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Mariah Carey to join Simon Cowell’s ‘X Factor’ Motherhood isn’t the only new role that Mariah Carey is gearing up for — the singer is also in talks to be part of Fox’s upcoming talent competition “X Factor” this fall.

“I think Mariah will have a role on the live shows. I met her recently and she was in great form,” producer Simon Cowell said in a recent radio interview, according to The Wrap.

“Her idea was to be the judge of the judges, which of course only Mariah could come up with,” Cowell said. “She’ll be involved in some form. I literally adore her. I love her to bits.”

Both Cowell and music producer Antonio “L.A.” Reid will serve as judges for the singing contest, which originated in the U.K. and airs on ITV, although Cowell has just announced that he’ll no longer be part of the British show.

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Barbecue: Students celebrate heritage

WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Thao Pham, junior in management information systems, takes some food that was served during the Taste of Asia barbecue on Tuesday at Black Cultural Center. Photo: Karuna Ang/Iowa State Daily

Spelling It Out When: 7 p.m.

What: Nathan Sumsion, senior game designer at Avalanche-Disney Interactive Studios presents lecture.

Where: Great Hall, Memorial Union

SUB Live Music: Tyrone Wells When: 8 p.m.

What: Acoustic/Pop/Rock.

Where: Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union

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THURSDAY SUB Film: True Grit When: 7 p.m.

What: A U.S. Marshal helps a stubborn young woman track down her father’s murderer.

Where: South Ballroom, Memorial Union

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

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Cy’s Eyes on the Skies 6:30 p.m.

ISUtv Man v. Food 9 p.m.

Travel The Wonder Years 9 p.m.

HUB Monster Bug Wars!

11 p.m.

Science Family Guy 11:30 p.m.

Cartoon Network

Newswatch 7 p.m.

ISUtv Dirty Laundry 8 p.m.

ISUtv South Park 10 p.m.

Comedy Central 30 Rock 10 p.m.

NBC Archer 10 p.m.

FX

Daisy Kenyon 9 p.m.

TCM NHL Hockey 10 p.m.

Versus Ghost Adventures 11 p.m.

Travel Spider-Man 11 p.m.

TBS Push 11 p.m.

TMC

Police Blotter: Apr. 15

FRIDAY

FRIDAY

Softball When: 2 p.m.

What: Iowa State vs.

Kansas.

Where: Southwest Athletics Complex

Geology Seminar When: 4 to 5:30 p.m.

What: “The future of Earthscience textbooks” by Michael Wysession, Washington University.

Where: 0277 Science I

Michael Nilles, 19, 217 Ash Ave., was arrested and charged with fifth-degree theft. He was subsequently released on citation. (reported at 2:18 a.m.)

Sage Cory, 19, of Ankeny, was arrested and charged with public consumption. (reported at 3:43 a.m.)

A vehicle was towed after it was determined the driver had no proof of insurance. (reported at 3:49 a.m.)

Bryan Ackerman, 25, 2409 Melrose Ave, was arrested and charged with public consumption and interference with official

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All those accused of violating the law are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

acts (simple). (reported at 4 a.m.)

Gordon Johnson, 26, 3819 Tripp St. unit 4, was arrested and charged with assault causing bodily injury. (reported at 1 p.m.)

Nicholas Olson, 19, of Keota, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 6:11 p.m.)

Tyler Peretti, 19, of Auburn, Wash., was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 6:11 p.m.)

Victor Campos, 20, of Sioux City, Neb., was arrested and charged with interference with official acts (simple). (reported at 7:04

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Jonathan Westerman, 20, of Cedar Rapids, was arrested and charged with unlawful use of a license, harassment of a public officer, three counts of possession of alcohol under the legal age and public consumption. (reported at 8:10 p.m.)

Erik Schmidt, 19, 6100 North Highway 69, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 8:38 p.m.)

Jesse Black, 19, of Algona, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 8:48 p.m.)

Taylor Wilkerson, 20, 509 Ash Ave., was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 8:48 p.m.)

Victor Campos, 20, of Sioux City, Neb., was arrested and charged with interference with official acts. (reported at 9:04 p.m.)

Thomas Brady, 20, of Iowa City, was arrested and charged with public intoxication, interference with official acts and providing false information. (reported at 9:16 p.m.)

Marcus Marshall, 20, of Mediapolis, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and underage possession of alcohol. (reported at (9:25 p.m.)

Kyle Golay, 19, of Coon Rapids, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 9:25 p.m.)

Gregory Schneider, 18, 216 Linden Hall, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. (reported at 9:26 p.m.)

Darin Shadle, 31, of Boone, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated. (reported at 9:56 p.m.)

Philip Recker, 19, of Strawberry Point, was cited for underage possession of alcohol (second offense). (reported at 9:59 p.m.)

Andrew Thelen, 20, 137 Campus Ave. unit 4, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 10:11 p.m.)

Cory Milbrandt, 20, of Cedar Falls, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 10:21 p.m.)

Nathan Yoshimura, 19, of Kaneohe, Hawaii, was cited for underage possession of alcohol and harassment of a public official. (reported at 10:25 p.m.)

Dustin Comer, 19, of Grimes, was cited for underage possession of alcohol (second offense). (reported at 10:26 p.m.)

Jonathan Westerman, 20, of Havelock, was arrested and charged with public intoxication, underage possession of alcohol, possession of a controlled substance, harassment of a public official and possession of false identification. (reported at 10:35 p.m.)

Elizabeth Banks to join ‘The Hunger Games’?

“The Hunger Games” is adding a few more players.

Actress Elizabeth Banks (“W,” “30 Rock”) is close to signing a deal to join the big-screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ futuristic trilogy. Banks is being eyed for the role of flaky, pinkhaired executive Effie Trinket, who works on the fight-to-thedeath, gladiator-like games in which heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) participates.

Meanwhile, newcomers Amandla Stenberg and Dayo Okeniyi have both signed on to the film, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Stenberg will play Rue, a 12-year-old who becomes Katniss’ ally, while Okeniyi will portray the physically strong and intimidating Thresh.

The duo join Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth, who have already been cast as Katniss’ fellow competitor/love interest Peeta and childhood friend Gale.

“The Hunger Games” is slated to arrive in theaters March 23, 2012.

Singer Charice excited to return to ‘Glee’ Singer Charice was overjoyed to be asked back for another episode of “Glee,” and even more so once she learned she would be singing “All By Myself”

by Celine Dion.

“When they gave me the song ‘All By Myself,’ I was really happy because I’ve been singing that song forever,” she said during a conference call. “I love Celine Dion.”

Fans will remember that Dion helped to give the petite chanteuse a career boost when she brought her on stage to sing during a Madison Square Garden concert.

On the episode of “Glee,” the young singer will reprise her role of exchange student Sunshine Corazon, who’s on hand to help the members of McKinley High’s show choir put on a benefit.

Charice said she has no idea if her character’s motives are genuine or not.

“I am very excited to see what’s going to happen to my character,” she said. “Is she going to turn into a spy or is she really going to help glee club?”

She said she’s made friends with the “Glee” cast, and was blown away that actress Naya Rivera, who plays Santana on the show, had followed her career. She’s also keeping her fingers crossed that she’ll be invited back, and would love to sing her new song “Before It Explodes,” which was written by Bruno Mars.

‘Hangover Part II’ monkey’s not addicted to cigarettes That little monkey in “The Hangover Part II” isn’t just stirring up trouble on-screen.

Director Todd Phillips has landed in hot water after saying that he got Crystal the capuchin hooked on cigarettes.

“I wanted the monkey to smoke so we had to train her to,” he said to Total Film Magazine, according to Movieline. “Now I have PETA after me because the monkey’s become addicted to cigarettes. She was just shooting Cameron Crowe’s movie ‘We Bought a Zoo.’ And the monkey won’t stop smoking.”

After alarming animal lovers, Phillips made it clear that he was kidding.

“If you read the story, it doesn’t even make sense. ‘On the set of her new film, she won’t stop smoking cigarettes.’ Umm. Really? Maybe just take them away from her,” Phillips said to Movieline. “Or at least take her money away so she can’t buy them any longer.”

Phillips added that he told the story simply to switch things up during the interview.

“Obviously, the monkey in the film bever smoked a single cigarette. There are people on set whose sole job is to protect that monkey,” he said. “Even if I wanted her to smoke it wouldn’t be allowed. By the way, she also appears to do cocaine in the movie, but I guarantee you that she didn’t do that either.”

