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The ISU track and field team finished the Stanford Invitational on Saturday highlighted by senior Betsy Saina’s record-breaking performance in the 5,000-meter run.

Saina finished second in the race but broke the ISU outdoor record for the 5,000-meter run with a time of 15:12.05. Saina’s time places her fourth all-time by collegiate runners in that event.

“I was really excited heading into outdoors and show what I can do after my disappointing finish indoors and prove that I can put up good times,” Saina said.

Saina’s time is the second fastest time in the world this year, and she’s only behind the winner of the race, Alisha Williams, who ran for BRC/ Adidas.

With her time, Saina made the 2013 World Championships “A” standard of 15:18, which means she can compete in August’s world meet in Moscow if she is selected to run for her native country, Kenya.

“Getting the ‘A’ standard gives

me confidence to do the same in the 10,000 meters,” Saina said in a news release.

Following Saina’s disappointing finish to the indoor season, during which she finished second in the 5k and fourth in the 3k at nationals, Saturday offered a positive start to the outdoor season.

“Betsy bounced back and ran like she was ready to compete,” Ihmels said in a news release. “She ran with confidence, and getting that ‘A’ standard was a major goal for this part of the season.”

Lisa Uhl, a former NCAA champ for Iowa State and current assistant coach under Ihmels, also competed at the Stanford Invitational. Uhl held the previous ISU 5,000-meter run record with a time of 15:17.76.

Running for Nike, Uhl finished fifth with a time of 15:29.84. Senior Meghan Nelson set a new personal best in the same race with a time of 15:51.63, good for 15th place.

In the 10,000-meter run, senior Samantha Bluske finished with a time of 34:16.40, good enough for second place. Junior Katy Moen placed 16th (35:17.00).

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File photo: Jonathan Krueger/Iowa State Daily Redshirt senior Betsy Saina crosses the finish line in her 5,000-meter race during the Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championships on Feb. 23 at Lied Recreation Athletic Center. Saina won her race with a time of 16:07.19. She recently broke the record for the 5,000-meter run with a time of 15:12.05.

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Author, poet Joy Harjo to give lecture Author, poet and musician Joy Harjo will give the 2013 Richard Thompson Memorial Lecture and 2013 English Department Goldtrap Lecture at 8 p.m.

Monday in the Memorial Union.

Harjo, an influential Native American voice, recently published “Crazy Brave,” a memoir on her youth, being a teenage mother and how she became a recognized writer and performer.

Harjo also plays saxophone in her band, Poetic Justice.

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ISU group gains funds for brain research

ISU senior dons crown, parties like a princess

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Magnetic stimulus used to treat ailments

By Charles.OBrien @iowastatedaily.com Brain stimulation research at Iowa State is getting a boost from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust.

The trust has pledged to fund $395,280 during a two-year period to help fund brain stimulation research at Iowa State. Brain stimulation research for the past few years has been an ongoing process, with an established laboratory on the third floor in Durham Hall dedicated to the research.

David Jiles, the Palmer Department Chair in electrical and computer engineering, said the research the group is performing uses a magnetic field to stimulate parts of the brain. A coil is placed on the sub-

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Photo courtesy of Sarah Stroming Meaghan Hetherton, senior in biological/pre-medical illustration, plays Princess Beauty and Princess Snow White at Little Princess Parties.

Hetherton dresses as a princess every weekend and entertains parties.

Among almost 25,600 undergraduate students at Iowa State, Meaghan Hetherton sticks out as a princess, design student and selfproclaimed “girl with a dream and a direction.”

Since December 2009, Hetherton, senior in biological/premedical illustration, has worked for Little Princess Parties, a small business based out of Des Moines.

Hetherton and other employees dress up and act as popular animated princesses, entertaining mainly at birthday parties and some larger events that are open to the public.

“We do everything from games to singing to bubbles to stories, treasure hunts, tea parties and more,” said Sarah Strominger, owner of Little Princess Parties.

Strominger started the business in 2005. Little Princess Parties has eight princesses whom clients can choose from: Princess Snow White, Arabian Princess, Princess Beauty,

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All those accused of violating the law are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

March 26 Officers checked the welfare of an individual who was experiencing emotional difficulties at Wilson Hall (reported at 4:31 p.m.).

Akeyah Moultrie, 18, 3323 Wallace Hall, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia at Wallace Hall. She was subsequently released on citation (reported at 9:39 p.m.).

March 27 An officer initiated a drug-related investigation at the Armory (reported at 12:31 a.m.).

A vehicle that left the scene collided with a parked car at Lot 57 (reported at 3:24 p.m.).

