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Graphics: Tim Reuter/Iowa State Daily The above illustration represents the profit Iowa State made by playing in each bowl game. The school’s surplus from the Pinstripe Bowl was less than what it saved in its Insight Bowl appearance in 2009.
Bowl games bring in profit By Jake.Calhoun @iowastatedaily.com
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Local groups to unite at food summit By Randi Reeder Daily staff writer The Local Food and Farm Plan Team will have a diverse gathering from various sectors of the local food economy Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Scheman Building at Iowa State. The keynote speaker will be nationally recognized public artist and teacher David Dahlquist from Des Moines. According to the event’s website, he will talk about creating a local sense of place that embraces food, community, history and culture. Since 1988, Dahlquist has completed more than 50 large-scale public commissions across the country. His commissions for private, public and institutional clients range from tilework and sculpture to major architectural installations. Currently, he is creative director at RDG Dahlquist Art Studio. This summit is a time when the Local Food and Farm Plan Team would like to celebrate the successes and discuss the challenges and obstacles that are still major issues today. The Local Food and Farm Program was created in 2011 by Senate File 509 to build Iowa’s local food economies and promote job growth. The Local Food and Farm Plan team, according to its website, hopes the summit will engage participants in a discussion on the next steps to building of a local food system in Iowa.
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Iowa State turned a $53,523 profit from its football team’s trip to the 2011 Pinstripe Bowl, according to school and conference records obtained by the Daily via Freedom Of Information Act requests. The trip to the bowl game — Iowa State’s second in three years under the tutelage of coach Paul Rhoads — cost the school $1,286,477, which is well under the $1.34 million allocated by the Big 12 Conference.
“Generally when you go on a bowl trip, you try to make it a zerosum game,” said Steve Malchow, ISU senior associate athletic director. “Generally, the allotments that are set are good-faith guesstimates as to what it costs to travel a football team to that particular city because there’s certainly going to be a lot of differences depending on how far you’re traveling.” However, the school’s surplus from the Pinstripe Bowl — which it lost 27-13 to Rutgers — was not as much as it saved from its Insight Bowl appearance in 2009.
For that trip to Tempe, Ariz., Iowa State logged a net income of $158,850, according to school records submitted to the NCAA. “Bowl opportunities are great institutional events,” said ISU Athletic Director Jamie Pollard in February, before the Pinstripe Bowl expense report was released. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for our student-athletes to give them a reward, a chance to play another football game.” Pollard was unavailable for comment after the Pinstripe Bowl
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ISU ticket sales The school sold 4,794 of the 6,196 tickets (77 percent) it originally committed to buy in its contract, according to the report. This left 1,402 tickets that were paid back to the bowl at the total cost of $159,480, which is more than the $125,125 it cost the school for its 2,275 unsold tickets from the 2009 Insight Bowl. The skewed difference in the price of absorbed tickets is due to the flat-dollar amount of the Insight Bowl tickets being set at $55 per ticket. For the Pinstripe Bowl, the ticket prices ranged from $45 to $350 with the school selling the most of its two highest-committed ticket prices — 66 percent of its $115 tickets and 87 percent of its $45 tickets.
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Committees search for candidates By Aimee.Burch @iowastatedaily.com Big administration changes will be coming to Iowa State in the coming months. The university is currently in the midst of conducting five searches for upper-level administrative positions. Two of these vacancies are due to retirements, while those in the other three positions decided to resign from their current posts. Annette Hacker, program director in the Office of University Relations, said it is not so unusual for a university to have so many openings at one time. “Back in 2009, we had three dean searches [in design, engineering and human sciences] occurring simultaneously,” she said. The first resignation predates the arrival of
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President Steven Leath. Former Dean of Students Dionne Somerville left her position in June 2011 to become vice president of student affairs at Bloomberg University in Pennsylvania. A search committee formed by ISU Vice President of Student Affairs Tom Hill is currently looking into potential candidates for the position from a pool formed by the academic research group
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Spelman & Johnson. Open forums with the candidates will likely be announced in the coming weeks. Executive Vice President and Provost Elizabeth Hoffman announced her resignation this past February. She plans to step down in December 2012 unless a candidate is found sooner or she accepts
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IDENTITY
Expert: ‘Stereotypes are useful in general’ Editor’s note: This story is part of a series examining identity on the ISU campus.
By Katherine.Klingseis @iowastatedaily.com Stereotypes can change, but the act of stereotyping will not go away, experts said. The negative results of stereotyping are often discussed in the media and in everyday conversation regarding a wide range of
topics. Recently, some have said that racial stereotyping was involved in the death of Trayvon Martin, a 17-yearold African-American man killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer. Although often associated with negative results, like in the Martin case, the act of stereotyping is not sinister in nature, psychology professors at Iowa State said. “In some sense, stereotypes are generalizations about a category of some-
thing based on what is typical or most common,” said Zlatan Krizan, assistant professor of psychology. “Stereotypes are useful in general because they help us generalize about things that we experience. If we didn’t, it would take a lot of work to learn everything anew.” Krizan said people stereotype both living and non-living components of the world. He said people do this to make sense of the world. He explained that if stereotyping
did not exist, a person would approach every object as if it were entirely new to them. The person would have to learn everything about the object regardless of whether the person had contact with the object several times before. “We have stereotypes about chairs — they can have four legs, but they don’t have to,” Krizan said. “Once I get a sense of what a chair is, I can deal with chairs more effectively.”
Essentially, stereotyping allows humans to store a bank of previously learned knowledge in their minds. When approaching an object, a person can pull out some of that stored knowledge and categorize the object based on that knowledge. “As we experience something, we gradually accumulate those experiences and that helps us to develop a notion or a sense of what something typically looks like or
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