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The ISU MyState app helps ISU students in a variety of ways. It provides a CyRide schedule, campus map, news updates, a directory and more, but it does this in only one language: English.

Have you ever thought about getting this necessary informa-tion about the ISU campus in other languages?

The Government of the Stu-dent Body has been working on making the MyState app multi-lingual for students whose native language is not English.

“The idea of making [the] MyState app multilingual is one of the easier ways to enhance cross-cultural communication on campus,” said Presha Kardile, GSB director of student diver-sity and senior in management. “International students tend to struggle with languages when they just get here. It’s easier to make them feel at home and welcome.”

GSB is considering making the app in Mandarin and Span-ish because of the large amount of the Chinese students and stu-dents from Spanish-speaking countries on the campus. Inter-national students make up about 12 percent of the student popu-lation. There are almost 2,000 students from China, the country from which there are the most in-ternational students, with about 3,500 students from Asia. There are just over 200 students from 16 Spanish-speaking countries, according to the ISU Fact Book.

“At this point, the app is un-dergoing a second-phase update, and we will be resuming our proj-ect next semester once this up-date is completed,” Kardile said. “The only thing we have done was talking about the application and [seeing] if there were more languages we would like to add.”

She said she is excited to see how this project is going to turn out.

Brittany Dudley, senior in finance, did a survey for her Eng-lish project and discovered that 66 percent of the respondents

have used the MyState app. About 97 percent of responders used the app for the CyRide schedule, 88 percent used it for the campus map and 85 percent used it to look up where buildings are on campus and when the dining centers are open.

“MyState app has an effec-tive way of engaging students to acquire more news about cam-pus,” said Zhengyu Liu, graduate student in civil, construction and environmental engineering. Liu is also an international student from China. “Multilingual is a great idea but not necessary for the app that was actually being used. Enlarging the app system will be more helpful for the stu-dents. Links to the AccessPlus, Blackboard and school [websites] will be even more important than making the app multilingual.”

International students are not the only ones who are inter-ested in this project — American students are also looking forward to using this upgrade to pos-sibly help them learn another language.

“I think it’s a good thinking of making this app multilingual,” said Rachel McDermott, fresh-man in open option. “People can actually learn some new lan-guages while playing with their phones.”

In the past, waiting in long lines at testing centers during Finals Week was as much a right of passage at Iowa State

as kissing under the Campanile or singing “Sweet Caroline” at a football game.

The Provost Office, in col-laboration with the Government of the Student Body, the testing center staff and individual col-leges, will open a total of eight test-

ing centers with extended hours during Finals Week. Administra-tors expect between 13,000 and 18,000 tests to be administered next week.

Opening new testing centers wasn’t a quick fix. The team tasked with coordinating the opening of the new centers also needed to make sure students were aware of the changes.

“It’s not very often when you can see a problem and get people together relatively quickly and try and solve a problem,” said Rob Schweers, director of communi-

cations for the office of the senior vice president and provost. “We can’t promise that there won’t be a single line ever at the testing cen-ters over the course of this Finals Week, but we expect that they are going to be a lot better.”

Four testing centers were opened last spring for finals, but, despite the effort, lines were still long.

The number of seats has more than doubled for this fall, going from 219 to 448 seats.

“In order for these changes to work we need students to help,”

said Jonathan Wickert, senior vice president and provost. “Students need to use all the new testing centers. If everyone just goes to Carver or Gilman, you will be wait-ing in a line.”

Students are strongly encour-aged to take their tests early in the week and early in the day.

The first 100 students who check in before 10 a.m. at each testing center on each day will re-ceive a $2.50 ISU Dining gift card.

The university will provide 4,000 gift cards over the span of Finals Week.

The testing centers have also

For veterans, transitioning from active duty to college comes with more challenges than most students face.

Jathan Chicoine, veteran services coordinator, said that the ISU Veterans Center works to diminish barriers to student success.

On Nov. 24 , Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reyn-olds announced that Iowa State has been named a Certified High-er Academic Military Partner as part of the Home Base Iowa Act, a law signed in May which rec-ognizes communities and edu-cational institutions that provide

resources to veterans.“It is reiterating our com-

mitment to providing the best support possible to veterans and their families,” Chicoine said.

University of Iowa, Univer-sity of Northern Iowa, Hawkeye Community College and Uni-versity of Dubuque were also announced as partners.

