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The appearance of BodyViz on “The Biggest Loser” may be the first of many opportunities to commercialize and market the new technology. “BodyViz is a fantastic name for branding,” Carlson said. By Bethany Pint Daily Staff Writer The number of textbooks required for courses at Iowa State varies from course to course. Some instructors choose several textbooks, while others prefer to use the library’s E-Reserve system. Other courses rely on one textbook to get the points across in their courses. “Our word ‘literature’ is derived from a word meaning: capable of being read,” Da- vid Brottman, ISU English lecturer, wrote in an e-mail. Brottman wrote that his definition of a textbook may differ from other’s defini- tions. “I use it to mean books that must be ac- quired because they are required reading and the basis for writing assignments,” he wrote. “Some people use ‘textbook’ to mean a book about a subject, but I teach literature, so all literary books written by authors are considered texts.” Different levels of Brottman’s courses require more textbooks that others. “A 200-level undergrad course has two [one of which is a large anthology], a 300-level undergrad course has four [one of which is a large anthology] and a grad course has 13,” he wrote. Nancy Grudens-Schuck, associate professor of agricultural education and studies, said she doesn’t like to use only textbooks. “It’s not because textbooks in all fields are poor,” she said. “But for the subject matter I teach, I need to make the connec- tion with and for the students to applica- tion.” Grudens-Schuck teaches advanced communications for agriculture and life sciences, and personal and professional leadership in agriculture this semester. Her communications course requires students to purchase materials for the class, but the readings are available online through Parks Library. Grudens-Schuck’s leadership course requires one book, but, like Brottman, she doesn’t consider it a textbook. “It is a book written about leadership based on a research study,” she said. She finds value is using available mate- rials to make her points clear in the class- room. Professors’ textbook use varies greatly Curriculum Transportation The Biggest Loser Ames Community ISU technology featured on prime-time TV By Angela Christianson Daily Staff Writer Howe Hall was bursting with aspiring engineers Saturday, when the annual FIRST LEGO League championship brought 72 teams from all over Iowa to the ISU campus. The competition was based on two compo- nents: A robot that maneuvered a course, and a research project that was presented to a board of judges. The competition’s whole program tied into issues and innovations in transportation, so its theme was labeled “Smart Move.” North Polk’s team, FLL, left the competition with an award for its track design and light sensors. FLL was made up of sixth-grade Extended Learn- ing Program students. This was the team’s first year competing. Team member Matthew Merkley explained that there were many attachments for picking up loops on the track, guide wheels for walls and sen- sors to help with precision on the team’s robot. “We used ultrasonic sensors to detect how far away obstacles were,” said team member Miranda Noack. Programming was Noack’s favorite part of the competition. The team was new to LEGO Mind- storms, the program used to maneuver the robots, so it was a learning process from the very begin- ning. Teams designed three different programs for MLK celebration focuses on service Youth competition involves LEGO robots Members of the LEGO League’s Ames-based team — the Mastermind Smart Movers — prep their robot and cheer their teammates on during the competition Saturday in the Howe Hall atrium. Photo: Rashah McChesney/Iowa State Daily Check it out: See the Ames-based team compete online at iowastatedaily.com. see LEGOS on PAGE 14 Participants on “The Biggest Loser” viewed the fatty parts of their bodies provided by the BodyViz program. Courtesy photo: BodyViz see TEXTBOOKS on PAGE 14 By Rashah McChesney Daily Staff Writer For nearly 20 years the Ames commu- nity has been staging a Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. It started at the public library and when the event outgrew it, moved to the Boys and Girls club, then the Ames High School and now have settled, at least for the last two years, on the Ames Middle School. This year’s focus was on service. As a part of the day’s events, nearly 200 mem- bers of the community came together un- der the direction of United Ames and the Volunteer Center of Story County to work on a community garden for the Ames homeless, which will be located at the Trinity Church on Ontario Street. After an afternoon of building park benches and leaving their ideas for the garden on a mural at the volunteer center, Ames community members filled the caf- eteria of the Ames Middle School to enjoy cake donated by local grocery stores and the Ames High School Jazz Band. A steady stream of people trickled in between 6–6:30 p.m., and many of them sent their children over to a corner where Members of AmeZone — a community youth service project — and United Ames staffed a food donation table which was completely full by the time the program started. The food was slated for the MICA food pantry in Ames. Andrea Henry, executive director of the YWCA, said the celebration is funded by both the Government of the Student Body and the Assault Care Center Extend- ing Shelter and Support. “Most of this is put on by volunteers, though,” she said. “We want to celebrate Martin Luther King’s life as well as encour- age the elimination of racism in the com- munity.” At about 6:30 p.m., people were let into the auditorium where they were greeted by a choir made up of K-5 students from Meeker Elementary School. “We are not alone,” they sang, “We shall overcome someday.” The auditorium bustled with activ- ity as most of its occupants were children under the age of 5. During the choir per- formance and after, children ran jubilantly through the aisles laughing and giggling. Paxton Williams, an ISU graduate, plays George Washington Carver during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration Monday at Ames Middle School. Photo: Karuna Ang/Iowa State Daily see MLK on PAGE 14 Take a look: Watch Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at Ames Middle School at iowastatedaily.com. Tweetup! The Iowa State Daily will be hosting an Ames Tweetup at Olde Main on Wednesday from 5 to 9 p.m. Autos section Dealing with the death of your vehicle’s battery see AUTOS on PAGE 5
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By Sarah GonzalezDaily Staff Writer
Medical technology developed by ISU researchers made its premiere on NBC prime-time Jan. 12.
James Oliver, ISU professor of me-chanical engineering, and Eliot Winer, associate professor of mechanical en-gineering, contributed to the creation of BodyViz, a program which allows MRI or CT scans to be seen and ma-nipulated in 3-D.
NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” used the program to motivate its contestants in a medical segment during the second episode of its ninth season.
“They were blown away by what BodyViz could do,” Curt Carlson said.
Carlson is CEO of the startup com-pany, BodyViz, managed in the ISU Re-search Park.
The competitors on “The Biggest Loser” spend seven weeks training, ex-ercising and dieting to lose the highest percentage of unnecessary body fat.
The show utilizes fitness, nutrition and medical professionals who inform and motivate the contestants.
During the second episode, con-testants were shown inside their body with the technology. Carlson operated the BodyViz images behind the scenes while Dr. Rob Huizenga guided con-testants through their upper torso and fatty regions.
“They thought it’d be a fantastic way to show body fat,” Carlson said.
The 3-D images of patients can be manipulated with an Xbox controller and allows the BodyViz user to travel through a body scan on screen. Pro-ducers of “The Biggest Loser” thought the technology would motivate contes-tants by allowing them to see that extra fat inside their bodies, Carlson said.
The appearance of BodyViz on “The Biggest Loser” may be the first of many opportunities to commercialize and market the new technology.
“BodyViz is a fantastic name for branding,” Carlson said.
By Bethany PintDaily Staff Writer
The number of textbooks required for courses at Iowa State varies from course to course. Some instructors choose several textbooks, while others prefer to use the library’s E-Reserve system. Other courses rely on one textbook to get the points across in their courses.
“Our word ‘literature’ is derived from a word meaning: capable of being read,” Da-vid Brottman, ISU English lecturer, wrote in an e-mail.
Brottman wrote that his definition of a textbook may differ from other’s defini-tions.
“I use it to mean books that must be ac-quired because they are required reading and the basis for writing assignments,” he wrote.
“Some people use ‘textbook’ to mean a book about a subject, but I teach literature, so all literary books written by authors are considered texts.”
Different levels of Brottman’s courses require more textbooks that others.
“A 200-level undergrad course has two [one of which is a large anthology], a 300-level undergrad course has four [one of which is a large anthology] and a grad course has 13,” he wrote.
Nancy Grudens-Schuck, associate professor of agricultural education and studies, said she doesn’t like to use only textbooks.
“It’s not because textbooks in all fields are poor,” she said. “But for the subject matter I teach, I need to make the connec-tion with and for the students to applica-tion.”
Grudens-Schuck teaches advanced communications for agriculture and life sciences, and personal and professional leadership in agriculture this semester.
Her communications course requires students to purchase materials for the class, but the readings are available online through Parks Library.
Grudens-Schuck’s leadership course requires one book, but, like Brottman, she doesn’t consider it a textbook.
“It is a book written about leadership based on a research study,” she said.
She finds value is using available mate-rials to make her points clear in the class-room.
Professors’ textbook use varies greatly
Curriculum Transportation
The Biggest Loser
Ames Community
ISU technology featured on prime-time TV
By Angela ChristiansonDaily Staff Writer
Howe Hall was bursting with aspiring engineers Saturday, when the annual FIRST LEGO League championship brought 72 teams from all over Iowa to the ISU campus.
The competition was based on two compo-nents: A robot that maneuvered a course, and a research project that was presented to a board of judges. The competition’s whole program tied into issues and innovations in transportation, so its theme was labeled “Smart Move.”