Austin McAlpine, 19, 2316 Wallace Hall, was arrested on a warrant, charging him with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia at Wallace Hall. The charges stem from the execution of a search warrant on March 2 (reported at 8:19 p.m.).

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Hillcrest Ave., Apt. 25, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Hayward Avenue and Lincoln Way (reported at 1:48 a.m.).

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Allison Bluhm, 19, 301 Lynn Ave., was cited for underage possession of alcohol at the 300 block of Lynn Avenue (reported at 10:08 p.m.).

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$395,280

The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust has pledged to fund $395,280 during a two-year period to help fund brain stimulation research on the third floor of Durham Hall at Iowa State. This research uses magnetic fields to stimulate neurons in the brain, which has produced positive results in patients with depression and could be used to treat brain trauma from concussions, strokes and other illnesses.

>>BRAIN.p2 ject’s head, and a strong magnetic field is pulsed to parts of the brain, which then stimulates the neurons.

This technique, called deep brain stimulation, has been used to treat people with depression and has had positive results. It is believed that this technique can be used to treat trauma caused to the brain by concussions, strokes, Parkinson’s disease and posttraumatic stress disorder.

“Deep brain stimulation removes the need for invasive surgery in some cases,” Jiles said. “We can bring patients in and treat them on an outpatient status.”

To test their research, Jiles and his fellow researchers use computer simulations, which take place in Durham Hall, and use mice as test sub-

jects. Jiles has partnered with Anumantha Kanthasamy, the W. E. Lloyd Endowed Chair in Neurotoxicology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, to work on mice to see if they can treat Parkinson’s disease in mice using deep brain stimulation.

So far, it has been discovered that some physical symptoms of Parkinson’s, such as tremors, have been relieved due to their treatment method.

Deep brain stimulation helps accelerate the rate of recovery for damaged parts of the brain.

“We’ve got something special here,” Jiles said. “There is a lot of research to be done on the brain; it could be the last great frontier now.”

Jiles also stated that he and his researchers were approached by the military about their research and whether it could help treat soldiers with

post-traumatic stress disorder.

The group is now partnered with the Walter Reed Hospital National Military Medical Center to see how they can treat the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder.

In the Durham Hall lab where the computer simulation research is performed, they work to figure out how to directly stimulate a certain part of the brain and how to get the magnetic field to penetrate deeper into the brain.

“By changing the design of the coil (what is placed on the subject’s head), we hope to treat different problems and to make a more precise impact,” said Lawrence Crowther, graduate research assistant in electrical and computer engineering.

One problem that Jiles and Crowther noticed while using a magnetic field in their research was the current issue of focality.

Focality is the ability to target certain areas of the brain and being able to stimulate small volumes. This has

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■■ is believed to treat: depression, Parkinson’s disease, strokes, posttraumatic stress disorder and concussions.

■■ uses a strong magnetic field, which is pulsed through the brain to stimulate the neurons in the brain.

been hard for the researchers to achieve due to the use of a magnetic field; this causes other parts of the brain to be unintentionally stimulated along with the selected part.

“We can do deep brain stimulation,” Jiles said. “We can do this better than anyone else in the world, and this gives us a competitive edge in this area.”

Crazy Brave joy harjo Monday, April 1 8 pm • Great Hall Memorial Union Author, poet, and musician Joy Harjo is one of the leading Native American voices of our time. Her new memoir, Crazy Brave, is a tale of a hardscrabble youth, teenage motherhood, and her journey to becoming an internationally recognized writer and performer. Joy Harjo’s body of work features seven books of poetry, including How We Became Human-New and Selected Poems, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, and She Had Some Horses. She has also released four CDs of original music and in 2009 won a Native American Music Award for Best Female Artist of the Year. Her many other awards include the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.

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Legislation

‘Medicaid Madness’ promotes expansion

By Natalie.Williams @iowastatedaily.com The Iowa Senate recently passed a bill that would extend Medicaid and cover 150,000 Iowans. The plan would make health insurance more affordable and free to people living under the federal poverty line.

The bill was not passed without controversy, however. Gov. Terry Branstad publicly opposed the bill and promoted his own plan for universal health care, the Healthy Iowa Plan.

“Under our Healthy Iowa Plan, more Iowans will be served by the private insurance market with access to affordable plans available through health benefits exchanges,” Branstad said in a press release on his website.

Tim Albrecht from the governor’s office said the plan approved by the Senate is not sustainable in the long term. While Branstad’s plan promotes health and wellness, Medicaid is making people less healthy, Albrecht said.