For an institution to get this designation, it must meet criteria in the categories of on-campus veteran services, mindfulness of service member transitions and financial considerations.

Chicoine said that this was just the foundation. He was on the Home Base Iowa working group and has worked with the program from its start. He said that they will continue to build

on it and find better ways to serve veterans.

In an October press release, Branstad said that the program is a step towards ensuring that ser-vice members have educational resources in their transition to civilian life.

“It can be a difficulty for vet-erans that are coming back [to college],” said Matthew Kots, veteran and sophomore in pre-business. “It’s not the same as the structured life that they are used to.”

Lt . Col . Richard Smith, professor and chairman of the military science and tactics de-partment, said that the program emphasizes the veterans’ back-

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Hot chocolate, Christmas carols and pattering horse hoofs donned the ISU campus for the celebration of WinterFest on Friday and Saturday.

T h e c e l e b r a t i o n s c o m -menced with Carol of the Bells playing on the famous Edgar W.

and Margaret MacDonald Stan-ton Memorial Carillon by Iowa State’s carillonneur Tin Shi Tam.

Khayree Fitten, sophomore in political science, was co-pres-ident of the event.

“WinterFest is a really unique tradition here at Iowa State…celebrating our campus in some different ways,” Fitten said.

The evening would consist of a variety of free events for stu-

dents and the community mem-bers, including campanile tours, horse-drawn carriage rides or ice-skating out at the arena.

The most popular event of the evening was the campanile tour, sponsored by the Student Alumni Leadership Council. Tours began at 4 p.m. There were more than a dozen people in line

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Caitlin Ellingson/Iowa State DailyThe MyState app will be expanding to ap-peal to a larger audience by adding multi-lingual options, especially for international students, who make up approximately 12% of the ISU student population.

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Courtesy of Brianna LevandowskilyStudents drink hot chocolate Friday in the residence of President Steven Leath and his wife, First Lady Janet Leath. As part of ISU WinterFest, the Leaths opened up their home so that visitors could see the decorations that took a week-and-a-half to put up.

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Dec. 3An individual reported the theft of a bike at Helser Hall (reported at 11:18 a.m.). Officers located a juvenile who had run away from home. The individual was returned to her parents at Armory (reported at 12:10 p.m.).

An individual reported the theft of a bike. The item was later located at Howe Hall (reported at 1:26 p.m.). An individual reported the theft of a jacket at State Gym-nasium (reported at 6:48 p.m.). An individual reported losing a passport at Armory (report-ed at 7:36 p.m.).

An individual reported the theft of a phone. The item was later located at Memorial Union (reported at 9:40 p.m.).

Dec. 4An officer investigated a prop-erty damage collision at Lot C1 (reported at 2:06 p.m.). An individual reported the theft of a phone at LeBaron Hall (reported at 3:37 p.m.). An officer investigated a prop-erty damage collision at Lot 112D (reported at 4:02 p.m.). An individual reported the theft of a coat and other items at State Gymnasium (reported at 6:59 p.m.).

An officer investigated a prop-erty damage collision at South 16th Street and University Boulevard (reported at 7:33 p.m.). Individuals reported receiving harassing telephone calls at Willow Hall (reported at 10:16 p.m.). An individual reported losing a passport at College of De-sign (reported at 11:59 p.m.).

Dec. 5An individual reported dam-age to a window at Insectary (reported at 8:44 a.m.). An officer initiated a drug re-lated investigation at Armory (reported at 3:15 p.m.). Courtney Brendel, 20, of 2125 Greeley Street, Ames, was ar-rested and charged with pub-lic intoxication at Memorial Union (reported at 8:27 p.m.). An individual reported dam-age to a vehicle at Wilson Hall (reported at 9:27 p.m.). Mark Graeve , 25, of 1110 Lowell Drive, Ankeny, was ar-rested and charged with pub-lic intoxication at 100 block of Welch Avenue (reported at 10:36 p.m.).

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Final Big 12 power rankings

The Big 12 Conference crowned co-champions this weekend in Baylor and TCU. But just because the conference couldn’t decide who was on top doesn’t mean the ISD sports desk couldn’t. Check out the sports section of the app or our website to see who is number one in the final power rankings.

