The year-long renovation of the Oak-Elm dining center came to comple-tion this month, and the newly named Conversations is now serving some of Iowa State’s most unique cuisine.

Conversations provides many new features for residents, including a cof-fee bar, New York-style deli, hard-pack Blue Bunny ice cream stand and continu-ous service, from 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays.

The fact that Conversations is smaller than the other residential dining centers is apparent as one descends the staircase that serves as its entrance. What the din-ing center lacks in size, it makes up for in the quality of food it produces, said Nancy Levandowski, director of ISU Dining.

“We’re really talking about Conversations being about quality and our other operations being about variety, so if students are looking for a lot of dif-ferent things to eat then they should go to Union Drive Marketplace or go to Seasons Marketplace,” Levandowski said. “But if what they’re looking for is something a

little more focused and quality, something a little more unique, our chef [Everett Phillips] has really taken the time with Mary Ellen Metzger to create a menu that will be a lot of fun for the students.”

Students that have visited Conversations have found many endear-ing qualities within the newly renovated dining center. Adam Peters, junior in man-agement, has enjoyed his visits so much

that he now considers Conversations his favorite dining center.

Just 12 days ago, Ames was inundated with record amounts of flood water.

Now, Iowa State is beginning the recovery process.“This recovery process is certainly going to take awhile;

certainly well into the fall semester, and in some areas much beyond that,” ISU President Gregory Geoffroy said in a news conference Thursday morning.

Geoffroy spoke with Director of Athletics Jamie Pollard, Vice President for Business and Finance Warren Madden and Director of Facilities Planning and Management David Miller.

None of the officials offered estimates of financial dam-ages or a timeline for the recovery.

Madden said the university’s next steps involve discuss-ing damage with insurance carriers and Federal Emergency Management Agency.

“We do not have an actual estimate of the damage yet,” Madden said. “I expect next week as we begin working with FEMA we will be arriving at that point. It certainly is in the millions of dollars, but I’m not prepared today to give you an exact number.”

Madden said most of the damaged facilities should fall well within their insurance coverage, while buildings such as Hilton Coliseum would likely exceed their limits.

Of the buildings that were flooded, Madden said Hilton would be the university’s first priority due to the nature of its uses. Madden and Pollard alluded to having other options to relocate the ISU soccer and volleyball teams from their dam-aged facilities, but would not have as many viable options once the basketball season roll around in November.

According to a flood map released by the university Thursday, 25 buildings on campus were affected just by rainfall and storms alone, aside from five buildings that had standing water inside due to flooding.

Some of the buildings that were damaged during storms include Durham Center, Carver Hall, Lagomarcino Hall and Kildee Hall. Miller said the two buildings most greatly im-pacted were Hamilton Hall and Horticulture Hall. Miller said most of the buildings were cleaned by university personnel, mostly drying and removing the water from the buildings.

However, Geoffroy and Madden both asserted that none of the damage to campus buildings will have a noticeable im-pact when classes begin Monday.

Going forward, no plans for future prevention have been discussed yet.

Max Porter, professor of civil, construction, and environ-mental engineering, said Iowa State and the city of Ames have discussed how to prevent flooding since the structures of Iowa State Center were first built in the early 1970s.

“Some people were very vocal that the city should not is-sue building permits in the flood plain when those buildings were being built,” Porter said.

Since then, a series of floods have inundated buildings in

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Mark Rogalski, senior in materials engineering, and Nathan Wering, junior in sociology, carry a futon into Lyon Hall during fall move in on Tuesday, Aug. 17. Photo: Ryan Damman/Iowa State Daily

Jacob Hirsch, sophomore in finance, slices chicken Friday in preparation for dinner at Conversations Dining, which opened in August after a year-long renovation. Photo: Ryan Damman/Iowa State Daily

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See photos of the event for new students that moved to Central Campus this yearsee page 6C

When the residence halls throughout campus of-ficially opened for the gen-eral student population to move-in Tuesday, Aug. 17, the Department of Residence wel-comed them with open arms.

The DOR anticipated the need for a revised move-in procedure across campus, fac-ing the largest enrollment in Iowa State’s history and lim-ited parking near the Union Drive residence halls — where construction on State Gym

left only 40 spaces usable for parking.

Fortunately, students vol-unteered to help speed up the process.

The DOR hired 551 stu-dents to join the move-in crew, more than three times last year’s 170 members.

“[Move-in] went incred-ibly smooth,” said Pete Englin, director of the Department of Residence.

“Our move-in crew vol-unteers did a fantastic job of quickly getting students and families into the residence halls. The additional mem-

bers made a tremendous difference.”

The participation increase was the result of a summer postcard mailing to students asking if they were interested in moving in early, the catch being that they had to volun-teer with the move-in crew.

“[I joined] mostly because my friends did, and I wanted to get settled in earlier,” said Kyle Litzer, sophomore in aero-space engineering.

“It was a good experience, there were a lot of nice people and everyone appreciated the help we provided.”

Another factor in the in-creased volunteer turnout was the fact that freshmen were allowed to participate for the first time.

“Freshmen helped other students move in and were ex-cited to do so, and I think that makes a great statement about our students; even though they’re here for their first time, they’re willing to help their fellow students get moved in,” Englin said.

“This year’s was the best move-in in my five years serv-ing as director, even with the growth in occupancy.”

Thousands of people swarmed the Varied Industries Building at the Iowa State Fair trying to escape the heat and were able to learn about Iowa State’s Live Green! initiative at the same time.

“We’re talking to them about sustainability on campus, the trash compactor, how we’ve gone trayless in the dining centers, Cybrids and our electric car,” said Nate Dobbels, se-nior in agriculture and life sciences education and vice presi-dent of the Government of the Student Body.

A 10-foot stack of dining trays towered over fair-goers, Team PrISUm’s solar car drew a lot of attention, and infor-mation about Iowa State’s sustainable mission was printed on display panels made of biodegradable material.

On the side of one of the displays, fair-goers had the chance to tell everyone how they were “living green.” Post-it notes read, “wedding e-invites, ride my bike everywhere and carpool,” among many others.

“Everyone has been really nice and interested in what we have to say,” said Matt Santee, sophomore in civil engineering and director of sustainability for GSB. “It’s great to see every-one’s interest.”

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Aug. 4Nadia Dunlap, 21, of Iowa City, was arrested and charged with oper-ating while intoxicated. (reported at 12:33 a.m.)Cole Beck, 18, of Ne-vada, was arrested and charged with interfer-ence with official acts (aggravated). (reported at 10:17 a.m.)Andy Ly, 26, 2730 Stange Road unit 1, was ar-rested and charged with simple assault. (report-ed at 11:52 a.m.)Nicole Yungclas, 26, 2279 E. 190th St. unit 8, was arrested and charged with driving while barred and driving under revocation-civil. (reported at 6:03 p.m.)Terence Baptiste, 20, 515 S. Fourth St., was arrested and charged with interference with official acts (simple). (reported at 8 p.m.)

Aug. 5Donald Bars, 57, 4530 Westbend Drive, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 12:34 a.m.)Bryce Arneson, 23, 4114 Cochran Parkway, was arrested and charged with public consump-tion. (reported at 6:15 a.m.)Joseph Tills, 36, of Des Moines, was arrested and charged with con-tempt of court. (reported at 8 a.m.)Micah Martinez, 30, 1337 Walton Drive unit 303, was arrested and charged with driving un-der revocation. He was transported to the Story County Justice Center. (reported at 11:31 a.m.)Aaron Ferris, 21, Coconino Road unit 142, was arrested and charged with public intoxication and assault causing bodily injury. (reported at 2:09 p.m.)

Aug. 6A vehicle was towed after it was determined the driver had no license or insurance. (reported at 12:05 a.m.)Jamie Wagner, 21, of Iowa City, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 2:10 a.m.)Ryan Teft, 21, of Omaha, Neb., was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 2:20 a.m.)Judy Gordon, 52, 522 Fifth St., was arrested and charged with viola-tion of protective order. (reported at 2:54 a.m.)Mark Gordon, 44, 522 Fifth St., was arrested and charged with viola-tion of protective order. (reported at 2:54 a.m.)

A resident reported unauthorized purchases were made on a credit card. (reported at 5:04 p.m.)Tia Hobbs, 24, no ad-dress, was arrested and charged on two counts of criminal trespass. (reported at 10:50 p.m.)

Aug. 7Hailey Mayes, 19, 610 Crystal Street, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 12:57 a.m.)Ryan Ballman, 22, 230 Campus Ave. unit 315, was arrested and charged with public intoxication and fourth degree criminal mis-chief. (reported at 1:23 a.m.)La Roy Buchanan, 39, 2011 Prairie View West, was arrested and charged with serious do-mestic abuse. (reported at 2:20 a.m.)Michael Knapp, 27, 329 Crane Ave., was arrested and charged with oper-ating while intoxicated. (reported at 3:11 a.m.)Amanda Runner, 24, 1223 School Road, was arrested and charged with public intoxication. (reported at 7:43 p.m.)

Aug. 8Katherine Van Dyke, 20, of Clive, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 1:14 a.m.)Daniel Hall, 20, of West Des Moines, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 1:14 a.m.)Jason Bergman, 21, 330 Marshall Ave., was ar-rested and charged with public consumption. (reported at 1:50 a.m.)Amber Leick, 20, of

Omaha, Neb., was ar-rested and charged with operating while intoxi-cated. (reported at 2:16 a.m.)David Wherry, 19, 4509 Steinbeck St. unit 3, was arrested and charged with public intoxication and underage posses-sion of alcohol. (reported at 2:46 a.m.)Ryan Lovestad, 20, 4912 Mortensen Road unit 615, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated. (re-ported at 5:32 a.m.)Tyler Dahlberg reported the theft of a bike. (re-ported at 10:57 a.m.)

Aug. 9An officer reported a parked vehicle may have sustained some water damage as a result of localized flooding. (re-ported at 7:07 a.m.)A staff member reported the theft of a banner from Reiman Gardens. (reported at 8:16 a.m.)

Aug. 10Nicholas Colvin, 22, of Boone, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated. (re-ported at 2:01 a.m.)David Thomas, 19, of Des Moines, was ar-rested and charged with operating while intoxi-cated. (reported at 2:25 a.m.)A resident of Buchanan Hall reported receiving harassing messages from an acquaintance. (reported at 1:09 p.m.)An abandoned vehicle that was surrounded by water was towed from Stange Road. The owner was notified. (reported at 11:24 p.m.)

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the area on four major occasions: 1975, 1993, 2008 and this year. Although the university and city have under-gone changes in order to prevent flooding, including the extension of Elwood Drive — now University Boulevard — to Pammel Drive, Porter said the area requires fur-ther changes.

“To fix it right will require quite a bit of money,” he said.

He said options the university can discuss to protect the Iowa State Center include building dikes, installing flood control gates, and raising bridges and roadways.

In particular, he suggested raising the bridge over Squaw Creek on Stange Road. Raising main roadways in Ames even 1 or 2 feet could help eliminate flooding, he said.

He said experts will analyze the benefits of raising Interstate 35, Interstate 30, South 16th Street, South Duff Avenue, University Boulevard, Lincoln Way, Stange Road, and 13th Street.

“We do need to assess, what can we do to keep these kinds of things from happening again in the future?” Madden said. “That will involve hiring those kinds of professional consultants.”

Madden said the university thought it took signifi-cant steps toward avoiding flood damage after both ma-jor floods, in 1993 and 2008.

“Water is a very powerful force, and when it moves like it did Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, it penetrated a number of these facilities in places that had not had problems before,” Madden said.

Both Madden and Pollard mentioned the possibility of renovation to damaged facilities alongside repair and restoration.

Madden said the university was fortunate the flooding did not occur while classes were in session. However, there was an estimate that 47 students were left without homes after 27 apartments flooded in the University Village.

Those students were relocated to other apartments in the area, but some students have also been relocated to Wilson Hall, south of campus.

“The UDCC and Seasons are always packed, and [Conversations] doesn’t have as many people,” Peters said. “It’s close to my dorm and the food’s better than the other dining centers on campus.”

Matthew Beyer, sophomore in aerospace engineering, has also enjoyed his experiences at Conversations and plans to return as long as it doesn’t get too popular among students.

“It’s good food,” Beyer said. “So far it’s been better than other dining centers. I’ll [continue to] come as long as it doesn’t get crowded, but I feel like as more students get here it’ll become more of a hassle.”

Along with Conversations’ renovations, ISU Dining revamped its other dining operations across campus as well. Hawthorn Market received new flooring and added online ordering for students, similar to that added last year at Clyde’s Sports Club. Union Drive Marketplace also received new flooring, added a fresh squeezed orange juice machine, available everyday at breakfast, and now provides continuous service between lunch and dinner.

“[The first day we were open] we had 64 people [come in] in those in between hours, so we were excited,” Levandowski said. “It means we’re not doing it for noth-ing, which is great. It means we’re taking care of folks.”

Another major difference to ISU Dining this year is their addition of a to-go option for students, which al-lows them to use their meal plans at dining centers and provides them 10 minutes to fill up one of the official ISU Dining to-go containers, which can be purchased with a one-time fee of $6.

Once the to-go meals are eaten, the containers should be returned to a dining center, preferably without any food in them, where it will be washed and students can take a different, clean container.

Residents also received a free official ISU Dining mug which is the only container that can be filled in and taken from the dining centers.

Changes within the dining centers are all focused to-ward making students’ dining experience more enjoyable and making them feel that there is more value in their dining program.

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Roxanne Conlin, Democratic challenger to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-IA, said Thursday at the Iowa State Fair her opponent is “ducking” her.

“He’s had 30 years to get ready. He’s had 30 years to hone his talking points, and I think that the people of Iowa deserve better from Sen. Grassley,” Conlin said.