North Polk’s team, FLL, left the competition with an award for its track design and light sensors. FLL was made up of sixth-grade Extended Learn-ing Program students. This was the team’s first year competing.
Team member Matthew Merkley explained that there were many attachments for picking up loops on the track, guide wheels for walls and sen-sors to help with precision on the team’s robot.
“We used ultrasonic sensors to detect how far away obstacles were,” said team member Miranda Noack.
Programming was Noack’s favorite part of the competition. The team was new to LEGO Mind-storms, the program used to maneuver the robots, so it was a learning process from the very begin-
ning.Teams designed three different programs for
MLK celebration focuses on service
Youth competition involves LEGO robots
Members of the LEGO League’s Ames-based team — the Mastermind Smart Movers — prep their robot and cheer their teammates on during the competition Saturday in the Howe Hall atrium. Photo: Rashah McChesney/Iowa State Daily
Check it out:See the Ames-based team
compete online at iowastatedaily.com.see LEGOS on PAGE 14
Participants on “The Biggest Loser” viewed the fatty parts of their bodies provided by the BodyViz program. Courtesy photo: BodyVizsee TEXTBOOKS on PAGE 14
By Rashah McChesneyDaily Staff Writer
For nearly 20 years the Ames commu-nity has been staging a Martin Luther King Jr. celebration.
It started at the public library and when the event outgrew it, moved to the Boys and Girls club, then the Ames High School and now have settled, at least for the last two years, on the Ames Middle School.
This year’s focus was on service. As a part of the day’s events, nearly 200 mem-bers of the community came together un-der the direction of United Ames and the Volunteer Center of Story County to work on a community garden for the Ames homeless, which will be located at the Trinity Church on Ontario Street.
After an afternoon of building park benches and leaving their ideas for the garden on a mural at the volunteer center, Ames community members filled the caf-eteria of the Ames Middle School to enjoy cake donated by local grocery stores and the Ames High School Jazz Band.
A steady stream of people trickled in between 6–6:30 p.m., and many of them sent their children over to a corner where Members of AmeZone — a community youth service project — and United Ames staffed a food donation table which was completely full by the time the program started.
The food was slated for the MICA food pantry in Ames.
Andrea Henry, executive director of the YWCA, said the celebration is funded by both the Government of the Student Body and the Assault Care Center Extend-ing Shelter and Support.
“Most of this is put on by volunteers, though,” she said. “We want to celebrate Martin Luther King’s life as well as encour-age the elimination of racism in the com-munity.”
At about 6:30 p.m., people were let into the auditorium where they were greeted by a choir made up of K-5 students from Meeker Elementary School.
“We are not alone,” they sang, “We shall overcome someday.”
The auditorium bustled with activ-ity as most of its occupants were children under the age of 5. During the choir per-formance and after, children ran jubilantly through the aisles laughing and giggling.
Paxton Williams, an ISU graduate, plays George Washington Carver during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration Monday at Ames Middle School. Photo: Karuna Ang/Iowa State Daily see MLK on PAGE 14
Take a look:Watch Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at Ames
Middle School atiowastatedaily.com.
Tweetup!The Iowa State Daily will be hosting an Ames Tweetup at Olde Main on Wednesday from 5 to 9 p.m.
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Jan. 13
Rachel Williams, 18, 420 Seventh St. unit C1, was arrested and charged with driving under suspension. (reported at 8 a.m.)
A woman reported a man has been watching her and acting in a suspicious man-ner. (reported at 8:48 a.m.)
Daniel Joo reported his ve-hicle was damaged by con-struction debris. (reported at 10:09 a.m.).
Darrell Miller, 58, of Gilbert, was arrested and charged with tampering with ignition interlock device. (reported at 4 p.m.)
A 17-year-old male was charged with possession of a controlled substance. He was referred to Juvenile Court Services and released to the care and custody of a parent. (reported at 7:01 p.m.)
A vehicle that left the scene struck a truck owned by John Swanson. (reported at 7:43 p.m.)
Aaron McVicker, 25, of Des Moines, was arrested and charged with driving under suspension. He was
subsequently released on citation. (reported at 10:13 p.m.).
Jan. 14
Jesse Bennett, 28, of Nevada, was arrested and charged with theft in the first degree. (reported 7 p.m.)
Jan. 15
Cody Barker, 21, 218 Campus Ave. unit 8, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 1:35 a.m.).
Brandon Bell, 20, 407 Welch Ave., was arrested and charged with posses-sion of a false ID and use of a false name for a license. (reported at 1:49 a.m.).
Lisa Constable, 22, 3709 Tripp St. unit 305, was arrested and charged with
public intoxication. (reported 4:56 a.m.).
Robert Henry, 19, of Slater, was arrested and charged with driving with denied license. (reported at 3:30 a.m.).
Deron Humes, 20, 111 N. Sherman Ave., was arrested and charged with a proba-tion violation. (reported at 12 p.m.).
Kevin Osterson, 18, 2427 Martin Boyd, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 11:27 p.m.).
Jan. 16
Tyler Anderson, 21, of Dayton, was arrested and charged with interference with official acts and assault on a peace officer. (reported at 12:53 a.m.).
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Curtis Behrens, junior in animal ecology, lets a hissing cockroach crawl around in his mouth at an insect exhibit given for attendees of the LEGO League on Saturday in Black Engineering. Behrens said the cockroaches were extremely clean and participated in a type of social grooming to clean themselves off. Photo: Rashah McChesney/Iowa State Daily
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Daily Calendar : tomorrow’s events
1. Dedication: Col. Pride Veterans’ LoungeTime: 10 a.m.–noon
Location: North of Great Hall desk, Memorial Union
Description: At the request of the ISU Student Veterans’ Association to create a veterans’ lounge in the MU, the former Col. Pride Lounge will be dedicated as the Col. Pride Veterans’ Lounge.
2. SUB Presents: Grandma Mojo’s Moonshine RevivalTime: 10 p.m.
Location: Maintenance Shop
Description: Student Sketch Comedy Troupe — Let the students of ISU’s improv sketch comedy troupe make you laugh until your stomach hurts. Doors open at 9:30 p.m.
Cost: $2
3. ClubFest IITime: 5–9 p.m.
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Description: Learn about all the ways you can get involved on campus.
Cost: Free
4. Art Class: Screenprinting with Asa Wentzel FisherTime: 7–9 p.m.
Location: Workspace, Memorial Union
Description: Learn an inexpensive way to create custom T-shirts. Using your own design, learn to make a screen with the photographic emulsion method. Bring in your shirts and print away. This class is required in order to use the Workspace screenprinting equipment on your own.
Cost: ISU students $48, public $53; includes supplies cost
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 | Iowa State Daily | NEWS | 3Editors S. Buhrman, A. Hutchins, J. Opoien, and K. Peterson | [email protected] | 515.294.2003
By Alfred de Montesquiou and Michelle FaulAssociated Press Writers
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Troops, doctors and aid workers flowed into Haiti on Monday, while victims of the quake that killed an estimated 200,000 peo-ple still struggled to find a cup of water or a handful of food.
European nations pledged more than a half-billion dollars in emergency and long-term aid, on top of at least $100 mil-lion promised earlier by the U.S.
But help was still not reach-ing many victims of Tuesday’s quake — choked back by trans-portation bottlenecks, bureau-cratic confusion, fear of attacks on aid convoys, the collapse of local authority and the sheer scale of the need.
Looting spread to more parts of downtown Port-au-
Prince as hundreds of young men and boys clambered up broken walls to break into shops and take whatever they can find. Especially prized was toothpaste, which people smear under their noses to fend off the stench of decaying bodies.
At a collapsed and burning shop in the market area, youths used broken bottles, machetes and razors to battle for bottles of rum and police fired shots to break up the crowd.
“I am drinking as much as I can. It gives courage,” said Jean-Pierre Junior, wielding a broken wooden plank with nails.
Even so, the U.S. Army’s on-the-ground commander, Lt. Gen. Ken Keen, said the city is seeing less violence than before the earthquake. “Is there gang violence? Yes. Was there gang violence before the earthquake? Absolutely.”
Violence, hunger persist in earthquake aftermathHaiti
People wait in line to get disaster relief supplies distributed by U.S. troops on Monday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Troops, doctors and aid workers flowed into Haiti to lend assistance, while hundreds of thousands of the earthquake’s victims struggled to find water or food. Photo: Jae C. Hong/The Associated Press
DES MOINES — Two major hospital groups in Des Moines are relaxing visitor guidelines enacted last fall due to the flu.
Iowa Health-Des Moines and Mercy Medical Center said Tuesday they were eas-ing restrictions put in place last October because a significant number of Iowans have been vaccinated against H1N1 and seasonal flu. Officials also note that Iowa continues to see a reduction in H1N1 cases and confirmed cases of seasonal flu haven’t been detected yet.
Under the restrictions, chil-dren weren’t allowed to visit most patients and only two peo-ple at a time could visit any one person.
