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Allegations

ISU department comments on violations Athletics enters into NCAA disposition

By Alex.Halsted @iowastatedaily.com

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After announcing Tuesday that the ISU athletic department has entered into a summary disposition with the NCAA as a result of impermissible phone calls and text messages sent from 2008 to 2011, the de-

partment made additional comments Thursday to attempt to clarify the timeline.

The department said ISU President Steven Leath notified the Iowa Board of Regents of the possible violations as soon as he became aware of the situation, which was on Jan. 31, 2012. This was just 15 days after he became president.

The release also said the athletic department formally signed off on the final NCAA report and legally

entered into the summary disposition process on Tuesday, which was why Leath and ISU Athletic Director Jamie Pollard felt it necessary to “be as transparent as possible” by releasing the information.

The department felt the need to clarify its original statement Thursday following what it called “sensationalized allegations about the institution and its staff” by a local media outlet.

While the release did not name

any of the news outlets, it came on the heels of coverage and an editorial by the Des Moines Register on Thursday.

“It was right to make public the fact of the infractions in advance of NCAA action, but the public should have been given the whole story,” the editorial said. “Important pieces are missing.”

The editorial went on to men-

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Service:

Volunteers can sign up until event Volunteers are allowed to register until the start of the Stash the Trash event on Saturday at Reiman Gardens.

The following spots are open: The Beloit Learning Garden will help spread compost and mulch.

Campustown Action Association volunteers will walk throughout Campustown picking up trash.

Collegiate United Methodist Church Volunteers will help with highway cleanup. Former Y-Camp Property will help with outdoor cleanup and landscaping. State Forest Nursery will help sort, count and bag conservation tree seedlings.

ISU students, faculty, staff and Ames residents are encouraged to work together and help with all the service projects.

There will be two shifts: 9 a.m. 12 p.m. and 1 - 4 p.m. with lunch provided.

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Ames community, greeks now have separate events

By Miranda.Freeman @iowastatedaily.com In the past, the Polar Bear Plunge at Iowa State has always been for greek stu-

dents during Greek Week.

However, this year it is open to the entire Ames community after becoming partners with the Special Olympics.

During the Polar Bear Plunge, participants run or walk into Lake Laverne while a team of divers await them.

Each person has to reach the line of divers in order for their plunge to count.

Cory Weaver, senior in journalism and mass communication, is interning with the Special Olympics and helping coordinate the event.

“Years past, the Polar Bear Plunge has been just for Greek Week to help raise and donate money for Special Olympics,” Weaver said. “A few of the people at Special Olympics were kind of hesi-

tant at first; I think they were a little bit nervous and didn’t want to step on the greeks’ toes.”

Weaver brought up the idea of a Polar Bear Plunge open to Ames residents after he heard about the event from his greek friends.

Abby Fellingham, direc-

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Plunge fast facts ■■ Takes place Saturday ■■ Ames community will do the plunge at 1 p.m.

■■ Greek community will do the plunge at 5:30 p.m.

■■ Takes place at Lake Laverne on ISU campus

Board of Regents

Dean

Committee chosen to increase Iowa trust

Candidate speaks at open forum

Task Force selected

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By Danielle.Ferguson @iowastatedaily.com The Board of Regents recently selected the members of the Transparency Task Force, a committee devoted to informing the community to increase trust amongst Iowans.

At its March 13 meeting, the Board of Regents approved nine qualified candidates for the force in-

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Photo: Firstname Lastname/Iowa State Daily Board of Regents members have a meeting in the Memorial Union. The Regents recently selected a Transparency Task Force to increase trust.

Dr. Chris Leach visited the university on Thursday to speak in an open forum about his candidacy for the dean’s position in the college of business.

He talked about his philosophy on running the college of business, his background and why he would be well suited for this job.

The purpose for the open forum

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Friday The Art and Science of Rebuilding the Face: Facial Prosthetics and Applications of Advanced Technology in Biomedical Visualization When: 4:10 to 5 p.m.

What: Suzanne Verma, assistant professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Baylor College of Dentistry, will speak about careers stemming from medical illustration and clinical examples of anaplastology, or facial prosthetics.

Where: Kocimski Auditorium, 101 College of Design Heat Stress Symposium When: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

What: This year’s symposium, “Effects of Heat Stress on Post-Absorptive Metabolism,” welcomes faculty, staff and students to attend.

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is hosting its annual lawnmower service April 5 and 6. This is for the purpose of routine service only; no major repairs will be done. Drop off your lawn mower during the available service time.

Where: Industrial Education II Lecture: University Professor Peter Orazem When: 11:30 a.m.

What: University Professor Peter Orazem will present “Economic Freedom, Human Rights, and the Returns to Human Capital: An Evaluation of the Schultz Hypothesis,” as a portion of the Harkin Institute of Public Policy brown bag lecture series.

