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Languages at Iowa State The personal, professional and educational benefits

CAITLIN YAMADA/ IOWA STATE DAILY Story County property owners will be penalized for unpaid taxes starting Tuesday.

Story County property taxes due Monday

BY JACOB.SMITH @iowastatedaily.com

BY JAKE.WEBSTER @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State’s students come from 115 countries, bringing with them various spoken languages. However, most of the university’s students are native Iowans and native English speakers.

Though the majority of students are English-speaking natives, there are plenty of opportunities on campus to improve language ability, from clubs to classes.

Jean-Pierre Taoutel, senior lecturer of French and Arabic, said students come to class thinking “everyone speaks English,” so why would they need to

learn another language?

“The thing is, they don’t realize that once you step outside the U.S. not everyone speaks English,” Taoutel said. “Most of the time it’s the educated people who speak English. But when you’re traveling,

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DESIGN BY BROOKLYN WILLIAMS Iowa State offers many language courses and clubs. Languages available to learn include Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Arabic, American Sign Language, Mandarin Chinese and more.

GPSS starts search for new Professional Advancement Grant chair

BY MAGGIE.BOLLINGER @iowastatedaily.com The Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) is considering having a special election after the Professional Advancement Grant (PAG) chair resigned last week.

Qi Mu, graduate student in agronomy, joined GPSS as a senator and member of the PAG committee in 2018 and had been serving as the PAG chair this semester.

Mu resigned Wednesday and the senate is now discussing how to proceed.

The Rules Committee and the Elections and Operations Committee are talking about what the next steps are regarding a potential special election. Th e election would be held Monday at their next meeting.

The PAG chair is in charge of reviewing professional advancement grants according to GPSS-approved PAG policy, allocating appropriate funds to PAG grant recipients on a monthly basis and reviewing nominations for various awards.

Senators are permitted to nominate themselves without a secondary motion from another senator.

The PAG Committee is in charge of evaluating five awards: the Margaret Ellen White Award, the GPSS Teaching Award, the GPSS Research Award, the GPSS L eadership Award and the Wakonse Fellowship award.

Th e committee evaluates all applicants together for each award.

At Monday’s meeting, the University Relations and Legislative Affairs Committee (URLA) chair Marcus Jansen will be appointing graduate and professional students to University Committees.

URLA “advocates for graduate and professional students to local, state and federal officials and coordinates Senate actions to influence public policy on graduate and professional student concerns,” according to GPSS Committee Requirements.

The URLA Committee additionally takes questions regarding public and university policy on graduate and professional students.

IOWA STATE DAILY GPSS hosted a town hall and listening session with Iowa State President Wendy Wintersteen on Nov. 14 in Room 198 in Parks Library.

Summaries of all committees can be found online at www.gpss.iastate.edu.

The next GPSS meeting is at 6:30 p.m.

Monday in the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union.

Property taxes are due Monday for Story County property owners.

Unpaid taxes af ter Monday will be assessed a 1.5 percent penalty on Tuesday and an additional 1.5 percent fee for each month the payment is late.

“All Story County property owners were sent a tax statement in accordance with Iowa law in August 2019,” a press release stated.

“The statement included two coupons providing details of two payments due; the first on September 30, 2019, and the second on March 31, 2020. Property owners who pay taxes through escrow accounts or other third party arrangements do not need to take any action and can consider the statement as informational only.”

In Story County, there are three ways to pay property taxes: at the Treasuer’s Office, by mail and online.

The Treasurer’s Office, located at 900 Sixth St. in Nevada, takes check, cash or credit and debit cards. However, paying with a credit or debit card accrues an additional fee.

“Owners who have their coupon and a check can avoid the line and drop their payment off in a drop box located in the parking lot or a drop box next to the Treasurer’s Office door,” a press release stated.

Those who prefer mail must mail the coupon and payment to 900 Sixth St. — P.O. Box 498, Nevada, IA 50201. All payments must be postmarked on or before Sept. 30 to not incur a late fee.

Online payments must be made at www. iowatreasurer.org. “The property tax statement and coupon include a bill/receipt number that needs to be entered on the website to complete the transaction,” a press release stated. “Additional fees will be applied to on-line payments based on the payment selected; the Treasurer’s Office encourages the use of the E-Check option, which at only 40¢ is the most cost effective way to pay (less than a postage stamp).”

For additional information and questions, the Treasurer’s Office can be called at 515382-7330 or visited online at www.storycountyiowa.gov.

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9.30.19 Monday Monologues series, Grant Wood Foyer, Parks Library at 12:15 p.m. ”Climate

Change Theatre Action: Lighting the Way,” A series of short plays addressing climate change issues, with a focus on community action. Directed by Vivian Cook, ISU music and theatre.

Ceramic Bowls Class, Workspace, Memorial Union at 6 p.m. Learn to prepare clay for

hand-building and use a mold to create a bowl form. Finishing will include creating decorative add-ons and texture. Bowls will be bisque fired for

the second class where students will glaze their pieces for the final firing.

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Gallery Chat: Jonathan Sturm, Christian Petersen Art Museum, Reiman Gallery (lower level), Morrill Hall at 12 p.m. Join members of

the ISU community as they lead informal gallery discussions about various themes and works of art in the exhibition, It Starts with Us: Civility and the 21st Land Grant Mission.

POLICE BLOTTER 9.28.19

Chamberlain Street (reported at 4:15 a.m.).