The Iowa flu season typically lasts into March. The hospitals say visitors will be asked to take normal precautions, including not visiting patients if they have flu-like symptoms.
—The Associated Press
Hospitals ease rules on visitor guidelines
H1N1
Foreigners dead and missing after Haiti’s earthquake.A glance at countries reporting dead and missing in Haiti:
■ Antigua and Barbuda: Two missing.
■ Belgium: One missing. ■ Brazil: 18 dead and two
missing. ■ Canada: 11 dead, 859
unaccounted for. ■ Chile: One dead, one
missing. ■ China: Eight dead. ■ Costa Rica: Two miss-
ing. ■ Dominican Republic:
24 dead, 24 missing. ■ El Salvador: One miss-
ing. ■ France: 12 dead,
government fears 20–30 may have died.
■ Germany: One dead, 16 missing.
■ Italy: Two dead [includ-ing a U.N. official], two missing and feared dead, seven unaccounted for.
■ Jordan: Three killed, 23 wounded, all from international peacekeep-ing force.
■ Mexico: One dead, 27 missing out of 131 believed to have been living there.
■ Netherlands: Three injured, 18 missing.
■ Poland: Four missing. ■ Spain: Two dead, 10
unaccounted for. ■ Tunisia: At least one
dead [head of U.N. mis-sion Hedi Annabi]
■ United States: 16 dead [one a U.S. government employee], two missing. Some 45,000 Americans are in the country.
■ Uruguay: One dead, two missing.
■ United Nations: 37 U.N. personnel con-firmed dead, nearly 330 missing. Some personnel may also be included in national counts.
■ European Union del-egation: One dead, two missing.
—The Associated Press
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By Darlene SupervilleAssociated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama served plates of steaming hot lunches to the needy Monday, one of several ways the president paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.
Obama also scheduled a White House talk with black elders and their grandchildren about the movement for racial equality that King led until he was assassinated in 1968. The president also was to speak later Monday during a musical cel-ebration of King’s legacy at the Kennedy Center.
His outing was part of an array of holiday tributes. Wor-shippers at King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church heard Princeton University scholar Cornel West deliver a passionate keynote address in Atlanta, urging them not to “sanitize” King’s legacy.
In Washington, Obama spent the day with King obser-vances. “How are you sir? God
bless you,” the president said, greeting one man among the dozens of men and women who filed into the dining room at SOME, or So Others Might Eat.
The organization, just a short ride from the White House, provides the poor and homeless with food and other services.
By Matthew WildeThe Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier
WATERLOO — Experts say farmers better start marketing their crops now if they haven’t already started.
John Sanow, a DTN market-ing analyst, said corn and soy-bean markets will be pressured because of a record harvest in the U.S.; the ample soybeans being harvested in South Amer-ica; and reduced demand for corn overseas.
“If farmers don’t have any-thing done, that would be a smart move,” Sanow said. “Both
markets will be pressured head-ing into 2010.”
Grain prices tumbled last week following the USDA’s re-port on 2009 crop production. Despite poor weather for much of the year it was the nation’s most productive year ever.
About 13.2 billion bushels of corn were harvested this fall nationwide, up 2 percent from the November forecast and surpassing the previous record of 13 billion bushels in 2007. Soybean production totaled a record 3.36 billion bushels.
George Cummins, an Iowa State University Extension crop specialist in Charles City, said
2009 was a year of taking the good with the bad. Farmers started with a full soil moisture profile, which is good for yields, but it didn’t allow spring rains to soak in, slowing planting. The cool summer didn’t stress the crops but it slowed develop-ment and delayed the harvest.
The USDA predicts corn and soybean stocks will increase 15 percent and 9 percent respec-tively. The USDA said it may resurvey corn acres in March because so much is still in the fields.
“Farmers are concerned about getting their crop mar-keted,” Cummins said.
Experts predict producers should market crops now
President lends hand in honor of civil leader
Tribute
Farming
President Barack Obama hugs his daughter, Malia Obama, 11, as they serve lunch to people Monday at So Others Might Eat, a social services organization in Washington. Photo: Alex Brandon/The As-sociated Press
By Ben SloanDaily Correspondent
Every year, the Department of Public Safety receives an increase of distress calls from students regarding their vehicles during winter.
The majority of these calls are related to dead batteries, a common occurrence during winter.
There are two causes for a dead battery, the first being that fluids in an engine are less viscous and require more power to get them to start circu-lating.
Secondly, at 32 degrees, a battery loses 50 per-cent of its starting ability, said Depeng Mao, gradu-ate student in electrical and computer engineer-ing.
Mark Miller, parking manager with the Depart-ment of Public Safety, said students could circum-vent this problem by simply making sure they run their car at least once a week.
There are also other ways to improve the start-ing ability of a battery.
The first comes from reducing the effect tem-perature has on the battery; this can be achieved by insulating that battery with a battery blanket.
Secondly, there will most likely be white crys-tals forming on the positive terminal of the battery. The crystals are called corrosion and hurt the bat-tery’s ability to start the car.
Maintaining a corrosion-free battery terminal
is paramount in order for the battery to supply the needed voltage to start a car.
A quick and cheap way to remove this corro-sion and to keep it from propagating is to discon-nect the cables attached to the battery and rub the corrosion with steel wool.
For those afraid of being shocked by the bat-tery, make sure not to touch both of the metal posts popping out of the car battery.
One service the HelpVan provides is help in jumping batteries, but the service is only available to people parked on campus.
Detroit auto show unveils innovative models intended to enervate market appeal
By Dylan Boyle and Eric GleasonDaily Staff Writers
Local auto dealers are hopeful new products being introduced at the Detroit auto show will be the future and play a part in turning the industry around.
Starting last week, automakers from around the world gathered at the Cobo Center in Detroit for the 2010 North American International Auto Show.
With over half a million visitors each year, NAIAS is among the largest auto shows on the planet, and gives the industry a chance to debut its upcoming production vehicles and futuristic concept cars to the public.
This year, over 700 vehicles will be on display, including 60 new models for 2011. Some of these include the Cadillac CTS Coupe, Buick Regal GS, and Honda CR-Z.
Redesigns of existing models are also on display, such as the Ford Focus, Lincoln MKX and Volvo C30. Also new at this year’s show was Electric Avenue — a special display exclusively featuring hybrid and electric cars.
Danny Wilson, manager of Wilson Toyota-Scion Cadillac, 2212 S. Duff Ave., recently had the opportunity to meet with the president and CEO of Toyota USA, Yoshimi Inaba, along with the president and director of Scion, Jack Hollis, at a meeting held in Kansas City.
With the auto show in full swing, new prod-ucts were a main point of discussion.
“Their outlook on the industry is generally a lot better than last year,” Wilson said. “There was a greater sense of optimism, especially for upcoming small cars, green cars and interior electronics.”
Wilson shared their enthusiasm, as alterna-tive energy forms a growing role at his dealer-ship.
“For Toyota in general, electrics and hybrids will be a very substantial part of our future,” Wil-son said. “Fortunately we were able to lead the way with the Prius hybrid.
When it arrived six years ago, no one would’ve guessed the impact it has made in the industry today.
Consumers are willing to give up vehicle size, power and creature features for better fuel economy. It’s estimated that soon Prius could outsell the Camry, the number one selling car in America.”
Todd Lee, sales manager at George White Chevrolet-Pontiac, 1719 S. High Ave., said Amer-ican companies like General Motors and Ford are “coming on strong” with the vehicles they are releasing at the show.
He said cars like the Chevy Volt, which goes into production this year, could help the indus-try if gas prices continue to rise, since the Volt can drive 300 miles on electric power only.
While Honda and Toyota have led in the hy-brid market, Lee said American auto manufac-turers are now really starting to compete with the foreign dealers and are just as energy efficient. One advantage American companies have, he said, is they can go back and market cars with a “retro” look.
Innovations in the accessories that are fea-tured in cars are also a big part of the show, Lee said.
Lee said he hopes the auto show will help turn the industry around and said it’s always good for business when a “new and exciting” product hits the market.
Having a car battery die during the winter can cause students to panic. The Daily’s Autos section has tips to get your car started again. Photo: Christine Naulty/Iowa State Daily
Safety Cars
HelpVan Info ■ 515-294-4444 ■ Operates from 7:30–3 a.m. ■ Offers assistance for dead batteries, flat
tires and empty gas tanks ■ Services available on campus only ■ Information from the Department of Pub-
lic Safety Web site
Winter driving kit suggestions Communication, illumi-nation and attracting attention:
■ Cell phone and charger to plug into your car’s cigarette lighter
■ Bright strip of cloth to attach to the antenna
■ Flashlight with fresh and extra batteries
■ Emergency flares and matches or triangular hazard reflectors
■ Candles
Staying warm: ■ Blankets or sleeping
bags
■ Warm clothes, gloves, cap and rubber boots, rain gear
■ Extra newspapers for insulation
Staying healthy and alert: ■ Drinking water ■ High calorie, non-perish-
able food [canned fruit or nuts] and a non-electric can opener
■ Medication ■ First aid kit with pocket
knife ■ Plastic bags [for sanita-
tion] ■ Cards, games, puzzles ■ Roll of paper towels
Working in ice and snow: ■ Ice scraper ■ De-icer to defrost locks ■ Small shovel ■ Sand or strips of carpet
Car supplies: ■ Jumper cables ■ Snow chains ■ Extra quarts of oil ■ Gallon of a coolant ■ Gallon of windshield
wiper cleaner ■ Extra fan belts
■ Extra spark plugs
— Information from the Department of Public Safety
Web site
Economy
How to salvage automotive industryStephen Manning AP Business Writer
WASHINGTON— The car industry got a historic make-over in 2009, most of it not for the better.
