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Coming off several successful sea-sons across the board — Elite Eight berth for volleyball, Pinstripe Bowl for football, NCAA tournament berth for men’s and women’s basketball — the ISU athletic department has decided to change its season ticket package for students heading into
2012-13.Though the changes are not nu-
merous, they also aren’t necessarily minor. As of last Tuesday, students have the option — as they have for several years — to bundle their season tickets to football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, volleyball, wres-tling and gymnastics into one package for $249.
The football tickets will be avail-
able by themselves for $125, as well as the Cy’s Pass — a bundle of women’s basketball, volleyball, wrestling and gymnastics — for $30. The change, this year, comes with men’s basket-ball, which for the first time will not be available individually and can only be purchased through the All Sports Package.
“We offered it last year, on a single package deal, just for men’s basket-
ball,” said ISU Director of Ticket Operations Justin Thompson, when asked what went into the decision to not make men’s basketball tickets available individually. “We looked at it and we only sold 50. There wasn’t a demand for that. That was all we sold last year.
“The overwhelming majority of
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Allison Sheets, left, freshman in kinesiology, and Taylor Richardson, freshman in apparel, merchandising and design, run out of Lake LaVerne following their turn in Greek Week’s Polar Bear Plunge on Saturday. Polar Bear Plunge involves members of the greek community raising money via sponsors for Special Olympics Iowa and teaming up to jump into Lake LaVerne wearing outrageous costumes. Most of the groups have themed costumes. This year’s themes included ’80s, ’90s, Dance Marathon Teal and splatter paint, pictured above.
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U.S. Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel will host a lecture at noon Monday in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.VanRoekel is the second chief information officer of the United States and is also an alumnus of Iowa State, earning a degree in management of information systems. Before he worked in his position at the White House, he worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development as managing director of the Federal Communications Commission. He also worked in the private sector at Microsoft Corporation.VanRoekel was appointed to be the chief information officer by President Barack Obama in 2011. According to the CIO website, VanRoekel’s job is to “optimize federal government information resources and investments; adopt and share best IT manage-ment practices and manage risk and ensure privacy and security,” among other duties.A reception will precede the lecture at 11:30 a.m. There is no cost to attend.
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Schmittmann assumes role as liberal arts, sciences dean
This year, Iowa State is in the midst of welcoming and saying goodbye to many faculty members who are changing positions. Most recently, it has welcomed the new dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Beate Schmittmann.
Schmittmann, former profes-sor and chairwoman of the depart-ment of physics at Virginia Tech University, officially takes the posi-tion of the new dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on Monday.
“I really like the feel of a large col-lege of liberal arts and sciences. It has that diversity ... I really like the breadth of the college and the wealth of opportunities it offers. That really speaks to me,” Schmittmann said about Iowa State’s LAS college.
Schmittmann began to move into the area on March 19 and has been trying to come in to the college a little every day in an effort, she said, to “get my feet on the ground.”
The announcement of Schmittmann as the new dean came in December and the transition from interim dean David Oliver to Schmittmann began.
“Everybody is going to be nuts about Dean Schmittmann, she’s go-ing to be a fantastic dean,” Oliver said.
Oliver has held the role of inter-im dean since Michael Whiteford retired from the position last spring.
“David has obviously done a ter-rific job keeping the college on the road and running smoothly for al-most a year,” Schmittmann said. “I still have a lot to learn and David will continue to be on the team for the foreseeable future, so I can draw on
his experience and his understand-ing of the history of the college.”
Oliver will work closely with Schmittmann in the coming months to make the transition as smooth as possible.
“At the end of the summer, she’s going to have to make some deci-sions about how she wants to reor-ganize the administration,” Oliver said. “She’s very wisely waiting until she has a pretty good understanding
By Katelynn.McCollough @iowastatedaily.com
Photo: Emily Harmon/Iowa State DailyBeate Schmittmann will become the next College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean on Monday. Schmittmann, originally from Germany, made her way to Iowa State from Virginia Tech’s physics department.
