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Teal Wheels roll out for Dance Marathon

By Myra Krieger-Coen Daily staff writer Last year, ISU Dance Marathon raised more than $380,000 for the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital. The student organization is best known for its 15-hour-straight event, where participants remain standing the entire time, symbolizing support for the families who have lost countless hours to hospital waiting rooms. But they do a lot more than dancing. The organization takes every chance to exert the 2012 theme “This is What We Stand For.” This coming Saturday, the group will show “what they bike for” with their second annual Teal Wheels event.

Everyone is welcomed to partake in a casual 8-mile group bike ride through Ames to support Dance Marathon. Event check-in will begin at 9 a.m. on the south side of Hamilton Hall. The event will take off at 10. Participants will receive a participation shirt and complimentary breakfast.

“It’s just another way to bring the miracle children and their families together and show them support,” said Marin Snede, one of Dance Marathon’s community development directors. “It’s an excellent way to reach out and raise that extra bit of awareness around Iowa State and Ames in general.”

The $20 registration fee is donated to the University of Iowa Childrens’ Hospital.

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By Jake.Calhoun @iowastatedaily.com Ever since Jake Knott came to Iowa State as an overlooked recruit, he’s been coached to go beyond expectations.

Now a three-year starter at linebacker, Knott has accumulated 290 career tackles as a key catalyst to the rise of relevance for the ISU football team during the past four years under coach Paul Rhoads.

Expectations were exceeded for Iowa State in last Saturday’s 37-3 win against Western Illinois that drew an attendance of 55,783 — the fourthlargest in school history. Had that game been played before this season, that milestone would not have been met against a low-tier FCS team.

“Freshman year, if we weren’t playing a big-name opponent or a rivalry game, the stands weren’t full,” said Knott, a true senior. “We played Western Illinois, and the stands were

completely packed, and that’s huge to have that.”

That, coupled with the team’s 3-0 start in consecutive seasons for the first time in more than a decade, has yielded a change in culture surrounding the ISU football program that has fostered optimism and excitement from the ashes of what it once was.

Packed Jack The 2011 season saw all six home games draw an attendance of more than 50,000 for the first time in school history and a record average of 53,647 fans per game. That streak has extended to eight with the Cyclones’ first two home games this season.

ISU Athletic Director Jamie Pollard said he envisions “bowling” in the south end zone of Jack Trice Stadium that would remove hillside seating in those sections to add to the

Marquee upsets

Bowl games

2009: W 9-7 at Nebraska 2010: W 28-21 at No. 22 Texas 2011: W 44-41 (3 OT) vs. Iowa W 41-7 at No. 19 Texas Tech W 37-31 (2 OT) vs. No. 2 Oklahoma State 2012: W 9-6 at Iowa

2009 Insight Bowl: W 14-13 vs. Minnesota 2011 Pinstripe Bowl: L 27-13 vs. Rutgers

Streaks ended 2009

2010

10-game overall losing streak (W 34-17 vs. North Dakota State) 17-game overall road losing streak (W 34-9 at Kent State) 11-game Big 12 losing streak (W 24-10 vs. Baylor) 14-game Big 12 road losing streak (W 9-7 at Nebraska)

36-game road losing streak to ranked opponents (W 28-21 at No. 22 Texas)

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2011 Three-game losing streak to Iowa (W 44-41 [3 OT] vs. Iowa) 58-game losing streak to teams ranked sixth or higher (W 37-31 [2 OT] vs. No. 2 Oklahoma State)

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity suspends members

By Katherine.Klingseis @iowastatedaily.com Several Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members at Iowa State have had their membership suspended, SAE national headquarters said in a statement.

“Chapter and local alumni lead-

ers continue to work with the chapter members on ensuring they meet our national standards and requirements as well as those set forth by the university,” the statement said.

“The suspensions, which have been reaffirmed by the national headquarters, are part of an ongo-

ing process to make sure the members’ actions reflect our creed, ‘The True Gentleman,’ and our guiding principles.”

According to SAE laws, suspended members temporarily lose all rights and privileges of being SAE members, including the ability to at-

tend the fraternity’s meetings and social affairs or to be permitted into any chapter house.

Suspended members can regain their SAE membership after graduation, according to SAE laws. However, if a member was suspended by a spe-

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Photo courtesy of Flickr/Ed Schipul Bill Nye the Science Guy will give a lecture, “You Can Change the World,” Friday at Stephens Auditorium. The lecture will discuss the importance of scientists and engineers in the future.

As children, many ISU students learned about the importance of science and engineering from Bill Nye the Science Guy, but on Friday, they will listen to Bill Nye speak about the importance of their futures as scientists and engineers.

Doors will open at Stephens Auditorium at 6:15 p.m. with the lecture beginning at 7. The lecture, “You Can Change the World,” is sponsored

by Iowa State’s Engineers’ Week.

