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Dining gets closer to selecting director By Michaela.Ramm @iowastatedaily.com Four finalists have been named in the search for a new director of dining at Iowa State. The four candidates are Mohamed Ali, John Gaughan, Gayle Hanson and Amanda Steiner. Martino Harmon, associate vice president for Student Affairs and chairman of the search committee for the position, said the candidates were chosen from the committee that comprised eight
individuals on campus, including two students. These candidates will visit campus individually for their interviews beginning next week. There will also be one-hour public forums with each of the finalists that students, as well as faculty and staff, are welcome to attend. All open forums will take place at 11 a.m. in the Memorial Union on their respective days; next Thursday, Nov. 19 ; Friday, Nov. 20. The first open forum will take place Thursday for Steiner in the Gold Room; Hanson’s forum will
be Friday in the Cardinal Room; Ali’s will take place Nov. 19 in the Gold Room of the Memorial Union; The final open forum will take place Nov. 20 in the Gold Room for Gaughan. Harmon said it’s important for students to participate at each of the open forums. “We want to make sure each candidate walks away from the campus interview aware of the needs and expectations of the students, whether it’s in the dorms or off-campus,” Harmon said. The final candidate must also
have good management skills, as well as be able to be collaborative between other units on campus, Harmon said. The new director also needs to have strong financial management skill, he said. “The most important is that they can really represent dining with our students and understand what students want out of dining,” Harmon said. “They need to be responsive to student needs.” Harmon said between 20 and 23 candidates were initially chosen by The Spelman and Johnson Group. The consulting group
based out of Massachusetts often helps the university in filling open director positions, Harmon said. It was narrowed down even further to 8 candidates, which were handed over to the university search committee. Harmon said the committee then narrowed it down to the four finalists. One finalist will succeed Nancy Keller as the director of dining, who stepped down from the position in January. She had been director since 2006. You can learn more about the candidates on The Daily website.
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Clayton Johnson, president-elect of the Professional and Scientific Council, speaks at a council meeting Thursday.
Council votes to ban e-cigs from campus By Audra.Kincart @iowastatedaily.com
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Veganism is a diet in which people do not eat meat or dairy. While it may seem daunting, reporter Jenna Hrdlicka found that it’s not impossible.
Understanding vegan ISU student adopts veganism for week to explain lifestyle’s popularity By Jenna.Hrdlicka @iowastatedaily.com
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loating, tiredness, nausea — many students experience symptoms like these after indulging in that second Superdog or that greasy Cy Burger. In order to learn about what it’s like to be a vegan on Iowa State’s campus, I agreed to adopt the vegan lifestyle for a week to experience eating and living meat and dairy free. “Be aware that when you eat something it does have an effect,” said Caitlin Flux, junior in human sciences. “Everything you put on your plate has a history, and it does impact the future. It does have environmental consequences. It does contribute to world hunger. It does contribute to global warming, and it does contribute to the suffering of other sentient beings. [Food] has a footprint.” The concept of being aware of the footprint of food is a major factor in the increase in popularity of veganism within the last few years. Veganism is defined by the Vegan Society as “a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of and cruelty to animals for food, clothing or any other purpose.” Individuals who choose to live the vegan lifestyle consume primarily a plant-based died. They exclude all animal-related products from their regimen
including meat, dairy, eggs and honey. Along with choosing to exclude animal products from their diets, many vegans also choose to avoid makeup and other goods that are tested on animals and those that are made of animal products such as leather. This message was on repeat in my mind as I embraced the adventure of becoming vegan for a week. Although veganism is growing in popularity, it can still be a difficult lifestyle for some regarding food availability and the lack of support from others. Being a vegan student on Iowa State’s campus is possible and rewarding for those who are passionate about the lifestyle, but it does presents challenges. As a self-proclaimed burger enthusiast and lover of all things dairy, veganism has never previously crossed my mind as a viable lifestyle choice. I agree with many of the moral aspects of the lifestyle, but I was never willing to give up the dairy and meat products I love. After a week of embracing veganism, I can say with certainty that I learned a shocking amount of information about the footprint of food, and I was surprised at the physical differences I felt in my body even within just one week. I had more energy and generally felt more healthy because of the decrease in my consumption of sugar and oils. Vegan principles attract individuals for a variety of reasons; the most prevalent reasons are to support animal welfare, to improve health, to increase the wel-