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The Campustown Action Association is striving to change the way ISU students and people in the Ames community view Campustown.
“We want to create a logo for Campustown because it will help create a more consistent image and a more cohesive feeling neighborhood,” said Ryan Jeffrey, vice president of CAA and owner of Arcadia.
The area’s image among commu-nity members played a major role in
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of what’s happening.”At the moment,
Schmittmann has scheduled meetings with department and program chairpersons within the college as a way of “getting to know them ... talk-ing about their needs and some of their interests and strategic initiatives.”
Schmittmann hopes to dis-cover new ways the college can help each department become more effective.
“It’s going to be a very full month and then, in the sum-mer, we’ve called for hiring proposals from the depart-ments,” Schmittmann said. “We’ll be looking at those proposals over the coming months and shape some stra-tegic initiatives for the college and then we hope to do some new hiring in the coming year.”
Schmittmann plans to have an “in-depth” conversation in the coming month with ISU President Steven Leath to see where they want the college to go as well as the importance of the role of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
“My sense is that the col-lege does such a great job educating its students, and the university as a whole does such a great job, I would feel very, very comfortable going out there spreading the word that Iowa State is a great place to come,” Schmittmann said on her hopes to increase the recruitment of students to the college.
Schmittmann said she feels it is important to get to know and meet students in the coming months. She also said that any student is welcome to stop by her office at Catt Hall and introduce themselves.
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our students want both, so we developed this package for those that want to purchase both.”
Of those 50 tickets Thompson mentioned as be-ing sold apart from the All Sports Package, approximate-ly 30 went to the ISU pep band that plays during games.
With such a small amount, Thompson, along with ISU Athletic Director Jamie Pollard — who addressed last Wednesday night’s ISU Government of the Student Body meeting about the new package — felt the package made sense.
In addition, Thompson and Pollard, who met with both GSB and Cyclone Alley representatives to gauge the students’ feelings, felt men’s basketball attendance needed a boost.
Thompson said 2,530 sea-son tickets were sold for men’s basketball — which sold out in July 2011 in record time — but the average student atten-dance to men’s games was only 40 percent of that. Compare that to football, which sold 7,847 student tickets and saw 70 percent average attendance.
“Basketball is the biggest concern, as far as student at-tendance,” Thompson said. “For football, when you look at those sections for football stu-dents this year, the attendance was good. Those sections were full for most all those games, and they remained full later in the season.
“Basketball attendance is the bigger number, because as everybody noticed, it was very low.”
Outgoing Cyclone Alley co-chairman Alex Jenson had a few examples when asked why he though student atten-dance was low throughout a
season in which the Cyclones returned to the NCAA tourna-ment for the first time since 2005 and featured a player in Royce White, who will likely go in the first round of June’s NBA draft.
In another change, the once-mandatory Cyclone Alley T-shirt will still be dis-tributed but not required to sit in the lower seats of the student section at games. The shirts, he said, were a big culprit.
“First off, the T-shirt re-quirement was bugging a few
people on being able to get to games,” Jenson said. “Are we going to see that increase at-tendance by 30 percent? No, but it’s a small fraction and ev-ery small fraction counts.
“The other thing, with the balcony not being full, was we had 2,500 tickets sold, [but] not every student can come to every game. Things come up; I’ve got to work, a family emer-gency. Things like that, it’s a constant battle between where you draw the line for what your priorities are.”
Between selling tickets to other students and the ease of doing so with the electronic ticket system on AccessPlus, Jenson said he thinks that stu-dents will be able to deal with having to buy men’s basketball tickets within the All Sports Package.
Jenson said he feels for those who bought separately, but there’s a bigger picture to be seen.
“I think everybody will be OK,” Jenson said. “I do feel bad for those 20-something that did buy basketball tickets, but you’ve got to look at the grand scheme of things.”
The remedy Thompson, Pollard and others came up with to get the extra boost is to oversell men’s basketball tickets by as much as 50 percent.