Where: 302 Catt Hall Cyclone Cinema: Zero Dark Thirty When: 7 to 9 p.m.

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ISU organization to host organ donor competition Group hopes to spread awareness on Friday

By Baily.McGrath @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State’s Public Relations Student Society of America will be hosting its annual National Organ Donor Awareness Competition on Friday.

The goal of the competition is to spread awareness of the importance of organ donation.

“It is a competition that PRSSA participates in to get the word out about organ donation and the importance of having communication about it,” said Samantha Gerken, senior in advertising and PRSSA president.

This year marks the 18th year of the competition.

PRSSA chapters across the country use their public relations skills through an organized campaign and all-day event.

It is based on how well a team can get the word out about organ donation, said Lindsey Schwarck, senior in journalism and mass communication and PRSSA’s public relations director.

“Our goals are to have a great turnout and really get students engaged. We want them to have a good time, but be able to take away the message that talking to your families is important and it can be fun and it should be a celebration of life,” Schwarck said.

Gerken encourages ISU students to stop by and check out the competition.

“I’m really hoping that we see around 500 or more students stop by,” Gerken said.

“If you are unsure about anything about organ donation and think it’s just a little mark on our drivers license, it’s not.

It is really important to fully understand what it means to be an organ donor and making sure your organs go to saving lives when you pass away.”

The day’s events will kick off at 11 a.m.

Event list ■■ “Birthday party” on Central Campus from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

■■ Tom Hill, vice president of Student Affairs, will attend from noon - 1 p.m.

■■ Fun continues into ISU AfterDark from 9 -11 p.m.

■■ Events include cupcakes, yard games, trivia, prizes, a photo booth, and scavenger hunt

with a birthday party and a theme of celebrating life. “[The party] is to honor the lives gained from organ donation and remember those lost,” Schwarck said.

“Organ donors are important because, no matter how young or old, they can go on to save someone’s life,” Schwarck said.

“You can be a living organ donor and have an impact as well.”

Special guests Tara and Michael Porche will be attending the event.

The couple lost their daughter Emily in a fatal car accident.

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The young girl’s organ donations exhibit the impact a that donor can have on others’ lives and how important it is to share with your family what your wishes are.

“It’s so much more than checking yes on your drivers license,” Schwarck said.

“It’s important to raise awareness and the need to have discussion because ultimately your family is the final decision unit.

They can override whatever is on your driver’s license, so it’s important for you to share with them what your plans are.”

The competition will take place on Central Campus from 11 to 1 p.m.

The event will include yard games, trivia, a scavenger hunt, a photo booth and cupcakes, as well as chances to win T-shirts and gift cards.

Tom Hill, senior vice president for student affairs, will be speaking to students and the special guests at noon about the competition as well as the importance of organ donation.

“At night, we will be at ISU AfterDark.

We will have a photo booth where students can come and take a few photos with friends and have a little keepsake.

They can also be part of a scavenger hunt,” Schwarck said. “We will have T-shirt giveaways and drawings as well.”

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>>LEACH.p1 is to give the “community both in the sense of the college of business community, students, faculty and staff, and the larger university community a chance to come and meet the candidates and hear what their philosophies are,” said Rob Schweers, program director for the senior vice president and provost office.

Pamela White, dean for the Human Science Administration, said, “We are thrilled with all of our finalists; they are all very worthy candidates [and] very qualified.”

Once all of the open forums have been completed by each of the three finalists, “We will get campus-wide input. The finalists will be meeting with all kinds of faculty, staff, and students on campus, including our administrators,” White said.

White said that she anticipates a dean to be named by the end of the semester.

The first finalist, Leach, told the audience about his educational experience as well as his “passion for the business of sciences and engineering.”

>>ALLEGATIONS.p1 tion that the department has not made clear “which of the 18 sports were involved and which coaches or employees had the improper contact with recruits.”

Randy Evans, editorial page editor at The Register, said if the comment from the department refers to Thursday’s editorial, it doesn’t change the opinion of the board.

“I don’t know that the statement or the quote from the university changes our view at all,” Evans said.

“Our point was that at a time when the universities are talking about the transparency of the universities, this sure seems to be a situation when more transparency was in order.”

During the three-year span

Throughout his speech, he discussed some of his research and the different things that would benefit as well as hurt the college of business and even the university as a whole.

His speech was filmed and will be posted on the provost website after all three finalists have been to the university.

He told his audience about the direction that he wants to take the college of business in. “I want to move in a direction of something that the university is known for,” Leach said.

He specifically mentioned what he could do for the students of the college of business if he were to be named dean.

“I would hope to bring to the college of business, specifically the undergraduate and Master of Business Administration (MBA) level, a sense of identity,” Leach said.

He wants to be able to give the students what they need to succeed in the world. “I want to give them the sense of, ‘I am apart of something bigger,’” Leach said.

