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At the first official GSB Presidential Debate, the candidates’ first topic of discussion was pointing out their differences.
The highest priority of the Spencer Hughes-Hillary Kletscher ticket is cutting GSB executive
payments.“One of the first things we’ll do
if elected is put the money toward something else,” Hughes said.
Currently, the GSB president and the GSB finance director receive full tuition, room and board, and other expenses. The GSB vice president receives half of that. Depending on the students’ residency situation, this
could be up to $90,000.Hughes expressed that this money
could be better allocated.Candidate Daniel Rediske and his
running mate Zach Bauer do not nec-essarily agree with this.
“I would like to ensure that stu-dents have the best advocate for their
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MIRAGEThe Mixed Reality
Adaptive Generalizable Environment room, com-monly known as the Mirage room, is essentially a re-search lab that gets the whole human body involved on a physical level, but is en-hanced with virtual reality.
The Mirage room, which is located in Black Engineering Building, con-sists of a 41-foot-wide by 13-foot-high fixed screen that is run by six active-stereo projectors. There is a sur-round sound audio system, reconfigurable walls with props and a motion analysis tracking system.
“We wanted to create an environment for training that can be just as immersive as a real city or building but that has more flexibility like a videogame,” said Stephen Gilbert, one of the founders
of Mirage.The tracking system con-
sists of red tracking cameras placed on the ceiling that pick up the trackers on all the hel-mets, suits, guns and even the walls.
These tracking devices are highly reflective and al-low for replay of all of the exact actions someone goes through. The trackers then forward the information to the computer, allowing someone to look at what things went right and what went wrong.
The trackers are also
simulated to the computer, so if a wall moves, the wall is moved on the screen as well. The same goes for the people training and wearing the gear with sensors — when they move in real time, they are moving on the computer as well.
The computer then gets the exact orientation and position of something or someone.
Gilbert said a lot of as-pects, such as dark hallways and physical structures, make the training more real and visceral than sitting in
front of a screen interacting with a video game. He also said the use of digital tech-
Virtual system gets whole body involved in labBy Emily.Drees @iowastatedaily.com
SNOWSTORM: Iowa winter strikes againPhoto: Lindsay Lippincott/Iowa State Daily
Workers clear walkways in front of Lied Recreation Athletic Center during the snow storm on Tuesday. Winter Storm Rocky hit the Midwest only a few days after another storm dumped several inches of snow on Ames. Classes went on as usual despite the inclement weather.
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Photo: Liz Ulrichson/Iowa State DailyEllie Straw, freshman in speech communication, builds a fort in the snow outside of Friley Tuesday. Ames received several inches of snow throughout the day.
Photo: Lindsay Lippincott/Iowa State DailyStudents trudge through the snow on their way to class during the snowstorm Tuesday. The storm was the second storm to dump snow on Iowa within a week.
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GSB to vote on three bills, present oneThe Government of Student Body will have its weekly meeting Wednesday night at 7 p.m. in the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union.
The GSB Senate will vote on three bills and have a first read of another.
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International students share their struggles and successes despite the dif-ficulty of being the only one representing their country at Iowa State.
Adjusting to college life is difficult for most students but is even more difficult when the student is the only one from their home country and is thrust into a new culture.
Making the decision to study in an un-familiar country requires a lot of work and financial aid.
Maisa Al-Wahaibi, freshman in pre-advertising from Oman, was raised in California. Al-Wahaibi was able to study in the United States after receiving a merit-based scholarship from the Omani government.
Al-Wahaibi’s decision to study at Iowa State was influenced by her finances.
“Due to not having a clue whether I was going to receive a scholarship or not, I decided to apply to universities that were affordable and offered journalism,” Al-Wahaibi said.
Anicia Peters, an international gradu-ate student from Namibia studying sup-ply chain and information systems, cited scholarships she received for women in science as the reason she was able to study at Iowa State, as well.
Perceptions of the United States influ-enced the students’ decisions as well.
“I’d never been in the [United States], and I’d never wanted to be in the [United States], actually,” Peters said.
Peters explained that the media cov-erage of the United States in Namibia and other countries does not present the United States favorably. The media cov-erage of the United States in Namibia is handled the same way as the media cov-erage of other countries is covered in the United States. The media often focuses on the negative aspects, Peters said.
Peters has found that “[the] stereo-types aren’t all true.”
Whether the students are in their late teens like Al-Wahaibi or married with children like Peters, the initial adjustment of living in a strange country can be hard.
“The work is overwhelming, and then [the students] have to learn a new culture on top of that,” said Peters.
That difficulty is augmented by the fact
that these two students are the only ones from their countries at Iowa State.
“I felt like an endangered and exotic species,” Al-Wahaibi said.
Al-Wahaibi had to adjust to living inde-pendently without being able to connect with someone of her own culture.
“I was pretty much alone. I relied on my dad at the beginning when he was here to help me settle,” Al-Wahaibi said.
Even though Peters’ family joined her in the United States shortly after she ar-rived, she also found adjustment difficult.
“How do you get furniture for free? What’s Goodwill? How do you use a credit card?” Peters said.
In order to create a sense of commu-nity for herself and other international students, Peters worked with three oth-er international students to create the International Students Organization.
“We advise them on where they will stay, what they will do, how … they open bank accounts,” Peters said.
In six months, Al-Wahaibi also was able to adjust to school and student life.
“I approached people I felt like speak-ing to. And living in the dorms makes it a lot easier to create friendships and ac-quaintances. The floor is like its own little village,” Al-Wahaibi said.
Since there is no one else to relate to their own individual cultures, both stu-dents still feel a need to project their cul-ture and customs.
“I gloat about my Arab ethnicity all the time, present my values if I’m in a particu-lar situation, and try my best not to com-pletely erase or diminish the principles and values I was raised on,” Al-wahaibi said.