“Engineers’ Week has been in pursuit of Bill Nye as the key speaker for about six to seven years,” said Nick Schurr, co-chairman for Engineers’ Week and junior in agricultural engineering. “It is very exciting that he is available to come and speak this year.”

A great turnout is expected, as many students recall Bill Nye having an impact on their interest in science

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and engineering as kids.

“We expect to get a full house; the whole campus is buzzing about it. It is a great opportunity for not only engineers, but other ISU students to see a childhood icon,” said Martese Hoffman, co-chairwoman of Engineers’ Week and senior in mechanical engineering. “Bill Nye is someone most of us grew up watching on Disney or PBS. I learned science from him. It will excite the campus. He will inspire a lot of students to come together and bring out the engineering in all of us. In this generation, we need to be the change, and we can do it together.”

In order to get Bill Nye on campus, a lengthy planning process was involved.

Engineers’ Week requires collaboration with several organizations and committees to get big-name lecturers to visit campus.

“The process is a collaboration between Engineers’ Week and the ISU Lectures Program.

The Lectures Program consists of two parts: Government of the Student Body and the Office of the Provost,” Hoffman said. “Through the Lectures Program, we brainstorm ideas of possible speakers, and they let us know who is available and in our budget. We communicate with them through

An alumnus of Cornell University, William Stanford “Bill” Nye graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1977. After graduation, Nye worked as an engineer for Boeing, where he helped create a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor for the Boeing 747 airplane.

During its five year run, “Bill Nye the Science Guy” won 19 Emmy Awards and put out 100 episodes regarding various science topics.

Since his show ended in 1998, Nye has made several television appearances in science education media. Recently, Nye was seen celebrating the successful landing of the 2012 Mars Rover Landing this summer.

the planning process and offer advice and expertise.”

Iowa State strives to find exciting and influential speakers for Engineers’ Week to bring into perspective the importance of students in the fields of science and engineering.

“In past years we have had Grant Imahara [from Mythbusters] and Fred Haise [Apollo 13 astronaut],” Schurr said. “We always try to bring in a big name so the students will get excited about learning about engineering.”

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Bill Bill Nye Nye The Science Guy Friday, 21 Sep 2012 at 7:00 pm Stephens Auditorium

Free admission Bill Nye combines his love of science with his flare for comedy as Bill Nye the Science Guy. He is best known for making science entertaining and accessible for school-age children and adults as the host of a weekly Disney Channel series and guesting on Disney's Mickey Mouse Club, Late Night with David Letterman, and a range of television and radio shows. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University and worked previously as an engineer at Boeing.

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cial commission, he must petition the Supreme Council to be reinstated as a SAE member.

Brandon Weghorst, associate executive director of communications for SAE’s national headquarters, said he did not know the exact ways in which the members failed to meet national SAE or ISU requirements.

Offenses recognized by SAE law are: commission of offenses against “the law of the land or a college or university”; violation of laws, by-laws or lawful orders of SAE; violation of the oath taken at initiation; conduct unbecoming of a gentleman or “prejudicial to good order and discipline”; and delinquency in accounts (payments to SAE) and scholarship.

“National collegiate members are expected to follow guidelines and principles,” Weghorst said. “Our goal is to help them meet those standards.”

Weghorst said he did not know how many SAE members at Iowa State were suspended, but he said there were several.

Sources in the greek community said 20 to 40 SAE in-house members at Iowa State moved out of the house last weekend. There has been no confirmation on whether the members left of their own accord or were told to leave.

Weghorst said the house is not managed or owned by SAE national headquarters, so national headquarters did not ask members to leave the house. He said the house’s landlord can ask members to move out.

According to the Ames city assessor’s website, Iowa Gamma association Sigma Alpha Epsilon is the deed holder for SAE’s house, located at 140 Lynn Ave. The contract holder is not listed on the website.

However, Charles Colwell, of Marshalltown, is listed as the owner’s mailing address.

Colwell was not available for immediate comment.

Jenn Plagman-Galvin, assistant dean of students

Greek info Spring 2012 Total members: 1,246 Total active members: 1,132 Total new members: 186 All greek average GPA: 2.99 Greek active member average GPA: 3.02

Chapter facts National Founded on March 9, 1856 at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa 227 chapters and 16 colonies Approximately 10,500 undergraduates Colors: old gold and royal purple Symbols: lion, phoenix and minerva

Iowa State Chapter founded in 1903 Maximum capacity: 65 Spring 2012 average GPA: 2.62 Spring 2012 members: 53

and program director of Greek Affairs, said she would not talk about SAE’s membership decisions. She said the chapter makes decisions on who is a member and who is not.

Plagman-Galvin also said she could not comment on SAE’s judicial affairs because she does not make adjudicative decisions. She directed inquiries to Iowa State’s Office of Judicial Affairs.

