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Obama follows the campaign trail back to Ames

By Katelynn.McCollough @iowastatedaily.com President Barrack Obama will be making a stop in Ames on Tuesday, Aug. 28, which is coming just shortly after his three-day bus tour in Iowa last week.

In February 2007, Obama visited Iowa State’s campus and spoke to an estimated crowd of 6,000 people at Hilton Coliseum, but back then he traveled with the title of senator.

Annette Hacker, program director of university relations, was unable to confirm any details on the presidential visit, including whether or not his trip to Ames will involve a stop at Iowa State.

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Michael Glawe, field organizer for the Obama for America campaign, was also not yet able to confirm any details on the visit, including what time it will take place.

There is no word yet on what Obama will be speaking on as he continues campaigning before the Nov. 6 elections. His stop at the University of Iowa in April focused on the “invest-

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File photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily President Barack Obama greets an estimated 2,200 people Aug. 13 at the Herman Park pavillion in Boone. Obama will return to Iowa next Tuesday with a visit to Ames before heading for Colorado.

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Transportation

CyRide drives Ames More students than ever utilize city’s bus service

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Regents:

Rastetter to have ethics hearing Dan MacKenzie Daily staff writer Bruce Rastetter, president pro-tem of the Iowa Board of Regents will have a hearing before the Iowa Ethics Board on Thursday, Aug. 24.

The hearing was prompted by a complaint from Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, a social justice group based in Des Moines.

Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement has said Rastetter did not fully disclose a conflict of interest involving his company, AgriSol, and Iowa State, prior to being sworn in as a member of the Board of Regents.

Rastetter did include the deal in his initial paperwork, but the group maintains that he did not do so in full.

They claim Rastetter used his position as a Regent member to secure Iowa State’s involvement in the project.

The conflict surrounds a deal Rastetter’s company was setting up in Tanzania to develop land for large-scale agricultural development.

The idea was that the underused land would be made to be as productive as it is in Iowa.

Iowa State’s proposed role at the time would have been to provide education and outreach to local farmers, just like in Iowa and similar programs already in place in Uganda and Kenya.

Iowa State backed out of the deal back in February 2012 as the controversy surrounding the land development began to grow.

They have said numerous times they wished to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.

The hearing will take place at noon Thursday at the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board’s headquarters in Des Moines.

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Photo: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily Veteran CyRide driver Nathan Shimanek and student driver Amanda Veen have gathered many stories and tips from their time driving CyRide around Ames.

They show up at the bus stops, and they get students and faculty where we need to go on time and in one piece.

“They” are the CyRide drivers.

These staffers serve a purpose for more than one reason, and with the strange occurrences that can happen to these drivers, many of them have a story to tell.

Veteran CyRide driver Nathan Shimanek and student driver Amanda Veen share stories, facts and tips about the CyRide bus system to keep students in the know.

Shimanek has been with CyRide for the last 13 years and started as a part-time driver while attending Iowa State for a degree in forestry.

Shimanek said most of the long-term employees started part-time during college and kept it as their career.

Veen, senior in interdisciplinary studies, began working for CyRide in May 2011 and recommends CyRide as a great part-time job that works well with all student schedules.

With the overflow of students, Shimanek said CyRide has kept up by increasing morning circulation. At 7:40 a.m., 63 buses are on the route, sometimes in pairs, to pick up the extras and help keep the routes on schedule.

With that many buses out,

Fast facts There are currently 135 drivers There are usually 40 new drivers trained every year All maintenance is done in house at the CyRide bus depot There are 65 big buses Twelve CyRides are hybrid All CyRides run on soy diesel All big buses can hold 100 gallons of fuel and are filled once per day Most buses don’t have gas gages Each bus is inspected every night to ensure safety About 25,000 people rode CyRide the first day of school this year Nearly 6 million people rode last year All buses are handicap accessible

Veen said students need to be aware of their surroundings to stay safe.

“People don’t walk in crosswalks or look before they cross the street, and it’s harder for a bus to stop really fast just because it’s so big,” Veen said.

“There are also a lot of bikers that just kind of weave in and out and it’s really dangerous so we have to stay really aware of that as a driver.”

Shimanek said the reason for an increase in a lack of awareness is due to society’s addiction to technology.

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Worship

Salt Company celebrates 40 years

By Maia.Zewart @iowastatedaily.com One of the first things Audrianne Freeman wanted to do when she came to Iowa State was to get involved with a church. She found The Salt Company.

The Salt Company is a college ministry currently celebrating its 40th year of existence. The group aims to strengthen students’ relationships with God. Freeman, sophomore in agricultural biochemistry, grew up in a Christian home but said she had never felt as connected as she wanted to be. She came to her first Salt service as a freshman after being invited by

some friends from her church back home.

“During worship there was this song that basically described the struggles I was going through in my life,” Freeman said. “It gave me hope, and that’s what Salt Company is about.”

Cody Cline started working at Cornerstone Church as the high school ministry director before taking over as The Salt Company’s director.

“The main things that drew me to Cornerstone and [Salt Company] was the Bible teaching and authenticity of the church leaders,” Cline said. “To this day I am overwhelmed by the love

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File photo: Iowa State Daily Leaders of The Salt Company speak to students about getting involved in a connection group on Aug. 25, 2011.

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Tropical Storm Isaac continued its westward path Wednesday, placing officials on alert from Puerto Rico to Guantanamo Bay to Florida, where it could pose a threat to the GOP convention there next week.

It’s too early to tell what effects Isaac will have on the U.S. mainland. But several computer models bring the storm into the Gulf of Mexico, while others move it farther east over Florida.

With roughly 50,000 people headed to Tampa for the Republican National Convention starting Monday, there is heightened interest in the path of the storm.

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Samaras, who heads the coalition government elected in June, faces further crucial meetings on the topic with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande on Friday and Saturday.

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He also said that the three parties that make up the coalition government fully back the package of cuts to be implemented.

Greece, whose economy contracted 6.2% in the second quarter of this year amid severe austerity measures, is seeking an easing of its bailout conditions as it battles to stay within the euro and keep the “European Project” alive.

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Gabino Galvan-Contreras, 35, Lincoln Swing #42, was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and child endangerment (reported at 9:47 a.m.).

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>>BUSES.p1A “The more we get plugged in, the less people are aware of their surroundings,” Shimanek said. “It’s so scary to see people almost get hit.”

Rumors have been swirling around for years that if a student gets hit by a CyRide then they automatically get free tuition, but Shimanek and Veen laughed off that idea.

“I definitely wouldn’t try it,” Veen said with a laugh.

Shimanek fully agreed.

“Yeah, that’s probably false,” Shimanek said.

Apart from the daily routes that occur throughout the week, CyRide also features its Moonlight Express buses, which the student body often refers to as the “drunk bus.”

Shimanek said he does not mind the nickname as long as people remember this service is for the students’ safety first and not shenanigans.

“You get so used to just everything being weird that it no longer occurs to you that it’s weird,” Shimanek said. “It amazes me that people are oblivious that they are on a public space.”

Although Shimanek is used to the strangeness that can step onto CyRide after dark, some incidents that have occurred occasionally involve the police.