James Austin King, age 28, of 204 10 St. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with removal of a theft detection device, with a fine of $200, at 700 Southeast 16 Street (reported at 5:45 p.m.).

Viet Hung Tran, age 20, of 4531 49 Pl. - Des Moines, Iowa, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct at 2400 Chamberlain Street (reported at 6:47 a.m.).

James Austin King, age 28, of 204 10 St. - Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with theft in the fourth degree at 700 Southeast 16 Street (reported at 5:45 p.m.).

Viet Hung Tran, age 20, of 4531 49 Pl. - Des Moines, Iowa, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct at 2500 Chamberlain Street (reported at 4:15 a.m.).

Alec William Walker, age 27, of 3921 West St. Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at 2900 West Street (reported at 2:17 a.m.).

Viet Hung Tran, age 20, of 4531 49 Pl. - Des Moines, Iowa, was arrested and charged with interference with offical acts, all other offenses, at 2400 Chamberlain Street (reported at 6:47 a.m.).

Viet Hung Tran, age 20, of 4531 49 Pl. - Des Moines, Iowa, was arrested and charged with interference with offical acts, sim/ser assualt, at 2500

Kyle Patrick Hammarlund, age 21, of 412 Hayward Ave.- Ames, Iowa, was arrested and charged with public intoxicaton at 2900 West Street (reported at 1:38 a.m.).

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Celebrating 25 years at Iowa State

BY SUSANNAH.CRICHTON @iowastatedaily.com Latinx groups make up 18.3 percent of the population in the U.S. and 5.4 percent of Iowa State’s student population, according to Beate Schmittman, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

On Saturday, the U.S. Latino/a Studies (USLS) program held its 25 Year Anniversary Symposium, a full day of emotional speeches and conversations brimming with laughter, tears and gratitude in celebration of all that the Latinx community and its allies have accomplished and learned inside and outside the Iowa State campus.

The day began with reflections from the core faculty of USLS: Megan Myers, assistant professor of world languages and cultures, and Brian Behnken, associate professor of history. They talked about their formative experiences that got them involved in Latinx studies and why they became so passionate about their work.

Myers spoke of her international engagement work that she integrates into her classes and a volunteer-based organization she helped found called Border of Lights, which honors the lives lost and the solidarity maintained during the Haitian genocide of 1937.

Behnken discussed his view on diversity and what he said the term really encompasses, arguing that it is a twoway street that many in American society may misinterpret.

“I think too often, at universities especially and in society more generally, […] [diversity] is thought of,

IOWA STATE DAILY Students gather in front of Curtiss Hall on Oct. 4, 2018 for a lunch provided by CALS Student Council during CALS Week.

What to expect from CALS Week events LOGAN METZGER/ IOWA STATE DAILY Lucía Suárez, director of U.S. Latino/a Studies program and the coordinator of the symposium, welcomed students, faculty and staff Saturday.

especially by white folks I would say, as what people of color bring to the table, or how, basically, we can benefit from that,” Behnken said.

During the next panel, students of USLS talked about their experience in the program and what they have gained from their involvement.

Joe Medina, a senior in industrial technology and a first generation college student, talked about his maternal family history that was lost when they moved from El Paso, Texas, in the 1960s.

Medina said that in taking USLS 211, Introduction to USLS, he was able

to learn more about his history and was inspired to become a student ambassador in the program.

María “Lupe” Durán, a sophomore in global resource systems, was born in Mexico. She said she had a difficult time convincing her parents that she wanted to go to college because they did not understand that it would be possible, but she was determined. She became more involved in civic engagement, became the first Mexican student president at her high school and was accepted into Iowa State.

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Club creates visibility for furry community

BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com Creating visibility for a community is sometimes not easy, but thanks to the student organization system one community has found its visibility.

The furry community at Iowa State and in Ames decided over the summer that it was time to create a student organization on campus, so as of this semester the community now has one called Ames Furry Club. “[When deciding to create the club] we wanted something associated with the university more directly so that new students coming to Iowa State could easily find the community here,” said Odin Taylor, junior in materials engineering and president of Ames Furry Club. “Personally, I had to find the community through the gaming club on campus when someone in there was a furry and referred me to the rest of the community, so I just wanted to create something that was easily found by interested students.”

According to their student organization page, the Ames Furry Club is a group of members of the furry community or persons interested in the furry community. The club is a welcoming environment for individuals in the community to discuss, share and participate in various aspects of furry media.

“The community is not big here and I don’t expect it to grow very big, but I want to include as many community members here as possible,” Taylor said. “Not everyone in the community is in the club but I am hoping it is a way to create visibility.”

Any current Iowa State Student or anyone 18 years or older in the Ames area can join the club and be a member and all members are encouraged to attend meetings. The club has

COURTESY OF AMES FURRY CLUB Members of the Ames Furry Club often get together for events like grill-outs and mini-golf.

meetings on the third Thursday of every month at 5:30 p.m. in Carver 0232. The club also meets up off-campus for various other activities.

“Another reason we wanted an official club was so that we could have more regular meeting times and would be able to have meetings on campus,” Taylor said. “It allows us to do more things like fundraising events for ourselves or other charities and organizations.”

Taylor said meetings will always include some sort of activity such as playing games, making art or watching a movie.

Snacks are provided at the meetings. The club may also meet off-campus occasionally for various other fun activities, such as bowling or mini-golf.

Taylor said the club has not experienced much backlash or pushback after its creation. He said they received some some weird glances at ClubFest but he also said they made many people smile and that is more than enough for him.

