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As part of the Chinese New Year’s celebration held in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union, members of the Chinese Student and Scholars Association preformed a dancing routine. Students gathered to celebrate the ending of the year and to bring in the new year, the year of the horse.

A night of celebration By Katharina.Grunewald @iowastatedaily.com In honor of the New Year the Chinese Student Association held a grand celebration Sunday night, that filled Memorial Union G r e a t Hall with nearly

700 students and faculty members. Following the lunar calendar, January 31th was the first day of the year of the horse, one of the chinese twelve animals. Many Asian countries follow this time setting. Hanxiao Hu, sophomore in journalism and mass communication and minister of the liberal arts of the CSSA shared the meaning of the New Year. “It is a Chinese tradition. We want to celebrate this tradition, keep track with it and don’t loose it,” said Hu. In China, the New Year is a 15 day long holiday. It’s a time to visit friends and

family and to have dinner together. “Parents will buy new cloth for their children and family members will give them red bags filled with money,” Hu said. With the goal of connecting Iowa State’s Chinese Students and Ames Chinese families, the CSSA presented 12 performances. They displayed the wide variety of Chinese culture by mixing and tradition and modern day spirit. Members of the association started the event with a humerus dance that lifted the crowds already high vitality even higher.

As the children of the Chinese Language School took the stage, the joyful audience greeted them with cheers, as they performed a well known Chinese children’s song called “Singing & Smile.” Xuan Rong, vice president of the CSSA and senior in supply chain management translated a verse of the song. “They are singing, ‘Please leave your smiles here. Tomorrow my songs will fly all over the world, stressing the beauty of home and laughter,’” Rong said. Rock songs and sketches in Chinese followed the

trad i t i o n a l performance. Six members of the CSSA performed a traditional dance. The girls danced with large pink fans that closed and opened with swift hand motions

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E-cigarettes face restriction Cy statues help charity By Varad.Diwate @iowastatedaily.com E-cigarettes, often seen as an alternative to smoking regular cigarettes, might soon see a ban on sales to minors. A proposed local ordinance and state legislation could also mean tighter restrictions on such products. Sen. Herman Quirmbach (D-Ames) has filed a bill in the state legislature that aims to prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes to people under 18 years of age. Quirmbach is assigned to a subcommittee that will look at two bills proposed on this issue. The subcommittee would also be responsible for hearings from different stakeholders. Quirmbach said he is optimistic about having a law in place by the end of this state legislative session.

In a press conference last week, Story County Attorney Stephen Holmes, Sen. Herman Quirmbach (D-Ames) and Youth Shelter Services CEO George Belitsos talked about the new proposed regulation. The local ordinance was proposed by the Youth Shelter Services in Ames and drafted by Holmes. E-cigarettes are currently not regulated for sale by age unlike regular cigarettes. Also commonly known as vaping devices, these products heat a liquid solution to produce vapor. This vapor is inhaled and exhaled by users to stimulate smoking cigarettes. These products often contain flavorings with varying amounts of nicotine. “It seems to me that the issues are going to be expanded. So changes will have to be made,” Holmes

said. “We are trying to keep abreast of what’s taking place at the Capitol. We are trying to have a presence at those discussions so that we are all in agreement.” Holmes said that the county ordinance would likely be altered to take into account the proposed state law. He added that it would be hard to guess when the ordinance and law would go into effect as both of them are being discussed at the same time. Public hearings have not yet been scheduled by the county Board of Supervisors. Quirmbach has been a proponent of anti-smoking policies from his days in the Ames City Council. In 2000, he proposed a city ordinance to ban smoking in restau-

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By Lissandra.Villa @iowastatedaily.com Cy statues will be venturing off campus and into Ames in an effort to generate proceeds for local charities as a part of Leadership Ames’ project, CyclONE City. Leadership Ames is a program that the Ames Chamber of Commerce has sponsored for the last 26 years. This year’s class, the 27th, has committed to a project that will go beyond its graduation date to benefit Youth & Shelter Services, Mainstream Living, Inc. and the Ames Emergency Residence Project. “In the Leadership Ames program, the class is required to provide a project back to the community,” said Teresa Albertson, the artistry co-chairwoman of the CyclONE City project and program assistant for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This requirement led to the 16-member class planning CyclONE City, in which 5-foot-7-inch, fiberglass replicas of the Cy statue that stands

outside the Iowa State Alumni Center will be decorated by local artists. They will then go on tour to the sponsoring businesses around Ames. “This idea had been kind of circling around Ames for a couple of years, but no one had picked it up to do it,” Albertson said. The class’s initial goals for CyclONE City are to get 25 statues sponsored and raise at least $50,000. “The amount of money that we make is really undetermined. It will all depend on how many sponsors we get,” said Makenzie Heddens, committee co-chair of CyclONE City and program assistant in the ISU president’s office. Heddens said the class already has a list of pre-committed businesses, but they have not yet been publicly released. “It’s an employment opportunity for artists,” Heddens said. “They’ll get a $500 stipend prior to designing the

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