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Pride Week to end with Drag Show Pride Week ends with a Drag Show from 8-10 p.m. on Friday in the Great Hall at the Memorial Union.

“For this show, we will be having nine performers, three kings and six queens, performing around 20 songs,” said Melanie Pope, junior in elementary education and LGBTAA officer.

“It’s a great way to bring people together and celebrate with something that’s very fun and out of the ordinary,” Pope said.

The music will range from Lady Gaga to Britney Spears to Justin Timberlake.

The show costs $5 for LGBTAA members and $8 for non-members. The proceeds will be going to Youth and Shelter Services.

“There will be seated space as well as some space by the stage, which we highly encourage people to take advantage of during the show,” Pope said.

The show will be hosted by a drag queen, who goes by the name Phoenix Alina.

“Performers love performing; the audience has a blast, and we raise money for great organizations,” Pope said.

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Sketching in the vacant and well-lit tier seven of Parks Library, while listening to the background music of songs by Florence and the Machine and Mumford & Sons, gave one quirky ISU design student the inspiration to design her senior clothing line.

“I have these headphones that only play the background music to songs,” said Erika Smith, senior in apparel, merchandising and design, “I love that because then I don’t focus on the words, but I still get excited when I know the song that is playing.”

The designer’s line, Botanical, is set to be in The Fashion Show on Saturday and features her designs inspired by botanical drawings from the 1800’s.

“I’ve always loved sketching,” Smith said. “... Just recently, I figured out that I like to study ... what inspires me.”

Smith explained that for her senior line, she pulled inspiration from science and agriculture books and used tracing paper to trace the images she liked; the designer was particularly inspired by illustrations of dissected plants.

“They were all handpainted and just interesting,” Smith said. “It was art, but at the same time, it was science — I love that mixture.”

The design student compiled the images that she had drawn on tracing paper into her sketch book and drew models wearing garments inspired by the botanical drawings. Ironically, one model she drew resembles Erica Riha, senior in interior design.

Photo: Suhaib Tawil/Iowa State Daily Erika Smith adjusts the outline of a design on March 25 at LeBaron Hall. The senior got the inspiration for her quirky fashion line while studying and listening to music in Parks Library.

“It’s so weird that I drew that before I picked my models,” Smith commented on the similarity of her original sketch and Riha, one of Smith’s models for the upcoming Fashion show.

Along with Riha, Mollie Naig, senior in graphic design, and Kelli Houston, sophomore in pre-business, will be modeling Smith’s senior line on Saturday, which consists of two dresses, a

styled tank top and a pair of pants.

“Originally, I picked taller models, and they all were blonde,” Smith said. “Then,

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Agriculture

Club to renovate department Local high school to receive equipment

By Katie.Emerick @iowastatedaily.com This weekend, an ISU club will make over a local high school’s agricultural mechanics department.

On Saturday, the Future Farmers of America and ISU Agricultural Education Club will visit Glidden Ralston school district in Glidden,

Iowa to install new equipment in their agricultural mechanics department. This is the first year that the club is doing the makeover; Ryan Anderson, the club’s advisor, came up with the idea.

“As I was going out and observing a couple of new teachers in high schools throughout the state, I started to recognize that they had inherited an agricultural mechanics laboratory that had either been neglected or abused,” Anderson said.

As an agricultural education

professor at Iowa State, Anderson wanted to use some of his strengths, including industry connections and the ability to get the industry involved with education to help out high school agriculture programs.

“We wanted to increase the amount of learning in high school agricultural classrooms that will help students in their [future] job,” said Becca Johnson, senior in agricultural and life sciences education and presi-

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Safety

Police campaign is in full swing Preparations for Veishea are under way

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PHOTO GALLERY: First Amendment Day High school journalism students participate in the First Amendment Day Freedom March on Thursday in front of Ames City Hall. The march began at City Hall and ended at Beardshear Hall. Other First Amendment day events included a free lunch called Feast on the FIrst, as well as musicians and soap box debates.

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The ISU police’s spring campaign is in full swing with Veishea just around the corner.

The theme for this campaign is “see something, say something,” and Frank the Flamingo, the campaign’s mascot, is making his third appear-

ance since the campaigns started in 2006.

The spring campaign, which is a collaboration between the ISU Police, Ames Police and the City of Ames, is intended to inform students about how to be a better bystander in the event of a situation and how to remain safe during Veishea.

“The campaign was started after the riots in 2004, and the collaboration was formed between us and the city of Ames,”

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Friday Grad Fair 2013 When: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

What: Purchase your cap and gown, even a diploma frame. Stay connected with Iowa State with an Alumni Association membership. Order your announcements or an official ISU ring.

Where: Iowa State University Book Store SCIS Eminent Scholar Series When: 9:30 to 11 a.m.

What: “Successful Demand and Supply Integration,” a lecture by Ted Stank, from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Where: 3164 Gerdin Business Building Veishea Barbecue Button and Merchandise Sales When: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

What: Eat at the campus cookouts during Veishea week for free with a $5 button purchase. You can also get your Veishea T-Shirts, hoodies and more at the button sales.

