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The $3.4 million Sycamore Falls project at Reiman Gardens is expected to begin this summer.
The history of
ISCORE IOWA STATE
and how it changed
By Jacey.Goetzman @iowastatedaily.com
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Students and staff gather for closing remarks during the 2017 Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity on Friday.
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Lakota Harden, keynote speaker for the ISCORE conference, shares her story Friday in the Memorial Union.
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Chairs sit empty at the ISCORE event. The event has grown considerably from the 150 participants who attended in 2000.
Thomas Hill had the idea for the Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity (ISCORE) event long before it would come to fruition or later bear his name. Hill had been on the executive committee for the Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies for a number of years at a number of different universities. The organization sponsors the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE). With colleagues, he worked out the idea of a local conference that supports, and as Hill said, “dovetails into” the national conference. The national conference is considered by many participants as transformative. Hill can attest to that. “The national conference is such a rich experience that it started with me trying to figure out, ‘How do you bring a campus of 35,000plus students to a national conference?’” Hill said. Hill knew this was unrealistic. It was when he pushed past this that he unearthed the idea ISCORE is centered on. Hill asked himself, “What’s the next best thing?” The idea of a local conference was first attempted to launch at the University of Florida, but ultimately flopped. A year later, Hill would find himself at Iowa State. “If you try and you fail a couple of times, you know what works and what doesn’t,” Hill said. “So by the time I got here, I had some good stuff.” Iowa State, at that time, was starting to celebrate what it called theme years. It would choose a theme, begin it at the start of the year, and all of the colleges would support that theme until the end of that academic year. The first theme year was in honor of George Washington Carver. During that theme year, the administration was trying to figure out what kind of things it could do, Hill said. Because he already had the experience, he knew precisely what he wanted to do. Hill proposed that they start ISCORE. “It was a result of the experiences I’d had at other institutions, and by the time I got to Iowa State, I had ironed out most of the kinks,” Hill said. Hill said he knew exactly what to do, exactly how to jumpstart it, and after that, they got it going. Whether it would continue a second year was never a question to Hill. “There was clearly a need to address issues dealing with race and ethnicity in higher education. Clearly. There was a need here on this campus,” Hill said. “When we started, we knew that it might not be the most popular thing.” The first ISCORE, held in 2000, had roughly 150 participants. As
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Reiman Gardens ready to expand New additions include waterfalls, sycamores By Danielle.Gehr @iowastatedaily.com Looking toward the next 20 years, Reiman Gardens has put together a plan to revamp its gardens, starting with the southwest corner in April. The plan, dubbed the Sycamore Falls project, is set to develop the 1.25 acres of a hillside on the property. The end result will feature multiple tiers of pools with water cascading between them. The tiers will be surrounded by foliage. Seven 80-year-old sycamore trees will also make an appearance on the east side of the site. The final plantings will take place next spring. The budget for the renovations is $3.4 million, which will be reached using private gifts. Roy and Bobbi Reiman, for whom the gardens are named after, donated $1.7 million. The full project involves additions to the northern and central gardens. The northern garden would include a welcome center and an entry courtyard garden. The central garden involves a wide-open grassy area where people are able to sit and relax for long stretches of time, as shown in the mock-up drawing. These renovations are all part of the 20-year master plan that Reiman Gardens put together while looking forward to the future after celebrating its 20-year anniversary in 2015. President Steven Leath and his wife, Janet, strongly support the project, according to the Reiman Gardens’ website. Iowa State has a tradition of housing a horticultural site on campus that dates back to 1914, the original garden being just north of the Farm House. In 1964, the garden was moved to a 3-acre, limited space. It wasn’t moved to its current location until the 1990s, when there was a need for more space. Over the next 20 years, the garden expanded from 5 acres to 17 acres. This includes the Conservatory Complex and the Christina Reiman Butterfly Wing, which opened in November 2002. In addition to approving the Reiman Garden renovation, the Board of Regents also approved Iowa State selling Franklin Park. Iowa State has owned the 4-acre land since the 1940s, leasing it to the city of Ames starting in 1960. The park is set to sell for $166,000.
Trump supporters rally behind president By Danielle.Gehr @iowastatedaily.com The Iowa State Capitol building witnessed a crowd of red Make America Great hats Saturday morning as people rallied to show their support for President Donald Trump. Emeline Hanscel, former vice president of ISU 4 Trump and current treasurer of ISU College Republicans, was one of the estimated 150 people in attendance at the Trump rally. Organizers dubbed it the Spirit of America rally. To Hanscel, this name signifies how Trump’s first actions in office put America firt. “It’s about his America-first agenda where he’s trying to put America first and he’s not really worrying about other countries and trying to help them out because we do have our own issues and problems going on in America,” Hanscel said. The rally lasted about an hour, featuring several speakers who supported Trump and contributed throughout his campaign.
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President Donald Trump gives a speech at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Aug. 27, 2016. An estimated 150 people attended a rally in support of Trump on Saturday at the Iowa Capitol.
One of the speakers was the senior adviser to Trump, Tana Goertz, who was one of the last to speak, leaving the stage as the audience started repetitively chanting Trump. “I am humbled and so proud that I’m able to say that I worked
on the Trump campaign. We did it,” Goertz said. She told the story of how she met Trump when she was an aspiring entrepreneur who applied to be on “The Apprentice.” “A man by the name of Donald Trump took a chance on me, a
mother, an entrepreneur and a gogetter, and he said, ‘let’s bring her and cast her on the show. I think she ought to be good,’” Goertz said. She went on to finish runner-up on the show, and Trump eventually asked her to be a part of his presidential campaig. Since Trump’s inauguration, protests have emerged worldwide, some of which were held in support of women and immigrants, run by Trump’s opposition. Saturday’s celebration of Trump motivates a hidden minority, Hanscel said, that is afraid to say that they support Trump because of possible backlash. “When there is something like this where it’s positive and we’re just trying to show our support for Trump and show him that there are people that do support him, it’s great,” Hanscel said. This event gave supporters like Hanscel the opportunity to meet Trump supporters of all different walks of life. “I had talked with a couple of older people who were really happy to see a lot of the younger folks getting out and showing their sup-
port,” Hanscel said. Another Iowa State student who attended was Taylor Collins, sophomore in business management. He did not initially support Trump, initially wanting to see Sen. Ted Cruz, a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, in the Oval Office. It wasn’t until after Trump’s inauguration that he shed the initial weariness he had toward Trump. “I’m skeptical of all politicians, but what made me change my mind was when he nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court,” Collins said. Collins believes in minimal government involvement and interpretaion of the Constitution as it was intended at the time it was written. With Trump choosing an originalist to fill the empty Supreme Court seat, Collins found that he could trust the new president. He believes Trump will not abuse his power. Collins is also impressed with Trump’s cabinet picks, and after watching one of his recent speeches, Collins believes that Trump turned out to be more conservative than he initially thought.