“The governor would encourage wellness by making people pay some of the cost so they have some skin the game,” Albrecht said. “The Medicaid expansion extends the same failed program to more people.”

While the governor opposes the plan, many people support it.

The Healthiest Iowa Initiative, a nonprofit campaign, is raising awareness of Medicaid expansion through a series of press conferences named “Medicaid Madness.”

Medicaid Madness is sponsored by a number of local organizations and groups, including Working Families Win-Iowa, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization.

“It’s a chance for local, elected officials and people involved with the health care system to get their stories out and [tell] why they support

>>PRINCESS.p1 Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Princess Sleeping Beauty, Pixie and Princess Rapunzel.

Hetherton, who confessed a love for Disney princesses, has been involved with acting and public speaking since high school.

“I’ve always been outgoing … wanting a spotlight since I was very young,” Hetherton said.

She said that with her outgoing personality, the job was made for her.

“You put on a wig and put on some bright red lipstick, and you are not yourself anymore,” Hetherton said.

Not only does she enjoy her job, but she feels she is a positive influence for

File photo: Iowa State Daily Gov. Terry Branstad speaks at his inauguration speech Jan. 14, 2011. Branstad opposes the Medicaid expansion plan and is promoting his own plan for health care, the Healthy Iowa Plan. Tim Albrecht from the governor’s office claims Medicaid makes people less healthy.

Medicaid expansion,” said Chris Schwartz from Working Families Win. Schwartz said that he believes Medicaid is “extraordinarily efficient” and that the governor’s plan isn’t specific.

“The governor doesn’t have a plan. [It’s] just a two-page press release,” Schwartz said.

the children she entertains.

“Kids are growing up super fast these days, and if I can bring a little bit of ‘real magic’ to them, then that seems pretty special. Princesses are a lot of little girls’ idols. So, if I can be a kind, gentle, polite influence on them, that is pretty neat, too,” Hetherton said.

Hetherton transforms into one of three princesses on any given weekend: Princess Beauty, Princess Snow White or Princess Rapunzel.

Hetherton’s creativity shows in her schoolwork as well. As a premedical illustration student, she must balance that creativity with the hard facts of science.

“I admittedly enjoy the artistic as-

Schwartz also said that in addition to the Medicaid Madness campaign, a walk to promote the expansion is in the works. “March for Medicaid Expansion” will be April 7 in Waterloo.

A petition has also been started on the Healthiest Iowa Initiative’s website to bring

pect at least a little more than the biology,” Hetherton said.

However, Hetherton said she loves the major because of the different career paths it opens for her. She will be able pursue a career in the medical field, illustrating surgical texts or educating patients.

But Hetherton may also have a more artistic career, such as her goal of illustrating a children’s book.

Nonetheless, Hetherton will attend graduate school in the fall and was recently accepted into the Georgia Regents University Medical Illustration Program.

Her desire to chase her goals in life also affects her job with the Little Princess Parties, showing in the char-

attention to Branstad the support behind Medicaid Expansion.

On its website, it says, “There are no real reasons — only political rhetoric — for failing to support Medicaid expansion in Iowa.”

The bill will now be introduced and voted on by the house.

acters she represents.

“I think Belle is more akin to my personality. ‘Beauty and the Beast’ has been my all-time favorite movie.

So, the fact that I was chosen [by Strominger] to play her was my dream come true,” Hetherton said.

Hetherton said Princess Beauty represents her in the way the character “doesn’t really take crap from anybody.” She also said she feels there are many lessons that the princesses can teach children.

“I think a lot of people get hung up on [princesses] being flighty and superficial, but Belle is one of those characters who looks deeper into situations and sees people for who they are and makes intelligent choices,”

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Hetherton said.

Hetherton said she believes that the experience has shaped her life.

“I think that Little Princess Parties is shaping my life by bringing a little bit of magic to me as well and keeping my inner child alive,” Hetherton said.

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Politicians should think before talking Making mistakes and being less than articulate during a conversation or debate are part of the inescapable human condition, but last week, prominent Iowa politicians drew attention to themselves in an especially unattractive way that fails to uphold the dignity of their office.

A congressman from eastern Iowa, Bruce Braley, made national news when he included the hashtag “TrailOfTears” when he tweeted about Ohio State’s men’s basketball team’s win Thursday. The Trail of Tears, of course, was the route many native Americans took to what is now Oklahoma after the federal government began its policy of Indian removal. Although we think the use of one term in the past should not forever govern its use, especially when all the victims and persecutors associated with an event have been dead for a century, we can see how some people would be offended by Braley’s tweet.