Peters keeps her culture alive within the club and within her family. It is impor-tant to her to share her experiences.
“I think if you’re living outside of your country, you become very much aware of your culture, and you want to share it,” Peters said.
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Photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State DailyMaisa Al-Wahaibi, freshman in pre-advertising from Oman, puts her hand on a bulletin board in the Multicultural room of the Memorial Union. Al-Waihaibi is the only person from Oman who is living and attending classes at Iowa State.
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Feb. 21David Trout, 19, 1365 Larch Hall, was arrested and charged with being armed with intent and disorderly conduct.
Grant Reitz, 19, 1365 Larch Hall, was cited for interference with official acts.
Laith Kanaan, 18, 2349 Larch Hall, was cited for disorderly conduct at Larch Hall (reported at 11:37 p.m.).
Feb. 22Vehicles driven by Peggy Johnson and Ricky Roth were involved in a property damage collision at Edenburn Drive (reported at 10:55 a.m.).
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Officers assisted an individual experiencing medical difficul-ties at Frederiksen Court (reported at 11:50 p.m.).
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nology, such as screens, combined with physical walls and rooms, allows for more flexibility and an endless amount of scenarios to run.
Gilbert also explained how important the guns were in this process and how accuracy has a role in all of it. The guns are airsoft guns that don’t actually shoot.
“We’ve built custom boards, so when the trigger is pulled, the info is sent to our computer to see exactly where it hit and the angle of the shot. It’s a little like laser tag on steroids,” Gilbert said.
Eliot Winer, one of the founders of Mirage, explained this room was originally developed for Army training.
Other options of training the Army may go through currently happen at places called mout sites.
Mout sites are artificial towns and villages set up to provide a lifelike experience. As many as 1,000 or more actors may be hired and put into costume to act as the enemy or soldiers to make the scene for the soldiers-in-training feel
real.This approach is effective, but Winer said
there are downfalls.“They’re lucky if they can run it once or twice
a day due to the amount of time it takes to set up and get everyone into costume and action,” Winer said, “We can run different scenarios dozens, maybe even hundreds of times a day.”
He said it only takes approximately 20 min-utes to change scenes, making the number of times they can run a scenario and the number of different scenarios they can choose from much larger than that of the mout sites.
“I really like taking all of these different pieces and all of the hardware and making it into something so that other people can use it,” said Ken Kopecky, a student working towards his doctorate in human computer interaction, and part of the Mirage team.
Recently, the Mirage team ran a study with some soldiers in the Mirage room to establish facets which could be improved. The input they received from the soldiers was to obtain better sound.
Gilbert and Winer explained that having
speakers around the edge created sufficient sound, but having spatial sound would be preferred.
Wearing a headset that controls the sound so it seems to be coming from a specific place is an example of spatial sound. This makes the sounds in the scenario more controlled and realistic.
Though the Mirage room was created initial-ly for training and research, it’s used for other things as well.
Winer described this room as “a Swiss army knife.”
He said anytime someone needs a large visu-alization, large area tracking or anything of that sort, this room is the place to go, which makes it quite convenient and helpful for Iowa State’s colleges.
Gilbert explained they are able to set up a system to measure heart rate, blood pressure and stress, transforming it into a place for fire-fighters to train.
“I want to make sure that if you, as a fire-fighter, go through a stressful scene, that I take you through that scene again and again until [it] does not make you stressed,” Gilbert said. “This allows you to be prepared and not stressed in a real-life situation.”
The Mirage team said they had to overcome a lot of obstacles in the creation of the room and continue to face difficulties in the progress of making the room even better.
“It’s fun because it’s a challenge. There are few people that have a three- to four-million-dollar system like this ... to play around with and try to make it all work together,” said Joe Holub, a student working toward his doctorate in hu-man computer interaction, computer engineer-ing, and part of the Mirage team.
Gilbert and Winer said the basic goal is not to get many people in the Mirage room to train. Their primary goal is to use it as a research lab to discover how to make training elsewhere better and more accessible.
Photos: Kelby Wingert/Iowa State DailySpencer Hughes and Dan Rediske, presidential candidates for Government of the Student Body, discuss their election platforms during the GSB presidential election debate on Tuesday night at the Memorial Union.
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>>GSB.p1Aexperience,” Rediske said after the debate. “I know that one of the last executives would not have been able to do the work they did for students through GSB had it not been for the compensation. I don’t want the best advocate that is financially well-off; I want the best advocate, hands down.”
Both of the candidates’ campaigns are project-oriented.
While explaining the “Students First” campaign, Hughes discussed the creation of a bike share program on campus and the use of Dining Dollars at off-campus restaurants.
Rediske discussed the “P” of the Rediske-Bauer “CPR” campaign.
“Projects are what you’re go-ing to hear about primarily during campaigns,” Rediske said. “Pursuing
free textbooks for general education courses and investigating the use of mass email lists by Ames businesses are a priority.”
Neither of the candidates are op-posed to the others’ proposed projects. The priorities are what differs.
Both candidates are in favor of the use of Dining Dollars off campus, and both said that they would not move forward with the project if students had to pay more or if it took away from their ISU experience.
Each was asked what his single largest contribution was to Iowa State.
“My investment of time when it comes to new students,” Rediske said. “My time as Cyclone Aid and as a Student Admissions Representative to help smooth new students’ transi-tion to becoming a Cyclone. I loved
showing prospective students my love for Iowa State.”
Hughes had a different experience.“Bringing in new students is a phe-
nomenal experience,” Hughes said. “My time in GSB has been a great way to be involved and be helpful in any way I can. I served on a commit-tee for Dance Marathon this year, and what we accomplished together as a community is an unforgettable experience.”
The candidates each have Facebook and Twitter pages and cam-paign websites for students to learn more about their campaign platforms, as well as more about each candidate and their running mates.
The final debate will be 6 p.m. March 7 in the Cardinal Room of the Memorial Union.
