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FACES IN THE CROWD PG. 2 TERRORISM AND ISLAM PG. 3 OLYMPIC SERIES PT. 2 PG. 5 Gloria Betcher We can’t limit what happens on our public streets as long as

it’s within constitutional guidelines.

Like • Reply David Hudson A private entity can prohibit the display of certain symbols

--- a more difficult question is whether an event held on city streets with city funds is sufficiently imbued with state action in order to trigger the First Amendment.

I would assume a decent argument could be made -- city approval, city streets, city funds, etc.

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Jana Dunn We don’t fly it at all in prejudice. It’s a battle flag [and] part of history. It’s not a symbol of hatred or racism at all, it’s a heritage.

Like • Reply Jenny Alfonso Bikers really come together about anything.

Like • Reply Reginald Stewart You’re not going to sway the pro-Confederate flag side to the con-side. You’re not going to get people to budge.

I’m just asking people to read the legacy of the Confederate flag and what it symbolizes and what it is meant to symbolize. And then ask, is that reflective of the culture today?

Like • Reply Paul Livingston We’re developing a policy going forward that will prohibit vendors on displaying anything that would be overtly political, certainly overtly racist.

I wanted to extend our apologies and assure you it has our full attention.

Like • Reply Kathleen Hilliard You can’t separate that heritage from what the South was based on. The vice president of the confederacy, Alexander Stephens, said in a speech that slavery was the cornerstone of the confederacy, he said that, outright.

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Free speech is necessary

Terrorism is not about Islam

By Michael.Heckle @iowastatedaily.com The fear of Islamic terrorism has been embedded into the thoughts of Americans, and not without good reason. The recent attack in Orlando has shown that the threat of extremism is real, even here in the United States.

However, the conversation seems to always point itself at Islam as a religion.

While it is natural to fear an ideology that has been twisted enough to lead to countless deaths, the recent attacks on Baghdad and Saudi Arabia bring into light the true nature of terrorist groups like ISIS. By attacking Medina, as well as other cities with high Muslim populations, during the conclusion of Ramadan, ISIS showed the world that its campaign of terror and hate has little to do with an accurate representation of Islam.

Medina is the resting place of Prophet Mohammad and is considered to be the

second most holy site for Muslims. The attack was the deadliest of three that occurred in Saudi Arabia, a country where almost the entire population is Muslim and Sharia Law reigns supreme.

However, these attacks are just the latest in a campaign of violence that has tainted the holiest month in the Islamic faith.

As America continues to heal from the attack in Orlando, it is easy to forget (or simply refuse to mention) that Muslims are just as, or even more, susceptible to the threat of terrorism as non-Muslims.

As the death toll from ISIS’s most deadly attack in Baghdad rises to 200 killed and 149 injured, those who have unjustifiably lumped all Muslims into the category of “terrorist” are forced to face the fact that ISIS has attacked Islam itself.

During the month of Ramadan, a holy month dedicated to fasting and spiritual reflection, ISIS carried out a campaign of bloodshed and terror that targeted both Muslims and non-Muslims.

The terrorist group is responsible for, or at least suspected in, attacks on Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, Yemen, Bangladesh, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Orlando, killing well over 300 people.

While we have every right to criticize an ideology for its violent tenets (to say that Islam and its holy book are entirely pacifistic is not only disingenuous but untrue,) that criticism should not be a basis for discrimination against those who peacefully follow a religion.

Furthermore, the idea that Islam itself leads to extremism more than any other ideology has no real foundation. As more and more Muslims are killed as a result of terrorist groups like ISIS, the claim that this extremism represents all Muslims becomes more and more ridiculous.

Islam is not the problem. Extremism is.

It’s clear that terrorist groups like ISIS have little to do with Islam, or at least the Islam that is practiced by the vast majority of the world’s Muslim population. As anti-Islamic attitudes consume the conversation about terrorism, we neglect some of its most vulnerable victims.

There is no “us” and “them” between the western world and Islamic nations.

We are all susceptible to the threat of Islamic extremism. The more and more we separate ourselves from the Islamic victims of terrorism through fear-mongering and misinformation, the harder it is to stand united against the real enemy.

Free speech may not always be pretty, it may not always be nice, but it is necessary.

Granted under our First Amendment rights, our freedom of speech comes with our freedom to practice religion, to petition, to peacefully assemble and our freedom of the press.