Where: 1st Floor Booth, Memorial Union Open forum: Residence senior research analyst candidate When: 1 p.m. to 1:50 p.m.

What: Craig Zywicki is a program coordinator in Iowa State’s Academic Success Center.

The Department of Residence will interview four finalists for its senior research analyst position. The university community

is invited to the open forum portions of their interviews.

Where: Room 136, Union Drive Community Center Cyclone Cinema: “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” When: 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.

What: The Student Union Board presents Cyclone Cinema. This week SUB will be showing “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.” Showings are free for all students.

Where: 101 Carver Hall

I looked at my dresses, and I looked at my models, and I was like you know, I want them to stand out; I want them to have a quirky look.”

Smith explained that because her target market isn’t mainstream, she wanted models to represent her unique line.

“I wanted my models to have a personality,” Smith said. “It’s more than just wearing my clothes.”

Smith’s target market, as she described, is an individual who enjoys interesting fabrics, is adventurous and likes art.

“As a design student, I am very impressed by Erika’s inspiration with old botanical prints,” Riha, a fellow art lover, said and admitted that the two have a lot in common. “Oddly enough I have a small collection of textbook botanical prints that I use to decorate with so when she told me her concept, I knew that I would like her designs.”

Smith’s designs feature the botanical prints, organic cotton and brass buttons, which she said she thinks have an antique look, like the original drawings that inspired her.

“I love picking out fabrics, and I like

picking out the closures and stuff, but I love sketching,” Smith stressed. “I just like to imagine a lot. It might not make sense to other people, but it makes sense to me on paper.”

Besides sketching, Smith said she enjoys working in the sewing lab with her classmates.

“I’ve gotten so much better at designing because of my classmates and my teachers,” Smith said. “That’s big. I don’t know if I would still be in this major if I didn’t have the girls giving me feedback.”

Riha said that, as a model, she met with Smith for five 30-minute fittings.

“She would ask if I felt that the dress fit in places rather than just going by what she thought,” Riha described her collaboration with Smith.

Riha said that she is excited to finally get on the runway and show off Smith’s collection.

“During the show, you’ll have to make sure the lining is down,” Smith said as she addressed the last-minute details of the dress Riha was wearing at their last fitting together.

The designer admitted that she is nervous for her designs to be featured in The Fashion Show, but said that she is also ex-

>>CAMPAIGN.p1 Performance with Stars Over Veishea: Fiddler on the Roof When: 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

What: A theatrical performance in production with Veishea and the Department of Music.

Where: Fisher Theater The Fashion Show When: Doors open at 6 p.m., show starts at 7 p.m.

What: The Iowa State Fashion Show offers student designers the chance to show off their skills in fashion design. Student tickets are $16 and adult tickets are $22.

Where: CY Stephens Auditorium Performance: Fiddler on the Roof When: 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

What: A theatrical performance in production with Veishea and the Department of Music.

Where: Fisher Theater

said ISU Police Lieutenant Elliott Florer. “We want to be proactive instead of having to be reactive.”

This year’s campaign purpose is to get people more comfortable intervening in a situation that they see happening or calling the police to intervene.

Officers are encouraging students to program the nonemergency phone numbers for the Ames Police and ISU Police into their phones.

“The non-emergency phone number allows people to have that extra resource to use for something that might not be as urgent,” said ISU Police Officer Anthony Greiter.

“People are more willing to call these numbers instead of 911; they feel more comfortable.”

Frank the Flamingo, who

”See something, say something” Non-emergency police numbers to contact: ISU Police: (515) 294-4428 Ames Police: (515) 239-5133 ■■ Couples with sexual assault awareness month ■■ Started in 2006 after Veishea did not take place in 2005

has made appearances in 2006, 2012 and 2013, has become the face of the campaign and has his own Facebook page. He appears on T-shirts and magnets, which officers hand out.

The ISU Police have al-

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In order to select the school that would receive the makeover, an ISU agricultural education class taught by Anderson reviewed applications that were sent in by various, Iowa high schools.

“Agricultural education teachers and students submitted applications for us to review, and the Ag Ed 488 class reviewed all of the applications,” Anderson said.

“They narrowed the applications down to the top three and then sent them to the collegiate FFA/Agricultural Education Club for them to select the winner.”

Glidden Ralston, the winning school district, will be getting all new welders, saw engines, shop tools, a couple of metal saws and two new tractors.

“The students are really excited about the makeover,” said Gary Clark, an agricultural education teacher at Glidden

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Ralston. “We currently don’t have any agricultural mechanics classes here. We had a couple of welders, but we didn’t have a welding class, and we didn’t have any sort of tractor restoration area. So, they’re really excited about it, and they’ll have [new] opportunities.”

Members of the FFA and Agricultural Education program have shown their excitement for the makeover as well.

“The makeover shows how everybody is excited about helping high school students reach a different level of learning, and it is really cool that all of our club members are more than willing to help,” Johnson said.

When the club reached out to companies in the industry, they were more than happy to donate to the cause.

“The makeover is being funded 100 percent off of donations from industry companies and private donations from individuals,” Anderson said.

