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Election:

Groups host registration for voters The ISU Ambassadors and the Ames League of Women Voters are partnering for a nonpartisan voter registration day Tuesday as part of National Voter Registration Day. Volunteers will be at three locations around campus from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tables will be set up in front of Parks Library in the freespeech zone; a tent will be on the west side of Curtiss Hall in front of central campus; and inside the Memorial Union.

Volunteers will be from both the ISU Ambassadors and the League of Women Voters.

Students will be able to recognize volunteers as they will be dressed in ISU gear and have clipboards and voter information.

The ISU Ambassadors say students do not need to be a resident of Iowa to register here, nor do they need to have a permanent address here; they only need to be a U.S. citizen.

Students can bring their Iowa driver’s license in order to register.

If they do not have one, they will need to know the last four digits of their social security number.

While the event itself is nonpartisan, students can choose to register for a specific party affiliation on the form.

If students are unable to register Tuesday, the ISU Ambassadors say they will be helping people register on Mondays inside the Memorial Union, in front of the bookstore, throughout the election season.

What: Voter Registration Day When: Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: Parks Library in freespeech zone; West side of Curtiss Hall; Memorial Union.

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The Faculty Senate has approved the formation of a wind energy Ph.D. program at Iowa State. The university received a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation in the fall of 2011 to support the new program. At senate’s Sept. 11 meeting, the plans were set in motion, to begin as early as spring 2013.

The grant was received through the Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program. There is significant national interest in wind energy research, with Iowa being one of the top states in this field.

There is also significant interest on the campaign trail this year for wind energy policy.

Iowa State has been devel-

More information ■■ National Science Foundation award: $3 million ■■ Nearly 7,000 wind jobs in Iowa alone ■■ 4,495 MW of capacity installed in state ■■ 20 percent of the state’s energy comes from wind ■■ President Barack Obama favors tax credits for wind energy; Mitt Romney supports clean coal.

WIND.p2 >> Photo courtesy of Thinkstock With the National Science Foundation award of $3 million, the ISU Faculty Senate approved the formation of a new wind energy Ph.D. program, which could begin as early as spring 2013.

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The ISU athletic department announced this past June it had sold out its All-Sports Package, which is the only way for stuPollard dents to get men’s basketball tickets.

Now with the overselling, a plan is in place where if a student is denied entry into a men’s basketball game because the student section is full, he or she will be refunded the face value of that ticket.

Students who wanted men’s basketball tickets, had to purchase the $249 All-Sports Package, which included football, men’s basketball, volleyball, women’s basketball, wrestling and gymnastics.

Along with the All-Sports Package being sold out, the athletic department also decided to oversell men’s basketball tickets.

The Hilton student section currently holds about 2,500 seats. ISU Athletic Director Jamie Pollard said in an interview this summer that with the new plan, they would be selling about 3,500 tickets for the 2012-13 season.

“We worked with our student advisory group on a plan this year to oversell men’s basketball tickets,

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Student uses grant to build enterprise

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By partnering with King and Moulton elementary schools in Des Moines, Leath hopes to better serve the people of Iowa by improving Iowa State’s connection to Des Moines students with lower economic status.

“Being a land-grant school, ISU serves the people of Iowa,” said Linda Hagedorn, associate dean of the College of Human Sciences. “We are working on building the plan.”

The plan has progressed into the initial phase, and Leath has so far approved.

Blueprints of the proposal show great potential, Hagedorn said. The program is to be housed in the School of Education, but Iowa State’s extension outreach scholarship will have a part as well.

With hopes of creating a solution to a common farming problem, Colin Hurd has found new initiative: a $10,000 scholarship.

Winner of the 2012 Murray Wise Associates Agriculture Entrepreneurship Scholarship, Hurd Hurd plans to use the scholarship as capital to build his business idea, called “TrackTill.” The $10,000 is awarded to one student per year, through the Iowa State Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative Program, who has a business idea that has the potential to be successful in the agricultural market.

“America needs to be invented to stay competitive,” said Hurd, senior in agricultural studies and the 2012 Murray Wise Associates Agriculture Entrepreneurship Scholarship Winner. “We have to think creatively to solve a real life problem.”

TrackTill is aimed at solving a complicated issue that every farmer runs across in the field: soil compaction. Hurd said soil compaction is a growing issue. As farming equipment increases in size, the weight of the farming equipment also increases, which means more soil compaction. More soil compaction means there is less space in the soil for water and air and thus makes it harder for the crop seeds to emerge through the soil.

Hurd created an attachment to a planter that would reduce this compaction and thus increase the overall yield in the fields. Due to proprietary reasons in waiting for a patent for his prototype, Hurd would not discuss too many details of his invention to protect his business idea. Hurd did say, however, that much more work is needed for him to receive this patent.

Through the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative Program, Hurd was able to network with an agricultural engineer who graduated from Iowa State.

Hurd and his collaborator will receive their patent once they are able to take the idea, graphically depict the product and create a working prototype. They hope to

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Illustration: Bolun Li/Iowa State Daily ISU President Steven Leath has proposed a plan to offer a nearly-free tuition scholarship program for lower-income students who student-teach at schools in the Des Moines area.

Outreach scholarship would offer free tuition

By Danielle.Ferguson @iowastatedaily.com As part of his quest to improve education through Iowa State, President Steven Leath plans to offer nearly-free tuition for those who might not otherwise be able to afford a degree at Iowa State.

Iowa State is a diverse campus with students coming from all over the world to soak up everything the school has to offer. But those closer to home are sometimes forgotten in the hustle of welcoming the far-flung travelers. President Leath and State Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad have been in close discussion about a new proposal to fix that — by increasing the number of lowerincome and minority Iowans attending Iowa State.

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oping the program for the past two years. Iowa State’s new program will help to educate students on all aspects of wind energy.

ISU professor Gene Takle is one of the four co-principal investigators for the program.

Takle is also the coordinator of the first course in a fourcourse sequence for all of the students who will enter the program.

“ISU is already is being recognized as an institution that is providing a broad-based opportunity for pursuing a Ph.D. in wind energy.” Takle said.

“Our [program] covers not only engineering but also science and policy areas of meteorology, political science and communication.”

According to the Iowa Wind Energy website, Iowa is currently first in the nation in wind energy jobs, with 6,000 to 7,000 people in wind-related

jobs around the state. About 75 percent of Iowa is suitable for wind energy development and has potential to produce up to 570,000 MW a year.

Iowa currently has 4,495 MW of wind capacity currently installed, which is the second largest capacity in the nation.

It is first in the nation in wind energy use, with 20 percent of the state’s energy coming from wind energy.

Wind energy has also become a popular topic in the upcoming election; President Barack Obama has backed the idea of extending tax credits given to wind energy companies. Mitt Romney has favored clean-coal options, putting him at odds with Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, who also supports wind tax credits.

With the program, ISU students can be leaders in wind energy in the Midwest — a market ready for jobs and advancement.

