ISU students celebrated the second annual international Blasphemy Rights Day Thursday by busting out the sidewalk chalk and writing feelings they have on any religion.

From Bible verses to “God = poop,” stu-dents freely expressed thought.

“The message of Blasphemy Day is that

no one has a legal right not to be offended, nor may they use ‘offense’ as a justification for censorship,” said Kristoffer Scott, ju-nior in electric engineering and president of the Atheist and Agnostic Society.

“This event is not intended to be used as an opportunity to write hate speech. Since we are letting anyone write on the sidewalk, we don’t put our endorsement

on anything written.”“One of the goals of the event is to force

students who are offended by our chalk to examine their attitudes toward free speech,” said Michael Dippold, UNI stu-dent and member of UNI Freethinkers and Inquirers.

“Hopefully they will decide that they can still disagree with what we write while supporting our freedom to write it.

“Similarly, we would hope that secular students recognize the right of religious people to exercise that same freedom, even if we disagree with their message. That is what the day is all about.”

Previously a subsidiary of graphic design, industrial design is now available to students to claim as their major.

The decision to add the major through the College of Design was made by the Board of Regents at their meeting Aug. 4 and 5.

“Industrial designers find great jobs in a vari-ety of places,” said David Ringholz, the professor heading up the newest section of design.

“They make great team members because they are trained in creative thinking techniques and often the only people at the table with the ability to communicate visually.”

Only 20 students are admitted to the program each year. This year’s class was filled before the beginning of the 2010 school year. Ringholz also expressed his desire to extend this program’s reaches to graduate students in the next few years.

Iowa State is the only college in the state of-fering the degree, and 1 of 10 in the Midwest. Professor Ringholz firmly believes that this deci-sion will only strengthen the college.

“Adding industrial design to the other major programs ... makes [Iowa State] one of the most comprehensive colleges of design in the country,” Ringholz said.

“Students inside and outside the college have been interested in majoring [in industrial design]

so the college decided now is the time.”The new major is available for students to

enter after a year spent in a core design program. They then have to do three years of work toward a bachelor’s degree in industrial design.

Hopefully with hard work and dedication, we’ll be seeing some brilliant student founded in-novations in the workplace in the next few years.

More information on the program is available at http://www.design.iastate.edu/industrialdesign/

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Campus

Weekend allows families to learn about student lifeBy Molly.Collins and Sarah.Binder iowastatedaily.com

The events planned for Cyclone Family Weekend, start-ing Friday, will provide ISU students the opportunity to bring their families to their new home and let them have a taste of life as a Cyclone. Families will get to explore campus, dis-cover what Iowa State has to offer and spend time with their Cyclone students.

“One thing I’m looking forward to is having my parents see how everything goes up here, so that way they get a feel for what I’ve been doing,” said JP McKinney, freshman in soft-ware engineering.

“I’m also in a fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, so my family will get to meet all the other guys and see the kinds of things I’ve been doing,” McKinney said.

Along with his parents, all five of McKinney’s siblings are joining him for the weekend.

Almost 800 families are signed up to participate, said Adam Reineke, senior in computer science and Cyclone Family Weekend co-chairman. This is nearly double the number that registered last year.

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Authors advocate ethics, awareness of climate changeBy Elisse.Lorenc iowastatedaily.com

Michael Nelson and Kathleen Dean Moore both share a purpose. Nelson, an associate professor of environmen-tal ethics and philosophy at Michigan State University, and Moore, a distinguished professor of philosophy at Oregon State University, are both hoping to raise the level and quality of awareness about climate change.

Both are environmental authors and recently published “Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril.” They hosted a discussion on the importance of taking personal moral responsibility for the planet Wednesday night in the Memorial Union.

“We know the facts, we understand the facts,” Nelson said. “[ISU] ActivUs has also done very heroic work, kind of argu-ing us to act or try to just act, but to the intense frustration of both scientists and activists, we don’t seem to act and we scratch our heads and wonder why.”

Nelson continued the discussion by stating people act on two premises: the first, he said, is factual, which is what sci-

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Axel Holm, junior in landscape architecture, rides a stationary bike for Pi Kappa Phi’s philanthropy Push America outside Parks library Thursday. Pi Kappa Phi’s philan-thropy is unique because Push America was created by members of Pi Kappa Phi. Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily

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Mark Chivvis, senior in insect science, writes the quote, “Faith does not give you the answer, it just stops you from asking the questions,” in honor of Blasphemy Rights Day on Thursday in the Free Speech Zone. Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily

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Perry Martens, freshman in mechanical engineering, gets a flu shot Thursday in the Union Drive Community Center. Thursday was the last day the Thielen Student Health Center was offering flu shots in the UDCC, but they will still be giving flu shots and mists Wednesday and Saturday mornings through October. Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily

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A cool morning turns into a picture perfect day to end out the school week.

Northeasterly gusts around 10 mph become calm by night.

Slight chance of frost early in the morning, with an afternoon breeze.

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Men’s Hockey When:

7:30 p.m.What:

Iowa State University vs. Univer-sity of Oklahoma

Where:Ames/ISU Ice Arena

FRIDAY

Homecoming buttonsWhen:

2 to 8 p.m.What:

Cyclone logos have evolved over the years but the spirit behind Cy stays the same. Come to the Workspace and make a button with your favorite Cy or ISU logo

Where:Workspace at the MU

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SATURDAY

ISU production of “Orpheus Descending”When:

7:30 p.m.What:

In Greek myth, Or-pheus could charm anyone with the power of his music. Tennessee Williams creates an Orpheus who is a wild-spirited young man who plays a guitar.ISU Alumni Center

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DepartmentsThe information in the log comes from the ISU and City of Ames police departments’ records. All those accused of violating the law are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Sept. 25Joshua Sara Galeazzi, 18, of Melcher-Dallas, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 12:32 a.m.)

Marcus Breeden, 18, of Ft. Dodge, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 12:49 a.m.)

Joseph Ewoldt, 20, of Manning, was cited for underage posses-sion of alcohol (third offense). (reported at 12:54 a.m.)

A resident reported damage to a fire extinguisher case. (reported at 12:56 a.m.)

Brian Meyer, 31, of Omaha, Neb., was arrested on charges of public intoxication. (reported at 1:15 a.m.)

Aaron Goede, 22, of Sioux City, was arrested on charges of driving under suspension. He was subsequently released on citation. (reported at 1:23 a.m.)

Robert Rypma, 26, of Clive, was arrested on charges of public intoxication. (reported at 1:52 a.m.)

Lucas Brocka, 23, of Allison, was arrested on charges of public intoxication. (reported at 3 a.m.)

Officers initiated a drug-related investigation. (reported at 3:40 a.m.)

A student reported that hockey gear was taken from his locked truck. (reported at 1:11 p.m.)

Jonathon Feavel reported that someone had scraped the side of his vehicle while backing out of a parking stall. (reported at 1:16 p.m.)

A vehicle driven by Stephen Nekvinda struck a parked vehicle owned by Stephen Suey. (reported at 3:15 p.m.)

Andrew Gissel, 20, of Independence, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 4:11 p.m.)

John VanBeest, 19, of Sioux City, was cited for underage posses-sion of alcohol. (reported at 4:57 p.m.)

Alec Amundson, 19, 4820 Mortensen Road unit 201, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 5:16 p.m.)

Jordan Ellis, 20, of Boone, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 5:18 p.m.)

Timothy Smith, 20, of Winterset, was cited for underage posses-sion of alcohol. (reported at 5:20 p.m.)

Joel Versteegt, 20, 4035 Buchanan Hall, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 5:25 p.m.)

Tristan Morath, 20, 5106 Buchanan Hall, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 5:25 p.m.)

Haley Kubicek, 20, of Dyersville, was cited for underage posses-sion of alcohol. (reported at 5:46 p.m.)

Ryan Goetzinger, 19, of Mason City, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 5:46 p.m.)

A vehicle driven by Dennis Storey struck a parked car owned by John Pieper, causing property damage. (reported at 5:53 p.m.)

Lisa Hanson, 20, of Panora, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 5:59 p.m.)

Hayley Maisel, 20, of Maple Grove, Minn., was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 6:10 p.m.)

Kellyanne Gunderson, 18, 4306 Larch Hall, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 6:20 p.m.)

Aleah Lentsch, 19, of Ft. Dodge, was cited for underage posses-sion of alcohol. (reported at 6:31 p.m.)

Aaron Brown, 18, 140 Lynn Ave., was cited for underage posses-sion of alcohol. (reported at 6:56 p.m.)

Sara Williams, 20, of Council Bluffs, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 6:59 p.m.)

Heather Hartley, 18, of Urbandale, was arrested on charges of public intoxication. She was subsequently trans-ported to Mary Greeley Medical Center for observation and treat-ment. (reported at 7:06 p.m.)

Anthony Kokakis, 19, of Buffalo Center, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 7:21 p.m.)

Christopher Countryman, 23, of Moville, was arrested on charges

of public intoxication and operat-ing while intoxicated. (reported at 7:22 p.m.)

Steven Erbstein, 22, 425 Welch Ave. unit 204, was arrested on charges of public intoxication. (reported at 7:22 p.m.)

Aaron Wendelboe, 19, of Grimes, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 7:38 p.m.)

Dustin Duran, 20, of Kanawha, was cited for underage posses-sion of alcohol. (reported at 8:04 p.m.)

KC Weiland, 20, of Klemme, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 8:04 p.m.)

Kaitlyn Hobt, 18, of Johnston, was cited for underage posses-sion of alcohol. (reported at 8:16 p.m.)