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Margaret Sloss Women’s Center

Organizations team up to raise awareness Annual Take Back the Night event rallies to end violence

By Hilary.Bassett iowastatedaily.com The Margaret Sloss Women’s Center, along with the Assault Care Center Extending Shelter and Support, or ACCESS, will host the annual Take Back the Night event as a way to raise awareness of violence against both individuals and families. “Take Back the Night actually started in 1976 in Belgium by women who were attending the international tribunal on crimes against women and, since then, it’s kind of spiraled out toward Take Back the Nights occurring worldwide, including universities,� said Ashley Hand, response services coordinator at ACCESS. Iowa State began Take Back the Night soon after and includes a rally, march and an open mic night.

The rally will kick off the event at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the west terrace of the Memorial Union and will feature speakers from the ISU community. “The speakers we have tried to involve in the past years have been a lot of administrators, faculty and staff here at Iowa State that really just show their support,� said Christine Peterson, graduate assistant at the Sloss House and graduate in educational leadership and policy studies.

The march will start after the rally at 6:30 p.m. and will follow a path chosen by ACCESS. Starting at the west terrace, participants will march through Campustown and end at the Union Drive Community Center, where the open mic night will take place.

The open mic night, starting at 7:30 p.m. in room 136 of the UDCC, allows survivors or friends or family of survivors to share their feelings and experiences around the topic of sexual assault. “It’s really just a safe space,� Peterson said. “Sometimes there are some really hard stories to hear, sometimes it gets really low, but at the

Sexual assault panel works to inform, educate students

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A sexual assault kit includes: ƒ Instructions ƒ Bags and sheets for evidence collection ƒ Swabs for collecting uids from the lips, cheeks, thighs, vagina, anus and buttocks ƒ Blood collection devices ƒ Comb used to collect hair and ďŹ ber from the victim’s body ƒ Clear glass slides ƒ Envelopes for preserving the victim’s clothes, head hair, pubic hair and blood samples ƒ Nail pick for scraping debris from beneath the nails ƒ White sheets to catch physical evidence stripped from the body ƒ Documentation forms ƒ Labels

same time, it is very empowering.�

ACCESS will also be available for people who want or need to talk. “Another aspect that we provide as advocates is the opportunity, should anybody want to talk with a conďŹ dential resource, to speak with one of our advocates and we’re there to really provide support for anybody,â€? Hand said.

Take Back the Night is open to everyone, from students to staff to the Ames community. Generally, 50 to 100 people have shown up to the event. “Because this is a crime that often occurs in silence without a lot of impact known, this rally is really a way to unify our community,�

Hand said. “We’re going to continue to hold these events and speak out against sexual violence on a community level and raise awareness about this issue until it stops.�

The Margaret Sloss Women’s Center provided a sexual assault panel to inform students of the variety of help Iowa State offers.

Ashley Hand, response services coordinator at the Assault Care Center Extending Shelter and Support; Carrie Jacobs, ISU Police; and Gina Furr, intern at Student Counseling Services, represented the locations available.

Students who want to talk to someone about an offense but would rather keep it conďŹ dential have that option through ACCESS. ACCESS provides free and conďŹ dential assistance to victims. Any information a victim provides to ACCESS is 100 percent private and can never be released to law enforcement officials or during court.

The program was also put in place as an outlet for students, to provide emotional support after experiencing a violent situation.

Students who want to talk to someone but are thinking about pursuing the offense as an assault should contact ISU Police. “One of the things people kind of get freaked out about is, ‘Well if I talk to a police officer am I automatically making a report?’ or ‘Everything is going to be posted in the newspaper, so everyone is going to know,’�

The sexual assault panel talk about the issues regarding sexist comments to sexual assault Tuesday at Margaret Sloss Women’s Center. Photo: Phuong Thao Nguyen/Iowa State Daily

Jacobs said.

Jacobs said the answer is no. “When we ďŹ rst contact with that individual who has been a victim of assault we let them know you don’t have to tell me anything,â€? Jacobs said.

The law enforcement is there to provide victims with information about options the victim has on the legal side, which is determining if they want to pursue the offense as assault.

But law enforcement will make the individual immediately receive medical services, and a sexual assault kit is usually performed at the hospital.

The Sloss House, ISU Police, Student Counseling Services and ACCESS have been teaming up for the month of April to focus on sexual

By Whitney.Sager iowastatedaily.com A bill that requires Government of the Student Body senators to attend one student organization meeting each month will once again be up for discussion and a possible vote at Wednesday’s GSB meeting.

The purpose of the Connecting with Constituents Bill is to increase interaction and awareness among students about GSB. Senators will sit in on student organization meetings in order to gain an understanding of what the organization does.

When the organizations come to GSB asking for funding, the senators will have a better idea of what the goals of that organization are and can make a better-informed decision about whether to grant them the requested funds. “If passed, students will feel more directly connected to their student government and readily have an open line of communication in which they are able to voice their opinions, concerns, or any other matters that they feel are important,� said Scott Connell, engineering senator and junior in computer engineering.

When the bill was discussed at last week’s GSB meeting, several senators had concerns about the vagueness of

the bill.

Many Senators wondered how the bill would be enforced and if senators would really go to the meetings because they Dobbels wanted to or just to ďŹ ll a requirement. “I don’t know if we can honestly hold ourselves accountable for doing this every single month,â€? said Adam Guenther, Inter-Residence Hall Association senator and sophomore in animal science.

Eric Harms, United Resident of Off Campus senator and senior in materials engineering, said the idea behind the bill is good. But he said it needs some ďŹ ne-tuning before being put into effect. “I think that in the spirit of this bill, it is excellent,â€? Harms said. “I think that the [Public Relations] Committee and Executive Committee should go in and work on something

similar and bring it back to us.�

Another bill that will be discussed at the meeting is the Cinema Project Round Two Bill.

This bill proposes a combination of the Student Union Board and Free Friday Flicks ďŹ lm programs into one.

Nate Dobbels, speaker of the senate and senior in agricultural and life sciences education, said the bill will improve the ďŹ lm program at Iowa State.

It will improve the program by having ďŹ lms shown in a set location and creating a theater-style atmosphere. “Students will beneďŹ t a lot from this proposal,â€? Dobbels said. “It will enhance current programs, offer a set location for movie sessions, create many new publicity options and create a theater style area on campus that is centrally located.â€?

The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. in the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union. It will be the last GSB meeting of the 2010-2011 academic year.

Athletics

Gold Dance Team meets goal, places 3rd in National Dance Alliance After many months of preparation, the Iowa State Gold Dance Team placed third in the National Dance Alliance Nationals in Daytona, Fla. The team’s goal was to place in the top ďŹ ve in their division.

Placing third is the best Iowa State has ever done at the national competition. “I am ecstatic and extremely proud of the girls,� said coach Jill Petersen. “The preliminary routine was the best I had ever seen them dance together as a team.�

Petersen, as well as captains Elise Pederson, senior in marketing, and Christie Cutter, junior in marketing, said their goal for the team was for them to dance with conďŹ dence, as well as placing in the

top ďŹ ve. After the preliminary round Iowa State was in third place going into the ďŹ nals.

Iowa State competed in the Division 1A competition against 16 other universities from around the country. “This year we went to Daytona with a different attitude,â€? Pederson said. “We went into nationals with the idea of being as conďŹ dent as possible, and really owning our routine.â€? “Finals was fun and we all just wanted to enjoy every minute of it,â€? Pedersen said. “It was deďŹ nitely a memorable season, and I cannot wait to see how this program continues to succeed in the future,â€? she said.

Many universities do not see Iowa State as a contender, Petersen said, but now they are. “It was deďŹ nitely a great

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feeling knowing that our hard work was being recognized, and we are ďŹ nally being recognized as a talented team,â€?

Pederson said.

The team’s win comes after many months of practice, intense ďŹ tness workouts and

performances, all starting last July.

Petersen said she believes keeping the team’s conďŹ dence high will help them to continue their success at the state and national level. “The goal for next year

would be to continue on this progression and build up the team’s technique and performance,� Petersen said.

The team is already working toward next year, and will have tryouts for the 2011-2012 season April 30 and May 1.

March and open mic night: 6 p.m. at the west terrace of the Memorial Union

Asian PaciďŹ c American Film Showing: Struggles with Sexual Assault: 4:30 p.m. Thursday at the Sloss House Main Lounge

assault in order to provide students with more information on what to do if they are assaulted, through a series of events scheduled on campus.

