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STAY UPDATED OVER BREAK iowastatedaily.com Photo: Kelby Wingert/Iowa State Daily Spencer Hughes, junior in speech communication, and Hillary Kletscher, junior in biological systems engineering, react to the news of their appointments as 2013 Government of the Student Body president and vice president. The two were found responsible for failing to abide by an election code.

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By Katie.Grunewald @iowastatedaily.com Spencer Hughes and Hillary Kletscher have not-so-smoothly been elected Government of the Student Body president and vice president.

Election Commissioner Adam Guenther announced the results Thursday night at the Memorial Union.

Once polls opened, a ban on campaigning, aside from social media, was put in place.

Hughes and Kletscher were found responsible for failing to abide by Election Code 8.18, which states that emails cannot be sent out within 24 hours of the election, as well as during the election.

Kletscher sent an email to the Collegiate PanHellenic Council president to be sent on to other greek house presidents.

These forwarded emails were sent past dead-

line, and went to approximately 30 greek houses.

Two of the presidents of these houses forwarded the emails on to Election Commissioner Adam Guenther, and then explained that Kletscher had failed to let them know they could not email them out Sunday or later.

Hughes and Kletscher met with Guenther and four of the six election commission members after the election results announcement Thursday night.

The election commission established Hughes and Kletscher were negligent in not informing the Collegiate Pan-Hellenic Council president of these rules, and have been fined.

They will not receive the good will deposit they paid at the beginning of their campaign.

The election commission thinks this would not have changed the overall result of the election, and have established that Hughes and Kletscher will be the next GSB president and vice president.

Presidential and senatorial candidates are responsible for turning in signatures prior to the start of their campaign.

According to Guenther, Hughes was the only candidate that had multiple signature sheets thrown out due to invalid signatures.

Signatures are checked with the student directory, and are typically voided if a match cannot be found.

Hughes and opponent Daniel Rediske were responsible for collecting 1,000 signatures to be on the presidential ballot.

Hughes had several signature sheets with only five of the 25 slots filled out.

“It was sloppy work and showed that they rushed it or did not care about the process of connecting with students about the election,” said

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Graphic: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily Recent changes have been made within the 4-H program, resulting in the cancellation of day camps for future summers. Some have come to the conclusion that the cutting of programs isn’t the fault of the program, but a change in the times and what youths are involved in. One in five youths in the state of Iowa are in 4-H.

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Several questions about the changes within the Iowa 4-H program go unanswered, but ISU 4-H members still want to show support.

Recent changes have been made

within the 4-H program, resulting in the cancellation of day camps in this upcoming summer of 2013.

One in five Iowa youths participate in 4-H. Almost $5 million of ISU Extension and Outreach’s expenses go to youth and 4-H programs.

Many have come to the conclu-

sion that the cutting of programs isn’t the fault of 4-H but just a change in the times and what youth are involved in nowadays.

“I think that more than anything, it is a sign of the times. The way

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The ISU Army ROTC will have nine cadets travel down to White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico for the annual Bataan Memorial Death March this weekend.

The nine Iowa State cadets will be waking up bright and early Friday morning to travel down to New Mexico to partake in the 26.2 mile Bataan Memorial Death March on Sunday.

“It’s a memorial march to remember the sacrifices that the actual soldiers had to endure during the Bataan Death March in World War II,” said cadet Zachary Graham, senior in anthropology.

According to the Memorial March website, several thousand people every year participate in the annual Bataan Memorial Death March through the harsh desert terrain in New Mexico to honor the soldiers who defended the Philippine Islands during World War II. “So it’s 26.2 miles and it’s meant to replicate a little bit of pain and suffering that they had to endure,” Graham said.

The Bataan Death March took

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program changes, Iowa 4-H still remains the strongest 4-H program in all of the U.S., and that is definitely something to recognize,” said Westergard.

“Although there will not be any camps this summer, there are so many other 4-H opportunities for families to take part in.”

The changes happening in the 4-H program may have come from three main causes.

Finances within the 4-H program, changes within employment and change of interest in residential camps have all had a big part in the decision to make changes for the summer of 2013.

The changes will affect many families around Iowa, but in the eyes of the 4-H program, it is best for Iowa youths.

“The Iowa 4-H Foundation owns the Iowa 4-H Center. The Iowa 4-H program — which is ultimately managed by ISU Extension and Outreach —

>>4-H.p1 people live their lives is significantly different than it was 50 years ago,” said Brent Sexton, a senior in animal science and an avid 4-H member.