Samantha Ellis, 20, 4912 Mortensen Road unit 61, was arrested on charges of underage possession of alcohol, harass-ment of a public official, interfer-ence with official acts and public intoxication. (reported at 8:30 p.m.)

Anton Redling, 24, 1022 N. Third St., was arrested on charges of operating while intoxicated. (reported at 9:25 p.m.)

Korey Smith, 22, of Marshalltown, was arrested on charges of public intoxication. (reported at 9:32 p.m.)

Jacob Rausch, 23, of West Des Moines, was arrested on charges of public intoxication. (reported at 9:33 p.m.)

Kevin Kahler, 22, of Wynonna, Minn., was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct. (reported at 10:20 p.m.)

Kyle Revesz, 23, 303 Welch Ave. unit 203, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. (reported at 10:20 p.m.)

Ronald Rahn, 18, of Ft. Dodge, was arrested on charges of public intoxication and underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 10:27 p.m.)

Jordan Thomas, 19, of Farnhamville, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 10:27 p.m.)

Sept. 26Danielle Stuber, 22, 4118 Harris St., was arrested and charged with contempt-fail to attend owi post-treat. (reported at 12:30

a.m.)

Sean Stoll, 20, 2910 West St., was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 1:28 a.m.)

Brandon Holt, 21, 4120 Harris St., was arrested and charged with drug paraphernalia and manufacture of marijuana. (reported at 2 a.m.)

Adrian Navarro, 25, 4118 Harris St., was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance and drug parapher-nalia. (reported at 2 a.m.)

Andrew Starkey, 22, of Cedar Falls, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance. (reported at 2 a.m.)

Dustin Black, 20, 1127 S. Lynn St. unit 15, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 12:55 p.m.)

Donald Moore, 62, 1508 Ridgewood Ave., was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated, second of-fense. (reported at 6 p.m.)

Ronald Kling, 33, of Clive, was arrested and charged with oper-ating while intoxicated. (reported at 7 p.m.)

Titus Usher, 24, 4118 Harris St., was arrested and charged with drug paraphernalia and posses-sion of a controlled substance. (reported at 8 p.m.)

Bryan Milam, 48, 170 Cardinal Road, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (re-ported at 11:05 p.m.)

Sept. 27Maribel Garcia, 29, of Jewell, was arrested and charged with driving under suspension. (reporter 11:03 a.m.)

Ekoukuo Materania reported the theft of a laptop computer. (reported at 1:09 p.m.)

Matthew Kerns, 18, 2288 Friley Hall, was arrested on warrants, charging him with first degree arson and disorderly conduct. (reported at 2:19 p.m.)

A vehicle that left the scene struck a car owned by Huajun Jin. (reported at 6:40 p.m.)

Lindsay Granderson, 18, 4572 Friley Hall, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance and pos-session of drug paraphernalia. reported at 11:50 p.m.)

CorrectionThe caption with the photo accompanying the story

“Cyclones fall victim to Longhorns,” said ISU hitter Kelsey Petersen “spikes the ball during the Nebraska game,” when in fact the picture was taken in the Cyclones’ game against Iowa on Sept. 10.

The Daily regrets the error.

Celebrity briefs

SATURDAY

Family Weekend Open House When:

TBAWhat:

Free crafts with mag-nets, beads and more plus door prizes. Times TBA depend-ing on the start time of the football game. Check the website for specific information.

Where:Great Hall at the MU

SUNDAY

Garden Walk: Sculptures by Bill King and Chris-tian PetersenWhen:

2 to 3 p.m.What:

Take a tour through the Elizabeth and Byron Anderson Sculpture Garden to see the new installa-tion of sculptures by Bill King and revisit work by Christian Pe-tersen.

Where:South of Morrill Hall

Justin Bieber joins Barbie in doll-land

CNN — Barbie’s boyfriend Ken isn’t going to be happy about this: Teen heartthrob Justin Bieber is set to be immortalized in plastic with a range of collectible dolls.

Billboard magazine reports that the dolls, created by Bravado and Bridge Direct Inc., are set for release around Dec. 4 and will be available in two varieties.

The Justin Bieber Music Video Collection Singing Figures, which retail for $27.99, feature Biebs in the

hoodies and skinny jeans he wore in videos like “Baby” and “One Less Lonely Girl.” Then there’s the JB Style Collection, selling for $17.99, which showcase Bieber in “street style,” “awards style,” and “red carpet style” ensembles.

Both sets of dolls, of course, have the 16-year-old singer sporting his swoon-worthy signature shag.

‘Jersey Shore’s’ Snooki pens novel

CNN — You know what would make all of that gym time, tanning

and hours spent at the laundromat go by so much faster? A nice good read about life on the “Jersey Shore.”

That’s actually a possibility now that pint-sized “Jersey Shore” star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is penning her own novel, tentatively titled, “A Shore Thing.”

Polizzi will draw on her “Shore” experiences to write a fictional page-turner about “a girl looking for love on the boardwalk (one full of big hair, dark tans, and fights galore),” accord-ing to a press release from the pub-lisher, Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books.

The text is expected to hit shelves in January, 2011.

‘Law & Order’ soon to begin new spinoffs

CNN — Saddened “Law & Order” addicts now have the opportunity for a fix.

While the original series has been canceled and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” will reportedly end after the upcoming season, two new members of the successful franchise are debut-ing in the days to come.

“Law & Order: Los Angeles” be-

gins on Wednesday night on NBC while “Law & Order: UK” premieres on BBC America starting Sunday night.

The new American spin-off boasts some veteran acting power with co-stars Terrence Howard, Alfred Molina, Skeet Ulrich and Peter Coyote.

As for the British version, the ini-tial two episodes we’ve viewed make us think that the series will stay close to the original, right down to the dra-matic “doink doink” sound.

SUNDAY

SUB Film: “The Karate Kid” When:

7 p.m.What:Work causes a single mother to move to China with her young son; in his new home, the boy embraces kung fu, taught to him by a master.Where:

Soults Family Visitors Center at the MU

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The cleaning in Hilton is still underway.

David Miller, director of facilities and utilities with ISU Facilities Planning and Management, said the heavy machinery, which included the equipment that operates the scoreboard, has been removed from its usual place.

“All of the damage portions have been removed, a lot from down in the mechanical room,” Miller said.

He said the new basketball court is on order, and should be in by the middle of October.

Miller said the goal is still to open by Nov. 4, for the first bas-ketball game.

However, the whole renova-tion won’t be complete until a later date.

“The power had been out in our most damaged buildings, that was our first priority,” he said.

He said workers are cur-rently in the middle of fixing the elevators, and will have to make certain the building is up to fire codes before the first game there.

Miller said that they are cur-rently working out contracts and getting prepared for the re-pairs to begin.

Miller has been involved in discussions about mitigation efforts.

He said that the mitigation efforts after the floods in 1993 worked, and that it is known where the water came in from this year’s flood.

“We know where the water entered the building; it seems to be fixable.”

Miller said that Palmer Building has been fixed from the flooding.,

The Family Resource Center and the Schilletter and University Village apartments that were flooded will be re-opened soon.

There isn’t a set date for flood recovery efforts on campus to be completed, but Miller expects the work will be finished by the holidays.

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“Its a fun challenge,” Reineke said, adding he would like to double the reg-istration again next year, and hopes that some day the event could be as promi-nent as Veishea.

Each registered family can take part in any of the activities provided, but be-cause of the high registration this year, many of the events are sold out.

Family Weekend partnered with the Parents’ Association to buy 2,000 tick-ets for Saturday’s football game against Texas Tech., all of which sold out.

Before the game, there will be a huge tailgate, and after there will be a con-cert from Minneapolis band Dazy Head Mazy.

Friday and Sunday will feature a host of events as well, such as college recep-tions, Friday night entertainment from Midwest Comedian Michael Palascak.

Sunday will include brunch in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union, where families can say their good-byes to students before leaving Iowa State.

For the families feeling crafty, there will be an option to explore the Workspace located in the basement of the Memorial Union.

In addition to hosting a weekend full of family-friendly events, each year, the Cyclone Family Weekend committee chooses Family of the Year.

Family of the Year coordinator Annie Longnecker and adviser Kipp Van Dyke choose the family through a process of applications and interviews. The team looks for families that truly embody the Cyclone spirit.

“We were looking for a family that contributed to [Iowa State] and the Ames community as a whole and values participation and support of our univer-sity. It was also important to find a fam-ily that could represent every family in the Cyclone nation,” Longnecker said.

This year’s family has been a part of the ISU legacy for more than 60 years. The family’s first graduates were Dan Arends and Martha Owens [Arends] in 1952. The pair was involved in the greek community and many organizations on campus where their loved for each other blossomed; Dan and Martha married in 1952.

Their son, John Arends, followed in his parent’s footsteps, attending Iowa State from 1973 to 1977. He met his wife Anne Butler [Arends] while at ISU and the couple had three children who are also part of the Cyclone nation. To find out more about the Arends Family, go to http://www.familyweekend.iastate.edu.

Friday, Oct. 1

Kickoff1 to 5 p.m. Terrace, Memorial Union Kickoff is the start of Family Weekend. Come pick up your tickets for the weekend events. While you’re here, enjoy free cake and punch and watch some performances by campus groups showcasing the incredible talent on campus. Note: If you cannot make it to Kickoff, you can have your student stop by and pick up your tick-ets, or we will have your stuff available at the Cocktail Hour, Michael Palascak comedy show, or Saturday Tailgate.

ISU Parents’ Association Cocktail Hour5:30 to 7 p.m. Sun Room, Memorial Union The Cocktail Hour, put on by the ISU Parents’ Association, is a unique opportunity for Family Weekend visitors (21+) to enjoy wine and cheese while meeting some of the ISU administrators. Light food and refreshments are provided. A cash bar is available for alcohol purchases.