“On the Moonlight [Express], people really forget that they are with other people in the community,” Shimanek explained. “You see fights; people urinating in buckets; yeah, they go to jail.”

After each shift, drivers inspect their CyRide for lost items which has created a stockpile of lost and found at the CyRide depot. Several phones, books, umbrellas, gloves and even bicycles are waiting unclaimed at the bus depot.

“It’s amazing how much stuff is left on the bus,” Shimanek said. “There are boxes and boxes of black umbrellas and black gloves. You should buy a colored umbrella, something unique.”

Shimanek also warned that if a person’s phone has a pass-

Our priority is always safety.

Our goal is that everyone always gets a ride on the trip they want.”

Nathan Shimanek code, while it’s good security, it is nearly impossible to return it unless the owner comes in and claims it.

Many people have witnessed the student who runs for the bus as it pulls away.

Sometimes a driver will stop and wait while other times they pull away. Shimanek said there is a reason for that.

“It depends on the route,” Shimanek said. “With an Orange, you might know there’s another 1, 2 minutes behind you and you need to keep going but if it’s a green route with a 20 minute wait then you would wait. I know it’s really frustrating for some people that are running, but most drivers are accommodating.”

Training is important when joining the CyRide team.

Shimanek, the usual trainer for all newbies, said the entire process takes around 100 hours which includes video training, passing a commercial driver’s license test and route training.

Veen said CyRide is a great part-time job with very flexible schedules for student drivers.

“You pick what runs you’re going to drive around your class schedule,” Veen said.

“I’m an ROTC cadet and so I have a lot of stuff to do with that, and CyRide is really good about giving me time off with training.”

During Finals Week, all student employees bring in their finals exam schedule so that CyRide can make sure their shift is covered.

Shimanek said another good thing CyRide stresses is safety and respect.

“Our priority is always safety,” Shimanek said. “Our goal is that everyone always gets a ride on the trip they want.”

Photo: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily After each shift, drivers, like Nathan Shimanek and Amanda Veen, inspect their CyRide for lost items, which has created a stockpile of lost and found items at the CyRide depot.

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House of Representatives

Legislating King’s English...again Bill would name English as sole language of U.S.

By Dan.MacKenzie @iowastatedaily.com U.S. Rep. Steve King, who will be running in Iowa’s new fourth district — which includes Ames — has introduced legislation to the House that would make English the official language of the United States.

The bill, H.R. 997, is known as the English Language Unity Act and will be discussed in the House judiciary committee when congress returns to Washington this fall.

Many critics argue such legislation is unnecessary, as English is already the “de facto” official language.

King maintains “it is necessary that we do this,” as he stated in a news release.

“Every other country that I can think of has at least one official language.”

In a separate news conference, King elaborated: “Throughout history we have understood that the most powerful force that binds people together is a common language. That is a human universal.”

If this story sounds familiar, it may be because this is the fifth time since 2003 that King has attempted to bring this type of bill to the House floor.

Each year the bill fails to make it out of committee. King was successful in getting a similar bill signed into law in Iowa in 2002, however, when he was a state senator.

The bill would require all official actions of the federal government be conducted in English with exceptions for health, safety and justice is-

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sues. The law right now requires “each Federal agency [to] examine the services it provides and develop and implement a system by which [non-English speakers] can meaningfully access those services.”

This has been the case since 2000 when former President Bill Clinton signed an executive order to ensure that the federal government did not discriminate based on national origin, as prescribed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

If the bill passes, it is not likely to have much effect locally. James Dorset, director of the International Students and Scholars Office said most students and scholars who attend Iowa State have a firm grasp of the English language already.

“In theory, this shouldn’t

have a real negative impact on our international students, because they have this certain level of English,” he said.

“What it could have an impact on is the dependents of our students and scholars.”

Dorsett said the family members of international ISU students sometimes do not have the same English skills, so trying to access government services may be a bit more difficult.

However, he said: “If we have dependents who need these kinds of services, and the government doesn’t have them in their native language, they usually take someone who can translate for them. So it probably wouldn’t be a huge inconvenience for them.”

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“We fully support understanding English, it’s mandated that we provide it. Because that’s already in place, to us it seems like developing a law is somewhat repetitive and could be seen as a waste of time and resources. Our focus should be on providing funding for English classes.”

The Council on Refugees and Immigrants provides resettlement services for people from all over the world. They help them transition into American life by providing English instruction if needed, by providing housing assistance, as well as job placement and counseling. Their goal is self-sufficiency for their clients.

Stubbs said many of the

refugees know that English will be required of them, and there are no assumptions that translation services will be provided.

She said most of them “have already had an orientation from whichever refugee camp they came from, where they had a firm understanding when they arrived in the United States, if they hadn’t already started learning English, that was going to be part of the process.”

Indeed one of the requirements for naturalization in the United States is to have an understanding of English. According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website, a person needs to be able to read, write and speak basic English.

King stands by his proposal, saying the translation

services and multi-lingual government websites provided are an unnecessary strain on the tax payer.

“We are spending billions on interpreters and on multiple printings [of documents],” he said in his news release. “We are spending unnecessary money — borrowed money — to help people access government services in their language,” which he says is causing the United States to go into further debt.

King said that right now, the law “promotes multilingualism in government services and costs us billions over the long run. We want to eliminate that. People can still come in and get their functions from the federal government but let them bring their own interpreter. They always have up until now.”

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Politics

Clash of the presidential running mates

By Aimee.Burch @iowastatedaily.com After Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney introduced Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vicepresidential running mate, Ryan was thrust into the spotlight.

Suddenly, it was not only important how Ryan’s philosophies stacked up to his running mate but also how those views would play out against his Democratic opponent, current President Barack Obama.

The vice-presidential decision is highly anticipated each election cycle. After both candidates have been determined, it is the next big milestone of a campaign.

Steffen Schmidt, university professor of political science said the vice-presidential choice can add excitement to a campaign.

However, the choice of a running mate can be strategic. Schmidt said that at times, the choice can target a specific demographic the candidate is trying to reach. It can also work as an appeal to a certain state or region of the country.

“I think it’s pretty clear, and this is approaching consensus, that Ryan was meant to be ‘red meat’ to try and solidify support from the Republican party’s conservative base,” said Mack Shelley, university professor in political science. “As to why Ryan compared to some other Republican who is equally strong on the conservative side, I think it had a lot to do with the fact that Ryan had made a big splash for himself with what everyone calls the Ryan Budget Proposal. Whether you think it’s good, bad or otherwise, it does mark him as a policy leader.”

Shelley said one of the most obvious places the Republicans could see a direct impact from the Ryan choice is in Ryan’s home state of Wisconsin.

While in the past Wisconsin has been seen as a “blue-ish” state, recent events such as the failed recall election of governor Scott Walker and the addition of Ryan, a political staple to Wisconsin, may help turn the tides in the Republicans’ favor. Though, Shelley said, the impact might not be all that noticeable in the grand scheme of the election.