Thompson said the prac-tice is used by Kansas and Kansas State as well. The the-ory, Thompson said, is if more tickets are available, more students will be able to come to games on a first come, first served basis.
“There’s not really a set number, it’s kind of going to be set off the flow of our sales,” Thompson said. “Access to men’s basketball will be on a first come, first served basis. Pretty much, we really encour-age students to arrive early to the games. Get there early if you want to be guaranteed admission.
“It’ll be something we han-dle on a game-by-game basis. If we get to that point ... people that come late that try to get in, unfortunately won’t be able to get in for those games.”
That possibility, said GSB president-elect Jared Knight, is unacceptable. Knight said when Thompson and Pollard
spoke with the Athletics Advisory Council about the new strategy, he expressed concern.
Knight wondered why stu-dents would be willing to pay for something that isn’t guar-anteed, especially with the limited funds they sometimes have.
“I think what athletics is doing makes sense to them, but I don’t think it’s necessar-ily what’s best,” Knight said. “What [they want] to do is oversell the student section, maybe go to [3,000] or 4,000 tickets, so theoretically only half those people show up, so 2,000 people still come, but there are 2,500 seats in the student section, so it’s more full. That I’m concerned about, because if you buy a season ticket you should get in to ev-ery game.
“Why would I pay for a tick-et if I’m not guaranteed admis-sion to the game?”
Knight also pointed to the culture around ISU basketball as another reason against the oversell strategy.
Programs like Kansas and Kansas State are able to make
an oversell strategy work, Knight said, because the de-mand is clearly there, based on a number of factors.
“Frankly, though, this is not Kansas,” Knight said. “It’s a dif-ferent culture here.
“At this point, Iowa State basketball is not so far above the students that we can charge people for something they’re never going to access. And hopefully Iowa State bas-ketball will never be at a point where they’re above the stu-dents. Students are paying for tickets and they should be able to access them.”
Jenson, though, is defi-nitely in favor of the oversell strategy. The outgoing co-chairman said “it’s a tough situation” since the strategy is brand-new.
He used the Kansas and Kansas State examples as pos-itives — as opposed to Knight’s view — and only sees the non-guarantee of seats be a prob-lem in a few instances.
“It’s not like we’re the only ones that are going to do it,” Jenson said. “I think we’re only going to see it be an issue at a few games. If [Iowa State is] ranked and Kansas is ranked, you’re going to see that.
“Overselling is going to be a good thing for our basketball program. It’ll get people there. As we saw last year, when we stopped selling tickets, there were students who couldn’t get tickets. So now overselling will get all those students there. Overselling will only increase our attendance and hopefully increase the percentages of attendance.”
While Knight said he can’t agree with the notion that a ticket isn’t guaranteed and said to turn people away is “un-acceptable,” Jenson countered with the fact that Kansas does so at each home game.
Jenson said it would be a “disappointing” situation for those fans and if he heard it happened next year, he’d defi-nitely feel for those that were turned away.
But the bottom line for Jenson is turning fans away is ultimately a positive in terms of popularity and interest in ISU basketball.
“It’s something that, it sucks,” Jenson said. “It’s ter-rible and unfortunate that peo-ple would have to get turned away, but at the same time it means there’s a demand for our tickets — and that’s a good thing.”
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File photo: Grace Steenhagen/Iowa State DailyCyclone Alley reacts to a call during the Cyclones’ 72-70 win against Kansas State on Jan. 31. The athletic department is not offering men’s basketball tickets in a single package for next season. Instead, students must purchase the All Sports Package.
Racism, sexism, classism, religious big-otry and every other conceivable kind of prejudice abound in the world. One
doesn’t have to look very far for examples.This newspaper got into hot water after two
comments in the “Just Sayin’” section referred to ground squirrels or chipmunks as “squin-teys” in keeping with old Des Moines River Valley Iowan terminology.
Last week, the University of Texas at Austin’s newspaper got into similar trouble after it ran a cartoon about the Trayvon Martin incident.