Friday Night Entertainment — Comedian Michael Palascak

7 and 8:30 p.m. Great Hall, Memorial Union $6 A young comedian from the Midwest performs at Family Weekend.

Saturday, Oct. 2

College ReceptionsCollege of Agriculture and Life Sciences 9:30 to 11 a.m. C.Y. Stephens Auditorium Providing the opportunity for students and their families to meet with faculty and staff from the departments in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. There will be a program at 10 a.m. and a raffle for door prizes. Pastries, fresh fruit and beverages will be provided.

College of Business 8 to 10 a.m. Gerdin Business Building Commons The Business Council student group sponsors this reception with available tours and the opportu-nity to interact with faculty/staff from the college who attend. Light refreshments will be provided.

College of Design8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum, Design Building An open house for design students and their families. Refreshments will be served, and tours of the Design Building will be available. Come visit with other design fami-lies, faculty and staff.

College of Engineering Two hours before kickoff, Jack Trice Stadium Parking Lot, Tent No. 6

The College of Engineering invites families to stop for a bite to eat at Tent No. 6 on tent row two hours prior to kick-off of the football game. The Senior Leadership in the college is invited to this event as well. At your convenience, you can virtually tour the college at http://tour.engineering.iastate.edu/

College of Human Sciences 8:30 to 10 a.m. LeBaron lobby area Reception with light refreshments to provide families and students the opportunity to interact with faculty, administrators, learn-ing community coordinators and advisers from the college.

Liberal Arts & SciencesThe LAS college declined to hold a reception.

Vet MedThe college of Vet Med declined to hold a reception.

Family Activities — Free for Family Weekend attendees 1 to 3 p.m. Movie: “The Karate Kid.” Location: MU Great Hall Game: Family Trivia Game. Sessions start at 1:15 and 2 p.m. Location: MU Sun Room Bowling and Billiards. Location: MU Underground

Movie: “The Karate Kid”

7 to 9 p.m. Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union

Concert: Dazy Head Mazy10 p.m. to midnight Maintenance Shop

Workspace Open House10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Workspace, Memorial Union [in the basement] Put together Cy magnets or beaded jewelry, try screenprint-ing a T-shirt — bring your own, or buy one for $4 — tour the space, or purchase a $5 commemorative Cyclone Family Weekend tile.

Pre-Game TailgateLot 27, Jack Trice Stadium 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. A Cyclone Family tailgate. Menu includes hamburgers, grilled chicken, black-bean burgers, deli potato salad, hickory baked beans, relish tray, potato chips, butter-milk brownies, iced tea, lemonade and water.

Football Game

Jack Trice Stadium Kickoff at 6 p.m. Tickets are available at cyclones.com.

Sunday, Oct. 3

Sunday Brunch9:30 to 10:30 a.m. or 10:45 a.m. to noon Memorial Union - Great Hall Enjoy a nice brunch with your student before leaving town. Menu includes cheesy scrambled eggs, biscuits and gravy, bacon, hash browns, pancakes with syrup, as-sorted muffins, fresh fruit tray with dip, fresh brewed coffee, orange juice and water.

Running With Heart (Partner Event) 5k/10k Run/Walk Race Start: 8:30 a.m. Running With Heart is a volunteer

committee dedicated to rais-ing awareness of cardiovascular disease, the number one cause of death in America. Each year a 5K/10K run/walk is organized to promote exercise, educate participants about heart health and obesity, and build community in Ames and at Iowa State. All pro-ceeds benefit the American Heart Association.

Workspace Open House1 to 4 p.m. MU Workspace (in the basement) Put together Cy magnets or beaded jewelry, try screenprinting a T-shirt (bring your own, or buy one for $4), tour the space, or pur-chase a $5 commerative Cyclone Family Weekend tile.

31st Annual Collage of ChoirsMore than 350 singers from Iowa State’s four choirs will join to-gether for the 31st annual Collage of Choirs. The concert will feature the Iowa Statesmen, Cantamus, Lyrica and the Iowa State Singers. Following each choir’s individual performance, all choristers will join together to sing “Bells of Iowa State.” The program, the first of the year for the choirs, will include early and contemporary pieces, both sacred and secular, that span from challenging to playful. Date: Oct. 3 Time: 4 p.m. Place: Stephens Auditorium Price: $10 for adults, $5 for stu-dents and seniors Tickets can be purchased at the door or at Stephens box office. The concert, is traditionally on Family Weekend.

“It gives parents a chance to see what the students are doing in their choirs,” said James Rodde, director of choral activities.

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Students attending the second annual Reggae Night, hosted by the African Student Association, won’t learn about African culture as much as they will experience a mixing of cultures.

“This is a time to have fun, let go of stresses, and learn from other people and from other cultures,” said Yvonne Cheruiyot, president of the association.

“It’s not just about African students. It’s meant for all people to come mingle and have fun while eliminating stereotypes.”

Reggae Night will showcase the typical rhythmic genre of reggae music as well as some traditional African rhythms.

Although those involved know reggae is not specifi-cally an African style of music, it is a widely popular style in Africa and Reggae Night is just about exhibiting African culture.

“Reggae is known throughout Africa, and a lot of people love reggae,” Cheruiyot said.

Although Reggae Night is not specifically a night to learn about African culture, it will raise funds for African Night, which takes place in spring 2011 and is also hosted by the association.

“African Night showcases the African culture with dances, poetry and foods. Basically everything campus should know about African culture,” Cheruiyot said.

Reggae Night will take place Friday at the Memorial Union’s Maintenance Shop. The cost will be $5 in advance and $7 at the door

“It will be from 10[p.m.] to 2[a.m.] because Africans love to party,” Cheruiyot said.

The first choir concert of the year, the Collage of Choirs, will bring together the four campus choir groups: Cantamus, Iowa State Singers, Lyrica and the Statesmen.

James Rodde, professor of music and director of choral activities, and his wife, Kathleen, senior lecturer in music, will

conduct the choirs.Eric Whitacre’s song “Cloudburst” has

been a popular performance choice lately but Kathleen adapted the song for wom-en’s voices for this concert, James said.

Rodde said there are more than 350 students participating in the performance — of which about 50 are music majors.

“These are students performing for students,” he said.

Rodde said the performance will have

a diverse selection ranging from tradition-al composers like Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn to more contemporary ones such as Whitacre.

The choirs will again perform Dec. 5 for the Holiday Concert and for a concert in May 2011.

Later this year the Statesmen will travel to Minneapolis to perform with the Great Northern Union Chorus. Iowa State Singers will tour in South Korea in May.

Ames officials determined natural deterioration caused a recent oil leak on Dayton Avenue.

The leak, reported by a resident Sept. 18, had left an oily sheen in one of the city’s storm sewers and posed a vital en-vironmental risk for Skunk River. Ames Electrical Services determined the source of the leak was a fuel line running to its gas turbine No. 1.

“The ground wants metal. When you put metal under-ground, it eats away at the pipe,” said Donald Kom, director of Ames Electric Services.

Upon discovering the leak, Ames Electric Services con-tacted Iowa’s Department of Natural Resources and identified the issue. Contractors were brought in to investigate the leak and migrate any additional source of oil from Skunk River.

Fox Engineering determined emergency repairs were needed.

The fuel line for GT-1 was removed and rerouted to gas turbine No. 2. However, this path is made with stainless steel and cannot run under harsh, cold conditions, which are months away.

Repairs to replace, remove and re-route the 14-inch piping add up to about $240,000.

Hydro-Klean, responsible for the oil skimmers, is us-ing a “double-boom system” which will barricade any future contamination from the storm sewer to the river and Ames Trenching & Excavating. Paying for the company to work on site and could cost $50,000 to $75,000 more, Kom said.

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entists provide. However, Nelson stressed this “missing premise” which he and Moore call, “The Second Premise Project.”

“Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril” which took three years to publish, is an outlet to speak for the world’s moral obligations.

They identified more than 120 of the world’s moral leaders, compiling everything from reli-gious and spiritual leaders, philosophers, sci-entists and politicians. They requested nothing more than a 2,000 word essay, poem, prayer or proclamation — anything to answer whether humans have a moral obligation for the future.

They were flooded by responses, which reso-nated a powerful “yes.”

“Yes, we have an obligation to the future,” Moore said, reciting some of the responses re-ceived. “Yes, for the sake of the children. Yes, because justice demands it. Yes, because com-passion calls us to it. Yes for the sake of human survival.”

Throughout the seminar, excerpts of essays were read aloud to the audience.

“People say ‘Why are you wasting your time with moral conversations?’” Moore said. “Moral concepts, values, moral principles, they don’t solve people’s problems, they don’t turn people’s minds. It’s money that motivates people, or it’s power that motivates people. But I really beg to differ. You look at the moral moxy that created the Declaration of Independence, we hold these truths to be self-evident.”

Nelson read an excerpt of his own, his moral obligation for the sake of a future without hope. He went into detail by saying,

“We search for our motivation to act and sometimes people act in desperation,” Nelson said.

“Sometimes they do amazing, creative and wondrous things. But sometimes, many times, they do not. I see that in my students nearly every day — the desire to do good and just and

beautiful things in the world, so easily squashed by some other student or professor, who flip-pantly points out that their individual decisions and actions do not make any real difference in the world. The student is gutted, mouth agape, no response at sight, so they give up before they start and I blame that on hope.”

He said he is worried for those people who use hope as motivation to heal our damaged world.

“I worry that hope is not only a throw away term, evacuees sentiments we dole out at the end of a paragraph or book or film or interview, but that it is dangerous and counterproductive. I want us to replace ‘I hope’ with ‘I resolve,’” he said.