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questions like, ‘What can happen if I do this?’ and ‘What can I do to avoid this?’ He also said that students tend to share past stories about their experiences with officers.

Besides promoting safety during Veishea and bystander intervention, the spring campaign couples with sexual assault awareness month.

The ISU Police promote awareness for this by hosting an event where they cover a squad car in magnets and produce magnets with contact information on where to get help.

For students, Greiter offered some advice for them to think about during Veishea.

“Have fun, but do it safely,” Greiter said. “Try to stay in groups and try to have a sober friend with you to monitor the situation and to keep people in check.”

With the large sum of money needed for the project, the club was very grateful for the generous donations they received.

“If you add up everything that is being donated and everything that is included in a typical renovation of a high school agriculture shop, it would be anywhere from a quarter to a half of a million dollars,” Johnson said.

Students at Glidden Ralston will benefit greatly from these donations, Clark said.

“The agricultural mechanics makeover will give my students more ideas of what they can do in the future with careers,” Clark said. “We’re from a pretty rural area of Iowa, and a lot of these kids want to go back to the farm. So, this will help them. It will give them the tools to be prepared to work on the farm. It will open a lot of doors for them.”

Anderson plans to make the makeover an annual project.

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cited to see her classmates’ work come to life.

“It sounds, like, super cliche,” Smith smiled. “But really, it’s going to be magical.”

ready hosted two public events this month to promote the campaign, one at Parks Library and another at the fire station on Welch Avenue. The two events have been very popular, Florer said.

The department ordered 2,500 shirts for the campaign, and only a few remain.

For the week prior to Veishea, ISU officers will be going around to greek houses, residence halls and other student organizations, giving safety presentations and answering any questions.

“We want to impact as many people as possible,” Greiter said. “I have four presentations this week, and I am one of 35 officers.”

Greiter pointed out that during these presentations, officers receive a lot of situational questions from students,

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Culture

Holi Colors Festival celebrates new season Indian student tradition brings spring to campus

Event When: Sunday at 9 a.m.

Where: Central Campus Wear clothing that you don’t mind getting stained with colored paint

By Makayla.Tendall @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State’s Indian Students Association invites students to attend their Holi event Sunday morning to celebrate a traditional Indian holiday.

The event will take place on Central Campus starting at 10 a.m. All students are encouraged to attend free of charge.

Holi is a two-day Indian festival that is based on an old Hindu story symbolizing the death of evil and the coming of the spring season.

On the first day, communities gather and a bonfire is lit during the night.

“That’s how we celebrate the death of evil, the burning of evil,” said Rohit Zambre, junior in electrical engineering and Indian Students Association president.

The next day is the festival of colors; when a new, fertile season is celebrated.

“The next day everyone throws water on each other.

They throw colors, and they drink a special beverage,” said Gauri Ramasubramanian, materials science and engineering graduate student and member of the Indian

File photo: Iowa State Daily Sam Howard, junior in insect science, isn’t afraid to get messy at last year’s Holi celebration on April 15, 2012. Holi is an Indian festival celebrated with water and colors, marking the beginning of spring. This year’s Holi will take place Sunday morning.

Students Association. “It’s that time of the year when everything starts to look beautiful and the colors are basically signifying the abundance that we see.”

The powdered colors are the most well-known aspect of the Holi festival. Zambre

said the Indian Students association will be using organic, biodegradable colors from a special company that colors the powders.

Ramasubramanian said the second day of the festival is the time when all members of traditionally orthodox Indian

communities come together to celebrate.

“It’s like playing ball here,” Ramasubramanian said, using an analogy to show how the throwing of the colors allows people to interact joyfully and playfully with each other.

This sense of commu-

nity is what Holi festival-goer Noelle Brockhoff experienced.

Brockhoff, senior in journalism and former photographer for the Daily, was taking pictures at the Holi festival two years ago when she “had to stop, put [her] camera down, and … play.”

“I spent half the time actually cleaning the powder out of my camera,” Brockhoff said.

Brockhoff said that the light-heartedness of the group led her to celebrate with them.

“I just gave in when they constantly asked me to play. It wasn’t like ‘come participate,’ or ‘come be there.’ It was ‘come play,’” Brockhoff said.

The eager welcome from the Indian Students Association is what Brockhoff believes will attract students and non-members.

“It’s basically so enveloping and welcoming,” Brockhoof said. “It doesn’t matter if you’re Indian or American or Canadian or Mexican.

Everyone just has a great time.”

The Indian Students Association will host the event Sunday hoping students will come appreciate another culture and get to know their traditions.

“It’s basically family time for me; everyone who is there is family,” Ramasubramanian said.

Domestic abuse

Teens unaware of violent relationships, study shows

By Bailey.McGrath @iowastatedaily.com Name-calling, verbally attacking, spitting and manipulation are all aspects of a psychologically abusive relationship.

Individuals experiencing these encounters may not realize they are in a violent relationship, and this occurrs too often, said two ISU researchers.

Brenda Lohman and Tricia Neppl, professors of human development and family studies, are authors of one of the first studies that looks into relationship violence across generations.