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Not every compromise will be pretty
The year is 2013, and everyone knows that slavery of any kind is a horrible institution. An institution that holds people in bondage, particularly because of their ethnicity or race, and treats them as property that can be bought, sold and exploited all the while; it directly conflicts with the egalitarian ideals upon which this country was founded and on which it has acted for more than two hundred years.
Even with the politically correct culture that surrounds every writer or speaker, such disclaimers that slavery was horrible should not be necessary when a person discusses constitutional mechanisms such as the three-fifths compromise, which apportioned seats in the U.S. House of Representatives according to population but counted people held as slaves as three-fifths of one person for this purpose.
Yet at a meeting of Emory University’s College of Arts and Sciences faculty, the president of Emory University, James W. Wagner, was censured for a column in which he pointed to the three-fifths compromise to argue that members of Congress should make compromises between their ideologies and their pledge to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
He argued that such an agreement was necessary in order for the dele-gates to the Constitutional Convention to accomplish an important aim: the formation of “a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”
As Wagner wrote in his column, “Both sides found a way to temper ideology and continue working toward the highest aspiration they both shared — the aspiration to form a more perfect union. They set their sights higher, not lower, in order to identify their com-mon goal and keep moving toward it.” Indeed, few things are perfect. Even fewer are perfect at the first attempt.
The Constitution is one such im-perfect work. Continual outrage about the electoral college deciding presiden-tial elections, rather than relying on the nationwide popular vote, tells us that. Any one of the 27 amendments to the Constitution affirms that imperfection. Middle school textbooks tell of both the compromises of the Constitutional Convention and the Connecticut Compromise.
Wagner was right, and there is a clear lesson for all politicians. If the founders we all idealize and com-memorate could craft a compromise to attain an important end and do so by reaffirming chattel slavery, then we today have no excuse for playing brinkmanship with the immediate and long-term future of the United States for the sake of not raising taxes by a few percentage points.
Scholars agree that slavery was important to the founders just as it was to the abolitionists and secessionists of later decades and that, without a compromise on that issue, the United States would not exist. If they could come to a constitutional compromise on such an issue for the sake of making progress on another problem, surely we can do the same. We might be unable to achieve everything we want, but the fact that “progress” will be uneven does not mean that it should be avoided.
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On Feb. 15, the same day that a massive asteroid flew past earth, a meteorite flew into Russia,
causing widespread injuries. Fox News reported that approximately a thousand Russian citizens were injured by frag-ments of shattered glass windows when it shook homes and workplaces. Nearly every window was shattered in the town of Chelyabinsk, home to more than 1 mil-lion people. Many Russian YouTube users shared incredible footage. NASA scientists say that the asteroid and meteorite were not related. With all of this cosmic activity lately, concerned citizens may be beginning to ask about how we can ensure that an as-teroid will not destroy our planet in the fu-ture. Rest assured, we have nothing to worry about in the next couple hundred years.
But first, what exactly is the differ-ence between an asteroid and meteorite? A meteorite is an asteroid that enters the earth’s atmosphere and strikes the ground. Asteroids are small rocky bodies orbiting the sun. Further, a meteor is the same as a meteorite, although it never reaches the ground because it burns up during entry into the earth’s atmosphere. These falling celes-
tial bodies emit a bright light as they burn up, which can be quite the sight.
In an interview, David Morrison, a NASA space scientist, outlines a few steps that NASA takes to ensure our safety. For the past 15 years, Morrison has been a part of calculating the risks of asteroid impact and promoting the idea of doing more effective surveys for asteroids. He says that so far NASA has “done a very good job of finding the larger asteroids, which are the greater danger if they are to hit earth.” He goes on to say that asteroid impacts can have drastic impacts on the globe, coining an asteroid as the cause of the extinction of dinosaurs. The global impact would be indirect, as a rela-tively small asteroid would strike the earth, excavating huge amounts of dust that would be circulated throughout the stratosphere. The dust would block sunlight, causing “what’s sometimes called a ... asteroid win-ter, when temperatures drop, photosynthe-sis stops and most life dies.”
Right now there isn’t an asteroid the size of the one that killed the dinosaurs that could impact the earth within the next few million years. NASA has focused on the smaller ones, which could be potentially dangerous. In 1908, an asteroid three times
the size of the meteorite that recently hit Russia struck earth and flattened 1,000 square miles of forest near Tunguska, Russia, downing 80 million trees.
The good news is that a survey done by NASA concluded that of the 10,000 near-Earth asteroids discovered, “not one of them will hit our planet, at least not for the next couple hundred years. So we are a lot safer than we thought.”
Morrison coins a term called “cosmopho-bia,” which is the fear of things we discover in space. He says that many people “have an immediate fear reaction to discoveries in astronomy,” which Morrison thinks can be attributed to how movies portray cosmic ac-tivity. It gives a feeling universes crash into each other all the time, which is not the case.
The future of planet Earth has little to worry about when it comes to asteroids and meteors. Scientists at NASA are hard at work preparing for any potential threats decades in advance. The chances of a real threat are very slim, so the next time you find yourself thinking twice about going to class because of what might fall from the sky, it might be best to be more concerned about how well you do on that exam.
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Photo courtesy of NASAThis computer-generated image depicts a view of Earth as seen from the surface of the asteroid Toutatis on Nov. 29, 1996. Toutatis currently approaches Earth once every four years, and on Nov. 29th, 1996 the asteroid was 5.2 million kilometers (3.3 million miles) away.
We tend to take our dominance in world affairs for
granted. The USA is gener-ally considered to be the most powerful and influential nation, but that does not mean that we inherently deserve to be.
Almost any political scientist would tell you that currently the world is in a state of hegemony. This means that there is one overarchingly powerful nation, the hegemon, which happens to be the United States. According to the Hegemonic Stability Theory, the existence of a hege-mon allows for greater stability concerning international affairs, and is partially responsible for the lack of major conflict since the end of the Cold War.