“Our priorities are different, and we don’t consider the same activities to be fun and entertaining like we once did.

Kids simply don’t seem interested in the whole summer camp idea.”

Just like other programs, 4-H has taken a hit financially as the United States goes through economic struggles.

Caine Westergard, a senior in apparel, merchandising and design and avid 4-H member, said, “Due to the recession, everyone is going through cuts, and unfortunately, so is the Iowa 4-H program.”

The program is fighting through its financial cuts, though.

“Even through cuts and

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they make the ultimate decisions about what happens in the 4-H program,” said Kris Kuhlmann, executive director for the Iowa 4-H Foundation.

“The 4-H program has been the sole user of the Iowa 4-H Center since the day the Iowa 4-H Foundation had purchased that land back in 1949.”

In fall of 2012, ISU Extension and Outreach informed the Iowa 4-H Foundation that the camping program and their commitment to the Iowa 4-H center was likely to change.

They promised to be committed to Iowa 4-H through Sept. 30, 2013, but commitment could not be promised to be made to the 4-H Center and Foundation after that date.

The Iowa 4-H Foundation has no jurisdiction to say how their property should be used in the future. That decision is made soley by ISU Extension and Outreach.

“So, what we are here for is to serve the purpose of Iowa 4-H and to provide opportunities for youth and their future, and if 4-H is telling us that the camping program no longer

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Photo courtesy of Shelly Greving In the fall of 2012, ISU Extension and Outreach informed the Iowa 4-H Foundation that the camping program and their commitment to the Iowa 4-H center was likely going to change.

suits their needs and doesn’t hold the influence on their life that it once did, then we have no other option than to look at what is going to help them provide for their future and what we can do to financially support what the priorities are,” Kuhlmann said.

Even though Iowa 4-H is making changes within its programs, the focus has continued to be on Iowa children.

“The future of the Iowa 4-H program is still looking green, and they will continue to grow,” Westergard said.

Changes are made in the

4-H program to support constant change in communities.

The 4-H program has to adapt to the children involved in their current programs.

“I believe the future for 4-H is bright, but it is foolish to think that it isn’t constantly changing,” Sexton said.

>>ROTC.p1 place on April 9, 1942, after tens of thousands of American and Filipino soldiers were surrendered to the Japanese military. They marched for days in the blistering heat of the Philippine jungles and thousands of them died in the march, and the survivors faced the hardships in the Japanese prisoner of war camps.

The march in New Mexico is meant to honor those that had to suffer through that perilous march over 70 years ago in the Philippines.

The Bataan Memorial Death March was started in 1989 by the Army ROTC department at New Mexico State University and has been held annually ever since, with the exception of 2003.

There are two routes you can participate in for the march. The green route is 26.2 miles and the blue route is 14.2 miles.

The top two finishers in each category receive awards for the green route, while

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■■ Green Route: 26.2 miles; top two finishers in each category receive awards ■■ Blue Route: 14.2 miles; no awards given

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there are no awards given for the blue route.

A variety of people participate in the march, which goes through the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico every year. It’s considered to be a marathon of sorts and also a way to honor fallen heroes.

“There are a lot of wounded warriors that go and amputees that actually do it too, so it’s kind of both. It’s a marathon but it’s also a way to remember fallen soldiers,”

said cadet Ben Quimby, senior in mechanical engineering.

Remembering past soldiers and what they have gone through can also be used as a learning tool for cadets.

“Every cadet here, you know we’re trained to become officers in the United States Army and remembering the legacy of the soldiers who’ve gone before us is a very important part of our education,” Graham said.

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Hughes and Kletscher received 1,519 votes, and Rediske and Zach Bauer received 890.

Before announcing the next president and vice president of GSB, Guenther announced all of the Senate seat winners.

Due to the amount of vacancies, many Senate seats were won by write-ins.

Rediske and Bauer both won a write-in Senate seat.

Before the election, Bauer said he would like to stay as involved as GSB as he could. Rediske had no comment on accepting his Senate seat.

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Photo: Jonathan Krueger/Iowa State Daily Junior Melvin Ejim dives to save the ball against Oklahoma in the second round of the Big 12 Men’s Basketball Championship on Thursday at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo. Ejim was called out on the play in the 73-66 win. The Cyclones now have to prepare for a quick turnaround as they face No. 7 Kansas State.