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Student projects

Symposium showcases student research

By Michael.Craighton iowastatedaily.com Projects ranging from battery comparisons to graffiti art to a scientiďŹ c look at silver maples and maple syrup were on display Tuesday in the Memorial Union.

Iowa State’s ďŹ fth annual Undergraduate Research Symposium hosted 102 students giving 87 presentations on research projects which they have been working on throughout the year.

The program aims to both bolster and showcase the research being done by undergraduates on the ISU campus. “This is part of the university’s effort to bolster students’ participation in research as undergraduates,� said Dana Schumacher, program coordinator for the University Honors Program. “Presenting research is part of this continuum of doing research — of bringing this in and taking what it is you know, what it is you discovered, and making it public,� she said.

The format of the event was very similar to research conferences, said Samantha Santeiu, senior in meteorology. “There’s multiple things going on at once and you can go and see what talks you’re interested in,� Santeiu said.

The undergraduate researchers presented their projects to an audience consisting of a combination of students, faculty and others. A question and answer session

followed the presentations.

Jordan Barr, sophomore in chemical engineering, was one of the presenters. “The title of my presentation was ‘Predicting the Electrical Arc Effects of Ceramics for Electrical Refrigeration,’� Barr said. “I’m just studying an alternative source of refrigeration methods.�

That simpliďŹ cation of the research for the layman is exactly the point of the symposium. “A part of doing research is being able to talk about what you’ve done to different audiences,â€? Schumacher said. “[I tell students], you go home for Thanksgiving, tell your grandmother what you’re doing in that lab. How do you do that to people within your discipline?

How do you do that to a broader audience? You have to be able to talk about what you did, what you’re looking for, what you found and what difference that makes.�

The symposium was not limited to students in the sciences. Also included were creative writing projects and students from the College of Design working under the FOCUS grant, an effort to fund creative projects in the visual and performing arts by ISU students.

Art Vongphakdy, junior in integrated studio arts, is a graffiti artist. His pieces showcased a progression from, relatively, simple street art designs to a more complex design over

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a series of four pieces. “FOCUS ... it’s a way to create art that’s not involved with school,â€? Vongphakdy said. “You can ďŹ nally do your own thing for once instead of having project guidelines. There’s freedom of expression and they just give you money to create your vision.â€?

Also on display was a triptych, or a single work contained on three separate canvases, painted by Etienne Blanc, senior in integrated studio arts. His pieces represent a social theory describing the

typologies of power as written

by Max Weber, a prominent social theorist.

The event has seen signiďŹ cant growth during its ďŹ ve years. The ďŹ rst year, only 35 students participated. This year the number has grown to 102, ranging in classiďŹ cations from freshmen to graduating seniors. “Last year we had three sessions in ďŹ ve rooms,â€?

Schumacher said. “This year we have four sessions in six rooms. So it grew that much.�

Although the Honors pro-

gram coordinates the event, it’s “not at all limited to honors students,� Schumacher said.

The symposium has been steadily expanding, rapidly gaining students in both the social sciences and creative arts. However, they are still in the minority. “The hard sciences and engineering, because of the nature of those disciplines, will have more participation,�

Schumacher said. “Research is a natural component of those programs.�

The program is all about

getting experience for students. “It’s deďŹ nitely a good experience to have and it presents options to think about your future,â€? Barr said. “Whether you want to go into industry right away or go to grad school.â€? “It’s a wonderful way for students to get experience, and a wonderful opportunity for people to see the things that happen at the university,â€?

Schumacher said.

The FOCUS grant art exhibits will be on display through the month of April.

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Campustown area set to receive cleanup

By McKenzie.Vogt iowastatedaily.com The Campustown area has been getting a lot of buzz lately with LANE4’s ideas for fixing up the area.

“I know there is opposition to LANE4, but there are also benefits to revamping the Campustown area,” said Charlie Nelson, senior in chemical engineering.

Although LANE4 was not in Nelson’s initial thoughts when he came up with the idea to put together the first annual Campustown Cleanup on Friday, he admits that cleaning up the area will give people a certain feeling of what Campustown is really like without all the mud, dirt and trash.

“The idea came to me when I was walking to class one day from Cyclone Plaza and everything was dirty,” Nelson said. “The wind had

accumulated trash in the entryway and by the time I made it to Jeff’s Pizza there were about 300 cigarette buts on the ground.”

Later that day Nelson created a Facebook page. It did not take more than three days for Nelson to hear from people with ideas for a clean-up day and funding options.

Sponsors include the Campustown Action Association, Dogtown University, Pizza Pit, Fighting Burrito, Stomping Grounds and Campustown Property Management. Also, the city of Ames and Chandra Peterson, senior in political science, have assisted in putting everything together.

Nelson said there will be plenty of free food and entertainment, too. Pizza Pit will be donating soda and both Stomping Grounds and Nelson will be supplying food for a grill out.

“There will also be gloves, brooms, trash cans and garbage pokers supplied,” Nelson said. “And

Campustown Property Management will be donating two power washers.

“Basically I don’t want it to just be manual labor, I want it to be more of a chance for you to chill with friends. I want to make it a little more casual, but still have that work element involved.”

Barb Brodie, who works with the city of Ames, set up the Street ‘n Greet Block Party Trailer.

“The Party Trailer is a collection of bags, karaoke and other fun games you need to throw a block party, created by the Strengthening Neighborhood Action Group,” Nelson said.

“Another form of entertainment will be live music performed by the local band, Workshy.”

In the future, Nelson would like to organize a day dedicated to painting trash cans on Welch Avenue and installing ashtrays that are hooked to the outside of the bars.

“It has been a little of a cascading effect working with green initiatives,” Nelson said.

“I think this will raise a little awareness because once kids start picking up trash they will start to realize the exact volume of trash there is.”

“The Campustown Action Association has an entire committee dedicated to the cleanliness issue,” Pederson said.

“We are currently in the process of developing a plan on different efforts that can be done to help keep the area clean, and a future clean-up event.”

There are currently 109 people confirmed on the Facebook page, but it is an open invitation to anyone to show up at the Dogtown University parking lot, right next to the post office on Welch Avenue.

The event will be 4 to 8 p.m. Friday or, depending on rain, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

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Kindergartners injured when gun fires in school

Spy agency reveals invisible ink similar to ‘Harry Potter’

By Laurie Ure CNN Wire Service WASHINGTON D.C. — The pages read like a modernday “Harry Potter” novel.

But the writing does not denote the characters Ron Weasley saying, “There’s nothing written in this diary,” and Hermione Granger responding, “It must be invisible ink!”

These are newly-declassified, nearly century-old CIA documents, typed and handwritten with titles like “Secret Writing” that, among other things, divulge formulas for making and uncovering invisible ink.

The six papers date as far back as 1917, and until their release Tuesday were among the United States’ oldest classified documents.

One of them lists ingredients used in German secret ink.

Whereas the Harry Potter character Hermione can simply command “Aparecium!” to make the words appear on the page, these documents indicate early 20th century spies had to employ much more elaborate methods.

The CIA released the docu-

ments to the public because the information contained in them is no longer considered to be sensitive. They are believed to be the only remaining classified documents from the World War I era, according to the spy agency.

“These documents remained classified for nearly a century until recent advancements in technology made it possible to release them,” CIA Director Leon Panetta said in a statement. “When historical information is no longer sensitive, we take seriously our responsibility to share it with the American people.”

The document listing formulas used to make German secret ink is written in French and dated June 14, 1918.

A related document in English tells spies how to expose the German correspondence, starting with the instruction, “examine through powerful beam of light directed on surface at different angles.”

The instructions continue with spy novel-type techniques, including dusting a little powdered charcoal over the paper’s surface.

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By Phil Gast, CNN Wire Service A loaded handgun fell out of a student’s pocket onto the lunchroom floor and discharged Tuesday, wounding him and two other kindergartners in a Houston elementary school, according to the school district.

None of the injuries were considered life-threatening, Houston Independent School District spokesman Jason Spencer told CNN. The school district and Houston police are investigating how the 6-year-old who brought the gun to school obtained the weapon, Spencer said.

The weapon discharged once, and the children may have been hit by bullet fragments, Spencer said.

Five-year-old Jarneshia Broussard, a student who witnessed the incident, told CNN Houston affiliate KTRK the gun “fell, and then it shot.”