Sara Kellogg, assistant director of judicial affairs, said Iowa State did not make SAE reduce its number of members. Kellogg said she could not comment on specific judicial cases involving the university and SAE. Weghorst said there is nothing to make him believe SAE will lose its charter at Iowa State.

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Salt Company plans to celebrate 40 years

By Maia.Zewert @iowastatedaily.com In The Salt Company’s early days as a ministry called “Baptist Student Union,” it struggled to gather more than 70 students at a service. Now, hundreds of students make the drive out to Cornerstone Church to gather for worship each Thursday night.

On Saturday, The Salt Company will be celebrating its 40th anniversary. In addition to the 5K walk/ run on campus for students and a free family carnival at Cornerstone, the day will also include a directors’ dinner for alumni and previous directors, including Jack Owens, the founder of The Salt Company.

Past Owens started class at the University of Oklahoma already a follower of Christ.

“I knew about God,” Owens said. “I’d gone to Sunday school; I knew the stories, but it didn’t have any impact on the way I lived.”

When Owens asked a girl out on a date, she agreed — on the terms that he accompanied her to a church meeting. It was then that Owens realized there was something lacking in what he believed.

“I went there expecting a service like what I had grown up with, but instead, I met students who had something different about their lives,” Owens said.

After that night, Owens hoped to discover peace and purpose resembling what he saw that night. During a two-and-a-half-hour car ride home, Owens confessed all of his sins. Owens called this night the “turning point in my life.”

While Owens is considered the founder of The Salt Company, its origins can be traced further back to Max

Schedule of events Saturday 9 a.m. — 5K walk/run on campus. Proceeds will go toward supporting mission trips for The Salt Company Noon to 4 p.m. — Free family carnival at Cornerstone Church 6:30 to 8 p.m. - Directors’ dinner for alumni Photo courtesy of Jack Owens Students gather in 1978 for what will be The Salt Company.

Photo courtesy of Jack Owens The Salt Company in 1980 continue the group’s traditions.

Barnett, the leader of the ministry Owens had joined while in college.

“He focused on three things: obedience to God, prayer, and to make disciples and help people become followers of God,” Owens said.

Owens decided he wanted to spend the rest of his life living out the third option and spread the good news that he learned under Barnett’s leadership.

After graduation, Owens and two of his friends approached Barnett and asked what they should do. At the time, Oklahoma State was a part of the Big 8 Conference, so it was decided the men would go out to the schools where college ministries were needed. The three schools chosen were Nebraska, Kansas State and Iowa State. On Aug. 1, 1972, Owens moved to Ames.

The ministry started with humble beginnings. A small group of students would meet and Owens would teach what he learned under Barnett’s leadership: how to pray, share the gospel and meet in small groups.

“It was risky,” Owens said.

“We just had this handful of students and I wasn’t sure what was going to happen, but God provided.”

After 12 years, Owens stepped down and Troy

While he was in college, the size almost overwhelmed Jordan Adams, he said.

“I was nervous about the size of the ministry and thought I would fall through the cracks,” Adams said.

Adams now serves as a leader of Freshman Group, a sub-ministry of The Salt Company geared specifically toward helping freshmen transition to Iowa State.

“Salt Company is by far the biggest ministry I have been part of,” Adams said, “but at the heart of what is important to the ministry is the small groups, and they become your family.”

Cody Cline, current director of The Salt Company, said that not much has changed over the years.

“Every time I go out and spend time with alumni, they always ask the same three questions,” Cline said. “They ask if we still teach the Bible; still value getting people connected into authentic, lifegiving connection groups; and still have a passion for challenging students to go overseas with their faith and share the gospel. The answer is yes.”

Nesbitt, who now serves as lead pastor and staff director, led 25 students on one of The Salt Company’s to Albania first mission trips in 1994.

This past summer, The Salt

Nesbitt became the director.

It was in 1986 that the ministry officially changed its name to The Salt Company. It was around this time when the ministry really started to take off.

“One time, I gave the students a challenge that if we broke over 100 students, I would get my head shaved,” Nesbitt said. “The next service we had 102.”

After repeatedly growing out of venues, from churches to an abandoned Jacko’s Auto Parts, the need for a building of their own became apparent.

In 1994, Cornerstone Church was built.

Present Nathan Kirkwood, sophomore in pre-business, did not quite know what to expect when he first came to The Salt Company.

“I was a little cynical of student ministries because the high school ministry I went to back home was much more of a social gathering with a side of spirituality; but when I came to Salt Company I really noticed things were different,” Kirkwood said. “I absolutely love how genuine most everyone is in their worship.”

The Salt Company is now one of the biggest Christian organizations at Iowa State.

Company sent its 1,000th student overseas.

Sara Wodka, sophomore in music, joined a connection group and said she was so inspired by her experience that she decided to be a leader this year.

