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Photo: Yanhua Huang/ Iowa State Daily Theressa Cooper, assistant dean for diversity for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, talks in Curtis Hall. Cooper is eager to combine her interests in agriculture and cultural studies in her new role at Iowa State.

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Decision regarding anti-gay ban tabled

By Frances.Myers @iowastatedaily.com The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is looking to really delve into diversity in the upcoming future. The college recently took a large step by hiring Theressa Cooper as the new assistant dean of diversity.

Cooper hails from the University of Tennessee, where she served as director of Academic Success Programs and Outreach Initiatives. While at the University of Tennessee, she was responsible for retention programs within the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Cooper earned her master’s degree in higher education while doing cultural studies work and working full time.

Cooper said she wanted to find a job that combined her two interests: agriculture and cultural studies.

“I was looking for a job that allowed me to still do retention work and recruiting that I was doing in [agriculture] but get an administrative piece as well because I also like doing administrative work,” Cooper said.

Cooper said a friend of hers working in the veterinary school at the University of Tennessee told her about the position at Iowa State, telling her it was the perfect job for her.

“I looked at it, and it actually was because it married the administrative work on the assistant dean level, but still allows me to go out in the field and do work with populations of color and retention work and still be able to write grants, which I really love to do,” Cooper said.

Cooper started at Iowa State officially Feb. 1, and since getting here has been busy getting accustomed to her new job.

Cooper’s job as assistant dean requires a number of responsibilities including: overlooking diversity programs such as the George Washington Carver Initiative, leading diversity efforts recruiting of undergraduate and graduate students, grant writing and possibly teaching.

“My departmental home is the agricul-

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By Katie.Grunewald @iowastatedaily.com The Boy Scouts of America have pushed back the decision to lift their national anti-gay ban until May 2013.

Zach Wahls, a 21-year-old LGBT activist and Eagle Scout from Iowa City, agrees with the decision to wait until May. “I think they needed more time,” Wahls said.

“We were all caught off guard by their decision to rethink it at all. The amount of outpour and feedback that was received required them to take more time.”

Wahls became a wellknown activist in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transexual community after he addressed the Iowa House Judiciary Committee on a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Iowa. Within weeks, his YouTube video had over 1.5 million views.

In January, the BSA an-

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Early actions may predict future crime nounced the decision to reconsider lifting the anti-gay ban. The organization said the 102-year-old policy could be reversed in as little as two weeks.

While this may have instilled false hope in BSA families, Wahls agreed with their decision to make this

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known to the public.

“It was important even if that timeline was unreasonable,” Wahls said. “A lot of people are definitely hurt because

Childhood behavior could be one of the biggest predictors of future adult criminal activity according to a new study.

Recently three ISU professors, Matthew DeLisi, Brenda Lohman and Tricia Neppl, along with two other researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Saint Louis University, published a study in the Journal of Criminal Justice pertaining to criminal behavior in

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The information in the log comes from the ISU and City of Ames police departments’ records.

All those accused of violating the law are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Feb. 6 An individual reported the theft of a wheel from a car at Lot 201P (reported at 11:35 a.m.).

A staff member reported the theft of five fire extinguishers at Gilman Hall (reported at 4:37 p.m.).

Officers assisted in removing items being stored in violation of Department of Residence and university policies at Frederiksen Court (reported at 5:20 p.m.).

An individual reported the theft of a wallet from a coat left on a gym floor at Forker Building (reported at 10:16 p.m.).

Feb. 7 A staff member reported soil damage to several new couches at Mackay Hall (reported at 8:17 a.m.).

A found knife was placed into secure storage at Hamilton Hall (reported at 9:25 a.m.).

A vehicle that left the scene collided with a parked car. The incident remains under investigation at Lot 100 (reported at 10:24 a.m.).

An individual reported damage to a vehicle at Lot 57 (reported at 1:51 p.m.).

Susan Krummen, 20, 511 Stanton Ave., was arrested and charged with public intoxication at the Memorial Union (reported at 9:49 p.m.).

Feb. 8 Cameron, 21, of 300 Stanton Ave., Apt 401, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated at Knapp Street and Stanton Avenue (reported at 12:14 a.m.).

Alicia Magg, 21, 3801 Lincoln Way, Unit 202, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated at Hyland Avenue and Lincoln Way (reported at 1:38 a.m.).

Brady Calow, 20, of Cedar Falls, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at the 300 block of Stanton Avenue (reported at 10:50 p.m.).

An individual reported the theft of a laptop at Parks Library (reported at 11:55 p.m.).

Feb. 9 Chelsea Behnke, 19, 8321 Wallace Hall, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Knapp Street and Welch Avenue (reported at 12:56 a.m.).