A second event is much closer to home, as it happened down in Des Moines at the Iowa Senate. Sen. Herman Quirmbach, who is an associate professor of economics here at Iowa State, treated a peer very poorly when the peer offered an amendment to an education reform bill. First-term Sen. Amy Sinclair offered an amendment to provide for an assessment to measure “the influence of a school district’s educational program on student academic growth and to guide school district improvement efforts.”

The Des Moines Register reported that Quirmbach “immediately tried to pick Sinclair’s amendment apart and repeatedly suggested she didn’t know what she was talking about.”

Braley has since deleted his tweet, and Quirmbach has since apologized to Sinclair, who says she wants to put the event behind her. Such debacles, however, highlight a huge problem with politics in the United States today.

Left and right, politicians say objectionable remarks and then apologize for them. For those of us who pine for the glory days of intelligent discourse, this is awful. For those of us sensitive to the remarks (think of the comments about “legitimate rape” offered by Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri — although he did not apologize for his statement), they are profoundly disappointing.

A part of public service is selfdenial when it comes to gratifying the public servant’s own wants. During his or her term in office, he or she needs to hold the public good, and his or her public appearance, to a higher standard than ordinary citizens.

Although we have a system where government officers are drawn from among the people, they represent us to the rest of the country and world.

Further, as they are our leaders, it must be asked how well they can lead us when they cannot exercise some selfcontrol and think about the possible ramifications of their actions before they act on their impulses.

The fact that political action ought to be spontaneous and intuitive rather than scripted and stage-managed does not mean that public actors should speak before thinking or leap before they look. People deserve better than schmucks who remove all doubt about how little they actually care to learn something about the “other” and the other’s ideas by thinking that it’s acceptable to shoot (or talk) now and ask questions (or apologize) later.

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Courtesy photo Debris and waste from plastic products, such as the plastic bottles shown here, have been collecting on our planet since plastic production began in the 1950s. Plastic does not decompose quickly, and plastic debris currently poses a threat to environmental health and habitats.

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ebris has been creating a coating of filth on the surface of our planet at an increasing rate in the last few decades, and a large percentage of that is due to the accumulation and fragmentation of plastics.

The oceans have especially been hit hard by the damage, and more and more plastic has been found underwater over time because humans as a whole are dependent on plastic products.

Since the 1950s, when the majority of the production of plastic products began at a large scale, the entire planet has started to become covered by the debris that it created. While statistically only 10 percent of waste comes from plastics, it makes up a significantly larger proportion of the overall debris worldwide.

There are four main categories of debris: micro-debris (less than five millimeters in diameter), meso-debris (five to 20 millimeters), macro-debris (20 to 100 millimeters) and mega-debris (greater than 100 millimeters).

They might seem small, but they can be harmful to many species of organisms in the world.

Plastic does not decompose very quickly and can remain in the environment for hundreds to thousands of years (possibly longer in certain areas, such as in seas or oceans).

Research is still being done on exactly how long it takes, though, since plastics have really only been around for approximately 60 years.

Larger pieces of plastic can degrade into micro-plastics, which can be especially dangerous for marine ecosystems and aquatic creatures since it can deplete oxygen levels in the water.

By Caitlin.Ellingson @iowastatedaily.com It can threaten and endanger wildlife by being a choking and entanglement hazard, cause starvation, distribute non-native organisms to various environments and transport persistent organic pollutants, chemicals and algae.

Because of all the damage that plastics have caused, especially to our oceans, good management today can make a significant difference in the direction this problem is heading. In the past, people have been careless about discarding waste, especially plastic because it is a lightweight material that is often seen as disposable and easy to replace.

Path dependence is essentially the effects of historical legacies (past events that have large effects on subsequent dynamics of socialecological systems) on the future trajectory of a system. One example of this would be how the Great Depression economically affected households several decades later because no one wanted to repeat those events. In this case, the path dependence of plastic production would be how people have witnessed the impacts of plastic debris in the oceans and marine wildlife and how they are now trying to take steps to reduce the amount of future debris and even clean the environment. Humans reached a peak in plastic production in the 1980s and 1990s, but after people started to take notice of the negative environmental impacts it was creating, production decreased quite a bit.

Unfortunately, the damage has been done and even continues to worsen as the number of plastic fragments found in oceans increases every day because of our past actions, and it could take a long time to change for the better.

But a change has to start somewhere.

If people started limiting their demand for plastic and used alternative materials (and also produced less waste in general), we could start a process that over time could decrease the amount of debris in the environment for future generations.

If people simply decreased their demand and dependence on plastic materials, we could some day have a much cleaner environment.