Nelson and Moore are doing 20 town hall meetings, starting the same conversation.

The inspiration for Moore to write this pub-lication was “the bewilderment, the absence of response to scientists. This information is pres-ent, it’s out there. We have to draw the conclu-sions from the scientific information. We’re try-ing to present this as a moral challenge.”

The two became involved within an orga-nization Moore ran at Oregon State, and gath-ered all the environmental philosophers of the Midwest.

Moore stresses how we have lost our voices. Moore believes people are given “cheap substi-tutes for moral discourse” but worst of all, we don’t recognize these substitutions.

Moore also asserts we can justify the facts, but we can’t justify the values; but worst of all, we have deprived ourselves our right to speak our minds.

“We have this mistaken notion that because we have a right to think whatever we want, we don’t have a right to engage in discussion about disagreement,” Moore said. “So we have this kind of quietude in the face of difference, where we think maybe it’s bullying or it’s wrong to actually have real, heartfelt discussions about what we must speak.

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Michael Nelson and Kathleen Dean Moore lead the environmental town meeting Wednesday in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union. Photo: Abby Gilman/Iowa State Daily

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Jeff St. Clair, freshman in computer science and math, talks with his friends about the topic they’re going to write about in front of the library for Blasphemy Rights Day on Thursday. Photo: Zunkai Zhao/Iowa State Daily

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Jeff St. Clair, freshman in computer science and math, writes his belief on the ground in front of the library for Blasphemy Day on Thursday. Blasphemy Rights Day is organized by Atheist and Agnostic Society. Photo: Zunkai Zhao/Iowa State Daily

A new report released Thursday concluded the state of Iowa ended the 2010 fiscal year with a $335.6 million budget surplus, the second highest in a decade, according to the Iowa Department of Management.

In addition to the surplus, $419 million remains in reserve funds. The Department of Management said it had only estimated an ending balance of the general fund at a $100.7 million surplus.

Gov. Chet Culver said the state brought in more revenue than it spent after making budget cuts, attributing the higher than ex-pected balance to hiring controls, travel restrictions and general fiscal management.

“When times got tough, we made the tough decisions,” Culver said. “And with our economy improving, these numbers show that state government is on solid ground.”

But the announcement met immediate criticism by the Terry

Branstad gubernatorial campaign, which said they’ve heard the budget was balanced before.

“Don’t forget, this is the same governor who, in the summer of 2009, claimed his budget was balanced, only to slash spending across-the-board by 10 percent when he could no longer hide the truth from Iowans,” said Jeff Boeyink, Branstad’s 2010 campaign manager .

To create a balanced budget last year, the Culver administra-tion moved millions over from the cash reserve fund.

The Branstad campaign also pointed out that because of the cuts to education, which makes up a large portion of the state’s budget, local school boards were forced to raise property taxes to cover for lost revenue, which they said was the largest increase in 30 years.

Branstad communications director Tim Albrecht sent out an e-mail later in the afternoon with a statement Culver made Sept. 25, 2009 in TheGazette.com:

“In spite of the economic challenges brought on by the world-

wide recession, and a projected shortfall for the fiscal year 2011 budget, Iowa not only has a balanced budget for fiscal year 2009 but a budget surplus of well over $450 million for the current fis-cal year.”

Culver revised the state’s budget in October 2009 when the 10 percent cut was implemented. He said at the time his choic-es were either that or calling the legislature back for a special session.

“Our state is faced with simple but painful choices: to increase taxes, cut spending, or both,” Culver said in Oct. 2009. “I have been clear on this: I believe now is not the time to raise taxes on hard-working Iowans.”

Culver also mandated that all school boards must spend the entirety of their cash reserves before any increase in property taxes.

The only other time the budget surplus has been this high was in 2006, when the year ended with $361 million in the black at the end of Tom Vilsack’s second term as governor.

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NEW YORK — On the evening of September 19, Rutgers University stu-dent Dharun Ravi is believed to have sent a message by Twitter about his roommate, Tyler Clementi. “Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay.”

Ravi, 18, of Plainsboro, New Jersey, surreptitiously placed the camera in their dorm room and broadcast video of Clementi’s sexual encounter on the inter-net, the Middlesex County prosecutor’s office said. Ravi tried to use the webcam again on two days later, on September

21.“Anyone with iChat, I dare you to video chat me between the hours of 9:30 and 12. Yes it’s happening again,” Ravi is believed to have tweeted.

The next day, Clementi was dead. New Jersey authorities said the 18-year-old freshman apparently committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. A law enforcement source told CNN that Clementi’s wallet and cell phone were found on the bridge.

A mobile status update September 22 on a Facebook page purportedly belong-ing to Clementi said: “jumping off the gw bridge sorry.”

Ravi and his friend Molly Wei, 18, of Princeton, New Jersey, are each charged with two counts of invasion of privacy for the Sept. 19 broadcast, according to the prosecutor’s office. Two more counts of invasion of privacy were leveled against

Ravi for the Sept. 21 attempt to videotape another encounter involving Clementi, the prosecutor’s office said.

“If the charges are true, these actions gravely violate the university’s stan-dards of decency and humanity,” Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick said in a statement Wednesday. If convicted, the two students could face up to five years in prison.

Gov. Chet CulverDES MOINES — Iowa Gov. Chet Culver says the state bud-

get has a $335.6 million surplus.Culver said Thursday that it’s the second-highest surplus

in the last 10 years and the state goes into fiscal year 2011 with a $754 million budget surplus. That larger figure includes the $419 million emergency fund.

Culver says the announcement shows the state’s “fiscal house is truly in order.”

The governor’s office says the state general fund was origi-nally estimated to come in just more than $100 million, but the state saw nearly $235 million more in revenues. Culver’s office says those extra revenues came from hiring controls, travel re-strictions and efficiencies.

House Republican leader Kraig Paulsen of Hiawatha says Culver is irresponsible with budgeting and forced a $500 mil-lion property tax increase.

Des Moines high schoolsDES MOINES — Gym class is a must for most Des Moines

high school students.School officials say most students who are opting out of

physical education classes have been told they must take the course.

The Des Moines Register says school officials are telling families that students, for the most part, will no longer be able to receive waivers exempting them from gym class. Officials are also scaling back contract physical education. That’s where students exercise on their own outside the school day, log the activity and turn it in.

State officials told the district last spring that it was not in compliance with Iowa law regarding the waivers and contract classes. The state says students have to take physical educa-tion all four years of high school.

Principal Financial Group Inc.DES MOINES — Des Moines-based Principal

Financial Group Inc. says it’s getting out of the health in-surance business and will eliminate 150 jobs initially and more later.

The health insurance division employs 1,500 workers but some will be considered for other jobs in the company. Principal is an insurance, retirement and financial services company that employs 14,000 workers.

CEO Larry Zimpleman on Thursday noted the business has been declining in size in recent years. He says to remain competitive the company would have had to invest more capi-tal, which doesn’t make sense now.

Shares rose 38 cents, or 1.5 percent, to $26.33.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan has banned NATO supply convoys from entering Afghanistan after fighting between NATO troops and militants led to the killing of three Pakistani soldiers, according to a mili-tary official from the NATO-led com-mand in Afghanistan.

The troops were killed when three NATO helicopters crossed from Afghanistan into Pakistani airspace early Thursday and attacked a military outpost, the government said. Three troops were wounded as well.

Supply convoys are all-important for the Afghan war effort, and officials from NATO’s International Security Assistance Force were trying to per-suade Pakistan to lift the ban.

Coalition forces rely heavily on convoys from Pakistan to bring in sup-plies and gear.

ISAF said in a statement Thursday that its forces saw what they thought were insurgents trying to fire mortars at a coalition base in the Dand Patan District of Afghanistan’s Paktiya prov-ince, near the Pakistani border. An air weapons team targeted the suspected insurgents’ firing position, located inside Afghanistan along the border area, and the aircraft entered Pakistani airspace briefly “as they engaged this initial target,” the ISAF statement said.

QUITO, Ecuador — Hundreds of police angry over a law that would cut their benefits plunged this small South American nation into chaos Thursday, roughing up and tear-gassing the president, shutting down airports and blocking highways in a nationwide strike.

At least one person was killed and six injured in clashes between police and supporters of President Rafael Correa, the security minister said.

Incensed officers shoved Correa around earlier, pelted him with water and doused him in tear gas when he tried to speak at a police barracks in the capital.

Hours after Correa was roughed up, surrounded by rebel cops in a police hospital, the president declared himself “prac-tically captive.”

Correa, 47, was hospitalized after being nearly asphyxiated by the tear gas.

The government declared a state of siege, putting the mili-tary in charge of public order, suspending civil liberties and al-lowing soldiers to carry out searches without a warrant. The insurgent police took over police barracks in Quito, Guayaquil and other cities. Some set up roadblocks of burning tires, cut-ting off highway access to the capital. Schools shut down in Quito and many businesses closed early due to the absence of police protection that left citizens and businesses vulnerable.

Looting was reported in the capital — where at least two banks were sacked — and in the coastal city of Guayaquil. That city’s main newspaper, El Universo, reported attacks on su-permarkets and robberies due to the absence of police.

Hundreds of Correa supporters gathered outside the National Assembly, which was seized by striking police, while Interior Minister Gustavo Jahlk met with representatives of the rebellious police.

The armed forces commander, Gen. Ernesto Gonzalez, declared the military’s loyalty to Correa at a news conference. He called for “a re-establishment of dialogue, which is the only way Ecuadoreans can resolve our differences.”

But he also called for the law that provoked the unrest to be “reviewed or not placed into effect so public servants, soldiers and police don’t see their rights affected.”