The United States has earned its rank as hegemon by consis-tently being the most powerful country in the world. As they say, “money makes the world go around,” and the United States has a lot of it. Not only are we ranked first in gross domestic product, we are a country that has shown a dedicated interest in international relations, ex-emplified by hosting the United Nations headquarters.
There has been much talk over the past few years about the dominance of the United States possibly declining, and a new major power arising in our place. When most people think of another country taking the United States’ place as the most influential nation, they think the People’s Republic of China.
Memories of the presidential race certainly involve talk of
how each candidate would deal with China specifically. Beyond political races, media report that China is growing rapidly in almost all major areas that make a country dominant, such as investment in higher education and global economy share.
While many viewpoints exist on the possibility of China or any other country supplanting the United States as the major superpower of the world, there can be little argument that
it is a prevailing conception. According to livescience.com, more than half of China feels China will replace the U.S. and only 54 percent of Americans think that the U.S. will retain their position.
A replacement of the United States does not mean the end of the world. Of course those here in the U.S. would love to see our country be the best in the world, but our competitiveness and comfortable lifestyles are not a concern for the rest of the world. There is no reason to think that the world would suffer from a new hegemon, as long as we here in the United States can concede gracefully if the need arises.
Of course that does not mean that America should roll over and stop trying to be a global
superpower, only that conflict is not a requirement when a coun-try becomes more powerful.
Those in the United States need to understand that we are not owed anything by the world, and should act accordingly. We may have been world leaders for the past decades and contrib-uted to mankind, but we are only one in a long string of nations that have dominated the world at times, such as Alexander the Great’s Macedonia or the global British Empire of the nine-teenth century.
It could be contended that many countries such as China have human rights issues, and this should somehow disqualify them from being an internation-al leader. This can be quieted with a long look at our own past.
Even countries founded upon the principles of political free-dom and republicanism like the United States have black spots on our moral record, includ-ing the acquisition of our land from its former inhabitants and the fact that until 1865 citizens could own other human beings.
Perhaps it is simply not our place to judge possible succes-sors, as presidents tradition-ally decline to criticize their successors. After all, our status as an influential nation does not exist in isolation, but rather only exists in the context of all other countries.
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Courtesy photoThere has been talk about whether the dominance of the United States is giving way to the People’s Republic of China. Columnist Phil Brown believes if this happens, the U.S. should concede gracefully.
Phil Brown is a senior in political science, biology, and environmental studies from Emmetsburg, Iowa.
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Thank you for writ-ing a story about Triangle Fraternity’s return to Iowa State. My name is Chris Moe, and I am the president of the ISU Chapter of Triangle Alumni Organization. The more than 400 living ISU Triangles and I are excited to begin the next phase in the life of our fraternity with a new group of young men this fall and will celebrate the 50th anniversary of our chapter the following spring.
I would like to point out to your readers, however, a couple of inconsistencies with your article and the circumstances surrounding Triangle leaving Iowa State in early 2011. Beginning in 2009, the chapter’s membership had started to dwindle, and
due to financial concerns, the alumni board recommended to our national council that the undergraduate chapter be suspended with an immediate plan for re-colonization. Due to a heavy expansion schedule by the national organization, Fall 2013 was the soonest they could support local alumni in that effort.
To be clear, this was a com-pletely voluntary effort on our part to regroup and start fresh in order to bring Triangle back to a place of prominence in the ISU greek system.
Also, thank you for point-ing out that a fraternity does not need a physical facility to be successful. Often, and especially when you are trying to get your organization off the ground, care and maintenance
of a facility can put a strain on the whole purpose for being together in the first place. Triangle has sold our property on North Hyland and will operate without a facility until an opportunity presents itself closer to the greek community.
Again, Triangle is excited to be returning to Iowa State. I would like to personally thank the members of the Interfraternity Council for their reinstatement vote and encourage any young men studying engineering, archi-tecture or the sciences who want to learn more about us to visit www.triangle.org or to contact me directly.
With the vote quickly approaching, it’s important for us as Iowans and American citizens to whole-heartedly put our support behind the new universal background check legislation. We need to demonstrate our sup-port to our representatives and senators by demanding that they back this important and necessary proposal.
Universal-background-check legisla-tion just makes sense. Without limiting gun ownership for law-abiding citizens, back-ground checks protect the rights and lives of all citizens.
Implementing a system of background checks for all gun transactions will lower fire-arm crime rates while respecting the Second Amendment.
We are morally obligated to try to protect the life of each and every American man, woman and child, and keeping guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill is a common-sense step we can take.
We have sympathized with the families and friends of countless victims of gun vio-lence for so long, and now is the time to make a difference. We can’t change the past, but we can use the stories and lives of these victims to fuel a better future.
Our representatives and senators need to know that we support universal background checks and a safer nation for everyone. We need to contact them and require that they support this legislation before another trag-edy occurs.
Please contact Representatives Steve King and Tom Latham and Sen. Chuck Grassley. Tell them that we as Iowans and Americans, as coworkers and neighbors, and as friends and family want universal background check legislation and safer communities now.
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When Kansas comes to town Wednesday, it will be a team fight-ing for something beyond the regular season. The ISU squad it will run into, however, may feel just as desperate in the final games before the postseason.
After winning the first meeting 78-75 in overtime at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan., the Jayhawks (16-10, 7-8 Big 12) will travel to Hilton Coliseum to take on the Cyclones (19-6, 10-5), who felt like they let one slip away.
“I think they understand where they are,” said ISU coach Bill Fennelly of Kansas. “When you get to this point, kids read about it, hear about it, talk about it. As coaches you always try to shield your team from these kinds of conversations, but you can’t get away from it. We know what’s coming and we know what to expect. Certainly a team that beat us the first time.”
