Monday, April 17, 2017 | Volume 211 | Number 226 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
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Students unite for spring Holi celebration ISU organization hosts color fight By Whitney.Mason @iowastatedaily.com
JAMIE POLLARD
MATT CAMPBELL
Hiring process for Iowa State coaches explained By Rachel.Given @iowastatedaily.com
KEVIN DRESSER
JAMIE TRACHSEL
When fans attend an Iowa State athletic event, there’s no doubt they’ll see a coach’s kid or significant other in the stands cheering on the Cyclones. Whether it is coach Steve Prohm’s son, Cass, on his famous step inside Hilton Coliseum or Bill Fennelly’s son coaching right alongside him, Iowa State athletics is laced with family. That’s what part of being a family at Iowa State University takes, and Jamie Pollard knows it. Pollard has been Iowa State’s athletic director for the past 12 years. Dubbed “the most important part of his job,” Pollard has hired some of the biggest coaches in the past two years. He has brought in new football, men’s basketball, softball and wrestling head coaches. And that’s just in the last two years. Pollard has hired all but four of the current head coaches at Iowa State in his tenure: Women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly, volleyball coach Christy JohnsonLynch, women’s golf coach Christie Martens and women’s swim coach Duane Sorenson. Fennelly, who was hired under Gene Smith, remembered he wasn’t looking for a new job while he was the head women’s basketball coach at Toledo in the early 1990s, but when he received a call from Iowa State, it was an offer he couldn’t refuse. Fennelly and his wife Deb are both Iowa natives. Johnson-Lynch, one of the last hires of then-Iowa State Athletic Director Bruce Van De Velde, remembered she also wasn’t actively looking for a job at the time she received a phone call. Johnson-Lynch was an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin, but the opportunity
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With a bright sky and shining sun, students joined Saturday to celebrate the Hindu spring festival, Holi, in the recreation fields of Frederiksen Court. The event was hosted by Iowa State’s Indian Students’ Association. Holi takes place after the conclusion of winter, according to Hindu calendars. The holiday is celebrated in India and Nepal, but over the years, it has spread to many parts of South Asia, Europe and North America. This year’s Holi festival in India took place on March 13, but cold weather pushed back the Iowa State celebration to April. Mehul Shinde, president of the Indian Students’ Association, said the festival began during ancient times when one of the Hindu goddesses started it to celebrate the defeat of evil and to encourage participants of Holi to do away with all of the bad things that had occurred before the celebration. In modern times, Holi participants get involved in a “color fight” with organic color powder. “It’s pretty cool,” Shinde said. “In India we have big wells and we put coloring in the wells and we throw people into the wells.” Shinde said that the color fights can be intense in India. The Indian Students’ Association has been celebrating Holi every year at Iowa State. Shinde remembered attending Holi last year and helping coordinate the event. “Here we try to keep it as original as possible,” Shinde said. “We have all the colors and all the water we need.” The event has been a popular and successful one for the student organization, with about 150 to 200 attendees each year. As an attempt to have new things every year, the Indian Students’ Association provided free white T-shirts for everyone participating. “I find it another opportunity to embrace the Indian culture,” Zaran Claes, junior in electrical engineering, said.
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Students to clash on capitalism, socialism Debate between organizations aims to spark conversation By Talon.Delaney @iowastatedaily.com
Two reviewers from the BWBR Architecture firm inspect a group’s model during an annual competition.
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Architect students compete BWBR Prize Competition offers internship opportunities By Sheikh.Jallow @iowastatedaily.com The BWBR prize competition challenged junior architects at Iowa State University and offered students the chance at internship opportunities and a cash prize Friday afternoon. The competition is an annual challenge funded by the BWBR
Architects firm that is committed to draw out exceptional junior architecture students from Iowa State University, North Dakota State University and the University of Wisconsin. The group that wins the competition is offered a cash prize of $2,000 and internship opportunities. The competition challenges students to draw out environ-
mental issues in their assigned regions in the United States and create an architectural model that can withstand the harsh surrounding. This year’s competition at Iowa State’s King Pavilion was coordinated by Calvin Lewis, professor of architecture. Out of the 10 groups, five will be
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Polarizing views will clash Tuesday when Iowa State student organizations Turning Point USA (TPUSA) and Young Democratic Socialists (YDS) debate seemingly opposite political-economical philosophies at 6:30 p.m. in Physics Hall. Both groups believe students should become more socially involved in political and economic issues. They hope this debate will serve to educate curious parties and start conversations. Ben Whittington, freshman in political science and debater for TPUSA, believes the debate will “entertain and enlighten” Iowa State students. “This debate is for the people in the middle,” Whittington said. “I think our ideas will get prominence after students are duly informed of our side.” Whittington said TPUSA believes freedom of speech and free market capitalism are intertwined, and government should be greatly limited in its economic power. David Filip, senior in statistics and member of YDS, insists that
students could stand to know more about economic alternatives to capitalism. He and YDS believe socialism has become a dirty word in American pop culture, and they wish to end that. “This failing economic system needs to be changed,” Filip said. “Students need to be exposed to new ideas.” Democratic socialism has gained popularity largely because of the running platform of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Sanders sought “to address the obscene levels of wealth and income inequality,” according to sanders.senate.gov. TPUSA agrees that politics and economics should stop being taboo social subjects, but that’s where their concurrency with YDS begins and ends. Both groups vehemently disagree on policy and the direction America should take moving forward. “Socialism reformation will probably destabilize the whole world,” Ahsas Bermudez, junior in chemical engineering and member of TPUSA, said. Rosie Cook, sophomore in pre-business and YDS debater, hopes the debate will help “destigmatize” inaccurate preconceptions about socialism. “Under capitalism, unemployable people aren’t taken care of … and people are doomed simply by lack of opportunity,” Cook said. “[Socialism] is about
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