Friday, Sept. 11, 2015 | Volume 211 | Number 14 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
Students confused by tuition spike By Christie Smith @iowastatedaily.com A day after the Board of Regents approved a spring 2016 tuition increase for in-state students at Iowa State and the University of Northern Iowa, students on campus reacted with confusion.
The 3 percent increase will amount to $100 per in-state student next semester. As of now, the tuition increase is solely for the spring 2016 semester. This tuition hike came as a surprise to many ISU students on campus Thursday. Becca Kenealy, junior in family and consumer science
education and studies, had not heard of the tuition increase prior to speaking with the Iowa State Daily. “I don’t know why they did it,” Kenealy said. “It would really help to know what it’s going toward.” Jordan Guerdet, sophomore in kinesiology and health, and Lili
Zenobian, sophomore in communications, were concerned how the $100 increase would affect students’ budgets. “Students will have to take out more loans for school, and it’s an added expense that students don’t need,” Guerdet said. Edel Aron, senior in mathematics, was worried about ex-
isting money in the university’s budget. “I’m more concerned with how money is already being spent,” Aron said. “If there’s any unnecessary money in the budget that could be cut then we wouldn’t need the tuition increase.”
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9/11 generation still remembers Iowa State Daily
President Steven Leath speaks last year about the then-record ISU enrollment.
Leath shares goals By Shannon McCarty @iowastatedaily.com
By Sarah Muller @iowastatedaily.com
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he ash settled years ago, however America feels the impact of Sept. 9, 2001, 14 years after the destruction caused by hijacked planes. During that Tuesday morning, aircraft crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the last failed to reach the capitol. 2,996
people were killed, including plane passengers and victims inside the buildings. “It was probably the defining moment of the last decade,” said Neil Vezeau, junior in animal science.
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Iowa State Daily
Col. Craig Bargfrede speaks at the 9/11 memorial on campus in 2011. Following Bargfrede’s speech, attendees lit their candles and walked around Central Campus to commemorate the 10th year since the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000, including people in the World Trade Center, Pentagon and on the planes that carried out the attacks. This year marks the 14th year since Sept. 11, 2001.
President Steven Leath put the spotlight on Iowa State’s growing enrollment in his address Thursday night and shared how the university plans on responding to the growth. It was announced Wednesday that Iowa State broke its enrollment record for the seventh straight year with 36,001 students. “Every single student here could be that one,” Leath said. Leath said the university cares about individual student success, which shows in the enrollment numbers. He also gave credit to recruiting, admissions, marketing and alumni for the growing number of students. “There’s a reason students are coming here,” Leath said. Almost 100,000 alumni live in Iowa, and Iowa State has educated more Iowans than any other institution. “Our alumni are just as forward-thinking, just as passionate, just as caring about this university as the new generation,” Leath said. Leath said the university provides areas of study which align and drive the economy, as well as have a proven track record of success. Iowa State was ranked 13th by
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Paul: ‘We’re all in’ for a long campaign In Daily-exclusive interview, GOP candidate talks Trump, education, Cy-Hawk game By Alex Hanson @iowastatedaily.com Despite disappointing polling numbers this summer, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., the libertarian-minded presidential candidate, said organizing continues in all 50 states, and he’s “all in” for a campaign long past the highly watched early voting states. Paul’s comments came Thursday afternoon in a phone interview with the Iowa State Daily. He said frontrunner Donald Trump’s popularity is solely based on his “celebrity” status and completely dismissed polling showing him well behind the frontrunner. “I think there is some celebrity distortion in the polls, but still when you ask people in most of these polls, ‘Have you decided who you’re voting for?’ two-thirds of people say no,” Paul said. “Then they ask you to go ahead and pick, even though you’re [undecided]. It’s really kind of a poll of leaners, and it’s really influenced greatly by celebrity.”
Throughout the summer, Paul was considered a top-tier candidate and often polled in the double digits, but his support has fallen considerably after the entrance of Trump in the race. A CNN poll released Thursday showed Paul with support from 3 percent of likely Republican caucus goers, while Trump led the poll with 32 percent. Despite the Trump distraction, Paul said his campaign is focused on organizing efforts nationwide, including an upcoming campaign tour of college campuses. “We now have 300 college campuses that are organized around the country, we’re organized in all 50 states and we have 15 schools organized in Iowa,” Paul said. “We plan on working hard to register voters and get young people out.” Paul will participate in the Presidential Caucus Series at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union. Paul also discussed several news items currently being debated in Congress, his policy proposals on education and his
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Presidential candidate Rand Paul will participate in the Presidential Caucus Series at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union.
prediction for this weekend’s CyHawk game in Ames. Iran nuclear deal Just before the interview, Senate Democrats blocked a resolution brought forward by Republicans who disapprove of the agreement made with Iran that works to curb its nuclear capa-
bilities. Paul voted to end debate, which would allow the Senate to pass the disapproval resolution with a simple majority. “I ended up being a vote against the nuclear agreement because if they chose not to comply, or if they’re deceitful, there isn’t really sufficient leverage to
entice them or encourage them to comply,” Paul said. “Once the sanctions are released, I just don’t think there is going to be a whole lot of leverage to try to get them to comply, and they don’t have a history of being honest
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