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Rand Paul, the Republican senator from Kentucky, spent his final hours in Iowa on Saturday reaching out to students at Iowa State, another indication he is considering a run for president in 2016.
Paul was at Hilton Coliseum during the first half of the men’s basketball game against Texas Tech, and then went next door to the Scheman building for the second half of the game. He spoke to students and answered ques-tions for about 20 minutes. He also posed for pictures with those in the packed room.
“I think liberty brings people together,” Paul said at the begin-ning of his remarks.
“If we want to have a move-ment of young people that say, ‘what I do on my cell phone is my own damn business, I want to keep government out of my affairs, out of what I do, govern-ment should only have the ability to look at my stuff if I’m accused of a crime.’ I think if members of [Young Americans for Liberty] bring that message to Iowa State,
I can come back and we’ll have 1,000 young kids here,” Paul add-ed, talking about privacy issues.
Paul has used the issue of civil liberties and privacy to bring young voters together. He men-tioned during the speech he was suing the Obama administration following the revelations sur-rounding the National Security Agency and its extensive spying program.
“I also think there is a great opportunity for us to reach out to new people who haven’t been interested in the Republican mes-sage, if we are the party that be-lieves in justice. We’re the party that believes you’re innocent until proven guilty,” Paul said.
Paul also mentioned he would oppose the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be the next attorney general, adding he has
issue with her position on civil forfeiture, the practice of law en-forcement seizing assets of people who have not been convicted of a crime.
Students in attendance were able to ask Paul questions follow-ing his remarks.
Robert Dunn, senior in ac-counting, asked Paul about con-stitutional issues at Iowa State. Dunn mentioned the free speech zone restricting First Amendment rights to a specific area, colleges restricting Second Amendment rights and student disciplinary policies that he says violate stu-dents’ Fourth Amendment rights.
“You don’t remember the clause in the First Amendment that says you have to stand over here to speak?” Paul joked, which drew laughter from the crowd.
Paul said the issue of speech
is a great issue to grow groups on campus, adding students should stand up for free speech rights and protest outside Iowa State’s “free speech zone.”
Brenden Maxwell, senior in history education, said he works at a school and has firsthand ex-perience with common core, the national education standards. Maxwell said he has a positive view of the standards, but can see why some would be skeptical of the program. He asked Paul what his alternative to the standards would be.
“I think that curriculum, and how we study and how we teach should be as decentralized as possible,” Paul said. “I don’t like a national curriculum, I don’t like the federal government doing it.”
The College of Business at Iowa State has added business analytics as a new program for both graduate and undergraduate students.
The Board of Regents ap-proved the program at its Thurs-day meeting.
The Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems decided to add business analytics as a degree because of the high demand for graduates who can work with big data.
This program will be offered at the graduate level as a masters in business analytics. For under-graduates, business analytics is an optional focus for both marketing and management information systems majors.
The concept of business ana-lytics is used to focus on how a business should analyze large amounts of data, practice risk management and find solutions for managerial problems associ-ated with data and statistics.
Raisbeck Endowed dean of the College of Business David Spalding said business analytics is the new competitive edge for companies that manage their data effectively.
“Businesses using these [ana-lytics] are gaining a real advantage in the marketplace. Amazon was
Mixing basketball and politics
Rand Paul visits Ames to speak, watch ISU game
Charlie Coffey/Iowa State DailyU.S. Sen. Rand Paul attended the ISU men’s basketball game against Texas Tech on Saturday. Paul gave a speech to students at the Scheman Building during the second half of the game. Paul is a potential candidate running for president in the 2016 election.
A new club has emerged on campus with one primary goal in mind — to promote awareness of adoption.
The Adoption Club at Iowa State is a new club trying to de-velop a voice on campus.
Diana Baltimore, lecturer in human development and studies and adviser for the club, was the one who inspired a few students to take initiative and start the group. A few ISU students started the process during the summer and officially became a club in the fall, starting with 25 members, ac-cording to the ISU clubs website.
“[Baltimore] talks about adoption in her classes and we just became really interested in it and so we decided to make a club,” said Megan Byson, senior in child, adult and family ser-vices and president of the club. “It was just something we threw out there, but then all of the sudden we were like, ‘why don’t we do it?’ And so we did.”
The Adoption Club is in pur-suit of getting the word out about adoption and to educate students on the issue.
“We really, mainly just [want to] get people to know what adop-tion is about and how really it’s a good thing because a lot of people
New club hopes to promote adoption awarenessBy [email protected]
Jenna Reeves/Iowa State DailyThe Iowa State Adoption Club’s adviser, Diana Baltimore, speaks about her experi-ences volunteering at an orphanage in South Korea. The club holds meetings on Thursdays at 8 p.m.
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Blake Lanser/Iowa State DailyTheta Chi fraternity hosted a sexual assault and domestic violence candle vigil Sunday night for students and faculty to reflect and offer support for survivors.
A large blank banner draped across a table sat outside the Sloss House, where people came baring candles in the cold to support those who have been a victim of sexual assault or domestic violence.
Members of the community were welcome to sign words of encouragement to victims on the banner — which has yet to be decided where to hang — at a silent reflection Sunday night.