Reagan Washburn, 18, 1468 Eaton Hall, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Lincoln Way and Sheldon Avenue (reported at 1:03 a.m.).

Scott Wood, 19, of Robins, was cited for underage possession of alcohol and unlawful use of a license at the 100

block of Gray Avenue (reported at 1:08 a.m.).

Bryce Kauffman, 19, of Williams, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated at Hayward Avenue and Mortensen Parkway (reported at 2:12 a.m.).

Steven Hatland, 21, 3412 Frederiksen Court, was arrested and charged with public intoxication (second offense) at 13th Street and Stange Road (reported at 2:40 a.m.).

Officers assisted an individual who fell at Lot B6 (reported at 2:07 p.m.).

Jessi Behr, 20, and Olivia Kraskey, 19, both of 2102 Sunset Dr., were cited for underage possession of alcohol at Gable Lane and Gray Avenue (reported at 10:40 p.m.).

Tanner Nelson, 19, 6361 Larch Hall, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Hayward Avenue and Knapp Street (reported at 10:47 p.m.).

Feb. 10

Photo: Blake Lanser/Iowa State Daily Acacia Fraternity brothers Gabe McCoy, sophomore in mechanical engineering, and Tanner Jaeger, sophomore in chemical engineering, study together in their house to obtain higher GPAs. Acacia tries to accept only students of high academic stature.

Manuela Blagojevic, 21, 227 South 5th St, Apt. 3, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving while revoked at Lincoln Way and Welch Avenue (reported at 12:17 a.m.).

A found quantity of a suspected controlled substance was placed into secure storage at the 300 block of Lynn Avenue (reported at 1:14 a.m.).

Zachariah Rankin, 24, 4345 Maricopa Dr., Apt 4, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated at Mortensen Road and State Avenue (reported at 1:22 a.m.).

Matthew Snyder, 20, of Dubuque, was arrested and charged with public intoxication, underage possession of alcohol and interference with official acts at the 100 block of Stanton Avenue (reported at 2:20 a.m.).

Robert Phillips, 18, of Cedar Falls, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance, underage possession of alcohol and providing alcohol to underage persons. Zachary Brandt, 19, of Cedar Falls, was arrested and charged with providing alcohol to underage persons and underage possession of alcohol. Jordan Lazenby, 19, 4463 Friley Hall, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance and unlawful use of a license. Jake Stodola, 18, 4463 Friley Hall, was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia. Justin Werning, 19, of Shellsburg, was cited for unlawful use of a license at Friley Hall (reported at 2:19 a.m.).

Photo: Blake Lanser/Iowa State Daily Acacia Fraternity brothers Tanner Jaeger, sophomore in chemical engineering, Ryan Lohse, sophomore in management information systems, and Addison Kistler, junior in mechanical engineering, study together in their house to try for better GPAs.

Greek life promotes success with high GPA expectations

Fraternities, sororities strive for excellence

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Greek life is a curious concept to those who are not greek themselves, and the student body’s perception of the lifestyle varies. However, the greek community at Iowa State has shown that being in a fraternity or sorority can be beneficial to an education through reports of academic excellence.

The fall 2012 grade reports for the Interfraternity Council, which includes all the fraternities on campus, shows the average GPA as 2.99, the same as the average non-greek GPA. The Collegiate Panhellenic Council, which includes all sororities on campus, shows the average GPA as 3.11, five points higher than the average non-greek undergraduate GPA. “Academics always come first,” said Callah Nelson, sophomore in architecture, in charge of membership for Pi Beta Phi. Acacia, Pi Beta Phi and many others are highly focused on the academic success of members.

Social events are essential in the greek community and to the organizations that benefit from the houses’ fundraisers and

philanthropies. However, if a member’s grades are not up to the house’s standards, privileges are taken away.

Natalie Malliet, sophomore in elementary education and member of Gamma Phi Beta, said that a woman is almost never kicked out of a house for academic reasons. Many houses have reward systems for grades and not skipping classes.

“We have a no-skip skippy jar that passes around during chapter. If you haven’t skipped class, you get a reward for that. We try to make it as fun as possible,” said Clare Goeken, senior in kinesiology and health and president of Gamma Phi Beta sorority.

Gamma Phi Beta was ranked number one last semester for having the highest GPA at 3.31.

Tessa Rife, president of Alpha Delta Pi sorority and sophomore in English, said that when a member’s GPA goes below the standard, she would meet with the scholarship chair to set up a plan on how to be successful in the upcoming semester.

“Penalties on grades going below the standard include restrictions on going to events, having to submit midterm grades, or having to submit weekly grade reports,” Rife said.

According to the greek affairs webpage, fraternities and sororities at Iowa State strive for high scholarship and developing academic excellence among their chapter

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Alpha Delta Pi’s standard for freshmen members is to have at least a 2.6 high school GPA and a national standard of 2.0 GPA to stay off of academic probation.