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sions, the vice presidential candidate does not seem to have all that much of an impact, both Schmidt and Shelley said. So far, most public opinion polls in the wake of Romney’s announcement show a slight increase in public support for the Republican ticket but nothing exponential. The approval ratings for both parties will likely rise during and right after their major party conventions.

“It’s really more of the convention that, at least temporarily, drives up support for the party that just had the convention,” Shelley said. “You tend

to get much bigger bounces in national public opinion polls.”

“The Republicans will be meeting in Tampa, and they’ll have the airwaves pretty much to themselves.

The Democrats won’t be just twiddling their thumbs during that, but you just can’t really get a word in edgewise because the media ... will be following the convention and it kind of drowns out everything else.”

The Democratic convention meets a few weeks later in Charlotte, N.C., meaning their bump will come after the Republicans see their boost.

“There’s probably something to be said about getting your bounce later,” Shelley said. “Whoever bounces first has more time to recover, I suppose, if things don’t go well. But that initial bounce tends to get wiped out by whichever party comes later. In terms of a baseball metaphor, if you have the last chance at bat you have the last chance to win it.”

Another interesting time for both parties will be the series of presidential debates, one of which features the vice-presidential candidates.

“The VP debates between [Biden]

and Ryan could be interesting,” Schmidt said. “Biden needs to be careful and not become too controversial. Ryan must show that he is not a radical budget cutter especially regarding Medicare.”

Even though the debates allow the chance for the candidates to shine individually, come election day, voters will be casting their vote for a complete ticket, not one or the other.

“In the end this is a race about jobs, the economy and trust of the presidential — not the VP — candidates,” Schmidt said.

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Physics

Small things bring big rewards Photo: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily Mayly Sanchez, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State, recently received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Sanchez works with neutrinos.

Professor receives presidential award

By Elizabeth.Polsdofer @iowastatedaily.com Mayly Sanchez, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State, recently received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for her contribution to experimental neutrino physics research.

Sanchez formally received the award this summer in Washington.

“It’s quite an honor,” said Joseph Shinar, chairman of the department of physics and astronomy and U.S. Department of Energy Ames Laboratory associate. “The way I understand it, a special committee takes

a look on behalf of the president, at what are called ‘early career awards.’

These awards are peer-reviewed grants given on a competitive basis, they are highly competitive, by various funding agencies.”

Sanchez said the award was an honor.

“I am very grateful to have been nominated to receive this award. I also feel that it is a recognition of the sacrifices that we as scientists and academics make,” Sanchez said. “We do it, of course, because we love what we do, but the fact that it is recognized at this level tells us that society thinks it is important, and we should keep doing it.”

Sanchez studies neutrinos, which are small subatomic particles that do not interact well and are difficult for scientists to detect, even when using

state-of-the-art equipment. Trying to detect a neutrino is like trying to catch a grain of sand with a fishing net.

Neutrino research involves shooting large quantities of neutrinos underground and hoping the detectors catch at least a few. At any given moment, trillions of neutrinos are passing through the body, but they are unable to be detected.

Understanding neutrinos, Sanchez said, is important to understanding the nature of the universe.

“Neutrinos, it turns out, are very interesting particles. They have no charge and have very, very tiny mass.

Thus when they travel for a long distance they change properties that tells us fundamental things about the universe,” Sanchez said. “So by studying neutrinos, we can understand

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why we are all made of matter.”

In honor of her achievements, Sanchez met President Barack Obama after hearing a speech from him about the importance of science and engineering to the future of the nation.

“Once he was done with his speech, he came over and shook

each of our hands. It’s kind of funny because you find yourself there and you’re a little bit star struck. After you shake his hand, you say who you are and where you’re from; it’s like you can’t do anything,” Sanchez said. “You could see everyone’s faces; you have just seen someone very important. It was quite an experience.”

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>>PRAISE.p1A of Jesus, transparency and commitment to the scriptures that the people of Cornerstone have.”

Jordan Iliff, senior in mechanical engineering, heard of The Salt Company from a couple of people living down the hall from him during his freshman year.

“When I first came to college, I wasn’t a Christian,” Iliff said. “A few guys invited me to go to Salt with them, so I decided to check it out.”

Iliff attended a service and was surprised with what he found.

“It was just a shock that everyone just believed in Christ and loved each other,” Iliff said.

“Like, I wasn’t a Christian, but they still cared about me.”

Students who have heard about The Salt Company but never visited a service are invited to check out what the group has to offer.

“Salt’s not something that you can guess what it is,” said Randy Groh, sophomore in computer engineering. Groh first heard about The Salt Company from his sister.

“You need to check it out before making an opinion,” Groh said.

Each Thursday, hundreds gather at Cornerstone Church for worship and a message that deals with subjects that students might deal with during college, such as fitting in and conflict resolution.

“What makes The Salt Company extraordinary is not simply the size, but it is the real work of God in a large number of people,” Cline said.

Besides weekly worship, students are able to join small group Bible studies called connection groups. Freeman decided to colead a connection group this year after being a part of one last year.

“The leaders I had last year were awesome because they made time to meet with all of us one-on-one,” Freeman said.

“It was great to be able to talk to someone who went through the same things I was going through. I want to be that person to someone else.”

There are currently 90 connection groups meeting in dorms on campus as well as in apartments in Ames. Students will have a chance to find and join a connection group at the kickoff event.

Sunday nights offer an oncampus service tailored specifically to freshmen.

“A lot of students get intimidated by the size of Salt Company at first,” Freeman said. “Freshman Group is a chance for them to ease in and find some friends who share their beliefs.”

Thursday, Aug. 23, marks The Salt Company’s first event for the school year. From noon to 3 p.m., the group will be on Central Campus for “The Showcase,” where musicians and poets from The Salt Company will be performing.

Students can also purchase pizza and drinks.

At 7 p.m. The Salt Company will officially kick off the year with worship on Central Campus. Cline said the time will be devoted to celebrating Jesus and hearing testimonials from students of what God has done in their life.

Salt Company facts The Salt Company is a ministry of Cornerstone Church It is in its 40th year of ministry In the 2011-12 school year more than 900 students attended the weekly large group gatherings More than 850 students participated in the connection groups More than 125 students participated in the Freshmen Group Salt Company organizes 90 connection groups Salt Company Kickoff is Thursday From noon to 3 p.m. is “The Showcase,” where musicians and poets from The Salt Company will be performing; students can purchase pizza and drinks A 7 p.m. worship on Central Campus will kick off the year

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Get your munch on with File photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily President Barack Obama shakes hands, gives hugs and greets members of the audience in the Herman Park pavilion after his speech Aug. 13 in Boone.

>>CAMPAIGN.p1A ment” in higher education and in keeping tuition costs and interest rates low on student loans.

Steffen Schmidt, university professor of political science at Iowa State, has previously said in an April interview with the Daily that the state of Iowa is a “battleground,” and this is the cause for the high number of visits from both Obama and Romney.

Schmidt said Iowa is “one of a half-dozen [states] or so that could swing either to the Democrat or the Republican in November.”

Obama has visited the Hawkeye State several times since U of I, making it a major campaign stop and focusing on important topics for the upcoming elections such as the economy.