Late in the game between Kansas and Iowa State on Jan. 30, the Cyclones were leading by 18 points with 8:56 left in the game after a layup by center Anna Prins.
The Jayhawks would go on a 28-10 run to close out the half and force overtime, where they would eventu-ally seize control and go on to win by
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When Ashley Hagedorn walked on to the ISU women’s basketball team in May of 2012, an 18-year-old dream was about to come true.
Ashley’s mother, Beth, said the goal of becoming a Cyclone started at the age of 3 years old.
“It starts with a little girl at age 3 going to watch her uncle, ‘Special K’ Steve Krafcisin, who was coaching at Iowa State,” Beth said. “She has al-ways wanted to go there.”
It was something similar to a Cinderella story for Ashley, who went to DMACC for her first two years of college coming out of I-K-M Manning High School.
“[Iowa State] didn’t want her out of high school, and she had two full-ride offers,” Beth said.
Ashley had full-ride scholar-ship offers from Saint Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, and the University of Sioux Falls (S.D.). But Ashley wanted a Cyclone jersey, some way, somehow.
Beth said Ashley went to Krafcisin and asked if there could ever be a chance of her becoming a Cyclone.
“After my career at DMACC, I got offers from the east side of Iowa, from the west side — I didn’t know where to go,” Ashley said.
Women’s basketball
Walk-on Hagedorn hopes to ‘encourage and support’
File photo: Jonathan Krueger/Iowa State DailyJunior guard Ashley Hagedorn waits to check into the game against the Drake Bulldogs on Nov. 27, 2012 at Hilton Coliseum. Almost every Cyclone player got play time in their 87-45 win against the Bulldogs. Hagedorn walked onto the team before earning a scholarship in August this past fall.
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Swimming and diving
The ISU swimming and diving team left for Austin, Texas, on Monday to avoid the Tuesday snowstorm en route to the Big 12 Championships, which begin on Wednesday.
Iowa State (4-5, 0-1 Big 12) will face four other Big 12 teams at the four-day event, which will fea-ture prelims starting at 10 a.m. every day as well as final races and heats around 6 p.m.
“This is our opportunity to compete at the high-est level,” said swimming coach Duane Sorenson. “We want them to swim at their fastest and take advantage of what they have been doing in training all season.”
Sophomore Amanda Paulson currently leads the team in event victories and has enjoyed many successes in the pool this season. Paulson will com-pete in the 50 freestyle and 100 freestyle.
Junior Imelda Wistey has been the next most successful swimmer during the regular season. Wistey earned nine individual first-place finishes and was a part of relay first-place finish. She will compete in the 100 and 200 breaststroke and the 200 individual medley this week.
“We are also interested in seeing how our dis-tance swimmers are going to do,” Sorenson said. “Kristy Kunkel, Elizabeth Kliner and Samantha Fossum have really been training well this season, so we are hoping they can step up and do a great job.”
The diving team will be led by senior Marley Dobyns and freshman Elyse Brouillette as both have done well off of the 1-meter and 3-meter platforms this season. This will be the first Big 12 Conference meet for Brouillette and the last for Dobyns.
Dobyns is coming off of her best scores all sea-son against Kansas.
“You can be good, bad or great in warm-ups but when it counts is when it really matters,” said div-ing coach Jeff Warrick. “The mindset we want to have when we are going down into the Big 12 Championships, when the lights and pressure are
on, we want to maintain confidence in what we have done.”
The Cyclones have had enough time during the past couple of weeks to perfect their strokes, turns, relays and dives. The team hasn’t had a competition since Feb. 9, but has plenty of time to practice all the important events.
File photo: Jonathan Krueger/Iowa State DailySenior center Anna Prins reacts to a Texas defender before going up for the shot at Hilton Coliseum on Jan. 2. Prins led the team in scoring with 19 points before fouling out in the overtime victory 73-65.
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File photo: William Deaton/Iowa State DailyJunior Imelda Wistey comes up for air and prepares herself for her last stroke in the 200 breaststroke relay during the dual meet against South Dakota and Nebraska on Oct. 26, 2012 at Beyer Hall.
Men’s b’ball:
Statement released by Big 12 on Monday’s officiatingThe Big 12 released a statement Tuesday afternoon regarding the officiating during Monday’s ISU men’s basketball game against No. 6 Kansas.With Iowa State leading 90-88 late in the game, the officials failed to call an apparent charge against Kansas’ Elijah Johnson on ISU forward Georges Niang. Instead, Niang was called for a foul with Johnson making two free throws as a result to tie the game and eventually send it to overtime, where the Jayhawks would win.“The Big 12 Conference acknowledges that officiating errors were made at the end of regulation during last night’s Kansas at Iowa State men’s bas-ketball game,” the Big 12 said in the statement. “The plays have been reviewed and appropriate measures will be taken by the Coordinator of Men’s Basketball Officials to adjust the number of future assignments for the two officials involved in conjunction with Conference policies.”The Big 12 said the statement would be the conference’s final public comments regarding the matter.
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■ 141 Luke Goettl (19th)
■ 165 Michael Moreno (19th)
■ 174 Tanner Weatherman (20th)
■ 184 Boaz Beard (15th)
■ 197 Kyven Gadson (7th)
■ Hwt Matt Gibson (20th)
■ Team: 30th
Men’s b’ball:
Big 12 MBB standings6 Kansas 24-4, 12-3
13 Kansas State 23-5, 12-3
15 Oklahoma State 20-6, 10-4
Oklahoma 18-8, 9-5
Iowa State 19-9, 9-6Baylor 16-11, 7-7
West Virginia 13-14, 6-8
Texas 12-15, 4-10
Texas Tech 9-17, 2-13
TCU 10-17, 1-13
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“Then I talked to coach [Krafcisin] to see if there was any chance I could possibly walk on and he said ‘Yeah, I’ll talk to the coaches and see what they say.’
