Monday, April 18, 2016 | Volume 211 | Number 138 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
The Daily launches campaign for inclusion By Danielle.Ferguson @iowastatedaily.com Dear Reader, This week, when you walk into Parks Library, Beardshear Hall, the Design Building, Lied Recreation and State Gym, you will see the faces and read the stories of Iowa State. Starting Tuesday, there will be posters across campus of people interviewed by the team of the Iowa State Daily Media Group about their identity and misconceptions about their identity. This project has been in the works since December 2015 after unrest revolving around the state of diversity, equity and inclusion on campus boiled over at a CyHawk tailgate and an open forum where students made known their concerns and demands to the university. This is Voices, a project in which the Iowa State Daily attempts to facilitate conversation and build awareness about diversity and inclusivity on the Iowa State University campus. Our team talked to students, faculty and staff individually to hear their stories and their perspectives on the state of diversity on campus. Their stories, their voices. Diversity and inclusion on college campuses is a national conversation, one from which Iowa State is not exempt. It is part of our job as the only newspaper created to serve the Iowa State community specifically to provide a platform for students and ISU community members to share their experiences of life on campus through their eyes. So we asked students to tell us about their identity, what misconceptions people may have about them because of their identity
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Portraits by Katy Klopfenstein/Iowa State Daily
The Daily’s Voices campaign surrounding diversity and inclusion at Iowa State includes videos, profiles, public displays around campus and celebrations during First Amendment Day on Thursday, April 21.