“I knew I wanted it to be quiet and reflective,” said Brennan Goodman, senior in environmental science and health and safety chair for Theta Chi fraternity. “I didn’t want to do a lot of programming because that could come later. This is definitely the first step in promoting issues.”
Goodman attended a leadership conference, after which he was expected to give a speech on what he had learned. That’s when the idea for raising awareness on sexual assault and domestic violence issues clicked. As a chapter, he said they needed to bring focus on the issues at hand.
Goodman decided to run for the health and safety
Theta Chi fraternity shows support for sexual assault, domestic violence survivors
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ISU teams compete at home
M a n y I S U a t h l e t i c teams competed at home this weekend, including both men’s and women’s basketball and more. For photo galleries and the events, go online to the multimedia section of the Daily’s website.
Iowa State starts season 4-0
The ISU softball team started the season 4-0 at the Cyclone Indoor Invitational this weekend. To read more about the games and find out just what propelled the Cyclones to such a good start, check out the sports section of the Daily’s web-site.
Iowa State splits weekend
This year’s Cy-Hawk trophy was on the line Fri-day but the ISU tennis team failed to bring it back to Ames. The weekend did end on a high note with an ISU defeat of Utah State. To read the full story, go online to the sports section of the Daily’s website.
Silent reflection for sexual assault victims
Students from the The-ta Chi fraternity and other community members con-vened to hold a candlelight silent refl ection. After read-ing the story on the front page, watch a video of the event under the multime-dia section of the Daily’s website.
Mini musicals and juggling students were among the talents show-cased at the semi-finals of Varieties — a student talent show — this week-end.
Pairing “mini-musi-cals” that moved forward i n c l u d e : C a n d y l a n d ,
Whose Show is it Anyway, The Not So Storybook Ending and Trouble in Disney.
Mini-musicals are 18 to 20 minutes and are performed with original lyrics and choreography.
Vignettes, or shorter acts of random talent, are also welcome to perform acts.
A vignette consists of any talent that a student
has, including stand-up comedy, juggling, sing-ing, belly dancing and more.
Vignettes that moved forward include the Iowa State Juggling Club, Sean Diemer, Kimberly Woo and Abhi Pant.
The Varieties finals are scheduled from 4 to 11 p.m. Feb. 20 and 21 in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.
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Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Des Moines next week, the White House announced Friday afternoon.
Biden will travel to Des Moines on Thursday and speak about the ad-ministration’s economic agenda at Drake Univer-sity.
Biden will also visit a Des Moines Area Com-munity College and par-ticipate in a round table
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Biden’s trip comes as the Obama adminis-tration has been pushing for policies they say will benefi t the middle class, including tax cuts for the middle class paid for by the wealthy and two free years of community col-lege.
The trip, which will be Biden’s first to Iowa since he campaigned for candidates in the 2014 midterm elections, may fuel speculation that Biden is indeed consid-ering a run for president in 2016.
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Matthew Rezab/Iowa State DailyMoth orchids were a popular attraction at the fifth annual Orchid Fest, Saturday and Sunday at Reiman Gardens in Ames. The “Orchid Extravaganza” display marks the first time orchids have been displayed in the conservatory in 10 years. Hundreds of people showed up to the event.
Matthew Rezab/Iowa State DailySophia Moorman, 6, takes a photo in the conservatory during Orchid Fest on Sunday. The Central Iowa Orchid Society is based in Des Moines.
Orchid Fest brightens February bluesA smile bloomed on
6-year-old Sophia Moor-man’s face as she rushed toward the radiantly white moth orchid to take pic-tures with an iPhone ap-pearing impossibly large in her tiny hands.
Sophia and hundreds of others visited Reiman Gardens on Saturday and Sunday to celebrate the fifth annual Orchid Fest. The event featured dozens of unique breeds and hun-dreds of individual orchids for sale and viewing.
“It’s been over 10 years
since we had an orchid dis-play in our conservatory,” said Sara Merritt, educa-tion specialist at Reiman Gardens. “We’re calling it the “Orchid Extravaganza.”
There were several educational opportunities for Orchid Fest attendees, from Orchid Care 101 to the more advanced phalaenop-sis culture, moth orchids. The Central Iowa Orchid Society was also on hand to answer questions and give advice to orchid lovers.
R e i m a n G a r d e n s members were invited to a special preview Friday.
“ T h e t u r n o u t w a s great,” Merritt said. “We had 235 people show up
on Friday.”Don Haugen, presi-
dent of the orchid society, said he enjoys growing or-chids as a hobby and in-teracting with other orchid lovers.
“[Orchids] are great because of their diversity,” Haugen said. “It can be quite a challenge. Some are easy to grow, but some are nearly impossible to grow.
Haugen said orchids are special because differ-ent breeds can thrive in different climates. Orchids can be found anywhere from the top of the Andes [mountains] to the tropical rainforest.
His favorite orchid he
owns currently is a Masde-vallia orchid, more com-monly known as a Dracula orchid because the flower appears to have grown fangs.
“I like them because they’re strange, hard to grow and they’re fun,” Haugen said.
The Masdevallia usu-ally thrive at high elevation in cool climates, so Haugen devised a plan to keep his plants alive.