These days, people all over the world are becoming more concerned with the environmental impacts of their decisions and are taking a “go green” initiative towards waste, though it is still not where it needs to be quite yet.

Next time you go shopping, think about the products you buy and the materials they are made of. If the option is available, buy more environmentally friendly products instead. For example, if you have a habit of buy disposable bottles of water, try buying a bottle that you can wash and reuse. Because in the end, what you throw away won’t just disappear after you’re done with them.

Caitlin Ellingson is a senior in journalism

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Letters to the Editor

Focus on rape prevention, Avoid rivals’ colors not on false accusations on Iowa State’s turf In response to Phil Brown’s column regarding avoiding false reports of rape, the Student Health Prevention Services Department would like to share some information to help you better understand rape.

While one in five women will be raped during college, research by David Lisak shows that it’s actually a very small percentage of men doing the raping. Rapists are not misunderstood college men; evidence shows that most men won’t commit sexual assault, and rapes are rarely the result of poor communication. The vast majority of rapes are committed by serial predators who identify victims, groom, isolate, psychologically manipulate and use only as much physical force as needed to complete their assault. Perpetrators prowl for victims where alcohol is being consumed and use it deliberately to facilitate their intention to rape.

We should be focusing our energy

on how we can prevent rape, not on avoiding false reports of it. There are many men and women in the social environment in which rapes happen.

The most effective way to help prevent rape is for them to identify perpetrators and intervene in high-risk situations. This includes not leaving friends alone, getting friends to help interrupt a dangerous situation or calling 911 if you’re afraid for a friend.

A full list of bystander intervention techniques can be found at www. health.iastate.edu/prevention.

We agree with the author that “reporting is essential to reducing the incidence of rape,” and 24-hour assistance is available for survivors of sexual assault through Access at 515-292-5378.

Lauri Dusselier is Prevention Services Manager at Thielen Student Health Center.

Iowans will do almost anything to avoid rattling the corn. Cars stop for pedestrians; people look at each other funnily without breaking into fisticuffs, and everyone is at peace with one another. ISU students made the best decision of their lives by coming to a place that promotes learning, growth and adventure.

Now, I’ve been around the Campanile a few times and am impressed with our practically hallowed halls. Friends I knew back home are missing out, but that’s their fault. Cyclones are the only people who matter, and Iowa State’s the only university that matters.

So, forgive me for rattling the corn, but why are there so many people representing other universities on our campus?

I’m tired of seeing Nebraska,

Texas, and, above all, Iowa represented on our grounds.

Nobody cares if you got a free shirt on your tour of another university before you correctly chose to come to Iowa State.

Nobody cares if that shirt you shouldn’t be wearing is the most comfortable shirt you’ve ever worn. Nobody cares if your entire family went to some lesser university, and you’ve been a fan of theirs ever since you were little.

It’s fine to keep old alliances, but out of love and respect for your chosen institution, stop wearing other universities’ gear on Iowa State’s campus. Iowans are too nice to say anything. So, I am.

Trevor Webb is a junior in electrical engineering.

Brown’s rape column misses point, blames victim In regards to Phil Brown’s recent column about rape, I would like to offer a few pointers.

1. If you are using “legitimate” and “rape” in the same sentence, you do not know what rape means.

Take a lesson from Todd Akin.

2. “Someone accused of rape ... will be forever stigmatized.” Just like in Steubenville, Ohio, right?

This is where CNN

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portrayed convicted criminals as victims, and Twitter exploded in calling the actual victim a “slut,” “whore,” “stupid” and making threats. When those accused of rape start getting treated as badly as those reporting the crimes that were committed against them, then we’ll talk.

3. You speak of regrets and one night stands, implying buyer’s remorse as a common incident.

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False reports of rape occur at approximately the same rate as that of other crimes. However, accusers of crimes such as theft are taken to be truthful. We are not expected to consider if a thief realized he was a criminal before reporting that we were mugged.

4. Women “should avoid bad situations.” You certainly seem to think little of your own sex because you imply that they can not

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help raping. Your driving metaphor doesn’t fit.

Whether or not somebody is driving defensively does not remove the blame from the person who caused the crash and injuries by breaking the law, even if he didn’t realize the speed limit had decreased.

5. “Without pointing any fingers,” you should be more concerned about victims of violence before you start talking about taking

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them “seriously.” Whereas, you repeatedly point out that there are victims of rape and that it is serious; you quickly state caution against reporting crimes.

6. I have to give you credit. A victim-blaming article is easier-swallowed when presented as concern.

Kelly Johnson is a

resident of Waterloo, Iowa.

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The Cyclones came out swinging and did not stop until the final point.