Iowa State may offer Obama a strong youth vote, just as it did in the previous elections.

According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, 15 percent of caucus voters in 2008 were between the ages of 17 and 24, compared to the 5 percent that voted in 2004, making the youth vote a major asset to the Obama campaign.

The center’s statistics also show that 87 percent of Democrats who were voting for the first time in the 2008 caucuses were between the ages of 17 and 24.

The campaign stop in Ames will come on the second day of the GOP national convention in Florida and a week before the beginning of the Democratic national convention in North Carolina.

Obama will also be making a stop in Fort Collins, Colo., on Tuesday, Aug. 28 and then head to Charlottesville, Va., on Wednesday, Aug. 29.

The president then will return Iowa on Saturday, Sept. 1 when he stops by Des Moines.

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Santana not expected to pitch in 2012

After traveling from the United States to Canada, Mexico, Germany and England all in a span of a few months, ISU senior sprinter Ian Warner is ready to take a little time off from track and field after traveling with Team Canada to the 2012 London Olympic Games.

That is not to say he did not enjoy his time at the Olympics.

“It’s hard to even put into words,” said Ian, a native of Markham, Ontario. “It was honestly just amazing. You think about all of the work and dedication it even took to get there in the first place. It makes you reflect on your whole career and when you look back on it, it makes it all just that much more worth it.”

For Ian, the long summer of travel that took him all over the world made him feel homesick at times, but he said having his older brother, Justyn, there with him every step of the way made it that much more enjoyable.

“It just made the experience much smoother,” Ian said about Justyn being with him through all of the competition. “To be over there and know that your brother is with you for every step, it adds the ‘home’ element.”

Justyn, who ran track for Texas Christian, was the 100-meter

NEW YORK — New York Mets ace Johan Santana is headed to the disabled list and not expected to pitch again this season.

General manager Sandy Alderson said Wednesday that the left-hander was going on the 15-day DL with inflammation in his lower back.

Doctors are not recommending surgery.

Santana has had an up-anddown season in his return from shoulder surgery that kept him out more than a year. He threw the team’s first no-hitter June 1 but is 3-7 with an 8.27 ERA since throwing a career-high 134 pitches in that game.

He is 6-9 with a 4.85 ERA in 21 starts overall.

The two-time AL Cy Young Award winner is in the fifth season of a $137.5 million, six-year contract.

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Pollard signs five-year extension

By Daily staff For the past seven years, ISU Athletic Director Jamie Pollard has guided the athletic department, which has broken attendance records and invested millions of dollars in facilities along the way.

Now Pollard is guaranteed of continuing in that role well into the future after signing a five-year contract extension this week. Pollard already had two years remaining on his deal, which will now run through 2019.

“We have more work to do,” Pollard said in a news release.

“So I am extremely grateful to President [Steven] Leath for the confidence he has shown in our administrative team. Our program is primed for success and I’m anxious to continue building alongside, what we feel, is the best coaching staff in ISU history.”

Much of that coaching staff has been hired by Pollard, including men’s basketball coach Fred Hoiberg and football coach Paul Rhoads.

Since Pollard arrived in Ames in 2005, the athletic department has spent nearly $100 million on facility upgrades, two of which — the Cyclones Sports Complex and the new football facility — will soon be completed.

Additionally, attendance at events has been on the rise.

Last season, more than 50,000 fans attended each home game at Jack Trice Stadium for the first time in history, and this summer both men’s basketball and football student tickets sold out in record time.

Complete contract details will be released at a later date.

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USE: As the opponent took the ball upfield, the midfielder stopped her.

Photo: Brandi Boyett/Iowa State Daily Ian Warner was one of four athletes with ISU ties to compete at the 2012 Olympic Games. In a day-of decision, Warner was made an alternate for the Canadian 4x100-meter relay team. Without Warner, the team placed third in the finals but was ultimately disqualified due to breaking a rule.

Defense

Albert brings new heights to Cyclone soccer 6-foot-1 freshman midfielder hopes for success in Big 12

By Morgan.Fleener @iowastatedaily.com Running around a soccer field at 4 years old, midfielder/defender Haley Albert knew all she ever wanted to do was play soccer.

Now at 19, the 6-foot-1 freshman moved from Eureka, Mo., to not only pursue that journey but to be able to establish herself in what coach Wendy Dillinger believes to be a key defender for the 2012 ISU soccer team.

With Dillinger’s previous experience of being an All-Metro performer at St. Charles West in MO., she knew how lucky she was when Albert decided to leave the St. Louis area to become a Cyclone.

“Haley dominates in the air and has been a great addition to the team,” Dillinger said. “She is physical, defensive and is part of a great group of girls that wants to be led toward success.”

Albert is extremely pleased with the amount of positive energy, excitement and dedication t h a t everyone involved in the soccer program has shown since her first day in Ames for July workouts with the strength coach.

“It’s been a good year for everyone to come here and be together out on the field,” Albert said. “We’re ready to play and feel better than ever.”

Along with her own dynamics, Albert said other height additions such

as senior Megan Longobardi, who stands 6-foot, will be able to help the Cyclones succeed in defending in the midfield.

With four new freshmen, including Albert, added to the Cyclones’ roster, Albert said she believes the chemistry and ability for the girls to bond will help in developing and carrying the Cyclones to where they would like to be this season.

“The juniors have established themselves as great leaders for all of us to look up to,” Albert said. “Everyone gets along great and has been so helpful.”

Dillinger said the juniors have played a tremendous role in helping put Albert and others into a comfortable and close-knitted team.

“We work hard with the girls to make sure that everyone is being included and accepted as equal members of the team,” Dillinger said. “The juniors have been a vital part of the program since their freshman year and have really contributed to helping keep the team close.”

Starting the season with a 2-0 record, Dillinger looks forward to a crucial week of practice before traveling on the road this weekend for the Husker Invitational in Lincoln, Neb. “We would like to maintain undefeated status and want to be 4-0,” Dillinger said. “We need to come out strong and be solid all over the field for 90 minutes straight.”

Although this is Albert’s first year, she has brought previous experiences and successful moments that will be able to help her with the journey of being a successful athlete in the Big 12.

Earning first-team All-State honors her senior year and being a four-year honor roll member that displayed a 3.9 GPA, Albert has set a good base in being a student-athlete at the collegiate level.

Albert’s physical presence and high quality performance helped in her season as a participant

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of the Kolping Kicks this past summer, where she finished second in the United States Youth Soccer Association competition in Phoenix.

With the team finishing 9-9-1 in the 2011 season, Albert said she can bring new assets and help contribute in making the Cyclones reach higher boundaries to further their success in the 2012 season.

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Analysis

6-2 offensive layout could add new drive

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hen Christy Johnson-Lynch arrived at Iowa State to take over the volleyball program in 2005, there was not a lot of tradition.

The Cyclones had posted losing records in the previous nine seasons, and they were in a bad Big 12 Conference stretch, having won just 13 of their previous 180 conference matches.

Today, the volleyball team is arguably one of the most successful programs at Iowa State. In the seven years since Johnson-Lynch arrived, they have never posted a losing record and have advanced to the NCAA tournament each of the past six years, making the Elite Eight twice.