For Pi Beta Phi, the standard GPA to be accepted into the house is a 2.75.

Tom McGee, senior in industrial engineering and president of Acacia Fraternity, said that Acacia tries to get high academic people, and once they are a part of the house, they try to match achievements. The comparison to one another makes an academic striving atmosphere in the house.

A sorority or a fraternity is more than a house full of college students; to Nelson, “It’s a home away from home.”

“One of our goals this semester is to have everyone involved in something on campus, and I’d say we are almost there,” McGee said.

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“If there are opportunities to submit research to different journals, we’ll do that to talk about and highlight the work that we’re doing here.”

Cooper said it is important for

her to understand the environment around her before she develops a specific set of goals.

“I’m going to figure out the lay of the land,” Cooper said. “I’m going to see where the strengths and the weaknesses are in each of the programs and the recruiting and the retention, so I can see where my skill set would fit in.

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The Boy Scouts of America released a statement on the matter Wednesday night.

“After careful consideration and extensive dialogue within the Scouting family, along with comments from those outside the organization, the volunteer officers of the Boy Scouts of America’s National Executive Board concluded that due to the complexity of this issue, the organization needs time for a more deliberate review of its membership policy.”

Wahls wants college students to understand how important the decision the Boy Scouts of America makes is. “To people our age, it may not be seen as such a huge victory,” Wahls said.

“A decade ago the Supreme Court said it was illegal to be gay, and my own parents could have been arrested. The BSA is a truly great cultural

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The study was produced with the intended purpose of discovering which criminal onset is most important in children and is related to future criminal activity.

There were 252 children living in Pennsylvania juvenile detention centers ranging from ages 14 to 18 who partook in the study. Approximately 75 percent of the participants had been arrested by the age 15 with one participant being arrested for the first time at age 5.

The researchers examined the effects of antisocial behavioral onset, police contact/arrest onset and juvenile court referral onset.

An onset is when the problem behavior begins. From the study, it was discovered that the police contact/arrest onset was the most consistent indicator

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“You don’t want to [be] necessarily changing a lot of things if things don’t need changing. I need to base my goals on evaluating and assessing.”

Dean Wendy Wintersteen of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences explained the college has had a longtime commitment to diversity.

Previously, Jerry Klonglan served

institution. If the ban is overturned, this would be a massive step forward.”

Wahls has an organization called Scouts for Equality that has been putting pressure “behind the scenes” on the group to get the ban lifted.

One issue Wahls addressed specifically is people having to hide their sexuality, if the ban does not get overturned.

Many corporate sponsors of the Boy Scouts of America have pulled their large monetary donations due to the discriminatory policies.

Intel, the largest corporate donor, halted support in September 2012, and the United Postal Service Foundation followed suit in November 2012. Both institutions concluded that funding an organization that was discriminatory based on sexual orientation was against their own policies.

Both of these decisions came after Wahls initiated petitions to stop the funding. The first other participants in the study without ADHD. Participants with conduct disorder were arrested on average about a year earlier than other participants without conduct disorder. Overall, people with conduct disorder displayed earlier average onset across all three onsets.

“Children who have been diagnosed with these disorders do not mean that they are going to become a delinquent in the long run,” Lohman said.

Lohman pointed to the early indicators as a way for people to monitor and flag children with potential problems. She said programs and practices need to be promoted for children who have showed these signs of possible criminal activity.

“The better we further our knowledge about behavior, the better our chances are of preventing this type of behavior,” DeLisi said.

of delinquent career severity.

The study found that the earlier children started participating in criminal activity the more severe the issue became.

“When someone begins engaging in criminal behavior as a youth, we tend to see them continue this behavior when they are older,” DeLisi said.

Another onset highlighted during the study was the antisocial behavioral onset. This was measured from the diagnosis of participants with attention deficit hyperactive disorder and conduct disorder.

Conduct disorder is where a subject breaks rules in a consistent manner and shows defiance toward authority.

Children in the study who had been diagnosed with ADHD tended to break laws 1.1 years earlier, have the police contacted about them 1.3 years earlier and be referred to juvenile court 0.8 years earlier than

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If the Boy Scouts of America overturns this ban and church sponsored groups elect to not allow gay members in, there are other options.

Joseph Wandrei, Eagle Scout and ISU student, said that while most Scout troops do meet at a church, there are “other options such as public schools and community centers that would be a good spot to meet.”

The current Boy Scout of America’s official position on homosexuality reads, “homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the obligations in the Scout Oath and Scout Law to be morally straight and clean in thought, word and deed.”

The group announced in June 2012 they would review the proposal to amend the national anti-gay ban but had no intention of changing it.