Conlin is also accusing Grassley of avoiding public de-bates. The Grassley campaign stated the senator always welcomes debates with chal-lengers but his Senate sched-ule doesn’t leave him with as much availability as Conlin.

So far, one televised debate in September has been agreed to by both camps. Conlin’s campaign said more debates have been proposed by various news media outlets. Grassley said in July he expected more than one debate to be arranged.

The Iowa Democratic Party accused Grassley of avoiding public town hall-style meetings this week.

However, Grassley is third among U.S. senators for amount of town hall meet-ings held in 2010 with 42 total. Grassley was in Ames on Wednesday, Aug. 18 for a breakfast meeting of the Ames Morning Rotary Club at Ames Golf and Country Club. The IDP said Conlin has held at least 125 public forums in all 99 counties.

While a majority of Iowa politicians of multiple par-ties made time to speak at the Des Moines Register soap box at the Fair, Grassley declined. However, he made appearanc-es at the 2010 Iowa State Fair.

Conlin trails Grassley in the latest Rasmussen poll from Aug. 10 by a margin of 20 per-cent among likely voters.

“We never rely on the re-

sults of a single poll, but this one certainly reflects previous credible polls,” Grassley’s cam-paign stated at the time.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine, former governor of Virginia, appeared alongside Gov. Chet Culver and other Iowa Democrats at the Fair on Tuesday. Kaine said he be-lieved despite double-digit leads by Republicans over Conlin and Culver, the Iowa Democrats still had a strong chance of victory in November.

“It’s a tough climate and we understand that,” Kaine said, “but Democrats do tough.”

Kaine cited Grassley’s comments about fictional “death panels” at town hall meetings in Iowa in August 2009 and Republican candi-dates proposing privatizing Social Security as reasons the incumbent remained vulnerable.

Conlin’s campaign has tried to keep those statements Grassley made in 2009 rel-

evant this summer. At the Fair on Thursday she labeled the comments “fear mongering,” and the reason she began to consider running.

Grassley specifically stated at one event, “When you cou-ple this with all the other fears that people have, and you have what they do in England, then you get the idea that someone is going to decide Grandma’s lived too long.” This comment came after discussion com-paring health care systems in Canada and Europe.

“In March 2008, Grassley voted for an amendment that would privatize Social Security,” said Mark Daley, campaign manager for Conlin, on Aug. 16.

“I think as Roxanne tells that story, you’re going to see her numbers improve signifi-cantly,” Kaine said.

FiveThirtyEight, the Cook Report, CQ politics and many political analysts suggest Grassley has a strong chance of re-election at this point.With all the excitement of moving to cam-

pus, meeting new people and having new ex-periences, freshmen may forget that college life is not all fun and games.

It’s easy for a freshman girl to blow off a controlling boyfriend as, “He’s just more ma-ture than I am,” or for a freshman guy to think the girl that’s stalking him is just “really into him.”

But these are examples of sexual assault, and many students don’t know how to handle these situations or are aware of them at all. The Catalyst Theatre Company educates in-coming freshmen about the forms sexual as-sault can take and how to react if they happen.

Before the Catalyst Theatre performance, many students said if their friend was in an unhealthy relationship, they would try to get them help. The Catalyst Theater taught them how and where to seek it.

“It opened up a lot of options, so now I know what to do in this area if it ever becomes a problem,” said Jason Herbers, freshman in agricultural engineering.

When asked if their point of view on sexual assault changed after seeing the performance, the students’ reactions were split.

“I was totally against it in the first place,” said Wesley Hutter, freshman in mechanical

engineering.However, Caitlyn Dierks, freshman in ani-

mal science, said her perspective changed.“I always thought it was wrong, but it just

more defined on what is wrong and what is right,” she said.

Hutter, Dierks and David Sperling, fresh-man in electrical engineering, all agreed the Catalyst Theater’s performance would help decrease sexual assault on campus by pro-moting activism in hazardous situations. The performance covered many issues and struck each person differently.

“I learned a few things about consent and how to be an active bystander,” Sperling said.

Natalie Wingert, freshman in engineering, said she learned more about general issues on campus.

Students said the group did a good job ad-dressing a sensitive issue.

“They’re doing a good thing and it’s going to help out,” said Paul Gaylord, freshman in me-chanical engineering.

Catalyst Theater Company educates on sexual assault

Freshman students learn how to prevent sexual harassment during a production by Catalyst Theater on Thursday at Hoover Hall. The production was presented as a part of Destination Iowa State. Photo: Samantha Butler/Iowa State Daily

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We want you Show respect, remove hatBy RJ.Green @iowastatedaily.com

Memorial

Imagine a taller, grumpier, redder, infinitely more dashing Mike Holmgren.

Now, make that guy a mailman, and imagine me pissing him off for the better part of three decades: That's my dad.

The Vietnam War was in full swing in 1968, and Pops decided to enlist. When I've asked him what made him go and do a thing like that, I've gotten every-thing from, "Well, I thought for sure I was gonna get drafted," to, "Hell if I know."

(He actually missed being deployed three times, spend-ing most of that time in lovely El Paso, Texas. Ironically, Dad never would have been drafted, anyway, but he did get a swanky government job out of the deal, right Dad? Yeah ... moving along.)

I've always thought his time in the service was directly re-sponsible for some of his more endearing character traits ... obeying traffic laws ... speaking in a volume that varies between dull roar and full-on roar ... cleanliness standards that put most hospitals to shame ... stuff you'd expect from a former military man.

One of the many, many things we agree to disagree on is my default hairstyle: hat.

I started buzzing my hair a long time ago. I can go four months between bottles of shampoo, don't blow my beer money on froofy-smelling Elmer's Glue and don't spend any more time in front of the mirror worrying about looking like a bigger tool than I already do. To be fair, it has its down-sides: I burn my fat head if I don't keep it covered in the sum-mer, and it gets a bit chilly in the winter. Solution? Hat.

Dad, on the other hand, has a set of criteria governing head attire that makes most Islamic countries seem downright pragmatic. It's not just location or events; he even considers the time of day and the weather. I've been yelled at for bending the bills of my hats, wearing them in cars and even for wearing them at night. Apparently, since the sun isn't out, I'm not supposed to do that?

Now, I'll be the first to admit there are certain places where a baseball cap is hardly appropri-ate attire. Of the places on cam-pus you absolutely, positively do not wear a hat, Gold Star Hall is at the tippy top of the list.

Why? Respect.Maybe it's the 25 years of

brainwashing, or the signs at both ends of the hall that ask you to remove your hat, but it really, really pisses me off when people think said request doesn't apply to them.

I don't care what your stance is on the wars we've fought. If you've got a few hang-ups with the last two or three, I'm right there with you, but that's irrelevant. Asking you to take your hat off isn't some political

or religious gesture: It's a request for gratitude and respect.

Gold Star Hall was part of the original Memorial Union, designed to commemorate ISU students and alumni that lost their lives in WWI. In 1959, they added the names of those lost in WWII to bronze doors that used to divide Gold Star Hall and the Zodiac Foyer. Those doors were removed in 1984 — go check out Cy's Lounge in the Alumni Center — and the names on those doors, plus the names of those that died in Vietnam, were chiseled into the walls.

They've also added to that list five times since 2003, hon-oring those who may have been overlooked, along with those that lost their lives in Desert Storm and Desert Storm II: The Empire Strikes Back.

Point being, it's a war memo-rial, and that makes it hallowed ground. That means I can re-move my hat for the 10 seconds it takes to walk through there, and so can everyone else.

To be honest, I'd planned on writing this diatribe at some point in time, but I was saving

it for later. Why the bump to leadoff hitter? Let me tell you a story:

After lunch last Monday I was heading back to the Daily for an afternoon of wonder-ful meetings. As I came up the stairs, I noticed a portly, middle-aged man in thigh-high khaki shorts, sandals with socks, and a tucked-in, short-sleeved, button-down dress shirt reading the sign at the entrance of the hall.

Completing this lady-killing ensemble was a taxi hat so epi-cally scenester I was genuinely surprised he wasn't carrying an iPad.

It doesn’t bother me when the head covering is on account of religious sensibilities, or chemotherapy treatment, but if it’s simply a sad mid-life crises attempt to reinvent oneself as a fashionista, that I can’t abide.

"Sir," I call out, "mind remov-ing your hat?"

No response. I try again."Sir, could you please take

your hat off?"He turns around. He looks

equal parts constipated and appalled.

"Why?" he asked.I play along. "... Why what?""Why is it any of your

business?""You're in a war memorial. I

saw you read the sign.""So?" Now he's indignant."So, it's the decent thing to

do."His reply?"Go f--- yourself."Now, if we lived in a less

litigious day and age, that would have been my cue to help him remove his hat and shove it straight up his ass.

At the very least, I could've

socked him in the nose for being a tool about it. It's not like he wouldn't have it coming.

Alas, that's not the world we live in, and as I watched him waddle toward Gerdin, all I could do was secretly hope he'd catch fire before he got there.

I get that some people might think certain traditions are outdat-ed, but I'm inclined to think we've all but lost any sense of respect and citizenship in our society.

I'm no Boy Scout, but I'm the guy that holds doors open, catches flak for addressing people as "sir" and "ma'am," feels like a tool when my girlfriend tries to pay for anything, and flat-out refuses to let my crazy neighbor lady pay me in anything but rhubarb pie for getting the branches out of her yard.

Chivalry might be dying, but it ain't dead. Same goes for courtesy, same goes for respect.

Rest assured, I'll be pissing and moaning about this sort of thing all year. Someone needs to.

If you see me on campus, you'll see me wearing a hat.

However, you see me walking through Gold Star Hall, my hat will be in my hand.

If you're the type that's above that sort of gesture, or just honestly forgot, I'll go out of my way to re-mind you. That might seem brash, but if you're inclined to oppose, I'm inclined to think you're a jackass.

Maybe it's because Dad raised me the right way, or maybe because I know about 20 guys who just left their families, again, to go get shot at, again.

Next time you walk through Gold Star Hall, stop and look around.

If you can't be bothered with that, at least remember to take your damn hat off. It's the right thing to do.

“A memorial to the 6,000 Iowa State College men and women who offered their lives during the World War in the cause of human liberty and free government.” — Gold Star Hall, Memorial Union

Anyone passing through Gold Star Hall, in the Memorial Union, is asked to remove his or her hat out of courtesy for Iowa State’s veterans. Photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily

Social networking shows insecuritiesBy Jason.Arment @iowastatedaily.com

Society

Social networking has become ingrained in our culture. People add content such

as pictures and information about themselves to pre-built profile layouts in an effort to accurately rep-resent themselves on the Internet. Or do they?

As I surf Facebook and MySpace, I see plenty of pictures of people drinking, partying and looking-cool in general. What I don’t see are people being boring, sitting around or failing at anything.

Those things are just part of life, and separating them from the self-representations we put online automatically makes that represen-tation less than truthful.

How much of our sadness, guilt, shame and failure can we really put forward on social networking though?

With parents, bosses and co-workers friending you, it gets harder and harder to say what you want on your profiles. I remember when I first joined Facebook in late 2005. Statuses about smoking blunts, fight-ing or getting blackout drunk were nothing to bat an eye at.

This was way before the subur-banized Facebook of today, where

most people won’t even post the F-bomb in their status’s — a far cry from the behavior of the college crowd that made up Facebook when I joined.

What exactly is the etiquette for social networking?

Can people change their choices of religion on Facebook and expect to be left alone, or have the intrusive questions of others become some-thing that is standard to the world of social networking?

On the flip side, how much in-formation is too much information? Where the line falls when it comes to privacy that you should expect, and what constitutes putting forward all together too much information is something that is still hashing itself out in the realms of the Internet.

No matter what you do, represent yourself. Don’t misrepresent yourself to be the representation that you wish you were.

All too often I see people blatantly trying to be cool, chasing trends and promoting those choices on their social networking profiles. Maybe the ADD-esque nature of our culture’s attention span makes it easier to change like chameleons without everyone noticing.

It tells a great deal about society when people are so insecure with themselves that they take the time to go online and further an idea of themselves that is not accurate to real life.

The need to please others cer-tainly isn’t one invented by social networking, but maybe it has been magnified and made visible due to the public nature of most people’s profiles.

I take painful efforts to secure my privacy online. I’ve made it so you can’t search for my Facebook on Google or on Facebook itself — I recommend you do the same.

I do my best not to try and make myself look cooler than I am. I mean, how cool can a working class white dude from Grimes, actually be?

Maybe I’m selling myself short though. If I had more photos of my tattoos, guns or of me doing awesome stuff, would people like me more? Would I have a better job? Would I have more friends?

Probably not. If I ever turn trendy, hopefully I have friends who care enough about me to call me out on it; rather then letting me live in my own little world, where I can paint reality however I feel like it at the time.

Increase in use of social networking sites has allowed people to put up better, if not false, versions of themselves on sites like Facebook and MySpace.Graphic: Rebekka Brown/Iowa State Daily

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The cool Gulf breeze softly kissed my aching lungs, as I emerged from the crystalline waters.

With my scuba mask clinging to my face, I patrolled beneath the rolling surface of the Gulf of Mexico on an exposition to find the remnants of our country's strongest addiction.

While I did not find any traces of oil in the water, I observed what seemed like an alien world: schools of whiting embarked on unknown fish-quests we humans cannot seem to grasp, a small jellyfish hung in jiggling limbo and camouflaged sting rays sensed my presence and darted into the abyss.

In the months following the now infamous April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico — abruptly ending the lives of 11 workers — the news media rel-ished in the material created by the disaster.

