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Week’s Worth Week’s WatchLast week’s newsworthy stories Things to look for this week
2 | IN THE NEWS | Iowa State Daily | Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Preseason awards listsISU running back Aaron Wimberly was named to the Hornung Award watch list, which is given annually to the nation’s most versatile player. Wimberly’s teammate, tight end E.J. Bibbs, was named to the John Mackey Award watch list, given annually to the best tight end. To see what qualified Wimberly and Bibbs for their awards, head to iowastatedaily.com.
Season ticket sell outFor the first time in program history, ISU basketball has sold out of its season tickets. However, fans who bought season tickets for the 2013-14 season need not worry yet. Find out more at iowastatedaily.com.
ISU football staff hiresOn July 7, it was announced that former quarterback Brett Bueker would be joining the ISU football staff as a part of the strength and conditioning coaching staff. Joining Bueker as a strength and conditioning coach is Adam Potts, who most recently worked as a member of the strength and conditioning staff at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
SesquicentennialAmes celebrated its 150th birthday last week. Check out iowastatedaily.com for cover-age including a photo gallery of the sesquicentennial celebration and fireworks on July 3 and the Independence Day parade on July 4.
Jack Hatch visits AmesIowa gubernatorial candidate Jack Hatch came to Olde Main Brewing Company to in-troduce his running mate Monica Vernon and talk about his platform. Find out more at iowastatedaily.com.
Sigma Chi demolitionThe Sigma Chi fraternity began demolition of its house July 8. It will be building a new $3.55 million house that will be open by fall 2015. Check iowastatedaily.com for more details.
LegaCYA series of statues of the ISU mascot Cy are being sponsored by various Ames busi-nesses. One of which, named LegaCY, is modeled after Jack Trice, the namesake of Iowa State’s football stadium and the first black football player at Iowa State. Check out more at iowastatedaily.com.
YMCA Capital City LeagueThe YMCA Capital City Basketball League resumes July 9 in Des Moines. The semi-finals begin July 11, with the championship that night at 7:15 p.m. Check in with the iowastatedaily.com to see how the playoffs pan out.
New art exhibitsTwo new art exhibits are open inside the Memorial Union. Check back for details on where the new art comes from and what inspired the artists at iowastatedaily.com.
Landscape architectureLandscape architecture students at Iowa State created decompression areas for em-ployees during shift changes at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women. Check out iowastatedaily.com this week for more details.
Iowa GamesThe first summer Iowa Games weekend will begin July 11. Olympic-style events for Iowa athletes will take place throughout the month of July in Ames. Watch for coverage on iowastatedaily.com this month.
Final recommendationThe Veishea Task Force is expected to submit its final recommendation to President Steven Leath on July 11. The report was originally due June 30 but Tom Hill, se-nior vice president for student affairs, requested additional time to finalize the recommendation.
Biorenewables artThe art installation inside the Biorenewables Building is being built into the atrium of the new building. The piece is by Ralph Helmik and is named Floating World. Check iowastatedaily.com for details later this week.
NJDC conclusionThe National Junior Disability Championships, taking place in Ames and on Iowa State’s campus, will conclude July 11. The event began July 5 and provides an opportu-nity for athletes ages 7 to 21 who have met Disabled Sports Organization’s qualifying standards to compete in Olympic-style sports.
The Iowa Masters golf tournamentThe Veenker Memorial Golf Course will host the 77th annual Iowa Masters golf tour-nament July 11 to 13. The tournament is an invite-only amateur competition and is a World Amateur Golf Rankings event.
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Faces of Iowa State
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Adam Schwartz is the new director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory. Schwartz was a materials scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California before he came to Iowa State and has done research with plutonium aging.
Can you take us through what a typical day is like as a director for the U.S. Department of Energy?