“We want to make the community more visible at Iowa State,” Taylor said. “I want it to be a way to educate Iowa State and show them that first of all your fellow students can be furries, and that we can be perfectly fine and interesting people.”

BY AMBER.FRIEDRICHSEN @iowastatedaily.com College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) Week is a chance for students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to learn about the agriculture industry, attend events and have fun. CALS Week will take place Monday through Friday.

Events of the week include meal packaging, competitions, guest speakers and a variety of food served on campus.

Michael Gaul, director of career placement in the Agriculture and Life Sciences Administration department, said CALS Week is a time to highlight the students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

“CALS Week really is just a celebration of all things College of Agriculture and Life Sciences,” Gaul said. “I think it’s a celebration of all the great things our students do.”

Andrew Ernat, sophomore in horticulture, is on the CALS council as a representative of Horticulture Club and is one of five committee chairs that organizes CALS Week.

“The most recognizable part of [the week] is the food on campus everyday,” Ernat said. “We have something on campus everyday to eat for free — open to all students.”

The weekly menu consists of pizza on Monday, hamburgers on Tuesday, pork chops on Wednesday, taco in a bag on Thursday and pancakes catered by Chris Cakes on Friday. Each meal has sides and drinks available and will be served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., except for Friday, when pancakes will be served from 9 a.m. to noon.

The 2019 CALS Week will kick off with a Hunger Fight with Meals from the Heartland hosted by Block and Bridle.

From 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. students can go to the Iowa Farm Bureau Pavilion in Kildee Hall to participate. All students are welcome to participate in the service activity and walk-ins are also welcome.

On 7 p.m. Monday at the Jeff and Deb Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center, Sigma Alpha will be hosting Mr. CALS. Tickets are $5 and ice cream will be available. “[There is a male] representative from each agricultural club to compete in various [categories],” Ernat said. “It’s almost like a pageant.”

Tuesday will be the CALS Olympics, also known as the CALS Amazing Race. It will take place at 6 p.m. in the Farm Bureau Pavilion. Teams can check in at 5:30 p.m.

At the CALS Olympics, students will participate in a competition that takes them all over campus in teams of four.

“They will go to eight different locations and read clues to get them to each location and then complete an event there,” Ernat said.

On Wednesday, speaker Jim Knuth will be in 0127 Curtiss Hall at 7:30 p.m. Knuth is the senior vice president of Farm Credit Services of America.

“I think [Knuth] is a very worthy speaker,” Gaul said. “He’s had a very successful career and he’s got tremendous allegiance to our students here at Iowa State.”

From 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday the CALS Study Abroad Fair will be hosted at the Farm Bureau Pavilion. During the fair, students can learn about study abroad opportunities that can benefit them as students in CALS. While CALS Week features the students and aspects of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, students belonging to any major are welcome and encouraged to take part in activities.

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Monday Monologues Performances return this fall

BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com Creating a space for appreciation and love of the arts and spoken word, Monday Monologues is returning this semester with five new performances on select Mondays.

The first of these performances will take place from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. Monday in the Grant Wood Foyer in Parks Library. Due to the performances taking place over lunchtime, attendees are encouraged to stop in for as long as their schedule allows. Lunch is available for purchase in the Bookends Café.

“The idea is to use that space for spoken word or readings, theater, all sorts of ways that connect words [...] to make them alive instead of just online or in print,” said Susan Jasper, program coordinator for Parks Library.

This Monday ’s performance will give attendees a glimpse of V ivian Cook’s “Climate Change Theatre Action: Lighting the Way,” which is a series of short plays aimed to address climate change issues and serve as a call to community action in partnership with the international Climate Change Theatre Action initiative.

“What the students are doing is presenting some portions, excerpts, from the full play that they are doing as part of ISU theatre,” Jasper said.

Full-length performances will take place at Fisher Theatre Oct. 4-6, Parks Library’s lawn on Oct. 10 and at the Ames Public Library on Oct. 20. All performances are

IOWA STATE DAILY As a part of the “Monday Monologues” series, “Haunting Halloween Readings,” were performed in front of the Grant Wood’s mural in Parks Library on Oct. 29. This series is curated by Iowa State faculty.

free admission with general seating.

Monday Monologues was started in Fall 2018 by Jasper when she joined Parks Library. She said it was one of her original programming ideas.

Jasper said Monday Monologues takes its inspiration from the world of words, books and language and sessions are curated by members of the Iowa State community.

Jasper said many speakers and performances come from the English department

and the department of music and theatre, but she said any students, faculty and staff interested in presenting their work and sharing their story are welcome to talk with Jasper about presenting. Performances can range from poems, songs or plays on any number of topics.

“There aren’t a lot of spaces in the library that are not study spaces and Monday Monologues is just a way to use a space in a creative way for a short period of time,”

Jasper said. “It makes Parks Library a place to go for more than just studying or lunch.”

Every Monday monologue is held in the Grant Wood Foyer which is part of Iowa State’s original 1925 Library. Today the room is defined by Wood’s mythical pioneer mural, “Breaking the Prairie Sod,” which was painted by his students in Iowa City from 1936-37 as well as a male and female student carved from limestone by Christian Petersen in 1943.

Carson King honored by governor ‘Carson King Day’ named in Iowa amidst controversy

BY JAKE.WEBSTER @iowastatedaily.com Carson King became famous overnight in Iowa by holding a sign up during ESPN’s “College GameDay” on Sept. 14 at Iowa State.

