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Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 | Volume 210 | Number 67 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
GIVING TREE Christmas comes to less fortunate children of Ames, student involvement encouraged By Emelie.Knobloch @iowastatedaily.com
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n Ames girl, only 10 years old, asked for a scarf, hat and glove set for Christmas. Because an ISU student or faculty member picked up the cardboard ornament hanging on a Christmas tree, she will get it. This year marks the 15th annual Giving Tree program hosted by YWCA Ames-ISU and the Faculty Senate at Iowa State. “We work with the Ames School District’s counselors,” said Angela Merrick, executive director of the YWCA Ames-ISU. “They provide us with wish lists of about 100 homeless children in Ames.” Merrick said the Giving Tree program provides these children with six gifts each. Sherri Angstrom, secretary for the senate, said the program has grown significantly in the 15 years it has been operating. “The first year of the program, we did just a few gifts per child,” Angstrom said. “The program started with just 30 children involved and now it is up to 100
children.” Angstrom said the program was initially started when the YMCA director, at the time, came to the faculty senate president where they agreed to partner together. Three years ago, the YMCA closed down and the YWCA AmesISU agreed to keep the program going, partnered with the senate as the YMCA was. The YWCA is a multicultural women’s organization. The senate represents the general faculty and shares governance of the university with the administration, according to their website. Angstrom said the total amount of gifts varies but is expected to be at least 600 gifts. “The program works by taking a wish list off one of the trees around campus,” Merrick said. “However, they were gone within the first week this year.” Several students have also gotten involved in the Giving Tree program in the past few years. “I gave to the Giving Tree last year,” said Kayla Carpenter, junior in child, adult and family services.”
Carpenter said the process was very easy and didn’t take a lot of extra time. “It was pretty simple,” Carpenter said. “I just grabbed a card from the tree in MacKay, ran to Target to buy the presents and brought them to Hamilton Hall.” Carpenter said she was very familiar with this type of program because of the ‘Angel Tree’ at her
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Lindsay Richmond, freshman in animal science, is one of many students that is donating to the less fortunate children of Ames through the Giving Tree.
church back home. “I got involved because I have a very similar program back home at my church called the angel
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Tuition, new engineering center up for approval
Local radio station must find new home
By Danielle.Ferguson @iowastatedaily.com Tuition rates for resident undergraduates could be locked at the 2014-15 rate if the Board of Regents votes for a third consecutive tuition freeze at the December meeting Wednesday. The board will also look at mandatory student fees, a new center for bioplastics and biocomposites, a million dollar computing cluster purchase and an efficiency review update at the meeting, telephonically originating from the Iowa State University Alumni Center. The board had originally proposed an increase of 1.75 percent in in-state undergraduate tuition, but concern about rising higher education costs presented by regent Larry McKibben caused other regents to also speak out. “The [student] debt at sixth in the nation is a social and economic negative for our state,” McKibben said at the Oct. 23 board meeting. “[It is important for] students to graduate without having a tremendous amount of debt, to be able to get married, have a family and maybe make a first down payment on a house
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88.5 FM KURE is being pushed out of their current location, which is in Friley Residence Hall. The Greenlee School faculty will discuss the relocation of KURE on Friday.
By Morgan.Kelly @iowastatedaily.com
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Miles Lackey speaks at the Oct. 13 Board of Regents meeting. Among other issues, the board will examine tuition rates and a proposal to renovate Larch Hall on Wednesday.
and stay in Iowa.” The board is now recommending the following rates for Iowa State: 2014-15 undergraduate resident tuition: $6,648 Proposed 2015-16: $6,648 2014-15 undergraduate nonresident tuition: $19,534 Proposed 2015-16: $19,768 2014-15 graduate resident tuition: $7,990
Proposed 2015-16: $8,130 2014-15 graduate nonresident tuition: $20,804 Proposed 2015-16: $21,054 Mandatory fees: 2014-15: $1,083.40 Proposed 2015-16: $1,087.90 The fee increase is an additional $4.50 per student that would go toward CyRide.
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Radio station KURE is being asked to move out of Friley Hall after 65 years of residence. The Department of Residence has issued the station to move out by the summer of 2015. KURE originally started as a residence hall-only radio station, which played music through the water pipes. KURE now broadcasts to all of Ames, and events are open to both students and Ames community members, providing the DOR with the argument that the station is no longer suitable for a residence hall-only environment. “In my opinion it wasn’t very deep or complicated, it was ‘this is who you are let’s find a bet-
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ter place for you,’” said Peter Englin, director of the DOR. “I saw a problem with this many non-residence students having access to the building on a regular basis. There is higher priority and obligation on our part to serve residence hall students with some of that space.” Some members of KURE may have been unaware the station was being kicked out of Friley until recently because of a miscommunication between old and new members, but Englin said the station has known about it for at least three years. “I don’t think the expectation was passed onto the new board that makes up KURE,” Englin said. “That’s what happened.” He wouldn’t say whether or
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