Lohman and Neppl used data from the Iowa Youth and Family Project, a study that has gone on for more than 30 years with more than 400 families.

They were able to look at how a person was parented as an adolescent, and their romantic relationships down the road.

A lot of literature talks about being exposed to domestic violence or psychological abuse in the home and then modeling that behavior in future relationships, said Lohman.

“But we did not find that relationship. What we found that was important was psychological abuse to the child from the parent,” Lohman said. “That’s

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a really new finding. It basically means that that parentchild relationship is important not only for the developmental outcomes, but also for their romantic relationships for the future.”

Lohman and Neppl were able to find predictors for psychological violence in future relationships from experiences during adolescence.

“If they were parented in a psychologically violent way, if they were under family stress and if they didn’t do well academically,” Neppl said.

“Those were the three main findings that predicted whether or not the adolescent would be treating their romantic partner in the future in an equally psychologically violent way.”

In part of the research project, low-income youth in high-poverty inner-city neighborhoods were followed. The

results showed that increased numbers of sexual partners, antisocial behaviors and drug and alcohol use increased the likelihood of psychologically violent behaviors as well.

Studies have also found that girls are more likely to be perpetrators of psychological violence, said the researchers.

“Statistics show that one out of four adolescents are in a violent relationship,” Neppl said. “About 30 percent of college students have experienced some kind of aggression in a relationship. The evidence shows it’s absolutely out there.”

Neppl and Lohman said prevention and intervention

Courtesy photo In a study by two Iowa State professors, 98 percent of participants said they did not have violent relationships. Further questions found they were unaware of their dangerous partners.

are a must when it comes to relationship violence.

“One effort from a prevention perspective is teaching acceptable and positive romantic relationship skills at young ages,” Lohman said. “Also hoping to intervene somehow in romantic relationships so the abuse doesn’t go from psychological to physical.”

Education is also very important; kids need to be taught at a young age what is acceptable behavior in any relationship, Neppl and Lohman said.

These could be things like bullying prevention efforts or re-

lationship classes as young as elementary or middle school age.

“In a study we did a few years ago with several hundred couples here at Iowa State we asked one simple question: ‘Are you in a violent relationship or not?’” Lohman said.

“Ninety-eight percent of them said no, and then we gave them questions like: ‘Do you call them names; has your cell phone been damaged?’ And the students would answer yes to some of these questions.”

Many of these students were in violent relationships,

but were oblivious to it.

“This was very eye-opening to me that some individuals did not consider these relationships violent and these were potentially acceptable behaviors to them,” Lohman said. “We need to talk about what is acceptable and not in a healthy relationship.”

If a student feels they are in a psychologically or physically abusive relationship, Iowa State offers counseling services that he or she can seek along with the Assault Care Center Extending Shelter and Support, said Lohman.

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Many wasted resources in budget plan The last time any of us tried to use the tokens we received at arcades as spending money outside those arcades was probably when we were kids.

Now, however, being slightly-lessnaive adults, we wouldn’t try to pass off arcade tokens as quarters or dollar coins.

The thing about tokens is that they can’t be used outside of the establishment in which they were acquired. In the real world, they are useless.

President Barack Obama and a few other top federal officials, including Secretary of Agriculture and former Governor of Iowa Tom Vilsack, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Secretary of State John Kerry and Attorney General Eric Holder, among others, have made a similarly useless effort.

Unfortunately, their gesture to solidarity or comradeship with federal employees and other people affected by the budget sequester, which began to go into effect on March 1, is just an empty, token gesture that has no real meaning for solving the problem.

Indeed, aside from verifying the idea that misery loves company, it does nothing to buffer the impact of the sequester or resolve it or find a way out of the nightmare that is the United States government’s massive spending obligations.

With the national debt mounting (at time of writing, it stood at $16.8 trillion) to increasingly scary heights, it cannot be denied that spending reform is necessary.

Given the various budget proposals floating around, that number seems likely to increase.

The U.S. Senate passed a budget in March that reduces the red ink that washes the federal government’s accounting books by $1.85 trillion — during the next 10 years.

The U.S House of Representatives also passed a budget in March, and it would balance federal spending by eliminating $5 trillion in future spending — during the next 10 years.

The White House also proposed a budget this week, which would cut $1 trillion in spending and increase revenue by $800 billion — during the next 10 years.

Some might say that sharp cuts that would balance the budget in less than a decade (five years, for example, or a much smaller amount of time that would pass when the currently elected Congress is still in office, since it is immoral for them to make law on the presumption that future congresses of the American people will abide by past decisions and not exercise the right to govern themselves) might be irresponsible.

But the fact that the United States’ fiscal problems are now so steep that the only resolution is a decade away, is sad. Not only is it sad, it islamentable and tragic.

The people of the United States need to have an honest, sincere, comprehensive discussion about what their obligations are in the present (as fixed by current law), what they will be in future years if current programs (such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Department of Defense) do not change, and what they should be.

Across the board spending cuts, such as those enacted by the sequester, make no judgments about where, exactly, the government should direct its resources.