>>TICKETS.p1 similar to what the University of Kansas does with their student body,” Pollard said.

“We did this to try and get more students at men’s basketball games.”

Spencer Hughes, director of student affairs for the Government of the Student Body, said they had concern about what a student would do in the event that they be denied entry into a basketball game that was full.

“When we found out that athletics was planning to oversell the student section for men’s basketball games, the initial concern was about [there] not being enough

“Collaborators from several departments in the College of Engineering combined with faculty members from the science and policy areas to create a unique concept for a program,” Takle said. “And Iowa is a leading wind energy state, so there is a ready local market for our graduates to take leading roles in the wind energy development in the Midwest.”

Jonathan Wickert, senior vice president and provost at Iowa State, also thinks this program will benefit ISU students immensely.

“Iowa State will lead in developing more sustainable ways to produce and deliver safe and nutritious food, water, materials and energy; integrate the protection of plant, animal and human health; and care for our environment.”

Wickert said. “The program is also consistent with our strategic plan priority to develop students who are prepared to address the challenges of the

space for students,” Hughes said.

Hughes said GSB President Jared Knight met with the athletic department and discussed possible alternatives.

“Then the concern kind of shifted that there wouldn’t be a policy in place in the event of a student coming to a game that doesn’t have a seat and [the student] is denied entry,” Hughes said. “So we really wanted to get something in place. Because it’s unlikely that’s going to happen, but in case it does, we have something in place.”

Pollard said the department worked with a student advisory group on the plan to oversell tickets in an effort to get more students to the basketball tickets, similar

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21st century.”

Wickert said the program will help create jobs around Iowa and prepare students to fill those same jobs. Wind energy is growing rapidly every year and the program will be able to prepare students to lead the field in the near future.

“Wind energy and other “smart-grid” technologies have the potential to create more than 100,000 permanent, high-paying jobs,” Wickert said. “Providing advanced training through this Ph.D. program will help create some of those jobs right here in Iowa.

That’s why we’re proposing an interdisciplinary program that will prepare graduates for wind energy careers in industry, academia and government.

“We want to equip students with the skills necessary to solve problems related to wind energy generation and transmission, and well as address the engineering, science and policy issues in the future.”

to what Kansas has done with its program.

Now a solution is in place in the event that a student comes to a men’s basketball game and is denied entry because the student section is full.

“This past week there were some conversations going on, and something got worked out that in the event of a student showing up to a basketball game and there not being a place for [that student] and is denied entry into the student section, they will get the face value of the ticket for that game refunded,” Hughes said.

Both Pollard and Associate Athletic Director Steve Malchow were unavailable for comment on Monday.

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>>AGRICULTURE.p1 have a working prototype by spring.

Once Hurd has a patent, he will still have to worry about the business end of entrepreneurship.

“To get to a point where it can create a profit has been calculated to be at $450,000,” Hurd said.

Hurd hopes to grow the business and leave an impact on farming, but understand the challenges ahead if he owns his own company.

“It’s next to impossible to compete with the three giants,” Hurd said, referring to the three major farming equipment companies of John Deere, Case-I-H and AGCO. “The business should be profitable on his own, or another route is being bought out.”

Hurd credits many people he has crossed paths with over the years while here at Iowa State and considers many of them mentors. Hurd also credits one class he took at Iowa State, calling it the best class he has taken.

“Entrepreneurship in Agriculture,” or Economics 334, taught by Kevin Kimle, is where Hurd came up with the idea of TrackTill.

Stacey Noe, program coordinator of the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative Program, regarded Hurd and his work highly. “[Hurd] is a really impressive student,” Noe said. “Academically, he is very successful and is very driven, which is what we look for in this scholarship.”

Hurd was very involved in the initiative program’s incubator program, which fosters students business ideas, networks them with professionals and exposes them to agricultural entrepreneurship and business development. The scholarship is in its second year at Iowa State and is endowed by Murray Wise Associates, a company in farming real estate.

Murray is an alumnus of Iowa State who wanted to make a large impact on students. Noe said the scholarship allows students to move forward with their business idea without being stuck because of the lack of funds to build a company.

>>TUITION.p1 Step one will be to increase the number of Iowa State’s student teachers at the schools. To make sure ISU students do not miss their coursework while at the elementary schools, plans are underway to provide the

Colin Hurd ■■ Senior in agricultural studies ■■ Won the 2012 Murray Wise Associates Agriculture Entrepreneurship Scholarship, which is awarded to one student per year through the Iowa State Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative Program ■■ Plans to use the scholarship as capital to build his business idea, called “TrackTill,” which is aimed at solving a complicated issue that every farmer runs across in the field — soil compaction ■■ Created an attachment for a planter that would reduce this compaction and thus increase the overall yield in the fields ■■ Was able to network with an agricultural engineer who graduated from Iowa State, through the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative Program ■■ Will receive the patent to TrackTill once they are able to take the idea, graphically depict the product and create a working prototype ■■ Hope to have the working prototype by this spring ■■ Hopes to grow the business and leave an impact on farming

The previous winner of the scholarship set high expectations for Hurd to fill in terms of financial success.

“Last year’s winner Michael Koenig’s business, ScoutPro, is expected to make $100,000 dollars in sales in next year,” Noe said.

Hurd is driven to fill his predecessor’s shoes: “If you have a business idea, you can pursue it. You just have to have the commitment, passion, and vision to do so.”

appropriate coursework at the sites. More pre-service teachers will also be brought in two days a week to help with the course work.

The ideology of the program is that students who complete the program will receive essentially free tuition to

Photo: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily Colin Hurd was recently awarded the Murray Wise Scholarship. He will use the $10,000 award to develop his “TrackTill” business idea, which looks at ways for controlling soil compaction in farming.

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A faculty committee meeting will be held in the future detail the plan, although an official date for the meeting has not been established.

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“I think it’s huge, something we’re very grateful for,” he said. “I’m very excited to get more inner city schools involved with helping students [further their education].”

Saddler realizes the program is still at the premature

point, but both schools plan to start putting together a program in a few weeks.

“We want to ensure it’s going to have positive effects on students,” Saddler said. “It’s a very proud day for Des Moines schools and ISU to benefit students and their futures.”

In his installation address, Leath spoke about programs like this one: “I want Iowa State University to be known as the ‘partnership university.’

More than that, I want us to be known as the university that gets it right when it comes to partnering with others.”

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Nonprofit student group helps animals

By Kelsey.Roehrich @iowastatedaily.com Students Helping Rescue Animals is a nonprofit organization where students can volunteer to help animal shelters and rescues throughout the state of Iowa.

Allie Bender, spring 2012 graduate, founded the organization as a sophomore in 2010. She said she has wanted to open up an animal shelter since she was 14 years old.

When Bender came to Iowa State, she was surprised to see there were no clubs offered that sent volunteers to animal shelters. She found a scholarship program for students that were doing something to make a difference in their community.