NEW DELHI, India — A disputed holy site in India will be divided in an attempt to satisfy competing religious claims to the site, the Allahabad High Court ruled Thursday. Muslims, Hindus and a local sect will all get part of the land at Ayodhya, the three-judge panel said. Muslims have already said they will appeal to the Supreme Court.

Thousands of people have died in sec-tarian violence in India since Hindu ex-tremists razed a Muslim mosque on the

site in 1992. Many Hindus believe the site is the birthplace of one of their most re-vered deities.

They will be allowed to keep an idol in a makeshift temple under the central dome at the site, Judge S. U. Khan announced in his ruling.

“All three sets of parties, i.e., Muslims, Hindus and Nirmohi Akhara are declared joint title holders of the property,” Khan wrote.

He gave them three months to come up with proposals for which sections of the property they want, while awarding some specific areas to Nirmohi Akhara, a local Hindu sect. India beefed up secu-rity across the country as it braced for the court verdict that could trigger violence,

CHICAGO — White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will step down Friday to run for mayor of Chicago, two sources told CNN Thursday. The move was expected, after Chicago Mayor Richard Daley recently decided not to run for re-election.

Candidates for the Chicago mayoral race must gather 12,500 signatures by Nov. 22. The city’s Feb. 22 Democratic pri-mary could be very difficult to win given the number of prospective candidates from various factions of the party lining up to run.

Two sources who spoke to CNN earlier

on the condition of anonymity said the of-ficial announcement, which could come at a White House ceremony with President Barack Obama, may also slide until early next week as final details of Emanuel

The sources added that Emanuel is un-likely to immediately announce his candi-dacy this weekend. Advisers said he would prefer to put some distance between his White House exit and the time it will take to line up supporters in Chicago before of-ficially announcing his run.

Emanuel is also very sensitive to mak-ing sure he leaves the White House in good hands given the critical midterm elections that are fast approaching, as well as other transitions expected to happen after the election.

A source close to Emanuel recently told CNN that Deputy Chief of Staff Pete Rouse is the favorite to take over as chief of

staff on a temporary basis in order to give the president more time to find a long-term replacement.

“There is a complete loyalty and trust with somebody like Pete,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday. “Pete’s strategic sense has played a big part in the direction of virtu-ally every big decision that’s made inside of this White House. So I think the type of trust that the president and others throughout this administration have in Pete is enormous.”

Democratic officials have told CNN that Rouse -- who served as Obama’s Senate chief of staff -- is known for not rel-ishing the spotlight and has suggested he does not want the chief of staff post long-term. The list of possible replacements include top White House aides Tom Donilon, Phil Schilirro and Ron Klain.

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room till midnight. I went into molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay.”

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Muslims pray for peace at a mosque Thursday in Ahmadabad, India, after a court ruled that a holy site that has sparked riots across the country should be divided between the Hindu and Muslim communities. Photo:AjitSolanki/TheAssociatedPress

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Video games are perhaps the fastest growing form of entertainment media today. As they continue to

grow in popularity, game developers are constantly finding new ways to tell engaging stories to more and more people. But is their use limited to a platform for intriguing nar-rative and escapism?

Using media for educational or instruc-tive purposes is nothing new.

It is widely recognized that movies can help teach a number of things. Instructional videos can show people how to properly use a Shake Weight or familiarize new hires with the sexual harassment policies of their place of business. And where would our gen-eration be if our ABCs weren’t reinforced by Big Bird and his posse of friends on “Sesame Street”?

Music has additional advantages as well. For example, theories by Alfred A. Tomatis have suggested that listening to the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart can help improve mental processing. Alternatively, modern country has an effect on listeners that makes them believe they are enjoy-ing something of substance rather than a Frankenstein mixture of pop music and whatever Garth Brooks started.

However, because of their interactive nature, video games can also be a powerful learning, development or therapeutic tool that surpasses other forms of media.

Video games might be able to help treat Amblyopia — commonly referred to as lazy eye. The Helen Willis Neuroscience Institute recently conducted a study that showed playing standard retail video games can help improve vision for adults with a lazy eye. The studies’ 20 subjects, ages 20 to 60, showed a 30 percent increase in visual activity. This is an important discovery because although Amblyopia can be treated at a young age by placing a patch over the dominant eye, it becomes harder to fix the disorder during adulthood.

A number of studies have also found that video games can increase hand-eye coor-dination and help surgeons become faster and more efficient at laparoscopic surgery. During certain laparoscopic operations, surgeons follow images on a screen using a device to complete the surgery. Lauren Sergio, associate professor in the Faculty of Health at York University in Ontario, studied 13 experienced gamers and 13 non-gamers completing tasks that would require the use of hand-eye coordination and the use of a joystick. Brain scans of the subjects showed that gamers actually tended to use different portions of their brain.

Doug Gentile, ISU assistant professor of psychology, has also studied the correla-tion between video games and laparascopic surgery. He co-authored a study that showed surgeons who played video games made 37 percent fewer errors, were 27 percent faster and scored 42 percent better overall than

non-gamers in a top laparoscopic training program.

In an effort to put your film appreciation course to shame, “StarCraft” has been on the curriculum for students at University of California, Berkeley. These lucky souls re-ceived two college credits — albeit as a pass/fail course — for playing and analyzing the massively popular real-time strategy game.

The syllabus for the course explains that the class will explore the theory of how war is conducted within the confines of the game “StarCraft.” There is lecture on vari-ous aspects of the game, from the viewpoint of pure theory to the more computational aspects of how exactly battles are conduct-ed. Calculus and differential equations are highly recommended. That might not sound like the nights of gaming you’re accustomed to, but it’s not a bad start.

Of course, these new applications are not all great. One disturbing example was the U.S. Army’s attempt to recruit youth with the Army Experience Center. This

$12 million experiment featured 80 gaming stations and simulators to entice teens into the military.

The recent success of active games such as “Wii Sports” and “Wii Fit” have caused some people to believe that video games can help tackle our nation’s obesity problem. It’s true that flailing your arms around in front of your TV might be healthier for you than playing through a game sitting down, but that is not enough to stay fit. Don’t get me wrong; I welcome opportunities that allow my sister to beat me at video games as much as the next person — which is the case for Wii Bowling — but do yourself a favor and opt for a soccer ball and some weights over the next video game that has “sports,” “ac-tive” or “fitness” in the title.

At any rate, positive developments and uses for video games need to continue. We might be a few years away from being able to list video games as a career development activity on a resume, but that day might not be as far off as you think.

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It was a perfect Iowa fall day Wednesday when President Barack Obama

visited the Des Moines home of Jeff and Sandy Hatfield-Clubb for a backyard chat. Jeff Clubb described it as a “Better Business Bureau” day — clear skies, a light breeze, even an eagle flying overhead.

The Hatfield-Clubbs were touted, in the media frenzy, as a typical Iowa family.

“We feel pretty average,” Clubb said after the event.

On all accounts, this seems to be the case. Hatfield-Clubb is the athletic director at Drake, and Clubb teaches social studies at a Catholic middle school.

Their two children, Tristan, 11, and Skyelar, 9, are growing up in an idyllic upper-middle-class neighborhood. Their parents are thankful their kids can grow up safely, the way they did.

The Hatfield-Clubbs were proud to announce that Tristan was just elected to his school’s student council — he’s the first elected official in the family.

I spoke with Jeff after the backyard chat, and he told me about the excitement among the sixth and seventh grade classes he teaches, at the thought of the president visiting him in Des Moines.

Aside from the lighter ques-tions, like, “Is there really a red button?,” his students raised important issues.

If I were a student in Jeff’s middle school social studies

classes, I would want to know one thing: What’s in store for our generation?

Justin Kingkade, a guest at the chat, has a 2-year-old son named Aaden. Amid all the is-sues in the media focus — health care, taxes, you know the drill — the most important issue to him is knowing that Aaden will be taken care of.

From the conference call Obama conducted with college newspaper editors Sept. 27, to the backyard chat Sept. 29, the president is preaching good

news for college students. Plans to make college more affordable, improved access to health care — we have a long way to go, but we’re on the right track.

I’m not going to spend time blaming our generation’s struggle to find jobs — even with a college education — on older generations, although that’s a fair argument. All I ask is that we, as a generation, learn from the mistakes of those before us.

Dolph Hatfield, 73, is Sandy’s father. He came to Des Moines and his daughter’s backyard

from Washington, D.C. to attend the visit with Obama. A strong Obama supporter, he’s wit-nessed a lot of ups and downs over the years.

“I’m optimistic,” Dolph said, “that the president will turn it around and this will be a much better place to live.”

Chances are, we’re on our way out of the woods. But as we become the ones making the decisions, we need to look to the future — so the Tristans and Aadens of the world have something to look forward to.

President Barack Obama held a backyard chat Wednesday in Des Moines to discuss economic issues faced by the middle class. The invitation-only chat was hosted by Jeff Clubb and Sandy Hatfield-Clubb. Photo: Jessica Opoien/Iowa State Daily

During the State of the Union address in January, President Obama pledged to “work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are” by the end of this year, stat-ing that it was simply “the right thing to do.”

Immediately thereafter, the president instructed the Department of Defense to begin preparations for repeal of the current policy. On Feb. 2, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates testified before Congress, stating, “The Department of Defense understands that this is a very difficult and, in the minds of some, controversial policy question,” but that the process would be carried out “pro-fessionally, thoroughly, dispassionately and in a manner that is responsive to the direc-tion of the president and to the needs of the Congress” and requesting the Senate keep the men and women of the armed forces “out of the political dimension of this issue.”

