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BY ALEX CONNOR @iowastatedaily.com When beginning his search for a university four years ago, Julian Neely knew that he wanted to attend a historically black college. But when it came to financing that education, Neely knew that he needed to go somewhere more affordable.

“I can see Iowa State thriving and being able to serve all different students – no matter their experience, no matter their background or their identity. It’s just we have to continue that progression and not stop.”

- Julian Neely, student government president-elect

Growing up in Des Moines, Iowa State had always been an influence in Neely’s life as the university often visited his school district because of how local it was to Ames.

“I came here and kind of knew the dynamic of it,” Neely said. “I had my visit during a windy, snowy day in February. I was like, this sounds like Iowa and something I’ve experienced my whole life.”

And then he started imagining walking to class in the snowy, Iowa weather. Seeing how large the campus was, Neely began to picture himself attending Iowa State. It began to feel like home.

For Juan Bibiloni, it was a similar experience. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Bibiloni said he had known since the fourth grade that he wanted to be a mechanical engineer.

While he checked out other programs, what really helped solidify his decision to attend Iowa State was a letter from Multicultural Student Affairs informing him that he was selected as a George Washington Carver scholar — a full-tuition scholarship awarded to 100 incoming multicultural first-year students.

“I visited and just loved the campus environment,” Bibiloni said. “I wanted to be somewhere where I feel a sense of connection to where I am.”

But what was different for the newly-elected Student Government duo was that Neely knew from the start he wanted to get involved on campus, specifically through the Black Student alliance.

“Coming into this, my fall semester I got involved with the Black Student Alliance immediately,” he said. “Something that I missed through my K-12 time is that we didn’t have a Black Student Union, Black Student Alliance… we didn’t have anything that was for black students.

“When I heard about BSA I was like, I have to be a part of this. I want to be connected with my black community and just to have that support.”

Bibiloni, on the other hand, wanted to take a step back from organizational involvement and “focus on becoming an engineer.”

He told himself: “I’m going to take it easy and not get involved…

[I’ll] try to lay low.”

Still, Bibiloni immediately applied for a leadership position on his freshman hall council as vice president and later joined Student Government as a senator where he aimed to joined the committee on diversity and inclusion.

That’s where he met Neely, who had been selected to chair that committee.

Just a year later — on a chilly, March day just the Thursday before spring break — the two embrace in a hug in Carver 101 just

moments after it was announced they had won Student Government president and vice president.

And on Thursday, April 12 the two were officially sworn in.

Deciding to run Neely had asked Bibiloni to run as his vice president in early December. After taking a week to decide, Bibiloni formally accepted Neely’s offer during dead week, but the duo didn’t begin to build their campaign until just before the start of spring semester.

Campaigning on “Moving Forward ISU,” Neely and Bibiloni sought to make a difference on campus through change, innovation and empowerment. Main platform points included organizing a walk for diversity, march for education and increased mentorship opportunities.

Additionally, Neely and Bibiloni hope to: •Increase student space on campus for studying, extracurriculars •Improve lighting on central Campus •Implement a “Black Friday” for Cyclone gear through the ISU Bookstore and other affiliated merchandising stores Neely said this process involved a lot of blank whiteboards and blank sheets of paper. But then, there were lots of ideas — perhaps too many.

“The first time you take a whack at it, you want to solve everything — make ISU perfect,” Bibiloni said. “But what can we actually do?

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Fashion Show takes over Stephens Auditorium

BY OLIVIA.HANSON @iowastatedaily.com

MADDIE LEOPARDO/ IOWA STATE DAILY Models wearing Alex Peters’ “Bizarre Future” designs walk down the runway at Stephens Auditorium on April 8, 2017.

Every year, over 100 students come together to make The Fashion Show at Iowa State, one of the largest student-run fashion shows in the United States.

The Fashion Show will present its 36th annual show at 7 p.m. this Saturday, April 14, in Stephens Auditorium.

The event allows around 75 apparel, merchandising and design students the chance to showcase the garments they’ve created, amongst many other learning opportunities.