I start off by coming in early. I like to come in usually by 7 a.m. and some mornings I don’t even turn the lights on because the sun is coming in and it’s so beautiful. On cloudy days, I kind of have to turn the lights on and I take the first little bit of time before others come in to catch up on emails and communi-cations that have come in from the night before, and a lot of this is maybe requests from the Department of Energy headquarters from Washington — or for exam-ple, this week we’re prepar-ing for national laboratory directors council meeting which is [July 15] and [16]. One exciting thing about being the national labora-tory director is that you get to have the ear of the sec-retary of energy and this is the opportunity for the na-tional lab directors to meet
w i t h the sec-retary and provide com-ments and feed-back about where the national laboratories are and where we should be going, so next week is the lab directors will just get together and prepare for the meeting two to three weeks later with the sec-retary of energy, so I take some time in the morn-ings to think while it’s still quiet and get the thoughts together. Most of my days so far have been out and about meeting people, so I will spend some time on campus particularly over in Beardshear. Yesterday, I met with President Leath and we talked about my first month on the job, any sort of issues I’ve been hav-ing, the vision for the labo-ratory and how the lab can help the university and how the university can help the
laboratory and other parts of the day we will meet with Ames lab ex-ecutive council.
How long has it been since becoming director?
[I] started a month ago and my first week we had a very exciting ground break-ing. The sensitive instru-ment facility will be a new building on the applied sciences complex — it’ll be the first new building in Ames Lab history in about 21 years and first new re-search building in over 50 years. The idea is we will do a lot of materials research, synthesis and processing and an extensive amount of characterization.
When do you estimate should this building be
ready?Planning by summer
of 2015. The rains have slowed us down a bit.
How do you think the new laboratory will im-pact Iowa State in science and technology?
There is an outstand-ing department on the uni-versity campus of materials science and engineering. Having access to state of the art equipment means we will be training students in top of the line charac-terization and the research being done both at univer-sity and here will be that much better because of the equipment that we will be bringing in.
Aside from science, what do you enjoy doing
in your free time?Being with family.
We love the outdoors, so hikes and walks with the dog, looking forward to exploring parts of central Iowa and branching out. This weekend, we’re think-ing about going to Ledges State Park, but I’ve been warned the lower part of the ledges may not be open because of the flooding lately. Personally, when I have time and after some transitional period here in Iowa, I build both electric and acoustic guitars.
Do you like to play guitars too?
Ha, well given the choice of building or play-ing, I choose building every time
If you had to choose your favorite song what would it be?
I would say almost anything by Imagine Dragons is up there and I also like Ed Sheeran. He has a very interesting new song called “Sing.” It’s quite different for him.
Do you know how to play those specific songs?
On a good day, I might be able to learn the intro-duction so I may be able to fingerpick or strum and people often recognize the first 10 bars but after that I tend not to pursue it any longer.
Do you remember when you first discovered your love of science?
Ever since I was re-ally small I built things and growing up I would find pieces of wood and I would just make things. The way my brain is wired I see spacial relationships and three dimensions really well so I was destined to be an engineer from birth. It’s amazing how life just hap-pens and you end up who you are. Once I was in en-gineering, everything start-ed to fall into place ... The more I learned, the more I wanted to learn.
To me, everything is about materials. I look around and I see great ap-plications and science.
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One-on-Onewith Adam Schwartz
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Adam Schwartz is the
director of Ames Laboratory on campus.
During his first month, he’s overseen a ground breaking for a new project, the first new building in 21 years.
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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 | Iowa State Daily | AMES HISTORY | 5
150 Years of Ames
Editor’s note: In celebra-tion of the 150th anniver-sary of our city, the Daily will highlight prominent figures, places and events in Ames’ history each week.
Mary Greeley has been a well-known woman in the town of Ames since its very beginning. Her love of Ames spread through involve-ment in both the social and cultural setting.
Mary and her husband, Captain Wallace Greeley, built their first home on the corner of Douglas Avenue and 12th Street after pur-chasing lots in 1882, accord-ing to the Ames Historical
Society. The Greeleys had donated the lots used for the original library build-ing in Ames. This led Mary to serve on the first library board and she continued to do so up until her death in 1914.
The Greeley’s generos-ity made Ames very much their own. The only prob-lem was the lack of a hos-pital. The Greeleys had lost their only two children in infancy and Wallace be-came even more aware of the need for one in the growing Ames community after Mary’s death, accord-ing to the Ames Historical Society.
His personal experi-ence led to the planning and construction a future hospital. Wallace brought
Dr. E.S. Gilmore, a medi-cal specialist from Chicago, to consult regarding the building’s design and to collaborate with doctors living within the Ames community.
After Ames doctors talked with Gilmore, they recommended Wallace choose a site for the hos-pital within 11th and 12th Streets on the east side of Douglas Avenue, accord-ing to the Ames Historical Society. The site was ideal for any future expansions.