King’s sign said “Busch Light Supply Needs Replenished ~Venmo~ CarsonKing-25.” King raised $20,000 initially, receiving more than $2 million in pledged matching donations after he declared he would donate the funds to the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital.

Busch Light said in a tweet they would send King a “year’s worth of Busch Light, but first we had to make sure the cans were for a King. Let us know where to send the truck.”

However, the tweet has since been deleted and Anheuser-Busch InBev, Busch Light’s parent company, and they said in a statement they are ending their association with King, but will still donate more than $350,000 in matching funds to the children’s hospital.

Aaron Calvin, a ex-reporter for the Des Moines Register, wrote a profile on King.

During the reporting process, Calvin looked into King’s background — including his Twitter history.

Calvin discovered racist tweets from 2012 on King’s Twitter and reached out to King

regarding them. King then scheduled a press conference late Tuesday and apologized for his old tweets.

Following publication of Calvin’s story, people looked into Calvin’s Twitter history — finding several racist, misogynistic and homophobic tweets of his own that have since been deleted.

The Des Moines Register said in a tweet following the discovery of Calvin’s own tweets “[t]he Register is aware of reports of inappropriate social media posts by one of our staffers, and an investigation has begun.”

After these events, Gov. Kim Reynolds designated Saturday as “Carson King Day” in a proclamation the following day. “[V ]olunteerism and selflessness defines Iowans by nature,” the proclamation said.

“Because in Iowa, individuals like Carson King demonstrate how Iowa Nice isn’t just a slogan, but our way of life. Carson King can showcase who we are as a people, not only by selflessly donating to a worthy cause, but spreading the message of generosity. Because of his efforts, over $1 million and counting has gone towards the renowned University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital in Iowa City.”

Late Thursday the Des Moines Register’s executive editor Carol Hunter penned a column explaining the paper’s actions.

“I want to be as transparent as possible

about what we did and why, answer the questions you’ve raised and tell you what we’ve learned so far and what we’ll try to do better,” Hunter said. “For one, we’re revising our policies and practices, including those that did not uncover our own reporter’s past inappropriate social media postings. That

reporter is no longer with the Register.”

Over the intervening days, King’s fundraising continued to increase. He took to the field Saturday at the University of Iowa’s Kinnick Stadium to join in “the wave” to those in the children’s hospital overlooking the stadium.

SCREENSHOT FROM YOUTUBE Carson King poses with Governor Kim Reynolds for a selfie at an event where she designated Sept. 27 as “Carson King Day” in Iowa by proclamation. King was under fire after the Des Moines Register released an article revealing old offensive tweets of his.

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CAITLIN YAMADA/ IOWA STATE DAILY Students and other fans made a huge turnout for ESPN’s College GameDay at Iowa State on Sept. 14. Iowa and Iowa State showed their spirit with signs.

Cy-Hawk fan behavior appalling IOWA STATE DAILY Grant Heineman, a fifth-generation farmer and then-senior in agricultural engineering, often returned home on weekends to help his family out during the harvest season.

The farmer fight Corporations should not have control

BY LARRY GINTER ledginter@gmail.com

Independent family farmers are wedded to the water and the land.

We understand that our fates are bound together. Family farmers are persevering despite underpriced grains and livestock.

The industrial system of agriculture hurts family farmers by forcing us to farm fence row to fence row with grain prices below the price of production, causing the decimation of topsoil, our

most important resource. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

If farmers could get a fair price, they wouldn’t have to farm fence row to fence row, leaving more land to implement conservation practices that would protect our soil and water.

Members of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement have been fighting for family farmers since the farm crisis in the ’80s.

We know that family farmers, rural communities, our land and our water are worth fighting for.

By filing a lawsuit against the state for their failure to protect our water — we are doing just that.

And I am happy to hear that this Public Trust Doctrine lawsuit has been upheld in court and will move forward, despite the state’s motion to dismiss.

We must change this system because our farm and food system belongs in the hands of many famil y farmers, not under the control of a handful of corporations.

BY LAURA AMSLER AND JIM CAIN amslercain@gmail.com Dear fellow ISU Fans, As proud ISU alumni we were mortified to learn of our daughter’s experience at the 2019 Cy-Hawk game as a member of the Hawkeye Marching Band. She described ISU fans who swore at the band, yelled “go home” and continuously flipped them the bird.

As ISU alumni, we are appalled that our daughter had to endure such vulgarity at our alma mater. We were equally saddened to find out that the ISU Marching Band had a similar experience at Kinnick last year.

What used to be, and should be, a good-natured rivalry has turned into a verbally violent and aggressive display of misplaced loyalty by fans of both teams to the point that the BAND is being targeted with vulgar, disrespectful and almost bordering on abusive, behavior.

We challenge ISU and UI Fans to step up their game to show positive sportsmanship! Cheer on your team, but leave at home the vulgarity and abusive behavior toward members of the opposing school. When the band, cheer squad and dance team of either team passes by, tell them “great job and good luck!” These young people put in many hours of hard work to bring entertainment and energy to the game. They deserve to be treated respectfully, no matter which team they support.

We say a big THANK YOU to those ISU fans who told members of the Hawkeye Marching Band that they did a good job and even said “good game” after a close and heartbreaking loss for ISU. Similar kudos to Hawkeye fans who treated ISU band members with the decency and respect they deserve at last year’s game. You are true Cyclones and Hawkeyes embodying all that is good about both universities!