In that cartoon, a mother reads to her child out of a book called “Treyvon [sic] Martin and The Case of Yellow Journalism” the words, “And then the Big Bad White man killed the handsome, sweet, colored boy!!”
New York City wants to remove words from standardized tests that “could evoke unpleas-ant emotions in the students” taking them. They want to avoid words that describe topics controversial among adults or that “might not be acceptable in a state-mandated testing situ-ation” or if “the topic appears biased against (or toward) some group of people.”
Journalism is often described as the fourth branch of government. The job of a reporter is to use facts to provide a check on the misuse of power. Without facts, people cannot make their own judgments for themselves.
Columnists evaluate those facts and provide an educated opinion that others might read and take something from. Cartoonists caricaturize current events and tell us some things about ourselves that we didn’t want to know.
The fun part about being a columnist or a cartoonist is that we, unlike reporters, are not constrained by facts. We get to talk about truth.
Truth, as opposed to mere fact, implies faithfulness to the spirit of something. Where facts are about knowing raw data, truth is about making some sense of it. All the knowledge in the world is useless to a person without a single grain of understanding. The ability to act on an event or piece of knowledge comes from the sense a person can make of it, not the event or knowledge itself.
We learn truth, for instance, from novels and movies and moralizing stories. Factual accuracy has nothing to do with it. Indeed, em-phasizing factual details might even obstruct the search for truth.
Nobody thought that Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” was suggesting that the Irish could solve their problems of famine and starvation by eating all their babies. Yet that is exactly what the text of his pamphlet said: “I rather recommend buying the children alive, and dressing them hot from the knife, as we do roasting pigs,” in order to provide for the desti-tute people of Ireland.
Heaven forbid that we have to think for half a minute about what a reporter, columnist, cartoonist or any other author, artist or speaker is trying to tell us. Heaven forbid that we look for some meaning to an author’s or artist’s work than what lies on the superficial surface.
Whoever first said, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,” was wrong. The things we say have an unlim-
ited potential to hurt the feelings of others. But that does not mean that, through fear of offend-ing someone, we refrain from making asser-tions and using words that either cause offense or incite energetic reactions.
What are we going to do, censor everything and not allow people to publish works that oth-ers might find offensive? I hope not.
Half the problem of racism isn’t racism at all or the use of words such as X, Y or Z that have been labeled as “racist.”
Most derisive terms describe very specific individuals and have acquired their extremely negative connotations.
Are we to stop using words that describe identities associated with, but even more particular than, racial status just because a few sloppy users of our vocabulary have applied specific terms loosely?
If authors and speakers should be aware of their audience, audience members should be
aware of who the speaker is.The only truly bad words are words that are
used sloppily. Before jumping to conclusions, we need to do some homework about what the user meant. If you don’t like something you see or hear, get in touch with the person and ask for clarification. If a speaker’s intentions are benign, a listener has no justification in being offended or lashing out.
Accusations of racism are as serious as racism itself. And, lest we continue to bandy this word around willy-nilly, I remind you of the definition: Racism is the belief that inherent racial differences determine achievement or value.
Terminology is often a reflection of geog-raphy and traditions of speech rather than some mental or ideological bias or prejudice. In seeking to normalize for the whole country the words that relate to race, sex, religion and other issues, we are forgetting some of our most important roots.
The United States is huge, spanning an entire continent from east to west and north to south. At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the delegates recognized the enormity of America even as it existed along the eastern seaboard with territorial claims extending to the Mississippi.
While some of the founders were worried
that the size of such a country would limit the extent to which its citizens could participate in government and demagogues and oligarchs would be able to corrupt the republic, they ultimately embraced its size as an asset.
The value of immense size comes from the large variety of local, state and regional perspec-tives and their unique customs’ and folkways’ presence in public life. Diversity then, as now, would be a good thing. The mixture of many different cultures would lead to a lively public realm full of new ideas that would bounce off each other — and full of individuals who would bounce off each other.