On Dec. 29, 1915, an announcement was made that Wallace had signed the contract for construction. The hospital was complet-ed in late September of the following year.
The Mary Greeley
Memorial Hospital was dedicated Sept. 24, 1916, and 2,000 people listened to Wallace speak of Mary’s affection for Ames and how the hospital would reflect it, according to the Ames Historical Society.
“It affords me great pleasure, more than words can express, that I contrib-ute towards the welfare of not only those now in need but also for those who will be here long after we have passed away,” Wallace said.
Philanthropist’s values foster hospital plans, name lives on
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Mary Greeley, along with her husband Wallace, donated the land for the original Ames library. After her death, her husband built and dedicated Ames’ first hospital in her name.
Veishea is the oldest student-run tradition at Iowa State. For more than 90 years, the students of Iowa State have scheduled, planned and celebrated Veishea. So why now are ISU students being left in the dark about the future of the celebration?
While the majority of the Veishea Task Force meetings have been open to the public, its recom-mendations and final re-port about the future of Veishea seem to be secret. It is a shame that just when the Veishea Task Force is making its decisions, it excludes the public, in-cluding students, from the
conversation.The task force’s last
meeting was June 26, and all meetings were open to the public up until that date. But the public was only allowed in on the first 20 minutes of the final task force meeting. The Veishea Task Force decided to hold the meeting in private to discuss draft documents which are exempt from public records law.
“Veishea Task Force is not a governing body as defined in the Iowa open meetings law, and its meetings are not required to be open,” said Tom Hill, senior vice president for student affairs and chair-
man of the task force dur-ing one of its meetings.
Although this may be the case, many concerned students, faculty and com-munity members have been attending the meet-ings up until this point and deserve the knowledge of recommended changes to the tradition.
It is a bit unnerving to hear that Hill said the meet-ing was going to be held in private because “the need was there in order to give the task force a full oppor-tunity to share their views freely and fully on the draft recommendation.”
This statement leads meeting attendees to be-
lieve that what has been talked about in past meet-ings may not be how the task force actually felt. Why would Veishea Task Force members be able to voice their opinions only in pri-vate when they have been speaking in public meet-ings since the riot took place?
Since the Veishea Task Force does not want the public to know what hap-pened in the meeting, does this mean the decisions being made are going to be strongly discouraged by the public? If this is the case and the final recom-mendation is going to be the opposite of what the
public would like it to be, it does not make sense to have had any public meet-ings at all.
None of the Veishea Task Force meetings were required to be open to the public, and we are grate-ful that the previous meet-ings and open forums were available to the public, but there needs to be consis-tency. There should not be some meetings open to the public in order to try to please those attending while potentially hiding some less pleasing deci-sions behind closed doors.
In addition to the closed meeting and un-available draft documents, the task force also had an executive committee which meant regularly out-side of task force meetings. This group was charged with deciding how a new event should be shaped and how it will serve the new list of purposes.
However, nowhere on the Veishea Task Force website does it discuss members, meeting times
and other business of the executive commit-tee. If this committee has so much responsibility, shouldn’t the public have access to information about it?
During the Veishea Task Force meeting June 19, the task force created a subcommittee to come up with a plan to handle student behavior and the party culture of Veishea. Similar to the executive committee, there is no information on the task force’s website about the subcommittee other than a video of the June 19 task force meeting.
The Veishea Task Force’s final recommen-dations are not set to be submitted to President Steven Leath until July 11. Let it be known, how-ever, that students, faculty and members of the Ames community are concerned about what is happening to Veishea and they de-serve to follow along with the decision process every step of the way.
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Sara Madison/Iowa State DailyThe Veishea Task Force will be delivering its final recommendation to President Leath on July 11. Its final meeting was closed after 20 minutes to allow the members to privately converse, indicating they might not agree with their public opinions.
Task force’s secrecy harms ISU, community
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The distribution of rec-reational marijuana became legal for the
state of Washington on July 7 when many retail shop owners in the state received
an electronic license to sell “just-for-fun cannabis.”
Only 80 distributors out of the 2,600 appli-cants have been approved by Washington’s Liquor Control Board because not all of the distributors have gone through the required lab testing. This leaves a
large demand for pot, but not enough to go around.