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By Alex.Halsted @iowastatedaily.com KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When Fred Hoiberg tried to take Will Clyburn out of the game after he picked up his fourth foul with 3:53 remaining, the redshirt senior had other plans.

Iowa State had just flipped the switch in the second half, going on a 12-0 run to tie Oklahoma at 60 after trailing by as many as 14 points.

Clyburn, who struggled mightily prior to the 12-0 run, told coach Hoiberg to leave him in.

“I [saw] him about to take me out, and I’m like, ‘No man, I’ve got to stay in. I want to help the team. I know I can do something to help the team,’” Clyburn said.

Shortly after the timeout, following an offensive rebound from Melvin Ejim, Clyburn scored on an and-one after cutting to the basket to give the Cyclones (22-10, 11-7 Big 12) a one-point lead against the

Sooners (20-11, 11-7).

Iowa State never trailed again, winning 73-66 for its first win at the Big 12 Championship in the last eight seasons.

The Cyclones ended the game on a 25-6 run, holding the Sooners without a field goal in the final eight minutes.

That run included 10 consecutive points from Clyburn, who scored 15 points in the second half after scoring just two in the first.

“He struggled early in that thing, and to go out there and make those plays, that’s huge,” Hoiberg said of Clyburn.

“Earlier in the year, I don’t think he would have done that.”

Iowa State struggled to score in the first half, shooting just 11-of-31 from the field.

During the final 7:42 of the game, though, the team could do no wrong.

In the run that would push the Cyclones to a comeback victory, they went 4-of-6 from beyond the arc after going 3-of-20 prior on 3-pointers and secured key, late-game rebounds.

The run came with Korie Lucious on the bench in favor of guard Bubu Palo, who tallied

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“It’s just really about winning for me,” Lucious said of not playing at the end. “I don’t care if it’s myself or whoever.

Bubu [Palo] came in today and gave us a great boost.”

Palo had just one assist and one rebound. But, after the Cyclones started their run with Palo on the court, Lucious wasn’t about to take

the chance of disrupting his team’s rhythm.

“He actually came over to me — this is huge for a leader to do this — and he said: ‘You stay with those guys out there on the floor,’” Hoiberg said of Lucious.

The halftime discussion for Iowa State centered around better defense and rebounding, and both came to fruition in the second half. The Cyclones held the Sooners to 28.6 percent shooting and outrebounded them 24-11 following the break.

With its back against the wall — and as a bubble team, quite possibly its postseason hopes — Iowa State responded accordingly.

“We kept telling everyone we have nothing else to play for. This could be our last

game,” said Ejim, who scored a career-high 23 points to go with 12 rebounds.

“We were just keeping that mentality of ‘win or go home.’

We had to come out like our backs were against the wall, because they were.

“We came out, and we fought, and we were able to come back from a big deficit and get the lead and win the game.”

Now Iowa State will prepare for a quick turnaround as it will face No. 7 Kansas on Friday evening after the Jayhawks beat the Cyclones in overtime twice during the regular season.

“I want some payback,” Clyburn said. “They beat us twice during the year. Probably games we shouldn’t have lost, but hey, I’m ready for payback.”

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Grassley bill would teach proper voting Education funding and reform are perennial priorities of state legislators.

One proposal, State Rep. Pat Grassley’s House File 423, would change high schoolers’ social studies curriculum if adopted. The bill would amend the mandatory curriculum in government, requiring students to study the subject for a year rather than a semester.

In addition to learning about the Constitution and Bill of Rights, students would receive an education in “the federal system of government; the overlapping features and responsibilities of the national, state, county, and local governments; and the tenets of American citizenship, including civility, mutual respect, political discourse, and appreciation of the common public concerns of Americans.” It would also include “the principles of American citizenship.”

Grassley’s proposal would also remove the requirement that schools teach their students about “voting statutes and procedures, voter registration requirements, the use of paper ballots and voting systems in the election process, and the method of acquiring and casting an absentee ballot.”

The removal of this provision was immediately noted by such progressive sources of commentary as Blog for Iowa and ThinkProgress. One group, ProgressIowa, started a petition to “Tell Pat Grassley: Voting is an American Principle.”