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“Scouts and Scout families are being forced into the closet because they are not allowed to be a part of this great institution if they don’t hide who they truly are,” Wahls said.

President Barack Obama and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney both disagreed with the Boy Scouts of America’s current policy.

Obama released a statement early last week encouraging the group to reverse the policy.

The decision the Boy Scouts of America makes will decide whether or not each Scouting’s chartered group may set its own standards regarding gay members and leaders.

The different religious and civic groups that sponsor Scout units would be able to decide for

about a need for replacements.

“We decided we should take this up a step and have an individual with a higher title and more visibility,” Wintersteen said.

“It’s about reaching out and increasing diversity because diversity brings strength, different ideas, different viewpoints, and different ideas brings in innovation.”

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Research for specifics misguided Research to develop renewable energy is very important to Iowa State.

Since ethanol subsidies have been common for more years than students can remember and wind farms are cropping up left and right, Iowans are in the habit of giving attention to renewable energy. Since Iowa State is the land-grant college of Iowa and is a large research university, much of the burden to research renewable energy technology rests with our alma mater.

In his installation speech last September, President Steven Leath articulated a vision of a university that partnered with Iowa’s “business and industrial sector” to develop “the three state focus industries of bioscience, advanced manufacturing, and information technology.” Then (and presumably still), Leath plans “to work with the other segments of Iowa to develop a broad and bold plan for becoming a leader in the bioeconomy, and to implement that plan.” He also said: “If Iowa wants to be successful in the bioeconomy, we need to be bold.”

In keeping with those ambitions, Iowa State’s advocacy group for relations with state legislators, Alliance for Iowa State, has four initiatives.

Alliance’s priorities are a base appropriations increase of 2.6 percent ($4.4 million), a $39.5 million appropriation to create a financial aid program to replace tuition set-asides, a $7.5 million “Bio Economy Initiative” appropriation to develop “biorenewables and biorefinery capabilities,” and a $5 million appropriation for a biosciences building to house research facilities.

Half of Alliance’s goals, then, relate to the goal of developing one industry.

And recently, the National Science Foundation awarded Iowa’s three Regent universities a $20 million, five-year Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research grant “to boost the state’s research capacity in renewable energy and energy utilization.”

Through ISU’s devotion to such knowledge, rather than adaptable principles that can be applied to create whatever technological implement a producer desires, we seem to have repudiated the legacy of such individuals as the author of the land-grant colleges bill of 1862, Rep. Justin S. Morrill, and ISU’s first president, Adonijah Welch. We seem content to be the research and development department of a major corporation rather than a storehouse and explorer of knowledge for everyone.

When giving his inaugural address in 1869, Welch combated several educational prejudices. One prejudice that Welch fought was that agriculture and the mechanic arts, as branches of learning, were not as intellectually vigorous as the classical liberal arts and the professions.

Welch said the specific material of the branch of knowledge was irrelevant to rigor. Any discipline that required self-discipline in its pursuit and that could be adapted “to further the interests and enjoyments of life” deserved academic study. “The gaining of disciplined ability depends more on the teacher who inculcates the method and mode of acquiring than upon the science that supplies the facts to be acquired,” Welch posited.

Enduring knowledge, not the particular solution to a problem that has a distinct place, should consume a university’s energies.

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Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Rasberry Pi is designed to be the most inexpensive computer on the market with the ability to run spreadsheets, video games and highdefinition video among other things. However, because the operating system can be a bit tricky, it’s not as viable as it may originally seem.

Will smaller become better?

Mini computer may overtake larger cousin

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echnological innovations occur so often now that we can scarcely keep up with them on our own.

Thankfully, one of our friends will, at some point, likely post a YouTube video of something cool so that we do not remain in the dark — albeit that video could still be a year after the tech was premiered.

One of the most common to upgrade regularly is the computer. Everyone jokingly says, “As soon as you buy your computer, it is already out of date.”

Due to the way tech testing works, that is actually pretty true.

All the mainstream computer companies are regularly finding new ways to condense size or improve speeds in order to slip another Benjamin or two out of our wallets so we remain “cutting edge.”

Sometimes, though, a computer company does something with the actual intent of improving lives without an outright desire

By Gabriel.Stoffa @iowastatedaily.com to become a corporate giant.

Enter Raspberry Pi, a computer designed to be the most inexpensive computer on the market. It is able to run spreadsheets, word processors, video games, high-definition video and other such things.

Yes, those tasks can be accomplished by any desktop or laptop nowadays.

So, what is so great about Raspberry Pi? Raspberry Pi is a computer with the following measurements: 85.6 millimeters by 56 millimeters by 21 millimeters with a little overlap for the SD card and connectors that project over the edges. It weighs in at 45 grams.

Yep, your math was right; it is roughly the size of an Altoids tin.