While the retail for pot has helped Colorado tre-mendously in tax revenue, the retailers could sell out in only a couple of days because of a lack of retail-ers in Washington. While the prices to buy marijuana
from the shops will be high anyway, after markup and a significant tax on the prod-uct, customers are looking to pay $15 to $30 per gram. With prices like that, it is suggested that regular users will be sticking to their deal-ers until markup decreases.
By legalizing marijua-na, the illegal distribution of pot would ideally de-crease and the state would begin to rake in tax revenue on the product because of the huge demand for marijuana.
When Colorado le-galized recreational mari-juana, flight searches to Denver went up 6.3 percent and the demand for mari-juana in the state went up 14 percent. Colorado sold more than $5 million worth of taxed marijuana in the first week.
Iowa is missing out on an opportunity to help gain tax revenue for the state. There is a demand for mari-juana in every state in the United States and Iowa is missing out on millions of dollars by refusing to sell marijuana or even make medical marijuana legal.
When it comes to buy-ing cannabis, people have a couple of options. In Iowa, they could illegally grow it themselves with the chance of being charged and ar-rested, they could smuggle it over state lines with the chance of being charged and arrested or they could
purchase it from a lo-cal dealer, again with the chance of being charged and arrested.
Wouldn’t it be lovely to be able to purchase canna-bis from local shops with-out having to worry about going to jail? Not to men-tion the fact that purchasing from a shop means that the money is going back into our economy and the tax on it will be able to help local schools and businesses.
People who want to smoke pot are going to do
it whether people like it or not. Whether or not it is legal is up to our govern-ment leaders. Consider the pros and cons and let your state leaders know how you feel about the legaliza-tion of marijuana. Tell your governor that if people are going to be smoking pot in this state, we might as well make money off of it.
Who knows? In the next few years, we may be able to thank our local pot-heads for helping fund our children’s education.
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Iowa State DailyWashington has recently legalized marijuana, following in Colorado’s footsteps. Colorado is currently taxing marijuana sales. Iowa, if it legalized the drug, could easily do the same.
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The summer months serve as a hiatus for ISU students who are granted a reprieve from the demands of colle-giate life — but for many Campustown business-es, the prospect of the summer break is not as inviting.
T.J. Rakitan, a gradu-ate assistant and adviser in the ISU department of economics, said the easiest way to explain the economic changes that occur during the summer is through the concept of supply and demand.
“If you think about the demand [for prod-ucts], there should be less, so that is going to drop the equilibrium quantity,” Rakitan said. “Students have more free time on their hands, so they may go out to eat
more and go out drinking more, but there are fewer of them.”
The quantity of a good or service de-manded by the public af-fects the quantity of that good or service produced and sold by businesses — hence, a decrease in sales volume, which in turn creates a slower economy.
Ravinder Singh, who owns both AJ’s Market & Liquor and AJ’s Ultra Lounge in Campustown, provided some of his sales numbers, which support the notion pro-posed by Rakitan.
Singh said that sales at his Campustown li-quor store location plummet nearly 70 per-cent during the summer compared to when stu-dents are in Ames in full force.
Singh owns a second liquor store in west Ames,
where he said sales also drop significantly during the same time period but by a slightly smaller mar-gin of 50 percent.
He speculated this difference may be due in part to the location and subsequent customer demographics — dur-ing the school year, the Campustown location does around 20 percent more business than the west Ames store.
It is not only the li-quor and bar businesses that suffer when students exit Ames, however.
Matthew Goodman owns and operates four businesses in Campustown, includ-ing the Fighting Burrito, Battle’s Barbecue and two late-night food stands, Super Dog and Smiles & Gryos.
Goodman said his food-service businesses tend to see a steep drop
off once the spring se-mester ends.
“For [Fighting] Burrito, sales probably go down at least 30 percent,” Goodman said. “The gyro stand and Super Dog probably go down 50 percent or more.”
Goodman went on to say that the reason behind the free-falling summer sales numbers is fairly clear.
“It depends on the demographic pro-portionate to stu-dents,” Goodman said. “[Fighting] Burrito and the mini-carts are late night — and late night is predominantly students. [Fighting] Burrito deliv-ery is still a young de-mographic where pizza delivery is an older de-mographic. Families and kids and everyone or-der pizza, but [Fighting] Burrito tends to be more of an independent, young
adult demographic.”The adjustments
made in Campustown to combat the general eco-nomic downturn during the summer vary from business to business.