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SAM CLEMENT/ IOWA STATE DAILY Political cartoonist Sam Clement illustrates Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump in a game of 3-D chess where Pelosi is the winner. This follows Pelosi’s announcement of an official impeachment inquiry against Trump.

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KARA DENNER/ IOWA STATE DAILY The Iowa State hockey team played Missouri State on Friday and Saturday. The Ice Bears won 2-0 Saturday night.

Cyclone Hockey shut out in loss to Ice Bears

BY ZACH.MARTIN @iowastatedaily.com

COURTESY OF THE BAYLOR LARIAT Quarterback Brock Purdy escapes pressure in the pocket during the Iowa State vs. Baylor away game Saturday. The Cyclones lost to the Bears 23-21.

Avoidable loss Cyclones fall at Baylor due to early mistakes

BY ZANE.DOUGLAS @iowastatedaily.com On Saturday, Iowa State evened up its record with a loss to the Baylor Bears 23-21. It looked like the Cyclones were going to lose by a lot, but thanks to a fourth-quarter comeback, they held the lead at one point before losing it and losing the game.

WILD FINAL QUARTER Iowa State got the ball with just over a minute in the third and then started off the fourth quarter with a touchdown by redshirt sophomore Johnnie Lang.

Baylor’s lead was cut to 13 at 20-7.

Iowa State got the ball back again and was able to march down the field and score again to shave seven more points off of the lead.

With only seven minutes remaining and without control of the ball, it was still going to be a tall task to come back against a solid Bears defense.

Keeping in tune with what the quarter had been up to that point, Iowa State got the ball back and marched down the field again.

A 20-yard touchdown strike from sophomore quarterback Brock Purdy to redshirt sophomore tight end Charlie Kolar ended the drive and after the extra point, Iowa State had its first lead of the game.

Iowa State left just under four minutes left on the clock, which was too much time as Baylor drove down the field and kicked what would be the game-winning field goal with a little over 20 seconds remaining.

“Nothing’s tough with this team because of the kids we have,” said coach Matt Campbell. “When our back’s against the wall, they continue to believe in each other.”

Iowa State scored all of its points in the fourth quarter to make this contest even look remotely close.

Before the fourth, this game was shaping up to be an ugly loss and ad game all around for Baylor and Iowa State offensively.

The try — from 49 yards out — sailed wide right and left the Cyclones empty-handed.

Assalley had a chance to redeem himself on the last play of the first half from the same distance.

This time, abysmal blocking led to the attempt being blocked and the Cyclones felt lucky to escape without a return touchdown.

Compound the missed field goals with two key turnovers — a second-quarter interception in enemy territory and a fumble on the last gasp effort after Baylor kicked the game-winning field goal — and this game became a clear indicator the Cyclones have some things to work on.

MORE AND MORE MISTAKES The Cyclones did a lot of things wrong on Saturday in the first three quarters that led them to their loss to the Bears.

Baylor actually had its own errors throughout the game, including a missed field goal and a botched snap on an extra point attempt.

It got to the point where Baylor went for multiple fourth downs deep in enemy territory because coach Matt Rhule’s confidence wasn’t high in his kicking unit.

“I just didn’t feel good about it,” Rhule said about the second instance of going for it on fourth down. “I was kind of reluctant just [because of ] the wind and all that stuff.”

Field goal kicking wasn’t just bad for the Bears.

In a game where the Cyclones lost by two points, any small mistake could’ve been the reason they lost.

Kicker Connor Assalley lined up for his first field goal attempt of the afternoon early in the second quarter.

TIGHT ENDS TAKE CONTROL This season has been a welcome surprise for the Cyclones when it comes to tight ends.

Kolar, who caught the final touchdown pass, had five receptions for 72 yards and the oft-injured Chase Allen hauled in two receptions for 37 yards.

Allen had another long reception that was called back due to holding.

Allen and Kolar combined for 109 receiving yards and were often Purdy’s go-to targets thanks to a quiet day from the receiving core, and a possible injury that kept sophomore Tarique Milton out of action.

Iowa State left itself in tough situations all day and it came back to bite them in the end.

Despite this, Campbell stayed optimistic.

“Where we have to continue to correct are some of those things before we get ourselves in those positions,” Campbell said. “This team is really easy to coach.”

No matter what Cyclone Hockey did offensively, it was negated by Brady Griffin and the Missouri State defense.

It led to Iowa State’s first loss of the season.

Despite putting up 43 shots, the Cyclones were held off the scoreboard for the first time in four games as the Ice Bears left the Ames/ISU Ice Arena with a 2-0 victory on Saturday.

“Griffin made some saves, [but] we made that goaltender look like he had the fastest chest in the league,” said Cyclone Hockey head coach Jason Fairman. “We’re shooting where he doesn’t have to move.”

For the second straight series, the Friday game and Saturday game looked like night and day.

The Cyclones dominated Waldorf in the season opener, then struggled on the road to put the puck in the net and eventually grind out an overtime victory.

After seeing a two-goal lead squashed then come back against Missouri State, the Cyclones were shut out on their home ice.

Although Fairman said it’s too early to start trend setting, he didn’t ignore it.

“I felt we dominated at Waldorf, too,” Fairman said. “I don’t know if we ran out of gas, we got away from our game that had been successful for 55 minutes.”