However, that does not include a USB keyboard and mouse, an HDMI cable, a Micro-USB cable, a power adapter capable of delivering five volts

over a Micro-USB cable and an SD Card prepared with a Raspberry Pi OS image; an ethernet cable or adapter is necessary as well if you want to connect to the Internet. But, supplying those in not really a problem, considering Raspberry Pi is only $35, and those items are likely already sitting around in your room.

For the younger generations today, small and portable takes the cake, er, um, pie, and an inexpensive price tag is the cherry, um, raspberry, on top.

You can even build or buy whatever carrying case is customized to your tastes to accommodate everything or just the system itself.

What these little computers mean is that with a little technical understanding — a trait more and more common with younger generations and as a basic learning trait in grade school — essentially anyone around the world can have a working computer at their leisure for pennies on the dollar.

Imagine the potential for reductions in E-waste should such small devices become the norm. The terrible effect of second-

hand computers in places like Guiyu, China, could be curbed.

The Raspberry Pi allows for anyone to experiment and learn about computers while still having a working system to go about their lives. Being more technically inclined is the norm nowadays if you want to be readily-employable and save money.

The biggest problem with this type of tiny PC is that the technology is developing at an even more breakneck speed than the regular computers most folks have. There are already the Cotton Candy and the MK802 II offering similar, though not as inexpensive, competition.

The operating system can be a bit tricky for those not already computer savvy. So, at this point, Raspberry Pi is not as viable for everyone as it might first seem.

Nevertheless, the potential it opens up for everyone to be able to actually play with and understand how computer hardware and software go together make these mini PCs astounding.

The low cost and applications would be fine additions to every grade

school in the country to further children’s education and overall improve the minds and skill sets for everyone.

Even those outside of school could stand to benefit as becoming more technologically inclined will always assist in career and daily tasks.

This isn’t to say Raspberry Pi is the best out there, but it is commendable due to the company being a charity.

Rasberry Pi is also a marvelous and inexpensive way to better understand computers.

Tablets might be the flavor of the week now, but they are still not the best that can be done. The mixing of mini PCs and the touch-screen popularity could make for a whole new world of sci-fi-like technological innovations for lower prices.

Who knows where the next line of innovations will take us. Maybe the futures shown in the movies are not so far off in their ideas about advanced societies.

Gabriel Stoffa is a graduate student in political science from Ottumwa, Iowa.

Letter to the editor

Human institutions, not God, fail

Reconsider Christian beliefs before abandoning religion

In a column in the Opinion section on Thursday, Kristen Daily discussed some of the reasons why she, as well as many young adults in America, are walking away from the Christian faith. As a Christian, this deeply saddened me. With that being said, I would like to comment on several things she brought up in her article.

Daily first tells her readers that as she began to question if Christianity was true or not, she came to the realization that she “was only a Christian because of circumstance and the family into which [she] was born.” This is true that many people have religious beliefs that are largely determined based on where they are born.

However, as an argument, it does nothing to say whether Christianity (or anything else) is false. Saying so would be called the genetic fallacy, where one tries to cast doubt on a belief by showing how one came to hold said belief. How one came to believe something does nothing to prove or deny a belief.

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ture from Christianity is that “[Christians’] actions did not match their words.” While I am aware of and deeply troubled by the hypocrisy that takes place within some churches, again, I state this is not a valid argument against Christianity.

This would commit the fallacy of ad hominem in which someone tries to cast doubt on a belief that a person holds by criticizing the person and not the belief they hold. Christians have never held that they believe that Christianity is true because they are such good people, and it would be wrong to do so.

If these two reasons are void in casting Christianity into the realm of improbability, then what is the positive reason for belief? The first Christians in the first century were clear that their faith was founded on the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.

Paul, one of Christianity’s main founders proclaimed, “And, if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.”

Regardless of one’s view of the infallibility of the Bible, historians whom are Christian, Jewish, agnostic and atheist all agree that Jesus was crucified, that his tomb was later found empty by his female followers, and that

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his disciples had experiences in which they believed they saw Jesus raised from the dead.

Christians claim that the best explanation of these facts is that he was actually raised from the dead.

It is heartbreaking to see someone walk away from faith, but it is not wise to brush off Christianity because Christians don’t live up to their own moral standard. To reject Christianity, you must deal with the evidence.

I would urge those who have walked away from Christianity for reasons such as these to really look into the evidence and to consider Christian theism as an intellectually tenable position.

Daily closed with a question: “If not church, where do you turn?” I would suggest that if you are seeking a model to live by, that church or any kind of human institution will ultimately fail us in giving us what we truly desire.

However, in a midst of a seemingly purposeless world on the foundation of the resurrection, the grace Jesus offers is our last and best hope for objective purpose.