If he were to become dean of the college of business, he would want to “bring an increased sense of accom-

from 2008-11, of more than 750,000 phone calls made during recruiting, 79 calls were made during the time in which coaches and their staffs were not allowed to call recruits.

The department also found 1,405 calls that were made but did not connect, according to the original release.

The editorial from the Register said Iowa State fell short when it failed to go deeper into specifics.

“ISU demonstrated that commitment by dealing promptly with the violations, but it fell short of its obligation to the people of Iowa by failing to inform the public of which members of the coaching staff were responsible,” the editorial said.

Iowa State said the information released Tuesday on the violations was released de-

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Leach’s credentials J. Chris Leach, current senior associate dean for faculty and research at the University of Colorado: ■■ Professor of finance ■■ Bachelor’s degree in computer science from Oral Roberts University ■■ MBA in finance from the University of New Mexico ■■ Master’s degree in management-economics from Cornell University ■■ Doctorate degree in finance from Cornell University

plishment to the students.”

Leach said he considered this position because he saw opportunity and an openness at Iowa State.

“I was brought to Colorado to be engaged in a joint venture between the business school and the engineering school in particular,” Leach said.

He went on to say that he saw some of the same opportunities at ISU’s, younger business school and

spite NCAA protocol that requires institutions not to comment publicly about any cases until they are fully resolved by the NCAA. Tim Day, the university’s faculty athletics representative, said that the athletic department is having no further comment until the matter is complete. This is simply to comply with the NCAA. “Our continuing [silence] is not about secrecy. (The entire report will soon be public.) It is because we are trying our very best to submit ourselves to the NCAA process,” Day wrote to ISU’s Athletics Council on Tuesday.

“As we will have ample time to show you, the investigation was exhaustive and painstaking; the depth and breadth of the data reported is literally unprecedented.”

>>PLUNGE.p1 tor of grants management and special events, as well as coordinator of the Polar Bear Plunge event, liked the idea. “I thought it would be fun to open it up to everyone in the Ames community,” Fellingham said.

Ames community participants will begin the Polar Bear Plunge at 1 p.m. with Special Olympics athlete Sara Cummings as their guest speaker. The greek community will begin their plunge at 5:30 p.m. with Special Olympics athlete Kim Lively as their guest speaker.

“The athletes who come and speak like to show how much they appreciate all the donations that allow them to do the competitions they do throughout the year,” Weaver said.

Fellingham said there is no alarming reason for the separation between the Ames community and the greek community for plunges.

“Simply because of time and logistics, we are having them go at separate times,” Fellingham said. So far, there are 20, non-greek participants signed up for the event.

“I am kind of disappointed in the lack of non-

Polar Plunge purpose The Polar Plunge is helping out 11,000 Special Olympic athletes

greek participants; it might take a year for everyone else to catch on to the change,” Weaver said.

Fellingham said there are 1,700 greeks signed up.

“We are having a record-breaking year in dollars raised and participants,” Fellingham said. “Overall, the mission of Special Olympics is out there, and it is a great way to support our athletes and have a lot of fun, too.”

The money that will be donated already totals $95,000, which is $3,000 more than last year, said Weaver.

“This event directly supports 11,000 Special Olympic athletes in Iowa,” Fellingham said.

The event takes place Saturday at Lake Laverne. Participants need to donate $50 to do the plunge, and they also receive a free T-shirt.

Photo: Zoe Woods/Iowa State Daily J. Chris Leach speaks in an open forum to discuss his qualifications and what he would do for the College of Business if he were named the dean.

said they were better in Iowa than Colorado.

He described Iowa State as having an openness to other technologies on campus.

“I personally am driven by wanting to see business students who can talk to technologists whether they are

Evans said if the “sensationalized” mention in Thursday’s release from the athletic department is aimed toward the Register’s editorial, he disagrees.

“I don’t think the edito-

scientists or engineers,” Leach said.

He said he looked to the future and saw what could be done here at Iowa State.

“There is something to build here and, to be honest, the culture seems wonderful, and the students look happy,” Leach said.

rial was sensationalized at all,” Evans said.

“I certainly respect the right of the administrators at Iowa State to have a different view. I don’t see a basis for the sensationalism as it relates to

the editorial.”

Iowa State said it will release the full NCAA report as soon as it has received the final version. A timeframe on how long it will take the NCAA to react remains uncertain.

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>>COMMITTEE.p1 cluding members from regent universities and influential Iowa programs.

The first meeting for the Task Force is Friday in Des Moines from 9:00 a.m. to noon.

Their main idea will be informing the members the charge of the force and a presentation on Iowa’s Open Meetings and Open Records Law. A recording of the meeting will be available on the Regents website shortly after the meeting is done. The Force is also scheduling public hearings across the state through the next couple of months.