Each time a Cyclones player received the puck, particularly Dylan Goggin or Ray Zimmerman, multiple Missouri State defenders swarmed to them.

Fairman believes the third-ranked Cyclones possessed the puck around 75-80 percent of the match. It didn’t matter.

Missouri State used speed and agility to stop the multitude of chances Cyclone Hockey had throughout the 60 minutes.

Payton McSharry, for the third time in the series, shot high and missed on a breakaway in the first period. Deflected pucks in mid-air went into Griffin’s glove. Passes cross-ice were just a bit off in the Ice Bears zone.

Nothing seemed to go the Cyclones’ way, despiter the multiple goals scored in the first three games “We had a couple guys that could’ve had six, seven goals this weekend. You couldn’t have asked for better chances,” Fairman said. “Our sense is we dominated so much, that we should’ve won and the fact that we didn’t, hurts.”

Scoreless after the opening 20 minutes, 14th-ranked Missouri State lit up the scoreboard at the 13 minute, 32 second mark of the second period.

Hunter Cooley found Nikita Salnikov right in front of Cyclones net minder Nikita Kozak, and the junior from Penza, Russia, flipped it over Kozak for his fifth goal of the year to give Missouri State a 1-0 lead.

“Game of mistakes,” Fairman said. “It’s unfortunate the only major one that cost us the game. We’re all disappointed” Cyclone Hockey began the third period aggressive, holding at one point a 10-1 lead in shots in the opening five minutes.

After calling a timeout with 1:23 remaining, Kozak was pulled for the extra attacker. Missouri State won the faceoff and Derek Smith fired down the ice for the empty net goal that sealed the second road win of the season for the Ice Bears.

Even though Cyclone Hockey came away with a split, Fairman is actually more encouraged after four games with his team.

“I’m pretty happy with the way we played; you saw a lot of good things this weekend,” Fairman said. “The passing, for as few practices we had, it bodes well for the future.”

Cyclone Hockey will travel to Bloomington, Illinois, next weekend for its first road series of the season against the Illinois State Redbirds.

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Spiritual energy in Ames Psychic and Paranormal Expo makes annual stop

BY GABBY.LUCAS @iowastatedaily.com Students, residents and families alike from all over central Iowa gathered Saturday and Sunday in the Scheman Building for the ninth annual Psychic and Paranormal Expo. It was Ames’ seventh time hosting the expo with over 60 vendors providing services such as spiritual healings, medium work, energy readings, crystal therapy and more.

The vendors at the expo said they love sharing their talents with the world. One vendor, Toni, offered tarot readings and angel readings at the Ames Expo through her business “Toni’s Tarot.”

Tarot readings and angel readings are pseudoscientific methods of gaining practical or spiritual insight into the past, present or future through the means of drawing and interpreting cards. Toni said she enjoys using her gifts to reach out to others and help in dark times — despite the skepticism she faces.

“A lot of people are looking for hope, you know?” said Toni. “I’ve had people that have gotten arrested, and really, a reading is healing. Some people want to know that they’ve done okay.”

Another vendor, Victoria Gonzales, offered a special kind of energy-reading at her booth “Home of the Healing Arts.” Gonzales said she is able to see an individual’s electromagnetic field with the naked eye and then analyzes it along with their chakras (spiritual energy points) to make assessments about the individual’s wellness and spirituality. Gonzales said that the most important thing about her

CAITLIN YAMADA/ IOWA STATE DAILY The ninth annual Psychic and Paranormal Expo took place in the Scheman Building on Saturday and Sunday.

work is helping people realize how powerful and unique they truly are.

“Our only purpose here is not to become a writer or a beautician or even a psychic,” Gonzales said. “Our purpose here is to learn who we are, the essence of who we are.”

Gonzales said she enjoys using her gift to help people remember who they truly are and how they manifest in reality.

Pat Kr af t f ounded the Psyc hic and Paranormal Expo with her daughter, Kelly McCarville, in Cedar Rapids in order to strengthen the metaphysical community in Iowa.

“There wasn’t anything in that area at that time, and we had a couple little metaphysical shops in the area that had shut down, so there

was no access for people,” Kraft said.

Fueled by their shared lifelong interest in the other-worldly, the mother-daughter duo had the thought that if the paranormal wouldn’t come to them, they would be the ones to bring it to others.

Bringing some of the most well-known psychics and paranormal investigators together to present their work certainly made an impact, as the expo is in its ninth consecutive year and actively touring around Iowa.

Kraft says many of the expo’s vendors come from as many as 14 different U.S. states, with some even from England, to share their talents.

“It’s a good way to get to meet local people who do this, but also have access to people that people might not ever get to meet

otherwise,” Kraft said.

Despite the controversy laced around the psychic and paranormal, many believers and skeptics attended the expo this year to learn more about themselves, the “other side” and the world of the metaphysical in general. One attendee, Megan Kroeger, like many other attendees, has a personal connection to the spiritual world. In the midst of controversy and skepticism, Kroeger believes strongly in keeping an open mind when looking at spiritual practices, some of which have been in practice for thousands upon thousands of years.

“There are things in this world that are not meant to be explained by ‘rational thinking,’” Kroeger said. “Some things are just meant to be mystical.”

Stephens Auditorium to host Dane Cook comeback tour

BY TANA.GAMAD @iowastatedaily.com On Wednesday, dropping by Stephens Auditorium on his latest stand-up comedy tour is one of the most successful and controversial comedians and actors of the 2000s: the Enunciator himself, Dane Cook.

