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ACADEMICS
GSB
Kletscher addresses ISU issues
The first day back
By Makayla.Tendall @iowastatedaily.com
Professor returns to class after suffering from severe stroke By Matthew.Rezab @iowastatedaily.com
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he morning of Dec. 20, 2013, may have been dreary and drab outdoors, but most ISU students, faculty and staff were in high spirits. It was a Friday, it was the last day of finals testing for the semester and holiday fun was set to begin in just a few short hours. For Cinzia Cervato and her family, those dreams of Christmas fun quickly turned into a holiday nightmare.
An icy morning The Italian-born Cervato is a creature of habit. She began the day just as she had begun thousands of others in her 12 years at Iowa State. She awoke at 5:30 a.m. By 6:45, she had traveled the icy roads to and from the gym and was ready to take her 15-year-old daughter Francesca to school. Upon returning home, she took a shower and prepared for work. When she was ready to leave, Cervato’s 7-year-old son Ian was still upstairs getting ready to catch his bus. “Just as I was leaving my house, I thought, ‘You know, I didn’t give him a kiss,’” Cervato said. “But then I thought, ‘Well, it’s OK because I’ll see him later.’” The slick roads slowed the commute, but Cervato, a Morrill Professor of geological and atmospheric sciences, arrived on campus safely and parked. When she exited her car, a strange feeling came over her. “When I started walking, I realized I was much more conscious of my movements than I’d been before,” she said. “But I thought maybe it was because the ground was icy.” Cervato reached the intersection of Pammel Drive and Winlock Road under her own power, but she realized something was not right. “All of a sudden I thought, ‘If I’m going to cross this road I could fall in the middle of the road and could be run over,’” Cervato said. “I thought, ‘This is insane. I don’t feel any pain. I don’t feel anything wrong. Why should I fall?’” Cervato had yet to realize that she was in the early stages of a massive stroke.
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Many of the issues facing ISU students this academic year were discussed at the first GSB meeting. Hillary Kletscher, president of Government of the Student Body, opened the meeting with an address about issues from the past semester, including repercussions of the events surrounding Veishea and the Bike Share Program. Kletscher spoke of the university’s interest in creating a new university-wide showcase event. The university has no clear idea of what that event would constitute. The university does not want to schedule an event for the spring and there is no decision on when that event would take place. “Hopefully you’ve all heard that Veishea has been cancelled,” Kletscher said. “We all have a lot of ideas and pre-conceived notions about what a universitywide showcase should look like.” Kletscher, who served on the Veishea Taskforce, asked senators to request feedback from the students they represent and what they would like to see from a university-showcase event. Another program on this year’s agenda is the Bike Share Program that would allow students to check out a bike from a point on campus and return it to another point. Members of the committee, Kletscher said, are working on clearing up the business aspects of the program. Members of the bike share committee are working with university and city officials on the program. In addition, Kletscher and Ex-officio Ames City Council Liaison Lissandra Villa worked with city officials on the possibility of a bike lane on Welch Avenue. Sexual assault is a another issue sweeping across college campuses and gaining more attention from university administrators and leaders. Iowa State, Kletscher said, is no exception. The White House It’s On Us campaign is calling attention to sexual assault on college campuses. Kletscher attended a conference in Washington D.C. with other public university student leaders to learn about the campaign. The conference focused on the importance of bystander intervention to combat sexual assault before it occurs rather than after an assault takes place. Kletscher said the Parking Division has agreed to open up 13 new vendor and 85 meter spots that were previously restricted during weekdays. Kletscher said GSB will be sending out emails and social media requests for resumes and applications for those interested in filling one of the nine available justice positions.
FOOTBALL
ISU football fans to experience congestion at Jack Trice Stadium By Beau.Berkley @iowastatedaily.com With a $60 million project to close off the south end zone well underway at Jack Trice Stadium, fans might have to deal with a few inconveniences throughout the season. Parking, gate entry, traffic flow and portions of seating will all operate differently than in past seasons as construction crews will work throughout the fall to complete plate and foundation work before the ground freezes. According to a press release from the athletic department, the construction site itself takes up a portion of lot S2 on the south side, which eliminates more than 100 parking spaces. To accommodate fans, there will be 160 disabled parking spaces at lots S2 and S3 available to the public on a first come, first serve basis. Entrances on the south side will also be more congested than usual. Paths inside Gate Three will give south end zone and
south hillside ticket owners access to their seats, but for fans with seats not on the south end of the stadium, Gate Four on the west side of the stadium and Gate Two on the east side of the stadium will serve as the most efficient way to get to seats. There will not be a ticket trailer at the south end to purchase tickets this season, but fans can still purchase tickets at the trailer near Gate Five on the north end. Chris Jorgensen, senior associate athletic director, said that developing gameday plans for parking and getting fans in and out of the stadium safely were among the first things that were discussed back when construction began. “I feel like we have a good plan in place and I think we will learn a lot after the first home opener, as we do with any home game,” Jorgensen said. “There’s always things we learn and change and I’m sure what we’re doing at the south end won’t be any different.”
The project’s planned completion date is Aug. 15, 2015, three weeks before the 2015 home opener against Northern Iowa. Capacity for the stadium is set to be around 61,000, which would make it the third biggest in the Big 12 behind Oklahoma, which seats 82,112, and Texas, which has a capacity of 100,119. Before the stadium can expand, it must shrink a little bit. Jorgensen said that about 2,000 seats have been lost due to the construction. “You hate to lose capacity
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Due to construction at Jack Trice Stadium, parking and seating will be limited in some spots in the south end zone area. Minor inconveniences will persist throughout the season.
from your football ticket sales, but it was one of the things that needed to happen in order to keep construction on course for a fall 2015 completion date,” Jorgensen said. By the last two games of the season, the seats on the south hillside will be completely eliminated. Jorgensen said that fans with tickets in the section will be accommodated with new seating, either with seats near the visitors section on the southwest corner or with seats on the north hillside. President Steven Leath said that most fans will be excited at the idea of their stadium expanding despite the minor inconveniences. “There’s a lot of Iowa Staters who over the last 20 years have heard about the possibility of bowling in that south end of the stadium and some wondered if it would ever happen,” Leath said. “I think when the fans come and see cranes and everything that’s going on, they’ll look past the inconveniences.”
Capacities of other Big 12 stadiums After the renovations at Jack Trice are complete, the new capacity in the stadium will be at 61,000. Here are the capacities at the other Big 12 schools: Texas’ Darrell K RoyalTexas Memorial Stadium
100,119
Oklahoma’s Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
82,112
Texas Tech’s Jones AT&T Stadium
60, 862
Oklahoma State’s Boone Pickens Stadium
60, 218
West Virginia’s Milan Puskar Stadium
60,000
Kansas’ Memorial Stadium
50, 071
Kansas State’s Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium
50,000
Baylor’s Floyd Casey Stadium
50,000
Texas Christian’s Amon G. Carter Stadium
45,000