Testing centers made easy

Finals Week is coming up which means thousands of students will be using the testing centers, of which there are now eight. To see how long the lines are, a list of all the testing centers and all of their schedules, go to the news section of the Daily’s app.

Timeflies performs at ISU

T h e p o p u l a r b a n d Timeflies performed at the Memorial Union on Friday night to a sold-out crowd. To see a photo gallery of the concert, go online to the multimedia section of the Daily’s website.

ISU women take on Stony Brook

The ISU women’s bas-ketball team took on Stony Brook on Sunday afternoon. After reading the coverage in print, go online to find more. A photo gallery of the game can be found in the multimedia section of the Daily’s website.

ISU named CHAMP school

Iowa State Universi-ty was named a CHAMP school by Gov. Terry Brans-tad because of all it does to help veterans transition into college. But what ex-actly is a CHAMP school? Check out the news section of the Daily’s app to find out.

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Iowa State DailyErin Lewis, sophomore in animal science, gives Ty a kiss during a comfort dog session April 29, 2014 at Parks Library. These sessions are meant to give students a chance to relax during Dead Week.

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Timeflies makes long-awaited Ames debutTimeflies was originally slated to come to Ames during the 2014 Live @ VEISHEA concerts in April, but instead appeared Dec. 5 in the Great Hall. Cal, the group’s lead singer, has been singing and freestyling since high school, while Rez got an early start in production after building a studio in his basement.

The top four teams have been selected by the College Football Playoff selection committee, giv-ing Division I football fans their first taste of playoff football.

Alabama picked up the No. 1 ranking, finish-ing the season 12-1 and SEC champions. They will take on No. 4 Ohio State, who finished the season 12-1, grabbing the final spot with a convinc-ing 59-0 win over No. 13 Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship game.

O r e g o n f i n i s h e d with a No. 2 ranking, go-ing 12-1 and claiming the Pac-12 Championship. They will take on No. 3 Florida State, the only team in FBS to finish un-defeated with a 13-0 re-cord.

The selection didn’t come without contro-versy, though. Big 12 co-champions TCU (11-1, 8-1 Big 12) and Baylor (11-1, 8-1 Big 12) did not make the cut, despite TCU ranking No. 3 in last week’s rankings and de-feating Iowa State 55-3 in its final game of the season. Baylor, who de-feated TCU in the regular

season, also finished the season strong, defeating No. 9 Kansas State 38-27.

The decision sparked debates across social me-dia and has already raised questions about expand-ing the playoff to add more teams, or the Big 12 to add two more teams to become eligible to play a conference champion-ship game.

The College Football Playoff will start with Or-egon and Florida State playing at 4 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2015 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., fol-lowed by Alabama and Ohio State at 7:30 p.m. in New Orleans.

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Dub H, the ISU hip-hop dance club, danced in front of about 600 people Friday, but they were really dancing for one person in particular.

At the end-of-semes-ter show, Dub H featured Jayden, one of Dance Mara-thon’s miracle kids.

“We featured a boy named Jayden for our show this semester,” said Whit-ney Kennebeck, secretary of club. “He is one the miracle kids for Dance Marathon. He loves to dance.”

Jayden suffers from hy-drocephalus — a buildup of fluid inside the skull that causes the brain to swell — and spina bifida that limits the use of his lower limbs. Jayden, who is 8, has had 14 operations.

“ A t t h e e n d o f t h e show, we had a freestyle circle where anyone can come up and dance,” said Kayla Carpenter, member of Dub H.

Carpenter said Jayden crawled to the center of the circle and lifted himself up.

“ H e j u s t l i t u p t h e stage,” Carpenter said. “He appears to be very mature and full of life.”

Austin-Carry Javella-na, president of ISU Dance Marathon, said Jayden had an amazing time.

“He loved dancing with the hip-hip club dancers,” Javellana said. “It is impor-tant for kids like Jayden to have opportunities to do things that kids without ill-ness can do.”

Javellana said Jayden was told he may never walk

but began taking his first steps around the age of 2.

“ H e i s n o w a b l e t o walk with forearm crutches and is an active and goofy [8-year-old],” Javellana said.

Dub H partnered with Dance Marathon for tick-et sales as well. For every ticket sold for the event, $1 went to Dance Marathon.

According to its Face-book page, with the help of Dub H, Dance Marathon raised over $1,100.

