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Kyven Gadson pins his way to a national title By Beau.Berkley@iowastatedaily.com

here’s one particular moniker that has followed Kyven Gadson throughout the wrestling season. ISU coach Kevin Jackson first coined it back in November during media day and his teammates said it after every dual meet in which Gadson won his match — which was all of them. ESPN broadcasters continued the trend during all of Gadson’s matches at the NCAA Tournament this past weekend. “Kyven Gadson is a man on a mission.” Well, mission complete. Gadson pinned Ohio State’s Kyle Snyder (30-3) Saturday night in the second period to become the 197-pound national champion. The bout was close with not much offense until Gadson hit his signature move. Emphasis on the “signature.”

Gadson match-bymatch results at NCAA Tournament First round: Gadson tech fall (19-4) Basil Minto (Northern Iowa) Second round: Gadson fall (4:55) Anthony Abro (Eastern Michigan) Quarterfinals: Gadson major decision (12-2) Nathan Burak (Iowa) Semi-finals: Gadson decison (4-1) Conner Hartmann (Duke) Finals: Gadson fall (4:24) Kyle Snyder (Ohio State)

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David Scrivner / Iowa City Press-Citizen

Kyven Gadson celebrates his pin on Ohio State’s Kyle Snyder in the 197-pound NCAA Championship at the Scottrade Center on Saturday.

Controversial bills could affect ISU professor works to prevent ISU students if signed into law false confessions By Alex.Hanson @iowastatedaily.com

By Mariah.Griffith @iowastatedaily.com ISU professor Christian Meissner is doing research that indicates people may not know as much as they think they do. In conjunction with an international coalition of labs, Meissner is studying the effectiveness of current interrogation methods and the development of better tactics for the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, or HIG. “High value in this case means a threat to the U.S. government or population,” Meissner said. The commission operates under the FBI, the CIA and the Department of Defense. They are tasked with a threepart mission: conducting and overseeing interrogations, coordinating interrogation training procedures between agencies and conducting research to better the interrogation process itself. “We don’t need to torture. There are better ways to collect information, and we should respond as ethical and rational citizens,” Meissner said. Meissner stressed the im-

portance of his research, which is in its last year of this grant’s funding. He said governmental agencies have been relying on scientifically unfounded methods of interrogation for years. “Much of traditional police practice in the interrogation booth is not based on science. It’s based on beliefs about what works,” Meissner said. Traditional techniques developed throughout time based on tactics that appeared to elicit confessions and compliance from interrogation subjects. “That unfortunate reality is being replaced by a sciencebased, operationally-effective, human rights-compliant model of interrogation,” said Col. Steven Kleinman, in a HIG publication. According to Meissner, traditional practices are changing because too many agencies fail to gather all the evidence possible, and some may even elicit false confessions from innocent people. A common-knowledge way of identifying lies involves looking for signs of anxiety in the

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Ultrasounds before abortion, minimum wage and marijuana are the subjects of several pieces of legislation making their way through the statehouse, and could impact students in Ames and across the state. The bills have all passed at least one side of the divided legislature and while they may face opposition in the opposite chamber, if bills were to become law, they would greatly impact students in Iowa. One bill, House File 573, passed the Republican-controlled House would require women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound before the abortion procedure. “Republicans should stop playing doctor,” said state Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell, DAmes. “Since medical science changes, the legislature has never put medical standards of practice in the Iowa Code for any medical procedure. Democrats trust women to make their own health care decisions.” The bill would require doctors who perform a patient’s abortion to perform the ultrasound, show women an image that shows the age and image of the fetus and also give women

a chance to hear the heartbeat. Doctors would still have to perform the ultrasound, though the women do not have to see the results. Doctors who fail to follow requirements could face a fine. “It is my belief that we are defending two lives here, a mother and a child,” said state Rep. Joel Fry, ROsceola. “[The discussion] needs to focus on not just one individual, but two. It’s my attempt Fry to bring to the forefront the voice of one that is often not heard.” The bill passed, mostly on a party line vote, 57-39. “It’s a very gross intrusion into the privacy of women seeking medical care,” said state Sen. Herman Quirmbach, D-Ames. “It will go nowhere in the Senate.” Two other bills have passed the Democratic-controlled Senate, but their futures seem glim in the GOP House. An increase to the state’s minimum wage passed the Senate, this one also on a mostly party line vote, 27-22. The bill would increase the

minimum employers could pay workers to $8 per hour later this year, then again to $8.75 per hour by next summer. “I remember my first job out of high school, I worked minimum wage for $1.60 an hour. That sounds pretty pitiful, but adjusted for inflation, that’s the highest the minimum wage has ever been,” Quirmbach said. “We’ve spent the last 47 years paying our workers less than what I got. People at the bottom of the ladder deserve a raise.” Republican opponents say the bill would cause job losses and an increase to prices so businesses could offset the costs. Another bill passed by the Senate would reclassify the punishment if a person is arrested for possession of marijuana. “The old phrase is ‘make the punishment fit the crime,’ and I think there was a general feeling that for first time possession, the penalties were more serious than the nature of the offense,” Quirmbach said. The bill had more bipartisan support than the others, passing 36-13. If signed into law, possession of 5 grams or less of marijuana would now be a simple misdemeanor and punishable of a fine up to $625 and 30 days

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