This will be Cook’s seventh fullscale tour spanning his 29-year long career and his first tour in six years since his “Under Oath” tour in 2013. Named “Tell It Like It Is,” Cook plans to do exactly that in his comeback performances, moving forward after a series of personal tragedies disrupted his career.

Starting out at 23 by performing stand-up in various comedy clubs around New York, Cook has come a long way from having shoes thrown at him at the Boston Garden. He has boasted multiple sold out shows and a variety of versatile acting credits, such as “Mr. Brooks” with Kevin Costner, “Good Luck Chuck” with Jessica Alba, “Dan in Real Life” with Steve Carell and the Pixar animated

movie “Planes,” just to name a few.

Career highlights include performing with fellow comedians in the “Tourgasm” tour in 2003, which was filmed and turned into a documentary series for HBO; hosting two episodes of Saturday Night Live, including a season premiere; launching a production company called Superfinger Entertainment and releasing a number of very successful comedy albums.

Released in 2003, “Harmful If Swallowed” was Cook’s first comedy album, and is certified platinum. This was followed by his “Retaliation” album, which went double platinum and made Cook the first comedian in almost three decades to peak at a top five spot on the Billboard charts.

Other accolades on this provocative performer’s metaphoric shelf include winning the Teen Choice Award for Best Comedian in 2007, selling out Madison Square Garden, being named Rolling Stone’s Hot Comic of the Year and performing onstage for seven hours straight to beat the Laugh Factory’s endurance record all in that same year.

Citing more outlandish comedians such as Robin Williams and Eddie Murphy as inspiration for his commitment to character, Cook is recognized as one of the more highly excitable comedic acts to take the stage.

Known in his younger years as a tank-top-wearing character with an in-your-face personality, his acts center on observational comedy and veer into an array of subjects like the darker sides of human behavior, sexuality and politics, for example.

Not one to shy away, Cook is also known for his outlandish onstage persona, which warrants some physical activity and notoriety for saying whatever he wants.

Vulgar tales, either shor t and sweet or in long-form storytelling are a combination of a tongue in cheek humor and colorful takes on human life as it exists.

Presentl y, though still high energy and as braggadocios and unfiltered as ever, Cook seems to have mellowed down in his comedy, adding more introspective takes to his acts and utilizing his personal drama to round out

COURTESY OF PATRICK DIXON One of the most popular comedians of the 2000s, Dane Cook will bring his return to comedy with his tour stop Wednesday in Ames.

his humor. However, he does this while still keeping that interaction with the audience as alive at it was when he became one of the first entertainers to use the internet to communicate with his fanbase back in the days of MySpace.

Tickets for the show start at $39.50 and are available at Stephens Auditorium’s box office,

online at Ticketmaster.com or by calling 800-745-3000. The north doors on the ground floor and south east and south west doors will all open at 6:30pm and the show will start at 7:30pm. Per stadium rules, there will be no food or drink allowed inside. There will also be bag checks and security will be using metal detector wands.

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the ordinary people might not speak English. So if you need to get to your bus, you need to get to the hotel, you need to know directions in the streets — it’s you who is in trouble, not them.”

Beyond simple survival skills when traveling abroad, there are professional incentives to learn a foreign language.

If you are an engineer at a conference in France or Germany, for example, and the conference is conducted in English, the people at the conference will all speak English, Taoutel said.

“Then there’s those little moments where they break down and they go ‘let’s have a coffee’ — those moments aren’t necessarily in English and these people start switching to German, French, Spanish or something and then if you don’t speak any of those languages, you’re excluded,” Taoutel said.

The department of world languages and cultures offers at least introductory level courses in American Sign Language, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Italian, Spanish, French, Latin, Arabic, German and Portuguese. Proficiency in a language other than English not only helps to broaden cultural understanding, but also helps in professional settings.

Jennifer Musgrove, lecturer of Spanish, said there are “two tracks” in the department of world languages and cultures.

“So one track if you will, we might call it the classic track, so they can major or minor in any of the languages we offer,” Musgrove said.

“Then there’s the languages and cultures for professions track and they would need to have a primary major within the college of engineering,

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“I think this program is very helpful, not only for students who are white who want to learn about our culture, but also for us Latino students who want to know more about where we come from and how we got here because there’s been a lot of changes between our cultures,” Durán said.

The next panel discussed leadership and shaping engaged citizens through faculty and student collaboration in USLS. The panelists said there is a strong commitment to integrating course and community in the program, demonstrated through students working with members of various communities off-campus.

Grant Sincox, junior in world languages and cultures, Ariadna Delgado-Ruiz, senior in criminal justice studies, and Jianna Dakin-Seiler, senior in world languages and

college of agriculture and life sciences [or] college of business.”

The courses someone on the languages and cultures for professions track may take could be tailored to their major, for example “Spanish for businesses and professionals,” Musgrove said.

Adam Bittner, sophomore in global resource systems, said he has gotten connections out of the language and cultures for professions track.

“Earlier this spring I took a gap semester from college,” Bittner said.

He said during that gap semester he worked on a farm in Argentina and would like to go back to South America to work abroad.

Musgrove said the study abroad program is very beneficial to students in developing their language ability.

“We need our formal classroom experience — that’s a good bedrock or foundation,” Musgrove said. “But when you think of the immersive experience — I mean we’re talking about 100 percent authenticity. Nothing is manufactured — you’re out, you’re conducting business, you’re purchasing things, you’re making arrangements, you’re catching a taxi — you’re doing all those things but you’re doing it in the target language.