Culturally, we feed on bad news. I'm as guilty as anyone else — I spent hours in front of the TV trying to stay up-to-date on the story. Though I have a personal emotional investment in the Gulf, I almost let the media frenzy keep me from visiting a place I love in a time when visitors' support is needed the most.

Like every summer of my life, I spent the past week in Perdido Key, Fla., and Orange Beach, Ala., soaking-up ultraviolet rays and reveling in the exquisite natural beauty of fine white sands with the expansive, undulating blue-green waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Despite what the news media wants us all to believe, the world surrounding the Gulf has not ended; British Petroleum's oil slick apoca-lypse has not destroyed the Gulf lifestyle.

"You know, we've been all over the news," said the owner of the Outcast Bait and Tackle Shop in Pensacola, Fla., "but, the truth is, the news has done us all a real disservice. We've been on CNN, we've been interviewed by Katie Couric, everybody. But, this oil spill isn't the end of the world down here. Don‘t pay too much attention to the news. They just need material to fill up their time slots."

Though the evening news rattles on woefully every night about the emotional and economic stress this oil spill has caused those individuals who make their living off the tourism industry, their extensive coverage detracts tourists and, ultimately, does more harm than good.

As I sat on the beach and stared off into the horizon, I watched multitudes of ships skimming oil in the distance. ATVs and pick-up trucks weaved between sun-burned, beer

drinking vacationers and cleaned up tar balls where they had been sighted. Aside from these distractions and the murmurs of disdain for BP and the media, the Gulf lifestyle carries on — business as usual.

I spent a few of my nights haunting the landmark Florabama Lounge, which rests directly on the border of the two states. In those nights, it was almost impossible to tell that this region had been stricken by "one of the worst ecological disasters in American history."

The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig was a terrible and preventable occurrence. By no means am I attempting to downplay the anguish BP's lack of respect for the unpredict-able nature of the ocean has caused, but I truly believe every American concerned with this story should visit the Gulf coast: rent a condo, go to the bar, have some beer with the locals, buy a T-shirt, go out to dinner and pump your money into the stricken economy.

I spoke with people from all across the region: Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana. Some were on vacation — clinging to the comforts of the only world they've ever known — others were working for BP on the cleanup in all different ways.

I met a young girl, sipping on the Florabama's signature drink, the Bushwacker, who recently graduated nursing school in Tennessee. She echoed the sentiments of the owner of Outcast Bait and Tackle. She told me of workers she'd had to bandage, but mostly, she lamented the lost opportunity for so many Americans to "enjoy one of the most beautiful parts of our country."

This oil spill was a tragedy, and its effect will be felt, in some ways, for many years. However, the south is resilient, and the laid-back beauty of the Gulf coast lifestyle will never die.

For those of you who have never experi-enced the Gulf, go. Summer is almost over, but there's still time. And, for those of you who have previously adventured in the glorious white sands, go back.

Beneath the surface of the Gulf, I was able to experience the sensation of becoming one with the seemingly-limitless ocean.

Suspended in submerged bliss, I let the currents pull my body in opposing directions. I closed my eyes and felt the tingling tug of the oceanic, alien nature embrace my innermost being and I knew, despite the chattering talking heads on the idiot box, everything was going to be OK.

Oil spill exaggerated grossly by news media

An aggressive solutionBy Edward.Leonard @iowastatedaily.com

Driving

There's a hidden danger for ISU stu-dents returning to Ames, especially those who live out of state: driving.

Driving back to Ames, I realized just how much other people can piss me off.

There are some bad drivers out there, and you're likely to see some of them on your drive into Ames. Every once in a while, a cop will pull one of them over and give a warning — or if they're really mad, a ticket — but for the most part these monsters go unpunished.

The Federal Highway Administration esti-mates 4,000 to 6,000 people are killed in acci-dents on our interstate highway system alone. Some of these can probably be accounted for by bad road conditions, weather and other such circumstances, but a good chunk of them can be attributed to irresponsible driving. These people are a menace to society, and not enough is being done to stop them — they just keep doing what they were doing, putting us all in danger.

Years ago, a humor columnist named Dave Barry suggested a system wherein cars would shoot other cars with darts, color-coded to indicate various crimes against traffic and humanity. To Dave I say, "You, sir, are too soft." A more aggressive approach is called for here; a simple dart to the bumper will no more stop a dangerous driver than making a snide com-ment from your car.

One of my pet peeves is people who pass in the right-hand lane of an interstate highway. There's a pretty well-established system for

passing, but some people just don't get that if the left lane isn't going 95 mph, maybe they should just slow down. I propose a solution: All cars should have standard side-mounted flamethrowers. That way, anyone coming in hot on the wrong side of the street will instantly realize his or her mistake and, with any luck, fix it.

"But Eddie," you may say. "What about those pesky extreme speeders? And those people who go into the left lane and slow to block all the rest of us good citizens who pass where we should?"

I applaud your oddly specific forward thinking. I suggest for those who think any less than 90 mph is just too slow, heat-seeking missiles are sure to get an inescapably clear message across.

And for those tortoises who believe that slow and steady wins the race, but they're too important to be passed? A harpoon gun attached to a heavy anchor should do the trick. They'll go plenty slowly with their engine block shredded.

It shouldn't stop here, though. Be creative. Come up with your own ideas for solutions to the highway's little problems. Tailgater? Mines. Someone cut you off? Bumper saw. Pretty soon everyone's car will be a death-dealing hammer of justice, ready to punish those who just can't figure out how to play nicely with the rest of us.

Let's all do our part to make the roads a little safer.

Environment

By Patrick.Gamble @iowastatedaily.com

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Community

Teens bridge generations with dance for all ages

CLEAR LAKE — It’s not unusual, said 18-year-old Josh Randall, to have a 70- or 80-something couple stop him and ask, “Are you going dancing Sunday?”

“We’re famous,” joked Randall.

He’s talking about a group of Osage teens who regu-larly find their way to the Surf Ballroom on Sunday “swing” evenings. Thanks to Osage High School instruc-tor Marty Pauley, a growing number of OHS kids are dis-covering the joys of ballroom dancing.

Pauley and her husband have long been enthusiasts. So when students got the idea to have a group dance for a cancer fundraiser in 2009, they asked Pauley to teach them a few steps of swing and the cha-cha.

“The four or five who had come in originally told me how much they enjoyed it — and asked if I could teach them some more,” Pauley said.

So during the past school year interested students came in at 7:15 a.m. every Friday to learn new steps.

The group’s numbers in-creased every week. Then the kids discovered the Surf and the ballroom evenings.

“Swing is our favorite,” said Brooke Bodensteiner, 18.

Kids began to teach other kids and the crowds at the Surf grew. And, Randall and fellow OHS gradu-ate Hannah Christensen, 18, found themselves even teaching a community edu-cation class in ballroom dancing.

“Kids started bringing other kids to the Surf — and some didn’t really like it. But most of the time they were hooked,” Randall said.

Christensen said her gen-eration was influenced by dance movies such as “Dirty Dancing,” and “Footloose.”

On a recent Sunday, girls were dressed in summer frocks, while guys turned out in ties or polo shirts. With grins, couples paired off to join the mostly over-60 crowd, working their way around the dance floor to the music of Al Pierson and the Guy Lombardo Royal Canadians orchestra.

Some music appears to be timeless: The teens — just like those more than 70 years ago — jumped up to dance when Glenn Miller’s song “In The Mood” began to play.

“It is absolutely our favor-ite,” Bodensteiner said.

By Deb NicklayThe Associated Press

High schoolers find new interest in old ballroom

Egg recall

Reports of illness likely to grow

WASHINGTON — Two Iowa farms that recalled more than a half-billion eggs linked to as many as 1,300 cases of salmo-nella poisoning share suppliers of chick-ens and feed as well as ties to an Iowa busi-ness routinely cited for violating state and federal law.

Food and Drug Administration inves-tigators have yet to determine the cause of the salmonella outbreaks at Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms. The FDA investigation could take months, and sources of contamination are often diffi-cult to find.

The number of illnesses, which can be life-threatening, especially to those with weakened immune systems, is expected to increase. The most common symptoms are diarrhea, abdominal cramps and fever eight to 72 hours of eating a contaminated product.

The company Quality Egg supplies young chickens and feed to both Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms. The two share other suppliers, said Jewanna Porter, a spokeswoman for the egg indus-try, but she did not name them.

The salmonella outbreak has raised questions about federal inspections of egg farms. The FDA oversees inspec-tions of shell eggs, while the Agriculture Department is in charge of inspecting other egg products.

William D. Marler, a Seattle attorney for a person who filed suit alleging illness from tainted eggs in a salad at a restaurant in Kenosha, Wis., said Sunday his firm has been retained by two dozen families and was representing a woman hospitalized in California.

Businessman Austin “Jack” DeCoster owns Wright County Egg and Quality Egg. Wright County Egg recalled 380 million eggs Aug. 13 after it was linked to more than 1,000 cases of salmonella poisoning. A week later, Hillandale Farms recalled 170 million eggs.

DeCoster is no stranger to controversy in his food and farm operations:

—In 1994, the state of Iowa assessed at least four separate penalties against DeCoster Farms for environmental viola-tions, many of them involving hog waste.

—In 1997, DeCoster Egg Farms agreed to pay $2 million in fines to settle citations

brought in 1996 for health and safety viola-tions at DeCoster’s farm in Turner, Maine. The nation’s labor secretary at the time, Robert Reich, said conditions were “as dangerous and oppressive as any sweat-shop.” Reich’s successor, Alexis Herman, called the state of the farms “simply atro-cious,” citing unguarded machinery, elec-trical hazards, exposure to harmful bacte-ria and other unsanitary conditions.

—In 2000, Iowa designated DeCoster a “habitual violator” of environmental regu-lations for problems that included hog manure runoff into waterways. The label made him subject to increased penalties and prohibited him from building new farms.

—In 2002, the federal Equal

Employment Opportunity Commission announced a more than $1.5 million set-tlement of an employment discrimina-tion lawsuit against DeCoster Farms on behalf of Mexican women who reported they were subjected to sexual harassment, including rape, abuse and retaliation by some supervisory workers at DeCoster’s Wright County plants.

—In 2007, 51 workers were arrest-ed during an immigration raid at six DeCoster egg farms. His farms had been the subject of at least three previous raids.

A spokeswoman for DeCoster, Hinda Mitchell, said Sunday that she had no comment on DeCoster’s history of viola-tions and that DeCoster himself would not be available for an interview.

By Mary Clare JalonickThe Associated Press

Farms involved in recall tied to cited business

A sign warns customers of the recall of certain lots of eggs previously sold at a super-market in Los Angeles on Thursday. A salmonella outbreak will likely grow, federal health officials said Thursday. Photo: Reed Saxon/The Associated Press

State briefs

Authorities investigate fatal accident in Knoxville

KNOXVILLE — Police say one man is dead following a single-vehicle accident in Knoxville.

Authorities say officers who arrived at the scene after 9 a.m. on Sunday found a vehicle that had struck a pole.

The driver was unresponsive.A nurse on the scene who witnessed the ac-

cident and Knoxville officers began CPR.The man was pronounced dead a short

time later at Knoxville Hospital. He was iden-tified only as a 50-year-old Chariton man. Authorities say his name is being withheld pending the notification of family.

Police say their investigation is ongoing.

First African-American female Iowa judge named

DES MOINES — An assistant Polk County attorney has been chosen as Iowa’s first African-American female judge.

Romonda Belcher-Ford was selected by Polk County’s district judges from a pool of 20 applicants.

The 42-year-old has worked in the Polk County attorney’s office for 15 years. She currently represents the county auditor and recorder and Polk County General Services.

The North Carolina native moved to Iowa to attend Drake Law School after get-ting her undergraduate degree from Howard University in Washington.

Belcher-Ford says she’s “truly elated.”

Iowa woman hospitalized after pit bull attack

NEWTON — A 63-year-old Newton woman is recovering from severe arm inju-ries after being attacked by a pit bull. Cora Vande Heiden was walking home from an er-rand Friday when three dogs surrounded her and one attacked. The dog left severe cuts and puncture wounds on her arm. She was in fair condition after surgery.

The dogs’ owner, Beth Audus, says she threw herself between her dog and Vande Heiden and was also attacked.

Police euthanized all three pit bulls and another dog owned by Audus. She says the other dogs were “just excited.”

The dog owners were cited.

Group wants to restore North Skunk River bridge

GRINNELL — A preservation group is working to restore an 1883 bridge on the North Skunk River that’s been mostly washed out by floodwaters.

Julie Bowers has childhood memories of the McDowell Bridge. The 53-year-old cel-ebrated milestones, including birthdays and weddings, at the wrought-iron structure that curved 120 feet across the river.

Bowers’ nonprofit group is called the North Skunk River Greenbelt Association. Their goal is to ensure that what’s left of the bridge will not be sold for scrap metal. The group is working on a deal to buy the bridge and land around it.

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Agriculture

Crop dusters keep Iowa’s fields in good healthBEAMAN — Crop dusters keep

Iowa’s farm fields and the economy healthy.

The saying “pennies from heaven” certainly doesn’t refer to aerial spray-ing. Ag aviation contributes $214 mil-lion to the state’s economy because of increased crop productivity, accord-ing to a study released last year by the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Office of Aviation.

That’s not all.Eighty-six percent of Iowa’s gen-

eral aviation airports support crop dusters, the report said. Those small airfields contribute more than $400 million to the state’s economy.

Despite the positive financial as-pects, agriculture aviation officials say the industry has had its fair share of negative publicity this summer. There’s been several reports in the region of plane and helicopter crash-es and pilots accidentally spraying people.

Officials involved with ag aviation — owners, state experts and farmers — want the public to understand how valuable crop dusters are to the state and that safety is a top priority.