“We simply live life together and spur each other on to grow in Christ,” Wodka said.

“It makes our ministry much more intimate and personal.”

Kirkwood credits the relationships formed in The Salt Company for shaping who he is.

“Salt Company played an enormous role in keeping me from harmful behaviors,” Kirkwood said. “Having a group of people I can talk to and who hold me accountable is a wonderful thing.”

Future While the first 40 years were focused on refining and shaping the ministry at Iowa State, the next 40 are planned to have more of an outreach, Cline said.

“I think the next 40 years will be about expanding God’s ministry beyond Ames,” Cline said.

In September 2010, Veritas Church in Iowa City began with the intention of starting up a branch of The Salt Company for students at

the University of Iowa. Drew Stevenson, former Freshman Group leader for Iowa State, was selected to be the director for the group at the U of I branch.

“Every time I’m able to look alongside someone who is extremely gifted, most of the time I’m going to decide that it’s best that we spread out,” Cline said.

“It was a bummer to lose Drew, but I knew that Iowa City was going to get a great example of how to follow Christ.”

The Salt Company is looking to expand to Northern Iowa and Kirkwood Community College, with further plans to plant a ministry in Utah, the first one outside of Iowa. With each branch of The Salt Company that gets started, there will also be a local church.

“Cornerstone was really born out of the heart of student ministry,” Nesbitt said. “The church is to be a family of families, so students who get exposure to a loving, caring church leave Iowa State with a heart for the local church.”

Owens is continuing his involvement in The Salt Company. He currently serves as the international ministry associate and attends Thursday services.

“It’s just awesome to see the energy students have,” Owens said. “They’re making life-changing decisions here.”

Say It Ain’t So Honorable and dear President Obama : Say it ain’t so, Mr. President. Go ahead and deny that several members of your Department of Justice and of previous administrations have messed up in the unprofessional if not illegal way they’ve mishandled the case of my wife, Y Woeman.

Or should I call her Why Woman? She is, after all, that female enigma in your present campaign. Sure you feel you’ve got the female vote locked up. But do you? My prediction is that this Y Woeman Scandal could hurt you in the female and youth vote in places like Iowa and Colorado and Virginia and Ohio once word begins to filter out.

So say it ain’t so, Mr. President. Go ahead and say publicly that I’m lying when I assert that your Attorney General is forcing me to perjure myself on a federal immigration form as the only means by which he will allow my wife to apply for legal Permanent Residency.

And say it ain’t so that the whole time AG Holder is urging me to this illegal act there exists a perfectly legal solution to her immigration problem, a solution first proposed by the government itself over 5 years ago now but never to date acted upon. And why not?

Can you give some public explanation of why you never answered my impassioned plea to you of August 2, 2010 and the several letters since? Did they get lost in the mails or what, Mr. President? Why have you never had the courtesy to reply to these personal petitions for executive relief in what has grown to be an intolerable situation for yours truly and his legal spouse?

Why won’t you give any relief to this woman who’s risked her life repeatedly for our government? Why not give her a safe haven? A place to call home? Must I really file a federal lawsuit against you and your Attorney General as the only means of getting you to answer my repeated inquiries as to just when this nightmare your federal bureaucracy has created is ever going to end?

Your closest confidants have failed to see I’m not just the voice of this poor woman whose life you’ve screwed up. I’m the voice of all the other women like her whose lives have been messed up as well if what you’ve done to this poor woman is any indication of what you’re doing elsewhere.

Your continued silence and failure to take any kind of executive action in her regard can only be taken as a final refusal by your administration to any reasonable settlement of our differences outside of court.

In the Wizard of Oz it took a tornado to make Dorothy realize “we ain’t in Kansas any more.” Must I travel to Wichita and create a legal tornado with the Wizards of Koch to make you realize the same?

So for one last time I beg you to help her, Mr. President. Or else call me a liar and say it ain’t so. Then I’ll see you in court.

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Party politics not determined by tax brackets Politics this week has been abuzz after comments by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney were released Monday from a secretly recorded fundraiser in May in Boca Raton, Fla. Romney said: “There are 47 percent who are with [President Obama], who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. ... And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. ...

These are people who pay no income tax.”

Romney seems to suggest that none of those 47 percent is a Republican or conservative opposed to Obama’s policies and principles. That is unlikely.

According to the Tax Policy Center and CBS, more than half of that group earns less than $16,812 per year, 29.2 percent earn from $16,812 to $33,542; and 12.8 percent earn from $33,542 to $59,486.

We assure you, we personally know Republicans in those income brackets.

Romney (whose net worth is estimated at $200 million) has now denied the possibility that Americans could be smarter than to vote for someone whose pandering will make them richer not in patriotism or civic life but in mere money.