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un control is a topic that’s been debated, hashed, and re-hashed since the morning of Dec. 14, 2012. Most liberals are arguing for laws making automatic and semi-automatic weapons illegal across the board — and avid defenders of the Second Amendment are arguing for the opposite: Let’s arm our teachers, they say, and our principals and lunch ladies; according to the NRA, “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun.”

Still more claim that guns should be made pink — a feminine fuchsia, preventing manly men from purchasing weapons out of sheer embarrassment.

But throughout the heated commentary, the tears, and the steady stream of insult-throwing, one question remains unaddressed.

Why do guns mean so much to us? The answer comes down to attitude — and America’s ruthless quest for independence.

One of the main arguments for gun ownership is that weapons protect everyday Americans from the gun-wielding criminals in society. This means that guns are meant to remedy police and government failure, enabling individuals to protect themselves when law enforcement fails — or perhaps their purpose lies in preventing government oppression. This distrust in both authority and the institution of government is characteristically American.

Americans have always harbored serious reservations when it comes to power.

According to Bernard Bailyn’s award winning book “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution,” “as great a blessing as government is...it may become a scourge, a curse, and severe punishment to a people.” This “scourge” would be the result of corruption — the susceptibility of mankind to the promise of increased power.

We are distrustful of those in command, and history shows that, to some extent, we always have been. Gun ownership is clearly linked with a lack of confidence in government, but I would say that this distrust actually makes our country a more dangerous place to live.

The Small Arms Survey, based in Geneva, Switzerland, noted that of the 28 countries it surveyed for a 2011 civilian firearm report, only the United States and Yemen considered gun ownership a basic right, and of all industrialized nations in the survey, the U.S. has the largest rate of firearm-related death: 10.2 deaths for every 100,000 people. The next closest rate is Finland, with 4.7 deaths for every 100,000 people — less than half the rate of the U.S. In America, many take the desire for ‘freedom’ in its most absolute sense: the notion that we can do what we want, when we want.

Regardless of whether you think the Second Amendment gives every American the automatic right to own an assault weapon, the idea that guns make our country safer doesn’t make much sense.

The argument Americans make in advocating for the fulfillment of society’s gun need is that we will all be safer once individual citizens are armed against criminals. The theory is that if your enemy gets a weapon, you do, too.

But if the whole gun-for-gun concept worked, with almost 300 million civilian guns in circulation, wouldn’t America be safer?

Instead, according to the Harvard School of Public Health, the murder rate is nearly 15

Courtesy photo The United States was one of two countries to consider owning a firearm a basic right in one poll. Columnist Elaine Godfrey explains why the “American” view is hurting more than helping.

By Elaine.Godfrey @iowastatedaily.com times higher in the U.S. than that of the U.K., Canada, Australia, and India, just to name a few.

While not daring to compare the impact of a bullet to that of a mushroom cloud of destruction, this idea is similar to a nuclear arms race.

Once one nation develops a nuclear weapon, other countries will fearfully do the same, and instead of creating a safer planet, the threat of annihilation will loom immeasurably larger, escalating into widespread panic and chaos.

Countries with strong faith in the effective-

ness of their governments and judicial systems seem to be far less affected by gun violence.

Take Scandinavians, for example, who, in general, tend to possess a very different, more trust-thy-neighbor attitude. The rate of gun violence in these countries is significantly lower; in fact, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, for every one person killed in Sweden from a gun-related crime, there are 10 deaths in the United States.

Our mistrust in government, and our apparent devotion to some historic obligation to be suspicious of law and regulation seems to actually be making our country a more dangerous place to live.

Elaine Godfrey is a sophomore in

journalism and mass communication and global resource systems from Burlington, Iowa.

Letter to the Editor

Learn Bible before judging religion

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fter reading Connor Clarke’s “Does God hate homosexuals?” I needed to formulate a response.

Immediately. Numerous errors and stereotypes thoroughly riddle his opinion piece, and those errors need illumination.

First, Mr. Clarke fails to specify which omnipotent “god” he intends to speak for. Given his broad opening concerning the “many ISU students” traveling home for Easter, I assume he means “God” in the sense of some form of Protestant Christian god, as opposed to Allah, Adonai, Vishnu, Buddha, etc. Since Christianity claims to be a monotheistic religion, I assume this means that Mr. Clarke speaks for Jesus, too.

So here’s my first challenge to Mr. Clarke and any other reader agreeing with him: Where does Jesus explicitly condemn homosexuality? For those not interested in wasting their time, I’ll give you the answer: Jesus never condemns homosexuality. Not once.

Apparently the earthly manifestation of the Judeo-Christian god felt that homosexuality did not rank up there with sins like avarice, rage, and jealousy. I guess that makes sense when your prophet’s thesis is “love one another.”

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So, Jesus has nothing to say about homosexuality. What does he have to say about judgment?

One comes to mind readily: “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her” (KJV, John 8:7).

Is Mr. Clarke so pure that he feels he may interpret the word of his omnipotent god and cast it at the “sinners” committing acts of homosexuality? If he feels so, let me know; I’ll inform the Pope of the existence of this prophet who understands and speaks for an omnibenevolent being.