“I boarded up all the heat vents in the basement to keep it cool,” he said. “It’s pretty cold down there all the time now ... I’m not sure my wife likes it too much though.”
Carson Whitlow, vice president of the Central Iowa Orchid Society, said that while some orchids can be difficult to cultivate, beginners should not let that discourage them from trying.
Merritt echoed Whit-low. She said a lot of people are drawn to orchids be-cause they’re so beautiful, but caring for them can be tricky.
“The funny thing is that the prettier ones are actually easier to keep alive,” Whitlow said.
Whitlow, who has been taking care of orchids for decades, said the diversity of colors and breeds has
come a long way.“When I first started
collecting, we had white, pink and white with a pink lip. That was it,” Whitlow said. “Now we have just about any color you can think of.”
Whitlow and Haugen said the Central Iowa Or-chid Society is always hap-py to have new members.
The orchid society is based in Des Moines and has monthly meetings on the first Sunday of each month.
Anyone interested in joining can contact any member or go to www.c-we.com/cios/ for informa-tion.
Pi Beta Phi cares about literacy in the Ames com-munity.
The Pi Beta Phi Foun-dation awarded Raising Readers of Story County with the Special Impact G r a n t o n F e b . 2 i n t h e amount of $10,000.
Raising Readers is an organization dedicated to early literacy, communica-tion and learning, with an emphasis on low-income families in Ames.
For more than a de-cade, the organization has devoted time to provid-
ing families with reliable information and support when concerning effective literacy from birth to age eight. Raising Readers and Pi Beta Phi have been in as-sociation for several years with book donations, book distributions and now, the Special Impact Grant.
Mary Harken, exec-utive director of Raising Readers, said the $10,000 wi l l go toward Rais ing Readers’ Thrive to Five pro-gram, which focuses on the importance of reading and school readiness for chil-dren ranging from infants to age five.
“The grant would ad-vance the Thrive to Five
program with the hope of reaching even more fami-lies in poverty and bringing forth more tools to advance parent or caregiver and child-learning processes,” Harkin said. “For example, more take-home teach-ing exercises and even text message reminders to assist parents in keeping track of their children’s literacy growth.”
Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women is known for its commitment to promot-ing literacy nationally and locally.
The women have do-nated more than two mil-lion books through their p a r t n e r s h i p w i t h F i r s t
Book.T h e I o w a G a m m a
chapter of Iowa State col-lects children’s books an-nually during each sum-mer, donating what they have gathered to First Book, then First Book distributes the books to organizations that promote child literacy.
The Local Literacy Ini-tiative that was launched in 2010 gives Pi Beta Phi the opportunity to see the fruits of its labor by distrib-uting the book donations to organizations within the Ames community.
This year, Pi Phi re-covered 500 books, which were delivered to Raising Readers.
Allison Pitz, vice presi-dent of communication of Pi Beta Phi, said she be-lieves enthusiasm for read-ing must be sparked during the younger years.
“By empowering read-ing at an early age and get-ting children excited to read, we hope to impact their futures for the better,” Pitz said.
The women of Pi Beta Phi conducted an elemen-tary partnership program, coined Champions are Readers, which enables the members to read along-side students throughout the week. A total of 158 women schedule one-on-one readings with the stu-
dents for an hour to three hours each week during the course of six weeks at multiple Ames elementary schools.
C h a p t e r P r e s i d e n t Shelby Ullrich suggested the reason her chapter fo-cuses so heavily on get-ting kids passionate about reading is that literacy is fundamental for life and the foundation of learning.
“We really value edu-cation,” Ullrich said. “Lit-eracy is the building block for lives. It allows you to learn about yourself, one another, and other cul-tures. Overall, literacy is an important part of personal and intellectual growth.”
Pi Beta Phi awards $10,000 grant to early learning organization
chair because he initially wanted to focus on physi-cal health after the previ-ous year being dedicated to mental health. After previ-ous events in the commu-nity, he decided to change focus. Goodman has lead this program with some as-sistance from other mem-bers of the fraternity.
“I think it was really good to show that the greek community here at Iowa State, as well as the larger Iowa State community as a whole, are very up in arms about supporting survivors of sexual assault or domes-tic violence,” said Dillon Bechtol, junior in communi-cation studies and interna-tional studies and president of Theta Chi.
Overall, Bechtol said it was easy to put the event together. After filling out registration and getting it approved with the Office of Greek Affairs as well as the authorization company, the group’s greatest challenge was getting the word out.
But, Bechtol and Goodman said they were content with the turnout on such short notice.
“We didn’t want to put a specific time cap on [the event] just because we want people to be free to come and go as they pleased,” Bechtol said.
Goodman said that the event was not a result of the sexual assault inci-dents that have occurred recently, however, it could have inspired the idea. Sig-ma Alpha Epsilon was not able to attend the event, but members were reached out to individually.
Bechtol said he believes it’s important to show the rest of the community that a vast majority of students are against these acts and show that opposition by showing support for survivors.
He said the actions of a few do not define a group as a whole.
“The Iowa State com-munity has really been un-der a microscope when it comes to these issues and how they have been handled
in the past,” Bechtol said. “I know there will be more programs like these coming out in short order.”