In a Gallup survey, sponsored by the Knight Foundation and in partnership with the Newseum Institute, 73 percent of college students and 56 percent of U.S. adults said that they felt that their freedom of speech was secure.

So the question is, what does it mean to feel secure in your speech?

The freedom of speech, which is the right to express any opinions without censorship or restraint, has allowed many to spew hate speech or voice their concerns... or say something nice.

According to the survey, many students are unable to distinguish controversial views from what they see as hate, however.

They are even in favor of establishing policies that would restrict language and behavior that are offensive to certain groups, “but not the expression of political views that may upset or offend members of certain groups.”

But what does it mean to determine those boundaries?

We must find a middle ground where people can express their ideas and concerns without targeting groups who, like all of us, have the right to be who they are.

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Ames Bike Night leaves many curious

By Alex.Connor @iowastatedaily.com Nearly 2,000 bikers from the Ames area gathered June 24 for what was expected to be a night of food, fun, beer and motorcycles.

In which it was.

However, on the patches on the vests of many of the bikers sported the Confederate battle flag. And on the roof of the trailer for Cool Biker Stuff, the main vendor of the night, the symbol of the South flew.

For some, the flag was nothing more than a symbol of a fight their ancestors fought. For others, the flag represented a separatist ideology of white supremacy and slavery.

And the next morning, after a photo gallery highlighting writer Gavin Aronsen’s interpretation of the night, published by the Iowa Informer, an independent, alternative media source, made its way to the limelight, a wave of disagreement ensued.

This then led to an editorial written by Aronsen about the response to his

article, and disagreement from many Ames residents once again followed.

Aronsen had posted his article to Ames People, a private Facebook group. Some in the group thought that Aronsen and those who agreed with him were being too “politically correct.” Some felt that Aronsen was in the wrong and that their rights to

Livingston described that the vendor Cool Biker Stuff displayed “offensive paraphernalia.”

“We’re developing a policy going forward that will prohibit vendors on displaying anything that would be overtly political, certainly overtly racist,” Livingston

it for a week.’ This could be something that could be a part of a focus for the HRC,” Betcher said.

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represent their heritage trumped opposing views.

Those who agreed with Aronsen and saw the flag as a racist representation asked others to look beyond their own personal history.

Then, the Vice President of the Ames Main Street Cultural District Paul Livingston issued an apology at the City Council meeting Tuesday night.

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said. “I wanted to extend our apologies and assure you it has our full attention.”

Gloria Betcher, ward one representative, said that she wants the Human Relations Commission to play an active role in the process moving forward.

“A continued conversation, rather than just a one of, ‘we had this event, it went wrong, let’s talk about

Amendment rights?

“We can’t limit what happens on our public streets as long as it’s within constitutional guidelines,” Betcher said.

Assistant City Manager Brian Phillips told the Tribune that City Council requested the city’s legal counsel be involved to ensure any policy change is legally sound.

The commission will deal with a unique situation with the policy and how the time, place and manner of speech can and cannot be regulated, Phillips said to

the Tribune.

The commission will meet 6 p.m. Thursday, July 7 in Room 233 at City Hall, according to city officials.

David Hudson, First Amendment Ombudsman for the Newseum Institute, offered his perspective on possible outcomes.

In an email Daily, Hudson said, that if “A private entity can prohibit the display of certain symbols --- a more difficult question is whether an event held on city streets with city funds is sufficiently imbued with state action in order to trigger the First Amendment.

“I would assume a decent argument could be made -- city approval, city streets, city funds, etc.”

It’d get tricky if the City passed a regulation or ordinance prohibiting the display of the Confederate flag on city streets, Hudson said.

“Then that certainly would raise [a] serious First Amendment flag.”

Jana Dunn, store owner of Cool Biker Stuff, and Jenny Alfonso, co-worker, were the ones who set up shop at Ames Bike Night. They often travel events around the area.

Dunn said her initial reaction was just shock.

“We don’t fly it all in prejudice. It’s a battle flag

[and] part of history. It’s not a symbol of hatred or racism at all, it’s a heritage,” Dunn said.

However, Kathleen Hilliard, associate professor of history, disagreed.

“You can’t separate that heritage from what the South was based on. The vice president of the confederacy, Alexander Stephens, said in a speech that slavery was the cornerstone of the confederacy, he said that, outright,” Hilliard said.