The two boys and one girl, all kindergarten students at Ross Elementary School, were taken to a hospital and their parents were

notified, Spencer said.

The boy who reportedly brought the gun and a girl were wounded in the foot, Spencer said. The third student, a boy, was struck in the leg.

Concerned parents flocked to the school to check on their children, according to CNN Houston affiliate KTRK. “We made a recorded call to every parent,” Spencer told CNN. In 2006-2007, the latest year in which statistics are available, nearly 2,700 students nationwide were expelled or disciplined for bringing a gun to school, said William Modzeleski, associate assistant deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools.

About 15 percent of them were elementary school students, Modzeleski told CNN. Those numbers track the previous year’s numbers, he said.

Houston Police will lead the investigation into Tuesday’s incident.

Justices debate lawsuit over global warming issue

By Bill Mears CNN Wire Service WASHINGTON D.C. — The Supreme Court appeared reluctant Tuesday to allow a massive lawsuit by several states to proceed against private power companies whose greenhousegas emissions are accused of presenting a “public nuisance.”

The environmental policy issue could have enormous implications on competing government efforts to control what many have claimed is major factor in global warming.

At issue is whether the federal courts can intervene and unilaterally establish targeted pollution emission levels, or whether federal government regulators should have the final say. Several justices worried that the scope of the problem and possible solutions might be too much for courts to tackle.

“The whole problem of dealing with global warming is that there are costs and benefits on both sides,” said Chief Justice John Roberts. “And you have to determine how much you want to readjust the world economy to address global warming, and I think that’s a pretty big burden to impose on a district court judge.”

“Do you think that you have a federal common law cause of action against anybody in the world?” asked Justice Elena Kagan of the states’ attorney. “Is there something that you think limits it to large emissions producers?” The energy companies, backed by the Obama administration, say federal judges should not be setting environmental policy, especially on such a complex issue as clean air standards. The Environmental Protection Agency claims it has been actively working to beef up rules to control carbon dioxide emissions that cross over state lines from individual power plants.

But several states, backed by land trusts and environmental groups, have sued five private utilities and the federal Tennessee Valley Authority, saying U.S. authorities have not been aggressive enough in curbing emissions, which they say has led to increased smog, soaring temperatures and loss of forests and cropland.

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According to the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 16.7 million Americans age 12 or older used marijuana, more than any other drug.

The average potency of marijuana - the level of THC - has more than doubled since 1998, according to the National Center for Natural Products Research.

There are currently eight bills in the Iowa House relating to marijuana: controlling it, penalties for using and/or growing it and the value of its medicinal purposes.

First offense serious misdemeanor up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000, minimum fine of $315 Second offense serious misdemeanor up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $1,850, minimum fine of $315 Third offense aggravated misdemeanor up to two years in prison and a fine of up to $6,250, minimum fine of $625

Iowa drug laws: Nathan Sumsion is a senior game designer at Avalanche-Disney Interactive Studios. Most recently, he was senior designer on Toy Story 3 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii, released in summer 2010, and on Meet the Robinsons for PlayStation 2, GameCube, Wii and Xbox 360, released in spring 2007. He also taught Game Design Process and Visual Interface Design in the game design program at ITT Tech in Salt Lake City. Sumsion will be the primary judge for the ISU Game Development Competition, funded by a Motorola Foundation grant. The teams will display their work in the Great Hall throughout the day, with the awards announced following Sumsion’s lecture.

Possession of drug paraphernalia simple misdemeanor up to 30 days in jail and a fine of up to $625, minimum fine of $65

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Benefits of vegan beauty products

BY CICELY GORDON ISD STYLE WRITER

Everywhere If only people understood that too tight of clothing only makes them look bigger Outside Carver Man in a bathrobe??? Are you lost?

Because I’m pretty sure the showers are inside...

Not only do vegans have to monitor the food they eat and the clothes they wear, but also the health and beauty products they use. Choosing vegan beauty products is not only good for your general health and beauty, but it as also a way to support a cruelty-free cause.

Library Shorts and flip flops in 40 degree weather... maybe you should check the forecast before you leave.

being more expensive; however there are alternative ways to save cash while going green.

“You can buy scrubs that aren’t vegan and cost $20 or you can make one at home with things you already have around your house,” Clevenstine said.

EVENTS Funky 420 When: Doors open at 8 p.m., show starts at 9 p.m. Wednesday Where: Peoples Court Admission: $10, must be 21 or older seven bands on two stages Take Back the Night When: 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday Where: West Terrace, Memorial Union & 136 UDCC SUB Film: True Grit When: 7 p.m. Thursday Where: South Ballroom, Memorial Union Earth Day Tree Planting When: 10 to 10:30 a.m. Friday Where: Reiman Gardens Cost is free for students and member, $4 to $8 for others.

Help Celebrate the 41st anniversary of Earth Day. Keep Iowa State Beautiful When: 4 to 6 p.m. Friday Where: Anderson Sculpture Garden, South side of Morrill Hall Help celebrate Earth Day by picking up litter around the exterior of campus sculptures.

Earth Day Film Festival When: Friday and Saturday Where: Science Center Back to back films of science documentary films about the environment

Kaitlyn Clevenstine, junior in apparel merchandising design and production, slowly eased into her vegan lifestyle.

“Skin is the body’s biggest organ so it’s important to take care of it,” Clevenstine said.

“I can’t just go out and buy any beauty product now, I do a lot of research,” Clevenstine said. “Comparing performance I have to say, personally, that vegan products are better. They tend to have less ingredients and the ingredients they do have are proven good for your beauty, health and the earth.”

Origins is an example of one cosmetic

company who keeps their environmental responsibility as a top priority. All of the products are made of 100 percent naturally organic ingredients and the packaging is made of recycled materials.

The company has also partnered with Community Energy Inc. to purchase wind-generated power in order to offset energy used in its North American standalone retail stores. By doing this, they have achieved a CO2 reduction equivalent to planting 788,589 trees.

There is an Origins counter located in Younkers Valley West and their prices range from $9.50 to $66.00.

Being a vegan is sometimes perceived as

Big Hair Ball When: 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday Where: Des Moines Art Center $50, $60 at door Networking Event: Ignite Ames When: 7 to 11 p.m. Monday Where: Howe Hall Atrium Gather to connect with others and create new job opportunities.

The event is free but you must register whether you are attending or presenting.

She uses many homemade hair and beauty products, but her favorite recipe to use is for body scrub. Clevenstine mixes extra virgin olive oil, sea salt, and her favorite scented essential oil to create the scrub.

“I highly recommend homemade hair products as well, there are tons of websites that offer recipes and tips to get started,” she said.

Greenwala.com and veganbeautyreview. com are two blogs that provide helpful tips, recipes, and reviews for anyone interested in being a vegan.

“It might sound like a lot of work if you’re used to buying your beauty products from Walmart but you can see and feel the difference with vegan products and you’re doing something good for the earth as well,” said Clevenstine.

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Levi Strauss & Co. takes sustainability efforts to new levels

BY AINSLEY CHAPMAN ISD STYLE WRITER by combining multiple wet cycle processes into a single wet process, incorporate ozone processing into the garment washing and removing the water from the stone wash cycle.

CHECK IT OUT Brunch at Barney’s is a sassy website sure to give you a good laugh and some great fashion advice.

The web page dishes on celebrities and the latest fashion trends. The authors’ witty approach to blogging gives readers something upbeat and interesting to read each time they log on. www.brunchatbarneys.blogspot. com

“Using our Water<Less finishing techniques, the Levi’s brand has saved 16 million liters of water in our U.S. Spring 2011 collection,” according to a company news release.

Sustainability is old news to Levi Strauss & Co. For more than a decade, the Levi brand has prided itself on being a leader in sustainability. But recently the company pushed itself to do more.

In November, Levi Strauss & Co. announced the launch of its Water<Less denim collection, made with significantly less water in the life cycle of Levi denim.

The average pair of Levi’s jeans uses 42 liters of water in the finishing process.

The Water<Less collection reduces water consumption by an average of 28 percent and up to 96 percent for some new products in the line, such as denim jackets.

They have been able to make such drastic decreases by making some simple changes to the process such as, reducing the number of washing machine cycles

However, the go green efforts don’t end there. In addition to the Water<Less collection, the company teamed up with Water.org in honor of World Water Day last month to encourage consumers to get involved and “unlock” ways to save water in their everyday lives.