“I was amazed by people my age making such an impact,” Bender said.

“I wondered why I had to wait to make a difference for homeless animals.”

Jacqueline Myers, president of Students Helping Rescue Animals and senior in animal science, said that

each year, the club coordinates a 5K walk/run for “Wet Noses,” the Have a Heart Adoption Event during Veishea and bake sales. In addition, the club has educational events on subjects such as breed discrimination, puppy mills and more.

“The more people we can reach with our education events, the more we’re helping shelters and rescues for the future,” Bender said.

Also, the organization has a special fund for shelters called the “Vitae Fund.” This raises money for animals who need extra surgeries, physical therapy or behavior consultations that shelters may not be able to afford.

“So far, we have raised over $1,000 for shelters,” Myers said.

Students should get involved if they want to help the animals in their community or learn more about homeless animals, Bender said. There are multiple levels which they can get involved — volunteering at shelters, baking for the bake sales or just coming to meetings to learn more about

Being able to give homeless animals more supporters for their cause is unequivocally the greatest thing [Students Helping Rescue Animals] could have ever given me in return.”

Allie Bender, spring 2012 ISU graduate, founder of Students Helping Resuce Animals in 2010

current events.

Student members of group are required to complete a minimum of two hours of volunteer service per semester, but students can put in as many hours as they want.

“A lot can be provided by volunteers,” Myers said. “Shelters don’t always have enough [money] to pay for people to help them.”

Bender said that being a part of Students Helping Rescue Animals has benefited her in many ways. She said she met many different people and got the hands-on experience that she needed in order to work with animals after graduation.

“Being able to give homeless ani-

mals more supporters for their cause is unequivocally the greatest thing [Students Helping Rescue Animals] could have ever given me in return,” Bender said.

Bender encourages students to get involved in some sort of philanthropic organization during their time at Iowa State.

“Volunteering and helping others is a great way to put our own lives into perspective and be thankful for what we have,” Bender said Students Helping Rescue Animals is not associated with PETA or the Humane Society of the United States.

“We are just trying to raise money to help animals,” Myer said.

Group events ■■ Each year, the club hosts a 5K walk/run for “Wet Noses” ■■ Has a Heart Adoption Event during Veishea ■■ Holds biweekly bake sales ■■ Holds educational events on subjects such as breed discrimination, puppy mills, etc.

■■ Has a special fund for shelters called the “Vitae Fund,” which raises money for animals who need extra surgeries, physical therapy or behavior consultations that shelters may not be able to afford ■■ Members are required to complete a minimum of two hours of volunteer service per semester.

■■ Students can put in as many hours as they want.

■■ Students Helping Rescue Animals is not associated with PETA or the Humane Society of the United States.

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Greeks for Obama, a new group on campus, has aims of encouraging ISU students to become involved in the president’s campaign and also to educate students about the election process.

The group just started meeting last week and has created several social network accounts to spread the word about what they are trying to do.

This group is made up entirely of members of the greek community at Iowa State.

The students plan to have events leading up to the election in an attempt to market the group to other greek students, as well as to help them meet other greek students, both within the group and outside of it.

J.J. Gardner, senior in industrial engineering, said the group was made not only to educate other students about President Barack Obama’s campaign efforts but also about why the vote in Iowa is so crucial to the outcome of the election.

“Iowa is a strong swing state in this election,” Gardner said. “A lot of important issues affect the demographic of young, college-educated adults.”

Gardner said the group’s primary goal for the time being is to simply encourage ISU students to get out and vote this November.

Gardner also said the group’s short-term goals include simply growing every day and establishing awareness through social media, brand presentation and on-

campus events.

Brian Good, junior in political science and one of the leaders of the group, said that one big purpose for the group’s creation is to educate fellow students on all the president has done thus far, and also what his plans involve going forward.

Good is a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and has done several events with the Obama campaign already, including when Obama came and spoke on Central Campus earlier this fall.

“This election is extremely important because of the great contrast in people and platforms that are running for president,” Good said.

Good also said his interest in starting Greeks for Obama stemmed from stereotypes held by people about the greek community.

“I started this organization because I think for several years, there has been a misconception of greek communities being predominantly conservative from a political standpoint,” he said.

“However, I have seen for myself that there are many greek students here on campus that recognize what President Obama has done for us and why his policies best serve our interests and needs as students.”

Good said he hopes the group can unite his peers as they prepare for the November election and plans on hosting events both on and off campus and utilizing social media to get the word out about the group.

Good also said the group plans on making shirts to support the group, and the shirts will then be distributed to students on campus throughout the fall.

Greeks for Obama currently has a Twitter account and Facebook page.

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Classes must be rigorous, challenging According to U.S. News & World Report, which annually ranks colleges and universities in the United States, Iowa State is the 46th-best national public university (a category that included 173 institutions) and 101st-best among 281 institutions that grant bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees.

The fact there are more than 4,000 institutions of higher learning of some kind means 46 is still a pretty good place to be. But with the exception of engineering and agriculture students, many of us probably don’t walk around campus thinking: “Gee, I go to one of the greatest schools in the country.” The academic rigor of our institution is not always impressed upon our minds.

Why is that so?

Rarely in our classes do we feel challenged as a matter of routine.

Yet, we cannot be so intelligent that college is a breeze. Nor could college be so easy anyone willing to put in 15 hours a week to go to class and copy PowerPoint slides could do it.

Right?

One potential answer — and one of the hardest to pin down and study — is grade inflation. In light of perennial complaints about how woefully inadequate public education is everywhere in the United States, the fact that proportionally more college students have higher GPAs than they did before the 1970s implicitly points to instructors doling out higher grades for lower quality work than used to be expected in collegiate learning.

The ISU Fact Book shows that just from 2001 to 2010, the average GPA of a freshman in his or her fall semester rose from 2.57 to 2.65; overall, the average GPA of an Iowa State student rose from 2.80 to 2.87 in the same time. Remembering the deep budgetary cuts due to lower state appropriations ($275.8 million in fiscal year 2008 to $216.6 million in FY 2012) and the subsequent cuts in programs and faculty, we doubt educational quality has improved much in the past decade, no matter what the GPA numbers say.

Despite his insistence Iowa State is a good school (which it is) and that the faculty here are good at what they do and vital to Iowa State’s mission (which they are), President Steven Leath largely left them out of his installation address. While there were challenges to Gov. Terry Branstad to continue supporting public higher education and to the university as a whole to work on behalf of Iowans, there was no challenge to professors to increase the rigor of our academics. Leath seemed to take it for granted that the rigor exists.

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Politics

Photo: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily Fewer people from both the Democratic or Republican parties find the presidential race interesting. Only 39 percent of Democratic voters are more enthusiastic than usual about this year’s election, while 51 percent of Republicans express extra interest.