Suggested on February 6, the Force includes one member of Governor’s Iowa Public Information Board, two members of the Iowa Legislature, one Regent, three members from Iowa’s public universities, Executive Director of Board of Regents and a member of the public.

Representative of the public, Jack Lashier, believes he was selected because of his unique position as director of the Iowa Hall of Pride. Around 50,000 Iowa students go on field trips to the Hall of Pride each year.

“If you look at the committee, they all represent a certain segment of the population of Iowa. When I was asked to do it, they asked me if I would be the voice that represents the public in general,” Lashier said.

The goal for the Transparency Task Force is to form a method to best respond to public information requests and provide access to information that would be found important to Iowans.

Task force members ■■ Members of the Transparency Task Force (courtesy of Board of Regents website): ■■ Regent Nicole Carroll, chairwoman ■■ Kathleen Richardson, Governor’s Iowa Public Information Board ■■ Patrice Sayre, Board of Regents chief business officer ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■

Jeff Danielson, state senator Peter, Cownie, state representative Mark Braun, University of Iowa Miles Lackey, Iowa State Dr. John Johnson, University of Northern Iowa Jack Lashier, Director of the Iowa Hall of Pride

“I’ve always thought that it is good to give back,” Lashier said. “I feel lucky to be in Iowa.

I feel anything we can do to help our state become better and more informed and more open, I’m all for that.”

Representing the Governor’s Iowa Public Information Board, Kathleen Richardson has been active in the area of open government for over a decade. She has worked for the Des Moines Register for 20 years and is the executive secretary of Iowa Freedom of Information Council.

“A lot of my career is devoted to these issues,” Richardson, also the director in Journalism and Mass Communications at Drake University, said. “I’m very interested in getting involved in this [Force]. I’m looking forward to it.”

Lashier suspects the members will be informed of how they are expected to function, how to interact with each other and how they are to represent the people of the public.

Both Lashier and

Fast facts The Board of Regents selected nine members to comprise the Transparency Task Force at its March 13 meeting.

The goal for the Transparency Task Force is to form a method to best respond to public information requests and provide access to information that would be found important to Iowans.

Members range from Iowa’s public universities to Iowa government boards to a representative of the public.

The Force’s first meeting is on Friday, April 5, in Des Moines, and they are scheduling public hearings across the state within the next couple of months.

Richardson said they look forward to showcasing all the great things about Iowa and Iowa’s universities.

“I feel blessed in what I do,” Lashier said. “I think it’s a way that I can give back. I hope that is the attitude of the whole force. I’m anticipating a really positive experience.”

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Accountability fundamental in government The Iowa Board of Regents, which governs Iowa’s three public universities in addition to a few other institutions, may soon become more transparent in its operations and be more accountable to concerned Iowans who want to ask Board members questions about their activities.

One of the Board members, Bruce Rastetter, outlined a plan to create a nine-member Transparency Task Force at the Board’s February meeting, and that group’s first meeting is Friday in Des Moines. Additionally, on Tuesday the Iowa Senate also passed a bill that would attempt to make the Board of Regents more transparent.

The addition of such practices to the Regents’ habit of holding a monthly meeting is not very surprising, given the loud complaints of the past few years regarding Rastetter’s connections to his former company’s plans to develop land in Tanzania, concerns about limiting the research domain of the Harkin Institute here at Iowa State, and the general micromanaging of Iowa’s public universities by the Board of Regents. Indeed, reform was going to happen at some point.

If done out of regard for the public interest instead of partisanship or factionalism, such reforms that better tailor a government agency to the present time and to present needs are a part of political renewal. As distinct from the broad constitutional principles that provide a foundation for every law and policy enacted by a majority, laws and policies should reflect the struggles of living in a certain time.

Public action has always been meant to resolve public problems. Tax cuts, for example, often are effective for only a short period of time, after which they expire and tax rates revert to their older, higher percentages. (Think of the tax cuts in the John F. Kennedy presidency.)

Laws usually respond to public problems. At the most basic level are budgets that give additional money to organizations that need it to operate effectively or that reduce funding because an agency has mishandled funds or grown too big or is less necessary than it used to be. When the economy experiences a downturn, many people look to the government to provide a stimulus through deficit spending.

At a state level, one recent example illustrates how even ordinary regulatory and police powers can be affected by events. This legislative session, one couple has been lobbying the state legislature to require new multi-family dwellings to install safer screens on windows. The impetus behind this advocacy is the fact that the couple’s young daughter fell to her death out of a window with a weak screen.

Although that example is tragic, it is probably safe to say that, except for the child’s death, the couple would never have thought to try getting a bill with such provisions passed.