Although those groups are correct to the extent that voting is a political act, Iowa’s schools are not awash with cash and have unlimited resources with which to teach young Iowans. A government institution’s resources always should be directed at the most pressing problems that the government’s citizens share. At this point, given the past few years, it is a truism that requires no evidence to say that America’s political process is broken and in need of a fundamental change in how we talk to one another about political issues.

There is a world of difference between teaching the technical aspects of voting and teaching how to vote well.

Anyone obtaining a driver’s license has the option of registering to vote or to change his or her political party. When the person’s voter registration card arrives in the mail, stamped on it is his or her polling location. Come election time, both major political parties canvass around neighborhoods offering as many voters as possible forms they can use to request absentee ballots.

Precinct workers guide voters through the process.

Voting well, however, is a different story. To teach a person how to vote well is to teach him how to vote according to certain criteria. It is to teach her to value some things rather than others. Grassley’s bill would allow for that challenge to be at least a possibility.

Maybe, by teaching young Americans to understand and value the political process, those Americans will do politics more often than elections.

If one of our problems is that politicians are not in tune with the voters they have been designated to represent, maybe part of the problem is that voters do not engage them enough.

Obviously the politicians themselves must change, but you can’t expect a sick man to heal himself, can you? He requires the outside help of a doctor. In politics, that doctor is the voter.

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File photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily The ISU Bhangra Group performs Bhangra, a traditional Punjabi folk dance, during the International Night on Nov. 11, 2011. Columnist Hannah Dankbar believes students should take advantage of cultural nights to learn and experience activities from cultures other than their own.

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ultural nights are put on by a variety of multicultural student organizations such as Latino Heritage Committee, Indian Students Association, and Russian Speaking Students Association — that just names a few organizations. These events offer a great opportunity for the international students at Iowa State to educate others about their culture and give the community the opportunity to learn and try something different.

Kanchana Hettiarachchi, President of International Student Council, shares her support for the groups who put on these events, “With over 100 countries represented at ISU, this campus is about as diverse as it gets. I think cultural nights are a fantastic way for the Iowa State and Ames communities to get to know more about different cultures of the world. It is a chance for these student groups to get together with friends and family and showcase their culture with pride. Most of these student groups don’t have many

By Hannah.Dankbar @iowastatedaily.com members or formidable financial backing, so these events truly are the products of countless days and nights of sweat & muscle. It is a chance for them to display their many talents and act as ambassadors of the motherlands they love. For the guests, with breathtaking dances, fantastic music and mouth-watering food, these nights are truly a chance to explore the world in their own backyard.”

Last weekend Russian Speaking Students Association held the first annual Russian Cultural Night. It was an event anybody could attend. There was traditional and modern Russian music, food, fashion and entertainment.

Anna Prisacari, president of Russian Speaking Students

Association, said they never predicted the event would be a sell-out, but that was the biggest reward for all of their hard work saying, “Not everyone has had a chance to visit Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan or Moldova so we offered our guests to experience our culture within Ames, Iowa.”

I do not know anything about Russian culture. To be honest, I didn’t even know there were many people who identify with Russian culture in the Ames area. It turns out Russian Speaking Students Association has about 250 members. I have friends who study Russian at Iowa State, so I went with them and had them teach me about the language and culture. I learned a lot and we had a great time.

The students in the association used family recipes, so the guests were able to try different types of food from the different countries that students are from. They had music playing the whole time, and some of the students put together a band to put on a live performance.

There was also a fashion show of

traditional Russian clothing, a photo contest and the Bollywood Dance Club performed.

Last semester I went to International Bazaar during International Week. There were different types of tea from a lot of different countries. I went with friends after class that afternoon. It was a really laid-back event. We went around the room and tried all the teas and talked to people from different clubs.

It was very well organized and a cool thing to have midweek.

To have so many different cultural nights in one town is one of the many great things about college. I encourage you to grab a friend and go to a few of these events. One such event is Desi Night by the Indian Students Association 8 p.m. on April 12, in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union. Try something new. You’ll never know what you’ll find.

Hannah Dankbar is a senior in political science and Spanish from Johnston, Iowa.

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Computing should be taught in high school

Breathalyzers dangerous in local bars

I am now a sophomore here at Iowa State, and in my time here, I have noticed the increased need for a computer-literate generation. I don’t mean knowing how to create excel spreadsheets and knowing how to fix a computer with a virus, I mean the tough stuff like knowledge of using multiple operating systems, how to code in a few languages, and how to really “fix” a computer, rather than patching it up to last a little longer.