It is safe to say the recruiting and strategy JohnsonLynch has implemented have worked wonders.

This season, fresh off a 2011 Elite Eight appearance and with many returning starters to go along with a No. 6 recruiting class that includes seven freshmen, the obvious goal would be to take the program one step further.

Volleyball offense, to the common fan and to the common eye, is not easily understandable. Since JohnsonLynch arrived, the Cyclones have run a 5-1 offense, which means that out of the six players on the court, five are attackers and one acts as the setter.

To put it simply, the setter, who could be compared to a quarterback in football, leads the team. In this offense, which has been plenty successful for Iowa State, there is one leader on the court.

This season, JohnsonLynch and the Cyclones are contemplating trying something new with a 6-2 offense.

This offense would make all six players attackers on the court and would add a second setter to the mix.

“We wanted to play around

File photo: Iowa State Daily Setter Alison Landwehr sets the ball up for a kill during the match against UW—Milwaukee on Dec. 2, 2011, in the first round of the NCAA Volleyball Championships. In wake of last year’s Elite Eight performance, the 2012 team is playing with the notion of changing up its offense with a 6-2 setup.

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In recent years, several successful programs have run the more nontraditional 6-2 offense. Washington made the switch last season, going 24-8 on its way to the NCAA tournament. And when Texas recently finished No. 2 in the nation, Johnson-Lynch said they gave it a try too.

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“I think it’s harder for the hitters, just because every setter has a different setting style,” said senior Alison Landwehr of the 6-2 offense.

“When you have to adjust from one setter to another it can be challenging.”

Landwehr would know: In three years on the court, she has turned herself into one of the best volleyball players in ISU history. Last season she was named as an All-American and First Team All-Big 12 as a setter.

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senior right side Taylor Knuth said the team could add another dimension and be more dynamic. Johnson-Lynch said there are certainly positives.

“It makes it pretty physical out there,” Johnson-Lynch said. “Every rotation is a pretty physical block up there. I like

some of the things it gives us.”

The saying goes: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” And there is certainly nothing wrong with what the Cyclones have done on the court and at the net during the past seven years.

Yet nothing is wrong with trying something new, and there is no doubt the 6-2 could add to the team’s offering.

Iowa State will likely stick primarily with the 5-1 offense this season, and it will likely yield positive results as it has in recent years.

But with the 6-2 on the back-burner, the team can also throw opponents for a surprise, adding one more dimension that might push the team over the top.

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>>WARNER.p1B dash champion at the 2012 Canadian Olympic Trials.

At the Canadian Trials, Ian had gotten second place behind Justyn and was set to compete with his brother in the Canadian 4x100-meter relay team in London.

As race day in London approached, however, Ian’s name did not appear in the lineup of runners competing in the 4x100, and that is when he found out he had not been selected to run for Canada.

The Canadian relay coach had decided to select another runner to compete in Warner’s place. Without Ian, Canada made it to the Olympic finals of the 4x100 relay, where it would finish in third place behind Jamaica and the United States to earn the bronze medal.

Any hopes of receiving that medal were dashed in just a few moments, however, when it was confirmed the third runner for Canada had stepped on the line during an exchange — automatically disqualifying the squad.

“A lot of people have been saying that it was karma and that I deserved to run and then [the team] got disqualified; but to be honest, I was so happy for them I was shaking,” Warner said of his emotion before he had learned the team was disqualified. “I immediately ran

down to the front row, and my brother came over, and I gave him a big hug.”

Warner said it was after that moment that everything changed.

“It went from one of the happiest moments ever to seeing them just all lying on the track,” Warner said. “My brother ran extremely well in that race and to just see him lying on the track crying, it made me start to cry. It went from being so happy to so sad in minutes.”

Warner said even though it hurt to not be selected to run in the Olympics with his brother and teammates, he wished nothing but the best for them during the race. Now, that moment is where he will draw his motivation from.

“If the Olympics don’t motivate you to want to be better as an athlete, then nothing will,” Warner said. “To go to the Olympics and not compete, that’s one of the best motivating factors that I’ve ever had.

I’ve got that in my back pocket for the next four years.”

At Iowa State, sprints coach Nate Wiens said while all Warner needs right now is a little time off, he is anxious to train again and see what Warner’s final season in a Cyclone uniform will bring.

“It was a good learning experience,” Wiens said of Warner’s time in London.

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Wiens, along with sophomore teammate and fellow sprinter Nick Efkamp, said Warner’s experiences over the course of his time throughout the world during the past summer will be very valuable to the other members of the ISU track and field team.

Efkamp also said seeing Warner’s successes gets him excited and motivated for the upcoming season.

“If you want to be the best, you have to practice with the best,” Efkamp said. “Ian has all of that experience. He has seen the highest side of the sport and the better competition. I think — if anything — it is benefiting us short sprinters that we get the knowledge from Ian and that we have that person to practice with. That is really going to push us.”

Warner also said he is ready to face his senior season at Iowa State head-on.

“I got to be around a lot of pro athletes while I was [in London] and see how they live their life,” Warner said. “That was motivating to me to finish strong and make sure that I have a good year at Iowa State so that maybe I’ll have a chance to do it again one day.”

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By Cole Komma Ames247 writer As students get back into the flow of classes, the sounds of drums and horns can be heard echoing across campus.

That music comes from the Iowa State University Cyclone Football “Varsity” Marching Band, and the group is back in full swing to prepare for the upcoming football season.

Striving for Perfection In sixth grade, Brett Ebert would play an instrument that would become one of the main driving forces in his life.

This instrument was a snare drum, and it would forever alter his way of thinking.

After falling in love with the drum from the start, Ebert never looked back.

Now, Ebert, senior in mechanical engineering, is the tenor drum section leader for the marching band.

“I marched in high school, but it was nothing like this,” Ebert said. “Everything is grander here, the forms, the pieces, the field.”

Ebert’s job as section leader is simple: to aid the

other section members in areas such as technique, style and performance etiquette.

But to make the cut for the job, potential leaders must first be tested in several areas.

“Our selection process for our section leaders, or guides as we refer to them, is a combination of application, interview and teaching ability,” said Steven Smyth, main conductor of the marching band.

Ebert noted that the potential for new section leaders becomes evident as the year goes on, based on the musicians that show good signs of leadership.

“Everyone begins to know everyone,” Ebert said,” so the choice more or less becomes obvious toward the end of the year.”

After college, Ebert plans to begin teaching private lessons and elementary school music classes.

“It was because of those classes that inspired me to play drums, and I want to continue that legacy,” Ebert said.

But for the time being, Ebert will be busy making the ISU marching band as “close to perfection” as possible.

“The main focus of the section leader is to strive for perfection,” Ebert said.

Photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily Brett Ebert, senior in mechanical engineering, practices drums Aug. 16 by Lake LaVerne. Ebert is the section leader for the drumline in the football marching band.