There will be about 150 garments taking the runway.

Fashion Show members have been working since fall of 2017 — the producers since spring 2017 — to put on this event, which attracts thousands every year. Stephens Auditorium seats 2,500 and every year it’s often a near sell-out.

The Fashion Show has accrued around 650 views so far from their live stream on their website.

The Fashion Show committees that come together to put this on include: photography, Pop-Up Shop, alumni and community relations, art, behind the scenes, tech design, treasurer, gallery and display, public relations and marketing, set design, design, human resources, modeling, Fashion Week and fundraising.

The Fashion Show’s theme this year is “Resilience,” which is “a representation of minimalistic modern concepts and organic greenhouse inspired elements.” The theme was inspired by the guest designer for this year, Patagonia.

During the guest-designer portion of The Fashion Show, Patagonia will show 25 to 35 pieces from their

fall 2018 collection of clothing.

Four of Patagonia’s representatives will be there to speak about about their line and their business and to watch the final show. The representatives who will be at the show are Rebecca Green Shank, Kena Gonzalez Todd, Sarah Darnell and Chris Teig.

Shank does product development for men’s and women’s sportswear and has done research and development at Patagonia for 30 years. Gonzalez Todd is a fit specialist who has been with Patagonia for 22 years. Darnell is a product designer and Teig is the director of art and illustration at the company.

“We are absolutely delighted to be featured in The Fashion Show 2018 and look forward to sharing Patagonia’s values and mission with Iowa State’s students. It has been a pleasure working with [the producers], and we are very excited for the big event.” said Patagonia’s representatives in a statement over email.

This year’s guest DJ for The Fashion Show is Iowa State alumni Nicholas Hadfield. Hadfield has been The Fashion Show’s DJ for two years. Hadfield will compose the music that will play as the models walk down the runway during every portion of the show.

He said his interpretation of ‘Resilience’ came from things related to recent events in the environment.

“This year the designers sent over mood boards depicting deep rooted, resilience and idealized complimentary themes of bravery and battle ready,” Hadfield said. “From these themes, I tried to draw on the emotions and heroic acts surrounding some of the events of the past year in our nation, in particular Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.

“Local to Southern California, we experienced multiple fires and mudslides this past year, and the

images of those events and the heroic people working together will forever be with me. Drawing on these powerful feelings, I wanted to contrast them with emotions drawn by thinking of the extreme ruggedness, beauty and tranquility of Patagonia and of the life that began to grow after the SoCal fires.”

There will be scholarships given out to several different apparel, merchandising and design students.

Last year, there were 18 scholarship categories for designers of The Fashion Show to win.

Each category has an award of $500 for first place, $300 for second place, $200 for third place and best in show wins $1,000. The categories are: street wear, special occasion, wearable art/experimental, fashionable illustration, digital printing, professional day wear, collection, accessories, portfolio, menswear, children’s wear and fiber art.

Another scholarship winner announced during the show will be the Lora and Russ Talbot ISU Fashion Show Merchandising Scholarship worth $1,000.

According to The Fashion Show’s website, “The project is designed by a local or national apparel company with the intent of solving a specific merchandising concern within the firm.”

Tickets for the event can be found on Ticketmaster or at the Iowa State Center Ticket Office and range from $15 to $30.

For those unable to make it to The Fashion Show, there will be a live stream of the event on the AESHM website.

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El Centro, an affinity space for Latinx students, is making a return to campus on April 16.

BY MIKE.BROWN From its beginning as a meeting place within Beard@iowastatedaily.com shear to its conversion to storage space after being moved to Martin Hall in 2004, El Centro will be making its return on April 16 of 2018.

El Centro began under an entirely different name of the Hispanic Resource Center (HARC) in the fall of 1992. The goal of HARC was to assist Latinx students of the time with academics, as well as a place for Latinx students to relax, learn about their resources and options on campus, and hold meetings.

