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Board of Regents supports tuition increase By Jake.Dalbey @iowastatedaily.com Thursday marked the final day of the April Board of Regents meeting, where tuition increase took center stage, along with proposals for residence hall rates and several ISU milestones. The regents were all in favor of the fee increase. However, the actual amount will be finalized at the next meeting. Board of Regents president Bruce Rastetter began talk of
tuition rates by recapping the February meeting notes. “With the limited funds the universities will be given, we will look into tuition increases as early as fall 2016,” Rastetter said. “We spoke in our February meeting about the possibility if funds remained limited we would instruct the universities to look at tuition increases.” Citing several reasons behind the proposed increase, including student enrollment rates and the pay of professional and scientific employees, ISU faculty representative Rob Wal-
lace spoke on the need for faculty salary increases. “After experiencing historical growth, the additional stresses on faculty in higher education have taken their toll,” Wallace said. “The stress levels are easily palpable with the increased workload.” Despite Wallace’s appreciation for the resilience of ISU staff, frequent years of absent pay increases have led many staff members to feel unre-
warded. “In short, faculty are stressed,” Wallace said. “Having to do more for less pay makes the faculty feel under appreciated. Hearing no salary increases is frustrating and sends a message to staff.” Though Wallace praised Iowa State’s educational opportunities, he claims that unsatisfied staff may not lead to a positive future
for the university. “Iowa State is a bargain for education, but in order to keep this education high, you need good staff,” Wallace said. It’s simple. Tuition freezes and higher running costs do not create a sustainable situation, which doesn’t allow for excellence to remain.” Tera Lawson, representing the professional and scientific employees of Iowa State, briefly talked about increasing pay for the many staff on campus, includ-
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Georgie Tsushima created the FLC Skateshop on Lincoln Way to share his love for skating with the community he grew up in. Tsushima passed away in 2015, but his impact on Ames will remain through the skate park, which the community is attempting to have named in his honor.
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Bryan Jones, who met Tsushima about 11 years ago, helps manage FLC Skateshop. Jones said the goal is to keep the shop around for the community.
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The Celebration of Life Memorial for Georgie Tsushima takes place at the Ames skate park across the street from Brookside Park in Ames on July 25, 2015.
Library to be open 24/7 next two weeks By Mollie.Shultz @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State is experimenting during this upcoming Dead Week and Finals Week to accommodate the growing student population and student demand. For the first time, Parks Library will be open 24/7 throughout Dead Week and Finals Week to provide students with a centralized study area. The longer hours will allow students to study continuously without interrupting their studies to go home at 2 a.m. when the library usually closes. Both Beth McNeil, dean of the library, and Jonathan Wickert, senior vice president and provost, played influential roles in ensuring that this experiment came to fruition. “This is a topic that Student Government had brought up about having the library be open
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Parks Library on Central Campus is usually open from 7:30 a.m. to 2 a.m., but Student Government worked with the library staff to have the library accessible 24/7 during Dead Week and Finals Week.
around the clock during Finals Week and Dead Week,” Wickert said. McNeil, who arrived on campus from Purdue University in July,
said a student approached her in mid-fall asking about the possibility of having the library open to study 24/7. McNeil, who said she takes student success very seri-
ously, immediately began working with other staff to ensure that this was a possibility. “The library staff are committed to student success, so while this is a change for us, I would say we’re on board with making it work,” McNeil said. Wickert also said that ensuring students have uninterrupted study time is important to faculty. The faculty members understand the pressures students are under and don’t want them to have to be kicked out of the library at 2 a.m. “If a student is there really late at night studying … the faculty member in me doesn’t want to have to kick them out of the library,” Wickert said. Traer Schon, senior in journalism and mass communication, said that although he isn’t sure he will use the library in the middle of the night, it’s nice to have it as an option. “It would definitely be helpful just because if you’re working
on something and having to change places or something, it could disrupt that, so I think it will be a good change,” Schon said. George Knight, an exchange student in political science, said he is looking forward to not having to leave the library at closing time. “I get more distracted at home, so I won’t have to go home,” Knight said. “I can sleep here.” The faculty also thought about students’ health during this time, and while they are encouraging students to spend their time studying in the library, they are also encouraging students to take their health seriously and know when they need to sleep. They want happy, healthy, well-
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