Matthew Brown is a junior in

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AP Top 25 1. Indiana (26) 21-3 2. Duke (20) 21-2 3. Miami (Fla.) (17) 19-3 4. Michigan 21-3 5. Gonzaga (2) 23-2 6. Syracuse 20-3 7. Florida 19-3 8. Michigan State 20-4 9. Arizona 20-3 10. Kansas State 19-4 11. Butler 20-4 12. Louisville 19-5 13. Ohio State 17-6 14. Kansas 19-4 15. Georgetown 17-4 16. Pittsburgh 20-5 17. Oklahoma State 17-5 18. Marquette 17-5 19. New Mexico 20-4 20. Wisconsin 17-7 21. Notre Dame 19-5 22. Memphis 20-3 23. Oregon 19-5 24. Colorado State 19-4 25. Kentucky 17-6

Defense plans tough twos File photo: Jonathan Krueger/Iowa State Daily Freshman guard Nicole “Kidd” Blaskowsky drives the ball past the 3-point line during the game against Kansas State on Wednesday at Hilton Coliseum.

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Foul trouble has been a topic preached to ISU coach Bill Fennelly’s squad since day one.

Statistically, there hasn’t been a game where foul trouble has dropped the Cyclones to a loss. However, coming off of two games where early aggressiveness has been called against them, fouling has arisen as an issue.

Fennelly has taken the idea of foul discrepancies head on and made it part of his game plan.

“You can’t put someone on the free-throw line 27 times,” Fennelly said. “And luckily we outscored Kansas State. But if that’s going to

happen down the road, that’s a recipe for disaster for our team.”

Fennelly said basic fundamentals of approaching a shot as a defender will help limit fouls overall.

Nicole “Kidd” Blaskowsky, freshman, said almost verbatim what her coach said when defending a highpercentage free-throw shooting team.

“Don’t over-approach, and then let them shot fake and slide [for a] 3,” Blaskowsky said. “Get them to dribble the ball and force right or force left.”

The ‘tough two’ Fennelly drew up construct not to be overtly aggressive when playing defense but not to give up an easy shot either. The construct: A tough two.

“The concept for us for us has always been, when we face a free-throw shooting team, tough twos,” Fennelly

said. “Not open 3s and not easy ones.”

When the Cyclones have established the tough twos mind set, Fennelly said they have had a lot of success. But when they have not, a challenge is presented to them that they “might not be able to overcome.”

Blaskowsky said when forcing an opponent to get uncomfortable, it plays right into the team’s hands.

“With that, if you force them the way they don’t want to go, they’re either going to give the ball up or take a tough two,” Blaskowsky said.

The best success comes from a sound defense, one Blaskosky said resembles that of sophomore Brynn Williamson the most.

“Brynn’s just got that mentality; she’ll do whatever it takes,” Blaskowsky said. “She follows the scouting report very well and she knows what to do and what not to do.”

Blaskowsky earns Freshman of the Week Women’s basketball player Nicole “Kidd” Blaskowsky earned her second honor of the year, as she was awarded the Big 12 Freshman of the Week on Monday.

Blaskowsky helped propel the Cyclones to two wins last week, averaging 8.5 points and 6.5 rebounds.

A versatile 3-point shooter, Blaskowsky landed four 3-pointers on seven attempts in her teams’ two wins against Texas and Kansas State.

Blaskowsky earned the award alongside Texas’ Imani McGee-Stafford.

The Cyclones are back on the court at Oklahoma at 7 p.m. Thursday.

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Cyclones focus on limiting turnovers

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By the numbers: 194.825 Season-high team score for ISU gymnastics in loss Sunday

1-9 ISU men’s basketball team’s alltime record in Austin, Texas

9.3 Average 3-pointers per game for ISU men’s basketball

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9,689 Average ISU WBB attendance

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Iowa State helped to beat itself Saturday, now it is aiming its focus on taking care of the ball.

The Cyclones (16-7, 6-4 Big 12) turned the ball over 10 times in each half — a grand total of 20 — in their loss to No. 13 Kansas State on Saturday.

Iowa State’s previous high for a Big 12 game was 17 in a loss against Oklahoma State and the team entered Saturday averaging 11.4 turnovers per game in league play.

Getting back to limiting turnovers has a simple route.

“Just make simple plays,” said coach Fred Hoiberg of what his team can do to limit turnovers. “When we make simple, easy plays, it generally results in not always making the shot, but it generally results in a good shot.”

In its 79-70 loss in Manhattan, Kan., Iowa State was outscored 27-13 on points off turnovers and 2010 on second-chance points.

In addition to taking care of the basketball, Hoiberg said his team must also get back to taking care of the glass.