The U.S. House of Representatives ap-proved the Murphy Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for fis-cal year 2011 on May 27 in an effort to repeal the controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy by a vote of 234 to 194.

That same day, a similar measure was passed by the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee with a 16 to 12 majority vote.

The current law prohibits those who “demonstrate a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts” from serving in the armed forces, on the grounds that doing so “create[s] an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and disci-pline and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability.”

Since 1994, 14,000 members of the armed services have been discharged under this provision, disrupting their lives, families and careers.

Last month, Sen. John McCain, rank-ing Republican on the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, led a successful filibus-ter against the authorization act, calling it an attempt to “energize the gay and lesbian vote” ahead of elections, forcing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, to vote “no” in order to maintain the procedural flexibility necessary to revisit the measure.

Interestingly, during a 2006 interview with Chris Matthews on our campus as part of the “HARDBALL: College Tour,” McCain said, “The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, ‘Senator, we ought to change the policy,’ then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.”

More interestingly, McCain’s daughter, Meghan, an up-and-coming conservative, described the LGBT community’s struggle as “this generation’s civil rights movement,” and has spoken out against DADT.

Two federal court decisions against DADT have been made this month — one from U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton re-instating Maj. Margaret Witt into the Air Force Reserves after she was discharged under the policy, and one from U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips declaring DADT violates First and Fifth Amendment rights, adding that it has a “direct and deleterious effect” on the armed services.

We’re thoroughly disappointed that members of the Senate not only balked at the opportunity to take a stand against discrimi-nation, but outright facilitated it.

Sexual orientation should not preclude someone from military service, and we’re among the majority eagerly awaiting the day our country closes the book on such a detri-mental and prejudiced policy.

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Mr. Curtis Powers, I appreciate your concern for the lower and middle class. I really do. But what you fail to grasp is that this nation is not set up for the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer.

This nation is set up for intelligent, informed people to get richer and ignorant, illiterate people to get poorer.

Yes, everyone hates to see a person with more than enough money get a break that they don’t need. We all wish we were those people, right? I know I do.

The thing is, we all have the power to become those people. The trick is to work smarter, not harder. Most of us have heard that before, but what exactly does that mean?

It means inform yourself. It means ask questions when you don’t understand something. You are respon-sible for your own knowledge.

Look at the richest people in our nation. They are intelligent people; they are not necessarily geniuses, but they know how to do research and ask good questions. That brings me to another point Powers brought up: Many members of Congress are millionaires.

Part of it is because they make a ridiculous salary. However, none of them have a salary of millions per year from the government. Instead, they play the sys-tem. Yes, folks, those politicians know how to lie, cheat and play a system; imagine that.

The great thing is, we are all governed under the same system. The politicians have read and understand tax policies and tax breaks. They exploit loopholes and they invest their money intelligently.

If you have followed my logic thus far, we have finally come back to the root of this article: Intelligent, informed people get richer. By investing our money, we can grow our money at a faster rate than salary alone. Not only that, but depending on your investments, a good portion of that money is tax-free.

So go out and do your research, make your money work for you, and become one of those people that we all envy.

Ads squander great opportunitiesBy Edward.Leonard iowastatedaily.com

Facebook

Facebook’s advertising system is absolutely incredible. If you were inclined to make

an advertisement, you can combine any picture with any text, make a poll and target anyone you want to based on pretty much every criteria that Facebook can distinguish, which is a great many.

It’s a well-oiled machine, and it’s impressive from a business stand-point. I admire it.

What I don’t understand is how this brilliant system leads to such fantastically stupid advertisements.

I was on Facebook the other day and an advertisement popped up for some new horror flick coming out. The poll attached to it, which had been answered by a whopping 3,000 of the approximately 500 million Facebook users, asked me what I fear most. It gave me three options: fire, wasps and dark forces.

When I saw this I cracked up. My first thought was along the lines of “which one of these things is not like the other?” This was shortly followed by the question “do most people actually fear one of these three things more than anything else?” What about public speaking or death?

And dark forces could not be more vague. My mind immediately leapt to Darth Vader, perhaps the most iconic user of the dark side of the Force. He’s pretty cool, but I don’t know if he’s the thing I fear most.

This got me thinking about some of the other phenomenally stupid advertisements I’ve seen on Facebook. Did you know you could join the Great American Condom Campaign and get 500 free condoms? Neither did I, but now I do! Thanks, Facebook!

Or how about this: Tired of getting sweaters for Christmas? Ask for Bonobos pants! Whenever I get tired of sweaters for Christmas, pants are always the first thing I ask for.

Boy, I really wants me a new pair of Christmas pants. And I would never have thought of it if it wasn’t for these wonderful Facebook ads.

And that’s to say nothing of the “Christian singles” ads featuring obnoxiously attractive skinny blonde girls built like Barbie. That’s not a mixed message. I’ve been asked if my carrot hangs, or if I’m “emo for Obama” — what does that even mean — and I was told to tell my friends that their spoon collections are straining our relationships. None of that is a typo. I can even get diamond rings for less than $1 — with real diamonds. Wow!

My absolute favorites are the IQ tests. These are pretty much the em-bodiment of the “picture unrelated” idea. I have been asked to count the eyes on the overly muscular fellow in the “Powerthirst” video on YouTube. Or if I can tell the difference between a lamp and female genitals.

I have to imagine that some of these ads have been put up as jokes simply to amuse those of us with an eye for detail. But others are in earnest. Facebook was started as a networking site for college students, and while it’s expanded explosively, those roots are still there.

And with all these possible cri-teria for targeting an audience, you’d think a company with stupid adver-tisements might think, “Hey, maybe we shouldn’t target someone who has an IQ more than 4 with this ad! They might think it’s a stupid waste of time, and then they’ll want to buy our goods or services even less.”

So this is a call to you who would use Facebook to advertise. You have an opportunity to get your product to people all over the world. You can customize it to your heart’s content. You can send an ad right to me that targets me specifically.

So please don’t waste my time with garbage. Facebook has amazing potential for ads, yet many are inconceivably lame and nonsensical. Courtesy photo: Field Gulls

Recently there was an article writ-ten in the Daily entitled “[Republican ‘change’ merely a partisan ploy].” The article truly brings to light the complete ignorance the author, and the left wing as a whole, has of the traditional conserva-tive movement that is enveloping our country. The conservatives pushing for “change” are not looking for revolution-ary new ideas; they are looking for a return to traditional conservative ideals. These people are true Ronald Reagan Republicans, looking to move our coun-try away from the progressive agenda of the left and toe a true conservative line.

Yes, recent rhetoric from the GOP has been similar to 1994, and I say great. This is the exact change our country needs. We do not need to change into something new, but restore conservative politics that predate the current progressive move-ment and the two that came before it in the New Deal and the Great Society. This is the change people have cried for during town hall meetings and what the liberals have ignored.

A complete disregard of constitu-ents has forced the people of this great nation to rise up and take matters

into their own hands, and thus the Tea Party has flourished. To look at the Tea Party as a bunch of right-wing radicals is a slanted, narrow point of view. The Tea Party is a group of ardent conservatives who want to see the GOP move in a more traditional conservative direction. I hope this time around the Grand Old Party delivers on their promises to America, so it can prevent another set of decades like the 1990s and 2000s. We do not need any more wish-washy, big government Republicans like George W. Bush, who before Barrack Obama, increased the size of government more than any president before him.

With a bit of luck and a lot of hard work I believe that this generation of conservative leaders, people like Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, Chris Chritstie and John Thune, can lead this country back down the path of conservative values, idealism and politics. This is what real change should look like come November.

On Nov. 2, voters have a choice between Democrats working to move America forward and Republicans who want to return to the same failed policies of the past.

Democrats in the last two years have fought and continue to fight to repair a decade of damage and rebuild an economy that works for all of us.

But for nearly two years, Republicans have tried to block progress at every turn, worrying more about what big corporations and special interests want than what middle-class Americans need.

We can’t afford to sit back and let Republicans repeal progress and repeat the mistakes of the past.

In 2008, we ended the terrible era of Bush-Cheney. Americans decided to get involved, many for the first time in their lives. Younger Americans learned that they could indeed make change.

It hasn’t been easy, but in the last 20 months President Obama and the Congressional Democrats have made

big changes and have put us on the path we need to be on.

The president and Congressional Democrats have kept our economy from going over the cliff to a depression.

It took eight long years for the Bush-Cheney regime to get us in this economic mess. We owe it to the Democrats to give them at least that long to fix it.

So when you step into that voting booth, think long and hard: Which America do you want? Do you re-ally want to give the keys back to the Republicans who drove our economy into the ditch; to those who put profit over progress?

Or do you want to stay engaged and help President Obama and the Democratic Party continue to make the change that will move our state and our nation forward?

As for me, I’ll be voting for the Democrats.

Nathan Lincoln is a senior in mechanical engineering.

Stephen Quist is a sophomore in construction engineering and Jacob Thomas is a sophomore in business.

Tom Blair is a 2003 alumnus.Most informed, most intelligent people have financial advantage

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Vote to let Democrats keep working toward ongoing reform goals

Tea Party trying to restore conservatism; no need to reinvent it

Greek participation in blood drive not ultimately about house points

The Homecoming Central Committee of the Student Alumni Leadership Council whole-heart-edly supports the efforts of the ISU Blood Drive and blood drive com-mittee. We realize the importance of blood donation and are glad to include blood donation as an aspect of the greek portion of the Homecoming competition.

I am unclear on how other competitions include blood drive,

but Homecoming Central requires greek pairings that are made up of at least three chapters to have 50 percent of the total pairing partici-pate in the blood drive by donating their blood or time. We feel that this requirement is reasonable due to the overwhelming importance of blood donation. Also, we routinely have chapters within Homecoming pairings reach 100 percent participation.

