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Man with gun reported near campus Incident appears to be isolated By Alex.Connor @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State received a scare Monday afternoon after a student reported seeing a man with a gun
near campus. An ISU Alert quickly followed the report stating that the student, who was riding a motorcycle going northbound near the intersection of West Street and Hyland Avenue, was “threatened by a person who pointed a chrome revolver in his direction.” The suspect was described as a white male in his mid-30s with facial hair, driving a silver Dodge
SUV, according to the ISU Police Department. However, Jason Tuttle, investigations commander with the Ames Police, contradicted the ISU Alert, stating that there was no interaction between the student on the motorcycle and the driver. After seeing the driver with the handgun, the student went to ISU Police and reported the incident,
Tuttle said. About an hour after the original alert was sent out, a second ISU Alert followed noting that after searching the area of West Street and Hyland Avenue, they did not locate the Dodge SUV or the suspect. They reported that the “incident appears to be isolated,” after no additional reports were received, and that there was no
imminent threat to the community. At the time of the investigation, Tuttle said that they didn’t believe any type of road rage was involved. Through the alert, police reminded anyone who witnesses unusual or concerning behavior to report it. Keep updated through coverage on the Daily website.
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Cars wait for a light to change at the corner of Ash Avenue and Lincoln Way.
Safety study moves forward By Mica.Magtoto @iowastatedaily.com Following the Ames City Council’s approval of a safety study, the city and university will begin working together to identify and address safety improvements along Lincoln Way. The first phase of the study, with a budget of $31,841, includes data collection and analysis. The second phase, with a budget of $69,045, will “identify and evaluate traffic operations and/or physical modifications that address identified issues,” according to city documents. City staff have begun recording traffic volumes, crossing and multimodal data along the Lincoln Way stretch between University Boulevard and Sheldon Avenue. They are expected to conclude the data collection by the end of the semester. Upon completion of the data collection, SRF Consulting will be able to provide recommendations and strategies to improve pedestrian safety and congestion. The consulting firm has previously worked with the university on Osborn Drive to implement successful strategies, which have resulted in improvements. Cathy Brown, program manger of facilities planning and management, said she hopes to see similar results along Lincoln Way. Previous changes on Osborn Drive to accommodate increased enrollment have included widening sidewalks, removing street parking, educating students about the corridor and making changes on CyRide bus stop locations. Other solutions have included the Walk Your Wheels campaign, which helped decongest sidewalk traffic. Brown hopes to use their experiences to make appropriate parallel changes along Lincoln Way. The public is encouraged to participate to help provide feedback, according to city documents. An online survey is soon to be released focusing on the following questions: What are issues/ concerns that you have traveling across or along the Lincoln Way corridor? What would you suggest to resolve the issues/concerns you
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Hometown Design sends current ISU students back to their high schools to share the opportunities available in the College of Design.
College of Design program recruits minorities By Luke.Manderfeld @iowastatedaily.com
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SU senior Markus Flynn, the head of Iowa State’s Black Student Alliance, noticed something when he took a seat on the bus in his freshman year at Iowa State. Sometimes, when there was an open seat next to him, nobody would sit next to him. So he started his own type of a case study. Over several semesters, he sat in different places on the bus to see if the location affected it more. “What I came up with was, typically, the seat right next to me was one of the last ones to fill up,” Flynn said. Flynn said he had noticed other instances where he thought he was being treated differently because he was a minority at Iowa State. In group projects, sometimes other members would assume Flynn doesn’t know as much.
As a black student in a predominately white college, Flynn has dealt with his fair share of conflicts. It’s part of the reason why he heads the Black Student Alliance, to help make change. “Everybody knows that Iowa is one of the most homogeneous states in the country,” Flynn said. “So everybody knows there’s going to be a lot of white people.” Out of the 30,034 students pursuing undergraduate degrees at Iowa State, 75.2 percent of them identify as white. That number has decreased by 12.9 percent in the past 10 years, but it is still the overwhelming majority. The rate of minorities receiving their undergraduate degrees from Iowa State has increased by 3.9 percent in past 10 years. In 2015, 3,826 minority students were pursuing an undergraduate degree compared to 1,826 in 2005, according to Iowa State’s fact book. “As long as we keep up with that pace
and don’t lose that drive, change will come faster,” said ISU senior Michael Day. “Not really everybody is against us, and we have to embrace each other as not only role models, but experience models.” Day is part of Hometown Design, a program in the College of Design that focuses on recruiting high schoolers to Iowa State, particularly minority students. It’s another program at Iowa State that is trying to bring in more minority representation to Ames. *** As the Multicultural Liaison for Iowa State’s College of Design during the past two years, Audrey Kennis recognized this need for more minorities in the classroom. It was prevalent in the College of Design, where 12 percent of students identify as a U.S. ethnic minority, according to the College of De-
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Steve King: Cruz would win convention Republican race on brink of contested national convention By Alex.Hanson @iowastatedaily.com
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U.S. Rep. Steve King speaks at the 2015 Ag Summit on March 7, 2015, in Des Moines.
U.S. Rep. Steve King — who inserted himself into the Iowa Caucus by endorsing Ted Cruz — thinks Cruz has the best shot to
win a contested convention and that John Kasich should drop out of the GOP race for president. On the Republican side, a candidate needs to win at least 1,237 delegates during the presidential nominating contests to win the nomination outright, or the nominee will be chosen at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. “As each one of these contests go by and as the polling shows within these states that have yet to [vote], it’s more and more likely
this will be a contested convention,” King said Saturday in a phone interview with the Iowa State Daily. “It’s almost to the point where the ‘conventional wisdom’ is ready to announce that it will be a contested convention.” Even if Trump has the most delegates going into the convention, if 1,237 delegates don’t vote for Trump, the delegates are then free to vote for whomever they choose during a second ballot. “If there is a second ballot, I think Cruz is the odds-on favor-
ite,” King said. “Cruz is much better organized then Trump is; he has the support among the delegates who emerge because they are real constitutional conservatives.” King did make a point to say that if Trump wins the nomination outright on the first ballot, the Republican Party should rally around his nomination through the November general election. “We should play by the rules
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