The Cyclones did outrebound the Wildcats by one in the loss, but guard Will Clyburn struggled. Clyburn scored only six points and had two defensive rebounds.

Clyburn had been averaging 15.2 points per game prior to Saturday, but fell nine points short of that mark and turned the ball over five times.

“I think the big thing with Will [is] he manufactures his own baskets a lot of times that really gets him going,” Hoiberg said. “He didn’t get easy baskets.”

Entering the game,

Clyburn was averaging 2.27 offensive rebounds per game and had made it to the freethrow line 47 times in Big 12 play.

The redshirt senior was unable to create his own opportunities against Kansas State, bringing in zero offensive boards and failing to step to the free-throw line.

The team attempted to get Clyburn involved early, but to no avail as he entered halftime scoreless.

“Anytime we see that [Will’s] not in the flow of the game or something, we try to do whatever we can to get him shots,” said ISU point guard Korie Lucious.

“Saturday in the first half, it just wasn’t one of his best halves.”

As for the turnovers, the Cyclones pointed the finger back at themselves rather than anything Kansas State did specifically.

“Whenever you have that many turnovers on the road, you can’t really win that way,” Lucious said. “I think it’s just all on us making mistakes.”

Iowa State’s 70 points against Kansas State was the second most the Wildcats had surrendered in Big 12 play, topping only the Cyclones’ 73 against them earlier this season.

The only other 70-point performance against the Wildcats this season was then-No. 4 Michigan’s 71 points in November.

The 70 points Saturday came despite forfeiting 20 possessions.

“We took away 20 chances to score by turning the ball over,” Hoiberg said. “You cut that number in half — which is about what we’ve averaged in conference play — we’re a pretty tough team to stop on the offensive end.”

Photo courtesy of Matt Van Winkle Senior Korie Lucious guards Kansas State player Angel Rodriguez during the game Wednesday at Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan, Kan. Iowa State lost 79-70.

Plus-one This season, ISU men’s basketball coach Fred Hoiberg has multiple times referenced the “plus-one” point system.

The system works like this: A victory at home earns a zero while a loss at home earns a negative one. Meanwhile a loss on the road earns a zero while a win on the road earns a plus one.

So far in Big 12 play, in which the Cyclones have played 10 of their 18 games, the team is at

plus-one: ■■ @ Kansas (L) — 0 ■■ vs. Texas (W) — 0 ■■ vs. West Virginia (W) — 0 ■■ @ TCU (W) — +1 ■■ @ Texas Tech (L) — 0 ■■ vs. Kansas State (W) — 0 ■■ @ Oklahoma State (L) —0 ■■ vs. Baylor (W) — 0 ■■ vs. Oklahoma (W) — 0 ■■ @ Kansas State (L) — 0

Iowa State has taken care of its home court at Hilton Coliseum to avoid any negatives, but has closed out just one road victory. The team gets a chance to add a point on the road at 7 p.m. Wednesday against Texas.

“You want to be in the positive obviously, and we are in the positive right now,” Hoiberg said. “We’re plus-one [and] we have four more opportunities to go out and get more in the plus column.”

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Photo: Andrew Clawson/Iowa State Daily New businesses are set to open soon at North Grand Mall in Ames. Kohl’s, TJ Maxx and Shoe Carnival are among the new businesses at the mall. All three stores will be new to the Ames area.

By Alexander.Furman @iowastatedaily.com Three stores, Kohl’s, TJ Maxx and Shoe Carnival are all set to open within the next month.

Kohl’s will be opening March 3, TJ Maxx on March 6 and Shoe Carnival on March 16. The new retail stores are owned by GK Property Management.

GK Principle Developer, Greg Kveton, has high hopes for the stores; he believes they will fare better than the Sear’s before them.

“Sear’s was really a partial store, a small store for them. Kohl’s is putting in a brand new prototype, as are

TJ Maxx and Shoe Carnival,” Kveton stated. “Ames is a good market. We believe that those guys will do very well. It’s a strong residential area where the mall is and there’s a need for retail there. This area here is a dominant retail area in town now. We think they’re going to do very well in these locations.”

Some don’t see the new businesses as a threat whatsoever to already existing retail stores, but believe this will help all retail stores in the Ames area.

Breanna Fosmire, sophomore at Iowa State and employee at Maurice’s, is excited about the change.

“I’m really excited for it. It’s going to bring a lot more traffic to the mall instead of people just passing up Ames and going to Ankeny or Des Moines,” Fosmire said.

As far as construction and development have been going, Kveton also stated there haven’t been any major problems and they’re on schedule.

“We haven’t had any problems with the winter and things have pretty much gone as planned. We completed the site work last November; that was the outside work.

The inside work on the buildings where the Shoe Carnival and TJ Maxx will be [were] pretty much

[completed by] the first of December,” Kveton said. “We’ve been working on the building between the Kohl’s and Sear’s — that’s a new building.”