Dunn accredited a lot of the miscommunication to the misunderstanding of the biker culture and what it means to be a rebel biker.

“It [Aronsen’s post] made us look like a bunch of racist pigs,” Dunn said.

Alfonso was also shocked at the reaction from Ames.

“We try and have a lot of variety of stuff, we have funny patches, and some very serious military ones,” Alfonso said.

Dunn also pointed out that while they did have the Confederate flag on their roof, they also had other flags, such as an Iowa Hawkeye flag, the United States flag and military flags, among many others.

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Olympics brings new life, eyes to gymnastics

By Rich.Stevens @iowastatedaily.com The ISU gymnastics team marched down the hall into the practice facilities in Beyer Hall. What followed next was a sight to behold.

During the summer, there aren’t formal practices. Between short sprints, a rope climb, and various stretching activities, the Cyclone gymnasts find ways to condition themselves and get stronger for their upcoming season.

After about 45 minutes, they break from their continuous cycle of exercise and work on their own individual needs.

They run this practice themselves, while head coach Jay Ronayne looks on.

Ronayne said that during the school year, his athletes

will train around 20 hours per week to perfect their skills.

To put that into perspective, Olympic-level gymnasts are training anywhere from 40 to 60 hours.

Ronayne said he first noticed gymnastics in the 1976 Olympics, held in Montreal.

“I was really into track,” said Ronayne. “The ’76 olympics, with Bruce Jenner, made me want to become a decathlete. But, I was also exposed to gymnastics.”

As a child obsessed on sports, he consumed as much of the Olympics as he could, and that included watching in awe at the performances of the men’s and women’s gymnastics teams from across the globe.

The Olympics had him hooked.

“Two years later, I had a chance to participate in

gymnastics because my mom’s friend ran a gymnastics club,” Ronayne said.

“It was the Olympics that pulled me in.”

Something the Olympics bring to the table for gymnasts, other than national attention, is a new host of entrants into the sport.

With more exposure than any time during any given stretch of four years, a lot of kids see these high-flying athletes perform on the international stage, and want to give it a shot. They see something that looks fun, challenging or interesting.

However, the older demograhic has a different take on the games. They might find something that they might like to go see live.

Gymnastics is one of the most watched events on television during the Olympics.

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Head coach Jay Ronayne and a former ISU gymnast Shea Anderson celebrate her senior season at an award ceremony.

Every four years, the gymnasts get a little extra sense of pride in what they do.

The general population realizes that there’s a group

of people who are doing these impossible stunts all the time.

“For a sport that’s not as mainstream as basketball,

baseball, or football, that’s usually how it happens,” Ronayne said. “It’s a very special time, every four years. It gets people interested. It happened to me, and it probably happened to every one of those young ladies that are working over there right now.”

Ronayne also said that he hopes the Olympics boosts the attendance numbers at meets this coming season.

It’s very important to coaches and athletes alike to see their sport get attention, and there’s no better way to do that than to attend a meet. Packed stands bring out the best in an athlete.

Every four years, the U.S. is reminded, once again, how special it is to watch these athletes perform.

For the Cyclones, it’s just another day.

Melvin Ejim on Canada’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament roster

By Ben.Visser @iowastatedaily.com Canada is moving to the forefront of the basketball world.

Former NBA point guard Steve Nash was the player that put Canadian basketball on the map. Now players like Andrew Wiggins and Tristan Thompson have carried that torch in the NBA. But Canada has a host of other players in other professional leagues, and college, that are growing Canadian basketball even more. Players like former ISU men’s basketball forward Melvin Ejim.

“We put people on notice that we are going to have a

really good program coming up,” Ejim said in a phone interview with the Daily.

“It’s been an unbelievable experience to be a part of that, and be at the forefront of that. Hopefully we can continue grow and improve and head in the direction.”

Last year Canada hosted the Pan-American Games.

Canada and Ejim received their first ever medal in the PanAm games, earning a silver medal.

Canada Basketball announced its Olympic Qualifying Tournament Roster on Sunday, and Ejim’s name was on it.

“I’m extremely excited,” he said. “Having been a part of the PanAm games last year, playing in the Olympic

Iowa State Daily Ejim attempts to guard an Oklahoma player. Ejim played for the Cyclones from 2010-2014 before being playing internationally for two seasons in Italy.