“I usually work full-time in the summer to cut costs down and my family works with me,” Singh said. “When em-ployees with experience who get paid more leave, I hire new people who get paid less and that helps a little bit.”
Goodman said that the migratory flow of ISU students during the sum-mer, along with the desire for vacations, allows him to keep employee hours down through a natural transition that helps him to control costs without firing employees.
“I try to be conserva-tive with how I spend my money and understand there are going to be less
profits in the summer, and I adjust accordingly,” Goodman said. “We de-crease hours [of opera-tion] if we have to, but we try to avoid that.”
Goodman also said that promotions like kids eating for free at Fighting Burrito are strategies he uses to try and hook into the year-round demo-graphics, bringing more families to Campustown to eat at his restaurants.
These strategies are something Goodman said helps to stabilize sales numbers, as brand recognition in the Ames community is the most effective combatant of the summer outflow of students.
“Battle’s Barbecue’s numbers stay almost flat, or go up even,” Goodman said. “It has been around since the pre-1990s and a lot of those customers are permanent residents.
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Photo illustration: Kelby Wingert/Iowa State Daily
Businesses find ways to combat loss of students during summer
profits in the summer, and I adjust accordingly,” Goodman said. “We de-crease hours [of opera-tion] if we have to, but we try to avoid that.”
Goodman also said that promotions like kids eating for free at Fighting Burrito are strategies he uses to try and hook into the year-round demo-graphics, bringing more families to Campustown to eat at his restaurants.
These strategies are something Goodman said helps to stabilize sales numbers, as brand recognition in the Ames community is the most effective combatant of the summer outflow of students.
“Battle’s Barbecue’s numbers stay almost flat, or go up even,” Goodman said. “It has been around since the pre-1990s and a lot of those customers are permanent residents.
Barbecue is a summer food in general and many residents think Campustown is easier to navigate in the summer.”
Battle’s is not the only business in Campustown that bucks the trend of severe economic down-turn in the summer months because of brand recognition.
Brenda Freeman, the manager for Jeff’s Pizza Shop, said there is some drop off in sales but that mostly the clientele and the hours of heavy busi-ness in Jeff’s Pizza Shop simply shift when stu-dents disperse in May.
“I think this busi-ness happens to be es-tablished enough that we do not have to wor-ry too much about it,” Freeman said. “Weekend slice nights are always slower, but for lunch we see more of the univer-sity staff coming over. We
see more business own-ers and business people come in for lunch too, so it kind of balances out.”
Singh said his Ultra Lounge also experi-ences a mild drop off of around 20 percent, but that by keeping it closed on weekdays he adds a bit of allure to the bar, which helps to fill it to capacity on the weekend nights and maintains the Ultra Lounge as a viable business.
The dip in the amount of product bought and sold across all of Ames businesses does not only have an effect on the businesses themselves but also on the work force, including the student work force.
“There are more stu-dents looking for jobs, but not as many units [of product] being traded,” Rakitan said. “What that can lead to is people not
finding full employment. They are willing to work more time at the same wage, but the work is not available.”
Campustown is not alone in the struggle to maintain profit margins during the summer. Ben Conway, the store direc-tor at the West Hy-Vee, explained why business-es throughout Ames — large and small — need to prepared.
“When you no lon-ger have 30,000 students [around], whether you are a Hy-Vee store or a small restaurant, you are going to feel the ef-fects of that and you have to adjust accordingly,” Conway said. “You have to know your business well and be able to con-trol your expense struc-ture because, for the most part, the volume dictates how you run your business.”
Dealing with the downturn
Estimated decline in sales at AJ’s Market & Liquor in the summer.
70%
Estimated decline in sales at Fighting Burrito in the summer.
30%
Estimated decline in sales at Super Dog and the gyro cart in the summer.
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Sports Wednesday, July 9, 2014Editor: Beau Berkley
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This week, Ames and Iowa State will host to the National Junior Disability Championships. As of late, the city and uni-versity have had a knack of providing facili-ties for these types of events.
From June 19 to 21, Ames Middle School hosted the goalball nationals, a sport for the visually impaired. Both events were sponsored by Adaptive Sports Iowa, which was founded in by Mike and Joni Boone.
“We want to bring events like this to Iowa to engage new potential athletes, but we also like to expand what the public defi-nition of what disability is,” Mike said.
