Thursday, April 7, 2016 | Volume 211 | Number 131 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
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Senate funds projects
Gender-dominated majors call for diversity By Lexie.Troutman @iowastatedaily.com
Special projects account used to fund improvements
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owa State has dozens of majors to fit each student’s interests and abilities, but some of these majors have been predominantly ruled by one gender over the other. Out of 455 students enrolled in the apparel, merchandising and design major, 26 of them are men. Christine Wise, academic adviser for apparel, events and hospitality management, explained how there were various things the department did to get more men interested in the program, such as showcasing them in their promotional videos and photographs. Wise receives a notice when a man shows up on the prospective student database. The design school tries to encourage those students to come on campus for a visit. Dustin Young, senior in apparel, merchandising and design, agreed that students who visit campus are more likely to take interest in the program. “Our program is getting bigger, and we are in the top 20 design programs in the world,” Young said. “I think with that growing it’s going to have more potential for people to come visit Iowa State and become more interested in the major.” In high school, Young applied to Iowa State as an aerospace engineering major. After taking calculus his senior year, he decided against the engineering field and arrived at Iowa State with an open option before settling on apparel. Young’s parents and friends were excited for him when he chose his major, saying they knew Young was interested in fashion and they were supportive of his decision. However, alternative stigmas came later. “When they think of apparel, they think of home economics and that
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Chelsey Crile/Iowa State Daily
Out of 455 students majoring in the apparel, merchandising and design, 26 of them are men. Only 28 of the 246 students in software engineering are women.
The last Senate meeting of the current session of Student Government was a full night of funding bills to be debated and voted on. Three main bills that were co-written by Student Government President Dan Breitbarth requested funds for almost $300,000 for various projects around campus, which would come out of the special projects account. The account currently has $650,000. One bill aimed to add 45 solar-powered trash compactors around campus. This would cost $157,500, and all of the compactors would be in place by the fall. The bill passed with a vote of 38 to 3. Sen. Cole Staudt cautioned that even though the special projects account has a surplus, “We need to make sure the money is being spent to improve campus.” Sen. Zackary Reece tried to add an amendment to the bill that would add $8,500 to fund new lights poles and new bulbs for the area between Carver Hall and Parks Library. Reece introduced a lighting bill twice previously, but both were tabled. Staudt said an amendment like that is not in vein with the original bill and would cause him to vote against the bill as a whole. The amendment failed by a vote of 11 to 15 to 5. One bill called for $115,000 for the addition of outdoor furniture placed around campus for students to relax or eat, with some locations being by the library or west of Kildee. Breitbarth rattled off dates in the winter that were above 50 degrees, dispelling the argument of weather being an issue.
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The Daily selects new editors-in-chief By Michaela.Ramm and Makayla.Tendall @iowastatedaily.com Emily Barske and Austin Anderson waited nervously in the newsroom of the Iowa State Daily, waiting for the publication board to conclude its meeting and call them in for presentations. Anderson paced. Barske sat, fingers laced together. Anderson, assistant sports editor, and Barske, special sections editor, were waiting to give their pitch to apply for the position of 2016-2017 editor-in-chief of the Iowa State Daily Media Group. The final decision was in the
hands of the publication board, a group of individuals composed of media professionals and student representatives who oversees the media group and make major decisions for the organization. When Barske, second year at Iowa State in journalism and marketing and the 2016 summer intern at the Cedar Rapids Gazette, was chosen for the position, she smiled and respectfully shook hands with Anderson. “As editor-in-chief, my goal would be to find new, better and different ways to strengthen our relevance in the ISU community,” she said. Barske said she would like to
spend 60 percent of her time outside of the newsroom interacting with the community and 40 percent bringing in what she’s learned in the community to the newsroom. She plans to create new positions within the newsroom, including a digital editor and a web analytics coordinator. She said she hopes to revamp another position to create the engagement coordinator. As a student who has been involved with many other student organizations on campus, Barske said she identified The Daily as the one that held the most value for her.
“[Other groups] have been focused on one issue or one focus,” Barske said. “The Daily is talking about any issue, and it gives students the opportunity to have a voice. There are so many things we cover, and we have the potential to influence.” Barske said her experience in various other student organizations will help her to understand her audiences, something Lawrence Cunningham, general manager of the Iowa State Daily Media Group said is a big focus of the overall organization. “There was a time as a business
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Makayla Tendall/Iowa State Daily
Emily Barske was selected Wednesday as the 2016-2017 editor-in-chief of the Iowa State Daily Media Group.
Report shows crime decrease By Alex.Connor @iowastatedaily.com The seventh annual report on campus safety and security, which outlines the 2015 fiscal year, was released Monday and presented by the Campus Safety and Security Sub-Committee of the Iowa Board of Regents on Wednesday. The report includes information from all three Iowa public universities: Iowa State, the University of Iowa and the University of Northern Iowa, where topics such as mass communications capabilities, physical security capabilities and crime statistics are addressed. Crime statistics The report issued a summary of the number of offenses, total charges and total arrests by quarter for the 2014 and 2015 calendar years among all three universities. The report states that there were 1,879 offenses at Iowa State
in 2015, compared to 2,042 offenses in 2014. Out of those offenses, there were 1,011 charges in 2015, 264 less than 2014. Out of the 1,011, 792 ended in arrests, according to the report. Compared to Iowa and Northern Iowa, where 20 percent of the offenses resulted in arrests, 42 percent of Iowa State’s offenses resulted in an arrest. The document also included the number of charges brought against students and the number of alcohol-related charges out of the total charges. “Alcohol-related charges include: public intoxication, operating while intoxicated, possession of alcohol under legal age, open container, bootlegging, providing liquor to a minor and attempting to purchase alcohol by minor and serving/selling alcohol after hours,” the report stated. About 66 percent of charges were against ISU students, and 35 percent of the charges were alcohol-related and student in-
volved. Only 13 percent of student charges were alcohol-related at Iowa, and 17 percent of student charges were alcohol-related at Northern Iowa. At a glance Iowa State has 37 sworn, statecertified officers, while Iowa has 34 and Northern Iowa has 18. All three universities employ parttime students who assist the police departments with dispatch and other related duties, according to the report. The number of community service officers and number of hours of security staffing also increased at Iowa State. A full-time department supervisor was also assigned to the College of Veterinary Medicine. Iowa State also recently finalized implementation of on-call sexual assault nurse examiners, increased the number of doors controlled by electronic access systems and increased the number of digital cameras across campus.
Katy Klopfenstein/Iowa State Daily
The seventh annual Campus Safety Report for fiscal year 2015 showed a decrease in crime at Iowa State. The total numbers of offenses/incidents, charges and people arrested were all lower than they were in 2014.
In regard to mass communication, “two situations required the issuance of an emergency warning message to community members” during the 2015 calendar year, the result of both alerts convening to a successful resolution, according to the report. Social media was also touched
on in the report, which stated that Twitter and Facebook were initiated in 2013 to create positive interactions with the community. They are deemed effective with the department having approximately 4,838 likes on Face-
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