The richness offered by the uniqueness of perspective outweighs the cruelty of the hurtful words localities might use.
One part of a well-rounded education is study abroad. Modern charges of racism might even involve a double standard. Think for a minute about why we value studying abroad in, for instance, Ireland, China or the Czech Republic? Because we value exposure to other cultures.
Why can’t we tolerate, embrace and love the variations within our own culture back home?
Today is the first day on the job for Beate Schmittmann, the new dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. We welcome her to Iowa State and are certain that her expertise in scholarship and administration will be an asset to our university commu-nity as well as our education.
Her credentials, however, give us cause to think about the dominance of science at Iowa State. Diversity is a big part of the college’s and the univer-sity’s goals.
Administration, faculty and prob-ably most students believe that a diver-sity of ethnic, racial, cultural and other backgrounds are part of an education in global citizenship, which is the col-lege’s “primary mission.” Along with knowledge and skills, attitudes are a part of that education.
But what about diversity of and at-titudes toward subject matter, espe-cially among college and university administration?
As a school whose emphasis has traditionally been on agriculture and science and technology, it is probably fitting that President Steven Leath is a plant scientist. Knowing certain facts, however, one could expect
the dean and associate deans of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to possess a wider variety of disciplin-ary backgrounds. Schmittmann is a physicist. Associate Dean David Oliver is a botanist. Associate Dean Arne Hallam is an economist. Associate Dean Zora Zimmerman was trained in literature. Interim Associate Dean Martin Spalding was trained in plant physiology.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is divided into three groups: science and mathematics (think hard sciences), social sciences and arts and humanities.
The data for 2006-2007 show that, in exchange for teaching 44 percent of the college’s student credit hours,
science and mathematics received 40 percent of the college’s budget.
For teaching 22 percent of student credit hours, social sciences received 15 percent of the budget.
For teaching 34 percent of student credit hours, the humanities division received 24 percent of the budget. (The remainder of the budget — 21 per-cent — funded other matters such as administrative costs.)
The college is right in stating that its primary purpose is the fulfillment of the land-grant college ideal of com-bining the liberal arts and vocational training into a balanced education. That ideal is not, as the college’s Web page on its history suggests though, merely something that was “in vogue”
in the 1850s when land-grant colleges were chartered.
A broad-based education is essen-tial for ensuring the college’s mission of preparing “students to become knowledgeable, contributing citizens in a world of diverse cultures.” With a new incoming dean, now might be a good time for the college to restore the balance of that education. Their mistake is in assigning — maybe even relegating — diversity of educational fields to the general education re-quirements, which are expressed as minimums.
True innovation and true citizen-ship are not familiar with minimums. They are always pursuing the increas-ingly lofty.
File photo: Brianna Buenz/Iowa State DailyStudents gather to take a stand against racial controversies at Iowa State on March 2 outside Parks Library. Many students and professors discussed personal stories of racism. The richness offered by a unique perspective outweighs the cruelty of the hurtful words localities might use.
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A contest composed of seven events with points awarded and plugged into a formula after each event to determine the winner.
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Kelly McCoy competes in the women’s heptathlon for the ISU women’s track team.
Football
After missing the entire 2011 sea-son after being deemed academically ineligible, Jerome Tiller is trying to make the most of his final year as a Cyclone.
This time, however, he won’t be under center.
“Catching the ball and throwing it are two different things,” Tiller said. “Throwing is pretty easy, catching it is a little different story.”
Tiller and the rest of the ISU foot-ball team partook in the first scrim-mage of the spring season Saturday.
Following a couple miscues in Tiller’s first few days at the position as a non-scout team player, ISU coach Paul Rhoads said he saw good things from him.
“Jerome Tiller made a couple nice ‘concentration catches,’” Rhoads said. “Sometimes when you’re young at the position like he is, you can turn and look for the guy who’s trying to tackle you first and not catch the ball, and I thought he had great concentration out there.”