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egularly, I check for interesting reads at The New York Times website (among others), including their opinion section. Back in July, I found one piece that got me thinking: a dialogue titled “Caring About Politics” by David Brooks and Gail Collins. The exchange focused on voter apathy.

Right off the bat, Brooks cited recent polls: “Not a lot of people are following politics closely this year.

Four years ago, pollsters asked Americans if they found the presidential race interesting. A clear plurality said “yes.” This year, a clear plurality says “no.” Somehow they find a race between two androids less than scintillating.”

My curiosity piqued, I poked around on the Internet and found a few Gallup polls on voter enthusiasm and voter intentions.

Among Democrats and voters who lean Democratic, only 39 percent of voters are more enthusiastic than usual about this year’s election. That compares to 61 percent four years ago in 2008, and 68 percent in 2000.

Republicans aren’t much better: roughly 51 percent of Republicans and Republicanleaning voters are more enthusiastic than usual to vote come November (compared to 35 percent in 2008 and 51 percent in 2000).

Especially dismal is the reckoning for Americans ages 18 to 29

By Michael.Belding @iowastatedaily.com years old. In 2008, 69 percent of them said they were definitely likely to vote. In 2004, that number was 61 percent. But this year in June, only 58 percent said they would definitely vote.

Estimates for the causes of such disinterest in the future political leadership of the United States range from distress about our societal minds turning to mush and being too absorbed in the fabricated cyberworld (a la “turn on, tune in, drop out”) to the toxic partisan litmus testing so popular among Republicans these days. With such strict dress code requirements, who would want to even knock on the door of that party? I think it’s something different that’s pushing Americans away from anticipating the election with bated breath.

I think this year — our options being Barack Obama and Mitt Romney — the lack of enthusiasm for the election (to say nothing of the candidates themselves) in the wake of Tea Party liberalism finally shows how equally committed both parties are to private rather than public life.

Rather than using public policy to shape the way in which we interact and to keep private and public lives in their proper, separate places, American politics is obsessed with the material benefit of people in their individual lives. Little attention goes toward the Constitution’s commission of forming “a more perfect union.”

Nearly all the dialogue, at least on the level of the presidential candidates, is about bettering the private lives of Americans, such as putting them back to work and letting them keep more of their paychecks. We would all exist with or without the United States.

To be inspired about politics or public life, we need to be interested in actions that make people want to say “I’m proud to be an American because my people have done X, Y and Z” rather than “I’m proud to be an American because my president isn’t a closet Muslim and my taxes are the lowest in the world.” Any government can enforce law and order and collect high or low taxes.

What sets America apart? What gives us the exceptionalism so many politicians, right and left, point to on Independence Day? One of our Founding Fathers and most ardent and forceful of the Constitution’s defenders — its writer, James Madison — wrote that “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”

Here is a sorry truth: Men are not angels, and government is neces-

sary. Madison preceded that comment with a rhetorical question: “But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” Men are neither inherently good nor inherently rational, as liberalism from the time of Hobbes and Locke to the present day has claimed.

Living in complete isolation from one another, they might be capable of living without conflict but, where two or more people are gathered, government is necessary.

Their conduct must have limits other than the sky. Rules of the game must be established.

And the game’s players must understand that the game and its rules are more important than themselves — for without the game and its rules, they would, at best, fail to leave any lasting impression on the world and would, at worst, devour one another.

“All the world’s a stage,” the Bard Shakespeare wrote, “And all the men and women merely” — think about that: merely — “players.” Sportsmanship is about upholding a standard of play — an ethic — not the aggrandizing of oneself.

Politics is a sport of its own.

It is a game that should be played for its own sake, not for any of the players’.

Michael Belding is a graduate student in history from Story City, Iowa.

Islam

Don’t be controlled by controversy “M y thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.” — Mason Cooley That quote resonates well with the rationale behind the uprisings occurring around the globe due in part to the awful piece of film known as “Innocence of Muslims.”

The misguided teachings offered by religious leaders advocating Islamic Fundamentalism shaped the hostile thoughts that have led to the violent actions; the pictures, or images, from the movie depicting Mohammed in a highly offensive light have fueled the desires of those fanatical religious leaders to incite other zealots and even those that are only of the flock to further assault the “infidels.”

I cannot blame those Muslims protesting for being angry. They are well within the realm of logic to be angered, which seems to have been the purpose of the video in the first place.

But some the actions stemming from the protesting are not acceptable.

The violence is simply unforgivable. The actions of a few Muslims are making the followers of Islam out to be the frightening group the events of 9/11 so created.

The horrid religious indoctrination by those fanatical leaders is brainwashing children. An 8-yearold child named Ruqaya was being used in Sydney, Australia, to rev up the crowd. She offered her love of jihad and encouraged Muslims young and old to fight for the restoration of the Islamic caliphate, according to an article in The Australian.

Despite that, we must keep in mind the religion is not to blame for the riots or the violence, nor are the majority of Muslims.

Those to blame are the same people that are encouraging the killing of infidels no matter what occurs. Those people do not believe in freedom of speech or the freedom to choose.

By Gabriel.Stoffa @iowastatedaily.com The problem is further exasperated by the reactions of media and individuals across the Internet. The line between satire and attack is becoming very muddled.

The satirical French weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo unleashed a series of cartoons last Wednesday portraying Mohammed naked. Soon after, Charlie Hebdo’s website was hacked and shut down by a group called Syrian Association For Freedom, according to a report by Agence France-Presse on minnpost.com.

The Onion, famous for its satirical content leveled at everything under the sun, published a very X-rated picture poking fun of the controversial film and the situation called, “No One Was Murdered Because Of This Image.” The picture appeared on Facebook briefly, amassing close to 100,000 likes before being taken down due to breaching Facebook’s sexually explicit content rules.

Are these really satire, or did the cartoons and the columns go too far with criticism or a joke and cross over into taunting and harassment? In the United States, it is no question the material presented should not be taken down or stopped, because it is an exercise in free speech.

The French government, though it pleaded with Charlie Hebdo not to print the cartoons, also stood by the paper’s freedom of speech. But as a precaution, due to past events of unrest from antiIslamic sentiment, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs upped security for diplomatic offices abroad.

One of the actresses from the film, Cindy Lee Garcia, filed a legal complaint Wednesday to the Superior Court of the State of California for the county of Los Angeles demanding the video be removed: “The lawsuit is not an attack on the First Amendment (to the U.S. Constitution) nor on the right for Americans to say what they think, but does request that the offending content be removed from the Internet.”

She claims invasion of privacy, misappropriation of likeness, fraud and unfair business practices due to “Innocence of Muslims.”

Garcia alleges she was cast in an adventure movie about Egyptians titled “Desert Warrior,” and the soundtrack was altered to create the anti-Islam messages.

She has since “received death threats, was fired from her job and was not permitted by her family to see her grandchildren, fearing for their safety,” according to a news article in ComputerWorld.