“We sold out of tick-ets,” said Ryan Rassasom-bath, president and chore-ographer for Dub H. “It was an amazing turn out.”

According to its page on the ISU website, Dub H put on a show for an audi-ence of approximately 600 guests.

Rassasombath said his goals for the performance were exceeded.

“The performance was a [phenomenon],” Rassa-sombath said. “Everyone left their hearts on the stage no matter what.”

Rassasombath said the performance had no technical difficulties and having a smooth-running show kept the audience entertained the whole time.

“There is endless sup-port for the club,” Ras-sasombath said. “I can’t thank everyone enough. I couldn’t do it without my cabinet members and friends.”

According to its page, Dub H is currently the largest student-run club at Iowa State with approxi-mately 500 members.

“ISU hip-hop dance club is the biggest student-run organization on cam-

pus,” Kennebeck said. “We typically have 20 choreog-raphers each semester that hold practice once a week for a hour-and-a-half.”

Dub H is done for the semester, but next semester they have two workshops available for students in-terested in joining the club.

“We have two work-

shops on Jan. 22 and 27 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Forker Building,” Ken-nebeck said. “Students can get a taste of what the club is like.”

Kennebeck said Jan. 28 there will be a “choreo showcase” at 7 p.m. in the Forker Building.

“This is when the cho-

reographers show a small portion of their dance,” Kennebeck said. “Dancers can sign up for whatever dance they would like to be in for the semester.”

Dub H has other per-formances throughout the semester as well.

“We have other events s u c h a s D a y o f D a n c e

and performances from our selected dance group Twolves, said Christina Greiner, second event co-ordinator of the club.

According to its site on Iowa State’s webpage, Dub H has performed at several events including the pregame show for the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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Courtesy of Rachel GraffIowa State’s hip-hop club Dub H performed its final fall show Friday in Ames Auditorium. The club had a special performer named Jayden, who has hydrocephalus and spina bifida and is one of Dance Marathon’s miracle kids.

Hip-hop club performs final fall show

Courtesy of Rachel GraffDub H, Iowa State’s hip-hop club, performed Friday for approximately 600 people. This year’s show ran smoothly with no technical difficulties. For each ticket sold, Dub H donated $1 to ISU Dance Marathon, which raised more than $1,100. Dub H sold out of tickets for its end-of-semester show.

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Within the competitive world of children’s book publishing, a different an-gle, a persistent mindset and 32 words were what it took to transform Sarvinder Naberhaus’s life and give her hope.

Naberhaus, an ISU graduate and Ames resi-dent, recently published her first children’s book, “Boom Boom.”

On Saturday, children and adults gathered for story time and a book sign-ing at the University Book Store with Naberhaus. As Naberhaus flipped through the pages of her book, chil-dren read the words aloud with her — “Boom boom, flash flash, drip drip, splash splash.”

“Boom Boom” tel ls the story of a group of pre-school children who experi-ence the sights and sounds of the seasons together. It is a 32-word poem made up of 16 words, each repeated twice.

“I love the four sea-sons, and I love patterns, but there’s about a mil-lion books that have been done on the four seasons, so I knew it would never get published,” Naberhaus said. “Writers rarely talk about sounds or smells, so I thought, what if I just repeated the sounds of the seasons and didn’t have a story?”

Writing picture books is perfect for Naberhaus because her brain thinks very simply, she said.

“My brain thinks in very basic, teachable bites,” Naberhaus said. “I’m a teacher, so I guess I like to break it down into the ba-sics so that you can easily understand and explain it to somebody else.”

Naberhaus has lived in Ames since her family came from India when she was 4. Along with writing,

Naberhaus is a substitute teacher at Ames and Gilbert community school districts.

She graduated from Iowa State with a degree in elementary education, but being a children’s book au-thor was always in the back of her mind.

“When I was a k id, I loved reading, and i t brought me such joy,” she said. “I’ve always wanted to bring that joy to other kids and readers.”

Naberhaus said she has at least a dozen books on her hard drive waiting for revision, but the trial and error process of finding an editor who will read the manuscript and like the story is challenging.

At a Society of Chil-dren’s Book Writers and Illustrators conference, Na-berhaus had 10 minutes of one-on-one time with an editor to review her manu-scripts.

Her editor, Allyn John-ston of Beach Lane Books, which is a division of Si-mon & Schuster, was also the editor of the children’s book “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.”

