Monday, February 27, 2017 | Volume 212 | Number 110 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
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By Alex.Ivanisevic @iowastatedaily.com Since his appointment in 2011, Iowa State President Steven Leath has pushed several initiatives in an effort to improve the social and academic climates of Iowa State. One of his main focuses has been on building a cabinet diverse in experience and expertise. “My philosophy on that is if you get a lot of smart people at the table and you foster open discussion, you’re more likely to get things right, and you’re less likely to make mistakes,” Leath said. “At the same time, the more diverse opinions, outlooks and perspectives you have, the more likely you are to make a good decision.” Each individual in the presidential cabinet bears a complex list of duties. Leath said he thought about the type of expertise the university needed while searching for cabinet members. He added someone from human resources and from engagement and economic development in an effort to broaden the people who were “at the table.” Five individuals work under Leath with respect to the structure of the cabinet. They include Reginald Stewart, vice president for diversity and inclusion; Martino Harmon, senior vice president for student affairs; Kate Gregory, senior vice president for university services; Miles Lackey, chief financial officer and chief of staff; and Jonathan Wickert, senior vice president and
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LEATH’S CABINET • Mike Crum, Vice President for Economic Development and Business Engagement • Kristi Darr, Vice President for Human Resources • Kristin Failor, State Relations Officer • Larissa Holtmyer Jones, President and CEO ISU Foundation • Jeff Johnson, President ISU Alumni Association
• Cathann Kress, Vice President for Extension and Outreach • Jim Kurtenbach, Vice President/Chief Info Officer • John McCarroll, Executive Director of University Relations • Mike Norton, University Counsel • Sarah Nusser, Vice President for Research • Jamie Pollard, Athletic Director
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Combating sexual assault Survivor works with legislators to pass protective bill A sexual assault survivor hopes to give future victims the resources that would have aided her by working with Iowa legislators to pass a bill. Elizabeth Huebsch, a therapist from West Des Moines, wanted to file a civil protective order against the man who abused her when he wouldn’t leave her alone. The order was unobtainable because, in the state of Iowa, there must be an arrest of the defendant for sexual abuse before one can file the no-contact order. The fact that she wasn’t in a relationship with the abuser also barred her from filing a civil protective order. The restrictions were meant to keep people from filing the orders without grounds. In Huebsch’s situation, this kept her from feeling safe. “Rape is considered like, I think of a man with a mask [hiding] down an alley,” Huebsch said. “A lot of the time people know the perpetrator.” For Huebsch, the perpetrator was someone she knew and trusted. The identity of the man who abused her cannot be disclosed because Huebsch fears that he would come back with a lawsuit. She received a cease-and-desist order from the assaulter warning her not to speak out about the abuse.
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Elizabeth Huebsch is a sexual assault survivor who is working with legislators on a bill that would have aided her when she tried to cut ties with the man who abused her.
Huebsch was going through a rough period in her life when she met the man who assaulted her. He led a spiritually-based support group that she started attending. The man eventually used the spiritual language to shield himself from any blame, Huebsch said. He would defend his behavior, saying, “Why are you in such denial? Why can’t you see that I’m just an innocent child of God?” Huebsch found that all of the issues in her life were fixed after going to the group regularly. She attributed this to him. The man is significantly older than Huebsch and is married with kids. Huebsch said these facts made her feel safe around
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him. Their second meeting involved verbal and sexual abuse. She said he started out by putting her on a pedestal before tearing her down and exploiting her insecurities. She didn’t recognize it as abuse until others pointed her out. She began to educate herself on sexual abuse. Huebsch said she would read books, and the man who assaulted her would fit the descriptions of abusers and manipulators. After receiving the ceaseand-desist order, she decided to speak with authorities but felt that the detective didn’t believe her from the start. She said the detective asked
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By Jake.Dalbey @iowastatedaily.com
An additional $2.75 million will be cut from Iowa’s three public universities, according to a report released Friday from the Iowa Department of Management. The cut stems from the 2017 Iowa Legislature state budget cuts, which total $118 million. The Iowa Department of Management was left a total of $11.5 million in cuts to divide among various departments, including administration, agriculture, economic development, health and human services and the justice system. Education received the largest cut, totaling $5.38 million, which will be split among all three public universities. The increase will push Iowa State’s budget cut to $8.99 million compared to the original $8 million. The University of Iowa will increase from $8 million to $9.24 million, and the University of Northern Iowa from $2 million to $2.52 million. The budget cut announcement came directly after Thursday’s Board of Regents meeting, in which each of the three institutional heads addressed plans to face the lost funds. Iowa State President Steven Leath focused on deferred maintenance, keeping open personnel positions unfilled, along with the cancellation and delay of several capital improvement projects. Leath said during the meeting that he was aware of the difficulties brought on by the cuts, but he sees the university’s cost-cutting methods as necessary and unavoidable. “Investment in public higher education is an investment in a prosperous Iowa long term,” Leath said.“We are facing a very difficult budget challenge. The cut we are seeing now is very unfortunate.”
First-ever bilingual career fair opens doors By Mary.Pautsch @iowastatedaily.com
By Danielle.Gehr @iowastatedaily.com
Additional budget cuts hit Iowa’s colleges
The more languages someone speaks, the more opportunities can come their way. Iowa State’s Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) hosted the university’s first-ever bilingual career fair Sunday afternoon. Thirty companies set up shop in the Memorial Union, looking for students who are able to speak Chinese and English. A few of the companies were representatives for other businesses, providing job openings to 75 organizations around the world. Snow Bai, president of the CSSA, said the career fair was created to give international students more employment opportunities while they are in the United States. Companies represented at other career fairs on campus don’t always accept work from international students. “People can go to a career fair set up by their college or major but have to be turned away by employers because they’re from China, or India or Malaysia […] just other countries,” Bai said. Companies in attendance ranged from local small businesses in the Ames area to businesses overseas. One engineering company flew in from China for the event. The majority of employers in attendance have international ties to China and need bilingual speakers to work among the two countries. Iowa State’s CSSA worked with eight other colleges to create the career fair. Students from the University of Nebraska, University of Nebraska Omaha, University of Iowa and University of Indiana attended for the unique experience.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hosted a similar event last year. It approached the CSSA this year to set up Sunday’s career fair and asked Iowa State to host the event. “We were planning on having the event in Chicago, but we had just started working in December so it got scaled down to here in the MU,” Riheng Cao, CSSA’s director of operations, said. “A company called Yaoyan helped initiate the idea and get other companies to come, and they have been helpful with everything.” Cao said that depending on the success of the fair, they would try to bring it to a larger city, such as Chicago, next year. “I’m so excited to see Asian and international students getting jobs,” Cao said. “The turnout has been good. We have a lot of people here.” Cao and Bai said it would be ideal to work with Iowa State Career Services in the future to help create a bilingual career fair for all international students in the upcoming years. “It’s not our job to make these things happen, but it is definitely a good initiative to work with later,” Bai said. “Imagine how good it would be for Indian or Malaysian students. Some of them are even with us today because they can speak Chinese.” Andy Cui, sophomore in computer science, attended the career fair to see what his options were and to get experience in his field of study. “I want to find an internship-type job,” Cui said. “Something in my major to practice my skills. I am a transfer student from China and changed my major from electrical engineering to computers, so not all of my credits also transferred. Now I want to get out there.”
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