The first point came quickly for Iowa State (7-10, 0-4 Big 12) after it won all three of the doubles matches Friday en route to a 6-1 victory against Northern Iowa. Starting strong and setting the tempo has been a focal point for ISU coach Armando Espinosa.

“We came out, and we took care of business,” Espinosa said. “Just like good teams do.”

The points did not stop with doubles.

Ellie Nixon, Emma Waites, Ana Gasparovic, Ksenia Pronina and Meghan Cassens all won their matches in two sets.

“It helps a lot when the girls are able to look around and see their teammates ahead in their matches,” Espinosa said. “It just helps everyone to relax a little bit.”

After losing the first set and going down 5-2 in the second set of her No. 1 singles match, senior Simona Cacciuttolo battled back and forced the match to a third set before losing the tiebreaker.

“I was down most of the match, and I started to get a little frustrated, but coach [Rodrigo] Puebla and I thought up a new strategy, and I came back in, and it worked,” Cacciuttolo said. “Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the win.”

Despite her singles loss, Cacciuttolo left with a positive outlook on the team’s victory.

“It was a good team win, and it helped us get some of our confidence back,” Cacciuttolo said. “It’s always good when you can come out and beat a team from in-state.”

The victory for the Cyclones against the Panthers came after two road losses against No. 24 Texas and No. 18 Texas Tech. The victory also solidified the third win for the team against an in-state opponent.

Earlier in the season, Iowa State defeated Drake and Grand View.

“It’s always tough to play an in-state rival, but a win is a win,” Espinosa said. “Whenever you can get a 6-1 victory over an opponent, it’s a good day.”

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Track and field:

Okoro leads sprinters at Texas Relays Ese Okoro has come a long way in her four years as a Cyclone.

Now, Okoro is hoping to set a new standard for her senior year, and it started at the Texas Relays Friday and Saturday.

Okoro finished second in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 57.82 seconds. Okoro finished second in the race behind Texas’ Danielle Dowie, who is the reigning outdoor champion in the 400-meter hurdles.

“It was the first chance for most of our team to run outdoors, and they demonstrated that we will be ready to compete as the season progresses,” said ISU coach Corey Ihmels in a news release.

The ISU track and field team was anxious to see some action outdoors after the cold weather and lengthy indoor season, especially after a long week of training during spring break.

“We’ve been here all Spring Break and had a chance to train without worrying about classes, and all the groups got some good work in last week,” Ihmels said.

Okoro, who finished 12th in the nation last year in the 400-meter hurdles and won the 400-meter hurdle at the Arizona State Invite last weekend, is excited to see her senior outdoor season start off with a bang. Adding a Big 12 indoor title in the 600-meter run to her accomplishments, Okoro is vying to become a leader as Iowa State has a stable of young sprinters in its arsenal.

The ISU track and field team completed a successful weekend at the Texas Relays, Stanford Invitational and the San Francisco State Distance Carnival.

Betsy Saina broke a school record in the 5,000-meter run, and Iowa State throwers Hayli Bozarth, Danielle Frere and Laishema Hampton competed at the Stanford Invitational, placing in the shot put and hammer throw events.

— Isaac Copley

Sports Jargon:

Low post SPORT: Basketball DEFINITION: The concise name for the area underneath the basket where players will attempt to box each other out for a rebound.

USE: Anthony Booker served as the Cyclones’ low-post defender in 2012-13 season.

Iowa State vs. in-state opponents File photo: Suhaib Tawil/Iowa State Daily Senior Simona Cacciuttolo prepares to serve the ball at the win against Drake 5-2 on March 8 at Ames Racquet and Fitness. Iowa State beat in-state rival Northern Iowa in a 6-1 victory Friday.

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Iowa: 6-1 loss on Jan. 16 Grand View: 7-0 win on March 9 Drake: 5-2 win on March 8 Northern Iowa: 6-1 win on March 29

Men’s basketball

Remember season’s good, instead of heartbreak

H

ave you ever planned a full day at the beach with all of your best friends? It doesn’t even have to be a beach. It could be any sort of friendly gathering outside.

So many things went into this plan — coordinating who was going to be there, how they would get there, who was bringing what to drink or who was bringing the Frisbee.

All of this planning goes into a jam-packed day of fun, only to have it go to waste because of a rainstorm.

But not just any rainstorm: an unforecasted one where the rain poured as the wind howled, thunder boomed and lightning stabbed the sky.

All of the planning would all go for naught because of this swift, kick-inthe-stomach rainstorm.

That sounds a lot like the ISU men’s basketball season.

Fred Hoiberg had prepared so much, crafting this team together — each person carefully selected to contribute in his own way to make this team as successful as possible.