“One accident is too many,” said Tim McClung, planning and out-

reach manager for the DOT’s Office of Aviation. “At the same time, we need to keep it in perspective. There’s 4 million acres treated by air in Iowa every year. That works out to about 26,000 annual missions.”

Farmers often rely on planes and helicopters to apply chemicals to con-trol yield-robbing diseases and pests once plants get too big for ground rigs. Starting in early July, pilots typically have a little more than two months to

get the job done.DOT data show there’s 50 aerial

spraying companies in the state. An estimated 150 to 200 out-of-state outfits also stay busy here.

Considering the amount of ground

that’s covered in a relatively short amount of time, McClung said crop dusters do a good job.

McClung, who also is a pilot, said crop dusting is a difficult, sometimes-dangerous job. Aircraft swoop in to spray only feet off the ground. Pilots need to avoid electrical lines, trees, wind turbines and make sure chemi-cals land on target.

“They’ve really been pushing a culture of safety,” McClung said.

At Hoppe Airspray near Beaman, co-owner Roy Sharp said every pre-caution is taken to protect pilots and the public. Hoppe’s four planes are outfitted with global positioning sys-tem technology. One employee’s job is keep track of where detasselers are working — some were sprayed in Grundy County in July by a different company — and areas that can’t get sprayed, like organic crops, land with commercial bee hives and fruit and vegetable plots.

The Iowa Agricultural Aviation Association helped companies con-trol drift problems, which Hoppe par-ticipated in, prior to the season. Crop dusters flew to Newton and filled aircraft with dyed water and “crop dusted” a simulated field. The exer-cise provided data to fine-tune equip-ment and gave pilots practice know-ing when nozzles need to be shut off.

By Matthew WildeThe Associated Press

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A pilot for Hoppe Airspray sprays corn for earworm Aug. 10 in Conrad. Photo: Rick Tibbott/The Associated Press

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Gulf damage claims chief says no-sue rule was his idea

Medical

High school athletes sent to hospital

Controversy

Mosque rallies turn heated

NEW YORK — The pro-posed mosque near ground zero drew hundreds of fever-pitch demonstrators Sunday, with opponents carrying signs associating Islam with blood, supporters shouting, “Say no to racist fear!” and American flags waving on both sides.

The two leaders of the con-struction project, meanwhile, defended their plans, though one suggested that organizers might eventually be willing to discuss an alternative site. The other, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, said during a Middle East trip that the attention generated by the project is ac-tually positive.

Around the corner from the cordoned-off old building that is to become a 13-story Islamic community center and mosque, police separated the two groups of demonstrators.

There were no reports of physical clashes but there were some nose-to-nose con-

frontations, including a man and a woman screaming at each other across a barricade under a steady rain.

Opponents of the $100 million project two blocks from the World Trade Center site appeared to outnumber supporters.

Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” blared over loud-speakers as mosque oppo-

nents chanted, “No mosque, no way!”

Signs hoisted by dozens of protesters standing behind po-lice barricades read “SHARIA” — using dripping, blood-red letters to describe Islam’s Shariah law.

Steve Ayling, a 40-year-old Brooklyn plumber said the people behind the mosque project are “the same people

who took down the twin towers.”

Dr. Ali Akram, a 39-year-old Brooklyn physician, came with his three sons and an 11-year-old nephew waving an American flag.

He noted that scores of Muslims were among those who died in the towers, and he called those who oppose the mosque “un-American.”

By Verena DobnikThe Associated Press

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Hundreds of demonstrators gather at 9/11 site

People participate in a rally against a proposed mosque and Islamic community center near ground zero in New York on Sunday. The demonstration never got physical, but it did include nose-to-nose confrontations. Photo: Seth Wenig/The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — The new administrator for damage claims from Gulf oil spill victims said Sunday it was his idea, not BP’s, to require that anyone who receives a final settlement from the $20 billion compensation fund give up the right to sue the oil giant.

But Ken Feinberg told reporters that he has not yet decided whether the no-sue require-ment will extend to other companies that may be responsible for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

He insisted that payouts from the claims facility he will run will be more generous than those from any court. Feinberg also ran the government compensation fund created after the 9/11 attacks, and there was a similar no-sue provision.

“It is not in your interest to tie up you and the courts in years of uncertain protracted litigation when there is an alternative that has been cre-ated,” Feinberg said.

He added, “I take the position, if I don’t find you eligible, no court will find you eligible.”

Any individual or business that receives a short-term emergency payment — one to six months — from the oil spill claims facility that launches Monday will still be able to sue BP.

Feinberg said BP, which had been handling claims up until this point, has paid out roughly $375 million in claims since the April 20 rig explosion on the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 workers and spewed 206 million gallons of oil from BP’s runaway undersea well.

The latest guidelines for the victims com-

pensation fund say the nearer you are geograph-ically to the oil spill and the more closely you de-pend on the Gulf of Mexico’s natural resources, the better chance you have of getting a share of the money.

Feinberg said that the most “problematic” claims will be from people who work in the tour-ism business, especially hotels.

“I’m going to have to draw some tough lines,” Feinberg said.

The new claims facility run by Feinberg will take over from BP the processing of claims by individuals and businesses. If a person filed a claim with BP that has not been resolved yet, they must file a new claim form with Feinberg, but any supporting documentation they previously submitted will be automatically forwarded.

If a person received money from BP, they can get up to six additional months of compensation from the new claims facility. If they got nothing from BP, they can refile their claim with the new facility and have it reviewed again.

Feinberg, who was picked by President Barack Obama to operate the oil spill fund, said that in the next few weeks he would release de-tails on how much he is being paid for his work.

A temporary cap placed on the runaway well in mid-July has kept any more oil from spewing. The final sealing of the well should take place after Labor Day. Engineers are preparing to first remove the failed blowout preventer — a key piece of evidence — and replace it with another one. After that, they will complete the drilling of a relief well, then will plug the runaway well for good by pumping mud and cement into the bottom.

McMINNVILLE, Ore. — Ten Oregon high school football players remain hospitalized as they’re treated for a rare soft-tissue condition that has school authorities puzzled.

Eighteen McMinnville High School athletes experienced “compartment syndrome,” which caused soreness and swelling in their triceps and high levels of creatine kinase, a protein that can harm the kidneys. Three players had surgery to relieve swelling.

Authorities said the cause was not yet known, but the con-dition can be the result of exercise or the use of certain medi-cations. All but one of the players who became ill worked out last Sunday at the high school’s wrestling room, where one player says the temperature reached 120 degrees.

Rosemari Davis, the hospital’s chief executive officer, said Sunday that the 10 boys still hospitalized were in good condi-tion and would likely be released Monday.

Superintendent Maryalice Russell told The Oregonian newspaper she doesn’t believe the workout from first-year coach Jeff Kearin was excessive. She said she has no evidence that steroids or other supplements were involved.

“I don’t have any information at this time that would indi-cate that’s the case,” she said. “I’m continuing to look at addi-tional information as it may come my way.”

Oregon School Activities Association executive director Tom Welter said the organization’s medical committee will investigate and make recommendations to the executive board after its next meeting in September. The OSAA oversees school sports in the state.

Practices for all fall sports start Monday.

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Public schools with a price

LOS ANGELES — Next month’s open-ing of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as the former Ambassador Hotel, where the Democratic presidential con-tender was assassinated in 1968.

With an eye-popping price tag of $578 million, it will mark the inauguration of the nation’s most expensive public school ever.

The K-12 complex to house 4,200 students has raised eyebrows across the country as the creme de la creme of “Taj Mahal” schools, $100 million-plus cam-puses boasting both architectural panache and deluxe amenities.

“There’s no more of the old, window-less cinderblock schools of the ’70s where kids felt, ‘Oh, back to jail,’” said Joe Agron, editor-in-chief of American School & University, a school construction journal.

“Districts want a showpiece for the community, a really impressive environ-ment for learning.”

Not everyone is similarly enthusiastic.“New buildings are nice, but when

they’re run by the same people who’ve

given us a 50 percent dropout rate, they’re a big waste of taxpayer money,” said Ben Austin, executive director of Parent Revolution who sits on the California Board of Education. “Parents aren’t fooled.”

At RFK, the features include fine art murals and a marble memorial depict-ing the complex’s namesake, a manicured public park, a state-of-the-art swimming pool and preservation of pieces of the orig-inal hotel.

Partly by circumstance and partly by design, the Los Angeles Unified School District has emerged as the mogul of Taj Mahals.

The RFK complex follows on the heels of two other LA schools among the na-tion’s costliest — the $377 million Edward R. Roybal Learning Center, which opened in 2008, and the $232 million Visual and Performing Arts High School that debuted in 2009.

The pricey schools have come during a sensitive period for the nation’s second-largest school system: Nearly 3,000 teach-ers have been laid off over the past two years, the academic year and programs have been slashed.

The district also faces a $640 mil-lion shortfall and some schools persis-tently rank among the nation’s lowest performing.

Los Angeles is not alone, however, in building big.

Some of the most expensive schools are found in low-performing districts — New York City has a $235 million campus; New Brunswick, N.J., opened a $185 mil-lion high school in January.

Nationwide, dozens of schools have surpassed $100 million with amenities including atriums, orchestra-pit auditori-ums, food courts, even bamboo nooks.

The extravagance has led some to won-der where the line should be drawn and whether more money should be spent on teachers.

“Architects and builders love this stuff, but there’s a little bit of a lack of disci-pline here,” said Mary Filardo, executive director of 21st Century School Fund in Washington, D.C., which promotes urban school construction.

Some experts say it’s not all flourish and that children learn better in more pleasant surroundings.

Many schools incorporate large win-dows to let in natural light and install energy-saving equipment, spending more upfront for reduced bills later.

Cafeterias are getting fancier, seeking to retain students who venture off cam-pus. Wireless Internet and other high-tech installations have become standard features in these new high-budget schools.

Some pricey projects have had political fallout including mayors not seeking re-election and construction spending being reined in by state Treasurers.

By Christina HoagTheAssociatedPress

School opens with a price tag of $578 million

Nation briefs

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A small plane carrying four people including three park rangers is missing in southwest Alaska.

A Coast Guard HC-130 crew is among searchers looking for the Dehavilland Beaver between Swikshak Bay and King Salmon, about 285 miles southwest of Anchorage.

The Coast Guard says the plane was carrying Katmai National Park rangers. It was reported missing after it did not arrive in King Salmon as expected.

Coast Guard officials say the plane left Swikshak Bay at 2:45 p.m. Saturday for a flight that takes less than an hour.

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Police in Maryland say convicted D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo won’t talk to detectives about his claim that he and his partner had additional victims across the country.

In a phone interview for A&E’s “Aftermath With William Shatner,” Malvo said he and his partner, John Allen Muhammad, shot 42 people in 2002. The pair had been linked to 27 shootings across the country, including 10 fatal attacks in the Washington area in 2002.

Montgomery County Assistant Police Chief Drew Tracy wanted to examine the truth of Malvo’s claims, but he says Malvo won’t meet with detectives. Malvo also won’t give them permission to talk to a psychiatrist who says Malvo told him the same information.

Malvo is serving a life sentence with no parole in Virginia. Muhammad was executed in Virginia last year.

D.C. sniper Malvo refuses to talk to detectives about additional shootings

Plane carrying three park rangers goes down in Southwest Alaska

Malvo

By Oswald AlonsoAssociated Press Writer

CUERNAVACA, Mexico — The decapitated bodies of four men were hung from a bridge Sunday in this central Mexican city besieged by fight-ing between two drug lords.

A gang led by kingpin Hector Beltran Leyva took re-sponsibility for the killings in a message left with the bod-ies, the attorney general’s of-fice of Mexico state said in a statement.

The beheaded and mutilat-ed bodies were hung by their feet early Sunday from the bridge in Cuernavaca.

Cuernavaca has become a battleground for control of the Beltran Leyva cartel since its leader, Arturo Beltran Leyva, was killed there in a December shootout with Marines.

Mexican authorities say the cartel split between a fac-tion led by Hector Beltran Leyva, brother of Arturo, and another led by Edgar Valdez Villareal, a U.S.-born kingpin known as “the Barbie.”

The message left with the bodies threatened: “This is what will happen to all those who support the traitor Edgar Valdez Villareal”

Authorities said the four men had been kidnapped days earlier.

In western Mexico, police found the body of a U.S. citizen inside a car along the highway between the Pacific resorts of Acapulco and Zihuatanejo.

A report from Guerrero state police said the man was shot to death and had identifi-cation indicating he was from Georgia.

Police said they had no sus-pects and had not determined a motive.

Guerrero state has been wracked by drug-gang vio-lence. There have also been a series of deadly carjackings this year along highways in the state.

Mexico has seen unprec-edented gang violence since President Felipe Calderon stepped up the fight against drug trafficking when he took office in December 2006.

Since then, more than 28,000 people have been killed in violence tied to Mexico’s drug war.

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Mexico

The beheaded bodies of two men hang by their feet from an underpass in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on Sunday. Cuernavaca has been hit by gang violence since a drug leader was murdered in December 2009. Photo: Antonio Sierra/The Associated Press

Drug war violence spikesAfghanistan

President Karzai promises to uphold women’s rights

LONDON — A video game that allows players to adopt the role of the Taliban is a “tasteless product,” Britain’s defense secretary said Sunday, calling on retailers to show their support for troops by not selling it.

Liam Fox said he was “disgusted and angry” by “Medal of Honor,” produced by Electronic Arts Inc.

“At the hands of the Taliban, children have lost fathers and wives have lost husbands. It’s shocking that someone would think it ac-ceptable to recreate the acts of the Taliban against British soldiers,” he said in a statement.

The company did not re-spond to e-mails from the Associated Press, but spokes-

woman Amanda Taggart was quoted by the Sunday Times as saying the game’s format “merely reflects the fact that every conflict has two sides.”