HARC also acted as a place for the Latinx student organizations like Sigma Lambda Beta and Sigma Lambda Gamma to promote themselves and make new Latinx students aware of their presence on campus.

After multiple relocations over the course of the early 2000s HARC came to be called El Centro and was moved from Beardshear to Student Services, from Student Services to Helser, and finally from Helser to Martin Hall.

Eventually the student organizations who utilized El Centro began to outgrow the space, and it was for the most part converted into a storage space for different Latinx organizations.

Samuel Morales-Gonzalez, who is a graduate hall director and graduate student working towards his masters of education and student affairs, is leading the effort of reviving El Centro, and Morales-Gonzalez spoke to the question he asked that led him to the conclusion to bring back El Centro.

“Why not create an affinity space where it’s identity driven, where a lot of these students have similar

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It was important, Neely said, that if elected as Student Government president and vice president that it was based on the philosophy of staying true to oneself.

“We’ve got to look at our morals and our values, [but] also look at the student’s concerns,” he said.

A voice for all students At first, Bibiloni said he was hesitant to run for vice president because he was nervous about whether or not his accent stood as a barrier to how others interpreted his leadership capabilities.

“I’m very self conscious about my accent. It’s something I’ve always given myself a hard time on,” Bibiloni said. “Obviously I come from Puerto Rico, I speak Spanish all the time. I’ve known English all my life, it’s just I’ve never had to use it as my primary language.”

However, Bibiloni realized that other students experience this, too. Part of his decision to be a more active voice in Student Government was due to former senator Maria Archevald — who was also from Puerto Rico — speaking openly to the Iowa State Daily about her accent and the barriers she faced

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El Centro: an affinity space for Latinx students

backgrounds or similar experiences?” Morales-Gonzalez said.

Morales-Gonzalez acknowledged that the Multicultural Center in the Student Services building provides these things to multicultural students, but believes that El Centro will offer specific benefits and advantages for Latinx students at Iowa State to foster relationships and build a community.

“There’s something about owning a space that brings a different feel of community and a sense of belonging at an institution like Iowa State,” Morales-Gonzalez said. “It creates a space that is your’s.”

Morales-Gonzalez explained that while the Multicultural Center (MCC) does “a fantastic job”, El Centro is still an instrumental key in the experience of Latinx students at Iowa State. “[El Centro] is very much different because identity plays such an important role with some of these individuals,” Morales-Gonzalez said “MCC is a start, but El Centro, at least my hope is to, bring something richer than that where you can connect with other individuals that are of the same identity as you at a different level, potentially.”

Morales-Gonzalez says that El Centro will benefit Latinx students at Iowa State that come from a variety of different backgrounds and situations through offering identity based community.

“With an affinity space, with the research that I’ve done, you have that sense of belonging,” said Morales-Gonzalez “that’s very important as you move through college, especially if you’re a first generation student that hasn’t experienced college before, if you’re far away from home and home is not easily accessible, this is where you can create a family, and this is what

as a woman of color.

“When you meet someone for the first time there is always that afterthought where you… are my ideas really being heard in this big room? Or is my voice being considered less than others? Are any assumptions being made about my education, my self, my worth because of my accent?” Bibiloni said.

Bibiloni said that regardless of whether or not he and Neely won the election, it would allow for future individuals who think they “can’t be a leader or they can’t achieve certain things because of where they come from, because of the color of their skin, because of the way their voice sounds” realize that they can serve in roles such as Student Government president, vice president.

“I think that is the importance of representation and it is truly a domino effect,” he said.

And as for Iowa State as a whole, Neely and Bibiloni are optimistic about the path the university is heading in regard to diversity and inclusion.

“The love of Iowa State has grown through my experience and what have you,” Neely said. “And definitely due to the

I envision El Centro being.”

Morales-Gonzalez hopes to bring back El Centro as a meeting space for student organizations as well and hopes that El Centro can be a specialized place for Latinx students that may not currently be involved on campus to learn about the resources and organizations they have available on campus.