One of the things that stuck out in the first scrimmage as a whole, Rhoads said, was the defense’s in-
ability to force turn-overs as it normally is able to.
“When you’re playing against yourself, there’s al-ways a winner and loser in that battle,” Rhoads said. “The fact that the offense won pleases me more than the de-fense [not creating] the turnovers.”
Rhoads’ pleasure of seeing the offense outperform the de-fense in the turn-over battle comes a year after the team finished the season with a -11 turnover margin.
With the pro-motion of Courtney Messingham to of-fensive coordinator following the de-parture of Tom Herman to Ohio State, the offense has been transformed. The offense is now a more condensed and simplified system that proved to be conducive to negating turnovers Saturday.
“The running backs and receivers were doing a great job of, when they were getting tackled, making sure that the ball was locked up and [we
had] no fumbles,” said quarterback Jared Barnett. “I think it was really just improvement from the offensive side.”
Rhoads said only five scholarship receivers took part in the scrimmage Saturday, which helped in creating full competition for a position that lost two senior starters from last season.
“You’ve got a number of guys that are trying to earn spots on the travel bus — whether it be via special teams or as a receiver who can catch passes,” Rhoads said.
“Those guys showed up and al-lowed us to run our offense and not just say, ‘OK, we don’t have this or we don’t have that, we’ve got to limit our play selection.’
“So I’m pleased with that and the ability of our quarterbacks to make the full range of decisions that they have to make.”
Rhoads said Justin Coleman, a transfer from Nebraska-Omaha, made the correct adjustments after being confronted about his playmak-ing ability by the coaching staff.
“I had a very blunt comment for him the other day. We walked out to practice and I said, ‘Are you going to be a special teams player because you can’t catch the ball? Or are you going to be able to help us in multiple spots?’” Rhoads said of Coleman.
“And he went out today and Thursday and caught a bunch of pass-es, so that was very pleasing to see him do that.”
As for Tiller, his progression from taking snaps under center to catch-ing passes near the sideline has been smoother than it was.
“He looks really good out there,” Barnett said of Tiller. “He’s running good routes and getting open and once you throw it to him, he’s really good at catching it and getting upfield.”
While dropped passes may still be a part of his game, Tiller is doing what he can to not let them get to him.
“It’s something you have to block out [of your mind] and know it’s a contact sport, you’re going to get hit,” Tiller said. “So you’ve got to be ready for it.”
During the weekend, the women’s multi-event track athletes headed out to Tucson, Ariz., to compete in the Jim Click Invitational, where it was the first event of the out-door season for some athletes.
Heading into the meet, multi-event coach Pete Herber had already thought up expec-tations he wanted to see from his athletes as some of them were competing outdoors for the first time.
“[We] just wanted to get the kids some experience,” Herber said. “It’s a pretty young group that we have. It was a first time for two of the girls and a first time for one of the guys.”
Of the six athletes that went down to the invite — three women, three men — only three had competed in an outdoor multi-event meet before.
After day one of events, Iowa State’s Kelly McCoy was leading her team in the wom-en’s heptathlon with 2,806
points. After the weekend’s events had unfolded, McCoy finished 21st with 4,458 points.
After all of his runners had competed, Herber said he knows where he wants to take his athletes in training before the next outdoor meet.
“We obviously have work to do,” Herber said. “But I was really happy with the way [the athletes] went out and com-peted. It’s that time of the year
where we have to fine-tune some things.”
Herber said he wants to work on execution not only in meets, but in practice as well.
Fixing the mechanics in practice will lead to better results in the meets, which in turn, will help build confi-dence as the athletes progress in the season.
The ISU multi-event athletes finished up com-petition at the Jim Click Multi-Event Shootout in Tucson, Ariz., on Friday with senior Jamal Currica posting the top performance for the Cyclones with a ninth-place finish overall.
Currica earned 6,519 points through the 10 events.
The winner of the event was Damian Warner from London-Western Track and Field Club, who scored 7,977 points.