G o o d m a n s a i d h e hopes that members of the community would walk away with a deeper under-standing.
“We are not here to solve the issue,” Goodman said. “We all need to be here and support the victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.”
Multiple people ap-proached Bechtol and Good-man about their excitement for the event. Bechtol said people who could not at-tend reached out via Face-book and text message, but wished their best.
“It was heartwarming for me to hear everyone’s support and show that all of us are like-minded when it comes to these issues,” Bechtol said.
Goodman said some fraternity members want to make this an annual event. He explained that these is-sues were so prevalent espe-cially in the college-student
age demographic.“I don’t think you could
beat the atmosphere of to-night,” Goodman said. “It’s calm and reflective. Just hav-ing this at the same time next year I think would go a long way.”
Other members of the greek community attended in support.
“It’s terrible to hear sto-ries of how people have to suffer through that when it’s not even their fault,” said Angelo Madonia, fresh-man in public relations and member of Theta Delta Chi. “It’s super important to get the word out so people know it’s real.”
Another date is being considered for a second chance to sign the banner to involve more people. This event was the first of more future outreach opportuni-ties.
“We just wanted to make a showing that indi-viduals who commit those acts don’t represent our values,” Bechtol said. “We don’t stand for those kinds of issues.”
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Paul added that he was against “No Child Left Be-hind,” does not want the federal government making educational decisions and also does not want teachers being judged by Washing-ton.
“Nobody in Washing-ton knows who is a good teacher here in Ames,” Paul said.
Kevin Corbett, senior in finance, asked Paul about education, as well, but fo-cused on the issue of stu-dent loans and debt.
“I’m very aware of the problem. I’ve got two kids in college. [I know] how much it costs and how a lot of people end up with a lot of loans,” Paul said. “Then when they get out, the jobs
don’t pay adequately, so they’re stuck with these large loans.”
Paul talked about the price of education and healthcare rising rapidly compared to almost any-thing else, saying it may be because the government subsidizes demand.
“We give people a lot of money,” Paul said. “Pell-grants, loans. We are push-ing people to go to college because college is a good thing, and I agree, I think college is a good thing. But when you stimulate the de-mand, the price goes up.”
Paul’s stop in Ames wrapped up a two-day trip to the state. He spoke at an “Audit the Fed” rally in Des Moines on Friday. Along with a private fundraiser in Ames, Paul attended a meet
and greet with U.S. Rep. Rod Blum, R-Iowa, on Saturday.
The event was spon-sored by RANDPAC, Paul’s Super PAC. Staffers handed out free iPhone cases with Rand’s logo and passed around iPads to get stu-dent’s emails and allow them to volunteer.
Paul’s latest trip is his first of 2015 as he ponders running for president in the 2016 election.
“I think [Rand] is a Re-publican that can [attract] both sides, like the younger generation. He can get inde-pendents and anyone who is on the edge on whether they want to vote Republi-can or Democrat,” Corbett said in an interview after Paul’s question and answer session.
Jake Dagel, the Iowa
field coordinator for Turn-ing Point USA, a student organization advocating for fiscal responsibility, free markets and limited govern-ment, said young people like what they see in Paul.
“I think people on both side of the aisle are looking for a non-traditional can-didate.” Dagel said. “We’ve ran traditional candidates the past few years and no one has ever been as ex-cited.”
Paul’s trip arrived after a recent Iowa poll from the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics showed Paul second among likely caucus voters, only one point behind Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
“I think a lot of peo-ple are excited about Rand Paul,” Dagel added.
have a negative stereotype on adoption,” Byson said. “So we really want to make it a positive thing and get more people involved.”
The club held its first ever meeting Thursday by bringing in two speakers to talk about their experiences of traveling to orphanages in four different countries across the world.
“We really wanted to kick off this semester and get a lot people involved,” Byson said.
Taylor Hudson, senior in child, adult and family services, and Katie Dahm, senior in journalism and m a s s c o m m u n i c a t i o n , shared their experiences of
volunteering in orphanages in Indonesia, India, Peru and Tanzania.
“I think it humbled us a lot and it made us realize what’s important and a lot of emotions — sad, happy, nervous, scared. You would have those emotions in one day,” Hudson said. “It kind of fulfilled both of us be-cause we knew something was missing in our college career.”
Lauren Perila, senior in early childhood education, attended the meeting and expressed how much she enjoyed the presentation done by Hudson and Dahm.
“I loved it. It really de-picted like each site that they had gone to and it was cool to see, it was personal
and it showed a lot of the kids and locations are really cool,” Perila said.
Hudson said she is ex-cited to be involved with the Adoption Club at Iowa State.
“I think it’s awesome for kids at Iowa State Uni-versity who have been ad-opted or for kids that are passionate about it so I think it hits all those dif-ferent spectrums,” Hudson said.
Hudson said she would like to see the club hold events to raise money and awareness about adoption.
“I will like to see us kind of dive in for some causes, whether it’s for the national center for adoption, a lot of fundraising, raise aware-
ness, we’d be surprised how often everyone is tied to adoption,” Hudson said.
Byson said she has high hopes for the club and hopes the education aspect can provide ISU students with the information they need to think about pos-sibly becoming adoptive parents in the future.