It’s also extremely confidence-building.”

Taoutel said he leads several study abroad programs, and when students return they are “new” people.

“They just open their mind,” Taoutel said.

“We teach them not to judge, but to understand — that’s the most important thing.”

Bittner said he came to Iowa State without a background in speaking Spanish. The language and culture for professions track gives more exposure to a language. cultures, were among the fi rst students to participate in USLS/Spanish 325X, a course where the students worked with English as a Second Language students in Perry, Iowa.

“I had never realized how much of a change we were making in these kids’ lives just from going every other weekend for like an hour-ish, just sitting there talking to them, telling them about us and hearing about them, and so the last day actually some of them cried because they were upset it was the last day we were going to see them,” Delgado-Ruiz said.

After a lunch break consisting of an array of traditional foods, the audience nearly doubled for the keynote speaker, William “Memo” Nericcio, professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University.

He spoke on stereotypes of Latinx culture, where they come from and how he pushes

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Musgrove said it is never too late to learn another language, despite some misconceptions.

“Our brains are wired for language acquisition, so you take a look at cognitive linguistics and it just shows that there’s a common trend of thought within our culture, if you will,” Musgrove said. “Just within the United States a lot of times you hear this message that’s just too bad for you, you should have learned back when you were a child, it’s too late. I get that a lot, from students and even from older folks who are even thinking about taking a language classes from Iowa State, ‘Is it too late for me?’

— and it’s not. Research backs that up.”

Taoutel also said there are misconceptions about the difficulty of learning languages.

“It’s not that impossible,” Taoutel said. “You can [learn] a language in a year or two if you commit. You can function with the minimum and the basics. Most of the students who come here, they come with this preconceived idea that language is not for me I’m too old, it’s impossible — and no it is not. You can learn at any age.”

In learning a language, Musgrove said there are options at Iowa State beyond simply taking courses.

“Obviously we have Spanish Club available — students really enjoy that — of course it depends on their time,” Musgrove said. “So they can operate in the target language outside of the classroom in an authentic way with other learners and build their confidence.”

Taline Jouzi, sophomore in pre-diet and exercise and president of French Club, said in an email as an international student they are bilingual, speaking English and Arabic.

“With that said, my experience in learning

another language has been great,” Jouzi said.

“It requires a lot of practice and passion for being able to continue. At times you may get demotivated because you won’t be getting to the goal you are trying to achieve, however in the end, it is rewarding when you can understand the lyrics to a song or a couple of sentences in a movie. Moreover, be aware of the culture of the language; it can broaden your perspective about multiple topics and allows you to explore different areas to read about when learning a language.”

Jouzi said French Club is a “great way” to practice speaking French outside of the classroom.

“I believe it does as you pick up different vocabulary and practice your pronunciation of various words from students that have more experience in the language than you,” Jouzi said.

Taoutel also said he encourages students to attend language clubs and find people who speak their target language and meet them.

“Our students [...] we tell them to do the French table — so we meet once a week,” Taoutel said. “There’s a French table, Russian table, Spanish table where they eat together [...] and they talk to each other in the language.”

In terms of developing language ability, Musgrove said people should never be dissuaded from trying to learn a language.

“No matter the language, no matter the culture — whatever language resonates with you for whatever reason that you feel passionate about it — then you follow that and that’s what you want to pursue for learning, and can you?

Yes you can,” Musgrove said. “There is no language that’s too hard.”

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back against them through his art and writing. He comes from Loredo, Texas, and described the United State’s border as a tapestry, a rich fabric of the country that needs love, analysis and research to understand.

The next panel, titled Latinx in the Sciences, involved faculty members discussing their experiences in a field where they don’t see many other members of the Latinx community.

An attendee asked the professors how they navigated the “white space” at Iowa State, historically a predominantly white institution.

“I tend to give people the benefi t of the doubt, or just be oblivious to it […] If you do your job well because you like your job, you’ll excel at it, right?” said Nicole Valenzuela, professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology. “And then your results will show, and they will learn to judge you for your character.”

The Latinx and Latinx-Allied Voices panel members shared their own experiences on and off campus in terms of assisting Latinx students through programs like ISU 4U, which has a long-term commitment to help underprivileged students earn up to one hundred percent tuition by completing Kindergarten through fi fth grade at partnered elementary schools.

Th e panel also talked about how Latinx identity and background shapes the college

experience for students and what resources they are implementing to help students transition to college. They encouraged students of all ethnicities to help push back against limited thinking often set in institutional policy making.

The last panel of the day discussed the future of Latinx Studies at Iowa State. Rita Mookerjee, lecturer of sociology, spoke on inclusion.

Mookerjee stressed the value of modeling inclusive language for students, attempting to give them an understanding of the context of readings and teaching material using a variety of sources and modes of discussion to facilitate a thorough understanding of the subjects taught.

For Latinx studies in particular, Sebastian Braun, associate professor of world languages and cultures, discussed the political point that ethnic studies make and how the studies themselves attempt to reach a broader audience.

“Any fight for inclusion needs to begin with a fight for assertion,” Braun said. “We need to know who we are, why we are here and fight for the right to have a voice. For ethnic studies programs, this is a fi ght for academic recognition and acknowledgement of expertise. This fight should actually bring ethnic studies programs together because we share it. We need to collaborate and have a voice that is heard loud and clear.”