A day in the life of ISUCF’V’MB Schedule: 8 a.m.: Arrive and stretch, prepare for the day’s activities 9 a.m.: Discuss pieces to practice and review pieces practiced earlier that week 10 a.m.: Play “The Bells of Iowa State” in four part harmony for a warm up 11 a.m.: Practice in sections Noon: Break for lunch 12:30 p.m.: Practice in sections 4:3o p.m.: Break for dinner 6 to 9 p.m.: Practice in sections

Photo: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily Students look for their names on the list of those accepted into the Iowa State University Cyclone Football “Varsity” Marching Band. The results were posted Aug. 15. Approximately 325 of 450 members who applied were accepted.

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Before the school year begins, the students involved in ISU marching band undergo a harsh training schedule.

“Basically we start at 8 a.m., play for four hours, get a half hour break for lunch, play for four more hours, then get an hour and a half for dinner, then four more hours of playing, then we go to bed.” Ebert said.

That equates to roughly 12 hours of playing for over two weeks.

Steven Smyth, main conductor of the band, explained the purpose behind this training schedule.

“Freshmen, or new recruits, are required to participate in a basic marching camp over the summer that lets them learn the basics of marching,” Smyth said “They then audition in the fall for a spot in the Varsity Marching band.”

This year, only 382 of the 450 students who auditioned made the cut for this year’s marching band.

“We hope that the students that didn’t make it in this year will stay involved in the other six ensembles in the music department and try out again their sophomore year,” Smyth said.

Who is Steven Smyth?

Director Steven Smyth followed the same path Brett Ebert took in college.

“Smyth was also tenor section leader in college and learned a lot of the skills that I’m learning now that have really helped him in his career,” Ebert said.

Though he is still relatively new to the band, Smyth has been a part of the ISU marching band experience for years.

“I am very honored to have been a member of this band back in what seems likes the dark ages, the ‘90s. I have taught music at all levels and all size schools,” Smyth said.

“The marching band at Iowa State has a very unique family feel. Because of this sense of family, we have one of the highest retention rates in the country.”

The Varsity Marching band attracts fans of all ages and Smyth recalls a parade he attended as a child.

File photo: Iowa State Daily Steven Smyth, lecturer in music, is the main conductor for the ISUCF”V”MB. He was a member of the band himself in the ‘90s.

“I remember the band chanting ‘Oh we hate the Hawks’ to a really cool beat played by

the drumline, and turned and told my mother that I would play the drums in the band

someday. Now I run it pretty cool,” Smyth said.

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Exhibit

Octagon art rolls out railroad history Ames train history inspires art showings

By Patty Clark Ames247 writer The Octagon Center for the Arts is showcasing two exhibits this month full of history and inspiration.

“Rail Reality: How the Trains Made Ames” is an exhibit organized by the Ames Historical Society. The motivation is to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Union Pacific, and to also show how it made the community in Ames.

The exhibit is composed of two galleries.

The first part is a timeline of the history, which includes six different time periods from the 1850s to the 1990s and their impact on Ames.

The second gallery includes two models, one being of the Dinkey, which was a big form of transportation to those who needed to go onto the Iowa State Campus between 1891 and 1907.

Kathy Svec, former marketing director at the Memorial Union, said the other model in the gallery recreates the rail yard behind Main Street.

Heather Johnson, executive director at the Octagon, said the exhibit has been very successful so far.

“People have said they have come back a second time to the exhibit because they say there is a lot to take in,” Johnson said. “Some grew up near the railroads and remember what it used to look like.”

Svec added that the exhibit also has vintage posters available, some dating back to the 1869 Golden Pike.

Along with the posters are old pictures of the Dinkey. Svec said the experience of working on the exhibit has taught her a lot.

“I learned a lot. I am not an expert at trains, but the other two people I worked with are, so now I have the ability to rattle off train facts,” Svec said.

There are two gallery talks that go along with the exhibit. The first, titled “The Railroad Today,” is at 7 p.m.

Sept. 18 and the second, “Today’s Freight Trains,” will be at 2 p.m. Oct. 6 with the ISU Railroad Club. The exhibit began June 1 and will continue until Oct. 28.

The second Octagon exhibit, titled “Box, Book, and Board” opened on Tuesday. It showcases work done

by Kathy Svec, Deb Anders-Bond and Eduardo Garcia.

“It was a coincidence that I was working on the ‘Rail Reality’ exhibit and they just so happen to be putting on another exhibit of my own work,” Svec said.

Svec has been an exhibit artist since 1970, and the inspiration she had on this exhibit was found while reading books.

“I was inspired by words and phrases when I was reading. I’d find ones that sounded so wise and profound” Svec said. “I would save the words in mini hand books and put each in a box.”

Svec said it is important that when viewing the work, people read the words first to better understand the illustrations.

Along with Svec’s work in the exhibit, she said her collaborators have made just as much of an impact in the work.

Anders-Bond works in digital and paper collage, and Garcia is a handbound book maker.

“I’m small scale, so I wanted to invite two other artists to work on the exhibit,” Svec said. “I think their works are very complimentary, and there are some very interesting things for the public to look at.”

“Box, Book, and Board: Svec, Anders-Bond, Garcia Exhibit” will be open through Oct. 27 and is located in the Community Gallery on the first floor. Also included is a free gallery opening reception tonight at 7 p.m.

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Photo courtesy of Kathy Svec Kathy Svec, Deb Anders-Bond and Eduardo Garcia feature art in the “Box, Book, and Board” exhibit for the Octagon Center for the Arts. The exhibit will run through Oct. 27.

Technology

Verizon brings new 4G LTE service to Ames

Smartphone service gets an upgrade

By Levi Castle Ames247 writer

Ames has just been propelled into the 21st century even further, due to the recent support for Verizon Wireless’s 4G LTE. 4G is a step up from 3G. Verizon claims the speeds

they recently introduced to Ames are 10 times faster than the 3G most of the city is used to. As cell stations and various cell towers in Story and other counties get the necessary upgrades to support 4G, those who have the supported

phones (like most Android smartphones) will see that they now have the upgraded service, provided they own a 4G plan with the company.

Karen Smith, spokeswoman for Verizon Wireless, said high-speed fiber wiring was

used to make sure each station and tower was upgraded to give the company’s 4G LTE service to all of Ames.

“We’ve expanded from Des Moines’ upgrade last year.

Ames, Nevada and Slater have all been receiving our new 4G LTE service,” Smith said.

Covering 75 percent of the U.S. population, Verizon has been hard at work replacing 3G with 4G LTE. The company’s goal is to have 100 percent of America covered with their new service by sometime in

2013.

Wireless speed isn’t the only thing that has evolved for the company and others like it that keep upgrading their services. When 4G was first offered, only very limited, highend, expensive phones and devices were supporting it. Now, Verizon alone offers nearly 20 different smartphones with 4G capability.

Jetpacks, or portable hotspots, are also a very popular cellular device in this new era of speed. For those that

want a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot wherever they go, the jetpack will provide 4G speeds to any Wi-Fi-capable device (for a monthly fee).

Verizon’s change from 3G to the much faster 4G has much to do with the company’s acquisition of the 700MHz spectrum network. As the aforementioned fiber cables used to be just copper, their replacement — in collaboration with the new network — is what makes this a “completely different service,” Smith said.

