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Laying the foundation StuGov leaders pursue a safer, smarter, more inclusive ISU campus By Alex.Connor @iowastatedaily.com
Katy Klopfenstein/Iowa State Daily Police investigate a suicide outside of Hilton Coliseum on Tuesday.
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uried in the student office space in the Memorial Union is a small room where Student Body President Cole Staudt and Vice President Cody West share a desk, a computer and have two placards with their names engraved on them. Their office, only a little bigger than a medium-sized bathroom stall, is decorated in ideas, ISU decor and scattered paperwork. About Staudt Staudt grew up in Floyd, Iowa. Population: 335. He attended school in Rockford, Iowa. Population: 860. And he graduated high school with 36 other people. But now, Staudt, senior in political science, is president of a student body 1,000 times his high school class size. Iowa State’s estimated population: 36,000. “It was an interesting change for me, coming from a place where everyone knew everything about everyone, to a place where you know nothing about most people,” Staudt said. Staudt and West, senior in biology, hope to, as Staudt described it, lay the groundwork for future students and governments in helping to build a better, healthier university. On special task forces Since formally accepting their positions in April, Staudt and West have been building on the goals they set during their campaign, which included medical amnesty, a Dead Week policy, diversity and sexual assault. On Aug. 3, Staudt established three task forces — sexual assault, civic engagement and mental health — in which committees are designed to focus on research, resources and prevention. The task forces are then designed to present their findings to Staudt on Oct. 31, where they will give an assessment on the issue at hand, identify goals for the community and create two to four recommendations to be pursued. On the tuition increase Over the summer, the Iowa Board of Regents approved a tuition increase for all three regent universities. For most students at Iowa State, the tuition increased about $100 to $200. The regents officially approved the increase in July, but at the June meeting, student leaders at the universities, including Staudt, provided input on how they felt students would feel the weight of the increase. “Three hundred dollars may not seem
Suicide south of Hilton By ISD Staff
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Cody West, left, and Cole Staudt are the student body vice president and president, respectively, at Iowa State. They hope to lay the groundwork for future students and governments in building a better university.
like a lot, but to college students and to me it is,” Staudt said at the meeting. “Three hundred dollars is what I will spend on food this entire summer.” In issuing his statement at the meeting, Staudt said he had asked for student input, where he got approximately 600 responses. While many read, “No, don’t raise my tuition,” Staudt said he looked for responses that said how it affected individual students. Staudt said he had pulled together an executive council before attending the regents meeting, as he also had wanted direct input from some sort of advisory group. They all agreed that the increase was the direction they needed to go.
“Reflective in my statement [was], basically we reluctantly support the increase,” Staudt said. “No one wants a tuition increase, but we recognize why we need one.” On medical amnesty Medical amnesty, which is a law or act enacted to protect individuals from liability when seeking medical attention as a result of illegal actions, is something Staudt and West have been pushing since their campaign. “That’s the policy where if students call for help, if they’re underage and they’ve been drinking and they call for
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An individual committed suicide near Hilton Coliseum on Tuesday night, according to Ames Police. At about 8:30 p.m., Iowa State police responded to a call from an individual who had called Ames Police stating that he was wanting to kill himself, Interim ISU Police Chief Aaron DeLashmutt said late Tuesday. The individual said he had a rifle, according to scanner traffic. DeLashmutt said police arrived at the scene and found the individual dead in his vehicle. Police blocked off Center Drive between Beach and University. Police said there is no reason to believe the community is at risk or unsafe, and that the incident is currently an ongoing investigation into the death. Police would not confirm as of Tuesday night if the individual was an ISU student. John McCarroll, executive director of University Relations, said he could not comment further on the situation and had not spoken to police as of 11 p.m. Iowa State has not issued a timely warning about the situation as of midnight. Police plan to issue a statement about the incident, but could not confirm when that statement would be released. Police were in the process of making notifications to family and friends of the individual, DeLashmutt said. “The loss of a life is always a tragedy no matter the cause,” Student Government President Cole Staudt said at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. “If a student did know this individual, they can call the Dean of Students office or Student Counseling Center to talk to a professional.”
New resource planning system? By Alex.Connor @iowastatedaily.com In 2011, Maury Hope, former associate chief information officer in Information Technology Services, wrote a blog post regarding the enterprise resource planning, ERP, system that outlined the role of the administra tive system Kuali, PRESIDENT w h i c h STEVEN LEATH Iowa State uses. Hope wrote that Iowa State had embarked on a journey in 2006 to review and evolve the system to meet the challenges of the 21st century. “The administrative systems, often referred to as enterprise resource planning systems, needed more flexibility due to changing regulations and competitive pressures, and they needed to operate in concert with the ever-changing technology needs of faculty, staff and students,” Hope said. After the 2006 review, a longrange strategy was developed, according to the post. And for the fiscal year of 2012, the final stages of the Kuali Financial System, along with the first phase
of the Kuali Coeus research administrative systems, were set to be assembled for the start of the fiscal year 2013 in July 2012. The Kuali Financial System, which is used at universities across the country and “is a comprehensive and fully auditable product uniquely suited to higher education,” and Kuali Coeus “allows institutions to maximize funding and make more informed decisions.” However, negotiations are underway for a new ERP and student information system, SIS, that will replace Iowa State’s financial, human resources and current SIS, according to an Inside Iowa State article. “It’s a legacy system, and then different universities write pieces to go around it to fix certain areas where the main program didn’t cover. So what we’ve had is a system that was developed over 30 years that obviously works,” said ISU President Steven Leath. Chief Financial Officer Miles Lackey told Inside Iowa State that the new ERP and SIS cloudbased software will eventually run the university’s financial, human resources and student information systems. During the interview with the Daily, Leath cited the new computer system as part of a big advantage to students, faculty and staff during the restructuring of many university offices, because
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Courtesy of Conrad Brendel
Conrad Brendel, graduate student in agricultural and biosystems engineering, received a $25,000 scholarship from Monsanto. Brendel was one of 10 recipients of the scholarship.
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Grad student gets $25,000 scholarship from Monsanto By Jenna.Hrdlicka @iowastatedaily.com Conrad Brendel, graduate student in agricultural and biosystems engineering, is one of 10 recipients chosen to receive a $25,000 scholarship from Monsanto Company. The scholarship is part of the Monsanto Graduate Student Scholarship program, a three-year program that was started last year by
Monsanto, a sustainable agriculture company. The program was created to bring awareness of opportunities in agriculture to students who are majoring in STEM, said Daphne Dorsey, corporate media relations manager at Monsanto. “We award these scholarships to high-achieving minority students who are either pursuing a master’s degree or Ph.D. degree, and are either studying STEM related courses or pursuing a career in
agriculture,” Dorsey said. The scholarship program awarded $250,000 in scholarships to 10 master’s students this fall, and $200,000 in scholarships to four doctoral candidates, according to a press release from Monsanto. “At Monsanto, we are looking to create an innovative workforce. There are many students out there who may not even consider pursu-
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