General Motors and Chrys-ler almost went broke and now largely owe their survival to billions of dollars in taxpayer money.
Sales tanked and auto workers lost jobs in droves. And
China became the world’s big-gest auto market.
But there were signs of hope.
The Cash for Clunkers re-bate program briefly revived auto lots and helped sell more fuel-efficient cars.
How much did the auto industry change in 2009? Here are some telling numbers.
Shrinking Goliath — Four: Number of GM brands
planned by 2010Eight: Number of GM
brands at start of 200975 cents: General Motors
closing share price on May 29, 2009, last day of trading before bankruptcy
Three: Total GM CEOs in 2009
Clunkers — $2.85 billion: Total value of Cash for Clunkers rebates
9.2 mpg: Average increase
in fuel efficiency under Clunk-ers.
Gas Or Electric? — 365,416: Ford F-Series pickup trucks sold in U.S. in 2009, through November
Zero: Plug-in gas-electric hybrid vehicles sold in U.S. by major automakers in 2009, through November
At least 12: Number of manufacturers planning plug-in gas-electric vehicle sales in the U.S. by 2013
The next generation Ford Focus four-door is intro-duced on Jan. 11 at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. File photo: Carlos Osorio/The Associated Press
The Audi R8 Spyder is seen at the North American International Auto Show on Jan. 12 in Detroit. Photo: Paul Sancya/The As-sociated Press
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As fang-mania continues to entrance audiences nationwide, another lame
vampire movie is exactly what doesn’t sound like a good idea. Nevertheless, I ventured out to see “Daybreakers,” fully expecting a B-grade film packed with mind-less gore and a generic plot. Turns out, it definitely was a B-grade movie, but that didn’t turn out to be a bad thing.
The story for “Daybreakers” involves an Earth where vampires have taken over and the few nor-mal humans left are running for their lives, lest they be captured and “farmed” out to feed the undead populace. Naturally, a group of humans are fighting the system in order to preserve the dwindling human race.
This sounds epic in scale, but looking at the run-time — 1 hour 38 minutes — “chopped up” is the way this flick is more likely to come across. Yet somehow, the movie is able to not flop horribly and keeps you interested enough to be entertained, provided you keep in mind this is a B-grade state of entertainment.
What makes the movie stand out is the message and context in which it is set.
Man’s fear of death drives the human race to either become immortal monsters that will feed off of friends and loved ones, or
remain human and become food for the conformist pointy-toothed masses. Fear of death has shaped the actions of mankind for as long as time has been recorded, so having immortality offered as an escape is appropriate.
Next up is man’s ability to hate that which is different. For the vampires in this world, lack of consumption of human blood over time will cause them to mutate from pale, cold vampires into more bat-like, Nosferatu-esque mindless beasts. Despite these beasts just being other hungry, undead people from day-to-day life, the vampires move to eradicate them in order to preserve their own un-lives. The ironic part of the vampire’s immortality is they are doomed to die in less than a month because they’ve killed those who aren’t immortal, while those same people are required to preserve said immortality.
To keep this diatribe rolling, we look to greed. Literal blood banks house captured humans in machines that siphon the blood
from them to be packaged and rationed out to the populace. But eventually, a blood substitute must be discovered to allow the vamps to live. Naturally, the corporations behind the blood banks aren’t as interested in solv-ing the problem and stopping the eradication of mankind, so much as allowing enough time to repopulate enough of the human herd so that rich clients can have still purchase pure blood, while the middle and lower classes are relegated to generic brand X.
While all of this philosophical insight comes across, “Daybreak-ers” provides a clear-cut hero and villain, tragic characters, a love interest and action mixed with some gore-tastic blood baths.
Now, don’t mistake all of these positive comments to mean there aren’t some serious cheese-ball scenes. The ridiculous and age-old tradition of vampires having no reflection is addressed when floating clothes are shown in rear-view mirrors. When a stake hits the heart of a blood-sucker they explode like a grenade. Vampires
instantly burst into huge balls of flame at the slightest casting of sunlight upon their person. And finally, the animals of the world are nearly extinct because they aren’t smart enough to not walk into the sun and burst into flames, which has caused most of the world’s forests to burn to the ground because of the animal-inspired flash-fires. Which is actually pretty funny.
“Daybreakers” is one of the few vampire movies of late to not try and make the undead look overly sexy. This horror story has substance. Its themes are insights into what drives mankind. The B-grade story is almost needed in order to make the film not come across as preachy.
The last great bit of irony comes with the solution to the whole mess. I won’t ruin it — predictable though it may be — but I will say it involves circular thinking where the solution is created by the problem and can only right itself by utilizing itself. It’s like defining a word with the word itself.
Regardless, I recommend you see “Daybreakers” at some point. Don’t rush out to theaters imme-diately, but watch it at a discount place or get it on Netflix in a few months. Give it a whirl if you’re tired of seeing teenage vampires address raging hormones.
Gabriel Stoffa is senior in communication studies and political science from Ottumwa.
Vampire tale entertainsMovie Review:
As virtually every person in the Western Hemisphere is now well aware, Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake
last Tuesday.With a weak economy, a continuously cor-
rupt government and perhaps most relevant, weakly-constructed buildings, such a power-ful natural disaster could not have struck a nation less equipped to deal with it.
As the first graphic images offered by news sites and networks made clear, the situation was grim; thousands of Haitians filled the streets in search of what they needed but what was nowhere to be found: medical care, food and shelter.
Unfortunately, these necessities — while generously donated by the many countries that had, upon hearing of the situation, chosen to immediately send ships and aircraft filled with medical supplies, food, and water — could not be delivered.
The 7.0 quake had decimated not only air-strips and roads, but also the country’s main port, resulting in dozens of circling planes and moored ships and making the “so close but yet so far” cliché ring true.
But determined aid workers slowly began to reach land toward the end of last week. Just as donations to the Red Cross and other organizations began rolling in via cell phone text messages, images started to appear of the injured being cared for, food being delivered and, miraculously, workers pulling from the rubble those who had been buried alive for days.
Granted, one can not gloss over the facts that an estimated 200,000 Haitians died, aid workers still face daily challenges and ques-tions of how the country will ever be rebuilt are daunting, yet the tragedy has inarguably
brought out the best of many people from many nations.
Of course, while the bulk of news reports and images have significantly improved each day, the tragedy hasn’t brought the best out of all.
No, I’m not talking about those Haitian citizens who have descended into looting and fighting.
Rather, I refer to the disrespectful and ignorant words regarding the earthquake in Haiti that were uttered last week by Pat Robertson, the televangelist preacher of “The 700 Club” fame.
Robertson suggested that the earthquake resulted from God’s revenge for what he called a “pact to the devil” made by French-enslaved Haitians a couple hundred years ago.
Now, I could go off on a rant here, but I’ve no desire to attack faith itself, so let me clarify that first. Still, it should be pointed out that, as Robertson told it, the voodoo-practicing Haitians promised their souls to Satan in ex-change for their freedom, and that’s how they broke their chains.
In fact, the 500,000 slaves who had been brought to work Haiti’s lucrative sugar and coffee plantations were first freed in 1794 due to the fallout from the French Revolution and then, after being re-enslaved by Napoleon, freed themselves in 1804 when Touissant L’Ouverture led the first successful slave revolt
in history.We could argue all day whether earth-
quakes — like hurricanes, typhoons, blizzards and tornados — are natural occurrences or punishment sent by a vengeful god. Likewise, we could argue the logic of Haiti’s supposed deal with the devil when there are so many counter-balancing arguments — 96 percent of the population claims Christianity as its religion, the country has an 80 percent poverty rate and a life expectancy of 60 years, for a few examples.
But in the end, this shouldn’t be about Robertson. It should be about a devastated people struck with a terrible disaster, and how we can all — atheist, agnostic, spiritual, religious and more — come together.
It’s up to us to send that message, as Rob-ertson has demonstrated his inability to do so.
Rather than send a message of a welcom-ing religion that seeks to help those in need, Robertson cast Christianity as a religion with a vindictive God.
Even if it was not his intention, he demon-strated heartlessness and ignorance just as he did in the wake of 9/11, when he similarly sug-gested that Americans’ openness to abortion brought about what our country apparently deserved.