We realize that blood donation is not for everyone, which is why the requirement for Homecoming is only 50 percent of each pairing. However, we strongly urge all stu-dents, faculty and staff to consider blood donation this week, and we applaud those who do so without the promise of Homecoming points.

Kurt Beyer is an alumni officer for the Alumni Association.

Blood drive efforts are intended as more than merely an opportunity to win competitions or receive extra credit, drives are to save lives. Photo: Karuna Ang/Iowa State Daily

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The hockey team will be fac-ing some tough competition at home Friday and Saturday.

The Cyclones will take on the Sooners for Family Weekend against the University of Oklahoma.

No. 2 Iowa State (3-1-0) and No. 6 Oklahoma (5-1-0) are the only two Big 12 representatives to the American Collegiate Hockey Association.

“They are very good competi-tion, and definitely a top 10 team,” said coach Al Murdoch.

The Cyclones will be expect-ing Oklahoma to be very physical and fast on the ice.

“They are going to be our best competition yet,” said senior for-ward Mike Lebler.

Although the competition will be fierce, the Cyclones have been working hard in practice.

“We have been pushing pretty hard at practice, but we are get-ting stronger, faster and better at handling the puck,” Murdoch said.

Last weekend, the Cyclones

swept the U n i v e r s i t y of Central Oklahoma and they are hop-ing to add a couple more wins against the southern state to the record column.

“We are in better shape, and we have been working hard the last two weeks,” Lebler said.

In order to score goals against Oklahoma, the Cyclones need to step up their game.

The team will be looking to capitalize on every opportunity, and getting the Sooners into the penalty box is key to that.

“We have to put a huge em-phasis on the power play to score,” Murdoch said.

“And when we take penalties we need to be threatening,”

The games are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Ames/ISU Ice Arena.

“The games this weekend will be definitely be a crowd pleaser for family weekend,” Murdoch said.

It is about that time of year to head south, and the Cyclones will fol-low suit this weekend when they face Oklahoma at home Friday and No. 8 Oklahoma State on the road Sunday.

After Sunday’s Kansas game, ju-nior defender and co-captain Mary Kate McLaughlin said the team’s goal was to go undefeated in conference home games this season.

Oklahoma is coming into Friday night’s game 5-4-1 and senior forward Whitney Palmer could pose a threat to the Cyclone defense.

“The biggest thing we want to try to do with Whitney Palmer is just make sure that we pressure her so when she gets the ball she doesn’t have much room,” said coach Wendy Dillinger.

“Then if she does turn and run at us we just need to have good balance and good cover in the backs so that if she does get behind the first defender we have people there to help.”

Junior defender and co-captain Emily Hejlik, who has played against Palmer every year since she got to Iowa State, also stressed the impor-tance of positioning.

“If you’re in a good starting posi-tion it really doesn’t matter how much faster someone is than you.”

The senior forward Palmer leads her team in goals this season but will not be the only offensive weap-

on Oklahoma will utilize.

“Their forwards are really fast and they come flying at you from the backs to the midfields to the forwards so we are going to try and get them on a counter probably,” said

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ISU safety David Sims and the rest of the Cyclone secondary are going to get the opportunity they’ve been waiting for Saturday.

Texas Tech comes into Jack Trice Stadium, averag-ing 275 passing yards a game, fourth in the Big 12.

“We really haven’t been tested yet,” Sims said. “I’m ready for this. We’ve all been waiting for this op-

portunity to show what we’ve got and what we’ve been working on all season.”

While the Red Raiders’ offense is more balanced than under former coach Mike Leach, new coach Tommy Tuberville has quarterback Taylor Potts drop-ping back to pass 60 percent of the time.

The pace of the offense is something the ISU de-fense is going to have to get used to, as it is much faster than their previous opponents.

“They’re going to throw the ball first,” said defensive coordinator Wally Burnham.

“Then they’ll run the ball when they think they’ve got us worn down with that fast-paced offense.”

Sims knows there are adjustments that they must make in order to keep up with the more talented pass-

ing attack.The changes are going to come with both Burnham

and coach Paul Rhoads’ philosophy of keeping every-thing in front on defense.

“We need to work on actually finishing the play and disguising what were doing,” Sims said.

“We have to know what our receivers are doing at all times and make sure our eyes are in the right place.”

Texas Tech’s receiving corps is led by senior Lyle

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vs.Iowa State(2-2, 0-1)

Texas Tech(3-1, 0-1)

Where: Jack Trice Stadium

When: 6 p.m. Saturday

Media coverage: Cyclone Radio Network, Fox Col-lege Sports (TV)

Notes: The Cyclones are coming off of a win against Northern Iowa, 27-10.

Texas Tech’s pass defense is ranked 100th in the country, allowing 260 yards per game. The Red Raiders’ passing offense averages 275 yards per game, led by quarterback Taylor Potts.

The ISU pass defense is ranked tenth in the country, allowing 143 yards per game.

vs.Iowa State(6-3-2)

Oklahoma(5-4-1)

Where: ISU Soccer Complex

When: 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1

Notes: Iowa State leads the all-time series over Oklahoma 8-4-2, but the Cyclones lost to the Sooners 1-0 in Ames in 2009.

Iowa State has the second most yellow cards in the Big 12, and the third most fouls.

The Cyclones are 10th out of 11 teams in goals per game average, with Oklahoma tied for eighth.

Iowa State will play OU in Ames Friday, then travel to play Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Okla., on Sunday. Stillwater and Norman, the home town of OU, are 80 miles apart.

Defender Emily Hejlik takes the ball downfield during the game against Iowa on Sept. 17 at the ISU Soccer Complex. File photo: Abby Gilman/Iowa State Daily

Cyclones take on Oklahoma, No. 8 Oklahoma State

Sooners offer tough competition on the iceHockey

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Oklahoma(5-1)

Where: Ames/ISU Ice Arena

When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1 and Saturday, Oct. 2

Notes: Oklahoma is ranked No. 6 in the Ameri-can Collegiate Hockey Association.

Iowa State has moved to No. 2 in the ACHA.

Iowa State and Oklahoma are the only two Big 12 schools represented in the ACHA.

Iowa State swept Central Oklahoma last weekend, winning 8-3 and 4-0.

On Sept. 16 and 17, Oklahoma topped Central Oklahoma 5-1 and 5-2.

Oklahoma is 1-0 on the road this season.

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Iowa State’s tennis team is heading to Colorado for the weekend to compete in the 2010 Air Force Invitational. This will be the first tournament of the season, in which the entire team is traveling to and competing in.

The Cyclones are taking eight players. Among them are seniors Erin Karonis and Liza Wischer as well as juniors Maria Macedo, Tessa Lang and Marie Chartier.

The invite runs Friday through Sunday and features 12 teams.

This tournament will be crucial for many young players on the team. The Cyclones have three freshmen this year, and the tournament will be the first competitive play of the 2010 season for six of the eight Cyclones set to play.

The two ISU players who have already competed this year are sophomore Simona Cacciuttolo, who played well at the Drake tournament Sept. 10, and Emma Waites, who competed in the UNI Invitational last weekend.

It should be a good place for them to start off. The Air Force invitational guarantees that all players will play a minimum of three sin-gles games and three doubles games.

The team has been practicing hard all week

in preparation, and coach Armando Espinosa is excited to see how they fare.

“It is the first time we will have more than four girls competing,” Espinosa said.

“I hope we play well and also mostly just get used to the competition. Our number one priority will be to just keep improving, every week.”

Many impressive matchups are likely in order this weekend as some of the big name players face off.

The Cyclones will get a look at some of their conference rivals at the invite. Big 12 teams Oklahoma State and Colorado will both be representing the conference. Also in at-tendance will be Air Force, Arizona, Eastern Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina-Greensboro, Northern Colorado, Oregon and Wyoming.

It’s not just the other teams and players that will act as the opposition this weekend.

Players will also have to battle Colorado’s high altitude, where the air is much thinner.

“It’s always difficult in the thinner air, “Espinosa said.

“We leave Thursday morning so they’ll have a little time to get used to it. It will be a good preview for when we play Colorado in the spring,”

senior co-captain Jordan Bishop.

On the offensive end, Iowa State plans to add to Oklahoma’s 16 goals allowed this season, a fairly high num-ber through 10 games.

“We are just going to shoot from everywhere because we’ve watched film and we’ve seen their weaknesses,” said freshman midfielder Emily Goldstein.

“We know what we need to do offensively and we know why they have been getting scored on so much so we just have to capitalize off their weaknesses defensively,”

Goldstein leads the team in goals, points and shots on goal, but had been in a bit of an offensive lull. Before last weekend, she hadn’t recorded a goal or assist since Aug. 29 against Nevada, but she hopes last Sunday’s goal against Kansas will help her get back into a groove.

“It was just a good game and was a really a big confi-dence booster not only for me but for the team as a whole so this way offensively we will get more chances and this way I’ll be able to shoot more and hopefully putting goals in but if not getting a bunch of assists so we just win,” Goldstein said.

The second game of the weekend might be the Cyclones’ toughest yet; an away game against the eighth-ranked team in the country, Oklahoma State (9-1-1).

“We are just going to have to be tenacious defensively; we need to be stingy and dis-ciplined in our defending,” Dillinger said.

Last season, Iowa State

beat Oklahoma State 2-1 in Ames, and Dillinger expects the Cowgirls to be ready to redeem themselves in Oklahoma.

“They are a talented side and they have a little of the vengeance factor from last year when we beat them here so I’m sure they are going to have it out for us when we get there,” Dillinger said.