The Iowa Board of Regents should be exposed to the same modifying forces. When there is a problem — or the perception of a problem — change is necessary. Very few ships are built so sturdily that they can sail through a hurricane with their masts fully rigged. The crew must, if they want to have a chance at survival, tie up the sails and secure the cargo. If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it — but if it’s broken, fix it, and soon.

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Graduation

College a stepping stone to successful life Preparing to face final weeks of college stirs up emotions

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ast weekend I went home to spend Easter with my family. My parents are moving into a smaller house since my sister and I will both be college graduates and (hopefully) will not need to live at home any longer. We spent the weekend going through storage bins full of our childhood things. I found a graduation cap I made for my preschool graduation and we joked about how I should wear it to my upcoming graduation ceremony so I won’t have to pay to rent one.

It was kind of fun to go through all of my old things. I found my swimming medals from high school, artwork and report cards from elementary school, and my favorite books from when I was a kid that I didn’t even know we still had. I definitely had one of those good “Wow, I’m actually growing up” moments where I was a little impressed with how many things I’ve actually done in my life up to this point.

That moment made me start thinking back on my time at Iowa State. I love being a student at Iowa State. I have made so many great memories (and there is still time to make a few more) and I will be very sad when the time comes to leave and the time will come for me to have a “college” box in storage.

Approximately five weeks from now I will be a college graduate. That thought both horrifies and excites me at the same time. I do not have any concrete plans set up and I have no clue what I want to do as a career. To those of you who do have plans and goals, please do not talk to me for the next five weeks. As much as I like not having a set plan and having the opportunity to explore different things, it also terrifies me. I have had a great run at Iowa State and I think I join other seniors in saying that I am going to miss the place that has become my home.

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By Hannah.Dankbar @iowastatedaily.com For me, graduation has the same feeling of coming into college as a freshman. I have no idea what to expect or what adventures I will choose in the upcoming years; all that I hope for is that it is great in every possible way. I have chosen some pretty cool adventures at Iowa State over the past few years, and hopefully this trend continues for me and everybody else in the class of 2013.

It was great to spend time with my family and get my mind off of the feeling of impending doom that I get whenever I think about graduation and my general lack of motivation now that the weather is getting tolerable. Usually when I go home for a weekend I end up feeling more stressed out about graduation than I usually do, but that did not happen last weekend and it was great.

Unfortunately, graduating from college is something we have to face. If we didn’t, Iowa State sure would have a lot more people enrolled.

It’s weird to think about becoming a real adult and having to deal with the “real world.” I know absolutely nothing about the real world and I know I am going to have many wake-up calls the next couple of years. Hopefully everything will work out and be completely fine and Iowa State will be my stepping stone to a very happy and successful life.

So, to all of you graduating seniors out there, let’s make the next five weeks count. To the rest of you, make the most of what you have left.

Hannah Dankbar is a senior in political science and Spanish from Johnston, Iowa.

Education

Choose knowledge, not just degree Learning proves useful in long run

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By Bijan.Choobineh @iowastatedaily.com

ost, if not all, students at Iowa State have some form of goal they wish to accomplish. Whether that goal is getting a degree, an education, or even a job, there are varying perspectives on how some students see the university.

Unfortunately, from analyzing my surroundings it seems to me that most students today are more focused on simply getting their degree more than they are on getting an actual education. This mind-set is not only harmful to the student; it is also harmful to society as a whole.

Let’s step back and take a look at the problem itself through an example. To many non-technical majors, there are some requirements that they want to get done with as fast as they can. For many students I’ve talked to this seems to be the natural science requirements. Unfortunately, most choose their classes in subjects like these based on merely what is a quick, “easy A.” General information: The Iowa State Daily is an independent student newspaper established in 1890 and written, edited, and sold by students

The issue then becomes that these students don’t learn anything in these classes as they pay little to no attention to them.

When I had to take my natural science credits for my political science degree, I ended up taking physics, of all things. My peers proclaimed that I was insane, but I pushed on, knowing that although I may not be in an “easy A” type of course, I would challenge myself and learn something.

Now, most everyone at Iowa State should know that tuition isn’t cheap. It costs an arm and a leg to study at such an institution. When paying such a large amount of money for a university education, don’t you want to get something more out of it than just a piece of paper? A piece of paper is just that: a piece of paper.

Let’s say that the world ended tomorrow and you and a few others had to rebuild society after fighting off the zombies and rolling with the “Tunnel Snakes” in your Vault. At this point, as yourself, what is going to be more

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important: a piece of paper or your knowledge? Although, understandably, the weekend forecast does not call for meteors, the concept is still the same.

Knowledge is power, and it is a power that is far greater than any degree can offer you. For those of you trying to just get a degree so you can get a job: How far do you think that degree will take you if you don’t have any knowledge to back it up?