“I really hope people will just learn that adoption is a really cool thing. And that those kids, they really need a home and that they really need someone to care for them,” Byson said. “I just hope that people will be more involved and see that adoption is a positive thing and that more people will want to be adoptive parents in the future.”
one of the first, they’re us-ing them to generate sales,” Spalding said. “It’s an effort to deal with the tremendous amount of data coming out of businesses today.”
Iowa State hired 12 fac-ulty members in the Col-leges of Business, Vet-Med, Engineering and Liberal Arts and Sciences to instruct courses in business analyt-ics with the expectation of hiring six more instructors.
The program includes courses in marketing, com-puter science, computer en-
gineering and statistics that will be taught in a “blended course” method, new to the university as professors will provide synchronous and asynchronous courses online.
The University of Iowa requested a similar degree at the regents meeting. A cooperative effort between the two universities allows a student enrolled in the one program to take up to nine credits of approved courses in the other pro-gram to count as credits in the student’s home univer-sity, according to the Board
of Regents agenda item.Danny Johnson, asso-
ciate dean of undergraduate programs, described what synchronous and asynchro-nous courses are and how graduates will be involved in these online courses.
“Asynchronous cours-es are traditional online courses where a professor is not present,” Johnson said. “Synchronous online courses are when the pro-fessor is live in front of a camera while students are behind the cameras of their computers.”
Although Spalding said
online courses will be the most used medium of com-munication, students will meet one week at the be-ginning, middle and end of the prospective 21-month graduate program for a three-credit course.
The synchronous and asynchronous courses give the graduates experience as working professionals. On the other hand, the week-long and in-person meet-ings give the students op-portunities to build cohorts as teams and develop rela-tionships to solve analytic concerns.
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A tectonic shift is occurring in American politics. The old guard of the Demo-
cratic Party will soon be far too ancient to contest an election. This creates serious problems for the party once 2016 passes. It’s obvious that Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden will soon an-nounce their candidacy, but who will fill the ranks when they’re gone?
It’s important to know that there was once a socially con-servative generation deemed “The Greatest Generation.” These, the heroes of Anzio and Guadalcanal, gave birth to a litter of selfish creatures called “baby boomers.” The baby boomers soon colonized com-munal settlements known as colleges. Yes, it was here in this garden of earthly delight that millions of children sowed the seeds of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, which would destroy our civilization.
This is the cultural revolu-tion that most prominent dem-ocrats belong. Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are all remnants of that era. The ‘60s revolutionaries were fierce and brazen because liberalism was brazen during that time period. But now, times have changed. Liberalism predominates and modern Democrats are left with nothing to rebel against. The revolution has ended and the time of the milquetoast liberal has begun.
In her youth, Hillary Clin-ton dipped her hands in the blood of the revolution that uprooted our Christian society. She and her contemporaries were fanatical, and their fa-naticism helped turn them into popular politicians. Indeed, I challenge any reader to produce an example of a new Democrat-ic face that could compete with Hillary. There is no competition even among her own cohort.
It is my firm belief that in two years we’ll have another Clinton in the White House. “Uncle” Joe Biden is the only other serious contender for the Democratic nomination. According to polling data, Hill-ary runs 40 points ahead of her nearest Democratic competitor in the state of Iowa. If one sup-poses, as I do, that Republicans cannot win a national majority in 2016, then there’s no way she can lose. But what happens after she’s gone?
The Republicans have time on their side. While the Demo-cratic lower ranks are barren, the Republicans have no short-age of rising stars. Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio and Joni Ernst will all be around for decades to come. Though none of these people stand much of a chance against Hillary, they may sweep the field in the 2020s. Where is the new generation of democratic leaders who will stand against them?
We caught a glimpse of the future last fall. The Republi-cans swept congress because Democratic resistance was so feeble. The Iowa race was a great example. Leaving poli-tics aside, Ernst was infinitely more interesting than Bruce
Braley. A motherly war veteran who packs a gun in her purse faced a sort of awkward-looking white guy. And Democrats ran awkward candidates across the entire country.
The difference between the parties is quite profound. Conservatives hate their es-tablishment, and wait like hy-enas around a dying elephant for its departure. Democrats have nothing but an establish-ment. What will happen when the Bruce Braleys of this world inherit the party? The Demo-cratic tribe does a very good job at stirring itself up into a wild frenzy during presidential campaigns, but will the tribe be so inspired when its champions
are gone?Well, that’s the future, what
about the present? In 2016, Re-publicans will probably commit election suicide as usual. They run elections so poorly that I’ve come to believe they actually enjoy losing. If Jeb Bush gets the nomination, then the election is as good as over. They’ll split the conservative vote among four or five minor candidates and allow a liberal Republican like Bush to take the nomination. Most true conservatives would rather be hit by a train than vote for Jeb Bush.
Liberals have the habit of not turning out in mid-term elections. With the Democratic warrior queen leading them
into battle, turn out will not be a problem in 2016. Republicans may have youthful candidates on their side, but the culture is not. It goes without saying that our country is now center-left. The new liberal majority has many members in the GOP wanting to shift left. This adds another incentive to run a sui-cidal candidate like Jeb Bush.
