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Skwark holds fashion line lecture Friday Francesca Skwark, founder of the fashion line FBF by Checka, will be discussing apparel entrepreneurship during her lecture at 4 p.m on Friday in 117 MacKay Hall. The lecture is free for all to attend. Skwark graduated from Iowa State in 2009 from the apparel, merchandising, design and production program. According to a previous Iowa State Daily article, Skwark has an additional degree in marketing. During her time at Iowa State, she was involved in the Fashion Show and held several internships, including one at Tommy Hilfiger and Macy’s Merchandising Group for the brand of Style & Co. After graduating, she moved to Los Angeles to search for a career. Other topics that will be discussed at the lecture will entail demands and expectations of the industry. Check the Iowa State Daily website for coverage of the lecture. — Daily Staff
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Katelyn Reynolds, senior in graphic design at Iowa State, donates blood on Thursday in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. ISU students and Ames community members come together each year to donate at the ISU Blood Drive. A single donation, which takes approximately an hour to complete, can save up to three lives. The annual event, which has more than 800 volunteers, has a goal of least 2,500 donors.
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Alex Peterson had a bright future ahead of her after graduating from Underwood High School. That was taken away in the blink of an eye when she was hit by oncoming traffic on her way to work on July 23, 2012. “I nannied for the summer and was on my way to do that. It was about 7:30 in the morning,” Peterson, freshman in agricultural business, said. “I popped a hill and there was a line of cars backed up that I couldn’t see. I hit the last one, which threw me into oncoming traffic and I was T-boned.” “The line of cars stopped, was a line of officers. ... They came back to me and thought I was gone. I didn’t have a heart rate and wasn’t breathing. I was life-flighted to Creighton after that.” On top of numerous other injuries, Peterson ruptured her spleen, which had to be removed. During that time she lost more than half of her blood: 14 pints. Because of blood donors, Peterson’s life was saved. Peterson was in a sedated coma for three or four days. When people came to visit and asked what they could do to help, all her parents could say was, “go donate blood.” Peterson does not remember a majority of the events that occurred a few weeks before and after the accident. She spent two more weeks at Creighton Medical Center, and was in rehab for about two and a half months. Because her treatment went into the fall semester, Peterson was not able to fulfill her dream to go to the University of Iowa and start her new and exciting adventure. “I was in and out of the hospital, and I have a lot of health issues now,” Peterson said. She remembers thinking, “I can’t go four hours away from home, and I know absolutely no one [at Iowa].” Peterson enrolled for the spring semester at Iowa State where she would be closer to her home in Neola, Iowa. “I need to have people around that know my situation and what happened,” Peterson said. “My boyfriend goes here and all my good friends
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Regents nominees cause controversy By Danielle.Ferguson @iowastatedaily.com The Iowa Senate faces a tough decision regarding a future vote between three nominees for the Board of Regents. The three nominees, Craig Lang, Robert Cramer and Dr. Subhash Sahai, will require two-thirds approval from the Senate in order to serve a six-year term on the Board of Regents. The nominations of Lang and Cramer, both republicans appointed by Gov. Terry Branstad, have caused some hesitation of approval. Neither candidate received a recommendation from the chamber’s Education Committee in a hearing on March 18. Democratic Senator Herman Quirmbach said, “My biggest concern regarding to Mr. Lang’s record is the
Robert Cramer
Dr. Subhash Sahai Craig Lang
■■ Construction executive from Grimes, IA ■■ Associated with the conservative group Family Leader ■■ Not recommended by Education Committee
■■ Democratic physician from Webster City, IA ■■ Received backing from Education Committee ■■ Strong contender to receive approval for Board of Regents
■■ 17th president of Board of Regents ■■ Republican appointed by Gov. Branstad ■■ Term on the Board expires April 30 ■■ Reappointment is uncertain
Harkin Institute mess and the loss of Tom Harkin’s papers. I know it’s not just one person who is at fault there, but Mr. Lang has been president of the Board of Regents.” The second republican contender, Cramer, has faced a large amount of scrutiny regarding his stance on the Lesbian Gay Bi-sexual Transgender
program. Cramer has been publicly linked with the Family Leader, an influential conservative group that has proven to be adamantly opposed to gay marriage. The group even anti-endorsed 2011 republican presidential candidates because they did not support
Constitutional amendments banning gay marriage. “[His involvement] is not a disqualification. There are certain core values of a major university. One of those core values is equal opportunity,” Quirmbach said. “If the leaders of that university, and the people
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