Each Water<Less denim product comes with a set of care instructions. “Caring for your jeans and line drying your denim will make them last three times as long,” according to the label.

“We’re proud of the innovations we’ve made in using less water to create our iconic products,” said Robert Hanson, president of global Levi’s brand in a news release. “But we know that some of the biggest impacts on the environment

actually come after our consumers take our products home. We need everyone’s help to reduce our global water footprint, and deliver this excess water to those communities that need it most.”

Levi Strauss is dedicated to making sure every step in the product life cycle is as sustainable as possible. The brand continues to create long-term goals to bring sustainability and eco-consciousness to the next level, just like it has done for years. So in honor of Earth Day, April 22, slip into those old Levi’s a feel good about the small impact you are making on water consumption around the world.

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Screening of children is necessary

Yet again, a problem with the Transportation Security Association has reared its head due to “sketchy” conduct by the security officers.

In this incident, a 6-year-old girl was given a pat-down, as per the procedure for checking folks for security reasons.

But this time, due to the girl’s age, the parents were up in arms about the touching involved. Part of the touching confused the girl, as it is not generally the touching a stranger is supposed to do: running fingers along the top lining of pants, patting down the thighs and having the girl spread arms and legs for other running along of hands on her body.

Procedures such as this have made people weary for years due to the possibility of the security agent “copping a feel” or just the dislike most have for being touched in sensitive or intimately associated areas by strangers.

This time, as has occurred before, a child is involved and as such, there is outrage that a child should be subjected to screenings in this manner.

Could the process be improved?

Very likely. Should a child be subjected to the same screening procedure an adult is? Maybe not, but there has to be something in place.

Terrorists or drug smugglers and anyone else committing illegal activities are unlikely to care about the means by which they accomplish their goals; a child is just as possibly a smuggler, even if unwittingly, as any other person.

In this day and age, innovative means of crime are really the only means left of succeeding at crime.

Means of discovering potential terrorist plots or otherwise are effective.

Yes, mistakes have been made and tragedies have occurred. But the number of successful preventions of crime are not heard about because that’s how the system works; if the criminals know that a tactic is doomed to fail, they likely won’t try it.

Whatever your anger might be toward TSA for their procedures past and present with young children, they are doing what they are funded to do, and in the current situation of the 6-year-old girl, the procedure appears to be in order.

Parents can be outraged at anything affecting their children, and rightly should be, as a parent’s job is to protect their child.

But some groups, al-Qaida for example, are more than willing to utilize children; children can be taught and trained, perhaps even easier than, as can any potential agent of terror.

The TSA takes a lot of heat for what can be construed as invasions of privacy, and have a fair amount to answer for based on some examples provided in the media. But realize they are working for the safety of all, and some things, no matter how much you don’t like them, are necessary.

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Columnist Stoffa states that the only thing left for pot heads to rebel against is the failed War on Drugs.

Today’s youth do not use cannabis to rebel against The Man. Graphic: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily

Marijuana is just for fun

By Gabriel.Stoffa iowastatedaily.com

Celebrate fake holiday for the real reason: pleasure Happy 4/20! Celebrate your love of marijuana by blazing up; or, er, uhm, whatever it is you want to do. Seriously, I do not understand why people think 4/20 is a special day to toke reefer. I know that people think 4:20, either a.m. or p.m., is pot hour thanks in part to “tea time” in the United Kingdom and the subsequent labeling of marijuana clubs in the 1920s as “tea pads,” but I just don’t understand what the allure is of celebrating that time of day or particularly the date of April 20, apart from for fun.

It was funny or “cool” back in high school, but as we age, the rebellious youth angle is fairly unsubstantial. And I don’t understand why we should have a special day — even if it isn’t a “real” holiday — dedicated to something trivial.

It isn’t as if the pot heads of the world get together on April 20 to remember the brave, stoned souls who died in wars or for causes.

Today, people smoke pot because it is fun.

Maybe some older folks are still trying to prove a point, and they can try to do so, but for you college-age kids, don’t try to make it into anything more than an excuse to have fun and be high.

Back in the day, when hippies roamed the Earth and soldiers were being sent to die needlessly in countries that didn’t want them — oh wait, maybe it hasn’t changed too much — marijuana was a means of rebelling.

The 1960s were a time for peace and love and getting high for reasons I can no more expound upon than someone who was a teenager from then would understand why today we enjoy “Jersey Shore.”

But widespread enjoyment of “Jersey Shore” is overexaggerated, and similarly, so was the widespread drug use so many people want to believe the 1960s to have been.

In a 1969 Gallup poll — which was the first year Gallup had asked about illegal drug use

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— only 4 percent of adults said they had tried marijuana. This did not count the number of people who simply didn’t trust polls and so didn’t answer questions, or the teenagers smoking it — but still, 34 percent said they didn’t even know the effects of marijuana use.

Today most people know what happens when you use marijuana: you order pizza, watch bad comedy and take a nap. No wonder marijuana is so appealing to college students.

Back to history, the government started into its bad big marijuana scare tactics and found that it was generally only effective on people who had never tried or been in contact with drugs; big surprise there.

As Vietnam continued, hippies and other youth used marijuana as a way to fight authority. Sit-in protests, by what I have read, were pretty boring, and marijuana likely helped pass the time.

OK, fine, pot had other rebellious reasons other than passing time, such as the fight against it being generally propaganda-driven and the amount of jail time given for marijuana possession being so outlandishly high that getting high to prove a point became a powerful counter-culture movement, but really, the reasons varied from person to person.

Rounding down your history lesson, which has meandered about much after the fashion of weed conversations do, the 1970s still saw pot as a means of fighting authority and sticking it to “The Man.” The Man responded by declaring marijuana as a Schedule I drug; as dangerous as heroin and LSD, where even cocaine is only Schedule II. Seriously, cocaine is an addictive drug whose effects are dangerously easy to under evaluate and overdose on; it is fairly easily described as a gateway drug. However, as Dennis Leary said in regard to the effects of pot and bongs, “They say marijuana leads to other drugs. No it doesn’t. It leads to f**king carpentry.”

Which brings us to the 1980s. The midthrough late-1980s saw a boom in drugs for recreational use by youth and those teens now

adults from the 1960s and 1970s. The upswing in drug use scared the hell out of government officials and drugs were declared as a No. 1 priority to help save the country from itself.

To finish this history, drugs in the 1990s and on through the new millennium are not really a form of rebellion. People want to get high the same as kids want to get drunk: it’s something fun to do and attractive because it is illegal.

When someone tells you, you cannot do something, the urge to do so goes up; that’s just a part of being human. But this isn’t rebellion. Sure, you can ramble on and on about the positive effects of marijuana for cancer patients and whatnot. I’ve heard them all and I am fine with the idea of a cancer patient doing whatever they feel like; my mother has cancer and I wouldn’t look down on her for anything she said helped.

But let’s get real here, folks — the only thing the majority of pot heads can claim to be rebelling against is the utter failure labeled the War on Drugs. Youth today aren’t rebelling against The Man anymore, youth today are bored and want to get a little loopy because being high — to a certain degree anyway — feels pleasant and makes things funny.

So today or in the future, when you celebrate April 20 or 4:20 or the yearly High Times Cannabis Cup — which is mighty entertaining — smoke or support marijuana for the real reason you are behind it: You think it’s fun.

Rally the government about legalization, sign every petition you like and become involved with local or national programs to legalize, but don’t pretend that you have some great battle against The Man. The Man currently is waging a war on drugs that is losing worse than efforts in Vietnam.

And do you really need to be fighting a government action where the 28-year-old guy, sitting in his underwear, eating a Twinkie and laughing at cartoons for hours is the enemy?

As the illustrious Bill Hicks so aptly pointed out, “There’s a war going on, and people on drugs are winning it! Well what does that tell you about drugs? Some smart, creative motherf**kers on that side.”

Some of our favorite quotes from folks about pot

“That is not a drug. It’s a leaf,”

mid-late-early morning. . . . ... But never at dusk.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.”

— Steve Martin — Willie Nelson

“Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit ... unnatural?”

“When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn’t like it, and I didn’t inhale, and I never tried again.”

— Bill Clinton

“I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.”

— Andy Warhol

— Bill Hicks “When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.”

“Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?”

— Barack Obama

— P.J. O’Rourke

“I used to smoke marijuana. But I’ll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, mid-evening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon, or perhaps the late-mid-afternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-

“I wasn’t driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.”