Timothy Alger, lawyer for YouTube’s owners, Google, said to the court Thursday, “Our laws encourage free speech, especially with matters of public concern.

We don’t allow people with private interests to trump that. No matter how we view the content, whether it’s reprehensible or mocking, the fact is, it’s a subject of wide debate on a topic of interest for people around the world.”

The judge dismissed Garcia’s privacy complaint, and ruled the video did not need to be removed.

But that ruling will not stop the upheaval being attributed to the movie. The threats against Garcia and all those not of the Islamic faith are going to continue.

So does that validate the existence of “Innocence of Muslims” or the repression of further criticism of Mohammed?

Does the alleged manipulation make filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula’s, also known as Sam Bacile, work into harassment and

slander, or further demonstrate how far we must tolerate extreme satire in order to preserve freedom of speech?

The fanatics advocating death to infidels will continue to advocate violence no matter what is done. They will use any and every tidbit of criticism toward their religion to try to succeed with their goals. Historically, every time any satirical commentary about Mohammed has appeared, they have advocated violence and rebellion.

With that in mind, what should be the reaction to the uprisings and calls for violence occurring across the globe due to a religion?

Freedom of speech must be maintained, so we cannot quell the voices of the critics. U.S. military incursion has demonstrated over and over again to incite further violence when dealing with Islamic Fundamentalism, so that option is unappealing. The religion itself cannot be quashed, as no religion can be held “correct” over any other.

We must have patience. We must be cautious, and we must protect ourselves and those representing us. We must be mindful of our actions to not antagonize those seeking excuses for violence with overly inflammatory messages, nor should anyone antagonize Muslims not partaking in violence.

We must not react with violence or even in an agitated, aggressive manner, because to do so will only give more fuel to ignite the fires of those that seek to kill.

A picture, a word, a movie, a book: none of these things give reason to advocate actions that involve violence. We can only respond with caution and hope humanity’s desire to live as a global village wins out.

Gabriel Stoffa is a graduate student in political science from Ottumwa, Iowa.

Sports

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American Volleyball Coaches Association Top 25 1. Penn State 2. Oregon 3. USC 4. UCLA 5. Washington 6. Nebraska 7. Stanford 8. Hawaii 9. Texas 10. Minnesota 11. BYU 12. Florida 13. Purdue 14. Florida State 15. Kansas State 16. San Diego 17. Louisville 18. Pepperdine 19. Iowa State 20. Dayton 21. Illinois 22. Ohio State 23. Western Kentucky 24. Michigan State 25. Tennessee

Awards:

Bigbee, Hahn earn honors in Big 12 play The ISU volleyball team kicked off Big 12 play Saturday with a 3-1 victory against Baylor, and two players were honored for their efforts Monday.

Freshman Mackenzie Bigbee was named the Big 12 Rookie of the Week after collecting 18 kills against the Bears over the weekend and libero Kristen Hahn was named the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week for the second consecutive week after contributing 25 digs in the win.

This season Bigbee is averaging 3.37 kills per set and in nine of the 10 matches in which she’s played, the Williamsburg, Iowa, native has reached double-digits in kills For Hahn it’s a repeat of last week when the junior was awarded the same honor after recording a season-high 26 digs against then No. 1 Nebraska.

Hahn averaged 6.25 digs per set against Baylor and is now averaging 4.78 digs per set on the season.

It’s the sixth time Hahn has won the award in her career.

The Cyclones will continue Big 12 play Wednesday in Lawrence, Kan., when they take on the Jayhawks at 6:30 p.m.

— By Daily staff

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Football

Bye week benefits

File photo: Randi Reeder/Iowa State Daily Linebacker A.J. Klein takes down Tulsa running back Alex Singleton during the first quarter of the season opener.

Iowa State defeated Tulsa 38-23 on Sept. 1 at Jack Trice Stadium.

Team utilizes weeklong break to recuperate

By Jake.Calhoun @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State has been receiving votes in the AP Top 25 poll for the past three weeks, but don’t tell coach Paul Rhoads that.

Rhoads, the fourth-year coach of ISU football, said he tried to use the possibility of being ranked as motivation for his team when it was in the exact same position at being 3-0 last year as it geared up to open conference play against Texas.

The Cyclones lost a 3714 contest — which saw a 34-0 lead by the Longhorns

at halftime — to serve as the blueprint for what not to do this McDonough season when the expectations are as heightened as they are.

“In my Bundrage opinion, that Texas game crowd was the best it’s been since I’ve been here at the start of that game,” Rhoads said at his weekly news conference on Monday. “And we laid an egg and weren’t able to take advantage of playing at home.”

The bye week before that game and the week leading up to it, Rhoads said, were not adequate preparation for the Big 12 opener.

As the team prepares for its conference opener against Texas Tech on Saturday, things will be different.

“Last year, we kind of took the bye week off,” said free safety Jacques Washington. “Last week we had three good practices, and we had a good practice [on Sunday]. We’re a mature team from last year; I think we’re going to handle business out there.”

After the first time it started 3-0 in consecutive seasons since 1999-2001,

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Drop pass SPORT: Hockey DEFINITION: A pass left directly behind for a teammate to advance play on the ice rink.

USE: The ISU hockey player gave a drop pass to his teammate in order to keep advancing.

Next game Iowa State’s inaugural conference matchup against Texas Christian on Oct. 6 in Fort Worth, Texas, has been set for a 2:30 p.m. kickoff time.

The game will be broadcast on Fox Sports Network.

Cyclones hope to fix third-set woes Coach tries practice with intermissions

By Alex.Halsted @iowastatedaily.com

Where are they now? Kelechi Osemele

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Former All-American offensive lineman Kelechi Osemele has started his professional career off on the right foot, having started the first three games of the 2012 NFL season at left tackle for the Baltimore Ravens.

Osemele was a four-year starter on the offensive line for Iowa State before being drafted by the Ravens with the 60th overall pick in the second round of the NFL Draft last April.

Osemele came to Iowa State from Houston as a recruit of former coach Dan McCarney, who was replaced by Gene Chizik for his freshman year. In his time at Iowa State, Osemele blocked for four different quarterbacks — Austen Arnaud, Jerome Tiller, Steele Jantz and Jared Barnett.

— By Daily staff

“This year, I think we’re well on our way to having one of our better bye weeks. We’ve approached it really well, and the guys are more prepared.”

FIle photo: Jonathan Krueger/Iowa State Daily Junior Kristen Hahn gets a dig against Northern Iowa. The ISU volleyball team prevailed against Northern Iowa 25-18, 23-25, 25-14, 27-25 on Sept. 5 at Hilton Coliseum.

If third sets this season have been any indication, the Cyclones aren’t much for intermission.

So far this season, No. 19 Iowa State (7-4, 1-0 Big 12) has exited intermission and lost the third set in six of 11 matches. That includes losing the third set in the last four matches the team has played.

“It’s happened to us a few times, so obviously it’s something we need to address,” said ISU volleyball coach Christy Johnson-Lynch.

