Monday, Sept. 14, 2015 | Volume 211 | Number 15 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
GOP candidates join football festivities
Politicians tailgate with fans at Jack Trice
Woman rips ISU student’s Trump protest poster
By Alex.Hanson @iowastatedaily.com
By Makayla.Tendall @iowastatedaily.com
While most people in Ames on Saturday were focused on which team would walk away with this year’s Cy-Hawk trophy, four candidates for president zeroed in on Jack Trice Stadium for an opportunity to meet with potential supporters. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., was first on the scene Saturday, starting his trek
Student protesters of Donald Trump at the CyHawk tailgates Saturday were met with a protest of their own when a woman ripped one of the protestor’s posters after saying a racist comment. The poster, held by Jovani Rubio, read “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the
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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., meets supporters in Ames on Saturday.
outside of the stadium at his own tailgate party that was filled with campaign signs and supporters. Despite being over an hour late, Rubio fans were happy to
see the senator and pleased he came to the game. Evan Miller, senior in
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Graduate student Maria Alcivar and sophomore Michelle Ramos protest against political bigotry during a Republican meetup Saturday in Ames.
things that matter.” Rubio was protesting against Trump’s comments on undocumented immigrants,
saying it was personal because he and his siblings
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Kid captain takes battle to field Paul
talks privacy By Thomas.Nelson @iowastatedaily.com
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Maddy Snow, center, walks with the ISU team captains to midfield before the coin flip of the Cy-Hawk football game Saturday at Jack Trice Stadium. Snow was diagnosed with Stage 4 diffused anapestic Wilm’s tumor in October 2014. After receiving treatments throughout the year, recent scans revealed no evidence of any disease in Snow’s body.
By Ryan.Young @iowastatedaily.com
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s the Cyclones prepared for the annual Cy-Hawk football game against the Hawkeyes, Maddy Snow looked on from her front-row seat. T h e 7 - y e a r - o l d p atiently waited on the sidelines with her family for both teams to take the field. As dozens of players sprinted out of the tunnel, four of them went straight to Maddy to give her a hug or high five. Just a few minutes later, Maddy found herself walking to midfield arm in arm with the team captains. She was this week’s Kid Captain, and it was time for the coin toss. “She was just in awe,” said Kelly Snow, Maddy’s father. “She had this huge smile when she came off and had a gallop in her step. It was awesome.” Before the start of football season, Kelly said he kept getting messages from friends and family who wanted him to enter Maddy into the Kid Captain program. While he wasn’t interested at first, more and
more people kept bringing it up, and Kelly eventually warmed to the idea. The program, which is put on by the Blank Children’s Hospital, selects one child for each ISU home game to take the field with the team captains before kickoff. The captain gets to see the coin toss first hand and gets to spend some time with the players and coaches before the game. ISU coach Paul Rhoads, who has been able to work with many different kid captains through the years, said it’s evident how important the program is to the children. “It means a great, great deal,” Rhoads said. “It’s just a time of elation and happiness. A lot of time that’s what those kids need is a little bit of sunshine, a little bit of happiness.” But Maddy’s journey to midfield started long before the game. She came down suddenly with a stomach bug last October. Just to be safe, Maddy’s parents took her to the doctor and picked up some basic flu medicine. Within a few short days, Maddy was back to normal. Problem solved. That is, until the same
symptoms showed up again three days later — and this time, they were worse. “She started going back down hill again,” Kelly said. “It was like something was lingering, and we couldn’t figure out what it was.” Maddy’s parents quickly returned to the doctor. After several tests, CT scans revealed a softballsized tumor in Maddy’s kidney. She was diagnosed with Stage 4 diffused anapestic Wilms’ tumor. A Wilms’ tumor is a rare kidney cancer that primarily affects children. The cancer generally will affect just one kidney at a time, but can spread in certain situations to other parts of the body. In initial tests, doctors found that the cancer had spread to Maddy’s lungs, so they decided to remove her right kidney to stop the spread. They immediately started radiation treatments and moved on to chemotherapy a few weeks later. Kelly said the chemotherapy treatments, which lasted 41 weeks, were the toughest parts of the entire process. To this day, it is still the hardest part for him to
Columnist focuses on changing world By Danielle.Ferguson @iowastatedaily.com Award-winning New York Times columnist and author Nicholas Kristof will be in Ames on Monday night to share with students how they can best make a difference in the world. Kristof’s lecture, titled “Why We Should Care About the World and Want to Change It,” is at 8 p.m. in