Fortunately, Christians — not to mention people of every other religion and even those without — from all over the world have dem-onstrated what religion and humanity is really about: helping one’s fellow man (or woman) in a time of need.
Unlike Robertson, the world community has responded not with hurtful words, but with help.
If you want to do the same, donate $10 to the Red Cross by texting “HAITI” to 90999.
Earthquake:
Regardless of faith, join in Haiti relief
Editorial:
Remember King for his message, not the holiday
The nation observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, although we’re not sure very many of us actually were aware it was happening, except for the fact that we had a day off from school.
It’s unfortunate, though, because it com-memorates, celebrates and challenges us to remember the life and cause of Dr. King.
Recently, a lot of articles have been writ-ten and conversations had that question whether President Obama’s inauguration — a presidency that will celebrate its one-year anniversary in the Oval Office on Thursday — signifies the end of the era of Americans’ pursuit for civil liberties and social justice.
We hope you’re of the mind that it didn’t. We hope that, at this point in our nation’s
history, King’s life and work have taken on a deeper and broader meaning: that every citizen — not just a privileged majority — have the freedom to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
And we don’t believe we’re alone in seeing the holiday as a commemoration of civil liberties and social justice for every American, rather than for those of African-American descent only. The holiday should commemorate the trials and triumphs of every race, ability, sexual identity, belief and ideal, along with their right to be shared, heard and challenged.
There’s no doubt that our nation has pro-gressed. Identities were changed, outlooks altered and lives were improved. That’s not to say, however, that we’re “done.”
We believe much of the work that has yet to be completed will be accomplished in hearts and minds of American citizens, rather than through further legislation and policy changes.
Holes and weaknesses in policies deserve to be addressed, and when and where you become aware of them, we hope you’ll speak up.
However, we also feel sure that a majority of the work that is left to be done will involve explaining to your employers and employ-ees, neighbors, local leaders, family mem-bers and friends that you can’t let inequality pass by unnoticed. Nor will you tolerate it to thrive in the minds of those around you or to permeate the culture of your classrooms, dormitories, apartments, houses or work-places unchallenged.
It shouldn’t take marches and rallies on Capitol Hill or a bunch of black men stand-ing up to firefighters wielding fire hoses to convince someone to treat another with the respect they deserve, simply for being a member of the human race.
It falls to each of us, though, to keep ste-reotypes and prejudices from persevering — to standing up to others when sugges-tive remarks or double entendres are made about someone they see as “other,” because, until we do, nothing will change, and the oppressed will either suffer in silence or risk everything to stand up for what matters most in life: freedom.
Enette Dumerin sits on the floor of a C-17 Globemaster with her twins Carlebre Dumerin, left, and Jeff Dumerin, both 3, as the family departs Port-au-Prince’s airport Sunday, aboard a flight from McChord Air Force Base. The plane and crew participated in a massive airlift of personnel and relief supplies into earthquake-damaged Haiti. The people aboard were flown to Orlando, Fla. Photo: Joshua Trujillo/The Associated Press
Steve Adams is a graduate student in journalism and mass communication from Annapolis, Md.
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How much education does one really need? Have we all been that poorly educated that we’re unsure on pregnancy prevention? I would think that most people, even high school age, know where babies come from and what a condom is.
— “Jack W”
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 | Iowa State Daily | OPINION | 7Editor Sophie Prell | [email protected] | 515.294.6768
You have heard it before. “No one is hiring.” “The job market is
bad.” “Unemployment rates are soaring.”For those of us in Career Ser-vices who work with students preparing to graduate in the next year, we are concerned about this perception of a poor job market. Let’s clear the air and get a realistic picture of what the job market looks like for those of you who are engaged in job and intern-ship seeking.
It may be true that soon-to-be graduates face a more difficult market. But, if you are wondering to yourself “Is there still a market for me as a college graduate?” — the an-swer is yes. The previous five years may have, in fact, been a “seller’s market” for graduat-ing college seniors. Informa-tion released Jan. 8 from the Department of Labor shows the unemployment rate at 10.5 percent for high school graduates without any college education. For college gradu-ates, that number drops to 5 percent. Therefore, 95 percent of all college graduates have jobs.
According to a poll released on Jan. 6 from the National Association of Col-leges and Employers, “the index for college hiring stands at 98.2 — up from 87.2 in the November poll.” Accord-ing to the NACE executive director Marilyn Mackes, “There are signs that college hiring has turned the corner and has stopped receding, as we’ve seen improvement in the hiring index for the third consecutive month.” Jobs for college graduates are still in demand. Let me also respond to those of you who are aware of jobs in various sectors be-ing eliminated. Many of those job losses are mid- to upper-level management positions — not the entry-level type of positions graduates are
seeking. We recently met with a Fortune 100 firm that told us, “You are going to see some additional layoffs from us, but that does not affect college recruiting.”
My first bit of advice to those currently job seeking is to change your outlook. Be ac-tive and engaged in campus recruiting activities. When a student tells me they have looked high and low and ex-hausted all of their resources, it’s usually not the case. Look-ing on one job board or ap-plying to 10 positions doesn’t cut it. A comprehensive job search includes a variety of job-seeking methods like net-working, connecting alumni, professional organizations and informational interviews.
Don’t get left behind. Pay close attention to what is happening on campus this spring and get involved in the career-related events, such as career fairs, mock interviews, opportunities, career presen-tations and more. There are several career fairs in the very near future for the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Business, Design, Engineering and Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Not sure where to start? If you are brand new to job seeking, you are not expected to know it all. Make an ap-pointment with your college’s specific career services office and get on the road to a suc-cessful and productive job search.
A list of each career services office can be found at www.career.iastate.edu.
Tammy Stegman is a career coordinator in the College of Business, Raisbeck Career Services Center.
Look harder for success
Job Seekers:
The two years I spent as an AmeriCorps Volunteer in Service to America were two of the best years of my life. VISTA is a national service program, similar to the Peace Corps but based in the United States. I recently became an AmeriCorps alumna, but vol-unteerism will forever remain an important part of my life.
While working at my placement at the Volunteer Center of Story County, I had the opportunity to work with The 10,000 Hours Show, a vol-unteer recruitment and recog-nition program. Young people volunteer for 10 hours in the Ames/Story County commu-nity to help fill needs and as-sist non-profit organizations, and then are rewarded with a concert attended only by these volunteers. I participat-ed the past two years and felt
a great solidarity with other volunteers at the concert.
With poverty rates rising, more people relying on food pantries and services and more non-profits in need of volunteers, we have the opportunity to make great strides in our communities.
From 5–9 p.m. Wednesday in the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union, you will have the opportunity to ex-plore what needs are out there at a volunteer fair co-hosted by The 10,000 Hours Show and the Volunteer Center of Story County.
I think you’ll find 10 hours is nothing when you know you are making a huge differ-ence in someone’s life.
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Amanda Martinis an AmeriCorps VISTA alumna.
Single-player games have always been a draw for me. Maybe I’m just
a lonely type of person who needs a lot of “me” time, but the inclusion of multiplayer has rarely been something I would classify as enticing.
You can imagine then that I was less than enthused when I found out the Assassin’s Creed series will be getting a multi-player installment.
As seen on IGN, Ubisoft plans to release an episode of Assassin’s Creed with “an online multiplayer mode.” The title apparently features Ezio from Assassin’s Creed II in some way, though I struggle to see how the feature is going to be imple-mented.
I mean ... You’re as assassin, right? Shouldn’t you be sneaky in your assassinating? All I can picture in my head is a dozen white-robed murderers leaping dramatically from rooftop to rooftop, corpse-humping their target once it’s fallen lifeless to the ground. That sound histori-cally accurate to you?
“Aye, ‘twas the Minister who was murdered. We saw the fiend, gliding through the moonless night like a shadow darker than pitch, yet his cloth burning bright as any star. We only caught a moment of the horror he committed upon the body as we came ‘round the corner. He was ... well ... he was ... repeatedly kneeling and standing above the Minister’s
face, howling like a madman ‘Tea bag! Tea bag!” he screamed.
To be fair, I would never have thought the Metal Gear Solid series capable of a strong multiplayer experience until I bought Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence. And of course, that only got better with the release of Guns of the Patriots.
But still, I’m not sure I understand this drive for multiplayer. Playing with some angsty tween over Xbox Live as they shout into their headset about how much [edit] I [edit] because my mother [edit] with [edit] car battery isn’t exactly my idea of a fun time.
It’s not that I dislike multi-player itself, but as someone who grew up scrunched up on the couch next to the people I was playing with — you know, close enough to physically touch them — I can’t say I get the same joy from playing online.
More and more develop-ers are ditching split-screen game play in their pursuit of the online demographic, and it leaves a lot of us who grew up with NES, Genesis and the like in the cold.
Developers have to spend plenty of extra time to create a polished multiplayer experi-
ence, and I don’t fault them for that. If you’re going to do some-thing, you might as well do it well. But what about games that didn’t need multiplayer in the first place?