Multi-event coach Pete Herber said Currica had a very good first day, including a personal best in the 110-meter hurdles (14.92), but there is always room for improvement.
“Now [we are] taking
care of some technical stuff,” Herber said. “[We are focusing on] day two with the disc, the javelin and the ball, just to clean some stuff up.”
In the 110-meter hur-dles, junior Troy Walls finished ninth with a time of 15.73 seconds and redshirt freshman Matt Harmeyer finished 16th with a time of 16.69 seconds.
Currica also was fighting another battle, besides the one on the track, because of an in-jury he sustained during the indoor season.
That injury, Herber said, might have hindered him somewhat.
“Also with Jamal, he had a sports hernia dur-ing the indoor season, so he’s really been seeing the trainer five times a week,” Herber said. “He’s still
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Defensive back Darian Cotton will be out for the remainder of the spring season after breaking his thumb, Paul Rhoads said Saturday.“They’ve got a name for whatever kind of fracture it is, but it’s going to require pins or screws or something,” Rhoads said. “He’ll be done for spring but ready for summer conditioning. So he’ll be back quickly.”Cotton, a native of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, redshirted last season.
Cotton out
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File photo: Grace Steenhagen/Iowa State DailyKelly McCoy jumps over a hurdle in the second heat of the women’s 60-meter hurdle preliminaries March 3. McCoy finished 21st in the heptathlon in Tucson, Ariz., this weekend.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Police said Sunday they are satis-fied with their work to control crowds that spilled onto the street after the Kentucky de-feated crosstown rival Louisville, despite the images of rowdy revelers burning couches and a car that had been flipped over.So while authorities are evaluat-ing how things went as they pre-pare for the possibility of more celebrations ahead of Monday night’s Final Four Championship game, they aren’t anticipating big changes to their plans.The Lexington Herald-Leader re-ported that police had to dodge beer bottles while putting out dozens of fires in the streets.Lexington police spokeswoman Sherelle Roberts said there were less than 20 people ar-rested, no serious injuries and no serious property damage. She said nothing happened that wasn’t anticipated and that police were “very pleased.”“I think we did pretty good, all things considered,” she said.She said the department would meet Sunday to evaluate things and determine whether any ad-justments are needed Monday.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The NFL expects to hold hearings this week on appeals filed in connection with the investiga-tion of the Saints’ bounty sys-tem, a league spokesman said.Greg Aiello said Sunday in an email to The Associated Press that he could not confirm who has appealed, citing league poli-cies. He also could not provide the particular days or times that hearings would be held, saying the league leaves announce-ments of such particulars to those who are filing the appeals.Head coach Sean Payton is appealing his season-long suspension, a source told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because no one has announced his plans.General manager Mickey Loomis is appealing his eight-game suspension, assistant head coach Joe Vitt is appealing his six-game suspension and the club is appealing its $500,000 fine and loss of second-round draft picks in 2012 and 2013.
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The next multi-events meet Herber and his team will compete at will be the Mt. SAC Relays in mid-April.
For those runners who didn’t make their voyage out to sunny Arizona, some athletes had a race-day simulation while others worked on basic performance and training.
“[Saturday] is the longer run and it all just flows right into next week,” said assistant coach Travis Hartke on Friday. “We have this pre-meet workout that we’ll do on Tuesday.”
For sprinters this past weekend, they had a race-day simulation to put that kind of atmo-sphere into their practice.
“Saturday is supposed to simulate a race day, so we’re doing practice in spikes, 300 [meters] over hurdles, a full recovery and a few fast 150 [meters],” said sprinter Kianna Elahi earlier last week.
For the distance squad, it will fly out on Wednesday to Palo Alto, Calif., for the Stanford Invitational, and the rest of the team will head back to Tempe, Ariz., for the Sun Angel Invitational this weekend.
dealing with a lot there.”Two Cyclones also claimed
first place in one event each. On day one, Walls tied for
first in the high jump with Colorado’s Jason DeWitt.
