have numerous public figures out stumping for her on the campaign trail. She will finish her campaign with President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton, first lady Michelle Obama and Chelsea Clinton at her final rally in Philadelphia on Monday. Numerous other public figures have visited ISU stumping for the former First Lady from former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, actresses Busy Philipps and Danai Gurira. Shelly said the base in Iowa the Clinton campaign has to go after is former supporters of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Shelley believes this won’t be easy for the Clinton campaign. “She’s two generations out of sync,” Shelley said. “She just doesn’t get it and I don’t think there’s anything she can do about that.” You had people really excited about one campaign and now they are left with the option of someone they really didn’t want in the first place, leaving many feel they don’t have a choice Shelley said. “You’re told either vote for this or something much worse,” Shelley said. Sanders is expected to be on ISU
campus this Saturday to stump for Hillary, but the anti-trade rhetoric from Trump is something Shelly said resonates with a lot of Bernie Sanders supporters. The Clinton campaign has been hit with the recent announcement from FBI officials saying they will be looking back into Clinton’s email case after emails were found on a laptop belonging to former congressman, Anthony Weiner, who is under investigation for allegedly exchanging sexually explicit messages with a minor. Longtime top Clinton aide, Huma Abedin, is Weiner’s estranged wife. “[The Clinton campaign] pretty much has been all endless damage control,” Shelley said. “She just can’t get out from under these clouds.” While the announcement could make states such as Iowa and Arizona more difficult for Clinton, Shelley said it won’t be that determinative of the election due to most people being locked into either candidate. “It isn’t so much persuasion at this point as it is solidifying the base,” Shelley said. Republicans are also working on getting out their base, which in Iowa is primarily rural areas Shelley said. That base varies from past ones by including more working class, older. white male types according to Shelley. “Trump has to bring out that demographic in various places,” Shelley said. Another element is that many Iowans have already voted. Price said almost 43,000 more Democrats than Republicans have voted early this year and have accounted for 46% of early votes in Iowa. “This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that our strategy is more
effective,” Senior advisor of Hillary for Iowa, Troy Price said. Iowa communications director of the Republican National Committee (RNC), Lindsay Jancek, said the early voting numbers are just a difference in preference. “[Republicans] haven’t been comfortable in voting early,” Jancek said. “Iowa Republicans especially have this sense of pride of going to their polling location on Election Day.” Jancek said this election cycle the Republican party has been focused on educating voters and building up their level of comfortability with voting early. One primary difference in campaign styles is the way the two candidates are getting their messages out to voters. Trump has been relying much more on the free mediums such as social media, while Clinton has focused on costly television ads Shelley said. According to CNN in the last few days of the race the Clinton campaign has more than doubled their ad spending from $14 million to $32.4 million. “There’s always one thing that you want to do which is demotivate your competition,” Shelley said. On a psychological level Trump’s approach is more straight-forward and less complicated, with Hillary you have to work through a couple layers Shelley said. Jancek describes the Trump campaign in Iowa as working from the bottom up. After the loss of Iowa in 2008 and 2012 Jancek said the party realized they needed to have a permanent ground game strategy in Iowa. The RNC has had a permanent office in Iowa for the past three years now. The office Jancek said allowed for the RNC to register more Republicans, get to know local officials and work with volunteers. They also learned they were missing out on a key campaign tool. “We had to invest in data,” Jancek said. “That was one of the areas we
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump currently has a 1.4-point lead in Iowa over Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, according to RealClearPolitics.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been affected in the polls by recent information released by the FBI regarding her email case.
realized Democrats were just more competitive than we were. The RNC now has an app for door knockers that is able to update all data collected in real-time. The app is synced with Google Maps and volunteers can use it to collect data such as whether a person has voted before, were they home, did they request an absentee ballot, whether they were undecided. “We can have a heightened discussion about the election and how they’re voting,” Jancek said. The Clinton campaign has also been utilizing data collection in order to find what Iowans want to see and how the federal government can work best for them, Price said. The campaign has also done its fair share of having face-to-face conversations with Iowans.
“Our most effective tool has always been our staff, organizers, and volunteers,” Price said. Jancek said the Trump campaign this cycle has been overall a more aggressive grassroots effort with the addition of an excited group of volunteers. “We have volunteers that are just energized about making sure that Hillary Clinton isn’t elected,” Jancek said. However, favorability polls from Real Clear Politics show that the majority aren’t energized about either candidate with Trump’s most current unfavorability average at 56.5 and Clinton’s at 54.7 “This [election] has honestly just been a slug through the mud, and it’s not going to get any better,” Shelley said.