Always, America has been as much an idea as it has been a land of opportunity. Englishmen settled Jamestown in search of glory as much as gold; Puritans settled Plymouth in search of religious freedom; and further colonies were settled on similar, non-monetary bases.

When the American colonies sought their independence, they framed their struggle in terms not of class conflict but of political conflict. Unable to control their political destinies, they sought to protect “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Concerns about populist democracy in our constitutional republic aside, poverty will always bear upon politics. The Bible that Republicans love to quote these days says: “The poor will never cease from the land.”

Contrast what Romney said in May with what Obama said in 2004: “There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America; there’s the United States of America. There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.”

Nor should there be poor and rich Americas.

Photo courtesy of Thinkstock On Aug. 27, President Barack Obama announced he had finalized his plan to raise Corporate Average Fuel Economy to 54.5 mpg by 2025. Columnist Ian Timberlake believes high goals will only lead to bigger and better fuel innovations.

Efficient vehicles lead to no-brainer improvements

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epending on what news source you were reading, Aug. 27 might be a strong indicator as to whom you will vote for come November. On the opening day of the Republican National Convention, President Barack Obama announced he had finalized his plan to raise Corporate Average Fuel Economy to 54.5 mpg by 2025.

In the works since 2009, by the end of 2012 automakers are to have an average fleet fuel economy of 28.7 mpg.

Currently, they all are exceeding that standard at 28.9 mpg.

Vehicle gas emissions are estimated to drop 50 percent while reducing fuel consumption by approximately 40 percent by 2025. According to the White House, $1.7 trillion (or as Obama puts it, “That’s trillion, with a ‘t.’”) will be saved by families in gas costs alone and $8,000 through the lifetime of each vehicle. By 2016, the industry should be up to an average of 35.5 mpg.

Obama, alongside all major automaker CEOs, stated in 2011: “This agreement on fuel standards represents the single-most important step we’ve ever taken as a nation to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. ... The companies here today have endorsed our plan to continue increasing

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By Ian.Timberlake @iowastatedaily.com the mileage on their cars and trucks over the next 15 years.

We’ve set an aggressive target, and the companies here are stepping up to the plate.”

Mind you, this was an agreement struck between the Obama administration and automakers, as Obama put it: “This agreement was arrived at without legislation.

You are all demonstrating what can happen when people put aside differences — these folks are competitors; you’ve got labor and business, but they decided, we’re going to work together to achieve something important and lasting for the country.”

A nonprofit organization called Ceres was teamed up with Citi Investment Research to conduct a study to assess the economic implications of such a massive plan. The first thing that was noticed was that “higher standards mean higher profits.” It also found that Obama’s plan would lead to 484,000 new jobs in 49 states.

Walter McManus, professor at Oakland University, analyzed the data. He found that by 2020, $2.44 billion will be brought into U.S. automakers just because of

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the increased standards, and that all automakers will see an increase of $4.76 billion. He also proclaimed all American automotive industries will become more competitive internationally, which is important for our need to start selling more goods overseas.

Those who claim the technology is not there are simply misinformed. Mitt Romney’s campaign representative Andrea Saul said: “Gov. Romney opposes the extreme standards that President Obama has imposed, which will limit the choices available to American families. ... The president tells voters that his regulations will save them thousands of dollars at the pump but always forgets to mention that the savings will be wiped out by having to pay thousands of dollars more upfront for unproven technology that they may not even want.”

Alan Baum of Baum & Associates, a business that provides research and analysis for the automotive and related industries, said: “There is a whole variety of technology to meet the standard. ... And the primary method will be the internal combustion engine. The automakers understand that, and they have technology to allow for that.” He stressed that the improvement will not remove any well-selling vehicles from the fleets, including high-end sports cars.

Dan Meszler of Meszler Engineering Services said that the cost of the automo-

tive technologies would be outweighed heavily by the savings consumers make at the pump. “The break-even point is about $1.50 a gallon,” Meszler said, according to his calculations. Which, in my opinion, we will never see again. He went on to say, “What [the Corporate Average Fuel Economy] does is floats all boats.”

Some might argue, myself included, that a 54.5 mpg average standard is unattainable in 15 years time. But that argument is moot because any standard increase will be beneficial for the economy, all families and the environment.

Not only has Romney stated his disapproval of this plan, but he has stated he will do what he can to reverse it should he become president.

The greatest thing you can do to help with this issue is either vote for a reelection of Obama or do what you can to convince Romney of the dangers of reversing the Corporate Average Fuel Economy plan.

I am proud to be a part of a university that goes through such great practice in becoming more energy efficient.

Supporting not just Obama’s plan but this trend is incredibly important — and after being informed of the facts and numbers, it becomes a no-brainer.

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ISU football to play South Dakota State The ISU football team has scheduled the FCS’ South Dakota State for its nonconference slate in 2018, according to a news release.

The game will open the season on Sept. 18, 2018, and will be the fourth meeting between the two schools.