“At the end of the day this is for students, and it was by a student for the students,” Morales-Gonzalez said.

Morales-Gonzalez also ensured that all the student organizations who used El Centro as storage have not lost storage space, as he has been in contact with these student organizations, and they have obtained a new space nearby to store everything that was once stored in El Centro.

Morales-Gonzalez also spoke to the importance of diversity for Iowa State’s campus as a whole moving forward.

“I think diversity is such an essential role in a university setting because it not only allows for that exposure to occur for individuals that may not be aware of other identities or other cultures, and the hope is that they strive to learn more about those types of individuals and not just expect those individuals to be the teachers of their own culture,” said Morales-Gonzalez.

Morales-Gonzalez hopes that his El Centro revival efforts will only be the beginning of further support for Latinx students on campus.

“After I graduate in May I want this to continue on. I want this vision and goal that I had coming here, that I envisioned, having an affinity space for students that identify as Latinx, to continue,” Morales-Gonzalez said, “this is just the start, this is truly just the start.”

people I have met has definitely contributed to my growth.”

This, Neely said, is due to a culture of perseverance he sees within the Cyclone community.

“I can see Iowa State thriving and being able to serve all different students — no matter their experience, no matter their background or their identity,” Neely said. “It’s just we have to continue that progression and not stop.”

Ready to serve “Even through our campaign we got a lot of feedback about our platform,” Neely said. “It’s just continuing that. We’ve really honed in on the outreach aspect and we have to continue to do that.”

Standing in front of a crowded room at the President’s Inaugural Dinner on Thursday evening, Neely thanked his family, friends and administrators for all the support — specifically his brother, who Neely said inspires him to continuously improve as a person and the environment he is in.

“He is the prime reason I do the things I do,” Neely said. “It really is sparked by his passion and the love I have for him.”

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Juvenile justice system must be reworked BY sandeep.stanley @iowastatedaily.com The concept of juvenile justice has existed and been debated for centuries.

Columnist Sandeep Stanley argues that America’s juvenile justice system is corrupt.

The idea that a child should be held to a lower standard of responsibility originated in English law, from which the American legal system was derived; the basic idea is that children, who are not fully developed morally and developmentally, should not be held fully accountable for illegal behavior.

While this is an excellent idea in principle, it begs the question that courts have grappled with time and again over the years: how old must an individual be before they can be considered fully grown?

In Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, the comprehensive expression of English common law, children younger than 7 were completely incapable of criminal responsibility and children between 7 and 13 were assumed not responsible unless criminal intent could be proven; at 14, all individuals were fully responsible for any actions they committed.

The state of Illinois was the first to adopt this principle by creating separate juvenile courts in 1899. By 1950, every state had its own juvenile courts.

Judge Julian Mack expressed the guiding principles behind these courts when he explained in 1909 that the purpose of his court was to ask of the delinquent before him “what is he, how has he become what he is and what had best be done in his interest and in the interest of the state to save him from a downward career?”

The issue with juvenile courts began with the broad discretion that they were initially given. Because they were loosely defined as “quasi-civil” courts, many of the constitutional protections guaranteed to criminal defendants did not apply to the delinquents tried in juvenile courts.

Defense attorneys were not present in early juvenile courts,

standard evidentiary procedures were not used and prosecutors were only required to prove guilt with a preponderance of the evidence, rather than beyond a reasonable doubt. This led to a slew of Supreme Court appeals in the 1960s and 1970s that extended those constitutional protections to juvenile courts, most notably In re Gault (1967), which extended Fifth Amendment rights against self incrimination and Sixth Amendment rights to an attorney, notification of charges and confrontation of opposing witnesses to juvenile courts.

Bizarrely enough, the issue with those reforms was that by extending constitutional protections to delinquents, states were emboldened to turn their juvenile courts into mirror images of their criminal counterparts.

Justice Potter Stewart said as much; as the sole dissenter in In re Gault, he stated that the purpose of juvenile court was correction, not punishment, so the constitutional safeguards should not apply.