“Coach Fennelly said ‘Come over for a meeting,’ and met with him, and he [said] ‘You have a jersey here, so take your time on your decision, but you have a jersey here.’”
With the support and expe-rience from the junior college level, Ashley said the time she spent at DMACC helped her land a spot in the cardinal and gold. She said she still will see past teammates at games, dur-ing and after.
“I wasn’t ready for the whole university, huge set-tings; the smaller stuff was awesome,” Ashley said. “[Former teammates] always come over to see games, and it’s nice to see a familiar face in the crowd every now and then.”
Now that she has settled herself into Iowa State’s lineup and made her presence heard more on the bench than on the court this year, Ashley knows what she will need to do in or-der to see some minutes on the court next year.
“When she walked on, it was like most walk-ons,” said ISU coach Bill Fennelly. “Someone who would add something positive to this pro-gram, and maybe not at Hilton every day.”
Fennelly wanted someone who would add culture and at-mosphere to his band of play-ers, and that is what he found in Ashley.
Looking down the road to the 2013-14 season, Fennelly touched on where Ashley might find herself among the rest of the team.
“The skill set that Ashley has is she can make baskets,” Fennelly said. “And if you can make baskets and do the things we need you to do, you’ll find some time on the court.”
As Ashley approaches her senior season, she said she has an idea of where she wants her role to be at.
“Senior leadership: Show the freshmen the right things and teach them,” Ashley said. “Be the same, encourage and support.”
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With eight wins in its last 10 dual meets, the ISU wrestling team is feeling con-fident heading into next weekend’s
Big 12 Championships.This season, the Big 12s will take on a two-
pronged format — the new Big 12 dual champion-ships will be held on March 8, with the regular con-ference tournament taking place the next day.
Despite this additional day of competition, the Big 12 tournament will still be what determines which wrestlers will secure bids for the NCAA Championships in Des Moines. However, those au-tomatic qualifying bids have yet to be announced.
Oklahoma State (17-1, 3-0 Big 12)
The Cowboys are the obvious favorite to win the Big 12 title a year removed from getting ousted by Missouri, which now competes as an affiliate member of the Mid-American Conference after the school moved to the Southeastern Conference.
Until its loss to Minnesota in the championship match of the national duals last weekend, Oklahoma State had won 17-straight duals by an average mar-gin of 19.8 points per victory. Its closest victory had been a five-point squeaker against Cornell on Dec. 16 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
In all honesty, unless half of its lineup is miracu-lously stricken by injury, Oklahoma State will win the 2012-13 Big 12 title.
The addition of No. 3 Tyler Caldwell, who trans-ferred from Oklahoma following an Olympic red-shirt year, at 165 pounds only adds another favorite to win an individual Big 12 title for the Cowboys. As the Sooners’ 165-pounder, Caldwell placed fifth as a freshman in 2010 and second in 2011.
Other favorites for the Cowboys to win Big 12 titles include No. 6 Jon Morrison (133 pounds), No. 1 Jordan Oliver (149), No. 8 Alex Dieringer (157), No. 2 Chris Perry (174) and No. 2 Alan Gelogaev (Hwt).
Oklahoma (6-9, 2-1 Big 12)
The Sooners are having a down year in duals, hav-ing lost five-straight to end the regular season.
Losing Caldwell to in-state rival Oklahoma State was a big blow to the Sooners, but Bubby Graham has stepped up to earn the No. 5 ranking in the nation at 165 pounds. Graham, who is 20-3 this season with bonus points in eight of his wins, will certainly make things interesting at this year’s Big 12s.
The Sooners’ star wrestler is none other than Kendric Maple, the nation’s top-ranked wrestler at 141 pounds. Maple, who is 23-0 this season, settled for a fourth-place finish at nationals last season after getting beat in overtime in the semifinals and beat in two overtimes in the third-place match.
Iowa State’s Luke Goettl is 1-4 against Maple and even though he did pull off an upset in sudden victory last season, it is unlikely that there will be a repeat performance at Big 12s.
West Virginia (2-10, 0-3 Big 12)
The newest addition to the Big 12 has been the lackluster addition for wrestling tradition.
The Mountaineers have produced 29 All-Americans in their history compared to Oklahoma State (428), Iowa State (281) and Oklahoma (258).
West Virginia only has one ranked wrestler — No. 14 Nathan Pennesi at 141 pounds — so its expecta-tions are not too high.
But in a conference with only four teams, there’s always the possibility that a couple WVU wrestlers will steal automatic bids for NCAAs so don’t write that off, because you never know what could happen.
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Iowa State (35th place at 2012 NCAAs)
■ None
Oklahoma (13th)
■ 141 Kendric Maple (4th)
■ 149 Nick Lester (8th)
Oklahoma State (6th)
■ 133 Jordan Oliver (2nd)
■ 174 Chris Perry (3rd)
■ 197 Cayle Byers (3rd)
West Virginia (43rd)
■ None
2012 Big 12 All-Americans
File Photo: Iowa State DailyOklahoma State’s Jordan Oliver won his match at the Big 12 Championships on March 6, 2012 at Hilton Coliseum. Iowa State is preparing for the annual meet, which will take place in Des Moines this year.
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all too well and feels like this rematch is one that is always in the back of her mind.
“Once that game ended, we knew this one was a while down the road,” Prins said. “We told ourselves to tuck it at the back of our mind and remember what happened and just remember what we took from that game.”
Forward Hallie Christofferson, who finished with 18 points in the loss, also has the sense that the game at Kansas is still on everyone’s minds. She believes playing at home will make for an added boost of energy.
Christofferson credited the Jayhawks for not giving up in the first game.
“I don’t remember much about it, but we just kind of stopped playing, I guess,” Christofferson said. “They just
did not stop playing, and they kept their composure and just fought back until the end.”