Tenants for the building will also be announced within two months, there is a tenant in mind, but due to confidentiality, they cannot release who.

Besides this new building, GK Development also has their sights on doing construction on a new building on 24th Street, which is a multi-tenant retail building, so there is a good chance of more retail stores opening in the not-so-distant future.

With the three new stores open-

ing soon, TJ Maxx has already started new employee training. Senaida Sehie, assistant manager from the Jordan Creek store, said they are also projected to open on time.

TJ Maxx has been training approximately 76 new employees to prepare them for the grand opening.

Sehie said there aren’t any special promotions or deals as of now for the opening of the store, and doesn’t know how well they’ll do in Ames.

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Console rumors will soon be laid to rest

By Levi.Castle @iowastatedaily.com Every few years or so, a new iteration of a product comes along that sets the stage for what’s to come in development, distribution and features of technology.

One of the most common examples of this is seen with the devices known today as home consoles.

The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 were launched around seven to eight years ago by their respective companies with the goal of overhauling what home entertainment is capable of.

Now, in 2013, both consoles hardly resemble, both physically and in software, their original versions of long ago. The hardware is relatively the same, but the utilization of it brought on by developers has changed drastically over the years.

As Microsoft and Sony got to know their consoles better and better, the player base saw development teams following the same studious path. Developers learned what the systems were truly capable of, and the consoles’ adaptability lent greatly to their longer-than-average life cycles.

Yet with game developers having better technology than the current generation can support (such as the brand new Unreal Engine 4), the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 are nearing the end of their spotlight campaigns.

Seven-year-old hardware is practically ancient in technology terms, and the age is showing with the consoles. Having maxed out the potential of what is currently offered, a next generation of home console entertainment is right around the corner.

The time of year (or really, time of decade) is here — the gaming market sees all the rumors and secrets of what is to come with new consoles.

Much as it did before the current consoles were announced, the anticipation in the air has lent to an infinite amount of speculation on what exactly Microsoft and Sony have cooking.

In the past year, gamers were teased with leaked info as often as every week. Whether it was a pixelated photo of the Xbox “Durango” development kit or a report on the PlayStation 4’s sharing functions, there were almost more rumors circulating than anyone could ponder about.

Rumors and reports coming from the media indicate the next consoles are very likely to be released this year, and are practically guaranteed to at least be announced by (or at) Electronic Entertainment Expo 2013 in June. Recently, big news has come from PlayStation as to what they have planned for this year.

Regardless of what their sneakpeak video contains, the announced date has brought much speculation to light, the primary of which is that this

is indeed the reveal of the PlayStation 4.

Save Sony’s comment earlier this year that they would let Microsoft spill the beans first, an announcement date prior to E3 may benefit Sony with being the first out of the gate. When the Xbox 360 released a full year before the PlayStation 3, the sale numbers proved that it was a wise choice by Microsoft, despite the upheaval of the community when their consoles were getting the infamous “red ring of death.”

Gaming coverage networks and gamers alike have expressed their thoughts on what this announcement could mean, as well as on what we’ve learned so far. One ISU student, Wallace Davis, president of the university’s Game Developer’s Club, had much to say regarding the consoles’ current situation.

Davis believes the Play Station 4 will be revealed in late February. “I think the time for unveiling consoles

at E3 is passed, except that Nintendo might continue the tradition,” he said.

In regards to Sony’s claim they would wait for Microsoft before showing anything new, and then schedule the event anyway, Davis said he doesn’t think console sales are dependent on reveal dates.

“I think Sony probably realized that their market doesn’t overlap with Microsoft’s market that much and aren’t concerned too much with competition,” Davis said. “I’m very excited to see how Microsoft will respond after seeing what Sony is going to be bringing to the table.”

Console launches are a tedious and complicated task for manufacturers like Microsoft and Sony. Available countries, launch titles, press events, launch dates, showcase events, shipping and more are at the beginning of the list of tasks the companies have to make sure they accomplish for a smooth release.

A serious consequence of negli-

gence towards these issues can result in a launch that may significantly harm the reputation of the console.

The overheating error of the original 360 is an example of this; as Microsoft pushed too hard for their console to come out before Christmas and ended up making a significant hardware malfunction.

As far as the next generation goes, Davis agrees with the community’s release date assumptions. “I think we’ll see the PlayStation 4 out for Christmas and an Xbox out early next year. I hope Microsoft doesn’t rush their product out to release around the same time as Sony because it could create a lot of problems like their first generation of Xbox 360’s,” he said.

Given the upcoming event held

by E3, and the Game Developer’s Conference in March and E3 in June, all rumors should be settled soon, depending on the level of depth the consoles’ reveals will go into.

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