Before their meeting at the conference, Naberhaus checked out all of the books Johnston had edited from the library and figured out which of her manuscripts matched best with John-ston’s style.

“The only thing I could come up with that I thought matched her was ‘Boom Boom,’” Naberhaus said. “I sent her a collection of po-ems, and ‘Boom Boom’ was the last one in the stack.”

During her 10-min-ute critique with Johnston, “Boom Boom” was the only poem that made Johnston take a second to pause. Na-berhaus took that as a posi-tive sign because it was the only poem that garnered Johnston’s reaction.

“Once she paused, I thought, ‘Well, it’s now or never,’ and I jumped in and explained my vision for the

poem,” Naberhaus said. “She hemmed and hawed, and I’m like, ‘Just say you’re going to keep it.’ And she finally did.”

After their meeting, Naberhaus checked the mailbox every day for a re-jection letter. Six months after the conference, John-ston called and offered her a contract.

From there, Johnston selected Margaret Chodos-Irvine, an award-winning illustrator, to tell the poem’s visual story.

Chodos-Irvine, who currently lives in London, said Naberhaus’s text was unique to work with be-cause there wasn’t a narra-tive or characters.

When Chodos-Irvine gets a manuscript, she reads it and takes notes on what she’s visualizing for certain parts. Once she sits down to work on the project, she be-gins to map out the frame-work.

“In [Naberhaus’s] sto-ry, I thought it would be more interesting if I told a

story rather than just illus-trating the words,” she said.

Chodos-Irvine said she is drawn to stories of friend-ship, so she developed char-acters and examined how to tell a story of friendship over the course of four sea-sons.

Naberhaus said she never had contact with Chodos-Irvine throughout the process.

“They want illustrators to be free to do how they see the words and not to stifle their creativity,” Naberhaus said.

The editor serves as the middleman between an au-thor and an illustrator who potentially have different visions, Chodos-Irvine said.

“What authors do best is the writing, and what il-lustrators do best is the im-agery,” she said. “It’s easier for the publishers if they have that editor who is the link between the two. If the illustrators and the authors were talking, sometimes it would really bog things down, and the editor keeps

the project moving for-ward.”

C h o d o s - I r v i n e d e -scribed the process as a re-lay race. The author hands the story off to the editor, who then hands it to the illustrator, who then hands it back to editor, and they hand it to the designer, who finally hands it to the pub-lisher.

“Everybody does what they do best,” she said.

Chodos-Irvine uses printmaking techniques in her illustrations.

Printmaking involves transferring color from one surface to another to gradu-ally build up an image from flat layers of color. She said it is a very long and slow process, and a book usu-ally takes her eight or nine months.

“I like the process, and I like the way the craft in-fluences the results,” she said. “You don’t have as much control, and I like that. Printmakers, we kind of have a little screw loose.”

Naberhaus said she

continues learning more about the illustrations each time she looks through the book and reads it to kids.

“I had to look though the book to discover all of the subtle things that are in there,” Naberhaus said. “Every time I read to kids, I get more and more out of her illustrations and my words because they all see it from different points of view.”

As Naberhaus begins her journey with profes-sional writing, she advised people of all ages — wheth-er students or adults — to pursue their dreams.

“Your dreams are given to you. They’re inside you when you’re born, and they go hand-in-hand with your talents and your abilities and what you love,” Naber-haus said. “If you pursue the things that you love and you’re good at, then you’re bound to be successful.”

Her next book signing will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Dec. 20 at the Books-A-Million in Ames.

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Charlie Coffey/Iowa State DailySarvinder Naberhaus, author of the children’s book “Boom Boom,” signs books at the the University Book Store on Saturday. “Boom Boom” aims to show children the sights and sounds found during each season and was illustrated by a London-based illustrator during an eight to nine month period.

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OPINION 5Monday, Dec. 8, 2014

Many readers of the Iowa State Daily have asked why I was be-

ing negative and critical to-ward South Korea, the country where I was born, in my col-umns. This question is under-standable, since most people tend to show positive aspects of their origins when they need to introduce or advertise their national backgrounds to people from other countries. However, when it comes to journalism, there is nothing to discuss if a journalist only talks about the positive sides of an issue. In order to reform and fix the negative sides of soci-ety, it is essential to be critical.