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Robert Sunderman is the resident scenic designer at Iowa State and also teaches classes in technical theater, scenic painting and other stage designing courses. Along with his work in the theater department, Sunderman is also doing freelance work in both design and fine art. Sunderman’s “Personalities” exhibit is currently on display in the Gallery Room of the Memorial Union until Sept. 5.

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I’ve done scenic design work since I was in high school, so that’s when I was introduced to being able to do that. I was lucky, I was able to design all the shows at that time. I think what has drawn me in to the profession is the fact that it’s a collaborative art form and you get to work with a lot of people as opposed to the other side of me, which is a fine artist, where you are doing things more on your own and it’s more of a personal thing. I’m also interested in the fact that theater is a living sculpture. There a lot of different elements that are involved other then just objects in a space or a sculptural thing that you do. So it’s really living, and it’s

You have an exhibit inside the Memorial Union. Can you explain its purpose and why people should take a look at it?

I do fine art work all the time. I can’t obviously when I’m teaching during the year and doing the resident design work, I don’t have as much time. But I’ve always been a fine artist, probably from day one, that I need to let certain things out or create things in a personal way. ... I just want people to identify with it in that way and kind of draw them into something that normally might not be something people are interested in or see themselves in something and in a different way.

What artistic achievement or award are you most proud of?

I’ve gotten a lot of different things over the years, some of them small, some of them big. I received an invitation from the White House as part of a group of artists from Iowa to do a Christmas tree ornament of all things, which goes into their personal collection. But then you were invited to come out and there was a party for everyone and it was just a nice recognition nationally of what you do as an artist.

Movie review

Blood-filled sequel delights, but drags

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s if the first movie wasn’t full of enough nostalgia for our great action heroes from the 1980s on up, “The Expendables 2” came out and tossed us more big names, blowing away baddies at a rate higher than any action movie I can think of, with a side of comedy.

The first “Expendables” was a fun romp that wasn’t anything mind-altering but did have a hefty tag of wellworn plot for action followed by lots of nameless soldiers getting shredded by bullets.

For the sequel, the writers decided to try and up the body count from hundreds, to hundreds and hundreds, with heads blown off, holes through chests or bodies simply pulped. But then, you do have John McClane, the Terminator and Rambo — to mention only the leaders of the action pack — slinging

By Gabriel.Stoffa @iowastatedaily.com guns without impunity, so no big surprise on the death toll.

“The Expendables 2” brings back the rest of the”good guy” cast, sans Mickey Rourke because he was reported in TheMovieBlog.com to only have taken the cameo in the first movie as a favor to his buddy Sylvester Stallone.

Alongside the originals, you get the ridiculously entertaining parts involving action written for Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris and more.

Despite all the star power, the movie does get a little dull

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at times. Basically the first half is really fun, but then it slows down for a while to develop some further plot-ish things.

I cannot really complain, because the plot-ish events were all really just homages to the action films these amazingly violent folks have appeared in during the past 30 years.

To tempt anyone thinking they aren’t interested in a blood bath of testosterone, there are also some nicely done comedic bits.

My favorite is when you get Willis saying: “I’ll be back,” to Schwarzenegger, and then Schwarzenegger saying: “Yippe ki yay,” to Willis.

But there are some annoying parts that really shouldn’t have made the movie.

First off comes from the “replacement” of Jet Li in the movie. Li appears for the opening scenes but for the rest of the movie, we are given Nan Yu. I really don’t understand the need for her character, as all she offers is some computer skills for a minute or so. Maybe Yu was included to

create a female role model to counter all of the male-driven star power.

I am also disappointed that — spoiler alert — none of the main crew is killed. I know the hero is always supposed to win out. But with this much star power, I want a special treat.

My hope is that a third movie is made, where the remainder of action stars out there are dragged in for a final brawl that leaves only a couple of the heroes alive.

I could complain about the movie in various ways, but I won’t. I had too much fun seeing the guys I grew up watching all appear to take down the enemies in one setting.

Feel free to check out “The Expendables 2” in theaters.

Don’t worry if you don’t, as it will still be awesome at home with some beer and pizza, but don’t second-guess it as an evening out with your buddies.

Gabriel Stoffa is a graduate student in political science from Ottumwa, Iowa.

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Opinion

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ISU’s mission should differ from that of a community college Back in June, the College of Human Sciences posted on their news website an article about associate professor Janice Friedel’s research on community colleges. Community colleges, as we know, are largely responsible for training people in shorter programs so they can enter the workforce as skilled workers as quickly as possible.

Leaders at Iowa State have assumed a similar commitment to educating people so they can make a profit after going through their commencement exercises.

Testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, ISU President Steven Leath

Photo courtesy of Flickr/Jessica Feis; photo illustration: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily The Editorial Board believes an important part of a four-year university education is in the inclusion of something more than occupational training.

noted “from an individual standpoint, getting a well-paying, secure job is highly dependent upon continuing their education beyond high school.”

He then touted the oft-quoted numbers on earnings by education level: Mean income in 2010 for high school graduates was $40,900; for holders of associate

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degrees: $49,275; and for holders of bachelor’s degrees: $69,638.

That commitment to job-readiness has been made notwithstanding the fact the research of academics such as Friedel suggest a distinction between two-year community colleges and four-year land-grant Division I research uni-

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versities such as Iowa State.

It has been made despite the fact the speeches of Rep. (and later Sen.) Justin Morrill’s on the land-grant colleges are strewn with arguments that the colleges founded by his bill are not to educate students so they can be mere cogs in the economy but rather to

educate their students in what is practical as an addition to crafting citizens with a public orientation.

If the educational goal of this — or any — institution is to cheaply produce workers who will perform the tasks required of them according to industrial specifications, the difference between institutions such as Iowa State on the one hand and DMACC on the other are obliterated. Leath himself made that distinction when he used the words “at a vocational school or at a college or university” to end his formula for higher earnings.

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Each of Iowa State’s record 31,000 students should consider whether he or she is here so he can get a job and make money after graduation or whether he can make a difference in the lives of others and build a better world than he found it.

We hold in our hands the power to destroy the natural resources of the world and also to destroy the quality of our interactions.

Whether the world contains such values as courage, integrity, love and patriotism, is up to what we do for one another.

It is up to what we do for one another without considering personal profit.

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Risks

Photo: Ian Timberlake/Iowa State Daily Last summer, columnist Ian Timberlake committed to attempting the tallest mountain in each continent: Aconcagua, Carstensz, Denali, Elbrus, Everest, Kilimanjaro and Vinson Massif.

Seek danger and adventure in life

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was born to die, and so were you.

Death is the inexorable disease inseminated upon conception.

Fear of death is more compelling than compassion, love, hate, envy and hope.

Value: Where do you think it comes from? Is it from family?

Friends? How about religion? Maybe all three. While these may be very important to a lot of people, I could feasibly generate a valuable life even after expelling all three (or in my case just two).

Universally, life value comes from time. Time is the currency of life — thus, it is because we die that makes life unimaginably worth living.