The National Junior Disability Championships consist of more than 200 athletes between the ages of 7 and 21 who have met the appropriate requirements with the Disabled Sports Organizations by qualifying at a regional meet or approved tournament.
The five events at the championship tournament are archery, track and field, swimming, table tennis and power lifting.
“When you have access to facilities like these, it’s very easy to convince people to come in,” Mike said, in reference to the newly built Cyclone Sports Complex, com-pleted in 2012.
At the opening ceremony July 6, the
Inspiring disabled Norton shares story at disability championships opening ceremonies
Ceci Du/Iowa State DailyChris Norton shares his story at the opening ceremonies of the National Junior Disability Championships. Norton, a Luther College student, broke his neck and fractured two vertebrae while playing football.
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keynote speaker was a hometown Iowa boy named Chris Norton. Norton at-tended high school at Bondurant-Farrar and was a football player at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.
On Oct. 16, 2010, Norton broke his neck and fractured his C3 and C4 ver-tebrae in a collision during a kickoff when he tried to tackle the ball carrier. The doctors told Norton that he had a 3 percent chance of ever walking again.
Norton never cared much for statistics and took it upon himself to beat those odds.
The normal amount of therapy for people recov-ering from these types of injuries is about an hour a day with tasks such as mov-ing the head up and down, Norton said.
When it came to re-covering from his injury, Norton recalls how the nurses and doctors wanted
him to acclimate himself to his new lifestyle. Norton would have nothing to do with this, asking for and receiving up to three hours of therapy a day, which is more than anyone has ever seen at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Norton said.
Norton said that not everyone with the same story as him gets the treat-ment he has received.
“I learned that the op-portunities I’ve had [are] because of the NCAA insur-ance, my own personal in-surance and my family and friends,” Norton said. “[But] there are a lot of people out there with similar stories as me, but they get cut off of their therapy three months in.”
Norton learned of those types of cases and started the SCI CAN Foundation, raising money and awareness for those in need of therapy.
“We are seeking to im-prove the quality of therapy for individuals with spinal cord injuries [SCI] and oth-er neuromuscular deficien-cies,” according to the SCI CAN Foundation’s website. “We want to raise money to buy equipment that most local facilities cannot afford.”
The foundation and Norton are examples of how dedication and hard work can pay off for anyone with a physical or mental disability. Norton can now stand on his own for 10 minutes without assistance.
Whether it is bench pressing 350 pounds or winning races on the track, the athletes at the National Junior Disability Championships compete physically and mentally at the highest possible level.
More information on Norton’s SCI CAN Foundation can be found at scicanfoundation.com
Ceci Du/Iowa State DailyThe National Junior Disability Championships had its opening ceremonies June 6 at the Southwest Athletic Complex. Of the more than 200 athletes, Iowa State fielded three athletes.
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From model towers to bridges, Legos are used to express imagination and creativity. At Iowa State, they were used for much more than just that.
Ludovico Cademartiri, assistant professor of ma-terials science and en-gineering, and his team used Legos as a simple solution to studying plant environments.
Cademartiri said he had been thinking about how to study plant and root growth in various en-vironments and soil com-positions since 2007, and he came up with the idea to use Legos for his study about three years ago.
At the time, the idea did not seem like it would be a success, but Cademartiri decided to give it a try. Though he had used the Lego toys as a child, he said he didn’t know how many things for which they were useful.
Legos provided a less expensive, adaptable ma-terial for the experiment. Cademartiri said that ex-perimenting with plants requires large amounts of
material for building their environment, creating the need for something cost effective yet still capable. Legos were the perfect ma-terial for the task and were relatively easy to attain.
Specifically, transpar-ent Legos were used to create the boxes for the environment of the plants being studied. They were also used for creating casts in the gel around some of the plants. The casts were used to generate chemical gradients that affected the plants’ environment. The Legos also provided barri-ers in the structure of the experiment.
“You get really familiar with your system because you are building it your-self— putting it together brick by brick,” said Kara Lind, a graduate student in materials science and engineering who contrib-uted to the project. “That’s not always the case in other experiments.”
Cademartiri believes that a tool should be acces-sible to everyone by being simple and robust. In us-ing Legos, the experiment was able to be conducted without having an out of proportion budget.