Prins also feels her team learned a lot from seeing its 18-point lead evaporate in a span of just less than nine min-utes. It taught the team that it can’t let up until the game is decided.
That lesson has gone on to help Iowa State in almost all of its games since.
“This team is definitely unique, and we each bring something to this team and that’s really special,” Prins said.
“I think every game, we’ve been taking something from it, and Kansas is a team that they consistently, when they are down, can come back.”
Tipoff between the Cyclones and Jayhawks is slated for 7 p.m. on Wednesday at Hilton Coliseum. Iowa State will then have only two games remaining against TCU and Oklahoma State.
Where: Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa
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Notes: ■ Kansas holds a 45-28
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■ In five career games against Kansas, Hallie Christofferson is averag-ing 12.6 points and is shooting 70.6 percent from the field.
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If you can relate to any of these scenarios, then it is time to switch up your eating habits. Whether your goal is to eat healthy or to simply try something new, ISU Dining offers many easy and delicious alternatives to your dietary rut.
“The main thing is to be creative,” says Celia Bravard, a student manager at Seasons Dining Center.
Students who work at the dining halls have become pros when it comes to utilizing different sections of the dining center to make their meals unique.
Bravard enjoys topping her soups off with red pepper slices or shredded carrots from the salad bar.
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■ Substitute salad dressings like ranch with red wine vinegar, hummus or cottage cheese.
■ Add peanut butter, a sliced banana and a drizzle of chocolate to sweeten up tradi-tional oatmeal.
■ Top off your pasta with olive oil, Parmesan cheese, red pepper flakes and sprigs of parsley for a lighter take on traditional Alfredo sauce.
■ Replace the croutons on your salad with crunched-up pita chips.
■ Make your own trail mix with nuts, banana chips, dry cereal, M&Ms and raisins.
■ Combine soy milk, fresh fruit and yogurt in a cup. Mash it together with a spoon or fork to make your own smoothie.
■ Make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich out of your favorite type of jelly and take it to the deli to have it toasted to gooey perfection.
■ Top steamed vegetables with a drizzle of marinara sauce or a sprinkle of your favorite cheese.
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Buying groceries on a college bud-get can add up, especially those foods that are organically grown.
Many wonder if buying organic food is worth the cost.
“There is no proven nutritional and food safety difference,” said Angela Shaw, assistant professor of food science and human nutrition, about organic and conventionally grown foods.
“Someone would have to consume pounds and pounds of pesticides to pose a health risk,” Shaw says.
Although the difference isn’t prov-en regarding human health, many still would like to decrease their impact on the environment by buying organic foods.
Buying organic doesn’t have to mean breaking the bank.
Instead of buying an organic ver-sion of each item on your grocery list, spend your money where it really
counts — on organically grown fruits and vegetables and not on pre-pack-aged goods.
Pesticides are used during the growing process for produce, but those that are used on organic foods are natural and not synthetic, accord-ing to Shaw.
Foods that come with the official “USDA Organic” symbol aren’t grown with synthetic pesticides and don’t contain any chemical residues.
The Environmental Working Group, an organization invested in environmental health research and an advocate for healthier consumer products, published a “2012 Shoppers Guide to Pesticides in Produce” after they ran 51,000 tests on produce to determine residue levels.
While it doesn’t advocate for all fruits and vegetables to be bought organic, its “dirty dozen” list is com-prised of produce with the highest levels of pesticides.
The following produce might be the best options to purchase or-
ganically, if you can’t buy organic everything:
■ Apples
■ Celery
■ Sweet bell peppers
■ Peaches
■ Strawberries
■ Nectarines (Imported)
■ Grapes
■ Spinach
■ Cucumbers
■ Blueberries (domestic)
■ Potatoes
■ Green beans
■ Kale or greens
The Environmental Working Group also provides a “clean 15” list in which the fruits and vegetables listed contain the lowest pesticide content. This group of produce has less ex-posure to insects and often have an outer covering or peel that protects against pesticides, therefore farmers
don’t have to use as many pesticides on this group of produce, according to Shaw. If you’re on a budget, it may be worth it to buy the conventionally grown versions:
■ Onions
■ Sweet corn
■ Pineapples
■ Avocado
■ Cabbage
■ Sweet peas
■ Asparagus
■ Mangoes
■ Eggplant
■ Kiwi
■ Cantaloupe (domestic)
■ Sweet potatoes
■ Grapefruit
■ Watermelon
■ Mushrooms
Whether or not you choose to go organic, here are some other tips for buying organic food:
■ Buy seasonal organic foods. Local farmers’ markets will typically have seasonal produce that’s af-fordable and is guaranteed fresh.
■ Use coupons. Many organic companies will offer printable coupons on their website (or even Facebook!) so that you can save a little extra money when purchas-ing their products.
■ Don’t fall for organic junk foods. Just because pop has an organic label on it doesn’t mean that it is any healthier for you than regular carbonated beverages.
■ Look for generic brands. Many grocery stores now carry their own organic version of certain foods and they may cost less than their brand name counterparts.
■ Buy in bulk. Buying organic foods in a large quantity may actually save you money in the long run.
Many nonperishable organic foods have a long shelf life, and many fresh fruits and vegetables can be fro-zen for later use.
By Lindsay MacNab AmesEats Flavors writer
Buy organic on budget
Quick bites ISU Dining offers NetNutrition, a website developed to help students track calorie and nutrient values of foods provided in the din-ing halls and cafes located on campus.
NetNutrition receives anywhere from 1,500 to 2,000 hits a day.
“Students are definitely getting more conscious of eating healthy,” says Cameron Aisenbrey, a communication specialist with ISU Dining.
Although ISU Dining workers have noticed healthier eating trends, they also pick up on not-so-healthy eating trends.
“You can definitely tell when students are stressed out,” says Celia Bravard, a student manager at Seasons Dining Center. “They tend to eat more desserts, sugar, treats, and fried foods.”