Qualifiers in Mexico. I’m extremely excited to have another opportunity to try and qualify for Rio, and get another chance to represent my country.”

Eighteen countries are trying to qualify for three spots in the 2016 Rio Olympics.

The 18 teams were separated into three tournaments.

The winner of each tourna-

ment goes to the Olympics.

Canada has Senegal, Turkey, France, New Zealand and Philippines in their tournament.

Ejim has been playing the last two years in Italy. He believes that international experience will help him.

“You play against so many different players from all over the world when you play overseas,” Ejim said. “I think you learn the style of play, the concepts that they use and I think that brings a lot to the table.

“I think [international experience] is going to be vital.

We have a lot of guys with international experience and our coaches have tons of international experience.

It’s only going to help us get

prepared for what we have a head of us.”

Ejim recorded seven points, two rebounds and two points in Canada’s 77-69 win over Turkey on Tuesday.

Winning their tournament won’t be easy. France has six NBA players on their roster including, All-Star Tony Parker.

“We are facing some of the top teams at the qualifier and have prepared by completing a rigorous preparation schedule in Europe,” Nash, the general manager said in a statement. “We have a tremendous opportunity to achieve an Olympic berth and our players and staff will be doing everything possible to achieve our goal of qualifying for Rio.”

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One-on-One with Steve Martin

When he’s not traveling the world lecturing on glass batteries, he’s with his students – or quilting.

By Jenna.Hrdlicka @iowastatedaily.com

What is your research focused on?

Steve Martin, a professor of materials science and engineering, is performing ground-breaking research in glass and has traveled the world to talk about it. He recently sat down with the Daily to discuss his career and experiences in the field.

I’m what you call the glass guy. I do all kinds of glass research and work on solving glass problems. For example, I develop and study new types of glasses to make it impossible, though we’re not there yet, for your screen on your phone to crack.

At the same time, I’m an

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engineer. I want it to never break, but is has to be light, be thin, be easily manufactured, and if it could cost nothing, that would be great.

The thing I love about what I do is that I work within this world of constraints.

How do you achieve all of these things? You can’t just be good in one aspect, you have to be good all around.

How did you initially get involved in this field?

My father was a quadriplegic and we lived on social security; we were just dirt poor.

One place mom could send us for free was the library.

When I went to university, I noticed the library in our department was a mess. I needed money, so I asked the department chairman if he would hire me to clean up the library.

I got to read all of the new chemistry journals that came through each month, and in one I discovered an Australian professor of chemistry at Purdue University who was using glass to develop a new type of high-energy density battery.

I was interested in batteries, and I had grown up right across the river from a window glass plant that my grandfather worked at, so I would talk to him often about glass.

How did you become a professor at Iowa State?

I had some really interesting thesis research at Purdue University. My professor at the time is extremely wellknown, and he and I were going to a conference to give an invited talk. When he gives a talk, 400-500 people show up.

He talked to the organizers and told them, “I’m going to talk for 20 minutes and then I’m going to invite Steve, my graduate student, to come

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Distinguished professor Steve Martin is also the advisor for the Glass Blowing Club at Iowa State.

up and finish my talk.” That was my first experience in major conference talks, and it was in front of 500 people.

The talk went over very well, and lots of people came up afterward. One professor in particular, David Martin—a professor of glass science at Iowa State at the time— came up and asked what I was planning on doing after Purdue. I really hadn’t thought about what job I would take. He told me about the glass research program they had going on here. I agreed to come out and interview, and they offered me a job on the spot. I initially turned the job down.

I narrowed my decision down to three options. My wife had liked Ames, and the school offered me matched salary and a 12-month salary, unheard of for professors at the time, so I ended up calling back and accepting the position.

I went from graduate student on a Wednesday to assistant professor on the following Monday, just like that, and it’s been kicks and giggles ever since. Iowa State has been a wonderful place.

What do you like about Iowa State?

The focus on quality education and the academic

support. Both our kids and our faculty are very strong.

Iowa State is a tough place on professors. If I get below a four on evaluations, I have a meeting with my department chair to see what’s going on. We’re very focused on our students, and at the same time, we have to compete on research dollars. So we have to be world-class in our teaching and world-class in our research as well.

It’s kind of a notch up here, and that makes this a special place.

What is your ultimate career goal?

To make a solid state battery—a working battery out of glass.

When my son was five years old he said to me, “Dad, are you ever going to invent the everlasting battery?”