Tools like these will impact the way scientists are able to perform their studies, Cademartiri said. As an engineering project, the group was able to find a way to control the environ-ment, but at some point its ideas could be used by oth-ers, such as plant scientists, to aid their studies.
“It sounds simple, but it’s not,” Cademartiri said. “Developing simple things is not simple.”
Lind said that through her involvement with this experiment, she learned that research can be easier if you just look around at everyday materials.
“My research isn’t dif-ficult, but yet it still makes an impact because it is us-ing simple tools that people have overlooked ... whether
they are chemists, microbi-ologists, plant scientists, or even an engineer, they could also be a high school student,” Lind said. “We want tools that anyone can use so people can start do-ing research.”
Both Cademartiri and Lind were taking on a new challenge with this experiment. For Lind, the experiment presented the challenge of working with plants. She said that work-ing with plants for the first time in an experiment meant confronting con-tamination and working with sterilization.
For Cadmartiri, it was very different from any oth-er project he had worked on as a materials chemist. He said he used his toolbox of knowledge within mate-
rials chemistry to apply it to a different field for the Lego project.
“I’ve always been in-terested in many things,” Cademartiri said. “Largely,
I work on something if I think I can make a con-tribution, if I believe the problem is important, and if I believe that I have good ideas on it.”
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Courtesy of Kara LindLudovico Cademartiri, assistant professor of materials sci-ence and engineering at Iowa State, came up with the idea to use transparent Legos for his study of plant and root growth.
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Ames Municipal Band concertWhat: Listen to an outdoor concert from the Ames Municipal Band. Pre-concert entertainment starts an hour before the concert. When: 8 p.m.Where: Durham Bandshell Park, 6th Street and Duff Avenue
Ada Hayden Interpretive ProgramWhat: Go on a prairie walk with the curator of the Ada Hayden Herbarium and learn about prairie plants. Meet at the southwest entrance off of Harrison Road.When: 5:30 p.m.Where: Ada Hayden Heritage Park
Iowa Games Summer Sports Festival What: Iowa State and Ames will be hosting the Iowa Games throughout the month of July. Thousands of athletes from all across Iowa will be competing in Olympic-style sports. The first week-end of the event is July 11 to 13. When: All dayWhere: Around Ames
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Bookends at the BandshellWhat: The Ames Public Library is sponsoring a summer concert series at the Bandshell. Listen to Hotel Virginia this week. When: 11:30 a.m.Where: Durham Bandshell Park, 6th Street and Duff Avenue
Summerfest Cyclone CinemaWhat: Watch a free outdoor movie for Campustown Cinema. Partake in family activities and dinner opportunities.When: 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.Where: Campustown
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What: Watch amateur golfers in the state of Iowa play in the Iowa Masters Golf Tournament. The tournament will take place at Veenker Memorial Golf Course. This is the first day of a three-day tournament. When: All dayWhere: Veenker Memorial Golf Course, 1925 Stange Road
Dance SocialWhat: Join in a free dance social host-ed by the ISU Ballroom Club. Singles are welcome and dress is casual.When: 7:30 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.Where: Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
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Snus Hill Winery TourWhat: Get a tour of Snus Hill Winery and learn interesting facts about the facility.When: 2 p.m.Where: Snus Hill Winery, 2183 320th St. in Madrid
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What: Enjoy free concerts each week from local bands who play different genres of music.When: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.Where: Roosevelt Park, 9th Street & Roosevelt Avenue
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What: Attend a program on children’s books in the 1860s sponsored by the Hoggatt School Program.When: 2:15 p.m.Where: Ames History Center, 416 Douglas Ave.
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Patterned Patina Jewelry ClassWhat: Use stamps, ink and a torch to create patinas, or surface designs, in copper. Learn how to create different colors and some metalworking skills as well. The class is $39 for students and $49 for the public.When: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.Where: The Workspace, Memorial Union
Golden Art Fair
What: Artists will share their garden and nature-themed artwork. Visitors can browse and buy products from both artists and vendors. A variety of live music will also be performed.When: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.Where: Reiman Gardens, 1407 University Blvd
Great Plants for Iowa Series: Ornamental Grasses
What: Develop your knowledge of plants that grow well in central Iowa. Learn how to identify the plants as well as the cultural requirements and pur-poses of the plants. The class costs $20 for the general public.When: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.Where: Reiman Gardens, 1407 University Blvd.
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