Iowa State led Baylor 2-0 at intermission on Saturday before getting off to a slow start in the third set.

Instead of a sweep, the Cyclones were forced to close the match out in four sets.

It was the third time in six of those third-set losses this season that the team has let the sweep opportunity get away.

“I think we get so excited that we’re up 2-0, and we want to win the third one so bad our focus is more on the fact that we’re up instead of just closing it out and getting it done,” said libero Kristen Hahn.

Hahn said it might help if the team hits volleyballs around following intermission, adding that it might get them back into the game mindset.

The woes have also been on the mind of the coaches.

“We actually talked as a coach-

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Hockey

Karus balances careers

By Clint.Cole @iowastatedaily.com

There are not many college hockey players who can say that they have played for their team for 4 1/2 years.

There are also not many college hockey players who can say that they own their own business in the summer between hockey seasons.

The senior goaltender for the ISU hockey team, Paul Karus, can say both

of those things.

Karus, from Brookfield, Wis., is majoring in horticulture and owns his own landscaping business.

Karus admits that he has changed his major quite a few times and jokes that “all I know is that I’m getting a degree in something.”

PK Lawnscape Inc. was started

by Karus and a friend as a summer job one year, and it grew into a small business that his mom runs when he

is away at school.

“It grew to the point where my mom was thinking about retiring, and then she finally did retire to run the business whenever I’m away because it’s grown to that point where it’s a big baby right now,” Karus said. “It’s no longer a small baby.”

Karus’s said that his mom and dad each own 20 percent of PK

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Editorial

Substitute referees jeopardize safety

We’ve seen it since week one: replacement referees — as society has learned to call them — have missed calls and become more willing to throw flags, illegal hits and just utter uncertainty with the game.

You think you have seen this before; another rant about replacement referees, and how they simply have struggled for the past four weeks.

But this argument begs more serious questions, such as: When will this end, and how are the botched calls affecting the safety of the players?

In week one, it was a shock to the culture of football players, coaches and fans. “Maybe it was a fluke. It’ll be better next week, right?”

Week two, we saw the same thing. Allotments of extra timeouts, missed calls and incorrect calls, all giving teams an extra 15 yards when they should have been allowed 10.

Football fans may have caught the worst of it during week three.

A replacement referee was caught using his Facebook to support the New Orleans Saints... only hours before officiating — yes, you guessed it — the New Orleans Saints’ game.

That raises the question: How many more referees are out there supporting their biases of the teams they so dearly love?

As NFL football fans, most bleed those team colors. But when the zebras are out there bleeding red, black and white for the Bucs and not black and white (the color of the NFL refs), the line of being biased is crossed.

But the beef with the referees isn’t just with fans. After Sunday night’s flag fest of a football game with the New England Patriots and the Baltimore Ravens, coach Bill Belichick was seen grabbing an official’s arm after the game was over.

The rule is any physical contact between a coach or player with a referee will result in a fine But the rules also state that holding call should be 10 yards and not 15 yards. Maybe Belichick will appeal for off-setting penalties?

But things are looking more and more bleak as we head deeper into the season.

In week four, the fans saw a Dallas Cowboys touchdown possibly slip through the hands of receiver Kevin Ogletree, as he slipped on a hat a replacement ref threw at him.

Yes, his hat.

Olgetree took a (what could have been more dangerous than it was) spill in the end zone. This then begs a more serious question of what will happen if players become injured because of poor mistakes made by officials?

In week three, Oakland Raiders wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey took a hospitalizing blow to the head when stretching for a reception. Heyward-Bey was knocked unconscious for more than 10 minutes.

Luckily, Heyward-Bey was released Monday afternoon, saying he would be able to make a full recovery.

But where was the flag? How many yards would the Raiders have gained after the illegal hit?

Zero. The hit went unflagged and unfined.

It’s becoming old and it’s only week three. How many more games will fans have to sit through and watch the same old blown pass interference calls or sit through an extra five minutes because the referee allotted a fourth timeout?

Some are saying when TV ratings drop, then the NFL will do something about it. Others say we’ll see replacement referees all season.

Or maybe, just maybe, an agreement is just around the corner. And we won’t have to see the 2012-13 NFL replacement season continue.

ISD Sports Editorial Board Jake Calhoun, sports editor Alex Halsted, asst. sports editor Dean Berhow-Goll, asst. sports editor Stephen Koenigsfeld, sports online editor Cory Weaver, senior reporter

Business

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ISU hosts Fall Business Career Fair

By Kari.Paige Daily staff writer The Fall Business, Industry & Technology Career Fair is here.

From noon to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, the Colleges of Human Sciences, Business, and Liberal Arts and Sciences will be hosting the Fall 2012 career fair at Hilton Coliseum.

If you’re looking to connect with potential employers, this is the place to do it. You can learn more about internships and fulltime jobs related to your major.

All majors are welcome and encouraged to come. This year, more than 150 employers will be attending, many for the first time.

Some of the companies will include: Red Frog Events, Kum & Go, Target Stores, Enterprise, Ames Chamber of Commerce, Wells Fargo and more.

Find a complete list of employers on the Iowa State website.

The career fair will help students to network with companies and improve social and professional speaking skills.

To prepare, research the companies, clarify your goals, update your resume and bring plenty extra, and dress professionally.

Employers will be looking for promising students that will project a positive light on their company.

To find more tips on preparing for the 2012 career fair, refer to the ISU College of Human Sciences Web page.

For questions about the career fair, please call Loni Pringnitz, Director of Career Services at 515-294-0626.

You can also like the Career Fair on Facebook.

Continue to follow the Iowa State Daily for more updates on the Business, Industry & Technology Career Fair.

Economy:

Dow drops, markets still in ‘highs’ U.S. stocks were weighed down Monday by persistent pessimism over the global business climate.

“Fear is creeping back into the global marketplace,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital. “But markets are still near their highs.

And the underlying factor is that QE3 has put a floor in the markets, so any cautious trading is going to be limited.”

The Dow Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell between 0.3% and 0.9% in the afternoon.

Investors reacted Monday to a report that showed Germany’s business climate index falling to its lowest level since February 2010.

— CNN Wire Staff

Photo: Ethan Crane/Iowa State Daily Students sing along to a favorite band on the main level of Golden Wok. The Chinese cuisine restaurant opened in 1986 on the corner of Welch Avenue and Hunt Street in Campustown, and has evolved today to a three-story business that includes a karaoke lounge.

Asian culture blasts music Golden Wok cooks up venue for karaoke bar

By Kari.Paige @iowastatedaily.com The word “karaoke” is a combination of two Japanese words. The first half of the word means empty or void.

The second half of the word means orchestra.

It has been said that a small snack bar in Japan originated the word karaoke. When a performer who was scheduled to sing could not come, the owner of the bar turned on the recorded music and encouraged his customers to sing along with him, so as not to disappoint them.