“We give gamers the op-portunity to play both sides. Most of us have been doing this since we were seven: someone plays cop, someone must be robber,” the newspa-per quoted her as saying.

By Robert H. ReidAssociated Press Writer

KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai gave assurances Sunday that the rights of Afghan women will not be sacrificed in pur-suit of a peace deal with the Taliban.

Karzai said he was willing to talk with Taliban figures who break with al-Qaida and other terrorist groups and accept the Afghan constitution.

The president acknowledged fears among Afghan women’s groups that their political, economic and social gains might be eroded un-der a future peace agreement with the Taliban, which banned women from most jobs and

education during their years in power.Those concerns were heightened last

week when Taliban militants in northern Afghanistan stoned a young couple to death for adultery in the first confirmed use of the punishment here since the hard-line Islamist regime was ousted in 2001.

Karzai said he was in “deep, deep shock” over the stoning and would ensure that wom-en’s representation in peace talks would be “solid and meaningful.”

He said the Afghan people must make sure the gains made by women “in political, social and economic walks of life” since the fall of the Taliban were not only protected “but are pro-moted and advanced further.”

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Flooding kills four in ChinaBy Alexa OlesenAssociated Press Writer

BEIJING — Flooding killed four people and forced the evacuation of 94,000 oth-ers in the northern Chinese port city of Dandong after heavy rains caused the Yalu river to breach its banks, state media said Sunday.

Rain continued to fall Sunday in the region, which borders North Korea, but the official Xinhua News Agency reported that water levels along the Yalu and its tribu-taries dropped below flood warning levels.

Xinhua said four people died, including a couple in their 70s and a mother and son, after their homes were swept away by flash floods.

An official with the Water Resources Department in Liaoning province, where Dandong is located, con-firmed that four people had died though he was unable to provide details. He refused to give his name because he was not authorized to speak with the media.

On Saturday, floodwa-ters punctured a dike be-tween the river and an eco-

nomic development zone in Dandong, inundating many neighborhoods.

North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said torrential rain and water from the overflowing Yalu swamped houses, public buildings and farmland in more than five villages near Sinuiju, the city opposite Dandong.

The report described

Sinuiju and the surrounding area as having been “severely affected” by the flooding and said officials, the military and ordinary civilians were in-volved in rescue work.

Much of North Korea’s trade with the world passes through the city, forming a vital lifeline for the isolated, economically struggling country.

For China, the Dandong

flooding is the latest disas-ter in the country’s worst flood season in over a decade. Landslides caused by heavy rains have smothered com-munities in western China and accounted for most of the more than 2,500 people killed.

Authorities in the north-western province of Gansu on Sunday called off rescue ef-forts for 330 people still miss-ing after an Aug. 8 mudslide.

A village lies in ruins in Dandong, northeast China’s Liaoning province, on Sunday. Flooding has forced the evacuation of 94,000 people in Dandong. Photo: Yao Jianfeng/The Associated Press

Haitian election

Hip-hop singer Jean refuses to abandon hopeBy Tamara LushAssociated Press Writer

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean said Sunday that he is not abandoning his presidential bid just yet and will try to get the courts to overturn a deci-sion disqualifying him from the race.

Speaking to The Associated Press by telephone from his home in Croix des Bouquets, Jean said his lawyers will file an appeal with the national electoral dispute office.

Jean said that he has a document “which shows ev-erything is correct” and that he and his aides “feel that what is going on here has everything to do with Haitian politics.”

“They are trying to keep us out of the race,” he said, referring to Haiti’s political establishment.

Haiti’s elections board re-jected Jean’s candidacy Friday night — presumably because

it decided he had not met residency re-quirements, although the board did not cite a specific reason. Under Haitian law, a presidential candidate must have lived in the country for five consecu-tive years leading up to the election.

Jean has argued that he was not required to comply with the law so strictly be-cause after President Rene Preval appointed him as rov-ing ambassador in 2007, he was allowed to travel and live outside the country.

The 40-year-old singer said that he is appealing the Haitian board’s decision on the basis that it rejected his candi-dacy before the national elec-toral dispute office, or BCEN, could issue a final ruling on the residency issue.

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On Wednesday, Aug. 11, Hank Kohler, owner of Happy Joe's, waded through the murky water higher than his knees that enveloped his business.

Across the street, on the east side of South Duff Avenue, the massive Walmart lot looked more like a serene lake with a giant building in it than a temporary home for hun-dreds of cars.

Walmart opened two days later.

Happy Joe's is closed for good.

"We fought the good fight and worked so hard to protect our business, but we couldn't do it," Kohler said.

In his years of owning Happy Joe's, Kohler became somewhat of a flood expert. He explained that when the res-taurant flooded in 1993, he had to learn to protect his business.

"In ’95, we built an 8-foot wall," he said.

Four feet of the wall sat above ground, while the oth-er 4 feet were built into the ground.

An 8-foot opening in the back and a 16-foot opening in the front allowed customers to enter the building, but the wall extended around the whole building.

Kohler said that since the flood of 1993, whenever Ames was in danger of flooding, he and his coworkers would use wooden planks, plastic, sand-bags and pumps to prevent the inside of the restaurant from flooding.

"We haven't had a drop of water in the restaurant since then," Kohler said.

All that changed when the water level of Squaw Creek rose to 16 feet Aug. 11. Kohler said he knew he had to evacu-ate the building when the city told him the water would get two feet higher.

Eve Doi, vice president of operations and communica-tions for the Ames Chamber of Commerce, said that while most businesses are recover-

ing quickly from the record-breaking flood, help is still needed throughout the busi-ness community.

She said donations of clean-up supplies such as mops, fans, work gloves, dehu-midifiers and disinfectant are still needed, and the chamber is calling on any organization to help.

Kohler understood exactly why places like Walmart and Target, both just across the street from Happy Joe's, re-

covered so quickly."They sit 8 feet higher than

me," he said. "I guarantee you anyone at our elevation isn't open."

Also, Walmart has a staff several times larger than Kohler's to help get things back in order.

Denny Dalles, manager at Walmart, said the corporate office is always prepared for natural disasters. He said they have a group of people devoted to emergencies who respond quickly to crises.

"The corporate office hires an outside cleaning crew to take care of [flood recovery], and our normal local park-ing lot sweepers helped out as well," Dalles said.

But a small staff did not prevent Kohler from trying to save his business.

Once Kohler and his crew could get back into Happy Joe's, they salvaged as much as they could and had every in-tention of reopening as soon as possible.

"We have cleaned up and recovered as much as we can for equipment and furniture," Kohler said the following Monday. "I have flood insur-ance, but at this time we still don't know what our options are."

The next day, Kohler closed Happy Joe's doors for the last time.

Across the street, Walmart's many lights con-tinue to shine 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

— Flavors writer DevonO’Brien also contributed to this article.

By Micaela.Cashman@iowastatedaily.com

Fighting Burrito opened its new home at 117 Welch Ave. last week.

The location previously housed a Dairy Queen and a smoothie and ice cream shop.

The restaurant opened at 2712 Lincoln Way in 2004 and was an instant success. That loca-tion is now closed and might hold a coffee shop or bakery next, said Fighting Burrito owner Matthew Goodman.

Goodman said he wanted to move to Welch Avenue to attract more customers. He said that at the previous location, most of his customers were older ISU students who lived off campus. His restaurant was the furthest Campustown location from Welch Avenue, and he conjec-tured that not many students wanted to walk all the way there for food. He added that by moving to Welch Avenue, he could also appeal to local residents and professors.

"The closer we are to the district," Goodman said, "the more business we'll have. We do very well late-night, and the new location will sup-port that."

While late-night business was his specialty, he wants to increase business during regular lunch and dinner hours as well.

The location and the decor may have changed, but the food has not.

"We still offer the same satisfying burritos made from fresh, quality ingredients, but our location on Welch Avenue gives us higher vis-ibility," Goodman said. "Ames has been great to Fighting Burrito, and we are excited to make

this reinvestment in the community."Fighting Burrito is open from 11 a.m.

to 3 a.m. Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday; 11 a.m. – 9 p.m. on Tuesday; and 11 a.m. – 4 a.m. Friday and Saturday.

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Happy Joe's closes for good

By Jennifer IcklanCNN wire service

NEW YORK — If you're in your 20s and 30s and feel cash-strapped, you're not alone. Between student loans, car loans, credit card debt and other expenses it's getting tougher to make a budget and stick to it.

"Between big credit card debt and huge college loans that average more than $20,000 for the typical college grad, young adults are more financially stressed than ever before," said Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, author of "Zero Debt for College Grads."

So, if you're looking to have fun with friends without going broke, here are some ideas.

Go out for a nice meal only one night a week, especially if you're in a big city, said Nancy Trejos, personal finance col-umnist for The Washington Post and author of "Hot Broke Messes: How to Have your Latte and Drink it Too."

Many restaurants offer happy hour specials or dinner dis-counts such as half-off appetizers or kids-eat-free-nights to get diners in on slow weeknights. Also, be economical when looking at that menu. Instead of over-ordering, share appetiz-ers or entrees with friends, but check if the restaurant has a sharing plate fee. If you're really looking to cut back on your bill, Trejos advises having drinks before you go out — that way you won't spend so much on alcohol.

If dining out isn't in your budget, ask your friends over to do potluck dinners or picnics on the weekends. "It's a cheap way to have fun and trust me they'll return the invitation," Trejos said.

Coupons aren't taboo anymore. There are a number of websites offering daily deals and discounts on everything from restaurants and spa treatments to wine tastings and events.

Check out sites like Groupon.com, LivingSocial.com, and Yipit.com for offers. Also, there might be some free events, concerts, museum days and festivals going on right in your backyard for free. Go to free-attractions.com or stretcher.comto look up what's available in your state. For example, the 90-acre St. Louis Zoo in Missouri is one of the few large zoos in the country that charges no admission fee.

Bringing up your money troubles to friends can be un-comfortable, but you might find they're in the same boat, too. "Don't feel like you're being a party pooper by saying you can't hit the clubs every week or go out to that pricey new restau-rant. Chances are they're thinking the same thing deep down, but they may simply be willing to pay with plastic."

Trejos also suggests changing your definition of fun. "Fun doesn't always have to involve spending money on a restau-rant. Running, bike riding, and hiking are all fun activities that don't cost a dime," she said.

Finally, if you feel you need expert advice handling your fi-nances, find a financial planner with the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors at napfa.org or a credit coun-selor from the National Foundation for Credit Counseling at nfcc.org.

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By Michael J. CrumbAssociated Press Writer

DES MOINES — A judge's ruling halting planting of genetically modified sugar beet seeds has left growers feeling uncertain as they wait for federal officials to decide the next step for a crop that provides half of the nation's sugar supply.

Duane Grant, chairman of the board at the Boise, Idaho-based Snake River Sugar Co., said if a solution can't be worked out to use the genetically modified seed, his company and its growers fear there isn't enough conventional seed to plant next year. The company produces about 20 percent of the nation's beet sugar.

"There has been no incentive, no market, no demand for conventional seed since 2008 and we believe there is not enough conventional seed available for our growers to plant a full crop in 2011," he said.

U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White in California issued his ruling Aug. 13 that put on hold future planting of sugar beets using genetically modified seeds. White's ruling allows this year's crop to be harvested and processed, but the current seed crop can't be planted until the U.S. Department of Agriculture reviews the effect the genetically altered crops could have on other food.

That could take several years. Until then, genetically modified seeds can be stored.

At issue are seeds developed by St. Louis-based Monsanto Co., used to grow about 95 percent of the sugar beet crop. The seeds are engineered to withstand the weed killer Roundup, allowing farmers to reduce the use of other chemicals and limit the practice of tilling fields to kill weeds.

Monsanto seeds also dominate corn and soybean produc-tion, but experts said last week's decision is limited to sugar beets.

Some groups hope, though, that the ruling could prompt the USDA to take a broader look at questions involving ge-netically modified crops.

Monsanto referred questions to Luther Markwart, execu-tive vice president of the American Sugar Beet Growers Association. He said the next move is up to the USDA.

"The message we're giving people is you have to be patient and let this play out," Markwart said.

Growers: USDA must act, prevent sugar supply issue

Genetically modified sugar beets are harvested Tuesday south of East Grand Forks, Minn. at GKT Useldinger Farms on the first day of prepile harvest for American Crystal Sugar. A judge’s ruling halting planting of genetically modified sugar beet seeds has left growers feeling uncertain as they wait for federal officials to decide the next step for a crop that provides half of the nation’s sugar supply. Photo: The Associated Press

Happy Joe's, located on South Duff Avenue, suffered severe flood damage after floodwaters consumed the business Wednesday, Aug. 11. The business’s owner announced his decision not to reopen last week. Photo: Ryan Damman/Iowa State Daily

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Fallen tailgating tents and other debris floats through the floodwaters Wednesday, Aug. 11, in the Iowa State Center parking lot. Water continued to fill the area, as the South Skunk River and Squaw Creek reached record levels. Water damaged several buildings in the Iowa State Center complex, including Hilton Coliseum. Photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily

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Ames residents are lifted to dry land after flooding Thursday, Aug. 12, near South Fourth Street. Ames Fire and Rescue worked with the Story County Sheriff’s Department to evacuate residents from flooded apartment complexes. Photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily

By Jessica.Opoien@iowastatedaily.com

It was a tale of two cities as Ames resi-dents discovered that days of rain had split the town in two. In some areas,

people could come and go freely — but for others, the only way out was by boat.