One of the biggest moti-vations for me to write critical columns was the American TV show “The Newsroom.” I was very impressed by this drama when Will McAvoy, the main character, said that America is not the greatest nation in

the world. In the show, a college stu-

dent asked several anchors to explain why the United States is the greatest nation in the world. While other anchors were mentioning how Amer-ica is economically developed and politically free, McAvoy brought up the hidden sides of American society to prove that America is not the great-est nation. The quote below exactly shows his belief that America still has lots of issues to be fixed.

“We’re seventh in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force and number four in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: number of incar-cerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next twenty-six countries combined, 25 of whom are allies.”

According to Georg Wil-helm Friedrich Hegel, the fa-mous German philosopher, society is able to develop by criticizing its contradiction. This means if there is no cri-tique against society, society is not able to improve its weak points. This is why I complete-ly agree with McAvoy’s per-spective of America and it is also the reason I’m focusing on the hidden side of South Korea.

Whenever people say flight attendants of the Korean Airlines are so attractive, I say it’s because of Korea’s strange culture that encourages fe-males to care too much about their own appearance and makes them have plastic sur-gery when they apply for jobs.

I also talk about how the Korean education system is not reasonable, since it forces students to study for about ten hours per day and doesn’t provide opportunities to allow them to find out what they re-ally want to do in the future.

In addition, when people

say Park Chung-hee, the for-mer Korean president, de-veloped Korean economy by building industrial facilities and supporting the U.S. mili-tary during the Vietnam War, I criticize his dictatorship, which suppressed people who were shouting for democracy during the painful labor at factories and killed innocent people in Vietnam by attend-ing the war.

Although it doesn’t seem like South Korea has lots of is-sues, it has lots of problems to be fixed when I try to look at its hidden side.

Just as McAvoy tried to fix the negative sides of American society, I also want to convey the message that Korea has lots of issues to be reformed to make people think what Ko-reans should change in order to improve its quality of the culture and the politics.

I hope my Korean read-ers can understand the im-portance of critique rather than taking my columns of-fensively.

Ever since the con-c e p t i o n o f t h e Internet , i t has

permeated every facet of our lives in ways its creators couldn’t have imagined. The Internet and all the ways we have become accustomed to using it have resulted in an increase in the amount of information available for public dis-posal, ease in commu-nication and even intro-duced some of today’s biggest celebrities.

The Internet has evolved from a very static “bulletin board” of sorts to more of a mal-leable resource being shaped and molded by everyone who logs on and uses it. One of the most beautiful aspects of the internet is the countless contributions being made to this once blank canvas.

Anyone at any time has the ability to shift the current design on the internet because we have the freedom to do so. However, in a few

short days that freedom will be coming to an end with the lifting of the ban on taxing for inter-net services.

The Internet Tax Freedom Act was passed Oct. 21, 1998 by Presi-dent Bill Clinton in order to allow Internet users to add to, learn from and improve the Internet while it was in its infan-tile stages without be-ing penalized with a tax. As a result of this act, it prevented local, state or federal governments from imposing a tax on internet users.

It should be noted that this act excludes sales tax on items pur-chased online. Just like in stores, there is still a tax for the purchase of anything online. This act has been active for just shy of 20 years and has clearly created numer-ous benefits, because over its lifespan, it has been extended four dif-ferent times.

The most recent extension was made by President Obama on Sept. 19, 2014, only three months prior to the end of the Internet Tax Free-

dom Act Thursday.Taxes in this coun-

try on various aspects of essentials for day-to-day living are nothing new, whether we know exactly how much we are paying or not. Obvi-ously, there is a visible sales tax on things you buy in stores, you can see it right on the re-ceipt, but what about the other taxes we never even thought about like in a cell phone bill.

Even though cell phones are now a con-venient platform for the Internet, the Internet Tax Freedom Act does not apply to mobile de-vices and the services along with them. Be-cause I don’t pay my own cell phone bill, I have no idea what frac-tion of the bill applies to, including how much of the bill is actually a gov-ernment tax. Accord-ing to CNN, the aver-age cell phone user will pay 17.1% of their bill in taxes.

T h e t a x o n c e l l phone services is also very similar to the taxes placed on cigarettes with only a slight varia-

tion. However, the tax on cigarettes raises the price of them in hopes of discouraging smokers to stop smoking them, so it’s not a stretch to guess that a similar ef-fect will take place with the tax on the Internet, except the government isn’t trying to dissuade people from shaping the World Wide Web.