Bioshock was critically-acclaimed for its well-written story, intriguing and well-conceptualized setting and solid game play which was both engaging and intuitive in a genre stuffed to the gills with generic crap.
It wasn’t the lengthiest game out there, but it certainly held your attention and was more than satisfying. It didn’t need multiplayer.
Similarly, Resident Evil 4 turned the stale, nigh-abandoned horror series on its head, bringing new twists and fresh game play to the table. It slammed the game down upon the dinner plates and shouted with almost terrifying glee, “Eat!”
It didn’t need multiplayer.But enter Resident Evil 5,
complete with ‘roid-rage’ Chris Redfield, eye candy — and dumb as rocks — sidekick and co-op multiplayer.
Now I don’t know about you, but when I’m playing a survival-horror game, I like to get in the mood. I like to let myself get scared. I like to feel alone and vulnerable. It’s a sensation you just can’t get with someone buzzing in your ear via headsets.
Not only that, but Resident Evil 5’s story campaign was considerably shorter than its predecessor’s, likely due in part to development time necessary for implementing a second character and the online multi-player function.
The future for gaming lies in harnessing the power of online. That much is beyond a doubt. But not every game warrants the inclusion of a multiplayer component — and of those that do, not all remember some of us prefer the company of live human beings — and I hope developers who choose to pursue this goal remember they still have an audience of one eager to sit at home, relax and enjoy some quality entertain-ment.
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Online not always betterThis column appears courtesy of Sophie Prell’s blog, “G3 — A Girl’s Guide to Gaming.” You can find links to “G3” on iowastatedaily.com or via her Facebook fan page.
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Just when the Cyclones needed her the most, Iowa State’s senior guard Alison Lacey demon-strated why she will be recognized as one of the best basketball players to play for Iowa State.
Lacey scored a season-high 32 points and grabbed eight rebounds in Iowa State’s (13–3, 1–2 Big 12) 68–62 victory over Colorado (11–5, 1–2). Twenty-six of those points came in the second half, including a late-game surge where she scored 16 of Iowa State’s final 18 points, paving the way for an impressive and much-needed win.
“The way [Lacey] played — especially in the sec-ond half — was as good as any 20 minutes any Iowa State player has ever had,” said coach Bill Fennelly. “She had 26 in the second half, didn’t turn the ball over and then at the other end, too, she was our best defender on the floor. Certainly a phenomenal ef-fort by her at a time when we really needed it.”
Lacey’s remarkable performance was not the only positive to come out of Saturday’s victory. Of-fensively, Iowa State bounced back after two disap-pointing conference games. Throughout the first 13 games of the season, scoring did not appear to be a problem for the Cyclones. Led by strong guard play, Iowa State averaged nearly 75 points per game.
However, once conference play started, the Cy-
clones slumped to scoring an average of 47 points in two Big 12 games. The first half of Saturday’s game looked as if it may be another offensive struggle as the Cyclones shot only 29 percent from the field. Despite the slow start, the Cyclones still managed to turn things around and shot a 51.7 percent from the field, including 5-of-9 from the 3-point line.
After Saturday’s 68-point performance, the Cy-clones find themselves with a perfect opportunity to move forward and regain their offensive strength.
“We were obviously better [Saturday night], but if you look at our numbers in the conference, we’ve got to score more in the post. Our field goal percent-age needs to continue to come [up] a little bit,” Fen-nelly said. “I think we’re getting the shots we want to get, we just [have] to finish them better.”
Now standing at 1–2 in the conference, the Cy-clones remain optimistic that they’ll remain con-tenders in the Big 12. History proves that the Cy-clones may be right, as this season marks the fifth
consecutive time they’ve started Big 12 play at 1–2.“1–2 is not where you want to be,” Fennelly said.
“But it’s a very balanced league and hopefully the 1–2 start is not where we go, but certainly that we should keep improving and have the kind of fin-ishes we’ve had more often than not.”
With upcoming games against Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Texas Tech, the Cyclones have plenty of opportunities to improve offensively be-fore important conference games against Baylor, Nebraska and Oklahoma State, three of the top five teams in the Big 12.
LaceyFennelly
Stat of Week15.9
No. 1 Texas’ scoring margin drop-off from non-conference to Big 12 play. The Longhorns went 14–0 to start the year, winning by an average 25.6 points per game, but that average has dropped to 9.7 points more than their opponents in three conference games.
Game to watchSat., Jan. 23
No. 25 Ohio State (13–5, 3–3 Big Ten) vs. No. 12 West Virginia (13–3, 4–2 Big East)
Ohio State and West Virginia were highly ranked preseason teams that have faced a few setbacks in their supremely difficult Big Ten and Big East schedules, but their non-conference finale will go a long way to see which team wants to earn its postseason bid. The gold standard of inconsistency this season in college basketball, the Buckeyes have been rejuvenated by the return of do-it-all forward Evan Turner, and they’ll need all his skills to leave Morgantown, W.Va., with a victory. The Mountain-eers have lost 3-of-5 after starting 11–0, and the two squads have a common opponent in the Purdue Boilermakers, a team that Ohio State beat on the road, but the Mounties lost to by 15.
AP Top 25 Poll (Jan. 18)1. Texas (57) 17–02. Kentucky (8) 18–03. Kansas 16–14. Villanova 16–15. Syracuse 17–16. Michigan State 15–37. Duke 15–28. Tennessee 14–29. Pittsburgh 15–210. Kansas State 15–211. West Virginia 13–312. Georgetown 13–313. Purdue 14–314. Brigham Young 18–115. Gonzaga 14–316. Temple 15–317. Clemson 15–318. Wisconsin 14–419. Georgia Tech 13–420. Northern Iowa 16–121. Ohio State 13–522. Mississippi 13–423. Mississippi State 15–324. North Carolina 12–625. Baylor 14–2
Women’s Basketball
Lacey leads team to win
By Michael ZoggDaily Staff Writer
The men’s basketball Big 12 road losing streak ended in much the same fashion as the football team’s — in Lincoln, Neb.
After 16 straight road losses, the Cyclones snapped the streak in their first try this season with a 56–53 victory.
“Every time we huddled up I told [the team], ‘Look, we haven’t won a Big 12 road game since be-fore me and [Diante Garrett] were here. It’s time to win one now,’” junior forward Craig Brackins said.
The Big 12 road win, the first such win for any of the eight players that saw time in Saturday’s game, has given the team confidence moving forward.
“We have a road win, so we know we can do it, it’s in our head,” junior guard Lucca Staiger said.
The game got off to a good start for the Cy-
clones, as they ran out to a 12-point lead with 8:22 left in the first half. The Cornhuskers came right back, however, climbing back into the game and taking a two-point lead into the locker room.
The game remained close, but Iowa State was able to pull away at the end thanks to a Garrett steal with less than a minute left and Staiger’s free throw with 16 seconds left to push the lead to three points.
“We found a way to win, and last year or the year before we would have lost the game,” Staiger said.
In fact, the Cyclones lost similar contests this season, dropping back-to-back games against Northwestern and Northern Iowa, 67–65 and 63–60 respectively, in late November and early December.
Although those losses were disappointing for the team, the players believe they have learned from those mistakes.
“We made the right decisions toward the end of the [Nebraska] game, and I think that those close games we lost in the beginning of the year helped us with that,” Staiger said.
The improved decision-making down the stretch points to a stronger mental toughness than the team had shown early in the season.
“It shows that we are growing as a team and we stuck together,” Brackins said. “We didn’t fight each other, and we didn’t let certain calls get to us at the end. I felt the last 20 seconds was probably the strongest we have been as a team together.”
ISU forward LaRon Dendy scores during the Cyclones’ game with Nebraska on Saturday. Dendy scored seven points and had six rebounds in the Cyclones’ 56–53 win over the Cornhuskers. The win snapped a 16-game Big 12 road losing streak for Iowa State. Photo: Nati Harnik/The Associated Press
Boozer out for remainder of season with torn ACL, family discussing recovery options
Brackins Staiger
By Nate SandellDaily Staff Writer
Junior guard Charles Boozer will miss the remain-der of the season due to a torn ACL.
Boozer suffered the knee injury in the first half against Texas last Wednesday.
His injury was originally thought to have been just his knee cap sliding out of place, but an MRI taken Friday morning revealed the tear.
The coaching staff found
out about the test re-sults on the bus ride to Nebraska, but didn’t tell Boozer until later that night.
“We decided rather than ruin his trip and ruin his din-ner, [we’d wait] until we got to the hotel, and then we met with him that night,”coach Greg McDermott said in his weekly press conference
Monday. “We had let the players know, so they knew when he came out of that meeting.”
The team is waiting to decide how to go about han-dling the injury. Boozer has been discussing the recovery process with his family, in-cluding brother and NBA All-Star Carlos Boozer, who had to undergo intensive knee surgery after suffering an in-jury in 2008.
“We have to wait for the swelling to subside before
surgery,” McDermott said. “Obviously with his brother’s situation, he and his family have access to some of the best doctors in the United States.