Storms descended on Ames the eve-ning of Aug. 10. The deluge was not unlike those the town had seen in the days before, but the rain that fell from Tuesday into Wednesday — 3.86 inches — was enough to

push flooding to record levels. The South Skunk River at U.S. Highway

30 crested at about 10 a.m. Aug. 11, setting a new record at 26.72 feet. The previous record, 25.57 feet, was recorded on June 27, 1975. The Squaw Creek at Lincoln Way crested at about 8 a.m. Aug. 11, at 18.13 feet — falling shy of the record, 18.54 feet, set on June 9, 1993.

As the floodwaters began to recede, Ames residents and businesses felt the impact. People were evacuated from their homes and workplaces. A boil order sent

people flocking to grocery stores to prepare for the impending limits on water con-sumption.

Four days after the boil order was instat-ed, it was lifted with a notice that all water samples had tested negative for bacteria.

The costs of damage to facilities such as Iowa State’s Hilton Coliseum and some lo-cal businesses remain unknown.

Cleaning service vans are now a familiar sight around Ames, as businesses attempt to repair and reopen. Some, like Happy Joe’s, have closed their doors for good.

ISU athletics have taken a hit — the vol-leyball and soccer teams have been sent to play on fields and courts away from home.

A Presidential Disaster Declaration for Individual Assistance was granted to 29 Iowa counties, including Story County.

Aid from the Federal Emergency Man-agement Agency will come for those who need it, but for some, recovery won’t begin until the floodwaters have dried.

This section is a look back at the Iowa State Daily’s coverage, as it was published at the time, of the August 2010 flood.

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Article as published on Flood Day 1, Aug. 11

Women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly was at Hilton Coliseum on Wednesday and wit-nessed a “sad” scene: the basketball and volley-ball court rising with the floodwaters.

“It’s hard not to cry a little bit. A lot of peo-ple have worked really hard,” he said. “People changed offices, and there’s a lot of good things going on in that building.”

Fennelly said the usual eight-minute trip from his home to Hilton took an hour Wednesday morning.

The water has risen to a height between 6 and 8 feet, likely destroying locker rooms and threatening to reach the basketball offices.

Because of the flooding, the volleyball team has moved practice to West Towne Courts, at 1005 Dickinson Ave.

Volleyball coach Christy Johnson-Lynch said she and her staff were also busy helping players find new dorms.

“It’s not pretty right now,” she said.Fennelly talked to Johnson-Lynch and was

unsure about what’s next for Hilton Coliseum.“I’m sure that [the volleyball team] is going

to have some long-term discussions,” he said. “I know today, when I was with Christy, they were trying to find some place to practice. I don’t know what they’ll do.”

Fennelly said he doesn’t think the flood-ing will affect the women’s basketball practice schedule.

“We don’t practice until October, so we have a little time,” he said. “But in the short term, your focus has to be just hoping that structurally the building is fine.”

Men’s basketball coach Fred Hoiberg was not able to get to Hilton Coliseum on Wednesday and said he doesn’t anticipate getting there later in the day due to road closures.

Hoiberg doesn’t believe the flooding will af-fect the men’s basketball team, though.

“With the new practice facility, we’ll be fine,” he said. “It shouldn’t affect us too much.”

Hoiberg was on the team after the flooding in 1993 and said things returned to normal fairly quickly.

“It had more of an effect on us because we didn’t have a practice facility back then,” he said.

Hoiberg said he doesn’t foresee any long-term damage that might prevent the team from playing there this season.

“I remember the last time, they made strides very quickly as far as getting everything back in order,” he said. “I’m confident they’ll do quick work and get Hilton back rolling here soon.”

Hilton takes on mass floodwater

Practices relocated

By Jake.Lovett@iowastatedaily.com

Article as published on Flood Day 2, Aug. 12

The wooden floor inside Hilton Coliseum floated on top of an estimated 12 feet of water Wednesday.

Thanks to crews pumping water out of the building since 9 a.m. Thursday, the water level was estimated to be down to 10 feet by Thursday afternoon.

ISU associate athletic director Nick Britton said the athletic department will work to remove all of the water from the building before assessing the damage further.

“We’ve got to get all this water out and then assess the situation and get everybody in here that we need to help us do that,” Britton said.

Britton said the timetable surrounding wa-ter removal depended on a number of things, including whether the water level comes up again with the predicted rainfall Friday. He also said the crews may employ the use of more pumps later in the removal process.

The flooding not only has caused damage in Hilton, but has completely flooded the ISU

Soccer Complex, forcing both the volleyball and soccer squads to find other locations to prepare for their upcoming seasons.

Steve Malchow, senior associate athletic director for communications, said the ISU volleyball team has been conducting practice at West Towne Courts and the soccer team is considering moving practice to some outdoor fields near Ankeny. In the meantime, both the soccer and football teams have moved some practices to the Bergstrom Indoor Facility.

The water inside the coliseum has left the Cyclones’ first volleyball match, the Cardinal vs. Gold scrimmage on Aug. 21, in doubt. However, following the scrimmage, the Cyclones’ first regular season match at home is not until Sept. 3.

Meanwhile, the ISU soccer team has a match scheduled Aug. 20, but due to the con-dition of the field the game likely will have to be moved. Malchow dismissed Jack Trice Stadium as an option for the soccer match, saying “football tears it up anyway.”

“We’re looking at all of our options right now, but the immediate thing is trying to take care of all of their practices,” Malchow said.

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By Jeremiah.Davis@iowastatedaily.com

Article as published on Flood Day 3, Aug. 13It’s hard to believe that just a few days ago one of the

biggest concerns the people of Ames had was how to deal with road construction.

Now? Now it’s hard to find drinkable water.The old saying goes, “You don’t know what you’ve got

till it’s gone.” That couldn’t be more evident today.Ames and Iowa State are facing the toughest challenge

they’ve seen in recent memory. On Wednesday, I arrived in Ames to the utter devastation on University Avenue and around Hilton Coliseum and Jack Trice Stadium.

It was a truly sad sight to see. My feelings echoed that of women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly, who said, “It’s hard not to cry a little bit.”

And now, days after torrential rains rocked Ames, Iowa State and the Ames community have to regroup and begin to rebuild. How fast it gets done and how much it will cost is anyone’s guess.

As of Thursday afternoon, water inside Hilton Coli-seum was approximately 10 feet high, or just below the scoreboards in the corners of the lower level. Hilton staff

had four large pumps running, trying to remove water, but with such an amount and only four pumps, there’s no tell-ing how long that will take.

Assistant Athletic Director Nick Britton led various members of the media on a brief look at Hilton on Thurs-day, and when asked how long he thought it might take to drain the water, he gave an exasperated laugh, shrugged his shoulders and said, “I have no idea.”

That theme — one of uncertainty and doubt — is one common amongst ISU officials. They’re just as confused, frustrated and exhausted as anyone, maybe more so in some cases.

With the water at its current level, it’s likely that all the offices and locker rooms on the lower levels of Hilton are destroyed. It begs the question: How much will it all cost?

But that’s just one more unanswerable question. Until the water is removed and they can assess the situation, there simply is no way of knowing exactly how much it will end up being.

However, they remain as upbeat as possible. Steve Malchow, senior associate athletic director for communi-cations, was also at the mini-tour of Hilton on Thursday afternoon. He joked that they had wanted to renovate the locker rooms anyway.

But Malchow did stress the gravity of the task ahead. The athletic department has two programs that are im-mediately affected by the flooding.

The volleyball team has been forced to relocate to West Towne Courts, and the women’s soccer team will have to as well, as their field — along with Lied Recreation Athletic Center — is submerged. Malchow said the im-mediate worry is where the teams will practice, and they’ll worry about games second. But with ISU soccer having its opener Aug. 20, there is precious little time in which to figure things out.

Looking forward, there is little doubt amongst those within the athletic department that things will be fixed and return to normal. Tailgaters may have to deal with mosqui-toes and park in the grass somewhere, but don’t doubt that those who support and love Iowa State will continue to do so.

Until then, it’s up to Mother Nature to decide if more action has to be taken.

It’s times like these when the true character and resil-iency of a university and its members come out.

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Flood tests strength of Cyclone athleticsTeams scramble to regroup, officials optimistic about rebuilding after record rainfall destroys various properties

By Jeremiah.DavisKari.DockumTorey.Robinson@iowastatedaily.com

Article as published on Flood Day 1, Aug. 11

The football team aided in flooding efforts Wednesday morning by placing sandbags

around the Jacobson Building and the surrounding area.

Coach Paul Rhoads said players arrived for team activi-ties at 6 a.m. and immediately began helping in the effort.

“Some guys were here all night and the rest of us got here early this morning,” Rhoads said. “Those football players that were here before the roads

closed ... as the water started to rise, we went to work and start-ed sandbagging.”

Rhoads said nothing inside the Jacobson Building had flooded yet. He also said that as long as the indoor practice field stays dry, the team can practice and will do so Wednesday af-ternoon.

“Right now we’re waiting

for the water to hold and begin to recede,” Rhoads said. “We’re obviously not doing anything we were scheduled to do today at this point, but it won’t put us behind.”

The water won’t stop prac-tice. Regardless of the condi-tion of the practice field, “we’ll figure out something,” Rhoads said.

ISU football players move sandbags into position Wednesday, Aug. 11, at the Jacobson Building. No water entered the building, thanks to the efforts of the team and staff. Photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily

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Going forward, no timetables have been laid out for repairs to Hilton or any other dam-aged facilities.

Right now, the extent of damages are not even known as the lower levels of the arena are still underwater.

“It’s a little frustrating because we still don’t know what we’re up against,” Malchow said. “It’s this week’s challenge. It’s a signifi-cant one, but we’ve got no option. We’ve got to deal with it.”

Several key aspects of the arena are still underwater, including the locker rooms, the production rooms used for running the coli-seum’s scoreboards and the new volleyball of-fices, which hadn’t even been completed prior to the flooding.

Malchow estimated the new volleyball offices would be “totalled,” while the locker rooms are “probably toast.”

Athletic department employees also guessed that several smaller objects — such as media monitors and training equipment — also were destroyed, the cost of which “adds up.”

“We’re a resilient bunch,” Malchow said. “This is a tough thing we’re going to have to battle together, but there are some strong-minded people in this athletic department and we’ll survive this, too. It’s a challenge, but one that we have to embrace and we’ll succeed and make our way through it.”

— Jack Trice Stadium is one of few ISU athletic facilities not greatly affected by the flooding, and Malchow said there have been no significant damages noticed at the stadium.

While nothing at the stadium will keep Iowa State from matching up with Northern Illinois on Sept. 2, Britton said that water in the surrounding areas may force a change in parking locations.

“We have general parking lots and Cyclone Club lots that park on the grass, and they’re flooded right now,” Britton said.

Some of the technical operations for Jack Trice’s scoreboard are run out of Hilton Coliseum, adding to potential snags leading up to the season.

“There are a lot of pieces we need to evalu-ate in the coming days and weeks to see where we’re at,” Malchow said.

— Malchow said the ISU athletic ticket of-fice will be closed Friday, to allow for repairs to be made in that facility. The ticket offices will be open for operation again on Monday.

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By Jake.Lovett@iowastatedaily.com

Article as published on Flood Day 3, Aug. 13

Numerous workers were inside Lied Rec-reation Athletic Center on Wednesday, Aug. 15, cleaning up floodwaters and other dam-age caused by recent flooding.

Mike Giles, director of Recreation Ser-vices since Tuesday, June 1, and crews from ServiceMaster have been working since Tuesday, Aug. 14 recovering from the esti-mated 18-24 inches of water that was inside the building.

“Pretty much, the entire first floor has been compromised,” Giles said.

Giles said all of the wooden racquet ball courts and carpeting in Recreation Services offices have all been destroyed and will need replacing.

“At some point, those will have to come out and go back in,” Giles said.

Nearly all of the equipment storage areas on the first floor will likely need repaired or replaced in the coming weeks, as well.

The first-floor turf has also been removed and must be replaced while the track will be repaired for use by the ISU track and field teams this spring and be evaluated further following the season.

“We’ve lost little things to big things,” Giles said. “It’s not really a matter at this point to be able to pinpoint specifics.”

Giles said that all sandbagging efforts done at Lied were “completely ineffective,” as some areas outside the building had water levels well above the height of the sandbags.

There was damage to the roll-up door go-ing onto the track, as water got behind the sandbags and pressure on the door “basically pushed the door in.”

Giles said he thought the damage to the door was the main breach into the building, but also indicated there was water “bubbling up” from the sub-structure of the building

and said they couldn’t be sure of the main source of the breach.

“It wasn’t just a matter of the water com-ing, it was coming from all around,” Giles said.

Recreation Service staff members were first inside the building between 7 and 8 p.m. on the night of Friday, Aug. 11, when flooding initially occurred, and service crews began cleanup the following morning.

Crews opened doors to the building and allowed water to flow out on Aug. 12, mean-ing there has been no pumping of water as has been done at Hilton Coliseum.

Lied once again opened to students on Monday, Aug. 16, but access was limited to the third floor and first- and second-floor re-strooms.

There will be no access to either the third- or first-floor tracks, the climbing wall, rac-quet ball courts or locker rooms until further notice.

Giles said Recreation Services first must evaluate safety of students — i.e., mold and bacteria in the building — before giving stu-dents access to the those areas.

Giles said Beyer Hall received no damage in the storm and was opened again Monday.

Further extensive damage was suffered on the outdoor intramural fields, such as the ones next to Maple-Willow-Larch Halls and the southwest fields near Jack Trice Sta-dium.

The southwest fields were what Giles described as “debris fields,” as the areas not submerged in water were littered with por-table toilets and other debris that drifted to the fields.

Recreation Services has begun working with the university on insurance claims to help finance repair and recovery for dam-aged facilities.

Giles said the department would begin meeting with adjusters to determine the ex-tent of the damage.