The main reason that this is an issue is as Stewart says: there is a fundamental difference is the philosophies of juvenile court and criminal court. In a juvenile court, the focus is on rehabilitation, while the focus is retribution and incapacitation in a criminal court.

Further complicating the matter is increased scientific evidence suggesting that 18-year olds ­— the current line in the sand between childhood and adulthood ­— should not be considered fully mature in the eyes of the law.

This is well illustrated by the case of David and Sammy Maldonado, two teenagers sentenced to life in prison without parole for felony murder - David as the perpetrator, Sammy as an accomplice.

Sammy was just over 18 when the incident occurred, and

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David was 15 months younger than him. In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled in Miller v. Alabama that mandatory life sentences for juveniles, such as the ones meted out in the Maldonado case, were unconstitutional and ordered the resentencing of all inmates affected.

Because of this, the curious situation arises where David, the perpetrator, is now free, while Sammy, who was beaten up by the victim, will remain in prison.

Commenting on the case, Laurence Stenberg, a psychology professor at Temple University and an expert on adolescent brain development, said “It’s quite clear that, at least in the United States, we choose our legal boundaries for reasons other than scientific ones…if you’re looking for a boundary that’s an answer to the question, ‘When do people stop maturing?’, 18 is clearly too young.”

And he is absolutely correct.

Of course, in cases involving heinous criminal intent and full understanding of the crime, juveniles must be treated as adults, but the line in the sand must be moved or erased altogether.

Juvenile courts were designed to provide specialized care for young offenders; we can return to those basic principles by looking at young offenders on a case-by-case basis to see whether incomplete development could mitigate their responsibility.

This must beg the question of what classifies a “young” offender; emerging brain science suggests that vital areas of the brain responsible for decision-making do not finish developing until age 25. We can certainly use that as a starting point and refine the system further from there.

Impetuous kids can easily make mistakes, and it is absolutely imperative that our legal system affords them more protection, and for those deserving, a second chance.

EDITORIAL

An open letter to the new StuGov leaders With the new Student Government president and vice president Julian Neely and Juan Bibiloni taking office, the ISD Editorial Board is looking forward to seeing what the new administration will do. Here are some things we want to see from the new administration.

We hope that sexual misconduct training remains at the forefront of the Student Government’s agenda. Through the Green Dot program, which Neely and Bibiloni have supported, the university can continue to educate people about sexual misconduct and make more resources widely available to everyone.

The Editorial Board believes it is just as important to have great resources for survivors as it is to educate people, in a proactive attempt to prevent misconduct.

The Editorial Board hopes that there will be a continued effort to protect

pedestrians across campus. This includes keeping more pedestrians safe across crosswalks and implementing sustainable, campus-wide lighting. We hope they can find a way to improve lighting across campus without breaking the bank in the process.

We are in huge support of Neely and Bibiloni’s ideas to promote diversity and inclusion across campus. They have proposed The Walk for Diversity as “an opportunity for students, faculty and staff, and administrators to come together as one to promote the importance of diversity on our campus.” We hope that they follow through with this walk to show the state and the country that Iowa State stands up for and values diversity.

Similarly, the slate’s plan for the March for Education will raise the profile of issues with lagging state funding to our public universities.

Finally, we hope to see more transpar-

ency from Student Government and a more informed student body. Neely and Bibiloni have spoken about how they want to send out a monthly newsletter to students informing them of what is currently going on in Student Government.

As many students aren’t fully aware of what Student Government does or what they are currently doing, this is a great initiative we hope sees fruition.

We hope that members of all Student Government branches will regularly speak with constituents and advocate for the issues they are most passionate about.

It is the job of these elected officials to represent their constituents to the best of their ability.

The ISD Editorial Board is excited to see all of the changes and improvements that will come in the next year, and we wish everyone in Student Government the best as they continue to improve our university.

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Cyclones put a spring in their step BY jack.shover @iowastatedaily.com

The Iowa State volleyball team will make the 130-mile trip from Ames to Iowa City to face in-state rival, Iowa, on Friday for Iowa State’s fourth game of the spring season.

