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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., hosts a rally in the Maintenance Shop on Thursday. He discussed tax reform among other things.
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Rubio urges young voters to engage By Travis.Charlson @iowastatedaily.com
bench. “Like Jameel said, until the clock says zero, you just got to keep fighting.” On Monday, Georges Niang told reporters he wanted to know how Jarrod Uthoff would perform as the two seniors went to battle in their final CyHawk matchup. “They really play around him,”
Students crammed into the Maintenance Shop of the Memorial Union on Thursday to catch a glimpse of Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio as he made his latest swing through Iowa. The Florida senator gave his stump speech to eager students and community members, insisting that an optimistic yet pragmatic approach is the best way to handle issues facing the nation. Rubio has often used his personal story — having been raised by poor, immigrant parents — along with an optimism for working class people to try and attract voters. With so many candidates running for election this cycle, presidential hopefuls continue to find ways to make themselves stand out. “I didn’t really know anything about Marco Rubio before,” said David Jahn, sophomore in civil engineering. “I really liked it. I learned a lot about the candidate.” Rubio touched on a wide range of topics, covering issues facing the economy, higher education, the Islamic state group and the Affordable Care Act. Areas of focus for the GOP hopeful were jobs and the economy. He detailed his plan of bringing jobs back from overseas, emphasizing the importance of successfully competing and collaborating with the increasingly globalized economy. “The world I grew up in is very different than the world we live in now,” Rubio said. “The economy we live in today is a global one.” Tax reform and regulation reform, he said, are keys to getting the economy on the right track and will lead to increased competitiveness and innovation. “I like how he is trying to help businesses to grow, especially small-and medium-sized busi-
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ISU point guard Monté Morris hits the go-ahead and eventual game-winning shot against Iowa on Thursday at Hilton Coliseum. The bucket capped off a 20-point comeback.
Iowa State storms back from 20-point deficit against Iowa By Chris.Wolff @iowastatedaily.com
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ameel McKay headed back toward the defensive end of the basketball court, his No. 4 Cyclones down one point with only 51 seconds remaining, against their biggest rival — the unranked Iowa Hawkeyes. Georges Niang had just hit a pair of free throws, and McKay was looking for a little help. The help wasn’t coming from his teammates and not from the ISU fans but from somewhere else. He was looking for magic, the kind ISU players and fans have come to believe resides within the friendly confines of Hilton Coliseum. “Come on, magic,” McKay muttered. “Come on, magic.” McKay got what he was looking for. “You know Hilton Magic is going to happen, you just don’t know when,” McKay said. “And it happened. I knew [if] we get a stop, we would win the game. That was never a doubt in my mind.” Iowa point guard Mike Gesell missed a jumper with 22 seconds left. Iowa’s Jarrod Uthoff pulled down the offensive rebound, but
the shot clock expired. The Cyclones had one final chance to take the lead, which had eluded Iowa State since it led 4-3 with 17:36 left in the first half. With nine seconds left, Monté Morris, nicknamed “Big Game,” brought the ball up the court. McKay was supposed to come up and set a screen for Morris, but that plan never came to fruition. “I got out of his way,” McKay said. “I let him be the player he is.” Morris delivered, hitting a picture-perfect floater to put the Cyclones up 83-82 with just seconds remaining. Uthoff would get one more shot at the game, but his 3-pointer clanked off the rim, and the ISU faithful stormed the court. A 20-point comeback, courtesy of Hilton Magic, and a clutch shot by Big Game completed the eventful night. Earlier this season, Morris said he always plays better when his mom is at his games. She was there for Morris’ game-winner against Texas in the first round of the Big 12 tournament last season. Against Iowa, she was there to witness the same result. “I made two game winners in front of her so far,” Morris said. “I’m undefeated in front of my mom.” Iowa State’s last minute comeback is impressive on its own but even more so when considering Iowa State had to erase a 20-point deficit in the second half just to get the game close again. At Hilton Coliseum, the Cyclones have proven they may be
REGISTER COLUMNIST SUFFERS BROKEN LEG Des Moines Register columnist Randy Peterson suffered a compound fracture in his leg after Iowa State’s comeback victory against Iowa, according to Chad Leistikow of the Des Moines Register. Leistikow reported that Peterson suffered a broken tibia and fibula and will have surgery Friday. After the Cyclones won 83-82, the crowd charged the court. That was when Peterson was injured. “In fairness, we still do not know exactly what happened,” ISU Athletic Director Jamie Pollard said in a statement. “However, at this point our thoughts are focused on Randy and his wife Patty, who is battling cancer. He is our beat reporter, and Patty and he are both very good friends of our program. “Coach Prohm and I have both personally spoken with Randy and have assured him we will do whatever we can to help both through what they are dealing with.” Peterson was seen carried out of Hilton Coliseum on a stretcher with a cast on his leg. He was taken to Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines and will have surgery Friday. down, but they’re never out. That sentiment prevailed in Iowa State’s huge 21-point comeback against Oklahoma last season and the Cyclones’ comeback win against the Hawkeyes the last time the CyHawk game came to Hilton Coliseum two seasons ago. “Crazy things have happened in this building,” said Matt Thomas, who scored 19 points off the