Recreation Services begins repairsWater fills the Maple-Willow-Larch and Lied Recreation Athletic Center parking lots and Beach Street on Wednesday, Aug. 11. Sandbags were put in place outside Lied to prevent further water dam-age; the facility reopened Aug. 16. Photo: Rebekka Brown/Iowa State Daily

ServiceMaster cleanup crews help remove the water from the indoor track Friday, Aug. 13, at Lied Recreation Athletic Center. Many in-season teams have been directly impacted by the water damage at Lied and will be forced to find other facilities in which to hold practices. Photo: Rebekka Brown/Iowa State Daily

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Article as published on Flood Day 3, Aug. 13

Officials with Iowa State Center will have to wait until water in the Scheman Building me-chanical room is pumped out to determine the extent of damage to the building and how long it will be before the building reopens.

Mark North, director of Iowa State Center, said administrative offices on the ground floor of the Scheman Building took on about 3 to 4 feet of water after Tuesday night’s storm.

The first and second floors of the building didn’t take on any water.

Crews from ServiceMaster have been work-ing to pump out water in the mechanical room and installed an air conditioning line up to the Brunier Art Museum on the second floor.

With water in the mechanical room, the Scheman Building has no power, no air condi-tioning and no lighting, he said.

North said he couldn’t speculate on the cost of damages to the building since facilities staff will have to determine the condition of electri-cal and air conditioning units submerged in the mechanical room.

After the flood of 1993, North said the units in the Scheman Building were replaced with waterproof units, and he hopes it is only a mat-ter of washing and drying them.

He said the flood damage is very comparable to the 1993 flood, as water levels were almost the same outside and inside the building. Until the

room is dry, it is unclear how long recovery will take.

“A lot is just going to depend on what we find and when we get the water out of the mechani-cal room,” he said. “Worst-case scenario, it could be six to eight weeks.”

A berm dike installed around the Maple-Willow-Larch residence halls after the 1993 flood saved the building from water damage Aug. 11, and North said the idea of a similar sys-tem around the Iowa State Center wouldn’t be a bad idea.

“It’s been discussed a number of times, in reality that’s a question that really needs to be answered by the administration,” he said. “Personally, I would love it because I don’t like doing this.”

North said Iowa State Center staff had been in the building and were going through wet items to determine if they were worth salvaging. Some files, he said, will be lost for good.

The staff has relocated its office to CY Stephens Auditorium.

As for events in Scheman, North said they are currently evaluating the size and number of events scheduled and trying to move them to other places in Ames before canceling them.

Fisher Theater, which had no damage, and Stephens Auditorium are currently up and running.

Stephens did have some water from a sani-tary sewer backup caused by rain Monday night that escalated during the storm Tuesday night.

North expects events in Stephens to go for-ward as planned.

Extent of damage remains unclear

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The basement of the Scheman Building is shown flooded Aug. 11. Damages and costs remain unclear until the condition of the mechanical room equipment can be determined. Fisher Theater and Stephens Auditorium remain up and running, and events are expected to proceed as planned. Photo: Manfred Brugger/Iowa State Daily

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By Devon.OBrien@iowastatedaily.com

Article as published on Flood Day 3, Aug. 13After floodwaters poured into the streets of Ames,

many businesses were out of operation, especially restau-rants. With a lack of clean water and unsafe conditions, it has been hard to keep dining services afloat both on and off campus, but things are looking up.

ISU Dining plans to open all of the dining centers and convenience stores as scheduled. However, they will be op-erating slightly differently than normal. ISU Dining will be serving only bottled beverages and some juice made from clean, bottled water. Food and drink will be served with disposable dinnerware to dodge the need for water to wash the dishes.

“The dining centers will be opened as scheduled,” said Brittney Rutherford, ISU Dining marketing coordinator. “We will be serving bottled beverages, and any big contain-ers of water we have are filled with clean water.”

Off-campus dining is beginning to open once again, with the exception of those restaurants that are flooded and still cleaning up. Other restaurants are opening with new regu-lations set by the city of Ames. The restaurants may open if they have working toilets, serve only canned or bottled beverages, and use disposable dinnerware. For some, like Hickory Park, this means take-out only.

“We are getting much business because the media is saying all restaurants in Ames are closed,” said Tracy Drury, Hickory Park’s front manager. “We are serving car-ry-out because the city will not let us serve dine-in. But we have 215 employees and it is our duty to try to generate in-come for them.”

Qdoba Mexican Grill, on the other hand, is taking the op-portunity to give back to the community in its time of need. The restaurant has opened once again, and is providing coupons for its club members for a $5 meal deal through-out the month of August. In addition, Qdoba is having an event from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Aug. 20 in which 100 percent of sales with be donated to the American Red Cross Lincoln Way Chapter.

“I think it is important for us to give back,” said Ted Horan, Qdoba Mexican Grill operating partner. “I don’t understand how someone could watch TV and see what’s going on and not want to help.”

After the rush for bottled water, grocery stores are re-ceiving normal business and working a bit differently.

“We worked with the health inspector to make sure things were safe,” said Monty Streit, Hy-Vee director. “We have to boil water to wash utensils and hands, like we do for catering and grilling, but indoor now.”

Once Hy-Vee restocked its water supply, it donated two semis full of water to help the city provide clean water for residents.

Two residents are lifted across the floodwaters Wednesday, Aug. 11, on South Duff Avenue. Photo:LoganGaedke/IowaStateDaily

Target sits, isolated by floodwaters, on Wednesday, Aug. 11. About 2 inches of standing water breached the store, forcing it to close for several days. Photo:LoganGaedke/IowaStateDaily

Two residents wade up to Arby’s on South Duff Avenue on Wednes-day, Aug. 11. Photo:LoganGaedke/IowaStateDaily

Floodwaters cover the Maple-Willow-Larch parking lot Wednesday, Aug. 11. Barriers were placed around Seasons dining hall to keep the floodwaters from getting inside. Photo:RebekkaBrown/IowaStateDaily

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Ames community respondsBy Torey.Robinson@iowastatedaily.com

Article as published on Flood Day 3, Aug. 13

Tom Hummer was only concerned about being able to get to work Wednesday morning.

Hummer, who was scheduled to open at Dairy Queen on Orion Drive, drove from Franklin Av-enue for more than an hour — a trip that lasts 10 min-utes any other day.

“I had to try and drive County Line Road and had to go all the way around Ada Hayden [Heritage Park] because 13th Street was flooded,” Hummer said.

“I felt like no matter what way I went I couldn’t get to the north side of town.”

Hummer, senior in Eng-lish, arranged to work an-other shift in the afternoon, and returned home only to find an inch of standing wa-ter in his basement.

“I never thought I’d say we’re lucky to only have an inch of water in our base-ment,” Hummer said.

“We’ll have to replace all the carpet, but I know there were people more affected than we were.”

Hummer’s employer had his own mess to handle.

Allan Sorenson had to close Dairy Queen on Wednesday due to the shut-down of the Ames water plant.

“There’s no way we were about to serve contaminat-ed water to our customers,” Sorenson said.

Dairy Queen was able to reopen Thursday.

Sorenson’s home re-ceives water from Xenia Rural Water, and he was able to bring clean water into the store for washing dishes, hands and surfaces.

Dairy Queen is serv-ing its full menu and will transport clean water to the building until Ames water is again safe to drink.

Matthew Jacobson-Fisher, 6, left, and his brother Benjamin, 2, play in sand used for sandbags Aug. 11. Their mother, Matia Jacobson, works at Target and brought them out to help. “It’s good to show community help and how far volunteerism can go,” Matia Jacobson said. Photo: Eloisa Perez-Lozano/Iowa State Daily

Heather Caruthers, graduate student in chemistry, calls up to a neighbor while retrieving items from her apartment Aug. 11 at Southview Estates. Caruthers planned to stay with a friend until the floodwaters receded and her apartment was cleaned out. Photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily

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Recovery continues after water recedes

Ames resident Tanner Hansen rides on a tractor carrying office sup-plies and records Aug. 11 off South Duff Avenue. The tractor, provided by Speck Plumb-ing, made three to five trips to rescue more documents and then to carry sandbags to busi-nesses. The area around South Duff Avenue and South Fourth Street was among the hardest hit around the Ames and ISU community. Photo: Eloisa Perez-Loza-no/Iowa State Daily

City workers cut into concrete to replace an electrical line Aug. 16 near the Maple-Willow-Larch intramural fields. Flooding damaged the lines, which are located below ground, and so crews plan to permanently raise them to prevent future incidents. Photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily

Insulation under a damaged mobile home in Meadow Lane Mobile Home Park dries Aug. 13. The owner planned to strip and replace all of the insulation under his mobile home. The deck of the mobile home floated up to a tree when the floodwaters rose. The owner used the floodwaters to moved the deck back toward his mobile home before the water receded. Photo: Moriah Smith/Iowa State Daily

Boxes of salvaged toys and equipment are stacked in an emptied room of the University Community Childcare Center before being hauled off for storage Aug. 13. Items on the upper shelves and those made of treated wood were all that could be saved. Childcare administrators were looking for alternative places to accommodate the children in the meantime. Photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily

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WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE

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Article as published on Flood Day 1, Aug. 11

City of Ames officials held an afternoon news conference to update the city on the flood-ing situations.

Mayor Ann Campbell said “unprecedented amounts of water” following several days of rain caused the flooding.

At some point during the day, city engineers noticed a “dramatic” drop in the water pressure, indicating a possible water main break. A break was discovered under Squaw Creek. Because the break oc-curred near floodwaters, the city shut down the water plant to eliminate the potential for contaminating the water.

Tests have not confirmed any contaminants in the water, but the city said un-til the system is operational, all water should be assumed contaminated.

The water pressure is being kept low so the city can moni-

tor for further leaks. Residents who do have water pressure are reminded to treat the water as contaminated.

Water is expected to be us-able for toilets and showers at some point tonight, but will not be considered sanitary for three to seven days.

Iowa Governor Chet Culver has toured the area and the city is coordinating with the state to create a potable

water distribution center.Most grocery stores have

run out of water, but are at-tempting to replenish supplies as quickly as possible.

Police Chief Chuck Cychosz said his department has performed “in excess of 100” rescues. He said police,

fire and emergency medical services are fully functional.

Residents are reminded to stay out of floodwaters.

Kevin Anderson, Ames city sanitarian, said restau-

rants have been asked to close voluntarily.

He reminded people not to use tap water for cooking, drinking or cleaning dishes. Anderson also said not to

use ice machines, bever-age dispensers or automatic dishwashers.

The city tentatively plans to hold another news confer-ence at 8 p.m. at city hall.

Wanting waterA student takes a 24-pack of water Aug. 13 at Frederiksen Court. Residents were allotted one case of water per day. The boil order was put into effect after eight water mains broke during the flooding on Aug. 11. Photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily

Customers at the west Ames Hy-Vee buy packages of water after the water plant temporarily shut down Aug. 11. City workers temporarily closed the water plant after several water mains broke across the city, exposing the city water supply to floodwater. Photo: Moriah Smith/Iowa State Daily

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Floodwaters from the nearby Squaw Creek fill the parking lot of the Furman Aquatic Center on Wednesday, Aug. 11. The city aquatic center was scheduled to reopen Sunday, Aug. 22. Photo: Moriah Smith / Iowa State Daily

Piles of toys and furniture await disposal Friday, Aug. 13, at the University Community Childcare building. While the build-ing is being restored, 100 children will have to be cared for at other locations. Officials estimate repairs could take at least two months. Photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily

Three things you missed this summer:

1) The Big 12’s near collapse —

While you were away, nes-tled in your cozy little beds, the Big 12 almost plummeted into oblivion, nearly taking the whole of the ISU athletic de-partment with it.

After Nebraska departed for the Big Ten and Colorado bolted for the Pac-10, the Big

12 was left in limbo.It was reported everywhere

from ESPN to Texas fan site Orangebloods.com that Texas would be leaving next, heading to the Pac-10 with Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and Texas A&M to form col-lege football’s first “super conference.”

The teams’ departure would have left five schools — Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri and Baylor — without a conference to call their own.

Eventually, more ru-mors flew that sent Texas and Missouri to the Big Ten,

had the SEC interested in Texas A&M and even had the Mountain West Conference interested in Kansas and Iowa State.

But, eventually, none of those rumors ever came to fruition.

Reportedly, Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe wooed Texas into staying with the Big 12 with his offer of a new television contract that would include a payout be-tween $20 and $25 million a year for Texas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M.

The Associated Press re-ported the conference’s other

seven schools would receive nearly twice the revenue they do now.

Schedule changes for some Big 12 sports include a new round-robin, nine-game con-ference schedule in football and an 18-game schedule in basketball.

Changes will not be im-mediate, though, as Nebraska does not join the Big Ten until 2011-12 and Colorado does not join the Pac-10 until the 2012-13 schedule.

Friday night by allowing zero goals while saving six shots. She showed off her acrobatic skills late in the second over-time when she made a diving save on a shot that would’ve given Drake the win.

“You get through the first half and don’t give up a goal, then you get through the sec-ond half and don’t give up a goal and it’s a perfect game for a goalkeeper,” Costanzo said.

Leading up to the game, Dillinger said the two have been battling in every prac-tice and making each other

better. Costanzo had a lot of praise for Jobe’s work ethic and how she has picked ev-erything up right away, and this has pushed Costanzo to perform better.

Before this season, Jobe has never not been a starting

keeper for any team she’s been on. One of the biggest things she said she needed to adjust to at the college level was the intensity of the game and how much time would be commit-ted to soccer

“The first few days are defi-

nitely hard,” Jobe said. “You come to practice and you come to play soccer. That’s pretty much it.”

Jobe also added that she “wants the starting job, but is here to support whoever wins it.”