The game is set to begin at 5:30 p.m.

During the fall season, Iowa State beat the Hawkeyes three sets to one at Hawkeye-Carver Arena.

Three Cyclones still on the Iowa State roster helped lead Iowa State to victory. Hali Hillegas, redshirt junior libero, notched 18 digs. Senior middle blocker Grace Lazard had 11 kills and five blocks. Senior Jess Schaben, an outside hitter, had 17 kills and two blocks.

Iowa State will look to improve their consistency. Last weekend, Iowa State was swept 3-0 against Division II opponent Wayne State.

During that game, Iowa State played from behind during much of the game as the Cyclones had numerous miscues and missed shots that allowed the Wildcats to pace themselves ahead of the Cyclones.

“I think we just kind of were, not [necessarily] taking [Wayne State] lightly, but maybe not respecting them as much as we probably should have,” said Hannah Bailey after Iowa State’s tournament versus Wayne State and Drake.

Bailey is a senior right side hitter for Iowa State.

After that first game, the players said they met together and spoke on how they each could individually raise the energy level of the team.

In contrast, the second game saw the Cyclones sweep Drake with set scores of 25-21, 25-14 and 25-12. Iowa State offense hummed as the hitters and blockers, including Lazard and Schaben, were able to find sharp angles and holes in the defense to pull ahead of Drake.

Coach Christy Johnson-Lynch said she wanted the team to “hit lines” and the team did well in that regard during the second game.

Lazard in particular sent several scorching spikes at the Bulldogs.

Last season, the Hawkeyes finished with a

record of 18-15 and finished in the lower half of the Big 10. The only returning player to earn Big 10 honors for the Hawkeyes is outside hitter Taylor Louis as an honorable mention.

Iowa State returns two Big 12 first team players in Hillegas and Schaben along with All-Freshman middle blocker Avery Rhodes.

Despite facing Iowa, the Cyclone volleyball team’s top priority will be improvement.

“As a coach you want to win [against Iowa], but you’d rather really just get better at some things and really think about performing in the fall,” Johnson-Lynch said.

For Fiona Fonoti, who is the newest assistant coach for Iowa State, this will be her first experience with the Cy-Hawk rivalry.

She said she is excited because she heard stories such as when there was a billboard erected in Iowa City reading “Cyclone State.”

Fonoti joined the Cyclones after being an varsity assistant volleyball coach at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, and was also a

setting coach at Elite Setting Academy there in Hawaii.

In college, Fonoti was a three-time All-American and a Big 12 player of the year at Nebraska and was teammates with Johnson-Lynch.

For junior outside hitter Josie Herbst, her approach to the game against Iowa will not change. “[It’s] just another spring game match, you can’t look at it as anything else,” Herbst said.

Instead, this weekend Iowa State will look to expand the offense and hit more combination plays said Johnson-Lynch.

“We feel like we’ve really established the offense and Piper [Mauck] knows what she’s doing and now we can start to add in some variety,” Johnson Lynch said.

Match Info

Iowa State at Iowa Friday, April 13 | 5:30 P.M. Iowa City, Iowa

LIFESTYLE

Friday, April 13, 2018 Iowa State Daily

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Let’s talk about sex Daily Dates explores topics related to sex such as effective contraception methods, the legalities of sexting and what it’s like to have a child in college.

Effectively being able to talk to your romantic partner about sex related topics, such as contraception method’s used and your sexual history are crucial to having a successful sex life.

Reflections couples Four couples were chosen to come in and talk about some of their most intimate emotions and feelings about their relationships.

Following the conversation, participants were provided a date to go on together.

Emily Marison, straight junior in genetics, and Dustin Hagemann, straight senior in mechanical engineering have been dating for two and a half years.

Marison reflected on her and Hagemann’s date together, as well as their relationship.

