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3 injured in drive-by shooting on Welch Avenue By ISD Staff Four individuals have been arrested on attempted murder charges after three people were shot early Sunday morning in Campustown. Terrion Maxfield, 20, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Desmon Siner, 19, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Charles Smith, 20, of Milwaukee, Wiscon-

sin; and Traveion Henry, 21, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have been arrested for attempted murder, which is a Class B Felony. A conviction on attempted murder carries a penalty of up to 50 years in prison, as it is a Class B Felony. The Ames Police Department reported that both Maxfield and Siner were located at a hospital in Fort Dodge, Iowa, with gunshot

wounds. The suspect vehicle, a red passenger car, has also been located in the city, which is a little more than an hour away from Ames. The shooting, which Ames Police believe stems from a fight earlier that evening outside a bar on Stanton Avenue and Chamberlain Street, occurred just after 1:30 a.m. Ames Police Cmdr. Geoff Huff said that a short time after the fight,

or one of the occupants, but it is a possibility. “In this case, the officers were right there when it happened and witnessed the shooting start,” Huff said. “It’s a really good thing they happened to be there ... it could have been a lot worse.” Huff said the red car that was the “shooter car” then backed up,

in which two police officers were on scene to investigate, a red passenger car stopped along the 200 block of Welch Avenue and fired multiple shots into a crowd. The individuals in the red passenger car were believed to have been involved in the earlier fight, according to police. Huff said that the officers shot at the red passenger car. He is unsure whether the officers hit the vehicle

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Chavez-Hanscel enter StuGov race as write-ins

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By Alex.Connor @iowastatedaily.com Write-in Student Government presidential candidates Anthony Chavez and Emeline Hanscel are driven by difference – a platform the two hope to campaign on to celebrate the diverse voices of Iowa State. Launching their campaign website, Facebook and Twitter over the weekend, Chavez and Hanscel decided to run for president and vice president, respectively, after the Student Government meeting Wednesday night. Chavez is a junior in political science and Hanscel is a sophomore in accounting. The two, should they get elected, hope to tackle topics under their administration that would focus on tuition, transparency and sexual violence awareness. “As conservative representatives, we want to decrease spending across the board, be transparent in our actions and rebuild a trust in government with the student body,” their website reads. Chavez and Hanscel are both actively involved in ISU College Republicans and hope to make sure that underrepresented campus groups are both better heard and supported. “We’re not here for us. We can have our views on what we’re connected to, but we want to make sure that we’re running [for] the student body; what they want,” Hanscel said. Chavez and Hanscel also hope to find and help implement a Veishea replacement. According to their website, they hope to “work with administration to build a springtime event that still showcases the excellence and success they have here on campus.” But Chavez and Hanscel see this as a benefit to them, as they feel they can add a different and outside perspective to Student Government. “What makes a community as large as Iowa State great is the ability for these diverse communities to come together to solve problems and work out issues and have conversations,” Chavez said. Chavez and Hanscel also hope to build a healthier relationship with administration and Iowa legislators. Something Hanscel and Chavez also feel separates them from the other candidates is their focus on military outreach. For more information on the Chavez-Hanscel platform, visit their website at chavezhanscel.info. To read the full story on the candidates visit iowastatedaily.com.

Sorority kicks off recruitment week By Lesly.Espinoza @iowastatedaily.com

Burgundy, silver and white are the representative colors of the designated “Sexy Silver Roses” of Iowa State University — better known as Lambda Theta Nu Sorority Inc. The sorority’s Alpha Epsilon chapter at Iowa State is ready to start its biannual week of recruitment. The week, dubbed Silver Rose Week,

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The Vagina Monologues shine light upon women’s issues By Jacey.Goetzman @iowastatedaily.com The stage lights shone down. Each performer wore variations of black. Black dresses, black shirts and pants. They each looked out to the audience with a clear purpose. They were present to deliver The Vagina Monologues. The Vagina Monologues, written by Eve Ensler in 1996, were brought about after Ensler conducted hundreds of interviews with women on the views of their sex, relationships and violence. They were then transformed into the pieces known today.

The Vagina Monologues were brought to Iowa State in 2001 by a student , Alissa Stoehr. She is now part of the directing team of The Vagina Monologues. Stoehr, a senior in political science at the time, was at the national conference for the Feminist Majority Foundation in Baltimore when she heard Ensler read part of the monologues. “It was very interesting to hear her celebrate women’s voices and to give voice to other women who didn’t know that [they had one],” Stoehr said. Stoehr’s interest wouldn’t end there. “That’s where I first heard [the monologues],” Stoehr said. “And

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[I thought], ‘We need to bring this to campus.’” That year, Stoehr produced the performance with Pat Miller, director of the lectures program. “I thought it’d be fun to bring it to campus and have anyone that identified as a woman [be] able to perform in it,” Stoehr said. Stoehr’s interaction with The Vagina Monologues would continue for several years. In 2007, while working toward her master’s degree, Stoehr performed in the monologues herself. A decade later, now in 2017, she is part of the directing team. The Vagina Monologues address numerous issues seen by women. Among some of them are

sexual pleasure, sexual assault and reclamation of slang referring to female genitals. The performance is seen by many as empowering, but not without consequence of being problematic to others as it does include stereotyping groups by moans, a positive representation of prostitution and the issue of inclusivity to women who don’t have vaginas and those who have vaginas but do not identify as women. Regardless, a crowd still comes out to see the performance each year. “It’s nice to see that people still care after all these years,” Stoehr said. “Especially now, with ex-

treme budget cuts ... [the fact that] people are still willing to come out and maybe step out of their comfort zone for a good cause.” The performers’ efforts, and The Vagina Monologues, primarily benefited an anti-violence group within the community, Assault Care Center Extending Shelter and Support. The remainder of the proceeds went to V-Day, a global activist movement to end violence against women. Vagina Happy Fact, performed by Ruth Hines, talks about the clitoris and how it is the only organ in the body — as Hines said — “designed purely for pleasure.”

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