Friday night began the ISU soccer season, but it meant the Cyclones would play their first game with a new goalkeeper since outstanding keeper Ann Gleason graduated.

Coming into this season, the Cyclones had to find a re-placement for Gleason, and coach Wendy Dillinger said the team has a lot of confi-dence in Ashley Costanzo to fill that role.

“The thing Ashley has re-ally improved on over the last two years are the simple saves,” Dillinger said. “She’s very con-sistent and she’s learned a lot playing behind Ann for three years.”

The senior Costanzo got the nod for Friday’s game, but newcomer Maddie Jobe has been nearly equal since the first practice.

“They have different

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Senior goalkeeper Ashley Costanzo kicks the ball during Iowa State’s game against Drake last Friday. The game was moved to Ankeny because of flood damage to the ISU soccer field. Photo: Samantha Butler/Iowa State Daily

Senior keeper Ashley Costanzo allows zero goals in opening game

ISU football coach Paul Rhoads answers reporters’ questions during a news conference at the 2010 Big 12 Football Media Day on July 26 in Irving, Texas. Photo: Cody Duty/The Associated Press

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strengths and different quali-ties,” Dillinger said. “[Ashley] is great on breakaways; she comes out, she’s tough, solid fearless, plus she’s pretty ac-robatic. Maddie is very, very talented and has good experi-ence, and she wants the spot.”

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In a brutal clash of color, cardinal and gold met orange and black when the ISU volleyball team stepped on the court at Ames High School.

Due to damage from the flooding of Aug. 11, the Cyclones have been forced to trade the tow-ering caverns of Hilton Coliseum for the tight, 2,000-seat gymnasium for the rest of the season.

The team’s annual intrasquad scrimmage Saturday served as the first opportunity for it to adjust to such a wildly different setting.

“It’s really different here after being in a big gym,” said sophomore middle blocker Jamie Straube. “It’s going to take awhile to get used to. And once we get this place packed full of Cyclone fans I really think it’s going to be awe-some. I’m excited.”

With the home opener two weeks away, the team will spend as much time as it can at Ames High in an attempt to adapt to the changes be-fore the Cyclones welcome UW-Milwaukee on Sept. 3.

Several factors contribute to the difficulties of playing in a different gym, and the Cyclones hope to master those elements and turn Ames High into a serious home-court advantage.

“I think it’s going to be awesome, it’s going to be nuts,” said coach Christy Johnson-Lynch.

“It’s going to be loud to a point that can’t even hear what’s going on, and I think it’s going to be a really tough place for opponents to play.

Straube led all players in blocks and kills dur-ing the scrimmage, finishing the match with 13 kills on a .474 hitting percentage.

Freshman Tenisha Matlock added 11 kills in an impressive performance during her first ac-tion in a Cyclone uniform.

However, while Straube and Matlock pro-vided a few bright spots, the coaching staff still has plenty on its minds after Saturday.

“I don’t think I’ve ever come away from a scrimmage happy,” Johnson-Lynch said. “You just never feel great because you see so many things you need to work on or you think certain players would play a lot better than they did.”

Iowa State has been known for its great passing under Johnson-Lynch’s tenure, but the coach was surprised at the fairly average display of serving and passing in the match.

Johnson-Lynch believes part of that prob-lem may be due to different conditions with air flow and depth perception in the new gym, which she hopes will be overcome with time.

The Cyclones, ranked No. 9 in the AVCA preseason coaches poll, open the season at the AVCA Showcase in Omaha next weekend where they will face two ranked opponents in No. 13 Florida and No. 14 Kentucky.

Junior middle blocker Deb Stadick sat the scrimmage out due to a foot sprain, but is ex-pected to practice again this week and will be ready for the season opener on Saturday.

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Coach Christy Johnson-Lynch talks to players during a timeout Aug. 21 at Ames High School. The Cardinal and Gold Scrimmage was the team’s first game at its new location, after flooding left Hilton Coliseum unusable. Photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily

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With Squaw Creek finally back in its banks, the university has been able to begin the process of assessing and recovering its damaged facilities on the east side of campus.

The events of Wednesday, Aug. 11 that turned the Hilton Coliseum floor into a 12-foot swimming pool threw a drastic curveball at the ISU community that will take several months to solve.

But since floodwaters have receded, the athletic department has been able to look past the swelling and will treat the situation as just a massive sprained ankle on the fall semester.

“Certainly it’s a challenge,” said Athletic Director Jamie Pollard in a news conference Aug. 19. “It’s a challenge none of us would wish upon anybody, but we will get through this. Our coaches, our student-athletes and our staff have a lot of resolve. They have embraced it as a challenge and we will find a way to be stronger from it.”

Officials cannot present estimations on how much time and money will be spent on recovery, as it is too early in the process to interpret the full extent of the damage.

Earliest approximations anticipate dollar amounts in the millions.

However, as the recovery process continues, one clear priority has been established for the athletic department this fall: to have Hilton ready to go for the first basketball game of the season on Nov. 4.

“We’re limited on what alternatives we’d have for basketball,” Pollard said. “In what capacity we’re able to open it is yet to be de-termined. There are long lien times on certain items that need to be ordered and we can’t just start procuring things immediately.”

While hopes are high for the basketball programs to stay on schedule, the flooding has left the volleyball program in the most severe predicament of all ISU sports.

Christy Johnson-Lynch’s squad lost its practice and game fa-cility for essentially the entire season, and was forced to come up with quick alternatives with its season opener on Saturday rap-

idly approaching.The 2,000-seat gym at Ames High School will replace Hilton

for all home matches this season, and practices have moved to the West Towne Courts while coaches will share offices with the women’s basketball program at the nearby Sukup Basketball Complex.

While it’s possible for some matches at the back end of the volleyball season to be played at Hilton, plans currently have the team at Ames High for the duration of the season for the sake of consistency.

“If we’re in a fortunate situation where it works to bring them back, we’ll make that decision at the appropriate time,” Pollard said. “But we don’t want to go into it by having them wait every week wondering when they’ll come back.”

The ISU soccer team watched its home field transform into a lake as well, and played its first scheduled home game Friday against Drake at the Prairie Ridge Sports Complex in Ankeny.

Fortunately, the Cyclones’ schedule doesn’t contain another home match until Sept. 17 against Iowa, and the team will be able to practice at the Bergstrom Indoor Facility while the field is be-

ing refurbished.The athletic department is hopeful that at the very least the

playing surface, along with surrounding intramural fields, can be turned from brown back to green in a short time frame.

“It’s Iowa in August, so our conditions for growing seed and other stuff like that is good,” said Dave Miller, director of opera-tions for Facilities Planning and Management. “So we would have every reason to believe that the soccer area will come back rela-tively quickly.”

While all of this is being sorted out, members of the university are attempting to keep perspective on the damage despite how disruptive it has been.

Due to the efforts after the floods of 1993 and 2008, previous experience by many members of the university has the recovery process a full three weeks ahead of where it was one week after the floods 17 years ago.

Defensive measures taken at Jack Trice Stadium by the ath-letic department and football team on the morning of the flood has left football facilities in good shape, and there are no foresee-able problems for the Sept. 2 home opener.

Flood aftermath

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Cleanup crews remove debris Thursday at Hilton Coliseum. Officials say they hope Hilton will be open for the basketball home opener. Photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily

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Like most ISU sports teams, the soccer team has been faced with a few struggles in the wake of this summer’s flooding.

Coach Wendy Dillinger said the flooding has just been a minor speed bump for the team.

“The team hasn’t missed a beat,” Dillinger said when asked about the flood. “It hasn’t af-fected training at all.”

It has been an adjustment traveling for train-ing, as it adds about an hour every day with traveling to the Bergstrom Indoor Facility for practices.

Last season the team finished last in the Big 12, with a conference record of 2–8.

This season, the Cyclones will be without their leading scorer, Amanda Woelfel, due to injury.

Combining that with the flood makes for a tough way to start the year.

Despite this, the team has kept its hopes high and is ready to compete.

“The team has dealt with it pretty well,” said senior midfielder Jordan Bishop.

“I think when you go through any struggle, whether it be the flood or injuries, it binds the team together.”

Senior goalkeeper Ashley Costanzo will be a team leader this season, as she will fill the shoes Ann Gleason left after her final season.

“It’s been a challenge, but no one has com-plained,” Costanzo said.

“You can’t do anything about the flood, it hap-pens, so I think we’ve kind of just owned it. If we

have to play in Ankeny, we will play in Ankeny.”The Cyclones tied Drake 0–0 in Ankeny

on Friday in what would have been their home opener.

Their field should be ready for action when the next home game rolls around Sept. 17 against Iowa.

For a team that has been through so much al-ready this season, one thing players haven’t lost is confidence.

“It doesn’t matter where our field is, we are going to be our team and do our thing,” Costanzo said.

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Soccer

Soccer team adjusts to changes from flood

Crews work to restore the ISU Soccer Complex on Monday, Aug. 16, east of Lied Recreation Athletic Center. Water from the nearby Squaw Creek overran its banks, causing Friday’s game to be moved to fields in Ankeny. Photo: Samantha Butler/Iowa State Daily.

Home opener against Iowa on Sept. 17 should feature return to home field

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6C | DESTINATION IOWA STATE | Iowa State Daily | Monday, August 23, 2010

DESTINATION | IOWA STATE

Members of a Destination Iowa State group pose for an “Awkward Family Photo” on Friday in front of the Marston Water Tower as part of a photo challenge during Clone Quest. Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily

Amy Bonadurer, open-option freshman, pins a tag with her name and where she is from on a map marked with other students’ hometowns Thursday during the Destination Iowa State kickoff on Central Campus. Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily

Sam Lodge, freshman in meteorology, runs through a tunnel of Destination Iowa State leaders Thursday in front of the Memorial Union during the kickoff of Destination Iowa State. Students were separated into different groups based on where they were living; Lodge was in a group with other students living in Friley and Helser halls. Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily

Thomas Hill, vice president of Student Affairs and master of ceremonies for the Destination Iowa State kickoff, greets the first group of students to ever have their Destination Iowa State on Central Campus on Thursday. Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily

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Paige Faust, freshman in psychology, and Eric Dappen, freshman in mechanical engineering, pose as the ISU swans Lancelot and Elaine as part of a Clone Quest photo challenge Friday. The Clone Quest photo challenge was one of many events designed to get new students accustomed to Iowa State. Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily

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Iowa State’s Cyclone Football “Varsity” Marching Band is back in action this fall.

Last summer, the band lost its longtime conductor Matthew Smith when he took a po-sition at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

“It’s a great thing for him,” said Josh Larson, drum major and senior in journalism and mass communication.

“We all kind of knew it was coming. It’s a great opportunity for him, and I’m glad he took it.”

For many members of the marching band, Smith was an influential band director and responsible for establishing many of the tradi-tions and customs that help shape the band’s reputation.

“I want to see all the traditions continue — just because there’s a new band director doesn’t mean that they have to change,” said Wade Gibson, junior in music and member of the drumline.

Although Smith will be missed, students said they’re looking forward to the coming season and have faith in Smith’s replacement, Natalie Steele, who will be the interim director for the marching band for the 2010 season.

“Steele has some big shoes to fill,” Gibson said.

“It’s definitely going to be different; we had some good traditions, but hopefully they’ll keep going.”

The ISU marching band is known by its members as the Iowa State University Cyclone Football “Varsity” Marching Band.

The ISUCF“V”MB has been the “pride of Iowa State” for many years and has had noteworthy performances at events like the

Insight.com Bowl, the EV1.net Bowl and the Independence Bowl.

The band also travels to exhibitions and fes-tivals around the state, such as the Cedar Rapids Indoor Classic.

The ISUCF“V”MB also began its year a bit earlier than most students. The members of the band move in early every fall to get an early start on the season with band camp.

Band camp began Aug. 14 with auditions for the drumline and got into motion the following Sunday. Guides — older students who assist with music and drill charts, among other things — moved in Sunday and rehearsed through Aug. 17.

The rest of the members of the band moved in the following Tuesday, and band camp moved into full swing. The band follows a vigorous schedule that begins early in the morning and ends anywhere between 8 and 9 p.m. most nights of the week.

The daily rehearsals are spent alternating between indoor and outdoor rehearsals, where the band works on everything from march-ing fundamentals to musical performance and interpretation.

The band also performed a few times around campus, including once at Destination Iowa State, and can regularly be seen on the practice field west of the communications building.

Larson was optimistic when discussing his plans for the season and his hopes for the band. He’s looking forward to a great season and will spend a lot of time perfecting the pregame show to allow more time rehearsing for the halftime performances.

Patrick Determan, junior in biology, stands at attention in block formation with the rest of the band during band camp Thursday. Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily

Nathan Bierl, senior in music, along with other members of the ISU Cyclone Football “Varsity” Marching Band, spend Wednesday morning on the practice field behind the Armory working on their marching fundamentals. Good fundamentals are the base of a good marching band, which is why so much time is dedicated to doing them correctly. Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily

Marching band takes new directionISU ‘Varsity’ band starts early with demanding training for new school year under interim director Natalie Steele

The drumline prepares for the upcoming football

season Thursday near Music Hall. Photo:

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Section leader Jessica Foss instructs a band member

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More online:Photos and, later in the week, Steele’s thoughts, at ames247.com

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Wow something smells funny...dead

fish...dirty socks···

Nice to see Ames survived the floods

of 2010!!!···

I swear my new roommate has a broom for a car!

···I can hold my own but I’d rather hold

yours.···

Our neighbors are either stoned or just stupid...just sayin.

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If walking is good for you then why does our mailperson look

like Buddha?···

The worst 20 minutes of my life

was when I gave up drinking, sex, and

smoking.. all in that order!

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something....

I am not a bum my girlfriend works

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