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The Professional and Scientific Council decided to back a proposal that electronic cigarettes be included in the smoke-free policy on Iowa State’s campus effective Jan. 1, 2016. The Professional and Scientific Council hosted a meeting Thursday afternoon in the Gallery Room of the Memorial Union. Several policies were discussed in the unfinished business portion of the meeting, including the addition of electronic cigarettes to the smokefree campus policy. “Just a health issue, I think it sends a positive thing for the entire campus community,” said Diane Rupp, associate registrar for the university. “This is an opportunity where it’s free of smoking.” The motion stated, “It is moved that the Professional and Scientific Council endorses the proposed policy for January 2016 implementation.” Jason McLatchie, member of the council, was one of two members who attended the meeting to vote against the motion. “I did because I was representing my constituents,” McLatchie said. “I asked for feedback, and I received one comment, and their comment was they did not want that.” The motion was approved 36-2. Another policy discussed during unfinished business included the addition of drones to the Facilities and Grounds Use Policy. “I think as a research institution they need to have that standpoint of the university needs to know when a drone is flying over campus,” Rupp said. “I was torn from the standpoint I don’t want people to think they couldn’t just get it approved.” The motion stated, “Whereas this draft is revising the existing policy to include the use of drones. It is moved that the Professional and Scientific Council endorses the proposed policy.” The motion was approved 37-1. Both motions will take effect January 2016.
Design students receive health care environment award By Audra.Kincart @iowastatedaily.com The College of Design offers an interdisciplinary health, healing and wellness studio that focuses on health care design, a type of design that is rapidly advancing. Medicine is ever-changing and advancing, with some patients saying the experience is more home-like than ever. The challenge of the studio is to stay up to date on the current health care trends. To do this, the studio focuses on different projects each semester. With these projects the students work with real firms to connect with potential clients and projects.
The studio is co-taught from both architecture and interior design perspectives, led by Cameron Campbell, associate professor of architecture, and Jihyun Song, associate professor of interior design. The studio is full of different kinds of collaboration. Like Song, many design students come from an international background. She and Campbell grouped students in diverse teams and are an example of a diverse group themselves. “We teach together, but we have different backgrounds,” Song said. “I am an interior designer, and [Campbell] is an architect. I am Asian, and he is American. I am female, and he is male.” This approach challenges the instructors as well as the students,
but toward the end of the semester communication barriers are no longer an issue. Each project in the studio prepared students to complete the final project, which is in collaboration with the Iowa City office of Heery International, an international architectural firm. Heery International was in the process of building towers for the children’s hospital at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. The firm invited the studio to Iowa City to better understand the project. During a five-to-six week time span, groups within the studio designed towers of their own with requirements set up by Heery International. “The tower could either be
symmetrical or asymmetrical or totally opposite,” Song said of their designs. After the designs were completed, one group was encouraged to enter its plans into the student category of the 2015 Healthcare Environment awards, which is run by Contract Magazine and the Center for Health Design. “Their team was the most successful,” Song said. “It outshined the whole studio.” The team consisted of four students: interior design graduate student Yongyeon Cho, graduate assistant in interior design; Yifan Luo and Casey Tiedman, both fifth-year architecture students; and Haoyu Fang, an exchange student from Southeast University in Nanjing, China.
Entering the contest was an afterthought. “We didn’t think about the award,” Tiedman said. “We were really excited about our project, and we wanted to see it to completion, and then we were like, ‘Oh yeah, we could totally enter this.’” Like its professors, the group is composed of a variety of backgrounds and nationalities. “We all kind of had our strongpoints that we learned from each other on,” Tiedman said. “It was cool to learn from each other along the way.” The group’s design was featured in the October issue of Contract Magazine and will be displayed Nov. 14-17 in Washington D.C. as part of the Healthcare Design Expo and Conference.