Though the culture war ended many years ago, the cul-ture warriors survived. Cun-ning, ruthlessness and cruelty hoisted them to the top. It’ll be a different society when they’re gone. Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech will almost certainly be the last gurgling bubbles of a sinking ship.
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IOWA STATE DAILY
OPINION 5Monday, Feb. 9, 2015
The president’s proposed budget has stirred up a lot of controversy — none of it is un-expected as the entire debate has fallen along the usual party lines.
As the budget gets torn apart in the coming weeks, I would urge Iowa legislators to salvage one aspect of it that I
know can benefit our country — free community college. I understand the idea of anything being free will rub some the wrong way, but the benefits far outweigh the costs.
The fact that we need to address is that a high school diploma is no longer enough to earn a middle-class income. In order to create more jobs that can adequately support American families, we need to broaden access to higher educa-tion. More people with better
educations and better-paying jobs means a broader tax base with more substantial revenue streams. This means that if our leaders can be men and women of vision and think beyond the short-term costs, this measure could actually help reduce the deficit.
America has a staggering $1.2 trillion in student debt. This is money that is tying up capital, weighing down our youth and is a deadweight loss for our economy. We cannot
afford to allow this number to continue to balloon out of control, and this policy would go a long way toward guaran-teeing future generations can get good jobs without crippling themselves with debt.
The question our leaders need to ask themselves is not how can we afford this bill, but rather how can we not? Too much is at stake to let petty par-ty rivalries jeopardize a measure that would mark a resurgence of the American middle class.
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Community college program is necessaryBy Josh Kublie,senior in economics and political science
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Columnist rogers believes hillary Clinton will win the 2016 presidential elction, but he also thinks the democratic party will eventually begin to lose steam to the up-and-coming popular young conservatives in america.
At the Government of the Student Body meeting Wednesday, the Senate approved to send a resolution to the university administration, asking the members to ban the use of electronic cigarettes and all other nicotine deliv-ery systems from campus. The Senate said it was for preventative measures because there aren’t enough studies that show e-cigarettes do or do not in-flict direct harm on others who are not using the device.
Nathan Davis, senior in food sci-ence, and the Health Promotion Club presented information at the last GSB meeting that he and the club obtained by doing a survey of Story County resi-dents to hear their views on e-cigarettes. While some members expressed con-cern with how harmful they thought e-cigarettes were, no one from the survey was actually an ISU student, according to Davis.
The fact there isn’t conclusive evi-dence to say, “yes or no, e-cigarettes are harmful to others,” is the exact reason the university should not ban them from campus.
Some members shared experiences of students smoking e-cigarettes in class and they found it to be very distracting. Senate members took those stories into consideration when deciding their pro-posal for the university administration. However, the cases of a few students should not be the end to an uninformed decision to ban e-cigarettes on campus.
While there should be a certain restriction from smoking e-cigarettes in classrooms or even in buildings, why should a student be banned from smok-ing his or her e-cigarette while walking across Central Campus or waiting for a bus outside of the Memorial Union? Just because we are unsure about the potential risks of something does not mean we should make hasty decisions to recommend restricting students from partaking in the activity.
Technology has made insurmount-able advancements in the past 20-25 years, e-cigarettes being one of them. When the electronic email first came out, the fear of mail being lost, hacked and viruses uploaded into the emails were, and still are, very much alive. When eHarmony made its debut, peo-ple were, and still are, concerned about being catfished by an anonymous per-son on the other side of the keyboard. Yet here we are with those two mediums not banned from society. And while email and eHarmony are very broad and larger-scale topics than e-cigarettes on campus, we cannot make the decision to ban a material when we don’t know enough about it and claim it’s “a pre-ventative measure.”
If it is found through scientific research that e-cigarettes are dan-gerous and prove a risk to others, as traditional cigarettes do, then the ban should indeed be proposed. However, to preemptively restrict the freedoms of citizens without sufficient evidence of danger is not in line with the American way of life. Nor is it the responsibility of GSB to decide what is best for students in absence of evidence or facts.
GSB shouldnot restrict students’ freedoms so soon
Iowa State DailyThe GSb Senate approved a resolution to ban the use of electronic cigarettes on campus. The resolution has now been sent to university administration for approval of the ban.
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SPORTS6 Monday, Feb. 9, 2015
The ISU basketball team is set to play two games in three days for the third time in as many weeks.
After defeating Texas Christian on Jan. 31, Iowa State was rewarded with one day off before a quick turnaround at the toughest venue in the Big 12, Allen Fieldhouse.
The prize for defeat-ing Texas Tech in historic fashion Saturday is a trip to Norman, Okla. for a nation-ally televised bout with the surging Sooners.
No. 11 Iowa State (17-5, 7-3 Big 12) will square off against No. 21 Okla-homa (16-7, 7-4 Big 12) on Monday. The game will be broadcasted on ESPN’s Big Monday showcase and will be Iowa State’s fourth appearance on national television in a 23-day span.
ISU coach Fred Hoi-berg has lauded the numer-ous opportunities for coast-to-coast exposure several times, which disperse Iowa State’s basketball message in a method that tran-scends mere words. He added that competitively and strategically, the Satur-day/Monday game-format cuts both ways.