OSU junior midfielder Krista Lopez could be the toughest player Iowa State will face this season. Lopez is second in the Big 12 in goals with nine, and points.

“The big thing is you really have to be physical with both of them, especially Lopez, and Palmer doesn’t really like to be pushed around,” Hejlik said.

“I know Lopez doesn’t like to be pushed around so you kind of have to from the beginning whether it’s a hard tackle you just have to send a message that this is how it is going to be the whole game and offensive players usually don’t like to be too physical.”

Bishop and Lopez played on the D’Feeters select team together in Texas, and Bishop said she was a dominant play-er back then as well.

“You just have to shut her down. You have to stay on her back, don’t let her turn, just keep pressuring her and make her cough the ball up and get her frustrated,” Bishop said.

The key to the Cyclones being successful defensively this weekend will be one-on-one battles according to Hejlik.

Iowa State hopes to create more scoring chances after not creating many against Kansas.

“We’re going to come in

with the mentality of transi-tioning really fast and trying to get in on the counter at-tacks,” Dillinger said.

Senior goalkeeper Ashley Costanzo is still not back to 100 percent but Dillinger said she is as good as she is going to be.

Hejlik left Sunday’s game early with foot and ankle pain but should be ready to go for Oklahoma.

The Oklahoma game is at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the ISU Soccer Complex, and all matches are free this season.

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Invitational provides experience, proves crucial for new players

The Cyclone men’s golf team is coming up on half-way into the fall stretch, and they have been rolling with momentum.

Although the team has fin-ished 11th and ninth in its first two meets, the team isn’t as worried about overall finishes, but signs of individual posi-tives and those positives are everywhere.

“We’ve got three players that have finished in the top 10 in only our first two meets, and as a coaching staff, we feel great about that,” said coach Andrew Tank.

“Golf is an individual sport, and we’re playing it in a team environment. The bottom line is that as coaches we’re look-ing at the individual players and figuring out how we can help them, and that way our scores will get better.”

Even the players who don’t have their game clicking yet should feel confident. Practice being as competitive as it is, everyone is working to earn a spot.

“I know that the other guys s h o u l d feel good k n o w i n g that they’re c o m p e t -ing against some of the best competi-tion in the country every day in practice,” Tank said. “Especially with Nate just winning a tournament, they should know that playing at that top level is within reach.”

Still in the first part of the season, adjustments are a regular part of the golf year. Tank and assistant Patrick Datz have decided to make a lineup adjustment for the D.A. Weibring Invitational.

Sophomore Borja Virto will be breaking into the line-up in place of senior Nathan Leary.

The coaches have seen Leary struggle in the last two rounds at Wolf Run and alto-gether at the VCU Shootout, so they think that it could be a good time to give Virto an opportunity.

“Nate has struggled with

his putting this past week,” Tank said, “And I really want him to focus on working through that.”

Like many non-residents unaccustomed to Iowa win-ters, Virto came to Iowa State in January from Spain, and it was a tough adjustment.

“I think the snow, the cold, and everything with that proved to be a hard transition for him,” Tank said. “He’s got a tremendous international golf resume so we’re going to see what he can do this week.”

Tank and Datz have

brought in an idea of not hav-ing a captain, and so far it has proved to be a great idea.

Both meets have created different results, and with this set up no player has the pres-sure on them to perform as the number one golfer, and can focus on helping the team the best that he can.

As a team, the bond be-tween player and coach has grown stronger as well.

“Being young coaches, I think it helps us,” Tank said. “I think it helps the overall dia-logue that we have as a team. You’ve got to have that com-fort level with the players in order for them to open up and let us help them, and I think that’s what we have here.”

The Cyclones are travel-ing to Normal, Ill., Saturday to participate in the D.A. Weibring Invitational.

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Iowa State

What: D.A. Weibring Invi-tational

Where: Normal, Ill.

When: Saturday and Sunday

Notes: The Cyclones are coming off of an 11th place finish last weekend.

HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. — LeBron James’ manager said he believes race played a factor in how the two-time reigning NBA MVP’s decision to join the Miami Heat was covered this summer.

Maverick Carter did not cite specifics when talking to CNN for a story that aired Wednesday night, other than saying race “definitely played a role in some of the stuff com-ing out of the media” during coverage of James’ free-agent saga.

It’s not the first time race has been a discussion point in the aftermath of what was called “The Decision,” an oft-criticized televised special

that raised $3 million for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

James did not want to spend much time on the sub-ject after Thursday’s Heat practice.

“I think people are looking too far into it,” James said. “But at the same time, sometimes it does play a part in it. I’ve said what I had to say, and I’ll con-tinue to move on.”

After James made his an-nouncement July 8, Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert responded that same evening by releasing a fiery letter to fans of his team,

saying James was being “nar-cissistic” and “cowardly.” That prompted Rev. Jesse Jackson to enter the fray, saying the Cavs owner saw James as a “runaway slave.”

Through a representative, Carter declined comment Thursday.

“I don’t walk in LeBron’s shoes,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “From our standpoint, we’ve moved on from the summer.”

The Associated Press

Manager claims racial issues played factor in LeBron’s ‘decision’

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10 | SPORTS | Iowa State Daily | Friday, October 1, 2010 Editor: Jake Lovett | sports iowastatedaily.com | 515.294.3148

Iowa State released its 2011 conference football sched-ule Thursday morning.

The Cyclones will play a round-robin, nine-game schedule to match the Big 12’s new 10-team format.

Four of the games — against Texas, Texas A&M, Kansas and Oklahoma State — will be played in Jack Trice Stadium, while the other five games will be played on the road.

“We had productive discussions regarding future league schedules,” said Jamie Pollard, ISU director of athletics, in a news release. “It’s exciting to begin a new era of Big 12 football with a complete round-robin schedule for all schools.”

Earlier in the week, the Cyclones released their 2011 non-conference schedule that included home games with in-state rivals Northern Iowa and Iowa to start the year before traveling to Storrs, Conn., before beginning confer-ence play.

“[ISU] fans will benefit from the new format as league members from the old South Division will make far more frequent appearances in Jack Trice Stadium,” Pollard said. “The balance of the schedule is good for us as we have one of the Oklahoma schools, one of the Kansas schools and two [of the four] Texas schools at home and on the road each season.”

But, with Nebraska leaving the conference for the Big Ten and Colorado departing for the Pac-10, the Big 12 decided to go to the nine-game format, forcing its teams to drop a non-conference game to meet the NCAA-required 12-game schedule.

Athletic directors also decided to move to an 18-game double round robin for men’s and women’s basketball.

The basketball schedules will be similar to the football schedule, but will feature a home and away matchup between each school. Those schedules are still being developed.

Sept. 3 . . . . . . . . NORTHERN IOWA . . . (night)Sept. 10 . . . . . . . IOWA

Sept. 17 . . . . . . . at Connecticut

Oct. 1 . . . . . . . . . TEXAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Family Weekend)*Oct. 8 . . . . . . . . . at Baylor*Oct. 15 . . . . . . . . at Missouri*Oct. 22 . . . . . . . . TEXAS A&M . . . . . . . . (Homecoming)*Oct. 29 . . . . . . . . at Texas Tech*Nov. 5 . . . . . . . . . KANSAS*Nov. 12 . . . . . . . . at Oklahoma*Nov. 19 . . . . . . . . OKLAHOMA STATE*Nov. 26 . . . . . . . . at Kansas State*

– CAPS indicates home games– *Big 12 Conference game

2011 ISU football schedule

Leong.Leong has recorded 20 re-

ceptions for 250 yards and six touchdowns through their first three games of the season.

Potts has thrown six of his eight touchdown passes to Leong, with the other two go-ing to senior Detron Lewis and sophomore Austin Zouzalik.

“They still got some great receivers,” Burnham said.

“They got speed. They play four just about every snap, sometimes five. They got two good running backs and the quarterback is a pretty good football player.”

Potts stands at 6 feet 5 inch-es, 222 pounds, but Burnham

said that makes him about 6 feet 8 inches by the time he re-leases the ball.

To keep the receivers in check, the secondary is going to have to jam the receivers off the line and not them get into their routes easily.

“They’re going to run some deep routes that they’re go-ing to be involved in front of them as well as behind them,” Burnham said.

“They’re going to challenge us. The corners and safeties are going to have to do a good job on deep balls and make tackles in the open field.”

The defense showed its ex-plosiveness, scoring twice on the strength of two intercep-tion returns for touchdowns

against Northern Iowa. Rhoads said the key to the

defensive line playing well against Northern Iowa was the level of coverage the second-ary put on their receivers. This allowed the lineman and line-backers to get pressure on the quarterback.

Along with safeties Sims and Michael O’Connell, cor-nerbacks Ter’Ran Benton, Jeremy Reeves and Anthony Young are stepping into the spotlight in the secondary.

“Jeremy is a competitor,” said secondary coach Bobby Elliott.

“He can run and jump and do all those things and Jeremy has had some good ball games. He’s played pretty consistent

all the way through.”Linebackers Jake Knott

and A.J. Klein have also dis-played soft hands in the previ-ous games. Their play styles offer a hybrid-type threat for the defense.

The duo’s impressive and consistent play is going to be key against an offense like Texas Tech’s, and Rhoads wants his team to protect against the “upfield shoulder.”

“One of the things you have to worry about in an explosive passing attack like this is not giving up big plays,” Rhoads said.

“You can’t let players get behind you and get the ball in space an go the distance on you.”

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Iowa State’s David Sims

goes for a tackle against Kansas State on Sept. 18 at

Arrowhead Stadium. Sims

and the ISU secondary

are preparing to face Texas

Tech’s passing offense.

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