My second issue with Mr. Clarke’s interpretation concerns his “close-reading” of Biblical verse.

If we should take Biblical verse as law, these verses should not contradict each other, nor should they ever be violated, right? Maybe Mr. Clarke, as the divine messenger, can explain a few of these.

Mark 7:10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

Ever argue with your parents, Mr. Clarke? Jesus says you need to be executed!

Luke 12:47 And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither

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did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

Those pesky slaves (wholly approved of in the Bible) that do not obey must be beaten. I guess “Spartacus” had it coming, huh?

Deuteronomy 20:13-14 And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.

Rules of engagement are blasphemous! God said our soldiers should rape and enslave the women and children of the cities they capture and plunder.

Deuteronomy 22:21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

If young women have sex before marriage, they are slutshamed and stoned to death. What college student remotely supports this concept?

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Apparently, stoning was the preferred form of execution for touching Mt. Sinai (Exodus 19:13), cursing (Leviticus 24:16), worshiping other gods (Deuteronomy 17:2-5), and for everyone at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Leviticus 20:27) After reading Mr. Clarke’s opinion, I tried to imagine the article as a joke or in a sarcastic tone.

I could not take his words seriously, and neither should any individual that considers themselves educated, intellectual, openminded, accepting, and virtuous by any standard. “Omnibenevolent” does not mean loving all with some exception; it means loving everything at all times and without exception.

If Mr. Clarke feels so thoroughly convinced in his interpretation of the Bible and its criticism of homosexuality, I challenge him to a public debate to take place at the end of the semester. Despite teaching two classes and writing three seminar papers, I’m willing to take the time to do a little extracurricular teaching and put a stop to his bigoted pablum.

Lance Sacknoff is a graduate student in English.

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Thursday.

Scott was arrested and charged after being pulled Scott over for not having his headlights on at 8:38 p.m. on

April 3.

According to the affidavit released to the Daily, the arresting police officer “was able to smell the strong odor of marijuana emanating from the vehicle” as he approached it. When the officer arrived at the window, Scott had a “green leafy substance

located on his lap, consistent with the appearance of marijuana.”

A search of Scott’s vehicle revealed a glass mason jar containing a green leafy substance consistent with that of marijuana in the pocket attached to the rear of the passenger seat.

The suspected marijuana weighed 0.1 grams, according to the affidavit, and Scott tested positive for THC following a field test.

Scott, who started in all 13 games last season for the ISU football team, was placed under arrest for the possession of a controlled substance.

Track and field

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Women’s b’ball:

Iowa State second in attendance nationally Crowds for ISU women’s basketball games at Hilton Coliseum came in nationally recognized numbers once again this season.

Iowa State finished second in the nation in total attendance this season, averaging 9,970 people per game in 2012-13, the school announced Thursday. It was the highest national finish ever for the Cyclones and the fourth-highest average in program history.

Tennessee led the country, averaging 11,390 people per game, followed by Iowa State. Louisville (9,358), Baylor (9,160) and Notre Dame (8,979) were the remaining teams that comprised the top five.

The season-high total of 11,963 fans witnessed a 16-point victory for the Cyclones against Kansas State on Feb. 9. In its 15-homegame schedule, Iowa State drew a total of 149,557 people.

The Cyclones were just one of 12 teams in NCAA Division I to record more than 100,000 totals fans this season.

— Daily staff

Athletics:

Upcoming schedule Friday ■■ M&W Track - Jim Duncan Invitational (in Des Moines) ■■ Softball - at Texas, 7 p.m.

Saturday ■■ M&W Track - Jim Duncan Invitational (in Des Moines) ■■ Men’s Golf - Hawkeye Invitational (in Iowa City, Iowa) ■■ Volleyball - vs. NebraskaOmaha, 10 a.m.

■■ Volleyball - vs. Northern Iowa, 11:15 a.m.

■■ Volleyball - vs. Minnesota, 1:30 p.m.

■■ Softball - at Texas, 5 p.m.

Sunday ■■ Men’s Golf - Hawkeye Invitational (in Iowa City, Iowa) ■■ Tennis - vs. West Virginia, 8:30 a.m.

■■ Softball - at Texas, 1 p.m.

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April 15, 2012 Tennis team’s last Big 12 victory (6-1 against Kansas)

Sports Jargon:

Ace SPORT: Volleyball DEFINITION: A serve that lands directly on the court of the opposing team or lands out of bounds after being touched by the opponent that counts as one point for the serving team.

USE: Kristen Hahn notched an ace to end the match.

File photo: Iowa State Daily Nick Efkamp competed in the men’s final 60-meter hurdles in the ISU Open on Jan. 21, 2012, at Lied Recreation Athletic Center. Efkamp finished in last place with a time of 8.78. The ISU track and field team will compete in Des Moines at Drake Stadium this weekend at the Jim Duncan Invitational.

Cyclones compete at Drake Stadium

By Isaac.Copley @iowastatedaily.com The ISU track and field team is competing in Des Moines this weekend at the Jim Duncan Invitational.

For the first time this outdoor season, the Cyclones will be competing with a full team.