“Rollin’ fattys, smokin, blunts. Who smokes the blunts? We smoke the blunts. Rollin’ blunts and smokin’ ...”

— Jay and Silent Bob “They’ve outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet.”

— Coolio — Timothy Leary “The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still

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Further your experiences in final weeks

By Clare.Schwager iowastatedaily.com

College offers lessons beyond the classroom

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ollege can be described in a number of ways. First and foremost, it is an academic introduction to the trials and tribulations of what our elders like to call “the real world.” Students develop the skills necessary to survive and thrive in this world we’ve been warned about since the introduction of cursive in third grade.

Universities have been around for centuries, and there’s no denying the advantage college grads have over non-graduates when it comes time to secure a career. But aside from the purely academic aspect, college offers the chance to learn about things you won’t find on a bubble sheet test.

Looking back on this year, I know I wouldn’t have had nearly as much fun if I hadn’t stepped out of my comfort zone and tried new things.

Clubs are probably the easiest way to get involved outside of class. There

are hundreds of clubs associated with Iowa State, anything from the Feral Cat Alliance to the ISU Quidditch Club. I can think of at least 10 clubs I’d love to join, if only there was more time in the day.

Along with intramurals, clubs offer so many chances to get out and find a new hobby or interest, or to make a difference in the community.

Along those lines, volunteering is an excellent way to establish roots in the community, find new friends and help better the world around us. It’s something I need to do more of, and campus offers so many opportunities, such as the 10,000 Hours Show or the blood drive held on campus every fall and spring.

There are a million ways to get involved in so many different interest areas.

I really don’t have an excuse for not doing more. I plan to change that next year. This summer even.

The other day I ventured into the Ames Asian Market near Hy-Vee, unsure what to expect. The little store was filled with all sorts of interesting foods, some familiar, and some not at all. I’ve lived in Ames all my life, and there are so many

places I’ve never been to or explored. The Ames British Foods store is also a great place to check out; the chocolate bars there are amazing. Pammel Grocery on Colorado Avenue in Ames offers all kinds of Indian, Pakistani and Middle Eastern products, and they have a mini restaurant right inside the store where you can get great beef gyros or chicken biryani.

Ames has plenty of interesting stores like these, all within walking distance or CyRide’s reach. With the school year coming to a close and finals approaching, I’ve begun to dread classes — I’m sure everyone’s in the same boat, professors as well — especially on those brilliant, sunny days. But after reflecting on the past year, I realized college is more than just classes.

It’s also about the friends you make, the new experiences, finding interests. Sure, we’re all here to learn — and don’t get me wrong, I love to learn — but there are so many different discoveries to be made outside of the classroom.

That’s the great thing about college.

As we’re prepped and tested for “the real world” in classes, we’ve been experiencing it all along.

J.T. Daly, lead vocalist for Paper Route, performs April 9 for the 10,000 Hours Show at the M-Shop. File photo: David Derong/Iowa State Daily

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Courts cannot protect rights without funding Some people believe that we can save money by cutting funding to the court system.

That is a short-sighted view for at least two reasons: one we need a healthy court system to guard our freedoms and rights from government action; and two we need a court system to protect our rights from the actions of other citizens and corporations and to resolve disputes.

Imagine a business with three equal partners: one partner, the legislature, raises money; one partner, the governor, conducts business; and the third equal partner, the court, makes sure that the other partners act legally and follow the business plan, the Constitution. When one partner acts illegally, or does not follow the business plan, the third partner, the court system, has the power to overrule that illegally-acting partner. What happens to this balance of power between the equal partners if the legislature and governor decide that they are not going to fund the court system?

The first issue is: Would it be legal, or constitutional, for one equal partner, or branch of government, to put itself above another branch of government by cutting spending to that branch?

The U.S. Constitution and state constitutions created “checks and balances” and an equal partnership of the

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executive, legislative and judicial branches, so that one branch could not become too powerful and take control of the government. It is unlikely that such an action would be constitutional.

The second issue is: If the court system is underfunded, who will protect our freedoms and rights from the government, other citizens, and corporations? Many state governments are facing severe economic problems and some people say that we should cut spending to the court system in order to save money.

This argument has some followers because some feel that, “we can cut court funding because the court system deals with criminals and I am not a criminal” or “The court system deals with lawsuits and I will never be in a lawsuit.” It is true that most people are never charged with a crime and most people are never in a lawsuit. If we do not have a vibrant court system, who will be on your jury if you are falsely accused of a crime or who will be on your jury if you have to seek justice against a powerful corporation?

The court system serves as a limit on the government

so that the government cannot eliminate our freedoms and rights. The court system also prevents citizens and corporations from trampling on the rights of other citizens.

Lastly, the court system solves disputes when other methods fail. Without an adequately funded court system, the government, corporations, and other citizens could take our property or injure us without our ability to fight that injustice. The court system is the guardian of our rights; if it is underfunded, it cannot protect our rights.

There is an expression that says “freedom isn’t free.” That means that the freedoms that we enjoy in this country were paid for by the blood of our forefathers.

It also means that if a person wants to have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to bear arms, the right to a jury trial, then that person must be willing to pay for the court system that ensures those freedoms and rights.

We all need an independent court system that can correct any mistakes made by the government hold people and corporations accountable for their actions.

Please contact your representatives and tell them how important adequate funding for the court system is to all of us.

Applause to Ames school board, administration What would the various school alternatives actually cost the public?

I decided to use School District Administration’s cost figures, distributed Feb. 15, to calculate the incremental operating costs of two alternative facilities plans the school board has discussed extensively.

Both alternatives provide capacity for 15 units which gives the school district the flexibility to serve current students and to be able to reinstate open enrollments.

The administration said the incremental operating cost of a two-unit school is $411,992; a three-unit school costs $573,801; and a four-unit school costs $669,830. These figures assume current service levels of administrative staffing and building maintenance.

The first alternative provides 15 units configured as one, four-unit school; three, threeunit schools; and one, two-unit school, at a cost of $2,803,225. The second alternative is for six schools and 15 units. This plan replaces a single four-unit school with two, two-unit schools and costs $2,957,379.

The cost difference between five buildings

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and six buildings is only $154,154. This amount is negligible, especially when considering the total school district budget of $40,000,000. The lack of any real difference in costs between five and six buildings allows us to consider the facilities choice in terms of educational and social impact rather than feeling constrained by fiscal considerations.

Given that the lasting educational benefits to children of smaller, neighborhood schools and the benefit to the Ames community of having an additional neighborhood with the cohesion and sense of identity that a school provides, the small additional cost of $154,000 is a real bargain and an excellent use of public funds.

I applaud the school board for taking the time to dig deeply into a complex issue, and the administration for providing figures the public can use to come to educated and informed conclusions.

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Iowa City to host rival matchup Competition fueled by winning streak, prestige

By Zach.Gourley iowastatedaily.com The ISU softball team heads to Iowa City on Wednesday to take on the Iowa Hawkeyes.

The Cyclones (19-19, 1-7 Big 12) will be faced with the tough task of giving the Hawkeyes their first home loss of the season.

Iowa (24-16, 7-3 Big Ten) is 6-0 this season when playing at Bob Pearl Softball Field in Iowa City.

“It’s always a good game when it’s Iowa State and Iowa and they are playing really pretty well right now,” said ISU coach Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler.

“We just need to go in there and play our game and we’ll be fine.”

This young Cyclone club is hoping to build on a two-game road trip to Austin, Texas this past weekend in which they held their own against the No. 3 Longhorns, but failed to pick up a win.

The Cyclones have fared well during in-state games this season, beating Drake three times and losing one game to Northern Iowa before blasting the Panthers in the second game of the series in Ames.

Now the ISU players want to prove they’re the best in the state.

“I always love playing Iowa. I know it’s at Iowa City but still I think we can beat them and hopefully come out as the best team in Iowa right now,” said ISU first baseman Erica Miller. “Definitely bragging rights are on the line and just being able to say you’re the best team in Iowa, that would be awesome.”

To get those bragging rights, the Cyclones will have to go through a Hawkeye team that has reeled off three straight wins in the Big Ten. Iowa State will also have to deal with this week’s Big Ten player of the week, Hawkeye catcher Liz Watkins. In four games this past week, Watkins had a .625 batting average with an .800 on-base percentage to go with seven RBI’s.

