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Jourdan Moore, senior in elementary education, leads a group of young students in exercises as part of a physical education program for home-schooled youth in Ames.

Students help home-schooled kids get active By Carolina.Colon @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State University created a program several years ago that aims to get home-schooled children from kindergarten to fourth grade physically active. The program is set in Forker Hall under the supervision of ISU professors and students that are in the human sciences department. The children visit Iowa State every Monday from 2-3 p.m. for a total of 12 weeks. The physical activities they engage in include

swimming, dancing, running and other active sports. About three groups with 35 children run and play each Monday on campus, giving the home-schooled children the opportunity to interact with their peers. The physical education class not only enhances their physical skills, but also they’re cognitive and intellectual abilities, too. Spyridoula Vazou, assistant professor of kinesiology, loves to interact with the children. “Home-schooled children are very respectful, have a positive attitude and are very interested in meeting other people,” Vazou said. “In young kids, it is very important to be in physical education in order

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NSE participant goes to Alabama

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Fundraising pages repair riot aftermath By Danielle.Ferguson @iowastatedaily.com The echoes of the Veishea riot still ring throughout campus. Sarah Ashby, former ISU student, said she was heartbroken to hear of what happened at Veishea and all the negative light the event was shedding on Iowa State. The Tuesday night riot that resulted in cars flipped, light poles tipped and a student airlifted with a head injury caused the longstanding ISU tradition to be canceled in the middle of the week. The cancellation caused many students, alumni and community members to become upset and want to make a change. The student who was injured was sent to an intensive care unit in Des Moines. John McCarroll, with university relations, said the last update he had heard about the individual was that he was released from the hospital and returned home to continue recovery. “It seemed like only negative things were coming out of this,” Ashby said. “This is my school. Ames is my home. The community doesn’t deserve that.” So she did something about it. Ashby created the webpage “$5 for ISU and Ames: Veishea Recovery” the day after the riot to raise funds for the family of the individual who was injured as well as to help those whose cars were flipped. She said she created the website as a way to “give students a chance to redeem themselves.” The page’s creation post states: “Donate $5.00 Towards Showing Everyone Who WE REALLY Are!” Within hours, the page had hundreds of Facebook

shares and had raised hundreds of dollars within a few hours. Within 12 hours, the page had raised about $3,000 from 274 contributors. Ashby said the page has plateaued a bit at about $5,796, with the latest donation being $65 around April 26. Ashby said she has been working with the city of Ames to make sure the money goes to the right people. She said she will create an account and give the rights to the city or “whoever has the authority to distribute that money fairly” and the bank will supervise the account. “I just want to make sure it’s done the proper way and they have whoever has the authority to look at the insurance information of the people whose cars were damaged and determine their deductibles and look at their service records to see if their car was actually damaged when they say it was,” Ashby said. This fundraising page was not the only one created from the aftermath of Veishea. Chris Martin with Food at First decided to show appreciation for the students who worked hard to put Veishea together. The page, entitled “Help ISU Clubs!” aims to raise money for Iowa State clubs that usually benefit from Veishea fundraising. “With the cancellation of Veishea, so many Iowa State clubs that count on Veishea as their primary yearly fundraising effort won’t have the opportunity to raise money. This is an effort to help them out. Won’t you please consider a small donation to help these committed young people?” Martin wrote on the page.

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Sophomore William Rabe will be studying at Alabama next fall in an exchange program offered by NSE.

By Justin.Lo @iowastatedaily.com An ISU student will be following in his father’s footsteps when he spends the upcoming school year at the University of Alabama as part of the National Student Exchange program. William Rabe, a sophomore in chemical engineering and biochemistry from Ramsey, Minn., will have the opportunity to attend the alma mater of both his father and mother next year because of the program. “Both of my parents went [to

Alabama],” Rabe said. “We’re huge Alabama fans.” Rabe’s father, William Rabe III, spent a year at the University of Alabama as a participant in the National Student Exchange program 31 years ago as a college student at the University of North Dakota. “He had told me that he had done [the National Student Exchange program] and I didn’t realize that until this year,” Rabe said. “[The University of Alabama] has my major so that worked out pretty well.” It was at the University of Alabama that Rabe’s father met his

mother, Kimmie. Rabe’s father transferred to the University of Alabama and Rabe’s parents continued to study in Alabama until they both completed medical school there. The National Student Exchange program allows Iowa State students to study at different universities anywhere in the nation without having to pay the out-of-state tuition rate of that school. About 50 ISU students participate in the exchange every semester and can choose to study in places such as: Hawaii, Alaska, New York, California, New Mexico and Florida. “Part of Iowa State’s mission is to encourage our students to seek outof-classroom experiences and to really expand their college education,” said Debra Sanborn, the program director of Iowa State’s National Student Exchange program. “Students can take courses that we don’t offer here or add a different component to their academic curriculum that really suits their needs.” Sanborn also said that the program can help students study at institutions where they might want to attend graduate school, experience living in a part of the country where they would like to live in someday and learn from other experts in their field of study. When a student participates in the National Student Exchange pro-

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Students cope with being away from home By Katharina.Gruenwald @iowastatedaily.com Many international students cross long distances to get to Ames, making quick visits home over breaks much more difficult. Monalisa Pati, graduate student in business administration and international student from India, has not been home since she arrived in Ames last fall and she will not return until the next winter break. She said she has not been truly homesick, not even when she initially arrived. “I call my parents at least once a day over Skype,” Pati said. “Therefore I haven’t been that homesick, I just continue calling them.” Pati said she feels quite integrated into Ames. “And people here are so nice. If they can they will help you so much.” Pati has met a lot of friends both from India and other places at Iowa State, which she said is an important factor in not feeling homesick. She said she really misses the food from India

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Monalisa Pati, right, and Devanshi Mehta, left, talk in the Maintenance Shop on Wednesday. Pati and Mehta are international students who will be living in Ames during the summer.

though. “I started to put up recipes or Skype with my mom while starting to cook these dishes,” Pati said. “My culinary skills have improved a lot after coming here.” Devanshi Mehta, a graduate student in community and regional planning and international student from India, said she

also misses Indian food. Mehta spent one year as a student in Buffalo and has since transferred to Iowa State, making this her second straight year away from home. She said she occasionally experiences homesickness, missing not just the food but also the way of life in her home city. “I come from a larger

city. I miss seeing people around,” Mehta said. “Here if I go out at seven, it is pretty much dead. I kind of miss the social life.” Mehta most often communicates via facebook with her mother. “It is rather expensive flying to India and it is a very long flight,” Mehta

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