I’ve Got a Kid, Here’s Why BY paige.stephenson @iowastatedaily.com I was 15 when I found out I was pregnant and I gave birth when I was 16. I had an immediate gut feeling after the decision I made to keep my baby. It just felt like something was off or wasn’t right.

My immediate reaction was the same one you have just before going down the steepest hill on a roller coaster. I was scared, unable to see past this moment, it was like I didn’t want to be there.

The process of becoming a mother drastically affected relations with friends and family.

Some friends changed, some stayed the same. Now, I have friends who did not enter my life until the younger stages of motherhood. In a sense, I am a superhero in their eyes.

Some of my relationships with family are difficult for a lot of reasons, but one reason is they felt they needed to take control once Beau was a part of me.

I carry a lot of anger toward the people who tried to make decisions for me, but I try and tell myself it was out of love for me and my son.

But often times relationships that have seen ugly, blossom even stronger, some that I’m still working on.

Don’t get me wrong, there are days I have no idea how I’m going to get to the end,

but as cliché as it sounds, those days make me stronger.

Ever since becoming a mother, I’ve become a better version of myself.

Having a child has affected my dating life in the fact that I can’t drop everything I have going on for one person because I have a child who I’m responsible for.

Having a child at a young age has taught me to be careful with who I choose to spend my time with.

Beau, my son, is almost 8 now and has yet to meet someone I’m dating.

I live by faith and am certain that when God has someone that is ready to accept us as a package, we will also be ready to invite someone into our crazy lives.

My advice for people in college with a child is to never ever give up on your own aspirations when you first become a parent.

Be a parent FIRST and wholeheartedly, but find the balance necessary to maintaining sanity.

I can’t explain how many times I’ve wanted to give up. But then, I remember how hard I’ve worked to get to this point.

I plan to graduate with honors and go on to inspire the next person who felt like giving up or were told they could not achieve their dreams.

For our date, we were given two free movie tickets, a gift card to Dairy Queen and a gift card to Papa Johns. Since I am a scary movie buff we went to see “A Quiet Place”.

Dustin usually never asks any questions about prior to the movie because he likes to be surprised. Also, I get to choose whatever movie I want, but I don’t ever take him to cheesy rom coms because I would quickly lose my movie

picking privileges.

Overall the date went how most dates go.

A lot of times on dates we like to put our phones away and just interact with each other.

Although during movies there isn’t a lot of interacting that can be had, we like to sit in the theater after the movie is over and talk about it until the credits are done. That’s always my favorite part.

The worst part about taking Dustin to the movies is that he likes to get revenge on me.

The week after our date he will pretend that we are actually in the film and do everything he can to either scare me or imitate whatever “scary thing” was in the movie. This week he kept shushing me for making too much noise.

All in all movie dates are still one of my favorites.

SINGLES

Eight singles were paired together to talk about some of their most intimate feelings on sex, affection, communication and exclusivity in relationships. Following the conversation, participants were provided a date to go on together.

Zachariah Kaufman, straight senior in kinesiology and health, and Anna Pham, straight sophomore in liberal arts and sciences, reflected on their conversation and their date that followed.

Zachariah Kaufman’s Reflection

Anna and I met at Dairy Queen, had some ice cream and chatted for a while until it was time to head to the movie. We then went to see Ready Player One, neither of us thought the movie was particularly great. After the movie, I invited to my place for a game night.

One thing that went wrong on the date was once I got home my friend reminded me we had an assignment due at midnight. So I introduced Anna to all these new people then ditched her to quickly finish the assignment.

All and all I’d be happy to be friends, but I’m not interested in dating Anna.

Anna Pham’s Reflection

The date started off with us meeting one another at Dairy Queen, and then watched Ready Player One at North Grand Cinema. I would have rather we just talked more because it felt like I was just sitting next to a completely random person.

Once we got to his place he realized he hadn’t finished his homework due at midnight.

So, he ended up leaving me for homework and I was in a room with some strangers.

I learned that I really suck at Catan and that set-up dates can be really interesting and will definitely put you out of your comfort zone.

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