Who will it be? Iowa State vs. Iowa
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Friday, Sept. 12, 2014 | Volume 210 | Number 14 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
Melon Mania participants smash fruit for fundraiser By Kenzi.Mongar @iowastatedaily.com Smashed melons littered Central Campus on Thursday after students drop-kicked melons in the name of charity. Establish & Grow, a philanthropy organized by ISU students and staff, created Melon Mania to raise money for children in Uganda. The event took place from 4 to 9 p.m. on Central Campus and provided an estimated 2,000 melons to be used for carnival games. A single melon could be purchased for $2 or three melons for $5. Game-winners received tickets that could be used in raffles to win items such as university apparel, gift cards, coupons and board games. As for the melons, they didn’t go to waste. “All of these melons are grown at Iowa State by students and staff,” said Cole Staudt, sophomore in political science and the public relations director for Establish & Grow. “Since research is done to the melons, they can’t be eaten and most will go to waste anyway so we decided to have fun with them and raise some money before they go to compost.” Activities included melon bowling, melon sculp-
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In her younger years, Cheryl Sondrol owned the New York West while her future husband Danny owned Tip Top Lounge in Ames. It wasn’t until they decided to tie the knot that their separate ownerships of bars became the joint ownership of The Bar.
Setting The Bar ISU student continues family tradition By Dakota.Carpenter @iowastatedaily.com
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Robert Nichols, senior in mechanical engineering, smashes a melon with his unicycle during Melon Mania on Thursday on Central Campus in effort to raise money for children in Uganda.
While most seniors order their drinks on the weekends, senior Taylor Sondrol is busy making them. Sondrol, a fifth year senior in event management, helps run The Bar on Wheeler Street with her mother, Cheryl. “Typically, bartenders and owners are male,” Cheryl said. “I don’t know of very many women who run bars. I think it’s a good position for women to be in.” Taylor is The Bar’s manager. She said she is able to apply what she is learning in her classes to the position she holds at The Bar. “How can I use this in my current job now? How can I use this technique? How can I make better customer service?” Taylor said of the questions she asks herself during class. Taylor spends her time at the bar making schedules and leading her team from what she learned in class. She has had two prime examples in her life: her parents, Danny and Cheryl Sondrol. “They are great role models,” Taylor said of her parents. “They’ve owned businesses their whole adult lives.” The bar business is nothing
foreign to the Sondrols. Cheryl and Danny were both born in Ames, Iowa. Cheryl’s mother, Mary Maitland, owned a number of bars in both Ames and New York, where they lived for a number of years. They moved back to Ames after Cheryl’s mother and stepfather divorced. Upon their return to Ames, Cheryl and her mother decided to open New York West, a local night club. “When I walked in, I didn’t even know how to pour a beer,” Cheryl said about running New York West with her mother. As New York West developed from a discotec to a strip club, Maitland began visiting other local bars in the area. Checking out the competition is a crucial part of the bar business, Cheryl said. This is when Maitland came across an Ames icon: Tip Top Lounge. That is where Maitland met Danny Sondrol. Danny purchased Tip Top Lounge in 1982 after being discharged from the Navy. At the time, he was 22 years old and was trying to run a bar that had already been established for several years. “The first years were tough
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Army ROTC to continue tradition, run Cy-Hawk ball By Lauren.Wilcox @iowastatedaily.com The ISU football players will not be the only Cyclones running with the Cy-Hawk game ball for this weekend’s rivalry. Around 60 ISU Army ROTC cadets plan to leave campus on foot with the game ball , making their way through campus and across the state to hand the ball off to cadets from the University of Iowa. The cadets will run the ball up Lincoln Way, by the Campanile and around campus before heading east. The two units will meet at the halfway point in Tama at 11 a.m. Running the game ball from the visiting team’s stadium to the host stadium the day before kickoff has been a tradition for the two ROTC programs for many years. “It promotes camaraderie and boosts morale,” said Lt. Col. Richard Smith. “With the rivalry of the football [game], we want
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Members of Army ROTC met head coach Paul Rhoads on Wednesday at Jack Trice Stadium to receive the Cy-Hawk game ball. On Friday, the ROTC members will transport the ball to Tama then meet members of the University of Iowa ROTC, who will deliver the ball to Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City. This has been a tradition for the two ROTC groups for many years.