So my career goal is to make the everlasting battery for my son. This is a violation of the first law of thermodynamics, so we’ll never make an everlasting battery, but we can make a lot better batteries. Batteries that last longer, that are easily manufactured and that are safer. I think using glass will allow us to accomplish this.

Tell me about the Glass Blowing Club that you are an advisor for.

It’s really popular, but unfortunately we are small because of limited space.

We can only have about 16 new members each year, so at any one time we only have about 60-70 members.

We’re a little sad right now because our current studio is going to be torn down and moved to the new Student Innovation Center. Although we’re excited to get a new studio, a temporary studio to use during the transition would have been too ex-

Wednesday, July 6, 2016 pensive. It would have cost about $500,000 dollars to build. The school was willing, but I thought, imagine how many full ride tuition scholarships you could give to students just for us to have a temporary studio.

You have been invited to do talks and presentations all over the world. Tell us a little about those.

There are only about 7-10 people in the world who do this kind of stuff as well as I do. And it just so happens that research on these glasses is becoming very interesting; people want to learn about it.

Why else do you travel?

I fly to all kinds of places for a variety of reasons. I fly for conferences, collaboration and even consulting.

When I get back from my trip to Germany I will be traveling to Settle to visit a law firm because I am consulting with them on a glass manufacturing problem.

I also fly to check on the students that I send abroad for research. Not only do I send my students internationally to do research, but other universities send their kids here to Iowa State to research as well. During my trip to The University of Münster in Germany, I will

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be visiting an ISU student who is studying there and also a student from Germany who studied here.

What do you like to do for fun outside of work?

Believe it or not, I am a quilter. I make all of my nieces and nephews baby quilts when they are born and then T-shirt quilts when they graduate.

I also referee for both adult and high school soccer games around the area, I do lots of woodworking and I love to read. Right now I’m reading the Century Trilogy.

I also love sappy love stories; I am a big Nicholas Sparks fan. I typically read about three different types of books at one time. Usually it’s a sappy love story, or something like that, a historical fiction book and something in respect to technical or self-help.

What is your biggest accomplishment?

Getting my wife to marry me. I couldn’t believe it; I thought, there’s no way! But I married my high school sweetheart. Number two is having my wonderful three children.

Just being a professor is one of my biggest accomplishments. The research is great; I’m walking my dream right now being able to work on the stuff that I’m most experienced in, but I do it because I get research funds that I can support students with. The students are why I’m here.

What’s the most rewarding part of teaching for you?

I think it’s when the students get it. I get to teach seniors, so in my class we combine all of the knowl-

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When they start understanding the connections, they can start synthesizing things and really working through problems. I get to see that learning process and when they really get it it’s just like, “Yes, yes, yes! I win!” I think it’s cool.

The other thing I love to do is get the kids jobs because it really empowers them and changes their lives in a really cool way.

We just got a big $3 million proposal for one of our current projects, Advanced Research Projects AgencyEnergy. This project is dealing with developing new types of sodium batteries to help store wind energy here in Iowa.

And just yesterday I submitted a proposal that was my dream come true. It was a request from the Department of Energy because they think this really will work.

I have been working in this area for 40 years, and throughout that time people have never really believed that these new materials would work.

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BIKE p4 speech. We’re not here saying we support the Nazis or the KKK, we are not that at all,” Alfonso said.

“This flag does not represent that to us at all,” Dunn said.

Hilliard said that the flag that people saw at Bike Night was one that became really popular after the civil war.

“It became a symbol for some of what the South was,” Hilliard said.

She said it as what historians discribed as an ideology that white southerners developed after the war called the “lost cause.”

“But it was worth fighting for. The flag became for many people a symbol of that,” Hilliard said.

Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Reginald Stewart commented on the issue, saying that flags have a very nationalist orientation, and that there is no gray area.

“That line is clean. You

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either believe it is about culture, or supremacy.

[There is] no inbetween,” Stewart said.

Stewart said that most often when discussing the flag, it becomes a circular issue, in which no one wants to yield their opinion.

“You’re not going to sway the pro-Confederate flag side to the con-side.

You’re not going to get people to budge,” Stewart said.

“I’m [just] asking people to read the legacy of the Confederate flag and what it symbolizes and what it is meant to symbolize. And then ask, is that reflective of the culture today?

“I’m a firm believer that you don’t get to pick the interpretation.

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