“Whether they choose to do that or use our medi-cal staff is a decision that the family will make, and that is something they are discuss-ing now.”
Boozer’s injury came only one game after he scored a career-high 19 points against North Dakota State on Jan. 9.
He had played in 16 games until his injury and had been averaging 3.5 points per game.
“Obviously he’s disap-pointed, we’re disappointed. You hate to see that happen to anyone,” McDermott said. “The silver lining is that he feels really good about the way he’d been playing, and I think that will motivate him to really get after this rehab and get him back on the floor as fast as he can.”
Boozer
Colorado’s Brittany Spears shoots over Iowa State’s Alison Lacey in the game Saturday in Boul-der, Colo. Lacey scored 32 points in the 68–62 win. Photo: Cliff Grassmick/The Associated Press
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16-game Big 12 road skid ends with 56–53 win over Nebraska Cornhuskers Saturday
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By Shane LucasDaily Staff Writer
ISU wrestling coach Kevin Jackson acknowledged he has been repeating the same thing over and over again this season, but he views it as a good thing.
The second-ranked Cy-clones (7–2) used a plethora of bonus points to defeat No. 25 Illinois (5–3) by a definitive 33–9 decision at Hilton Coliseum on Saturday night.
“We continue to get better, we continue to make the con-nections, we continue to im-prove each and every time out there,” Jackson said.
Scoring bonus points has been something Jackson has sought all season, but the team hasn’t necessarily come through, especially late in the
matchups.“We got after some points;
scored some back points; [and] tried to major, pin or tech fall ev-eryone that we wrestled,” Jack-son said. “That’s the way you win national championships, scoring points.”
Jon Reader (165) recorded a major decision to put the Cy-clones up 7–0 early, but con-secutive wins by Illinois brought the Illini right back into the mix. Chris Spangler (174), filling in for Duke Burk, was defeated 3–2. Jerome Ward (184) lost to second-ranked John Dergo in a close 2–1 decision, ending his recent hot streak.
However, Jake Varner (197) was able to swing the momen-tum back to the Cyclones with a pin of Illinois’ Patrick Bond, who he also pinned at the Midlands tournament.
“Hopefully a pin sets the tone,” Varner said. “It’s a team ef-fort for everyone to set the tone, but I think it just pumps you up a little more. “
David Zabriskie (HWT) and Andrew Long (125) kept the mo-mentum going with high-scor-ing matches and late takedowns to record a major decision and technical fall, respectively. Nick Fanthorpe (133) followed with a technical fall of his own.
“I was looking to go out there and score a lot of points and hopefully seal in the extra team points we needed to really sepa-rate that gap between us and Illinois,” Long said. “Whenever an opportunity presents itself to keep scoring points, that’s what [Jackson] really preaches us to do.”
Dalton Jensen (141) re-corded the second pin of the night against 10th-ranked Ryan Prater at the 3:27 mark of their matchup.
“I think a guy that continues to impress just with his com-petitiveness and his ability to pin people would be Dalton Jensen,” Jackson said. “We’re excited about where he’s at, es-pecially based on Nick Gallick’s
medical condition.”Jensen trailed 2–0 before a
quick move put Prater on his back and allowed Jensen to re-cord the fall.
“Dalton fought and fought, and when he gets you on your back too many times you don’t get off,” Jackson said.
Regular starters Burk and Mitch Mueller (149) were held out of the meet for medical reasons. Jackson said Burk has “a couple” of injuries that have affected his performances. Mueller tweaked his knee in the rematch with Iowa in the Cliff Keen duals and was given the night off to rest.
The Cyclones will dive into Big 12 duals with Oklahoma on Friday and Oklahoma State on Sunday. Oklahoma is ranked 11th by Intermat, while Okla-homa State sits at the No. 3 spot.
“Those are two tough teams,” Varner said. “We’re go-ing to get ready for that and focus on those matches and hopefully walk away with wins.”
Wrestling
Improvements apparent on mat
Eagerness to winleads to rough play, ISU sweepBy David MerrillDaily Staff Writer
Pete Majkozak saved the Cyclones from back-to-back losses with two late goals in the Cyclones’ game one victory over Michigan-Dearborn on Friday night.
In game two, the Cyclones (18–8–3) were able to pull away from UM-D in the final two pe-riods, winning by a score of 5–3.
“We beat a very good team there,” said coach Al Murdoch.
“A very well coached team. They gave us all we could handle.”
Tensions flared at the 7:28 mark in the first period of game two when a Dearborn player was checked into the board and his teammate felt the hit was dirty and flew in to defend him.
No players were ejected, but junior forward Cort Bulloch was hit with a roughing penalty. This seemed to fire the Cyclones up, as less than 30 seconds later se-nior defenseman Brent Corne-lius scored from the right-hand point on an assist from fresh-man defenseman Justin Wilkin-son. This gave the Cyclones a 1–0 lead with 7:20 left in the first period.
Iowa State almost escaped
the first period without a goal against them, but the Wolves’ freshman forward Rob Zubke fired a slap shot from their right-hand point that bounced off the leg pad of ISU junior goaltender Erik Hudson and into the back of the net.
The teams headed to the locker room, the score dead-locked at 1–1.
Between periods, Murdoch stressed the importance of play-ing heads-up hockey, playing the man and playing the body.
Junior forward Brandon Clark didn’t wait long to get things started in the second period as he took the puck and scored unassisted just 1:30 into the period, beating the goalten-
der glove side and putting the Cyclones up 2–1.
Dearborn answered back with 8:46 left in the second peri-od on Zubke’s second goal of the game, evening the score at 2–2.
Four minutes later, junior defenseman Brady Irwin fed the puck to junior forward Chris Mackay at the blue line. Mackay skated the rest of the way un-contested and beat the goalten-der stick side.
One minute later, Wilkinson took part in his second assist along with Brian Rooney; they connected with Derek Behrman in front of the net to put the Cy-clones up 4–2 with 4:20 left in the second period.
The emotions, which had
been on the verge of boiling throughout the game, finally spilled over with 12:32 remain-ing in the third period when a skirmish broke out involving Clark, Mackay, Nick Larsen, Hudson and Behrman as well as a number of other players from Michigan-Dearborn.
“I don’t think it was anything dirty,” Mackay said. “Both teams just wanted it really bad and are going to be more aggres-sive around the net. It’s a rough game.”
Junior defenseman Pat Condon joined the scoring party with 7:14 remaining in the game, taking the puck off some deflections and buried from the right hand point, beating the
goalie stick side. This put the Cy-clones up 5–2.
The Wolves weren’t done scoring as sophomore defender Mark Bekkala took a shot paral-lel from the left post of the goal and was able to bounce it off Hudson’s stick and the opposite post, into the net, cutting the score to 5–3 with five minutes left in the game.
Michigan-Dearborn put one more on goal when the Wolves pulled their goalie, making the final score 6–3 to complete the ISU sweep.
“I think the team has been working hard,” Clark said. “We kept things simple, crashed in a lot and bumped the body around.”
Emotions drive Cyclones to victoryHockey
ISU senior Jake Varner wrestles Patrick Bond of Illinois. The Cy-clones beat the Illini 33–9. Photo: Gene Pavelko/Iowa State Daily
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Mourning-Wade fund raises more than $800,000 for Haitian earthquake relief
MIAMI (AP) — Calling the initial wave of support “over-whelming,” the Haitian earth-quake relief fund co-founded by Alonzo Mourning and Heat star Dwyane Wade said Monday its pledge total has surpassed $800,000.
Wade’s donation was a one-game salary, about $175,000, while Mourning, LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Chris Paul each pledged $100,000, fund of-ficials said. The “Athletes Relief Fund for Haiti” began soliciting from pro athletes Friday.
“I expected nothing less from my friends and colleagues in the sports community,” Wade said in a release. “Our commit-
ment to this cause knows no bounds, and we will continue to accept any and all donations throughout the days ahead.”
Mourning spent about 36 hours in Haiti last week, travel-ing with Miami-based Project Medishare, which has worked to bring health care to the nation for about 15 years. The retired All-Star worked at a makeshift hospital and assisted rescue workers and first responders in the devastated capital of Port-au-Prince get badly needed supplies like water, food and medical equipment.
Mourning plans to return to Haiti on Tuesday. The Heat have also continued efforts to raise
money and collect donations for the region.
“The response from our col-leagues has been overwhelm-ing,” Mourning said. “We accept these donations with complete confidence that Project Medis-hare will put each dollar to quick and efficient use.”
Project Medishare was started in the mid-1990s by prominent Miami doctors Barth Green and Arthur Fourni-er, both of whom have ties to Mourning. They helped arrange for him to go to Haiti last week, and the idea for the fund was quickly born.
