Thursday, March 12, 2015 | Volume 210 | Number 118 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
TEAM HOIBERG
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Gabriel Walsh, Speaker of the Senate, proposed creating an option for students to voice their opinions on the bill in question before each debate during the GSB meeting Wednesday.
ISU coach Fred Hoiberg, family members challenge fans to vote for healthy hearts
GSB tables procedural bill during meeting By Michaela.Ramm @iowastatedaily.com
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Karen and Eric Hoiberg, parents of ISU coach Fred Hoiberg, pose for a photo in their home. The picture Karen is holding is one of Fred from when he played in the NBA for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Fred has dealt with heart issues since he was born and almost lost his life when he was 32 years old.
By Max.Dible @iowastatedaily.com
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ric Hoiberg emerges from the hallway with a film that is a decade old. Every time his wife, Karen Hoiberg, views it, a lump rises in her throat. “I haven’t seen this in a long time,” Karen says. “I can finally watch it without crying.” The film is entitled “Born Broken Hearted,” and it details ISU men’s basketball coach Fred Hoiberg’s open heart surgery, the entire Hoiberg family’s shock at the immediacy of the surgery’s necessity, and the difficult recovery that followed. It was produced for a class project by an ISU graduate student, Susie McGee (now Susie Moutray), who was studying graphic design at the time. Susie is the sister of Carol McGee, better known by her married name, Carol Hoiberg. Eric, Fred’s father and a former sociology professor at Iowa
State University, pops the film into the television perched in his and Karen’s living room. He then takes a seat on the couch next to his wife, who sits in an armchair to his right. The family’s lively dog, Eddie, bounces back and forth across the carpet, occasionally yelping at the laundry machine, which is running downstairs. Soft music plays as the title flashes across the screen. “I love the music,” Karen says quietly. Her eyes remain glued to the television. A 32-year-old Fred Hoiberg appears, and he begins to explain the condition that threatened his life. Fred was born with a bicuspid aortic valve. Aortic valves move blood from the heart to the aorta, the primary artery that then distributes the blood throughout the rest of the body. Three small flaps open and close to regulate blood flow. For those suffering from a bicuspid aortic valve, one
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A family history The Hoiberg family is no stranger to heart disease. Fred’s maternal grandfather, Jerry Bush, who coached basketball at Nebraska from 1954-1963, died from heart disease. Fred’s mother, Karen, has had heart problems of her own, which requires her to use a pacemaker as well. Neither Fred’s grandfather nor his mother suffer from the same condition that afflicts him, however. Fred’s ISU family has also experienced a good deal of heart issues. ISU women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly also needs a pacemaker, and has needed one since infancy.
American heart disease facts and advocacy The pervasiveness of heart disease and its umbrella of related symptoms and conditions are collectively the number one killer of both men and women in the United States, claiming more than 610,000 lives every year,
according to the Centers for Disease Control. Heart disease and related issues account for 1 in every 4 deaths in the country annually. The American Heart Association advocates on both the
state and federal levels to push for public policy that promotes healthy hearts. Some of the organization’s endeavors include stop smoking campaigns, as well as a push for healthier school lunches nationwide.
House bill may end Gun legislation housing restrictions passes Iowa House By Eric.Wirth @iowastatedaily.com An Ames ordinance limiting occupancy in rental housing may be in its last days. The Iowa House of Representatives voted 73-23 Tuesday to pass a bill that would take away a city’s ability to restrict the number of unrelated people allowed to live in one rental property. The current Ames rental code states that only three unrelated people may live together in one rental unit in a residential low density zone. The House bill was intro-
duced by Rep. Chip Baltimore, R-Boone. Representatives Lisa Heddens, D-Ames, and Beth Wessel-Kroeschell, D-Ames, voted against the bill, while Rep. Dave Deyoe, R-Nevada, and Rep. Rob Bacon, R-Slater, supported the bill. The Senate’s State Government Committee passed its version of the bill to the Senate floor Thursday. The Senate version of the bill would call for Ames and other cities with comparable ordinances to begin granting exemptions to current occupancy restrictions for properties that can house more people.
By Montana.Crow @iowastatedaily.com A gun law passed through the Iowa House without any discussion on the floor Tuesday, changing many of Iowa’s current gun laws. If passed by the Senate and signed by Gov. Branstad, House Bill 201 would eliminate an age limit for children to use a pistol or a revolver under adult supervision. The law would also allow officials to carry firearms on school grounds if they had a professional permit to carry.
Under the new legislation, the names of those who hold permits to carry guns and purchase some weapons would will be private. As it stands now, the names of those who hold permits are public records. It also allows people to buy gun suppressors, with some government regulation, to lower the sound of a gun firing. Currently, an individual in possession of a suppressor may be charged with a Class D felony punishable by up to five
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At the latest Government of the Student Body meeting, the Senate debated on an amendment that would remove the requirement for students to have the consent of the Senate to speak at meetings. The bill was tabled indefinitely by the Senate and will return at a later date for discussion. The majority of the senators did not favor the bill and believe the rule is necessary. Sen. Richard Hartnett said the rule existed for a reason. “I think it would be wrong to remove that we can’t object to a student who wants to speak,” Hartnett said. “[The rule] allows us the flexibly more towards ourselves and keep it to the business we are discussing. The point is that it’s our meeting. If we choose not to let someone speak, we can do that.” Sen. Samuel Schulte said he thinks that any student who wants to speak here should not have to ask permission. Sen. Ryan Starn said the senate chamber did not belong to the senators, but to the students. “If [students] want to come in and talk, they should have the right to,” Starn said. “I won’t vote on anything that infringes on those rights.” Sen. Erick Dietz said the Senate serves the students, but at the same time must serve as an efficient government function. Sen. Abbie Lang pointed out that as citizens, they elect congressmen, representatives and so on. “We can’t just walk in and speak freely in their meetings,” Lang said. “We need to trust them that they know what they’re doing.” Sen. Louis Reicks pointed out that a student can speak unless the majority of the Senate voted them down. “A majority of the senators would not turn a student’s vote down unless they are not being courteous to senators or other gallery members,” Reicks said. “This bill might hurt the efficiency of the senate.” Speaker Gabriel Walsh said instead of failing the bill, the Senate should amend the bill to better suit the meetings. Before Senate meetings, the GSB allows gallery members to speak to the Senate on whatever issues they want to discuss. Walsh proposed creating a period of time before each debate for students to voice the opinions they have on the bill that is in question. “If I was a gallery member, it would be a less frustrating time for me if I knew I had that time to get my two cents in,” Walsh said. “It’s a much more fair and effective system.” The motion to table the bill indefinitely was passed unanimously. GSB also passed a bill reforming the Public Relations Committee. Lang, the current public relations chair, was in full support of the bill. The bill passed after a vote on the floor.