Golden Wok, an authentic Chinese cuisine restaurant, opened in 1986 on the corner of Welch Avenue and Hunt Street in Campustown. Today, it has evolved into a three-story business with the karaoke lounge that Golden Wok added about a year ago.

The first floor is the main karaoke lounge. It features a colorful area with large television screens and lights whirling around the entire room. The second floor is the restaurant where you can enjoy the dining atmosphere.

They also offer delivery and carryout, and on the third floor, there are four private karaoke lounges.

The private rooms have large couches and a large television.

Microphones are set out next to the screen where you can select your next song. The rooms provide a place for only yourself and your friends to sing, making it a more relaxed experience than performing in front of a crowd.

Golden Wok provides space for large groups of people celebrating big birthdays, small parties or just a fun night out.

Karaoke bars vary from city to city. Some are not so great, but Golden Wok has given the feeling of being back at home for some of the Asian population.

They serve a traditional drink called bubble tea that is made with milk. It is very popular in the summer and comes in several flavors. Ice cream is served as well. It is very unusual to integrate food and beverage at a karaoke bar.

Shannon Zheng, assistant manager at Golden Wok, said, “The guests really like our karaoke lounge. Each reservation for karaoke receives a free appetizer.”

There are many differences be-

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tween the karaoke bars in Ames, Iowa and China. The largest difference would be the technology.

Lu Yang, senior in biological systems engineering from China and president of the Chinese Language and Culture Club, described Asian technology as much more advanced, and the music as much more varied.

Aili Mu, associate professor of Chinese language and culture, said in response that China has many, many times more people than just the city of Ames.

The population makes a large difference on the music selection in Ames, of course, but Golden Wok has managed to cater to the different languages.

“Karaoke guests can choose songs

in a variety of languages. Some include: English, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Malaysian,” Zheng said. “A lot of foreign students want to have the chance to sing karaoke in their native language.”

Another difference between Asian and American cultures is the idea of what a party is. When Americans want to go out, they tend to go to parties at their friends’ houses. A night of fun to those of the Asian culture isn’t staying in every weekend. It is much more fun to go out to places like karaoke bars to sing and dance.

“Karaoke is just a bigger cup of bubble tea. It’s just bringing a piece of China or the popular culture to the States,” Mu said.

Merger

Agricultural companies to combine Becker Underwood purchased by BASF

By Trevor.Werner @iowastatedaily.com BASF, a company headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany, has made plans to buy Becker Underwood for a price of $1.02 billion. Becker Underwood is a company specializing in the development and commercialization of yield-improving and value-creating seed-applied biological products for the agricultural sector.

Based in Ames, Becker Underwood has 14 locations spread across five continents and operates in seven primary product families: BioStacked technology, inoculants, seed coatings, biological crop protection, turf and horticulture, livestock

management products, and landscape colorants and coatings.

According to Becker Underwood’s website: “Becker Underwood’s core competency is the rapid commercialization of breakthrough [research and development]. The culture of practical, demand-led innovation that pervades the company is supported by expertise in the discovery of new products, the development of efficient and effective manufacturing processes and know-how in biological formulations that have been developed over the company’s 30-year history.”

Becker Underwood began in Ames in 1982 with only one product: the Spray Tracer, a specialty spray marking dye for the agricultural market. From then until 2000, they rapidly expanded through introducing new products and small acquisitions.

With this acquisition, BASF hopes to expand both companies’ abilities in the global market.

“We are impressed with Becker Underwood’s ability to translate growers’ needs into innovative, tailor-made solutions that can promote higher yields while conserving resources,” said Andreas Kreimeyer, research executive director and member of BASF’s Board of Executive Directors responsible for the Agricultural Solutions segment, in a press release published Sept. 20.

“Becker Underwood is to become part of BASF, and we are excited that together with our new colleagues, we can continue expanding our competencies. Particularly in the rapidlygrowing seed treatment market, we will be able to develop innovative solutions for agriculture,” Kreimeyer said.

BASF is a worldwide company

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Fun Facts Caffeine serves the function of a pesticide in a coffee plant.

Despite its reputation as a cosmonaut staple, freeze-dried ice cream only made one mission to space. In 1968, it provided instant sugar rushes to the astronauts of Apollo 7, but by 1973 freezers were installed in space shuttles, thereby removing the need for the freeze-dried stuff.

Despite his many name changes, musician Prince did have a real first name once: Prince.

The city of Austin, Texas, was originally named “Waterloo.”

Tigers, leopards, and jaguars love Calvin Klein’s Obsession for Men. The scent is used to attract animals to cameras in the wilderness.

Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day.

After coffee beans are decaffeinated, coffee manufacturers sell the caffeine to soft drink makers and pharmaceutical companies.

While mittens have been around since prehistoric times, the glove (with articulated fingers) dates to ancient Greece, popping up in some translations of Homer’s Odyssey.

Why did the FBI call Ted Kaczynski “The Unabomber”? His early mail bombs were sent to universities (UN) & airlines (A).

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14 Roller coaster feature 15 Muscat natives 16 Blow away 17 31/42-Across in a 1967 Dustin Hoffman film 19 Detroit labor org.

20 “Volunteers?”

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23 31/42-Across in a Ken Kesey novel 26 Director Craven 29 Shar-__: wrinkly dog 30 Seashell seller 31 With 42-Across, a 1975 hit for 41-Across 33 Writes briefly (to) 39 Neighbor of Chad 41 Rock gp. known for its sym phonic sound 42 See 31-Across 43 Loving feelings

46 Like Granny Smith apples 47 “Golly!”

48 Looney Tunes dynamo, familiarly 50 Injection amts.

51 31/42-Across in a 1961 Disney animated film 57 Man around the Haus 58 Actress Lupino 59 Win the heart of 63 Batting stat.

64 31/42-Across in a Shakespeare tragedy 66 Take to court 67 Necessarily involve 68 Suffix with switch 69 Septiembre, por ejemplo 70 Without a musical key 71 On sale, say

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Down 1 __ mater 2 Brought into existence 3 Like a good outlook 4 It may have strings attached

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Gemini (May 21-June 20) Today is a 6 -- Intuition reveals an opportunity. You may discover that all is not as you’d expected, and that’s good. Delight in the new experiences.

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Cancer (June 21-July 22) Today is a 5 -- You all advance to the next level (even if you don’t feel like it). Don’t worry, you gain experience and it all turns out for the better. Allow others to contribute.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 6 -- You’re drawing positive attention. Others ask your advice. Share your ideas, but not the personal stuff. Be bold when asking for money.

You’ll accomplish more than you think possible.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 5 -- Friends and family of friends are very helpful, if you allow it. Get it in writing. Listen to an interesting suggestion (and to your intuition).

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is a 7 -- You’re becoming more interesting.

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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Today is a 6 -- Everything clicks in your communications.

