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Monday, April 14, 2014 | Volume 209 | Number 135 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.

UNLV transfer Bryce Dejean-Jones commits to play at Iowa State By Alex.Halsted @iowastatedaily.com It didn’t take Bryce DejeanJones long to decide where he wanted to be. Just two days after arriving in Ames for an official

visit, the transfer from UNLV announced Sunday he has committed to Iowa State. “Had a great weekend in Ames my first time there but won’t be the last,” Dejean-Jones tweeted. “I’ve decided I wanna be

a Cyclone!” Dejean-Jones, a 6-foot-5 guard, is eligible for immediatelyplay for the Cyclones next season as he will graduate from UNLV next month. The senior was suspended for UNLV’s season finale

following a verbal altercation with a teammate and announced in mid-March he would transfer. Last season Dejean-Jones was the Runnin’ Rebels’ leading scorer, averaging 13.6 points per game. Jones was scheduled to vis-

it Arizona State next weekend, but committed to Iowa State after his weekend visit. Dejean-Jones is expected to be a key contributor from the start. The Cyclones now have two remaining open scholarships.

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Students organized a parade to show that they will not let riot events define the student body and university. The parade’s main organizer was Adam Guenther, senior in animal science.

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Students, community fill campus with spirit despite Veishea cancellation By Jaden.Urbi @iowastatedaily.com

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Ames community members and ISU alumnae show their support for the university during the parade and other activities that students organized to show their Cyclone spirit.

Career services assists students in planning for their job futures By Colby.Siebersma @iowastatedaily.com With graduation quickly approaching, seniors search for jobs to start their professional careers. ISU Career Services assists students with this process and strives to achieve maximum placement ratings. Kathryn Wieland, director of Career Services for the College of Business, said they are currently focused on helping students execute a comprehensive job search. “We build a strategy with each student and then help the student with the execution of that process,” Wieland said. “At this point, we are working with job postings, specific companies and contacts.” Wieland said it is es-

pecially important to have this type of strategy right now because it is beneficial to mix your methods and use several different tools. Carefully looking through job postings and seeing what is available is one tool for finding jobs, but this alone is not enough, Wieland said. “The second tool is identifying good companies and organizations who have hired people in your field before,” Wieland said. Wieland said that finding companies with a reputation for making good things happen for recent college graduates could have great outcomes. The third tool is to identify contacts — people in your field of work that

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Contrary to the “USA” and “Veishea” chants heard on Tuesday night, a group of students and community members marched throughout campus Saturday morning cheering “Cyclone pride.” On Saturday, Adam Guenther, senior in animal science and GSB senator, organized the Campus Showcase Parade, an unofficial alternative to the Veishea parade. Around 120 students and community members dressed in cardinal and gold attire and walked the sidewalks of the original parade route, weaving through crowds of supporters. Carolyn Heising, professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, participated in the Campus Showcase Parade. “I feel like the students are doing a great thing by planning these alternative events, it shows that they care,” said

Heising. Heising also attended other unofficial events on Central Campus earlier in the week. “I really think students should regain control of Veishea, I’m a believer of the students doing good things and I feel that Veishea is a tradition [that] should be continued being completely run by students, going back to the basics,” said Heising. Calli Zimmerman, senior in agricultural business, saw the event on Facebook and decided to attend. “My friends and I planned on just watching the parade but we saw people joining in as the parade went by so we joined too,” said Zimmerman. After the Cyclone Showcase Parade, Zimmerman attended another unofficial Veishea event called “4 the Love of ISU.” “I think these events are a good idea as long as everything is positive and

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Leath, students Police departments on riot, wrap become a part reflect busy week of arrests of Cardinal Key By Madisun.VanGundy @iowastatedaily.com Sixty-three students and four faculty and staff members, including President Steven Leath, were inducted into Cardinal Key, Iowa State’s top honor society, on April 13. The induction ceremony was held at the Alumni Center in the Reiman Ballroom from 3:30 to 5 p.m. “It’s a great class. Every single one of them has done something great on campus,” said Ben Jacobson, president of Cardinal Key Honor society. The keynote speaker at the ceremony was President Steven Leath. He was also an inductee. Leath said he was honored and pleased to be inducted because the more time he can spend with the other inductees, the more he can learn from them and the more he can teach them. Cardinal Key was founded in 1926 to recognize outstanding leaders at Iowa State. It recognizes members at Iowa State whose leadership in university activities has been exemplary, whose scholarship is of high standing, whose character is above reproach and whose service to the university community has been outstanding, ac-

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By Makayla.Tendall @iowastatedaily.com

Between Veishea and Tuesday’s riot, the Ames and ISU police departments kept busy this week despite the fact that official Veishea events were canceled. Ames Police arrested 82 people on 115 charges throughout the week and cited 56 people. ISU Police filed 155 criminal charges from Tuesday to Sunday morning. Alcohol-related charges were the most common offenses. Jerry Stewart, director of Iowa State’s department of public safety, said the number of charges was slightly less than the two previous years, while Geoff Huff, investigations commander for Ames Police, said they had a busier week than expected. “It’s hard to say, be-

cause in the past we haven’t done a lot of tracking that early in the week. Usually when we track stats for Veishea, it’s usually Friday and Saturday, but this year it was clearly a different situation,” Huff said. “It was the first nice weekend and Veishea at the same time — the perfect storm.” Both departments must deal with the aftermath of Tuesday’s riot, during which some police officers were hit with beer bottles and cans thrown by the crowd before individuals took down street signs and two light poles on Welch Avenue. “Every single person in that area going along with it was making the situation worse, and if you watch those videos, that’s what it was. Everybody looked like

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