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Dedicated basketball fans line up outside of Hilton Coliseum, waiting for Thursday night’s game against the Arkansas Razorbacks in the freezing cold Iowa winter.
ESPN College Gameday causes ticket changes By Max.Dible @iowastatedaily.com ESPN College GameDay may be coming to Hilton Coliseum. The ISU men’s basketball team will square off against No. 11 Kansas on Jan. 17 in Ames. The popular ESPN program has requested that the ISU Athletic Department keep its options open on the game’s start time to accommodate the potential presence of ESPN cameras and crews at the game. While the decision on whether or not to host a show in Ames will not be made by ESPN until the first week of January, the ISU student ticket policy has been changed due simply to the possibility of GameDay’s presence. The policy changes were laid out in an email sent from the university to all student ticket
holders. “Student ticket pick-up for the men’s basketball game versus Kansas will be at Hilton Coliseum on Saturday,” according to the email. “All student men’s basketball tickets for the Kansas game will be reserved seating, based on a first-come, first-served basis.” The alterations to the policy are intended to allow ISU fans to both claim their tickets and their seats, while still being able to attend the College GameDay broadcast. “We selected Saturday to avoid most issues with academic conflicts and to be able to allow students to wait in line inside Hilton Coliseum, thereby limiting issues with cold weather,” the email read. The university will keep student ticket holders apprised of any further changes or relevant information as it becomes available.
Music connects with physics for “Planets” concert By Carolina.Colon @iowastatedaily.com Today the Music and Physics departments will join forces to create an out-of-this-worldinspired multimedia concert for the first time in Iowa State history. The concert, “Planets,” is a seven-movement orchestra of the eight distinct planets by composer Gustav Holst. He composed his work based on astrology. This movement motivated the Music Department to expand the usual concert in music to join with the Physics and Astronomy departments. The performance provides an opportunity to feature the ISU Planetarium by creating a multimedia performance, including a large screen with standing lights presenting a series of images from a variety of NASA missions to different planets. “Music was written in the 20th Century before planets were discovered,” said Jacob Harrison, director of orchestral activities and creator of the concert. “The difference is remarkable between the music elements and how we can relate that to the planets themselves.” Harrison explained how excited he felt for this new event. “In general, this is an exciting and fun concert to learn about creative music [and a] really interesting way to show how the music and planets connect,” Harrison said. Preparation for the event included rehearsals twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4-6 p.m. since the end of October. The ISU Symphony has a diverse pool of student musicians,
not all of whom are music majors. There are about 30 different majors represented. Samuel Hall, senior in music ,explained his feelings toward the event. “Everybody is excited,” Hall said. “The orchestra is really full of excitement for the concert. This is a really good conclusion to this semester’s concert season.” Curtis Struck, professor of astrophysics, explained how science is applied to this special event. “Science and music did develop together,” Struck said. “Science and those beliefs were born together and separated later. This is a great opportunity for people that enjoy one or the other, beautiful music and science.” Jillian Neeley, third year graduate in astronomy and physics, explained how she got involved with the event. “We worked with the music theory students when developing the documentary of the different movements of the planets,” Neely said. “I’m really interested to see this in many different ways.” Neely said this event will expand students’ knowledge about the planets by displaying the information in a creative and artful way. “Planets” is the first concert in Iowa State history performed with the collaboration of another department. Tickets were $5 for students and $10 for adults, the performance will be held in the Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall. The concert sold out two weeks before the event. The creators had even considered performing a second show. The concert can even be viewed online through the website: http://www. music.iastate.edu/feeds/recital/..
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Community advisers are the lifeline for new students and students living in the dorms or student-owned apartments. Community advisers can offer advice, help sutdents with classes and maintain the security of the building the students are residing in.
CA goes above and beyond Student says skills learned as a mentor prepared her for life By Abby.Wadeson @iowastatedaily.com
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hough Brianne Moore has lived in Buchanan Hall for the past two years, she plans to return because of the connections she’s made and the students she has mentored. “I love the building I’m in,” Moore said. “The residents are awesome. They all talk to the CA’s.” Until the fall of 2013, Buchanan Hall was an upperclassmen-only dorm, but last year, a freshman floor was created to compensate for the increased enrollment and desire to live in the residence halls. This is the first year freshmen were able to apply to live in Buchanan when picking housing.
When Moore, now a senior in psychology, came to Iowa State, she knew she wanted to be involved in campus somehow. “I like to help people,” Moore said. She said she had a great community adviser her freshman year who helped her to decide to become one herself. “I love that what you put into the job is what you get out of the job,” Moore said. She said she gains satisfaction from helping residents or learning new things. “In this job you learn every single day,” Moore said. Moore’s favorite part about her job is the opportunities she gets to learn and grow. Her least favorite part about being a community adviser, she
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GSB and administration propose three solutions to enrollment growth issue By Dakota.Carpenter @iowastatedaily.com Lines at the testing centers, three week waiting periods for health center appointments and traffic on Osborn Drive are things that majority of Iowa State students have had experience with this year. The Government of the Student Body has proposed a resolution to university administration to address these problems for students. Speaker of the Senate, Gabe Walsh, said that GSB senators held three working meetings to develop ideas that could eventually be proposed to administration. Three ideas that came out of the meetings were expanding the hours and staff of Thielen Health Center, increasing the seats in testing centers and eliminating traffic on Osborn Drive. “It wouldn’t have been very powerful to send to administration ‘we want you to work on these 21 things’,” Walsh said. “We figured if we come up with three specific things that those would be three things that we wanted administration to take very seriously and things we’d
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President Steven Leath announced a 4.5 percent rise in enrollment on Sept. 10. For the 2014-2015 school year, Iowa State had its largest-ever enrollment of 34,732 students.
like to see progress on.” Once GSB senators reached a consensus on the three proposals that they would present to the administration, a resolution was sent to President Leath. Leath began working with his administrative staff on the feasibility of the proposals, one such member being associate vice president, Miles Lackey. Lackey said the Iowa State administration wants to focus on enrollment issues in order to preserve the experience stu-
dents expect to have. Lackey said some of the resolutions that were proposed were regarding things administrators knew needed to be addressed. Administrators have started working on resolving wait times at the health center by increasing the hours of operation as well as increasing staff. Lackey said additional nurses and an interim physician for women’s health have been hired, and administra-
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