For the 10 freshmen on the Cyclones’ roster, this will be the first taste of the Cyclone-Hawkeye rivalry.

“We really want it because that means that we’re the best team in Iowa so that is nerve-wracking,” said ISU freshman right-fielder Anna Cole. “We have to go in with the mindset that it’s just another game, but I can tell Coach G [Gemeinhardt-Cesler] really wants this one.”

In case the Cyclones needed any more added incentive for beating the Hawkeyes, the all-time series currently stands even with a 30-30-1 record.

The game will be played this Wednesday at 5 p.m. at Bob Pearl Field in Iowa City.

Keeping spirits up Home runs, comedy are sophomore’s specialty

Miller at a glance

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Miller is batting .316 this season and has racked up a team-high 35 RBIs.

To softball pitchers in the Big 12, ISU first baseman Erica Miller may be one of the most feared home run hitters in the conference, but Miller’s personality is anything but intimidating.

“When a joke really needs to be cracked, she’s always a good candidate to do it,” said ISU coach Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler.

“There is always that part of her that has the ability to laugh, but at the same time she’s really serious when it comes to playing, but it’s a good balance.”

Miller, a sophomore, is currently tied for fifth all-time in school history for home runs in a season with nine, needing just three more to break the record.

The Cyclone first baseman already has three homers in Big 12 play, behind only Dani Leal of Baylor and Lexy Bennett of the University of Texas — who have four each — for best in the conference.

“I’ve been really working with our strength and conditioning coach just to get s t r o n g e r,” Miller said of her increased production this year. “I’ve been trying to work on mechanics with the coaches here and over the summer with my batting coach at

Miller went to Diamond Bar High School in Pomona, Calif. where she occasionally faced now-teammate Tori Torrescano, who is from San Diego, Calif.

home.”

When she is not hitting home-runs, Miller can often be found channeling her inner Ricky Bobby, encouraging her teammates to “shake n’ bake.”

“We both like the movie ‘Talledega Nights’ and we love Will Ferrell, so at the beginning of the season, when I hit a home run and she yelled ‘That’s the way to shake n’ bake!’ and it pretty much started from there,” said ISU left fielder Tori Torrescano.

If a dose of comedy is not working to keep her teammates loose, Miller has also been known to spontaneously burst out into a Blink 182 song during practice.

“I’ve always been kind of the goofy, random person that tries to make a joke and I like to sing a lot like during practice,” Miller said. “Sometimes when the losses are coming, people can get kind of

tense at points so I just think, you know what, just stay positive.”

Aside from her ability as an entertainer, what makes Miller so valuable to the Cyclones is her work ethic and approach to the game.

“I love having Erica on the team. I love having her come up to bat because I’m confident in her,” said ISU pitcher Rachel Zabriskie. “She always has a good at-bat even if she doesn’t get a hit, she still has a good atbat. Her mindset is to come back and get it the next time, and she will.”

On a young Cyclone squad where 10 of the 18 players are freshmen, Miller has stepped up into a leadership role in her second season as one of just three returning starters.

“As a player, she’s a very hard worker and she’s a great competitor,” Gemeinhardt-Cesler said.

“She definitely carries herself with confidence, which is really important.”

The Cyclones (19-19, 1-7 Big 12) are about to enter a tough stretch of their schedule featuring Iowa and nationally ranked Big 12 teams like No. 6 Oklahoma, No. 8 Missouri and No. 10 Baylor.

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Iowa (24-16, 7-3) Where: Bob Pearl Softball Stadium, Iowa City When: 5 p.m. Wednesday Notes: Iowa State and Iowa are tied in the headto-head series all time at 30-30-1.

The Cyclones are 4-1 against in-state foes (3-0 against Drake, 1-1 against Northern Iowa) this season.

They have 10 freshmen playing against Iowa.

ISU first baseman Erica Miller catches a popup during game two of Iowa State’s doubleheader with Minnesota on April 7. Iowa State lost game two 11-3. File photo: Jake Lovett/Iowa State Daily

Track and field

Iowa State focuses on Midwest competition Meet to feature combined events, new challenges

By David.Merrill iowastatedaily.com After two multi-meet weekends out west, Iowa State stays closer to home this weekend.

It will compete in the Kansas relays in Lawrence, Kan., and the Musco Twilight in Iowa City.

Both meets will offer a chance for multi-event athletes to compete in the decathlon and heptathlon competitions.

The decathlon features 10 events split into two days.

The first day consists of the 100-meter dash, long jump, shot put, high jump and 400-meter dash. Decathlons also include 110-meter hur-

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Kansas Relays Where: Lawrence, Kan. When: Wednesday and Thursday Notes: The ISU track team will compete as one after splitting to compete in four different meets last weekend.

The Cyclones will compete in Iowa City this weekend following the Relays.

dles, discus, pole vault, javelin and the 1,500-meter run on the second day.

Senior Jamal Currica will be competing in the decathlon for the Cyclones.

“I’m just trying to be consistent,” Currica said.

“I’ve really been focusing

on the long jump and hurdles.”

During the indoor season, Currica finished seventh overall in the heptathlon and placed 15th overall in the long jump at the Big 12 indoor championships.

This is Currica’s first Kansas Relays event with Iowa State.

He also competed in this event during his time at Iowa Central Community College.

“We’ve all been training hard this past week,” Currica said.

“We just want to make sure were sharp, focused and ready to go.”

Freshman Jenny Dillon is one of three Cyclones competing in the heptathlon.

Junior Jordon Andreassen and Freshman Anna Holterman are also scheduled for the heptathlon.

Dillon finished 13th overall at in the heptathlon at the Big 12 indoor championships

Junior Jordon Andreassen competes in the women’s long jump event during the Iowa State Open at Lied Recreational Athletic Center. File photo: David Derong/Iowa State Daily

while Andreassen finished in 16th.

Andreassen was runner up in the heptathlon in last year’s Kansas Relays.

Dillion is looking for some

redemption from the indoor season’s heptathlon.

She said she will focus on the high jump specifically, an event she said she struggled with during the indoor season.

“I didn’t get to finish the first heptathlon that I was in,” Dillon said.

“So I’m looking forward to going up against some good competition.”

Sports Jargon of the Day: Heptathlon

SPORT: Track and field

DEFINITION: An event made up of seven competitions, including high jump, shot put and running events.

USE: Iowa State will have several athletes compete in the heptathlon this week.

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Tennis

Cyclones say goodbye to 3 seniors Players support team in a variety of different roles

By Clint.Cole iowastatedaily.com The ISU tennis team played one last home meet Saturday against No. 25 Texas, a match it lost 5-2.

Before the meet the Cyclones had a ceremony honoring three seniors.

The Cyclones will be saying goodbye to Erin Karonis, Reka Kelemen and Liza Wischer at the conclusion of this season.

During their time as ISU tennis players, the three seniors have seen a few nasty streaks come to an end.

During the 2008-2009 season, coach Armando Espinosa’s first season at the helm, the Cyclones defeated Kansas State for their first Big 12 win since 2002.

Last season, the Cyclones defeated Missouri and Colorado and had two conference wins for the first time since the 2001 season, and earlier this season the Cyclones defeated Colorado on the road.

It was their first conference win on the road since 1997.

“They’ve seen the most

changes,” Espinosa said.

“It’s enjoyable to be around them because they bring so much energy to the meets or to practice.”

Espinosa said that one of the big things they did at Iowa State was buying into the tennis program with their energy.

Karonis is from Ivyland, Penn., and has been given a few different awards and honors.

Karonis was awarded All-Big 12 honors in 2009, academic All-Big 12 in 2009 and 2010 and was the Big 12 player of the week April 20, 2009.

Karonis also has the most conference regular season singles wins in ISU history with 11, and had seven in 2008-2009, which is the most in a single season. Karonis improved a lot playing at the No. 1 spot all four years.

“It was kind of tough her first year because she only won one Big 12 meet,” Espinosa said.

“Her leadership in terms of stepping on the court and everybody having confidence that she is going to give us a chance to win that point, it’s huge.”

Kelemen is from Budapest, Hungary.

She was a very valuable source of positive energy and hard work despite not being in

Senior Erin Karonis competes against Texas A&M’s Nazari Urbina during the match Friday. Karonis lost to Urbina, and Iowa State lost overall with a score of 3-4. File photo: Tim Reuter/Iowa State Daily

the lineup very often.