“We remain committed to playing local NCAA FCS teams each year that can benefit financially from a game in Ames and also provide local student-athletes the opportunity to play in front of their family and friends,” said ISU Athletic Director Jamie Pollard in the release.

The Cyclones lead the all-time series against the Jackrabbits 3-0.

This comes just days after Iowa State scheduled Northern Iowa for seven games in 11 seasons.

The 2018 matchup with South Dakota State will be in between meetings with Northern Iowa.

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Assist SPORT: Soccer/Hockey DEFINITION: The pass that is made immediately preceding a goal. A maximum of two assists can be attributed to one goal.

USE: Ashley Johnson and Jessica Stewart lead the ISU soccer team in assists with two apiece.

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By Alex.Halsted @iowastatedaily.com As the ISU volleyball team enters Big 12 Conference play, the goal is simple.

“We want to win a championship,” said ISU coach Christy Johnson-Lynch.

The No. 19 Cyclones (6-4) will begin their run at that feat Saturday evening when they take on Baylor (13-2).

Iowa State — while advancing to six NCAA tournaments under JohnsonLynch — has never won a conference title.

Iowa State went 13-3 during the 2011 season in Big 12 matches, qualifying as second place in the conference behind Texas, which accounted for two of the team’s three conference losses.

The Cyclones beat Baylor twice last season, but it wasn’t for lack of effort.

“We’ve always struggled I think

playing Baylor a little bit, just the way they tend to run the offense and the way they play — we can struggle matching up with them,” JohnsonLynch said. “They’re always a team that runs a good offense.”

After sweeping Baylor in straight sets at home last season, the Cyclones were taken to five sets when they played in Waco, Texas, later in the season.

In that match, Iowa State was forced to come from behind, using all five sets and halting a late Baylor run in the fifth to secure the victory.

“They’re always very athletic, and I think they do show up to play us,” said libero Kristen Hahn. “Playing there last year, we may have overlooked them or thought since we swept them at home, we’ll be able to sweep them [away].”

This weekend the Bears bring a lot of uncertainty with them to Hilton.

The team is comprised of 12 under-

classmen out of 17 total players, and seven of those players are freshmen.

“Those new girls, it’s just trying to scout and pick those tendencies up pretty fast and then trying to exploit them where they’re weak,” said setter Alison Landwehr.

Johnson-Lynch said she too was uncertain about what to expect prior to watching match footage of the team.

Adding to that uncertainty is how the young team will react to playing in Hilton Coliseum.

“You never know how they’ll respond, especially on the road in front of a good crowd, you don’t know if players will rise up or if they’ll get intimidated,” Johnson-Lynch said. “It adds to their uncertainty a little bit.”

After playing six of its first 10 matches against top-25 opponents, the Cyclones are comfortable heading into conference play and they expect opponents to be ready to play given the team’s success of recent years.

Fast facts Last season the ISU volleyball team swept Baylor is straight sets at home, but struggled with the Bears on the road.

In that match the Cyclones needed all five sets to win.

This season 12 of Baylor’s 17 players are underclassmen, including seven freshmen and five sophomores.

Under coach Christy Johnson-Lynch the Cyclones have won at least 20 matches in five consecutive season. The team is currently 6-4 with 17 regular season matches remaining.

“Last year when we played [Baylor], I just remember them kind of running all over and picking up balls everywhere,” Landwehr said. “They’re always really pumped to play us; I think a lot of teams in the Big 12 respect us a lot more now, so they always give us their best game.”

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Cyclones kick off Big 12 play, anticipate ‘solid’ competition

By Dan.Cole @iowastatedaily.com The ISU soccer team kicks off Big 12 play this weekend in Ames, with games against Texas on Friday and South Dakota on Sunday.

The Cyclones (7-3) are coming off a pair of wins last weekend and have won four of their last five games overall.

The Cyclones defeated South Dakota State and UWMilwaukee last weekend, giving them seven wins in nonconference play so far this season, which is second-best 10 games into a season in the program’s history.

“I think that we’ve been able to clear up a lot of the small mistakes that we were making throughout pre-Big 12 play,” said ISU junior Jessica Stewart. “We’re really confident going into conference. We still have a lot to learn, especially going against a lot of the bigger, faster teams, but I think we have a good start going into it.”

Texas (3-6-1) enters the ISU Soccer Complex on Friday night as Iowa State’s first conference foe of the sea-

son. Although the Longhorns have struggled a fair amount in nonconference play this year, they have dominated the all-time series with the Cyclones by a 16-2 margin.

The two teams met in Austin, Texas, last September, with the Longhorns prevailing 2-1.

ISU coach Wendy Dillinger stressed the importance of preparation and how they were incorporating it into in practice this week.