The adventurers of the world have become more aware of their time spent on Earth. Be it the Alaskan kayaker, the Amazon jungle trekker, the Everest summiteer or the planetary circumnavigator — they all know about imminent death.

Three years ago I committed to attempting the “7-summits” — the tallest mountain on each continent: Aconcagua, Carstensz, Denali, Elbrus, Everest, Kilimanjaro and Vinson Massif. This was a goal of mine in my desire to chase the dangerous.

This summer I successfully summited Mt. Rainier in the state of Washington. Standing in at 14,410 feet, it is the most prominent mountain in the contiguous states and a rite of passage for mountaineers in the world. In late May, I attempted the mountain and was snowed in

By Ian.Timberlake @iowastatedaily.com

for five days and never was able to summit. Rescues were made and a ranger even lost his life during those (at the time) winter conditions. Early August I returned, blessed with near perfect weather and summited in two days time.

I have relatively high control over what happens to me on a mountain such as Rainier, aside from avalanches and falls (which has a level of risk analysis). I, however, have little control over natural disasters, violence, vehicular accidents and disease, among other things. It’s rather disconcerting that the act of fearing death simultaneously brings bore to the commons. Tell me this: Would you just as soon prefer a death by death-bed heaving up your own lungs and drowning in body fluid, as death by blowing off a mountain? I believe a serious judgment of character can be made by your answer. Only a boring person would prefer the former; and I claim that statement.

On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first team to successfully make a confirmed summit of Mt. Everest.

Nearly 30 years earlier and many deaths accumulated, mountaineer George Mallory was asked by a reporter: “Why climb Everest?”

Mallory replied: “Because it’s there.”

Mallory also said: “What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy.

And joy is, after all, the end of life. We

Photo: Ian Timberlake/Iowa State Daily In early August, columnist Ian Timberlake summited Mt. Rainier. He uses this experience to affirm all people should live it up and make themselves worth something.

do not live to eat and make money.

We eat and make money to be able to live. That is what life means and what life is for.” Mallory soon perished somewhere near the summit of the 29,029 foot mountain.

Mt. Rainier is just a training wheel in my quest for the “seven summits,” including Everest. Why you too should seek the vulnerable is because it’s only when you lay eyes on fatal departure that you truly feel alive. Experiences and knowledge reveal themselves where they wouldn’t otherwise. Views are made that humans aren’t supposed to make,

and as Henry David Thoreau puts it in “Walden”: “I want[ed] to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life.”

Every person has stakes in the game of life. Until you understand that your life value only exists because you will eventually die, then you might as well not have a purpose.

Given the option to live forever, I would politely decline. It would suck the value out of the actual living part of existing by removing what might be considered difficult to do within the span of a lifetime.

With unlimited time, there’s the possibility for unlimited achievement and therefore all respect would be expunged. The old adage remains true: “With great risk comes great reward.”

Death is more connected to life than anything else, so live it up, and make yourself worth something — use the time such that when take your last breath, you’ll be able to look back and say: “Yes, that was worth it.”

IanTimberlake is a senior in aerospace engineering from Chicago.

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Social media

Twitter trouble: It only takes 140 characters H ave you noticed how news outlets now include tweets as part of the news? Many newscasts now talk about celebrity Twitter accounts and any tweet that is outrageous enough to comment on. It seems as if a person can’t get through a single news report on the TV or read an article in the paper without hearing about a recent tweet from “so-and-so.”

Honestly — who cares? Or better yet — why should I care?

Twitter, like Facebook is a great communication tool if used properly.

But when mishandled, things can go terribly wrong.

Some examples of out-of-line tweets can be seen with the recent London Olympics. With more than 150 million tweets about the Olympics posted during the 16 days of the London Games, Twitter was declared the winner in what some are calling the “Social Olympics.”

There were about 80,000 Olympic tweets per minute published after Usain Bolt won the gold medal in the 200-meter final, according to information given by Twitter in an article for the Australian paper The Age. The tweets started out with Greek triple jumper Voula Papachristou, who tweeted a racist comment mocking African immigrants on her personal Twitter account. Papachristou was expelled from Greece’s Olympic team for saying: “With so many Africans in Greece, at least the West Nile mosquitoes will be eating food from their own home.”

Swiss soccer team player Michel Morganella was the second athlete after Papachristou to be kicked out of the 2012 Olympic Games after posting a racist and threatening tweet saying South Korea’s athletes were “retards” and should “burn themselves” shortly after Switzerland’s 2-1 loss to South Korea. When the French and text-speak tweet is translated into English, Morganella tweeted something along the lines of: “I want to beat up all South Koreans.

Bunch of mentally handicapped retards.”

Because of their need to blow off steam or show their racist colors to the rest of the world — it cost them big time. Plus — from now on, whenever their name is brought up they

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are forever tied to “that tweet” These types of postings have been happening on Twitter for quite some time and have been making headline news along with negatively affecting those who use the social media tool in the wrong way. Back in 2010, Aussie swimmer Stephanie Rice tweeted “suck that faggots” after Australia beat South Africa at rugby. In recent times, she has been under fire for posting a “racy” picture of herself wearing a two-piece swimsuit that left little to the imagination.

During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Twitter did not have as big of a role as it did in this year’s London Olympics. “There were more tweets in a single day than during the entire 2008 Beijing Games,” Twitter reps wrote in a blog post.

My favorite part about the aftermath of these rash and senseless tweets is the “I’m sorry” tweet afterward. All three athletes above tweeted their apologies, with Rice even having a tearful news conference, apologizing to the public. Well, if you weren’t careless with your actions, you wouldn’t have anything to pretend to be sorry for. They are not sorry for what they said; they are sorry they got slammed for the tweet.

As always, the few ruin it for the rest of us, giving Twitter an image which teeter-totters back and forth between good and bad.

The solution to the trouble the Olympic athletes got themselves into is to be more discrete, and it applies to the rest of us, too. Take an extra two seconds of your time to think twice about your next post. And if you decide that your mother would be disappointed in you if she saw it, give her the benefit of common sense and don’t make the post.

Maybe the solution is as simple as a short quote from the TV show “The Office”: “Whenever I’m about to do something, I think, ‘Would an idiot do that?’ And if they would, I do not do that thing.”

Randi Reeder is a senior in

journalism and mass communication from Lawton, Iowa.

Photo: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily Social media websites are always at our fingertips, making it all too easy to cross the line from friendly communication to malicious messages.

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Gemini (May 21-June 20) Today is a 6 -- Conditions for making money improve over the next two months or so. Put in necessary corrections and work faster. Treat yourself to something sweet.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Today is an 8 -- You’ll pass this test. Gather all the information you need and get into action.

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Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is an 8 -- Come up with a plan for fixing everything in the next six weeks. Ask for a referral from someone who knows. Don’t buy unnecessary toys or touch your savings.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 7 -- If you’re talking, you’re not listening. Make a beneficial commitment. Do it over and over until you get it right. You get a better deal now. Water the flowers.

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Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is a 7 -- Put in corrections carefully, and avoid misunderstandings. You can be very persuasive now, as long as you don’t forget your commitments. It’s a better time to travel.

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