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The Iowa State Adoption Club’s adviser, Diana Baltimore, speaks about her experiences volunteering at an orphanage in South Korea. The club holds meetings on Thursdays at 8 p.m.
New club hopes to promote adoption awareness
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Theta Chi fraternity hosted a sexual assault and domestic violence candle vigil Sunday night for students and faculty to reflect and offer support for survivors.
Silence for significance
By Berenice.Liborio @iowastatedaily.com A new club has emerged on campus with one primary goal in mind — to promote awareness of adoption. The Adoption Club at Iowa State is a new club trying to develop a voice on campus. Diana Baltimore, lecturer in human development and studies and adviser for the club, was the one who inspired a few students to take initiative and start the group. A few ISU students started the process during the summer and officially became a club in the fall, starting with 25 members, according to the ISU clubs website. “[Baltimore] talks about adoption in her classes and we just became really interested in it and so we decided to make a club,” said Megan Byson, senior in child, adult and family services and president of the club. “It was just something we threw out there, but then all of the sudden we were like, ‘why don’t we do it?’ And so we did.” The Adoption Club is in pursuit of getting the word out about adoption and to educate students on the issue. “We really, mainly just [want to] get people to know what adoption is about and how really it’s a good thing because a lot of people
Theta Chi fraternity shows support for sexual assault, domestic violence survivors By Sarah.Muller @iowastatedaily.com
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large blank banner draped across a table sat outside the Sloss House, where people came baring candles in the cold to support those who have been a victim of sexual assault or domestic violence. Members of the community were welcome to sign words of encouragement to victims on the banner — which has yet to be decided where to hang — at a silent reflection Sunday night. “I knew I wanted it to be quiet and reflective,” said Brennan Goodman, senior in environmental science and health and safety chair for Theta Chi fraternity. “I didn’t want to do a lot of programming because that could come later. This is definitely the first step in promoting issues.” Goodman attended a leadership conference, after which he was expected to give a speech on what he had learned. That’s when the idea for raising awareness on sexual assault and domestic violence issues clicked. As a chapter, he said they needed to bring focus on the issues at hand. Goodman decided to run for the health and safety
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Mixing basketball and politics
Iowa State adds new business program By Sequan.Gatlin @iowastatedaily.com
Rand Paul visits Ames to speak, watch ISU game
is a great issue to grow groups on campus, adding students should stand up for free speech rights and protest outside Iowa State’s “free speech zone.” Brenden Maxwell, senior in history education, said he works at a school and has firsthand experience with common core, the national education standards. Maxwell said he has a positive view of the standards, but can see why some would be skeptical of the program. He asked Paul what his alternative to the standards would be. “I think that curriculum, and how we study and how we teach should be as decentralized as possible,” Paul said. “I don’t like a national curriculum, I don’t like the federal government doing it.”
The College of Business at Iowa State has added business analytics as a new program for both graduate and undergraduate students. The Board of Regents approved the program at its Thursday meeting. The Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems decided to add business analytics as a degree because of the high demand for graduates who can work with big data. This program will be offered at the graduate level as a masters in business analytics. For undergraduates, business analytics is an optional focus for both marketing and management information systems majors. The concept of business analytics is used to focus on how a business should analyze large amounts of data, practice risk management and find solutions for managerial problems associated with data and statistics. Raisbeck Endowed dean of the College of Business David Spalding said business analytics is the new competitive edge for companies that manage their data effectively. “Businesses using these [analytics] are gaining a real advantage in the marketplace. Amazon was
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By Alex.Hanson @iowastatedaily.com Rand Paul, the Republican senator from Kentucky, spent his final hours in Iowa on Saturday reaching out to students at Iowa State, another indication he is considering a run for president in 2016. Paul was at Hilton Coliseum during the first half of the men’s basketball game against Texas Tech, and then went next door to the Scheman building for the second half of the game. He spoke to students and answered questions for about 20 minutes. He also posed for pictures with those in the packed room. “I think liberty brings people together,” Paul said at the beginning of his remarks. “If we want to have a movement of young people that say, ‘what I do on my cell phone is my own damn business, I want to keep government out of my affairs, out of what I do, government should only have the ability to look at my stuff if I’m accused of a crime.’ I think if members of [Young Americans for Liberty] bring that message to Iowa State,
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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul attended the ISU men’s basketball game against Texas Tech on Saturday. Paul gave a speech to students at the Scheman Building during the second half of the game. Paul is a potential candidate running for president in the 2016 election.
I can come back and we’ll have 1,000 young kids here,” Paul added, talking about privacy issues. Paul has used the issue of civil liberties and privacy to bring young voters together. He mentioned during the speech he was suing the Obama administration following the revelations surrounding the National Security Agency and its extensive spying program. “I also think there is a great opportunity for us to reach out to new people who haven’t been interested in the Republican message, if we are the party that believes in justice. We’re the party that believes you’re innocent until proven guilty,” Paul said. Paul also mentioned he would oppose the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be the next attorney general, adding he has
issue with her position on civil forfeiture, the practice of law enforcement seizing assets of people who have not been convicted of a crime. Students in attendance were able to ask Paul questions following his remarks. Robert Dunn, senior in accounting, asked Paul about constitutional issues at Iowa State. Dunn mentioned the free speech zone restricting First Amendment rights to a specific area, colleges restricting Second Amendment rights and student disciplinary policies that he says violate students’ Fourth Amendment rights. “You don’t remember the clause in the First Amendment that says you have to stand over here to speak?” Paul joked, which drew laughter from the crowd. Paul said the issue of speech