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Voting opens to students for elections By Charles O’Brien Daily staff writer Voting for the election of Government of the Student Body begins Monday and will close at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday. Students will be able to vote for the executive slate, which consists of presidential candidates, and senators, who will represent different ISU colleges, resident halls, off-campus living and atlarge spots. Students will be able to vote by going to Iowa State’s Online Voting and Election System. Once there, students can click on the ballot and view information about the candidates. Information will include a biography and their platform. Each senate division will have a set number of senators to represent it. For example, the College of Engineering has four senate seats to fill on GSB through the election. After this, students can move on to the voting process by checking off who they choose to vote for and submitting their ballot. This year’s GSB presidential and vice presidential candidates are Jake Swanson and running mate David Bartholomew and Jared Knight and running mate Katie Brown.
‘MORE THAN JUST ONE DAY’ Photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily Students talk about their own experiences after watching a video during the 13th annual Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity on Friday at the Memorial Union. ISCORE examined common notions about gender, race and class, and how these impact peoples’ interactions with one another.
Conference offers positive message about race, ethnicity By Megan.Swindell @iowastatedaily.com “Awareness, an understanding, and then an opportunity to take what you’ve learned and share it with the community in an effort to make [Iowa State] a more inclusive environment,” is what Vice President of Student Affairs Tom Hill hopes that attendees got out of the Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity.
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In all, 713 students, staff, faculty and community members attended the conference. ISCORE is “setting the platform for dialogue around race and ethnicity, and after 13 years, people look forward to it,” said Japannah Kellogg, program coordinator of the Student Support Services Program and cochairman of ISCORE for the past
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“Hopefully it’s a domino effect,” Hopkins added. Many attendees had some response to the sessions. “Most people have the privilege not to care; they don’t have to care,” said Albert Li, freshman in pre-interior design. “Internet media and issues with the Daily” are what brought Beth Fowler, senior in elementary education, to ISCORE. “People obviously already felt like they were being targeted, and [the ‘Just Sayin’ controversy] was the spark in the powder keg.” Fowler said she is good friends
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eight years. The Memorial Union hosted a variety of discussion-provoking forums proving that, although it may be subtle in some cases, racism and ethnicity issues still exist today. The Great Hall was lined with posters displaying different topics regarding race and ethnicity where Racquel Hopkins, freshman in biology, and Assata Caldwell, freshman in pre-integrated studio arts, could be found discussing the “Effects of Ableism in America.” “If not something new, then something reinforced, and then bringing it back to their communities,” is what Caldwell wants her listeners to take from the conference.
SEXY SAX MAN: Playing to gain judges’ points Nathan Bierl, senior in music, attempts to impress Kaleidoquiz judge Molly Clark during a 5 a.m. evaluation of the second scavenger hunt challenge early Saturday in Friley Windows.
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Over cans of Mountain Dew, prepackaged cookies and dozens of notebook pages, the idea Paul Trieu had dreamed about for nearly a year was becoming a reality. The senior in mechanical engineering was leading the team creating embarkus.com, a website that aims to make social networking more social. “I want to end the idea that being social takes place sitting in a chair staring at a backlit screen,” he said, “I feel like I’ve made a lot of surface friends. But the more and more I get connected on Facebook and other social networks, I felt more and more alone.” The network is based around real-life experiences, goals and dreams and aims to
Photo: Emily Harmon/Iowa State Daily Team cram5sports separated from other teams to make their app. Startup Weekend brought teams together to create apps from scratch within 52 hours on Saturday.
connect users with common goals to resources they need. Embarkus isn’t the first attempt to shake up the world of social networking, but in an office filled with more than 100 highly motivated visionaries, developers, designers
and marketers, the ambitious attitude was infectious. Trieu’s idea was just one of 16 new businesses that launched this weekend at Startup Weekend Des
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