THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013
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Political reform necessary
Cyclones shoot for Big 12 title
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Board of Regents
Retention rates, residence focus of talks By Katelynn.McCollough @iowastatedaily.com The Iowa Board of Regents was tasked with hearing a wide range of topics, including the concern of retention rates, residence reports and economic growth at Iowa State. The Regents, who met in the Gold
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Room of the Memorial Union on Wednesday, heard reports concerning the three Regent university’s retention and graduation rates. Iowa State showed a one-year retention rate of 85.8 percent for students who entered the university in 2011. This places Iowa State above the 76.7 percent national average, as
well as above Iowa at 85.5 percent and Northern Iowa at 81.3 percent. “We’re largely a STEM university with some very difficult majors,” said President Steven Leath at the meeting. Leath explained that 80 percent of freshman students are involved in learning communities, and those
learning communities show a retention rate of 88 percent. Leath pointed out that studying abroad, internships and majors that are five year programs such as architecture, all increase the average number of years till a student may
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GRITTING HIS TEETH Gadson endures trying year, ends with Big 12 title By Jake.Calhoun @iowastatedaily.com What a year it has been for Kyven Gadson. From his long-awaited return to the mat to the recent passing of his father, Gadson has been through hell and back on his way to earning the No. 6 seed at 197 pounds for the upcoming NCAA Championships. Before winning the Cyclones’ only title at the Big 12 Championships last weekend, Gadson told ISU coach
Ames Police will be stepping up traffic enforcement Thursday to Sunday along with the Central Iowa traffic Safety Task Force during the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day weekend. Officers will be looking for drivers who are operating under the influence. Officers will also be looking for drivers and passengers who are not wearing their seat belts. Ames Police encourages people to designate a sober driver before going out to celebrate. -By Charles O’Brien
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Kevin Jackson that he didn’t want to be there due to the deteriorating condition of his father, Willie. “Before I left last Sunday
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December: Kyven Gadson undergoes surgery to repair a torn labrum in his right shoulder.
March: Willie Gadson is diagnosed with bone cancer. April: Kyven Gadson begins training for 2012-2013 season, must drop 50 pounds to compete at 197-pound weight class.
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File photo: Iowa State Daily Sophomore Kyven Gadson has been through a trying year between his return to the mat and the death of his father.
to come back to Ames to get ready for Big 12s, I told [my dad] I’ll be back with a
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Photo courtesy of Kyven Gadson Willie Gadson as a wrestler at Nassau Community College in Nassau, N.Y. His son, Kyven, is the No. 6 seed at the NCAA Championship at 197 pounds for Iowa State.
2013 November: Kyven Gadson begins season as the 197-pound starter, wrestling live for the first time since his senior year of high school. Dec. 1: Kyven Gadson captures the only win in Iowa State’s
32-3 loss to Iowa at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Dec. 29-30: Kyven Gadson suffers his only two losses of the season as he places fourth at 197 pounds at the Midlands Championships.
Feb. 1: Kyven Gadson upsets No. 7 Jake Meredith by 9-1 major decision in Iowa State’s 23-18 victory against Arizona State — its fifth-straight dual win. March 9: Kyven Gadson defeats Oklahoma State’s Blake Rosholt 5-4 to win the 197-pound Big 12 title.
Iowa State placed second at the Big 12 Championships, avoiding a dead-last finish for the first time since 2010. March 10: Willie Gadson passed away.
Capitol
Regents Day switches dates at last moment By Danielle.Ferguson @iowastatedaily.com Regents Day at the Capitol unexpectedly switched meeting dates from the original March 25 to Wednesday on very short notice. Regents Day at the Capitol is a day where students from Iowa’s public regent universities – Iowa State, Northern Iowa and Iowa – gather to advocate to the Iowa legislature. They also discuss what each university gives back to the state of Iowa as individuals and cooperatively. This year, a big topic was tuition set-aside. According to the press release, Hannah Walsh, student from Iowa and student member of the Board of
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Awareness: Students camp out for homeless Greg Johnson, senior in aerospace engineering, makes his camp on Wednesday on Central Campus under the Campanile. “We are camping out here trying to help promote the awareness of homeless veterans in the area, trying to raise money,” Johnson said. There have been five to six people each night since Monday. They would like to camp all week.
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