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Photo illustration: Claire Powell/AmesEats FlavorsTo spice up your meals, add meats from the grill and fresh vegetables from the salad bar to your pasta or salad to utilize all of the selection available at on-campus dining halls.
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Megan Erickson has been surprised with several acts of kind-ness, a project now dubbed “Operation 32.”
Operation 32 is where one bride is picked to get a wedding dress and many other wedding essentials for free. Pure Bridal owners Rita Gartin and Kayse Carter decided to help Erickson with finan-
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Some ISU students will grab their significant others and travel to exotic locations for roman-tic getaways this Spring Break. However, for many students, the high costs of airplane tickets and gas will make them stay closer to home for their romantic getaways.
Luckily for them, there are many bed and breakfast locations in Iowa that will help cou-ples experience romance while also saving on travel expenses.
1. Mont Rest Inn
Adventurous couples don’t have to travel out of Iowa to get their adrenaline flowing. All they have to do is drive to Mont Rest Inn, located in Bellevue, Iowa on the Mississippi River, to in-vestigate a murder mystery.
Mont Rest Inn, which was built in 1893, of-fers couples the chance to become a character in a Agatha-Christie-type murder mystery. The murder mystery package includes dinner, breakfast, a room and, of course, a murder.
The inn offers 13 different rooms, ranging from $149 to $249 per night. There are private
cabins available as well.The murder mystery package costs $65 per
person plus the cost of a room, with a 12 percent sales and room tax.
In addition to the murder mystery package, Mont Rest Inn also offers several other pack-ages, like the riverboat excursion package, all grown up ladies pajama party, wedding and hon-eymoon packages, winter ski package and many more.
2. Designer Inn and Suites
Couples who enjoy going to themed par-ties will likely enjoy staying in a themed fan-tasy suite at Designer Inn and Suites, located in Toledo, Iowa.
Designer Inn and Suites offers guests seven different fantasy suites: aces wild, heart’s de-light, Roman retreat, rainforest, crystal cave, northern nights and Arabian nights. These rooms range from $99 to $139 per night.
Each fantasy suite was uniquely designed to fit the suite’s theme. For instance, the rainforest suite has trees, tiki torches and other jungle de-cor. Guests will also hear the sound of a cascad-ing waterfall in the rainforest suite.
Most of the suites feature round beds — aces wild and Roman retreat have king-sized beds and heart’s delight has a heart-shaped bed. Each fantasy suite also contains a television, whirl-pool bath and bar.
3. MonteBello Bed and Breakfast Inn
For couples who desire to go on romantic Mexican getaways yet still stay close to Iowa State — as in within Ames’ borders — they should check out and in to MonteBello Bed and Breakfast Inn.
Located two miles south of Iowa State, MonteBello Bed and Breakfast Inn was created to look and feel like a hacienda.
With its colorful flowers, walls and decor, MonteBello helps transport its guests from Ames to Mexico after only having stepped
through the inn’s doors.MonteBello offers five guest rooms: Tabasco,
Oaxaca, Chiapas, Veracruz and Yucatan. Each room was designed to represent the region for which the room was named.
Each guest room has a king-sized bed, ceil-ing fan, private bathroom with a shower and television. The rooms range from $105 to $125 per night.
In addition to guest rooms, MonteBello also has an entryway, sitting room, living room, din-ing room, kitchen, and patio and terraza.
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“Everyone was in tears; she was so surprised and overwhelmed with all of the gifts,” Carter said.
Erickson was offered these presents because of her kindness, after she anony-mously put down $100 for a stranger’s wedding dress.
Erickson came up with the idea because of Facebook.
While scrolling through her news feed she read Sarah Moore’s 31st birthday status.
Moore runs her own pho-tography studio in Boone. She wrote on Facebook on Dec. 7, 2012: “Today is MY BIRTHDAY and my birthday wish is for 32 of my facebook friends to ‘pay it forward’ to-day in some way then post it on my wall! Kindness is like a boomerang! Send some out today in honor of me instead of gifts! Can’t wait to see the creative ways you all can pay it forward!”
This status inspired more than 64 of Moore’s Facebook
friends, including Erickson.“Kindness is reciprocal,
and unwarranted kindness or being kind when you don’t have to be inspires people,” Moore said.
Friends of a soon-to-be bride can turn in letters, vid-eos, phone calls, etc., explain-ing why their friend deserves an almost-free wedding. Many ISU students getting engaged could benefit from Operation 32 at Pure Bridal.
Moore is very proud and happy for Erickson.
“I love when good things happen to people,” Moore said.
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Photo courtesy of rosefirerising/flickrMonteBello Bed and Breakfast Inn sits on a hill overlooking a lake in South Ames. The inn was designed to look like a hacienda, with Mexican art and decor inside the building.
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Taurus (April 20-May 20)Today is a 6 -- The pace is picking up. Turn your attention toward completing assignments today and tomorrow. Focus on the details, and you’ll be able to take on more work, if you so choose.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)Today is a 6 -- You’re beginning a generally lucky and cuddly phase. Don’t wait
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Cancer (June 21-July 22)Today is a 9 -- Take the lead, especially in your household. Some important decisions need to be made. Take one step at a time, and don’t sweat the small stuff.
Leo(July 23-Aug. 22)Today is an 8 -- Study all the angles today and tomorrow, and you’ll discover how valuable you are. You’re an information sponge now. Use your powers well.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Today is an 8 -- It’s not a good time to travel right now. Figure finances out. Make sure that you’ll make enough to pay expenses. A magnetic female appears onstage.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Today is a 9 -- You’re getting stronger and could have an impatient tendency. Your energy surges. Make sure you’re protected. Reject a far-fetched scheme in favor of a practical solution.
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Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)Today is a 7 -- Focus on your work, and solve problems as they arise with grace. Financial aspects are looking brighter after a long winter. Celebrate with friends later.
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