The two finished at the height of 6-7 1/2. Currica and Harmeyer claimed personal best marks in the high jump
with 6-5 for Currica and 6-0 1/2 for Harmeyer.
The Cyclones would follow up on day two claiming first place in another event, this time from Harmeyer.
In the last event of day two, Harmeyer claimed first place in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:29.40 finishing the competition in 14th place and 5,218 points.
The ISU track-and-field teams will make a third consecutive trip out west next weekend as part of the team will go to the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif.
The remaining competi-tors will travel to Arizona once more for the Sun Angel Track Classic in Tempe, Ariz.
Both competitions will be Friday and Saturday.
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File photo: Tim Reuter/Iowa State DailyJamal Currica competes in the men’s shot put March 3 during the NCAA Qualifier. The senior posted a ninth-place finish in the decathlon in the Jim Click Multi-Event Shootout on Friday.
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Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Wait to make a final decision; there’s no need to rush. Think over all the hidden options. Take a hike or get into physical action, and the perfect answer percolates.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Yesterday’s fool had pranks (or not). Today you may as well wait to make a move. The joke would fall flat. Keep planning, and analyze a strategy for success.
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Two hundred new products line the shelves of the recently remodeled Complete Nutrition store in West Ames.
As of Nov. 30, the former NutriShop donned the new name as part of its redesign. According to man-agers at the shop, they’ve gotten new lighting, shelves, tiles and products, including weight-loss kits and “charger packs” tailored specifically to gender.
The staff has been finalizing the details of the new look and the store will be completely remodeled by this week.
The reason for the changes, said head manager Ryan Wagner, is because NutriShop was a “male-dominated” store and they really wanted to reach a new audience, especially women and college stu-dents. In today’s world of nutrition, women purchase almost half of all products in most stores.
The decision was made at a corporate level, so all three of their stores in the Des Moines area — includ-ing Ankeny and West Des Moines — reflect the new strategy.
“Our new store is much more female-friendly now” said Wagner, and on the shelves are products labeled specifically for women.
“Kits weren’t gender-specific,” said employee Knute Enslow. “The old kits were aimed for the guy aspect, now we have charger packs that are specifi-cally for men or women, each having a little bit differ-ent formulas.”
All students get a 25 percent discount for all prod-
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Unlike some nutrition stores in the Ames area, Complete Nutrition’s staff are required to be certified sports nutritionists or in the final stages of receiving
their certifications.The staff has been very excited about all of the
store’s new products since the switch.Only five products that were exclusive to the
NutriShop name are no longer carried.
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Photo: David Derong/Iowa State DailyComplete Nutrition, located in West Ames near West Towne Pub, recently completed a remodeling project that brought a cleaner design and 200 new products to the store.
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the design choice for the logo.“When designing this logo,
I did a lot of research on how Campustown should be de-fined, but there really is not a historical precedent of how Campustown should be de-fined as, so I based this logo on the experiences that people have had in Campustown,” said Doug Choi, graduate stu-dent in art and design and the logo’s designer.
“I have some experience designing logos and have de-signed logos for Arcadia and Lorry’s Coffee. I wanted to be
a part of designing this logo be-cause I love Campustown, the unique things it offers to stu-dents and it seemed like a great design opportunity.”
The process of design-ing this logo has had its trials, but CAA’s branding commit-tee is excited about the final product. Choi said it “repre-sents the unique experiences people have when they go to Campustown.”
The colorful emblem will soon be used in printed work and will then be used all throughout Campustown so that people can get a more co-hesive feeling of what the area
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“When researching, it occurred to me that Campustown was a lot more unique than it ap-pears,” Choi said. “Campustown runs counter to many preconceptions of Ames, Iowa, and even the Midwest. In this way, the logo prompts people to look a little closer, to see Campustown
as the exception to the entire area.”CAA hopes this new logo can help get the
word out and further the goals it has been striv-ing to accomplish. These include cleaning up Campustown, helping business prosper and getting information about the unique stores and restaurants in Campustown out to students and people in the Ames community.