I also think it’s a necessity in today’s computer age to know what all the numbers and stats about your computer really mean; when I say my computer has 2 gigabytes of RAM, I want the person I’m talking with to recognize what that means, down to the fact that RAM stands for Random Access Memory. I am just now taking the first batch of computer classes in college and this stuff is insanely easy. I could have, and I should have, learned this in high school so that when I got to college , I could learn more of the hard coding.

At my small high school in northern Iowa, almost all the electives were taught by two teachers. They were industrial classes, which are extremely important in northern Iowa, where a lot of the kids end up owning and working on farms or in other industrial careers.

But, for many others, we could have been in the computer lab learning what each component is in a computer, how to disassemble a computer, and how to reassemble the computer.

We could have also been learning the basics of

coding languages. I am now in the 9th week of college courses and I haven’t learned anything that I couldn’t have understood as a sophomore in high school. I am learning how to code in HTML, which is what most web pages are coded in, and I’m also learning how to code C++, which is one of the most basic and intuitive languages to learn.

I could have been learning this in high school, rather than in college, where I’m paying upwards of $3,000 per semester in tuition, and that’s on the low end. I think that we need to start teaching our high school students the basics of computer science to get ahead in today’s technological economy. Computer-related jobs are rising in demand much faster than many other careers and if we were introducing these classes to our high school students, we would be introducing them to a career that is very wellpaid and will always be in demand.

I think that by offering computer science classes in high school, we can really set our kids up for success. Fifty percent of recent college graduates are under-employed, and I think that if we get more students in computer-related fields, that number would be sure to drop. I urge you to go to code.org and read more into this issue. I think it’s a way we can fix some problems we, as a nation, face globally.

Contrary to the Alco-Buddy’s company name, Safe Living, breathalyzers in the bars are not safe. They actually have been shown to cause harm.

Research shows that putting breathalyzers in bars causes more risk than benefit.

Providing breathalyzer feedback to people who have been drinking seems like it would make sense to reduce risk of them driving while intoxicated. However, out of 30 possible high-risk drinking prevention strategies that have been researched by the EverFi Alcohol Prevention Coalition, breathalyzer feedback is the only strategy on the negative side of the effectiveness scale.

In the 1980s, breathalyzers were introduced in bars so that patrons could measure their BAC before getting behind the wheel.

While this was intended to promote more moderate consumption, it became a means of competition with bar-goers attempting to out-drink one another. Ultimately, the bar owners had them removed.

I fully support student entrepreneurship, success and good intentions. ISU students want to socialize and have fun in a safe environment, however, putting breathalyzer machines in the bars poses an unnecessary risk.

Jonathon Laudner is a sophomore in

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pre-business.

Students should be aware of cameras Recently I found two camera systems linked to the ELO Online Testing Center website so students can check the length of lines at the two testing centers (Gilman and Carver).

I thought this was cool, so I ended up exploring the entire iastate.edu site for other webcams.

I found two of interest: Memorial Union and West Lawn (Parks Library).

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could do.

I soon found out that anyone with access to the internet could control these cameras, panning around and even zooming in with automatic focus. I thought that these were really cool to play with; as the user controls the cameras from a computer.

However, I realized that I never knew what these cameras could do before.

How it works is that the online user gets placed in a queue to run the camera.

When it is their turn, the

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user gets two minutes to run the camera as they choose. When their time is up the next person in line gets two minutes as well (but other people may still view the live feed as another user operates the camera).

It was during my off time when I watched the next user zoom in on a girl standing at a bus stop by the Memorial Union Fountains. The user focused the camera on her for about 30 seconds, and I soon realized that this girl had no idea she was being watched.

Though these cameras can

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only view the public (and what people do in front of them would already be in public) I do believe that students should know about these two cameras as they can be publicly accessed and used by any internet user. Like I said: What you do in front of them is already in public, but it is still odd knowing someone could be watching. Just be aware of the two cameras.

Christian Lien is a senior in industrial technology.

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Every year 0.1 percent of BB gun shootings are attempted suicides. That means about 30 people every year try to kill themselves with the tiny pellets.

Though dragonflies possess 6 legs like any other insect, they cannot walk.

A famous North American landmark, Niagara Falls, is constantly moving backward. The rim wore down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute. Attempts to control flow and divert the water has reduced erosion in recent years to one foot per year with a potential increase of one foot every ten years.

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