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Iowa State announces climate survey By Michael.Heckle @iowastatedaily.com
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By Ryan.Young @iowastatedaily.com KANSAS CITY, Missouri — It’s tough to beat a team three times in one season — at least that’s how the cliché goes. On Thursday, coach Steve Prohm and company will attempt to do just that. No. 23 Iowa State (20-10, 12-6 Big 12) will take on Oklahoma State (20-11, 9-9 Big 12) in the quarterfinal round of the Big 12 Championship at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the Sprint Center in an attempt to beat the Cowboys for a third time this season. And while many around the sports world believe in that logic, Prohm isn’t fazed by it. “When you look back, if you beat them two or three times, that’s more just for the ré-
sumé, building for the NCAA. That’s it,” Prohm said. “Were not going to be thinking, ‘Hey, are we going to make this shot based on whether we beat them twice?’ “We’ve got to play well. You don’t play well, you’re not going to win. You play well, you give yourself a chance to win.” Iowa State has been successful against Oklahoma State this season and in recent years. The Cyclones beat the Cowboys by 10 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and snuck out a threepoint win in Ames on senior night. Iowa State has won the last nine matchups between the two teams, too. Yet the series isn’t as lopsided as one might think. The
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Iowa State President Steven Leath announced plans to conduct another campus climate assessment next year in a letter to the Iowa State community Wednesday. The assessment will take place during the 2017-2018 academic year and will look at the university’s current attitudes and behaviors toward issues surrounding diversity, inclusion and safety. According to the letter, the university will contract with Rankin & Associates Consulting in order to “ensure full transparency and to provide a more complete perspective.” The letter also mentioned the development of a climate website that will keep the community updated on the process and results on the project. Iowa State previously worked with Rankin & Associates during Iowa State’s 2004 campus climate survey. In the past 20 years, the company has conducted over 170 campus assessment projects. In the letter, Leath cited the emphasis on “diversity, inclusion, equity and safety” within the university’s latest strategic plan. The plan, which the university launched last fall, moved to full implementation this year. Because of this, Iowa State wishes to “assess the university’s current attitudes and behaviors on these issues,” according to the letter. After the 2004 survey, the university ratified dozens of recommendations, according to the letter. These recommendations include the creation of the Multicultural Student Center, a university-level diversity committee, the Ombuds office, increased training in techniques for improving diversity in the search process for departments and search committees and development of the Principles of Community, according to the letter. Leath said in his letter that the university will share the campus climate website and more information about the study itself as it becomes availble.
Women in art celebrated, discussed during panel By Tristan.Wade @iowastatedaily.com International Women’s Day was Wednesday, and in the spirit of celebrating the success of women across the globe, a panel of six prominent women in the arts at Iowa State gathered to discuss the current climate of women in the arts. The classroom in Morrill Hall was packed full as the panel, hosted by University Museums Director Lynette Pohlman, answered questions from the audience. The panel included Tin-Shi Tam, Jane Cox, Ingrid Lilligren, Letitia Kenemer and Deb Marquart. Each panel member began by discussing their path to Iowa State in the arts and a proud moment in their life. The women each represented different areas in art, ranging from theater, music, writing and visual arts. A student in the audience posed the first question to the group, asking if they believe that President Steven Leath and the university as a whole endorses the arts on campus as much as they could. “I always think there is more opportunity for supporting the arts,” Marquart said. This sentiment was echoed by the entire panel. Lilligren, Pohlman and Kenemer also emphasized the importance of students driving arts endorsement in order for any progress to occur. “I am looking for students in the community to participate with the arts. That has power to bring in resources,” Pohlman said. A focus of the panel was the importance of women’s role in
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Kaleb Vanfosson, junior in political science, voices concerns over the university’s employment of prision labor during the Student Government meeting Wednesday.
StuGov talks prison labor, funds orgs Katlyn Campbell/Iowa State Daily
Debra Marquart, professor of English, introduces herself during the Women in the Arts: A Conversation event on International Women’s Day Wednesday at Morrill Hall.
the arts, and one student asked how women in the arts can better support one another. As it turned out, there was an example of this on the panel. Lilligren has an ongoing art exhibit that uses braille to express various other art and ideas. Marquart shared that a few years ago, Lilligren asked her for some poetry that Marquart had written and displayed select lines in braille for her exhibit. “It’s so insipring to watch how Ingrid pursues her art, and it’s incredible to walk into a museum and see your poem set in braille,” Marquart said. Experiences such as this showed the audience real examples of how women can, and do, help one another in the art world. Cox, who works in theater at Iowa State, shared how whenever a play is written, the team writing it makes sure to give strong roles
to women. “We’ve made a huge effort also to support women students who wants to become directors, a very hard field to get into for women, so we try to give them as much push as we can... We try really hard to find support for women students in our program,” Cox said. Most of the women on the panel has roles as teachers at Iowa State and also engage in their own independent art as well. They were asked how those two roles interact with one another. “Rather than, this is my job and this is what I do outside of my job, it’s all mingled, so I don’t know how to separate the two in the arts,” Kenemer said. Marquart also expressed how the role as a teacher can help her
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By Jake.Dalbey @iowastatedaily.com Student Government and student organization funding was addressed for the 2018 fiscal year during its meeting Wednesday night, along with touching on the topic of Iowa State’s use of prison labor. Kaleb VanFosson, junior in political science, voiced his concern over the university’s employment of prison labor specifically due to moral and ethical concerns. Iowa State often uses prison labor for the building of campus residential equipment. VanFosson said prisoners make “slave labor of $.50 to $.80 on the dollar” when building furniture, and VanFosson sees “a black mark” left on the campus due to their use. VanFossen urged the Senate to recommend ways to outsource labor to other companies instead of using the Iowa prison force. Sen. Eric Schultz, on the issue,
said Iowa State shouldn’t be too lenient toward prisoners due to prison not “being a fun place that should be revisited.” Mihir Sathuvalli, freshman in mechanical engineering, proposed the idea of bringing a petition to the Board of Regents on behalf of Iowa State to stop prisoners from working on campus. “If Student Government could create a petition to be brought to the Board of Regents, then us being one of the largest institutions in Iowa [would] create a domino effect,” Sathuvalli said. “This could influence other universities to act in the same way.” Schultz responded by stating the difference between slave labor and that which is used by the university. “If you do the crime, then you do the time, that’s the difference between a slave and prisoner. It’s called consequences,” Schultz said. ”If prisoners want to get out-
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