Kelemen received ISU Scholar-Athlete and AllCyclone Team honors in 2009, and most improved player

and best attitude in 2008. She was also on the Dean’s List in the fall semesters in 2008 and 2009.

“Even though she hasn’t

played, she hasn’t given up.

She’s still come to practice,” Espinosa said.

“She’s done a good job trying to make the person that’s on the other side of the net better.”

Kelemen said that the tennis team got better in front of her eyes through four years at Iowa State.

“My role on the team was to really be a supporting teammate and neutralize any conflict and help out with always being there for your teammates,” Kelemen said.

Kelemen recalled her freshman year when she played the “longest match of her life.”

The match, which was the deciding match against Drake, lasted more than four hours.

She ended up winning the match and clinching the meet for the Cyclones.

“I was suddenly faced with being responsible for the team,” Kelemen said.

“My hands decided whether the team was going to win or lose.”

Liza Wischer is from Grand Forks, N.D. She has also made in impact on the school record book.

She is No. 19 in overall career wins in singles and doubles combined with 85. In

2009-2010 she had six conference singles wins, which is second right behind Karonis.

She was the Cyclones MVP in 2010 and was given hardest worker honors in 2008 and 2009. She was given Academic All-Big 12, second team honors in 2010. Espinosa talked about her ability as a “clincher.”

“She’s just been clinching left and right,” Espinosa said.

“A lot of the matches that we won 4-3 have come down to her, which is a tough spot to be in.”

Wischer recalled the time when they won their first Big 12 match in the 2008-2009 season. Kara Hickey, who was a senior at the time won a close three set match to clinch their first conference win since 2002.

“I think that was a turning point of where we all believed that we do belong in this conference and we can pull through and beat these teams.”

Espinosa hopes that his players will be successful now that they are almost through with their four years as students at Iowa State and as ISU tennis players.

“I’m hoping that just like they came here and made a difference, that they can make a difference anywhere they go,” Espinosa said.

Women’s golf

Seniors wrap up final regular season match Golfers’ efforts on, off the course will be missed

By Dan.Martin iowastatedaily.com Laurence Herman and Victoria Stefansen played in their last regular season golf tournament of their Cyclone career this past Saturday — Sunday in the Lady Buckeye Invitational.

It’s a surreal moment for the women who have been playing for the team since freshman year.

The Cyclones did not have their best performance at the Lady Buckeye, finishing sixth out of 12 teams, the second time all year they have finished outside the top-five.

Herman led the way for the Cyclones at the Lady Buckeye.

Her 233 total tied for eighth place individually, marking the 12th top-10 finish of her career.

“They have done just so much for the program,” said coach Christen Martens.

“They helped turn it around and get it to where it is today. I just can’t say enough about how important they’ve been to our program. They’ve made a great impact” Both Herman and Stefansen have done much more than help the Cyclones win games on the course.

Other efforts include helping out new players, supporting teammates when down, and helping build a strong team unity within the Cyclone squad.

“The seniors have been really helpful to me,” said freshman Prima Thammaraks.

“They’ve taught me pretty much everything, from how to start, and just how I do everything in a game, how everything works in the team.

It’s like they’ve been through everything I’m going through now, they’ve been in my shoes, and they give me really good advice.”

While Herman and Stefansen are sad to see their college golfing careers and time at Iowa State coming to an end, they are also excited to start a new chapters in their lives.

“It’s been the best season yet,” Herman said.

“But we’re not done yet. We have the Big-12s, then regionals and then hopefully nationals. That would be the best way to go out.”

“Then when we are done with the season, around June, I will go back home and play for a Belgium team. Then in December I’m going to qualify for the European tour and then

go and try my hand at pro golf.”

Stefansen plans to stick around Ames Herman for a little while longer.

“It’s been my best season here for sure,” Stefansen said.

“I couldn’t Stefansen have really wished for anything more. “Plans for the future ... well I plan to stick around here and hopefully coach golf somewhere.”

The Cyclones are back in action April 22 to 24 for the Big 12 Championships.

ISU golfer Laurence Herman surveys the green before making her putt. Courtesy photo: ISU Athletics

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The three week long survey was conducted by Brand Endeavor of Marina del Rey, Calif., the visioning company hired by the council in January.

Brand Endeavor consultants reported that close to 6,000 participants completed the survey, almost doubling the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal of 3,000 respondents.

Christie Harper, president and founder of Brand Endeavor, said she was very pleased with the amount of participants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We broke our records ... weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never had that many responses.â&#x20AC;?

People who completed the survey included Ames residents, neighbors â&#x20AC;&#x201D; people who live in rural Ames or surrounding cities â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and outsiders.

The top three reasons people chose to work or live in Ames were the higher learning opportunities, safety and good schools, according to the survey results.

In addition, the top adjectives used to describe Ames from the survey were safe, friendly, comfortable and middle-class.

Ames was associated with traits such as being an â&#x20AC;&#x153;innovation center,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;educational/intellectualâ&#x20AC;? and a â&#x20AC;&#x153;small town with big city amenities,â&#x20AC;? according to the survey.

People also reported Ames as â&#x20AC;&#x153;stagnant/not changing or growing.â&#x20AC;?

In comparison, Des Moines was associated with retail and shopping, while Iowa City was cited as vibrant and energetic.

An additional part of the survey focused on the vision of Ames and the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uniqueness. Participants were asked to ďŹ ll in the blank of the statement, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ames is the ___ of Iowa.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Center was by far the dominant answer,â&#x20AC;? Harper said. Answers included words such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;heartâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;geographical middle.â&#x20AC;?

The ďŹ nal vision will be presented to the city June 13 and 14.

By Emily.Banks iowastatedaily.com By the summer of 2012, Information Technology Services and ISU instructors will no longer be using WebCT. Instead, Blackboard Learn will be the primary way for students to take online courses and get course information that is now found on WebCT. The change is due to Blackboardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purchase of WebCT in 2006, said Jim Twetten, director of IT Services. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were faced with the fact that WebCT wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be supported by the company anymore starting in 2013, so we had to change to something else, so we went with what the company was already offering, [Blackboard],â&#x20AC;? Twetten said.

The Blackboard system is now being used in about 30 ISU classes in order to test the system. Starting this summer, Blackboard will be available for all professors to use with their classes.

The major differences between WebCT and Blackboard are the amount of control instructors have over their class site and a new way of grading.

Instructors will be able to enter results and scores directly into Blackboardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grading Center. The program is similar to Microsoft Excel and is able to calculate grades as they are entered. The program also shows â&#x20AC;&#x153;grading history,â&#x20AC;? which shows any changes an instructor or teaching assistant makes to a studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grade.

Unlike WebCT, grades are found under an individual section instead of a class-by-class basis, making it easier for students to look at their grades. With this, the new Grading Center instructors will also be able to print grade reports for students. They will be able to assign students into groups or sections in order to make the grading process among teaching assistants easier. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Instructors can now choose to deploy assignments to all students individually or to groups of students. This allows instructors to assign a single grade to all of the students in a group and also to override that group grade and assign a student a different grade,â&#x20AC;? according to the website.

To make the transition to Blackboard easier, the website links to a studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WebCT course page. Students are able to access their courses that are still in WebCT through the Blackboard page, which keeps them from having to check multiple sites for their grades, assignments and announcements.

Despite the changes, Blackboard will not require more funding than what is already used for WebCT, Twetten said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The licensing cost is effectively the same as WebCT. However, running two systems in parallel doubles the operating costs, so once WebCT is shut down, the cost will be back to normal,â&#x20AC;? Twetten said.

By Paige.Godden iowastatedaily.com The Faculty Senate passed a proposal for a new general degree program for the College of Design after debate about whether or not the college could provide a quality education to more students.

Martha Selby, adjunct assistant professor of materials science and engineering, asked if the college had sufficient resources and facilities for a new program.

The plan was for students to be able to share studio space with students in the current design programs.

Marwan Ghandour, associate dean of architecture, said that he had looked into the whole space inventory of the college.

He said he is conďŹ dent the college will be able to accommodate the programs.

Kevin Amidon, associate professor of world languages and cultures, said he had concerns about the proposal.

Amidon said he was concerned the proposal appeared to be perusing things the faculty didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want, such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;poaching students between colleges and duplicating programs.â&#x20AC;?

Amidon asked why the College of Design couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t serve the students with the programs already in place.

The college is currently set up so that the professional programs are accredited at an undergraduate level so they have very speciďŹ c design degrees focused on a single discipline.

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