“We’re excited to have everyone with us in Des Moines this weekend.” said coach Corey Ihmels.

At the Jim Duncan Invitational last season, Iowa State sprinter Nick Efkamp led the Cyclones in the 200-meter dash as a freshman.

“Traveling is tough once we move outdoors,” Efkamp said. “It is important to cut down on the credits for the

outdoor season.”

The men’s team recently dropped out of the top-25 rankings after starting the outdoor season ranked No. 25.

The women’s team moved up to No. 15 in the nation after starting unranked.

“It was a positive thing being ranked in the preseason and we have some work to do to be top-25,” Ihmels said in reference to his men’s team. “I thought we had a chance to be ranked indoors but it did not quite work out for us.

“But I think we are just as good outdoors as we were indoors. We have to be healthy and these meets will give us a chance set some marks and be ready to roll once conference comes around.”

Iowa State’s schedule lists it as competing in the Tom Botts Invitational and the JJK/Rafer Johnson Invitational this weekend

Weekend weather conditions in Iowa Des Moines’ weather may play a large part in the competition when Iowa State competes there this weekend.

As opposed to Arizona and California, where Iowa State has been competing the last few weeks, the weather could play a large role this weekend.

April in Iowa is a tricky period during the track season and there is a slight chance of precipitation for the meet on both Friday and Saturday.

“There are a few factors we have to prepare for, like running in adverse conditions,” said women’s long-distance runner Dani Stack. “Indoors is always 75 degrees and sunny, but outdoors we have to deal with the wind, rain and cold.”

Iowa State only has three meets in Iowa during the outdoor season: the Jim Duncan Invitational, the Drake Relays and the Kip Janvrin Open in Indianola.

as well. However, no ISU athletes are competing in those meets.

The Jim Duncan Invitational is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m.

Friday at Drake Stadium. Both high

school and collegiate athletes will be competing at the meet in separate events Friday and Saturday and the collegiate events begin at 9:30 a.m.

Saturday.

Volleyball

Cyclones to play three

By Dan.Cole @iowastatedaily.com The ISU volleyball team returns home to Hilton Coliseum this weekend for its only home matches of the spring season.

The Cyclones (1-1) will be hosting three matches Saturday against Nebraska-Omaha, Northern Iowa and Minnesota as they move on from their 3-0 loss at Nebraska last weekend.

“It will be a lot like the club tournaments that our players played back in high school,” said ISU coach Christy Johnson-Lynch of her team playing three matches so close to one another. “It’s a bit more physical, so I think it’s harder for them to hold up.

“But we do have some depth, so we’ll be able to rotate some people in and out and give them some breaks.”

Some of the players are excited about the fact that the three matches are going to be played in such rapid succession.

ISU redshirt freshman Morgan Kuhrt said the Cyclones have been preparing for the endurance of the April 13 matches all week.

“It can be tiring, but I think our practices get us pretty well prepared for that,” Kuhrt said. “We do drills that are intense and we get tired in practice, so we’re ready for that.”

The Cyclones will begin the day against Nebraska-Omaha, a team that went just 6-22 last season and ended the year on a 12-match losing streak.

The all-time series between the Cyclones and Mavericks is tied 4-4 and the two haven’t met since 1991.

The second match of the day will pit Iowa State against in-state rival Northern Iowa, which placed second in the Missouri Valley Conference last season, going 25-9

Tennis

Seniors seek first season Big 12 win

By Beau.Berkley @iowastatedaily.com

“Three of the four teams were NCAA [tournament] teams last year,” Johnson-Lynch said. “Two of them were Sweet Sixteen teams. It’s

Iowa State will attempt to capture its first Big 12 victory of the season on Sunday, when West Virginia treks to Ames.

West Virginia (4-13 0-6 Big 12) comes into the match after a trio of 7-0 losses to Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas.

This will be the first time the Cyclones (7-12 0-6 Big 12) will play the Mountaineers.

“They are going to be hungry because it could be their first win in the Big 12 since they’ve joined,” said coach Armando Espinosa. “We just need to play within our abilities so we don’t think we have to hit bigger than we do.”

Senior Simona Cacciuttolo said it will be interesting facing a new team and experiencing something different.

“I’m excited because we’re still looking for our first Big 12 win and they are competitive,” Cacciuttolo said. “It’s always exciting to play someone new.”

Iowa State has not won a meet since March 29, when it defeated Northern Iowa 6-1 and have yet to attain a conference victory since April 15, 2012.

“I think we’re going to come out swinging like we usually do against teams we feel we can beat,” said junior Emma Waites. “We all just need to show up, make them play and make

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File photo: Iowa State Daily Morgan Kuhrt, redshirt freshman outside hitter, goes in for the hit during a women’s volleyball scrimmage Aug. 18, 2012 at Hilton Coliseum. The Cyclones will be hosting three matches Saturday at Hilton Coliseum.

overall and 15-3 in the conference.

The Nebraska-Omaha and Northern Iowa matches will be going on simultaneously inside Hilton, which is something Johnson-Lynch said will add intrigue for fans.