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she has taken part in. “I see myself predominately as an activist, and I thought [Sanders’] views aligned with mine more and the kind of work I wanted to do,” Cook said. Cook said this election is very poignant and has the potential to change the direction of U.S. policy. She encouraged students to get involved in any way, adding that getting involved in a group helps students become more aware and informed about issues. “Become involved now, in any way, or in any group,” Cook said. “You become more educated on the issues around you, and you can effect any level of change, even if it’s small, and how these issues affect you in your everyday life.” Polling from USA Today and Suffolk University released Dec. 8 showed Sanders with a positive favorability rating among younger voters aged 18-34 in the poll. That group viewed him more positively by six points while overall he is viewed negatively by three points among all voters. What is the most obvious way Sanders appeals to young students? Touting his plan to provide free college tuition at public universities. “Bernie Sanders, and even Hillary Clinton to some extent, are appealing directly to students on the grounds of free tuition or reduced tuition,” Shelley said. “Bernie is really trying to appeal to students with that, and I think that works with parents, as well. I think that’s appealing to parents just about as much as it would for students.” For Republicans, Kentucky
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Forget interning in Washington D.C. Every four years, Iowa becomes the hub of American politics with candidates swarming the state looking for support leading up to the first-in-the-nation votes for president. With candidates flocking to the state en masse, college campuses become a popular spot for presidential hopefuls to meet a diverse group of potential first-time voters and win over a population who—if they turn out—can sway Iowa’s closely watched precinct caucuses. Mack Shelley, university professor of political science, said he still remembers sitting in the Scheman Building during the 2008 caucus. Turnout seemed pretty standard, he recalled, but with about 10 minutes before the doors shut, a massive group of students poured in to caucus for then-Sen. Barack Obama. “It was almost like an old western — the cavalry coming over the hill at the last minute to save whoever,” Shelley said. “That’s kind of the way it turned out. You can’t have a one-to-one connection of being a student and voting for Obama in 2008, but it was pretty obvious that’s what tipped the scale.” A record 6.5 million people under the age of 30 turned out in the 2008 primaries and caucuses, and 8,800 young voters turned out for Obama in Iowa’s Caucus, according to The Center For Information and Research on Civic
Learning and Engagement. The Iowa Democratic Party does not release vote counts. Instead, it releases how many delegates each candidate wins, but Obama easily won Iowa in 2008 with 37.6 percent. Sen. John Edwards squeaked by then Sen. Hillary Clinton by just a few hundredths of a percent to take second place. In 2012, grassroots support for libertarian-leaning Republican Rep. Ron Paul shot him into the “top tier” of candidates. He easily won the youth vote, according to estimates from CIRCLE, which projects 48 percent of young voters caucused for the Texas congressman. Former Sen. Rick Santorum was the closest competitor at 23 percent, while former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney brought in 14 percent. Santorum edged Romney by just 34 votes to win the caucus when all of the votes were counted. This election cycle, two candidates have stood out on college campuses and attracted potential voters to get involved in their campaigns. On the Democratic side, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — technically an independent in Congress who calls himself a democratic socialist — has appealed to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Rosie Cook, freshman in prebusiness who runs Students for Bernie at Iowa State, said she became interested in politics when she was getting involved in gay rights activism in high school. Leading the pro-Sanders group at Iowa State is the first official group
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Kaylee Weber, former ISU student, speaks to supporters as part of an Obama campaign rally in 2012. Students have the ability influence who wins the Iowa caucus.
Sen. Rand Paul has made a push to reach out to young voters with his message of less government intrusion. His campaign also set a goal of recruiting 10,000 college students to caucus for the senator — a feat that would likely put him over the top by the end of caucus night — and Paul has established 400 “Students for Rand” chapters on campuses across the United States. Austin Dzik, junior in mechanical engineering and president of Students for Rand at Iowa State, said he originally became interested in politics after watching Rand’s father, Ron, campaign in 2012. The ISU group spawned off of Young Americans for Liberty, another student group that advocates fiscal conservatism with a push for
civil liberties. Dzik was involved in the group during his sophomore year, and regional leaders for the group became involved in Paul’s campaign and asked him to start a group at Iowa State. As for getting students involved, the group makes a push to talk to students every day and try to get them interested. “We’re always out by the library just talking to students about issues and issues that matter to students,” Dzik said. “A lot of people don’t like our involvement in the Middle East and, for example, drug reform. So just talking to students and I’m always having conversations with people I meet about the group.” And when it comes to stu-
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