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Former UNI president to fill in as interim at ISU
Co-chair, CEO reflect on Ames sleepout
UNDER THE STARS
By Alex.Connor @iowastatedaily.com
The Iowa Board of Regents will convene Monday morning to appoint Benjamin Allen as the interim president of Iowa State effective May 9. He will serve as Iowa State’s interim president until a new president is appointed and assumes office. His annual salary will be $525,000, according to a presidential search meeting notice. The $525,000 is equivalent to the salary Leath currently earns at Iowa State. At the meeting, the regents will also officially accept the resignation of current Iowa State President Steven Leath effective May 8. It was announced Monday that Leath will leave Iowa State to become the 19th president of Auburn University in Alabama. Leath said Monday in an email to the Iowa State community that he has “volunteered to work closely with the regents to identify an interim president and start a search for a permanent president.” “In addition, I will keep you updated during this time of change,” he said. Allen served as the president of the University of Northern Iowa from 2006 to 2013. Prior to that, Allen was Iowa State’s provost and dean of the College of Business. Allen announced he would be leaving UNI in August 2012, after many community members criticized Allen’s decision-making capabilities after he announced the closure of a lab school and about one-fifth of the school’s academic program offerings. The UNI faculty later issued a vote of no confidence in Allen, which later led to an investigation by the American Association of University Professors based on reports that UNI violated governance, academic freedom and tenure procedures when proposing academic cuts. Allen had served as UNI’s ninth president. He has a doctorate and master’s degree in economics from the University of Illinois and a bachelor of science degree in business economics from Indiana University. Under his leadership, amid the controversies, Allen “established priorities of increasing student achievement in undergraduate programs and providing statewide leadership in Pre-K through 12 education, including UNI’s lead role in the Iowa Mathematics and Science Education Partnership with Iowa State University and the University of Iowa.” Student Government President-elect Cody West said that while he does not know much about Allen thus far, he’s excited to work with him. “As an interim, he will serve the university well,” West said. West also said that while he cannot speak too much about the presidential search, it is looking to be more transparent than that of the Auburn University search for a new president that led to the hiring of Leath. West said it will more than likely be similar to the search process of that of the recent UNI presidential hire. West said that he is also happy to see that the regents are not appointing an
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By Emily.Hammer @iowastatedaily.com
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leven years ago was the first time people gathered on a football field at Drake University to raise funds and awareness for youth homelessness in central Iowa at an event called Reggie’s Sleepout. Now, Reggie’s Sleepout has seen more than 10,000 participants and has raised more than $1.7 million. Jack Trice Stadium hosted Reggie’s Sleepout for the first time Saturday night, thanks to Nahla Atroon and her friends. Atroon and her friends are seniors at Ames High School, but they were juniors when Andrew Allen, CEO and president of Youth and Shelter Services (YSS), spoke to them about the importance of homelessness awareness. Atroon is now the co-
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Hannah Olson/Iowa State Daily
Cy helps decorate a group’s cardboard box structure during Reggie’s Sleepout, an event to help combat youth homelessness, on Saturday at Jack Trice Stadium.
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As of Sunday evening, Reggie’s Sleepout, an event to raise homelessness awareness, raised $84,005, according to its website.
Hannah Olson/Iowa State Daily
Participants of Reggie’s Sleepout sleep on the field of Jack Trice Stadium in tents and cardboard shelters on Saturday.
Startup Factory presents entrepreneur workshop By Ally.Frickel @iowastatedaily.com “Building a world-class innovation machine, one start-up at a time.” That is the ISU Startup Factory’s motto that is applied to every aspect of its organization, and it is no different when it comes to preparing Iowa State business students and Ames community members. Roughly 60 students and community members, all who aspire to be future entrepreneurs, gathered Saturday morning in Gerdin Hall to participate in a workshop hosted by the ISU Startup Factory. Students and community members listened to a variety
of speakers, all specializing in specific areas needed to run a successful business. The speakers ranged from insurance, accounting, legal aspects of running a business and operating a successful business. Not only were business speakers of larger businesses there, but there were also speakers from small businesses, such as Terry Stark, the owner of Main Street’s Chocolaterie Stam in Ames. A piece of advice from Stark to students was to remain hopeful. “If you’re young, don’t worry about making it yet,” Stark said. “You can change. You have time to change.” Stark presented a list of key elements that he learned of running a successful business. 1. “Build that network, and
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don’t be afraid to take a chance,” Stark said. 2. Stick to what you know 3. Maximize all resources. “You can buy all brand new, or you can get resourceful,” Stark said. 4. Create multiple streams of revenue. “At Stam, we sell chocolate, but when it isn’t in season, we sell more gelato. We also sell scarves and other gift items,” Stark said. 5. Serve the broader community. Get involved. 6. Excellent customer service. Stark said that is the basis of Stam. “We want to make our customers even happier than when they came in happy,” he said. Stark worked in law enforcement for 30 years after earning
an Iowa State degree, however, there was a piece missing, and that turned out to be owning a small business. Chocolaterie Stam stores had always been owned by Stam family members, but Stark was the first person to own a shop who was outside of the family. He asked Stam if they were ready to expand outside of their family and gave them a piece of paper with his name and phone number on it, which was torn in half instantly. Ten months later, Stam contacted Stark and told the aspiring entrepreneur that he was ready. Another speaker was Jim Patton, with the Iowa Small Business Development Centers. Patton assists those looking to establish a small business.
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Patton’s first piece of advice was to find your true interest. “If you’re going to be in a profession, you better like it,” Patton said. Patton stressed this, because “this business will be your life, and if you like it, you may be more successful.” The former banking businessman also presented a list of what people need to do to be successful. “[What you need to do to be successful] is a big question,” Patton said, but to simplify it, it would be the following: 1. You can never have enough education. “I think it keeps your brain thinking,” Patton said. 2. You can never have a big
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