These objectives of students at Iowa State also create a societal problem. As students, presumably all of us will be entering the workforce in the future. As the number of students who are just focusing on a degree and nothing else rises, what happens to the knowledge of our workforce? There will be more and more people out in the world who will have a degree but won’t have any knowledge to back it up because he or she focused more on getting the piece of paper than they did on learning something important at the university.

What happens, then, to society? I don’t want to say that it crumbles down, but there are clearly some problems that would

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arise from this action.

So as of now, you may be wondering what I am wanting to see students do more often. If you were paying attention, earlier I stated that some students were just taking courses for a grade or for a degree, and if you weren’t, then wake up! Am I suggesting that everyone start taking courses like Differential Equations? Of course not, don’t be ridiculous. I am not referring to the difficulty of the class, but the mind-set of the student.

With any class, students should focus on getting something out of it other than just a grade. Students should learn the material not just to be able to regurgitate it back into a test, but to gain that particular knowledge. The main question here: Is a degree more valuable and powerful than knowledge?

Short answer: No. Long answer: Nooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooo.

Bijan Choobineh is a senior in political science from Ames, Iowa.

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Photo: Grace Steenhagen/Iowa State Daily Junior Michelle Shealy does a flip during her performance on the balance beam. The judges awarded Shealy a final score of 9.850 out of 10. The ISU gymnastics team is hoping to grab one of the top two spots moving onto the NCAA Championships at the NCAA regional meet this weekend in Alabama.

ISU team prepares for regionals on Saturday

Men’s b’ball:

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Rutter leaves ISU following seven seasons

The ISU gymnastics team is more confident than ever heading into the regional meet this weekend.

Iowa State (5-12, 0-2 Big 12) will

Following seven seasons with the ISU men’s basketball team, Jeff Rutter is headed south to Des Moines to join Drake’s men’s basketball program.

Rutter arrived at Iowa State from Northern Iowa with Greg McDermott in 2006 after spending time in Cedar Falls from 2003-06. After four seasons as an assistant coach at Iowa State under McDermott, Rutter has spent the past three season’s on ISU coach Fred Hoiberg’s staff as the director of basketball operations.

The move sends Rutter back to the Missouri Valley Conference as he joins the staff of Ray Giacoletti, who was recently hired by the in-state rival Bulldogs.

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Women’s golf:

Chayanun earns Big 12 golf honor The Big 12 Conference announced Thursday that ISU sophomore Chonlada Chayanun was named the Big 12 Women’s Golfer of the Month for March.

The award is the first for Chayanun and the first awarded to an ISU golfer since 2011.

Chayanun is a Thailand native who came to play at Iowa State in 2011. As a freshman, she played in all 12 tournaments and tallied the third-best stroke average for a freshman in school history with a 76.69 average.

Chayanun is currently ranked No. 130 in the nation

by Golfweek. She recently recorded her best collegiate finish and tied for second with a 223 at the Purdue Mount Vintage Invitational, marking her lowest score of the season.

The Cyclones will begin tournament play at the Marsh Landing Invitational in Jacksonville, Fla., on Monday.

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travel to Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Saturday for its NCAA regional meet. The Cyclones will compete with five other teams with the top two moving on to the NCAA Championships.

“If we’re as sharp as we have been, we’re going to be competitive,” said ISU coach Jay Ronayne. “Our team has learned a lot in their time here. I

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To prepare for its regional meet, the ISU gymnastics team has been trying to add more fire to its competitions by working on team chemistry. To do this, the Cyclones have put up posters around the practice gym for each athlete.

“We can each go and put up positive comments for each other of what we’ve seen in the gym and things that they’re doing well,” said junior Michelle Shealy. “We’re going to take those to regionals just so we can read them and get a little confidence booster and know our team is behind us.”

Softball

Cyclones prepared for home opener

By John.Barry @iowastatedaily.com The ISU softball team (1419, 0-3 Big 12) will host the Oklahoma State Cowgirls (2414, 2-1 Big 12) Friday through Sunday, in a three-game home opener series.

This is the Cyclones’ second Big 12 series of the season, but they are still searching for their first conference win.

The team is currently on a four-game losing streak and are hoping to redirect its momentum against Oklahoma State.

“The girls are really excited for this weekend,” said junior infielder Sarah Hawryluk. “We’re excited to finally get on our home field and show Ames what we’ve been working toward.”

The cancelation of the game against Northern Iowa that was originally scheduled for Wednesday may have added an extra edge to this weekend’s contests.

“It’s not bad that UNI got canceled, but because it did, we’re all just so hyped about

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Oklahoma State,” said sophomore Jorden Spendlove.

“We’re hoping to have this stadium packed because everyone’s been talking about it all week.”

As for the visiting Cowgirls from Stillwater, Okla., the team is coming off of a series win against Texas Tech and have won 17 of their last 19 games.

Last year, the Cyclones lost three close games to Oklahoma State. Two of those games happen to be one-run losses.