By Dean.Berhow-Goll @iowastatedaily.com All six of the transfers mixed with a surprise freshman and the junior double-double machine.

When Ohio State’s Aaron Craft swished that game-winning 3-pointer on March 24, he became the rainstorm that ruined ISU’s perfectly planned day at the beach.

Now, more than a week after Iowa State’s NCAA tournament run ended, some may have the image of Craft shooting over an out-stretched Georges Niang etched into their mind as a capsule of this season.

But don’t remember it in that way.

Instead, understand that we were undeniably spoiled to watch this team compete every single game. Spoiled.

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Remember Korie Lucious and Will Clyburn, the newest transfers who became inseparable. Lucious handled the ball like he had Velcro attached to his hands, and Clyburn, who was instrumental in the late-season push, attempted to dunk on the world numerous times.

Don’t forget the sweet stroke of Tyrus McGee, who finished the season ranked as the best 3-point shooter in the country, making 46.4 percent of his treys. Every time he touched the ball, we thought he might try an off-balance shot. Then, eventually, we wanted him to.

Remember Babb’s defense and leadership. Every game he owned up to overshadowing the opposing team’s best scorer with his “eat or get ate” motion after each shot.

Remember that he would’ve done anything to be battling Ohio State after severely spraining his ankle.

Let’s not overlook the roles of Anthony Booker and Austin McBeth.

Booker showed maturity accepting

his role in the latter portion of the season, providing the inside presence as the team’s best low-post defender.

Then McBeth, doing nothing but supporting his teammates every game.

We’ll remember this team endured gut-wrenching losses throughout the season, losing five games where it led or was tied in the waning moments. The last of those losses will be engrained in our minds as Craft holding his follow-through as he dashed Iowa State’s chances of a Sweet Sixteen berth.

But, that shouldn’t be the focal point.

Instead, remember this group of guys, all brought here by Hoiberg.

They stole our hearts on numerous occasions and then broke them. They dazzled us and left us wanting more.

They spoiled us this season, and we should remember it as just that.

Dean Berhow-Goll is a junior in journalism from Ventura, Iowa

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In the 1950s, Harper Lee moved to New York to become an author. Her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won a Pulitzer Prize, but aside from a few nonfiction magazine articles she’s published since, she’s refused to write anything else—including a foreword for her lone novel.

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FASHION

PATTERN CLASHING MASTER CLASS

By Mary Kate Knabel ISD Style Writer

Photo: Jonathan Krueger/ Iowa State Daily Choosing an Aztec tank top and striped shorts, Sarah Van Berkum shows off her style. When describing her personal style, Van Berkum said, “It is comfortable and loose-fitting. It might be a little tomboy. I would say Bohemian with a little bit of edge.”

A fashion barrier. In layman’s terms, this feat of style is what society entitles fashion garments, styles, textures or patterns that shouldn’t be worn together.

Luckily, today’s style elite ignore those boundaries.

Taking the lead from top fashion gurus, the brave warriors of fashion are confidently taking a stand here at Iowa State.

Although the fashions of New York and Paris seem light years away, this campus deserves credit for being a forerunner in creativity and innovation through fashion.

Students from different majors and backgrounds break fashion barriers with style and grace.

Taking inspiration from recent trends and designer collections, students are taking on a huge fashion barrier: the pattern mix.

Sarah Van Berkum, freshman in pre-graphic design, understands the once unbreakable rules.

“Where I come from, if you wear anything out of the norm people look at you weird,” Van Berkum said. “I don’t have a specific person I get fashion inspiration from.”

This combination of individuality and ignorance toward the ground rules of fashion gives Van Berkum the confidence to take on the idea of pattern mixing, Like Van Berkum, Emily Bird, a freshman double majoring in apparel, merchandising and design and marketing, sees the fear of pattern mixing as a thing of the past.

“I really enjoy breaking the rules and just doing it.

With the right patterns, it can be really cool,” Bird said with a smile. Her love of classic style brings a new twist to the edgy pattern mix trend.

With styles unique from each other, Van Berkum and Bird share a similar, intriguing confidence in their personal style. Both of these trendy freshmen show no fear while taking on the pattern mix.

“My advice would be to start off slowly and don’t jump in too quickly. You may think something might not look good together, but try it anyways,” Bird said.

Van Berkum added to the advice, saying, “I like to put on two completely different things and pull them together with my shoes or accessories.”

Pattern mixing is just one barrier, but both feel trying this trend is a great start. Today’s world of fashion praises the breaking of these barriers. With each season, ISU students continue to shine with individuality in fashion, making the campus a safe-net of acceptance, style-wise.