Stephens Auditorium. Doors open at 7:15 p.m. and the event is free with general admission seating. Kristof will be talking about the importance of young people’s responsibility to find ways to get engaged with the rest of the world. The lecture focuses on how students can spring into action themselves and how best they can do so. “I admire the passion
get over. “It’s hard to tell a doctor to put this poison in your child because you know that’s what it’s going to take,” Kelly said. “You have to do it. You have to accept that you’re giving your child this poison that’s going to kill everything inside her body. That’s a tough pill to swallow.” Throughout the process, though, it may have been Maddy’s innocence that truly helped her through the treatments. Kelly said Maddy would always jump out of bed and go to treatment, simply because she knew it was the only way to make her feel better. “The best part is kids don’t know what we know,” Kelly said. “They only know that medicine makes you better, and it will make you better tomorrow, but let’s get through today and tomorrow will be tomorrow. Granted, there were days after chemo where she would be wiped out and throwing up for a couple days, but she knew it had to be done.” But recently, Maddy’s last scans revealed that there is no evidence of any disease in her body. Things
are starting to return to normal for the second-grader. And when she walked onto the field Saturday, she was all smiles. But Maddy’s presence affected more than just her and her family. When quarterback Sam Richardson walked over to introduce himself to Maddy before the game, it was easy to see that he wasn’t focused on the Hawkeyes. And Rhoads said that this is often the case. “I don’t know how it can’t [affect the players], especially the captains who get a chance to walk out there,” Rhoads said. “If anybody who is close has any decency in them, just laying eyes on that and watching that process and laying eyes on the family on the sideline and watching their emotions […] it’s just uplifting as all get out.” For Maddy, this day is one she will remember for a very long time. “I think she feels it was kind of worth it to be able to get so much,” Kelly said. “She’s not focused on how bad it’s been. It’s such a great distraction, like a reward almost for so much that they go through.”
Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul stuck to his message of privacy and the Bill of Rights during his speech to a crowd of 600 students Friday night at Iowa State. “All of your information’s in a cloud,” Paul said. “Is the cloud protected?” The Kentucky senator talked about all the information that can be obtained, for example, through a bank statement, including what books you read, what medication you take and what you buy. “That’s none of the government’s business!” Paul said. Paul said he believes that the United States can still combat terrorism without violating the privacy of innocent Americans. He talked about Japanese internment during World War II as a “mistake” the U.S. made. He said mandatory minimums and civil forfeitures have been violating the rights of citizens and talked about how it disproportionately affects communities of color. Paul said there is no excuse for rioting in places like Ferguson, Mo. and Baltimore, Md., but “black and brown” people are regrettably part of the group most hurt by the war on drugs. He cited Democratic candidates who want to make college tuition free, but said someone ends up paying for it in the end. He called for innovation at schools, such as more online classes, which would lead to dropping prices. Luke Hannenberg, senior in chemical engineering, said he felt that Paul made “good points” during his speech. “I like the direction he’s going a lot better than most of his opponents,” Hannenberg said, adding he likes that Paul wants to put the power back in the hands of the people. Paul’s event in Iowa was the second of his twoday trip through the state during the weekend.
Diversity candidate visits
William Lewis explains why he is right for new position By Adam.Sodders @iowastatedaily.com
Courtesy of ISU Lectures
Nicholas Kristoff will give a lecture in Stephens on Monday night.
a lot of young people have for getting engaged for
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As one of the four finalists in the running for the vice president for diversity and inclusion position at Iowa State, William Lewis discussed his strategy and inclusion-based philosophy at a public forum in Pioneer Hall of the Memorial Union on Friday. A search committee was put together by Presi-
dent Steven Leath to fill the position, which was created in fall 2014. Lewis was chosen by the committee as one of the finalists. “We worked with a search firm and held individual meetings and presentations in Des Moines with various candidates,” said Emma Molls, search committee member and librarian at Parks Library. “We [the committee] decided unanimously which candidates would be our
final four.” The decision was preceded by an intra-committee discussion about who were the best candidates. Lewis, who previously held the position of vice president for diversity and inclusion at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, made note of his experience in the area of diversity at the forum. “I bring a love and a
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