“We’re going to watch a lot of Texas video to get ready, see what we’re going to expect,” Dillinger said. “Details in terms of how we need to play, how we need to defend them and how we’re going to attack them. That’s the key: just being prepared.”

The Cyclones will meet South Dakota (1-6-2) for the first time in program history on Sunday afternoon. The Coyotes have had a difficult time finding success this season, having won only one of their first nine games and owning a 0-5-1 road record.

The Cyclones’ success in nonconference play has prepared them well for the

treachery of the Big 12 schedule, in terms of both confidence and ability.

The three teams the Cyclones have lost to this season now combine for a 25-2-1 record, with San Diego State and Virginia Tech being ranked in the top 15 nationally.

“We’ve been playing solid teams all along, so that’s really good,” Stewart said. “It’s going to set us up well.”

Eight of the nine teams in the Big 12 currently own winning records this season, with Texas being the lone exception. The Cyclones, who have the fourth-best record in the conference, plan to take nothing lightly in the coming weeks.

“We are in a tough conference and we’ve got great teams everywhere,” said ISU junior Jennifer Dominguez.

“We’re not going to find an easy game down the road the rest of the way, so we’re just going to have to battle, compete and just raise the level.”

The Cyclones are set to kick off against Texas at 7 p.m. on Friday and against South Dakota at noon on Sunday.

File photo: Iowa State Daily Defender Jessica Stewart skillfully moves the ball away from her opponents during Friday night’s match against South Dakota State on on Sept. 16, 2011.

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However, Pollard said there is no plan to begin funding for this in the immediate future.

“I’d love to be at a school that has sold out for 10 straight years,” Pollard said.

“I hope next year at this time, we’re still sitting here saying: ‘There’s 55,000 people at every home game.’ That would be awesome.”

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In the two years before Rhoads’ arrival, the team went 5-19 under Gene Chizik, who left Iowa State to go on to win a national championship at Auburn.

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“Painful steps” Former quarterback Austen Arnaud said the locker room was coated with malaise following Chizik’s abrupt departure in December 2008. ”The rumors you heard about him saying ‘this is the toughest job to ever coach’ and ‘this job sucks’ might have been true,” Arnaud said. “Iowa State is a very tough coaching job, and unless you have guys like coach Rhoads that are going to be there for the long haul … you’re not going to have a very good program.”

Chizik’s years at Iowa State may have been marred with disappointment, but they were not considered insignificant to the change in culture that is prevalent now.

“Everybody played a role,” Pollard said. “You build things one step at a time and those were steps in the process — although very painful steps — that needed to be taken.”

The symbolic healing from those steps began when Rhoads was hired Dec. 20, 2008, one week after Chizik’s departure.

Immediately after his hiring, Rhoads reached out to his disparaged players.

“You’ve got to establish relationships,” Rhoads said. “As soon as we got back off the road from recruiting, I met with every single player one-on-one.

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“That’s an indictment on them when someone would say [Chizik] was bad,” Pollard said of the players. “They were a good team, they just weren’t ready to win.”

It was Rhoads’ recognition of their potential and development of talent, Pollard said, that translated into success on the field.

“You’ve definitely seen a team that’s maxing out its talent level,” said David Ubben, Big 12 blogger for ESPN. “It’s frustrating to see talent potential go unfulfilled, and you don’t see that at Iowa State.”

Playing for Rhoads paid off for redshirt senior Jake McDonough, who became a run-stopping force at nose tackle after coming to Iowa State an undersized 220 pounds — 60 pounds lighter than he is now.

“He’s more on a personal level with all of our players,” McDonough said of Rhoads.

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It was the development of Chizik recruits like McDonough that Rhoads and his staff are responsible for, having fostered a “family culture” within the program.

“We want to work for our brothers; we want to work for Coach Rhoads and staff,” McDonough said. “We’ve built it so future classes can come in and know what to expect when they get here.”

Beyond expectations Knott attributes the change in culture of ISU football to its recent success under Rhoads, the first coach in school history to lead his team to two bowl games in three seasons.

“The expectation was established that first year to be a program that could win bowl games,” Rhoads said.

Rhoads is 21-20 in his three-plus seasons as the ISU football coach.

While the team suffered discouraging losses in that stretch, its wins have also been noteworthy.

Of those 21 wins, the Cyclones were only favored in nine of them with three against ranked opponents (No. 22 Texas in 2010, No. 19 Texas Tech and No. 2 Oklahoma State in 2011).

“It comes with the wins, basically,” Knott said. “People are coming out to support you if you’re winning; if you’re losing, it’s not a product they want to watch on the field. Right now I feel like we’re a product the fans enjoy.”

While Iowa State has shown it can be competitive with the toughest opponents in the Big 12, drawbacks still remain.

“The Big 12 keeps getting better, and the margin for error is just so slim that it puts Iowa State sort of behind the eight ball,” Ubben said. “The bottom line is Iowa State is never going to recruit on the level of Oklahoma or Texas; it’s just not going to happen.”

