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Tuesday, March 10, 2015 | Volume 210 | Number 116 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
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GOING THE DISTANCE
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The average distance some foods travel before being consumed:
Campus food travels thousands of miles to reach students
Grapes: 2,143 mi. Broccoli: 2,095 mi. Asparagus: 1,671 mi. Apples: 1,555 mi. Sweet corn: 813mi. Squash: 781mi. Pumpkins: 233 mi.
By Dakota.Carpenter @iowastatedaily.com
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s you enjoy lunch at one of the 21 dining locations on campus, do you ever find yourself wondering how your food got there? How long did it take for the bag of chips that you are eating to get to the Memorial Union Food Court? Students like Brandon Wetterberg, sophomore in aerospace engineering, don’t give much thought to where their food comes from before they put it on their plate. However, Karen Rodekamp
ISU orders food Mon. - Fri. from a company in Kansas City, Kan., which is about 230 mi. away.
is responsible for where food comes from in order to feed ISU students. Rodekamp is the food stores manager for ISU Dining and she places food and drink orders five days a week for each dining location and convenience store on campus. Rodekamp’s food orders are placed with local growers or companies in Kansas City, Kan., Des Moines and Cedar Falls, and are delivered every Monday through Friday. “I purchase 300 commodity items, sauces, beans, spices and canned and bottled soda product,” Rodekamp said. Martin Bros. Distributing,
located in Cedar Falls, makes two trips to Ames every Monday through Friday. The drive is approximately 188 miles round trip. In one week, the distributing company travels approximately 1,880 miles. Wetterberg said he shops for groceries once a month. When he shops, he tends to shop at chain stores like Walmart and Target, instead of a farmers market. “[I] just mainly [buy] snack foods like mac ‘n cheese, chips and stuff like that,” Wetterberg said.
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Fake petition causes strong reaction for female voters By Montana.Crow @iowastatedaily.com Students at Iowa State signed a petition to end women’s suffrage because of the unfamiliarity with the word suffrage on International Women’s Day. “It seems like every person in the campus should have had a history class in middle school or high school that should have studied women’s suffrage,” said Dianne Bystrom, director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics.
Suffrage isn’t a term students use regularly, and the students signed the petition thinking they were helping women, Bystrom said. Jake Dagel, the Iowa field coordinator for Turning Point USA, which is a non-profit organization created to educate students about the importance of understanding government workings, got two full pages of signatures to end women’s suffrage before a student called him on it, which is available to watch on Dagel’s video.
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New gas boilers will lower costs, diversify energy sources for ISU By Katie.Titus @iowastatedaily.com Using both coal and natural gas will help keep costs low for the ISU and Ames community. It is best to be neither 100 percent gas nor coal in order to avoid market fluctuation, according to a case study done by Market Realist. Iowa State has three 80-ton natural gas boilers that were
delivered to the on-campus power plant, in addition to the two coal boilers. The university plans to run two of the natural gas boilers and one of the coal boilers at a time in efforts to keep costs lower. Natural gas has the one-up on coal because it is more ecofriendly to burn. In the Ames community,
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Courtesy of Brett Adams
Benjamin Worrell, senior in civil engineering, found an ancient bison horn while taking a walk near Squaw Creek in December. Worrell has decided to keep the horn and add it to his collection of Indian arrowheads, pottery shards and spearhead.
ISU student discovers ancient bison horn near Squaw Creek By Mariah.Griffith @iowastatedaily.com Sometimes a guy is in the right place at the right time. Benjamin Worrell, senior in civil engineering and an archeology enthusiast, found an ancient bison horn while taking a walk near Squaw Creek in December. “It was actually in the creek and a couple of feet underwater,” Worrell said. “There were a bunch of round rocks … and then there was one that was cone shaped, and I thought, ‘what the hell is that?’” Worrell said he used a wire he was carrying to dangle over the water, and a long stick to fish the object out of the creek. “When I finally got it to the bank, after a lot of effort, [the horn] was all mucky and muddy, and I just chucked it up on the bank because I thought it was from some kind of cattle or something,” Worrell said. According to his measurements, the horn itself is a foot long and still attached to about 8 inches of a partial skull.
Courtesy of Brett Adams
The bison horn that Worrell discovered measures a foot in length and has eight inches of the bison’s skull still attached. Worrell is a part-time worker at the Iowa Department of Transportation.
“I left it outside through rain and all that stuff, put it on my front patio and didn’t really learn much more about it for a while,” he said. Worrell said that he remained
curious about the horn as he showed it to friends, but his Internet searches for a breed of cattle with horns of the correct dimensions and shape proved fruitless. Worrell works part time at the Department of Transportation, where his archaeologist coworkers helped him identify that the horn was from an ancient bison. Matthew Hill, associate professor of anthropology, said the specimen was most likely from the species Bison antiquus occidentalis, which lived shortly after the most recent ice age. DNR geologist Matthew Graesch indicated that the specimen is likely from the same time frame, making it approximately 10,000 years old, if not older. Graesch added that this age would likely put similar animals in the same era as the earliest Native Americans in the Midwest. However, that doesn’t mean that the specimen was in Squaw Creek for the entire time. Worrell said his geologist coworkers at the DOT told him the horn was probably preserved in a gravel pocket
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