Among the other NBA play-ers announced as donors: Gil-
bert Arenas, Al Horford, Antho-ny Parker, Kenyon Martin, J.R. Smith, Carmelo Anthony, Ben Gordon, Mike Dunleavy, Mi-chael Beasley, Udonis Haslem, Quentin Richardson, Devin Harris, Michael Finley, Chris Bosh, Carlos Boozer, Ronnie Brewer and Caron Butler.
Many of the NBA donors so far have played with or are close friends with Wade, who said last week he was trying to get word to every player in the league about the cause. Several other players, including Philadelphia’s Samuel Dalembert, are organiz-ing fundraising efforts of their own, and NBA itself has pledged money for Haitian relief.
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Gemini: Work independently.Today’s Birthday: (1/19/2010) Relax into responsibilities now. With less focus on exotic travels or relationships and more on financial and career objectives, you find yourself developing a flare for thriftiness without seeming to pinch pennies. A generally sober year is sprinkled with contentment.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 5 -- Today is filled with unexpected surprises. The only thing you know for sure is that you need rest to avoid stress. Give yourself permission.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 5 -- An associate requests your presence and the application of energy to a problem. Respond with your ideas and help your friend stay focused.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 5 -- You’ll get a lot more done if you can work independently today. Repair equipment or review work completed previously. You sense a
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Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 5 -- Take little steps. Test each deci-sion as you go along. That way, you won’t have to go back and fix anything. Get together with a female later.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 5 -- Progress is made today, but it may not become evident until later. Your thinking moves away from the group and takes a new path. Wait for results.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 5 -- Hook up with your partner first thing in the morning and remain connected throughout the day. Stress-ful incidents require support from someone you love.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 5 -- You feel limited concerning emotional possibilities. Others provoke arguments in social situations. Your mission is to reserve your points for a more favorable moment.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 5 -- No success comes without
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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 5 -- Do your own thing and stay out of trouble. You have plenty on your plate, and you can manage nicely. You don’t need outside input right now.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 5 -- You don’t want to hear what others have to say. Still, if you adjust your thinking a tiny bit, you gain compassion for their position.
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easier to decide who I don’t like.
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Three vampires walk into a bar. The bartender looks at him suspiciously,
but decides to serve them anyway. “What’ll be, boys?”
The first vampire says “Blood. Give me blood.”
The second vampire says “I too wish for blood!”
The third vampire says “Give me plasma.”
The Bartender smiles and says “Got it. Two bloods, and a blood-light.”
An attorney ran over to the office of his client. “I can’t believe it!” said the
angered attorney. “You sent a case of Dom Perignon to the judge in our
case? That judge is as straight as an arrow. Now we’re certain to lose this
case!” “Relax,” said the client, “I sent it in the prosecutor’s name.”
There were two guys working. One would dig a hole -- he would dig, dig,
dig.
The other would come behind him and fill the hole -- fill, fill, fill. These
two men worked furiously; one digging a hole, the other filling it up
again.
A man was watching from the sidewalk and couldn’t believe how hard
these men were working, but couldn’t understand what they were doing.
Finally he had to ask them.
He said to the hole digger, “I appreciate how hard you work, but what are
you doing? You dig a hole and your partner comes behind you and fills it
up again!”
The hole digger replied, “Oh yeah, must look funny, but the guy who
plants the trees is sick today.”
A very shy guy goes into a bar and sees a beautiful woman sitting at the
other end. After an hour of gathering up his courage he finally goes over
to her and asks, tentatively, “Um, would you mind if I chatted with you
for a while?” To which she responds by yelling, at the top of her lungs,
“No, I won’t sleep with you tonight!” By now, the entire bar is staring
at them. Naturally, the guy is hopelessly and completely embarrassed
and he slinks back to his table. After a few minutes, the woman walks
over to him and apologizes. She smiles at him and says, “I’m sorry if I
embarrassed you. You see, I’m a graduate student in psychology and I’m
studying how people respond to embarrassing situations.” To which he
responds, at the top of his lungs, “What do you mean $200!”
their robots. Each program ma-neuvered a different part of the table.
Every team competed in three matches. The score from the best match was used for the final scoring. FLL’s best score was 310 out of 400 points.
Both parts of the competi-tion were equally important, said coordinator and announc-er Brandon Newendorp, gradu-ate student in human computer interaction.
Robots designed for the competition were required to be completely autonomous. They were previously programmed
to maneuver a 4-feet-by-8-feet table with obstacles and chal-lenges.
The participants learned how to program the robots with sensors to detect the objects they needed to move or retrieve.
The research portion of the competition had three main aspects: identify a problem — in this case, dealing with transpor-tation — find a creative and in-novative way to solve the prob-lem and present a solution.
Teamwork and professional-ism were also factors. The com-petition was about the whole package, Newendorp said.
FLL chose the dangers of texting and driving for its re-search project.
First, the team gathered in-
formation from the Web, local professionals and polls taken at its high school, which members then put into a presentation.
Posters and hand-outs were distributed, discouraging tex-ting while driving, along with publishing articles in the school newspaper and The Des Moines Register.
In the competition presenta-tion, members informed spec-tators and judges that drivers are 23 times more likely to get into a crash if they are texting.
Students presented a video they had edited, and performed a rap about safe driving and tex-ting habits.
Finally, every team present-ed its robot to a panel of judges. Teams were asked questions about the structure of the robot and the programs it ran on.
FLL members said their ro-bot’s most unique aspect was the treads they used in place of wheels for some of the table course maneuvers.
The day’s excitement ended with the closing ceremony. ISU a capella vocal group Shy of a Dozen performed, raffle prizes were given away and “the wave” even made an appearance.
Awards were given in several categories, and the final cham-pionship award was based on every aspect of the competition: teamwork, research, the robot and professionalism.
The winning team received an invitation to the World Festi-val that will take place in April in Atlanta, Ga.
The Data Dragons from Omaha, Neb., took first place, followed by the Mount Vernon Robostangs in second place and the Robo Cards from Maquo-keta in third place.
“It’s a fabulous and broad ex-perience for the kids,” said par-ent Helene Bergen. “I’ve never seen something like it, with the programming, teamwork and service projects. I think it’s great.”
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LEGOSfrom PAGE 1
“I believe that less is more when it comes to content and that analyzing and really inter-nalizing the content is more im-portant,” Grudens-Schuck said.
Clyde Walter Jr., professor of logistics operations and man-agement information systems, said he uses one custom-made
textbook for one course and a textbook for another.
“It was just that the previ-ous instructors thought that the authors of one book did a better job with one section and the au-thors of another book did a bet-ter job with another major sec-tion, so the publisher allowed them to pick and choose chap-ters and so they did,” he said on the custom-made book for his LSCM 360 course.
He said the textbook for his principles of transporta-tion course is necessary for the course.
“I think it’s important to have some defined body of knowl-edge as defined by something written down,” Walter said. “That’s probably the beauty of textbooks ... they are generally a very good compilation of the knowledge necessary in one area of study.”
TEXTBOOKSfrom PAGE 1
Paxton Williams, an Iowa State alumnus, played the role of George Washington Carver for the evening.
He walked down the central aisle of the auditorium, all the while shaking hands with children and laughing at their antics.
“Look then over, the wise and the great, they take their food from a com-mon plate,” he said. “You are the handi-cap you must face.”
Williams said afterward he tried to focus his message on the commonali-ties between people who were consid-ered great and ordinary people.
“That’s from a poem called ‘Equip-ment’ written by Edward Guest,” he said to the crowd. “It’s one of my favor-ites.”
Williams, who also spoke at the vol-unteer event earlier Monday, said he wanted people to understand the link between Carver and King.
Carver was asked to help develop a special diet for Gandhi who often fasted for political reasons and Gandhi was a well known hero of King’s.
He was impressed by the people who showed up to volunteer for the community garden.
“They didn’t have to be there and do what they did, just like Dr. King didn’t have to do what he did,” Williams said with a pause after being approached by a young girl who wanted to shake his hand. “That’s what I love about this job,” he said with a smile.
Williams said one of the reasons he performed as Carver was to help peo-ple remember to whom they owed the comforts of their lives and the freedoms they are afforded.
“I think, sadly, we forget what the things that we’ve got cost to the people who got them for us,” he said. “I think that’s what makes this day great.”
MLKfrom PAGE 1
Seth Sauceda, 8, of Ames picks up a piece of cake before the celebration for Martin Luther King Jr. Day begins Monday at Ames Middle School. Photo: Karuna Ang/Iowa State Daily
Children exit down from the stage after their performance for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration Monday at Ames Middle School. Photo: Karuna Ang/Iowa State Daily
The number and type of textbooks used, if any, by professors can drastically change from course to course for a variety of reasons. Photo: Christine Naulty/Iowa State Daily
Paxton Williams, an ISU alumnus, portrays George Washington Carver on Monday. He quoted the poem “Equipment” by Edward Guest as part of his performance. Photo: Karuna Ang/Iowa State Daily
Reese Atkinson, 4, of Ames, eats his slice of cake before the celebration for Martin Luther King Jr. Day begins Monday at Ames Middle School. Photo: Karuna Ang/Iowa State Daily