“There’s some added in-

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Photo: Grace Steenhagen/Iowa State Daily Outfielder Sarah Hawryluk slides home at the Cyclone Invitational in February on a double by fellow outfielder Tori Torrescano. The hit by Torrsescano also had one other RBI.

centive to beat them after last year. We’ve been working on a back door curve that their pitcher throws this whole week,” Spendlove said. “We’re also practicing staying off of her riseballs because they finish out of the [strike] zone.”

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No-hitter

Photo courtesy of ISU Athletics Scott Fernandez has become used to success. He is also on pace to break the school record for lowest average round, making him one of the best golfers in the school’s history.

Spendlove was an offensive stud for the Cyclones at Baylor in the conference’s opening weekend, hitting a conference-high .556 and driving in two runs while extending her hitting streak to a career-long 10 games.

“We want to get on a winning streak again by focusing on each pitch rather than the whole weekend,” Hawryluk said.

The first of the three-game series will start at 4 p.m on Friday.

Iowa State prepares for Goliath in Tempe Cyclones remain positive before tough competition

Sports Jargon: SPORT: Baseball/softball DEFINITION: A no-hitter is when a pitcher doesn’t allow any hits. In order for a no-hitter to not be a perfect game the pitcher must allow a base-runner.

USE: Tori Torrescano recently threw a no-hitter for the ISU softball team.

Team chemistry for preparation

In his short career at Iowa State, Scott Fernandez has become used to success.

Last year, Fernandez had the best freshman golf season in Cyclone history.

This year, he has five top-10 finishes in six tournaments, is coming off a first-place finish at the Furman Intercollegiate and is on pace to break the school record for lowest average round, making him one of

the best golfers in ISU history.

But on Saturday, for perhaps the first time all season, Fernandez will not be the best golfer on the meet roster. In fact, he may not even be the second- or third-best.

Instead, Fernandez and the ISU men’s golf team will be playing the role of David in a match against several Goliaths at this weekend’s ASU Thunderbird Invite.

According to Golfweek. com, the Cyclones will face No. 1 California and No. 3 New Mexico.

“Cal and New Mexico have had great seasons,” said ISU coach Andrew Tank. “They

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Tough competition All five of California’s golfers rank in Golfweek’s top 27 players nationally California’s overall record: 120-21; Iowa State is 62-46-0 California and New Mexico have eight combined top-50 players Iowa State’s No. 2 golfer, Sam Daley, is ranked No. 486 in the nation Three of California’s players are in the top 6 of the Palmer Cup rankings (two USA, one Europe) Coach Andrew Tank on beating top teams: “I think always if you have five guys that go out there and play their best, in the game of golf anything is possible.”

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Cyclones not anticipating anything new this weekend

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The Cyclones don’t expect to see anything new on the courts this weekend.

The Iowa State tennis team (7-10, 0-4 Big 12) will take on both No. 34 Oklahoma (10-6, 3-2) and No. 31 Oklahoma State (10-5, 2-2) this weekend in Ames.

“We’re in a tough situation because we play such a tough schedule. So, it’s hard for the girls to see what they are doing right when they aren’t getting the results,” said the ISU tennis head coach Armando Espinosa. “If you start to question what you’re doing, it’s going to be a long season.”

The Cyclones have gone up against five ranked opponents so far this season with three future meets against teams currently ranked in the top 50.

In fact, seven of the 10 teams in the Big 12 are currently ranked in the top 50.

For senior Jenna Langhorst, this will be her fourth time competing against Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.

“We know they are tough teams, but we are ready to play,” Langhorst said. “We have to start out strong and make a better impression in doubles to show that we belong with them.”

>>GYMNASTICS.p5 think they’ve learned to be winners.

That’s what we’ve trained for this season all the way through to the end.

We’re peaking right now.”

In its regional meet, Iowa State will face No. 3 Alabama, the reigning national champion. The Cyclones will also compete against No. 9 Utah,

>>THUNDERBIRD.p5 have really proven that they are the best, so this is an opportunity for us to see how we stack up and it’s going to be great preparation for us as we look forward to the Big 12 Championship, which will probably be the secondbest field, probably, to this event.”

But California and New Mexico aren’t the only teams that will present a challenge to Iowa State in the hot desert of Arizona.

Nine of the 17 opposing teams rank higher than No. 91 Iowa State in Golfweek’s team rankings.

Of those teams, four rank in the

Last year, sophomore Meghan Cassens was the only current ISU player to register a victory against an Oklahoma State player en route to a 5-2 loss against the Cowboys.

“We’ve been playing well and figuring out our weaknesses,” Cassens said. “We had close matches with them last year, and they’re about the same skill this year. So, I think we have a shot.”

Of the five times the Cyclones have faced ranked opponents, they have yet to register a team victory.

“We just need to have belief,” Cassens said.