Take a chance and break a fashion barrier; Van Berkum and Bird both assure students that no harm will come from it.

Photo: Jonathan Krueger/ Iowa State Daily With her love for scarves, Emily Bird decided to mix a striped T-shirt with floral and cheetah scarves. “I would say my style is really girly and classic,”Bird said. Bird encourages experimenting with style, including breaking rules about mixing patterns.

COMPETITION

EXPERTS FLY TO AMES TO JUDGE SHOW

By Mariah Wellman ISD Style Writer This past weekend, dozens of students, organizers and four expert judges from throughout the United States flooded the Memorial Union for one of the most anticipated events before the Fashion Show 2013: judging day.

Only 100 garments will be modeled down the runway, a number much lower than previous years. The results were decided on Saturday, March 30, 2013, two weeks ahead of the final runway show, but the winners will remain on a needto-know basis.

The night before judging day, the four judges came to the ISU Alumni Center to speak about their past experiences.

ISU alumna Lea Leapold’s speech was short and to the point, but her beginning line is what stuck with many designers and models in the audience.

“Fashion is not always glamorous,” Leapold said. “I just wanted that to be said.”

Leapold, a graduate from Iowa State in apparel, merchandising, design and production, obtained her degree in 2005. Her career took her as far as New York and San Francisco, and now, Leapold is a buyer at Christopher & Banks

in Minneapolis. Her experience after college, as well as her own memories of the Fashion Show, allow Leapold to have rigorous standards for the designers going into judging day.

“I have pretty high expectations,” Lepold said. “I’ve been in the industry for a couple years now, and I’ve seen very small companies and very large companies. I’m excited to see what the designers can bring to the table.”

Leapold’s experience in design has influenced what she will be looking for as she critiques garments.

“I’m kind of a detail-oriented person. So, I’ll be looking at the construction,” Leapold said. “Small details like are all the threads clipped? Is everything sewn straight? The very finite details that really make a garment nice [matter].”

The judging panel is made up of three ISU alumni: Leapold, Francesca Skwark, creator of FBF by Checka, and Brittany Craiger, technical design manager for Haute Hippie, as well as former model Halynn Cohen.

Cohen, a former model for Italian Vogue, W Magazine, and dozens of advertisements for fashion and beauty companies, is now a mother of two.

Although cryptic, she says she

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signers are going through, and her advice struck a cord with many students. “[The industry] is a lot of rejection, and you have to have a thick skin,” Cohen said. “The sooner you move on from people’s critiques, the sooner you can find success in it.”

Judging overall is a daylong process for the judges as well as the models, who have the task of wearing the garments in front of the panel.

“It’s very intimidating at first because you know [the judges] are all such influential people,” said model Courtney Brockman, freshman is apparel, merchandising and design, “but then you realize how nice they are, and you have fun with the experience.”

Judging Day

Photo courtesy of Kate Bell for The Fashion Show 2013 Models prepare to enter the deliberation room for their garments to be judged. No designers are allowed to attend the event to create as even of a playing field as possible.

knows what she’s looking for.

“I know when things are right, and I know when things are wrong,” Cohen said. “That is just my opinion of it. That’s not to say that the next person

thinks that it’s right or wrong.

I’m looking for what moves me and what doesn’t.”

Cohen was a model for 16 years and said she has gone through exactly what ISU de-

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The day began early, at 7:30 a.m., to begin preparing for the day. The judges were each given a laptop to score and make comments on, focusing on four pieces of criteria including design concept/design aesthetic, construction, appropriate material being used and overall creativity.

An ISU alumna and creator of her own line, Skwark was a judge for this year’s show and was impressed her experience

on judging day.

As the first few garments were being placed in front of them, Skwark was blown away.

“I had high expectations from the beginning because I know how amazing Iowa State’s apparel program is,” Skwark said. “As the day went on, I had to keep level-minded and judge based on criteria to maintain a fair process for the students.”

ISU alumna Craiger also critiqued garments with Skwark. Craiger’s experience as a technical design manager at Haute Hippie influenced the way she looked at the garments being placed in front of her.

“Because of my background in technical design, I definitely look at construction and quality as well as how [the garment] fits the model,” Craiger said. “I’m also very creative. So, I looked for what excited my brain.”

At the end of the day, both Skwark and Craiger left with the same advice for the designers of the Fashion Show 2013.

“Don’t take it to heart if you’re not picked,” Craiger said. “It doesn’t mean that you aren’t great.”

The winning garments will be shown on the runway at 7 p.m. April 13 at Stephens Auditorium.

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