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CyRide Driver faces pre-trial Man charged in hit-and-run accident that killed Emmalee Jacobs to appear in court By Alex.Connor @iowastatedaily.com Former CyRide driver Benjamin Clague, 23, was scheduled to appear in court at 3 p.m. Tuesday for his pre-trial in accordance to his arrest in connection to the
hit-and-run accident that killed ISU student Emmalee Jacobs in December, but the pre-trial has been moved to June 7. The official trial will commence on June 21 at 9 a.m. Clague entered a written plea of not guilty on Feb. 15 on both charges against him that include
leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, a class D felony, and for failure to obey a traffic control device, a simple misdemeanor. Clague was originally arrested Jan. 20 after an investigation concluded by the Ames Police Department.
The defense attorney representing Clague is Lucas Richardson. Jessica Reynolds and Tim Meals will represent the state for prosecution. Steve Van Marel, district associate judge for Iowa’s 2nd District, will oversee the trial.
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Former CyRide driver Benjamin Clague will appear in court Tuesday for his pre-trial.
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Cheryl Hanley Maxwell is one of three candidates for the dean of the College of Human Sciences.
Dean forums begin
By Katy.Klopfenstein @iowastatedaily.com
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ot summer days are approaching and will be filled with friends, sun and the smell of a sweet barbecue drifting in the humid air. Two ISU students are cashing in on the days ahead. Michael Hanstad and Tyler Devos, both sophomores in the College of Business at Iowa State, developed Deadeye BBQ, a premium barbecue sauce brand with the help of John Walker, lecturer in management. Hanstad and Devos spent their freshman year in Willow Hall and had numerous classes together. “One day we were sitting in the dorm room, just saying we want to start our own business,” Hanstad said. The two started developing ideas for different businesses and it took them awhile to develop the idea for Deadeye BBQ. Hanstad and Devos sat in Willow Hall firing off ideas at each other, many ideas failing. While brainstorming, Devos had a realization that his uncle and his uncle’s friend had developed a barbecue sauce recipe that had yet to be marketed. “We went over to his uncle’s house and I tasted it, and I am like, ‘this is the real deal. This is really good.’ And I was like, ‘let’s do it,’” Hanstad said. The duo’s original plan was to walk into local grocery stores to set up arrangements for distribution. However, during a class with Walker, Business Education 250, the two realized that there are steps one has to take to reach the sales point successfully. Walker assisted Hanstad and Devos, helping them take the steps to reach retail stores. Walker spoke from experience, being a former business owner himself. “He was like, ‘what you should do is farmers’ markets, so you get some backing,’” Devos said. Deadeye BBQ’s first formal outing was at the Valley Junction Farmers Market the next day, and they started to build Deadeye BBQ. Walker, Hanstad and Devos met every Thursday in an attempt to refine their plans to reach retail stores. Walker said all he asked of them was to pay forward their experiences. “They took this idea and had the passion, and that is the important part and moving forward with it,” Walker said. Deadeye BBQ, which for many brings to mind pictures of bullseyes, means something much different to the business partners. “Aaron’s brother has a dead eye, so we were all sitting there like, ‘what should the name be?’ Rich was like, ‘we have always had the idea [because] it’s unique,’” Hanstad said. The journey continued after the company had great response from the farmers’ markets the two attended, including Valley Junction. Walker guided the two, telling them that if all went well while touring the markets during the summer of 2015 they should then start approaching stores to get their brand on the shelves. “[Walker] had actually had some connections in corporate at Fareway. We contacted them,” Devos said. Hanstad and Devos were told then that they would have to go into each individual Fareway store in order to get their product on the shelves. Not missing a beat, the two did exactly that, and Deadeye BBQ is currently stocked in 17 Fareways and a couple Hy‐Vee stores across Iowa. “The first time we got into a store, I went by myself to Marshalltown to pitch because Tyler had class and I skipped class,” Hanstad said. “I go in there, and I don’t know what to expect, like you walk back there never having done this before thinking [they’re thinking], ‘why is this kid in my back room trying to sell me barbecue sauce?’” Hanstad pushed on despite his insecurities, and what hap-
First candidate for ISU position visits campus By Jake.Dalbey @iowastatedaily.com The first of three candidate open forums slated to determine the new dean of the College of Human Sciences took place Monday at Morrill Hall with a packed house of 57 attendees. Cheryl Hanley Maxwell, associate dean of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, spoke about the issues and trends in the department of human sciences across the nation and campuses in general. She also provided insight on future programs and initiatives that could be making their way to Iowa State. Maxwell began by highlighting several important human sciences trends that are affecting universities today, one of which was the growing technological focus in the classroom as well as the diversity of mediums from which students can access information. “Students don’t read books anymore,” Maxwell said. “They have social media, they tweet and they do a lot of their interacting in different mediums, and we as a department have to be able address those mediums and integrate them into our learning.” Maxwell cited her time in schooling during the early years of the Internet and said she sees the rapid growth as a sign of changing times. Gaming and virtual reality simulations are among the most prevalent of new technologies available to use in education. Maxwell sees these advances as ways to teach students and faculty in ways that were not possible in the past. “As a part of the learning community, I would love to create a game about a teacher with a class of naughty kids and
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New ISU club focuses on nuclear peace around the world Buddhism for Peace emphasizes danger of nuclear weapons By Mollie.Shultz @iowastatedaily.com The fact that many countries can use nuclear weapons to cause massive destruction to anyone
and anything in their path is making some ISU students fight back against nuclear power. Yu Hui Lui and Gabriel Hicks founded the Buddhism for Peace club at Iowa State in October 2015. The club not only focuses on practicing Buddhism but also on the disarmament of all nuclear weapons located throughout the world. The program it bases its practices off of is called “Our Nuclear
Future.” Lui, graduate student in mechanical engineering, is from Malaysia and has been practicing this type of Buddhism throughout his life. Hicks, sophomore in business, did not know much about this type of Buddhism based on nuclear peace based until he was older and became more politically involved and interested in what was happening in the world around him.
Although the club is small right now — its roster consists of about 25 members — it hopes the cause it is fighting for will make other students want to join. “[The power of nuclear weapons] doesn’t discriminate between bad or good, so I think it’s something that is really prominent and a danger to our society,” Hicks said. To raise awareness, the Buddhism for Peace club will host an event called “Our New Clear
Future Week” from April 4 to 8. The event will take place at other colleges with the same program, and the hope is to encourage more people to join and sign a petition for the disarmament of nuclear weapons worldwide. Both Hicks and Lui said they believe the club opens doors to fight the existence of nuclear weapons. The members of its branch of
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