A lovely moment’s possible now. Improve your living conditions, and invest in newer technology. Get another perspective before purchasing.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is a 5 -- Stop, and listen.

You get a brilliant idea. Keep working at it until you get it, trying new creative steps each time. No one expected this. An investment at home is okay.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is a 7 -- Every suggestion won’t work, but you won’t know unless you try. Your influence grows; don’t be afraid to use this in a positive way. Your family and community want to help.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is a 5 -- You’ll get a lot of your questions answered when you listen. Don’t act yet.

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10 | SPORTS | Iowa State Daily | Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012

>>POLLS.p6 Iowa State will be vying for its first 4-0 start since 2000.

The team had actually figured out its bye week woes last season, utilizing the week before the biggest upset in school history — a double-overtime victory against then-No. 2 Oklahoma State.

“It was more of an approach and an attitude,” said nose tackle Jake McDonough.

“This year, I think we’re well on our way to having one of our better bye weeks. We’ve approached it really well, and the guys are more prepared.”

Also with a win comes the possibility of being ranked in the top 25, something Rhoads knows is on his players’ minds.

However, Rhoads said he doesn’t need to motivate his players by reminding them of that since they are focusing on starting Big 12 play on the right foot.

“We don’t look at it as a goal; we don’t go out each week to play to say, ‘Oh, if we win this game, we’ll be in the top 25,’ because in this day in age in college football, rankings don’t mean much,” said senior linebacker A.J. Klein. “That’s proven every single week.

“It’s all perception of who thinks who is better, and I think as a team, we know what our expectations are, and we know the kind of team that we can be going into this conference play.”

Big 12 vulnerable, open to win As Iowa State moves deeper into Big 12 play following a victory against Baylor on Saturday, it has become clear that the conference is up for grabs.

“I don’t know that anyone’s so dominant this year that we couldn’t be the team at the top at the end of the year,” Johnson-Lynch said.

Of the Big 12’s woes, Johnson-Lynch noted No. 9 Texas’ preseason losses, No. 15 Kansas State’s loss to Oklahoma in early conference play and even her own team’s loss to Syracuse two weeks ago.

Last season, Iowa State went 13-3 in the Big 12, good for second place behind Texas.

With two new members this season and more uncertainty, the focus has shifted even more to each individual match.

“The most important thing for us is that every sin-

Bundrage update At his news conference, coach Paul Rhoads said there is no update on whether disciplinary action will be taken against receiver Quenton Bundrage after his arrest this past weekend.

“We’re gathering information on

that and more will be available as the week goes,” Rhoads said.

Early Saturday morning, Bundrage was arrested and charged with providing alcohol to minors.

Iowa State has not been ranked in the top 25 since 2005.

As for last season’s crowd in the Big 12 opener, which saw the second-largest attendance in school history with 56,390, Washington said fans can expect their efforts to not go for naught this time around.

“I think this week, we’ll

probably have a larger crowd in school history with all the hype around this game with both teams being 3-0,” Washington said. “The atmosphere was live, and then they took us out of the game, so then it kind of just ruined the whole thing.

“We will keep the crowd in this game.”

File photo: Iowa State Daily Defensive back Jacques Washington prepares for the play as Texas quarterback Case McCoy waits for the snap from the center during the game Oct. 1, 2011, at Jack Trice Stadium.

>>CAREER.p6

>>MATCH.p6 ing staff to try to replicate [intermission] in practice a little bit,” Johnson-Lynch said. “Give them a five-, sixminute break where they do nothing and try to get it revved up again.”

Editor: Jake Calhoun | sports@iowastatedaily.com | 515.294.2003

First serve vs. TCU First serve for the match with Texas Christian has been set for noon at Hilton Coliseum on Saturday.

Following the exit of both Missouri and Texas A&M from the Big 12, TCU was one of the new additions beginning with the 2012-13 school year. The match with the Horned Frogs will be the first for the Cyclones.

The start time of the match was previously unknown due to that night’s football game between Iowa State and Texas Tech. The noon start will coincide with the football game, which begins at 6 p.m. at Jack Trice Stadium on Saturday evening.

gle game matters and not just getting hyped up for those big games against Texas and K-State who are ranked above us,” said setter Alison Landwehr. “Every win is going to get us that much closer to the first place title.”

Winning the conference isn’t the only goal, either.

So far this season, the rankings for the top 25 have quickly shifted as three different teams have already been No. 1 in five weeks worth of polls.

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On the ice during the 2008-09 season after playing in six games with the Mass Maple Leafs in CHA Jr. B, he started his collegiate career at Iowa State in the second semester and played in one game for the Cyclones.

He stopped all nine shots he faced in that game.

Karus is back with the Cyclones this season for his final year of eligibility, which ISU coach Al Murdoch said he was able to retain by not dressing at the ACHA national tournament his first semester with the team.

Karus looks back now and said he made the right choice that season.

“That was one of the better choices that I have made, because the simple fact is, yeah I came in halfway through the year and I would’ve liked to dress, I would’ve liked to have played as much as I can, but the fact is you can’t always get instant gratification,” Karus said.

“You’ve got to plan for the long haul, and this was definitely the right plan.”

With Karus going into his senior year, Murdoch said he is happy with his progression and said he has a good chance of playing a little bit of professional hockey if he so chooses.

“He knows the system hockey-wise and academically,” Murdoch said. “So it’s just a matter of getting himself to a peak at a higher level than he’s ever been at before.”

Senior captain Brandon Clark is in his fourth year with the ISU hockey team, and all of them have been with Karus.

Clark has watched Karus progress as a

Photo: Yanhua Huang/Iowa State Daily Goaltender Paul Karus, senior in horticulture, defends the goal during practice last Wednesday at the Ames/ISU Ice Arena. Karus has played for Iowa State for 4 1/2 years.

goaltender through the years.

“He’s got a lot more confidence, I feel like,” Clark said. “I know he’s one of the hardest working guys on our team. He’s the best preparing guy, I should say. He prepares for every game the same way.”

Clark said jokingly that off the ice, Karus is a “weirdo.”

“He is; all goalies are weirdos,” Clark said. “No, off the ice, he takes care of himself and he prepares. He has the same routine every practice. I know after every practice he goes and he works out on his own and has his cool down and stuff.”

Clark said he believes Karus gives them a good chance to win and get back to the national championship game.

“It’s kind of refreshing,” Clark said.

“It’s nice to know that he’s in his last year, and I know he wants to win just as bad as we all do, and it’s nice having a goalie like that.”

Going into his senior year with the ISU hockey team, Karus had good things to say about the experience he’s had as a Cyclone.

“When I started out here, I came in halfway through the year, and I grew up with guys like [Brandon] Clark, [Justin] Wilkinson, [Derek] Kohles and [David] Kurbatsky, and really this year, I feel that I’m really humbled just to be a part of this group and just grow up with those guys — I mean just to be in the presence of them,” Karus said. “I love them like a brother.”

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