Ubben drew parallels to Kansas State, which utilized recruitment of players from junior colleges and developed talent level to remain competitive.

Kansas State made it to a BCS bowl in 2003, but Ubben said Iowa State is not yet at that level.

However, that does not deter Knott from shooting for a BCS bowl this season — a goal which was widely believed to be an unthinkable expectation of the team four years ago.

“I don’t see any reason why we should put limits on ourselves,” Knott said. “We’re building a championship program here. To be able to do that — the old mindset of giving into defeat, we’re trying to get rid of that and we’re doing that every week. That’s what we’re shooting for right now.”

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By Rebecca.Chamberlin @iowastatedaily.com Ames has the privilege of being able to send their garbage to the Resource Recovery Center, which shreds the waste and sends it to the Ames Power Plant to be used as fuel.

However, with the increased amount of waste production in Ames, the Resource Recovery Center is only able to divert 70 percent of the waste from the Boone County Landfill. This is where recycling becomes important to try to minimize the amount of waste that will end up in the landfill.

Unfortunately, with the hustle of an average school week, it is easy for students to not go out of their way to seek out recycling containers on campus. In fact, recycling on Iowa State’s campus is pretty variable, and it is hard to even know where to go to recycle paper and empty food and drink containers.

All buildings do things differently, and there is no university policy that dictates how recycling takes place.

That is why last semester, the student branch of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Green Team decided it was time for an expanded recycling program on campus.

Faculty members founded the LAS Green Team in order to improve sustainability on campus. Allison Vincent, senior in environmental science and president of Leaders for a Sustainable Community,

said the LAS Green Team decided to get students involved to incorporate the different viewpoints student bring to the table. Leaders for a Sustainable Community is the student-run division of the LAS Green Team. The Green Team worked closely with Facilities Planning and Management last semester to brainstorm how to put this plan into action.

The two teams decided to model the project after the Department of Residence recycling program that started a year ago because it has been so successful.

However, summer approached, and the planning was postponed. In June, Facilities Planning and Management decided to test out a recycling program in their own building, the General Services Building.

“We’re our best critic,” said Bob Currie, director of Facilities Planning and Management. Currie said the trial went well, and when the school year began, the Green Team picked up where they left off with Facilities Planning and Management.

The two groups collaborated and decided to carry out a campus pilot in Carver Hall.

“Carver has a lot of traffic, a big lobby and only has white paper and newspaper recycling,” Vincent said.

The recycling bins will be located in several locations, including the lobby and outside the auditorium in the basement.

Photo: Caitlin Ellingson/Iowa State Daily Recycling bins sit in Carver Hall. The LAS Green Team, in conjuction with Facilities Planning and Management, has launched a campus recycling program. The Green Team will monitor levels in the bins and empty them into outdoor trash bins.

The understanding behind the project is that it is selfmanaged, meaning Facilities Planning and Management will supply the recycling bins, but the Green Team will be in charge of emptying the bins into larger outdoor trash bins.

Iowa State has a contract with Waste Management, which provides large outdoor dumpsters for recyclables,

picks up them up on an asneeded basis and charges accordingly.

The pilot at Carver Hall began Wednesday. There will be bins for mixed paper, cardboard, and plastic and glass food and drink containers. The Green Team will be monitoring the bins every other day and recording how long it takes to fill them for

the next several weeks. From this, they will be able to create a more structured emptying schedule.

The ultimate goal is to get recycling expanded to more buildings on campus. Vincent said the Green Team is more than willing to collaborate with other groups to help them pioneer their recycling projects.

Facilities Planning and Management will supply bins to any building if a group requests them and takes on the responsibility of emptying them into the outdoor trash bin.

Currie said: “I think that it’s important that [Iowa State is] a leader in sustainability.

Recycling can reduce our dependence on landfills.”

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Sustainable learning community launches

By Meredith.Whitlock @iowastatedaily.com A learning community based on sustainability has made its first appearance at Iowa State this year.

This particular learning community, which is based in Greene House of Larch hall, was created by Stan Harpole, assistant professor in ecology, evolution and organismal biology, this past fall. Thus far there are five students enrolled; their majors range from environmental studies to aerospace engineering.

The curriculum for the learning community allows the students to participate in sustainable activities around campus and the Ames

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They meet once a week to set goals and brainstorm ideas for projects and activities that will enhance their knowledge of sustainability and environmentally friendly practices.

This semester’s long-term goal is to have each student research and develop a proposal to activate a sustainable project on campus or in the community.

The projects will be looked at by professors, and one will be selected and carried out during the spring semester.

Upcoming activities include a guest speaker, Tom Drenthe, who helped start the farmer’s market in Ames. The members also has a tour of the ISU Power Plant planned.

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