“I think with higher-ranked teams, we kind of go out there and think we don’t have the ability to do as well as we actually can.”

Constantly being the underdogs has made Espinosa instill a stronger mentality and attitude in his players.

“We’re trying to play smarter and make sure we’re not hurting ourselves. We have to make the other person earn the point, not just give it to them,” Espinosa said. “They’re already coming in with more confidence being higher ranked and having a better record, but we can’t just give them the victory. You just have to keep working [and] keep your nose to the ground and keep going.”

Both meets will be played at the Forker tennis courts this weekend.

The match against Oklahoma begins at 3 p.m. Friday, and the match against Oklahoma State will start at 11 a.m. Sunday.

Photo: Suhaib Tawil/Iowa State Daily Meghan Cassens prepares to return the ball back over the net during the win against Drake 5-2 on March 8 at Ames Racquet and Fitness. The team has a tough schedule this season.

No. 15 Denver, and No. 23 Kent State.

The team has taken on Kent State once, winning 193.625 to 193.575 after being down by almost half a point going into the final rotation.

Although Iowa State has not competed against the other four teams in its regional yet this season, senior Elizabeth Stranahan said the team is excited for the Alabama regional.

“The Alabama regional is going to be some of the best [teams] in the nation,” Stranahan said. “There is supposed to be 14,000 people in the arena. ... It’s a great arena to be in.”

To prepare his team for the crowds at Alabama, Ronayne has simulated meets while in practice. He said he wants them to feel the stress of competing and learn how to handle it, es-

pecially on balance beam and vault.

“We’ve actually been practicing kind of like meet situations where we’ll practice our 15-minute warmup and then go to another event and then come back later to the event to do the competition setting,” said junior Michelle Shealy.

To be competitive with the teams at regionals, Ronayne said his team

will have to meet the performance goals and target scores he has set.

“The performance goals that we have set for ourselves are to hit six routines on every event,” Ronayne said. “We have target scores that we want: 9.85 or better from at least five athletes per event. That will keep us competitive enough that we are in the running to qualify for the next level.”

top 50: No. 1 California, No. 3 New Mexico, No. 33 UNLV and No. 44 Arizona State.

With good teams come good players, and there will be no shortage in Arizona this weekend.

Of Golfweek’s top 50 players in the nation, 10 of them will put their talents on display at the ASU Thunderbird Invite.

Despite being ranked No. 18 in the nation, Fernandez is ranked lower than three of the players competing, including the nation’s No. 1 player and California standout, Michael Kim. “It pumps you up for sure,” Fernandez said of playing top com-

petition. “The other guys are really excited for that, too. I think we have a great opportunity to get our ranking up and we are in good shape right now.”

The team will likely need Fernandez to play at the record-setting pace he has played with all season to finish near the top of the leader board.

Tank also said the team effort needs to improve from earlier this season.

“For us to win, we need to get all five players playing well,” Tank said.

“Obviously, Scott’s an important piece to the puzzle, but really no dif-

ferent than any of the other five guys.”

Riding one of their best finishes of the season at the Furman Intercollegiate and facing some of the best competition in the nation.

The Cyclones have an opportunity to turn around what has been a sometimes frustrating season for Tank.

“We certainly have a lot to play for in the month of April and I’m excited about the opportunity we have at Arizona State,” Tank said. “It’s a great field, it’s going to be great weather and it’s a great golf course.”

Fernandez is also positive about the Cyclones’ chances against the premiere talent.

Matching up against some of the best collegiate players also doesn’t intimidate him.

“I like my game right now,” Fernandez said. “I’ve been working on the right things and I’m confident.

I’ve been talking to the guys, and we’re really looking forward to this opportunity. It’s just another thing to see where we are at — how far are we, how close are we to the great teams in the nation — so I think it will be good.”

The first round of the ASU Thunderbird Invitational will start Friday, followed by the second and third rounds to be played through Sunday.

St. Thomas Aquinas Church & Catholic Student Center

The Church was closed after a fire on September 25, 2012. After extensive restoration it will reopen Sat., April 20.

We wish to sincerely thank all those who provided neighborly assistance in the aftermath of our fire: Alpha Copies

Memorial Lutheran Church

Ames Fire Department

Nelson Electric

Ames Police Department

Reflections Glass

Archdiocese of Dubuque

Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church

Beta Sigma Psi Fraternity

Service Master of Story County

Collegiate United Methodist Church

St. Cecilia Catholic Community

Delta Upsilon Fraternity

St. John’s By the Campus Episcopal Parish

Gilbert Lutheran Church HPC, LLC Iowa State Scheman Building ISU Memorial Union Mechanical Comfort

Story Construction Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity University Lutheran Church Wessex

THANK YOU! To all who reached out to support the parish during its “exile” or expressed concern and support for the St. Thomas Aquinas faith community.