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Men’s golf

Cyclones face off against Hawkeyes

By Alex.Gookin @iowastatedaily.com The ISU men’s golf team said it can beat any team in the nation and last week at the ASU Thunderbird Invitational it proved it, finishing clustered with some of the nation’s golf powerhouses.

But there is one team Iowa State has struggled to beat since Andrew Tank and Patrick Datz took over the program in 2010: Iowa.

The in-state rivalry started off well for the new coaches, beating the Hawkeyes in the Big Four Match on Feb. 5, 2011. Since then, the Cyclones have gone 0-4 in the rivalry.

“Last year, we came really close to beating them over at this tournament in Iowa City, came up just a few shots short,” Tank said. “They’ve got a good team and beat us pretty handily at the Big Four Match this year. “[Revenge] is not our primary focus, but it’s certainly kind of a fun element.”

Blake Waller is the only current ISU golfer that was around when the team defeated the Hawkeyes more than two years ago. However, he was just a name on the roster, never playing a single round his freshman year.

This year, the team is looking for a change.

“I think the pressure is really on Iowa,” said assistant coach Patrick Datz. “I think they are the highest-ranked team in the field and it’s their home course. I think if we just come in guns blazing and just expect to do well and take care of business, then we will win.”

There will be no clear favorite team to win the 20th annual Hawkeye-Great River Entertainment Invitational, with five teams ranked between No. 59 to No. 96 in Golfweek. com’s rankings. However, Iowa State has the strongest weapon.

According to the Golfstat Cup Standings, Scott Fernandez is ranked No. 5 nationally. The next-best player in the field in Iowa City, Iowa, will be Iowa’s Steven Ihm at No. 122.

Fernandez is coming off a second-place finish in Arizona against some of the best competition in the nation, beating the nation’s No. 1 player, Michael Kim of California, by nine strokes. Fernandez knows what he is capable of and has no shortage of confidence going into the tournament.

“My expectation is to win every tournament I play,” Fernandez said. “But to be realistic, getting top 5 is really exciting for me.”

But even with Fernandez playing some of the best golf in the nation, Iowa State has struggled to finish at the top of the leaderboards. The team has only finished in the top 3 once this season

Photo: Suhaib Tawil/Iowa State Daily Simona Cacciuttolo focuses in on the ball during Iowa State’s 4-3 loss against Oklahoma on April 5 at the Forker tennis courts. The seniors are preparing for their final match at home.

>>SENIORS.p5

Photo courtesy of ISU athletics The men’s golf team is preparing to face Iowa, who has won the last four games of the in-state rivalry. The Cyclones’ last victory against the Hawkeyes was in 2011, but the team is ready to bring home the win.

and has finished in the bottom half of the field four times in nine tournaments.

The Cyclones are hoping not to get too comfortable, as this is the last regular season tournament before playing in the Big 12 Championships. Tank stressed that as the end of the season nears, focus needs to increase.

“I’d really like to see everybody raise their expectations up and not be comfortable with just finishing seventh,” Tank said of last week’s finish. “We’re going to try to take that mindset to Iowa City this week, that we are over there to play great. I think we have the talent that if we do play great, we do have a chance to win.”

The tournament will start with two rounds Saturday with tee-off starting at 9 a.m. The final round will be played Sunday.

a lot of balls.”

This Sunday will also be senior day for the Cyclones.

Cacciuttolo is one of three seniors, along with Ellie Nixon and Jenna Langhorst, that will be competing for the final time at home.

“Even though it’s not our last meet, it’s our last meet at home and it’s something you remember forever,” Cacciuttolo said. “It’s going to be sad because I don’t want to be done with tennis just yet.”

Espinosa wants the last home meet for the seniors to be a special one and send them out with a win.

“The next matches they play won’t be in front of their

West Virginia (4-13, 0-6 Big 12)

vs.

Iowa State

(7-12, 0-6 Big 12) Where: Forker Tennis Courts in Ames When: 8:30 a.m. Sunday, April 14 Media coverage: iowastatedaily.com Notes: Both Iowa State and West Virginia are looking for their first victory in Big 12 play of the season.

This will be the first time Iowa State and West Virginia will face each other.

families or in front of their fans, so it’s important that we send them out the right way,” Espinosa said. “It’s tough to say it’s senior day when we

>>HOME.p5 going to be pretty good volleyball and you just don’t get an opportunity to see that very often, especially two courts at once. I think it’s going to be pretty special for the fans.”

The Cyclones will cap off the day against Minnesota, another formidable opponent.

The Gophers went 27-8 last season and lead the all-time series against Iowa State 22-9.

have four matches left, but we want to make sure we come out with a lot of energy and get a win to send them out right.”

“Everybody’s pretty pumped, playing against a big team like Minnesota,” said ISU sophomore setter Jenelle Hudson, who had 37 assists at Nebraska on Saturday. “I think we can improve in a lot of places, but we’ve just got to keep our energy solid and momentum going and we should be good.”

The matches are set to begin at 10 a.m.

Saturday against Nebraska-Omaha, 11:15 a.m. against Northern Iowa and 1:30 p.m. against Minnesota.

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