“What that provides you is an opportunity to practice for three days lead-ing into your next game and make corrections,” Hoiberg said. “That’s the one benefit of playing the Saturday/Monday games, especially when you’re playing a team for the sec-ond time.”
The added recovery and preparation time Iowa State was afforded after its 13-point loss to Kan-sas helped the Cyclones avenge a 2-week-old defeat via a 37-point rout of the Red Raiders.
The fl ip side is that less than 48 hours after Iowa State held Texas Tech to
only 38 points, the lowest total a conference oppo-nent has mustered against the Cyclones since 1967, the Cyclones will take the court for the fi rst time this season against a ranked OU team riding a four-game Big 12 winning streak.
“The difficult thing about Oklahoma is they run a million sets and they run a million different ac-tions and they have a lot of quick hitters,” Hoiberg said. “So this one will be a tough one.”
Iowa State is 2-3 in true road games this season and 2-2 in neutral site con-tests, including one win against Drake (7-17) in Des
Moines. The elements of short
preparation time and Okla-homa’s complicated of-fense, combined with Iowa State’s 4-5 mark outside of Hilton, add a precarious-ness to the team’s upcom-ing road test.
Iowa State currently sits alone in second place in the Big 12 standings despite a 1-3 road record against conference oppo-nents.
An OU win against the Cyclones would fl ip the two teams in the Big 12 stand-ings, bumping Iowa State to third and boosting Okla-homa into second place, which Hoiberg said would add incentive enough on its own.
“You’re going to have to win some road games if you want to stay in the upper half of this league,” Hoiberg said. “I t ’s too good.”
However, about 30 minutes after the Cyclones defeated the Red Raiders, a little extra incentive fell into their laps in the form of an upset.
A cheer erupted from the ISU locker room as Oklahoma State toppled conference front-runner — No. 8 Kansas — in Stillwa-ter, Okla. The outcome cut the Jayhawks’ Big 12 lead on Iowa State to one game and opened a door for the Cyclones to play their way back into contention for a regular-season title.
“We’ve got eight games left. You can’t keep going back every two or three games and [say], ‘oh well, we didn’t do this [in] this game. We need another learning experience. We need to learn from this,’” Hoiberg said. “You can’t have that the second half of the conference season.”
Guard Naz Long said that the circumstances force focus and that the key for Iowa State to unlock its second Big 12 road win of the season will be con-sistency of preparation and perspective.
“[We’ll] just do the dai-ly routine and we’ll head out to Oklahoma and play a great team,” Long said. “On to the next.”
Charlie Coffey/Iowa State DailyJunior guard Naz Long dunks the ball during the ISU men’s basketball game against Texas Tech on Saturday. The Cyclones defeated the Red Raiders 75-38. The team’s next game is against Oklahoma on Monday.
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T h e I S U g y m n a s t s were presented with haunt-ingly comparable scenarios as they faced at the Metro-plex Challenge on Jan. 31 in Fort Worth, Texas, yet the outcomes were strikingly different.
T h e I S U g y m n a s t s competed against LSU, Ar-kansas and Oklahoma at the Metroplex Challenge.
Fueled by sharper rou-tines and perfected details, the Cyclones responded to their minor slump with s c o r e s o f 1 9 5 . 6 7 5 a n d 195.775 during their pair of meets against Oklahoma (9-0, 2-0 Big 12) on Friday and Centenary on Sunday (1-6, 0-0 SCAC), respec-tively.
Although Iowa State (2-7-1, 0-2-1 Big 12) fell to Oklahoma, a team that posted a season-high score of 198.100, in the first of two meets this weekend, it uti-lized difficult circumstanc-es to exhume higher scores it had earlier achieved to defeat Centenary, instead of succumbing to the hands of adversity.
“Instead of letting the dominoes continue to fall, [the ISU gymnasts] focused on themselves and what they are in control of,” said ISU gymnastics coach Jay Ronayne. “You can’t con-trol that somebody fell.”
As they did last week-e n d i n t h e M e t r o p l e x Challenge, the Cyclones
squared off against No. 1 Oklahoma, presenting the ISU gymnasts with a sig-nificant obstacle. In the first instance in Fort Worth on Jan. 31, the Cyclones re-sponded with their second-lowest score of the 2015 season on the floor exercise to begin the meet. This, in a metaphorical sense, pushed the first domino in a series that eventually led to a season-low score of 193.400.
However, in this in-stance, the gymnasts on the team responded with a season-high 48.950 score on the vault Friday, only to turn around and surpass the number Sunday against Centenary with a score of 49.025.
“[Success on the open-ing event] helps us know that we are in it to win it that day,” said freshman Kelsey Paz. “It just gives a lot of energy to everyone.”
The next and most sig-nificant set of dominoes in the sequence at the Me-troplex Challenge were the multiple falls on the bal-ance beam.
After sophomore Al-lie Hansen fell during her routine, the next two ISU competitors, junior Sam-mie Pearsall and freshman Haylee Young, followed suit with missteps of their own.
Against Oklahoma, the situation was setting itself up similarly as Pears-all again fell on her rou-tine. However, this time around, the following two
gymnasts, Young and ju-nior Alex Marasco, posted scores of 9.775 and 9.875 — leading to a combined score of 49.075, a 1.600 point improvement from the previous meet.
The Cyclones seemed to have sent the dominoes in the opposite direction than how they fell at the Fort Worth Convention Center Arena.
“ W e h a n d l e d l i t t l e mishaps here and there way better than we did last weekend,” said senior Caitlin Brown. “We were working backwards for the past couple meets, and now we’re working back forwards.”
Not only did the Cy-clones significantly en-hance their scores, im-proving from an average of 194.125 during the past two meets to an average of 195.725 during the pair of competitions this weekend, but also individual scores ran the gamut of improve-ment as the weekend saw 14 new career-high scores for a combined nine differ-ent Cyclones.
Iowa State recognized the difficulties set before them and used them to, in a sense, put the train back on the tracks, spurred on by the culmination of various individual efforts.
“It feels amazing [to post high scores again] be-cause I know how much potential this team has and I know that we can do even better,” Young said. “We’re just getting started.”
To say it was a slow start for the ISU women’s basketball team would be an understatement.
In fact, the first four minutes of play against West Virginia on Saturday brought a combined 1-of-12 shooting from the field for both teams.
But after a big second-half run and a strong defen-sive showing, Iowa State (15-7, 6-5 Big 12) was fi-nally able to break a three-game losing skid, earning a convincing 61-43 win against West Virginia (14-9, 4-7 Big 12).
“We needed this win really bad,” said senior guard Brynn Williamson. “Coach really said in the locker room that this didn’t save our season, but it gave us a little bit of breathing room. It’s nice to know that we’re kind of getting back on track and we’re able to score and guard people the right way.”
It took the Cyclones a little more than four min-utes to get on the score-board to start the game, but the offensive woes didn’t stop there. Both Iowa State and West Virginia would go minutes at a time without getting a bucket to fall early on, making for a pretty slow first half.
One Cyclone was able to pull the team out of its first-half funk, however. Senior Fallon Ellis strung together a run at the end
of the half, coming up with five straight points heading into the break.
“I always see my role as helping my other team-mates out, helping them score,” Ellis said. “I think tonight was a night that I kind of did both. Going into this game, I didn’t expect to score a lot, but I did. I went out there and did what I was supposed to do, and I think that’s kind of what we needed.”
E l l i s ’ r u n w a s n o t short-lived, either. The Cyclones opened up the second half on a 17-3 run, holding the Mountaineers scoreless for the first seven minutes of the half.
When the team was in the locker room, head coach Bill Fennelly had a simple message for the team, and Williamson took it to heart.
“They just wanted to see someone flat out make a shot,” Williamson said. “We talk about it all the time that we don’t need a bunch of shooters on
our team, we need a lot of makers. Some nights the ball doesn’t fall, but for me, I look at it if my shot is not falling, there are other things I can do to help my team. Tonight, that was defense.”
In the days prior to the game, one of the main focal points for the team was its
defense. Fennelly had seen that as an area of struggle in the past, even crediting some of the team’s recent losses to poor defense.
He saw a big change, however, during the game against West Virginia.
“Whatever game plan you have, when it goes sort of right, you look pretty good,” Fennelly said. “I thought defensively, es-pecially the first five, six
minutes of the second half we were really good. We made them do things that we felt we needed to make them do.”
Now with another win under their belt, the Cy-clones are sitting in third place in the Big 12 Confer-ence. With only a month left in the season, Fennelly knows how important a win like this one can be, especially with the confer-
ence race being so close.“It doesn’t save your
season, but it probably got us off life-support for a couple days,” Fennelly said. “When you’re the team that doesn’t lose, somebody gets another loss. In our league, that’s a big deal, because we’re all playing each other. No matter who you beat, you gain on someone, and we did that tonight.”
Korrie Bysted/Iowa State DailySenior forward Brynn Williamson fights for the ball during the ISU women’s basketball game against West Virginia on Saturday. Iowa State won the game 61-43 and snapped its three-game losing streak.
Second-half run pushes ISU past West VirginiaBy [email protected]
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICAL LEADERS
Iowa State• NikkiMoody:14points,3rebounds,10assists• BrynnWilliamson:11points,9rebounds,1as-sist
• FallonEllis:11points,2rebounds• SeannaJohnson:10points,11rebounds,2assists
West Virginia• JessicaMorton:14points,1rebound,1assist• BriaHolmes:13points,6rebounds,2assists• AvereeFields:8points,7rebounds,2assists
TEAM STATISTICS
Iowa State• FG—18-46(39.1%)
• 3-PointFG—8-24(33.3%)
• FreeThrows—17-22(77.3%)
• Turnovers—15
West Virginia• FG—17-58(29.3%)
• 3-PointFG—4-17(23.5%)
• FreeThrows—5-10(50%)
• Turnovers—17
Sam Greene/Iowa State DailyFreshman Kelsey Paz leaps into the air during her floor routine against Oklahoma on Friday. Iowa State finished with a combined team score of 195.675 against Oklahoma and 195.775 against Centenary on Sunday.
Difference in response spurs improvement for ISU gymnasts against Oklahoma, Centenary
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