If a tax were in fact placed on this pub-lic resource, the most stand-out result would be a much more narrow audience able to afford to add to and cause the internet to evolve, thus resulting in a specific type of information be-ing presented.

As a whole, the me-dia is already skewed based on which wing of the government the outlet sides with and how they present the news to us, so if a funnel was placed on the Inter-net, it would only further shave off thoughts and opinions of those who perhaps cannot afford to pay the extra tax for the use of the once com-pletely public, malleable Internet.

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Courtesy of College Football PlayoffAlabama, Oregon, Florida State and Ohio State were the four teams accepted to compete in the first-ever College Football Playoff. The College Football Playoff selection committee made the decision on Sunday following Saturday’s games.

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Illustration: Richard Martinez/Iowa State DailyOn average, only 40 percent of the world’s population has Internet access. In some locations, populations have poor accessibility to the Internet. Browsers such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox have contrasting control over the people who have access.

The College Football Playoff selection committee was tasked with choosing four teams in the nation Sunday to play in the first-ever NCAA Division I football playoffs.

The committee’s task became difficult when all six conference champions of the Power 5 conferences — the SEC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC — all won big during the weekend and made convincing argu-ments for their spots in the playoff.

Ultimately the committee chose to give the four playoff spots to Alabama, Oregon, Florida State and Ohio State. It chose not to include either Baylor and TCU, who are co-champions of the Big 12 and who finished fifth and sixth in the College Football Playoff rankings.

Entering Sunday, the fourth spot in the playoffs, had the most questions surround-ing it. While Ohio State won the Big Ten con-ference championship against Wisconsin handily, many questioned whether the Big Ten or Ohio State’s schedule was difficult enough to earn a playoff spot.

However, some believed that the Big 12’s lack of a conference championship game or a sole conference champion played into the committee’s decision to exclude the Big 12 from the playoffs. But TCU’s only loss came against Baylor while Ohio State was defeated by a Virginia Tech team that finished the season with a 6-6 record.

There are numerous arguments for all three teams who vied for the fourth College Football Playoff spot. What factors should be weighed more heavily than others? That was the question the committee was up against Sunday, when it was tasked with deciding who would make the playoffs.

However, we believe the committee should never have had to decide who gets the last spot out of Ohio State, Baylor and TCU. Is four teams in a playoff really fair when not all Power 5 conference champions will be able to make it in each year?

This year serves as the perfect example of why a four-team playoff is a flawed sys-tem. If there is a controversy in the first year of the playoff then an improvement to the playoff system already needs to be made.

An eight-team playoff would be signifi-cantly better than a four-team system. This would allow all Power 5 champions to be included, as well as leave room for any co-champions or other highly ranked teams. Also, after eight teams, it is much more unlikely that the ninth-place team would win a national title than a fifth-place team.

Some may raise the question about how to handle extra games and extra time that this may add to the schedules of the play-off teams. However, schools in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision, the level below the FBS, have a 12-game regular season schedule, and the division plays a 24-team playoff. If FCS schools can handle an even larger playoff, an eight-game system is not unreasonable to ask of schools who are competing for a national title.

It seems as though Baylor, TCU and Ohio State all had good enough resumes to compete in the playoffs and have a shot at the national title. So is it really fair for a committee to choose who does and does not have a chance at the championship?

The college football playoffs were origi-nally created to solve biases and to make it so more qualified teams have a shot at the title. However, a four-team playoff does not go far enough to solve that problem.

Increasing the number of teams in the playoffs would have avoided the drama faced by this year’s selection committee altogether and made the road to the national title more fair for those who got snubbed.

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SPORTS6 Monday, Dec. 8, 2014

Earlier in the week, ISU football coach Paul Rhoads s a i d h e t h o u g h t T e x a s Christian Univeristy would be coming into the Saturday game against Iowa State with the full intention of scoring some style points.

The Horned Frogs had no problem executing that game plan.

For Iowa State (2-10, 0-9 Big 12), the season came to end Saturday in the fashion many may have expected: A blowout loss to TCU (11-1, 8-1 Big 12), who is playing for one of the final four sports in the college football playoff.

The Horned Frogs put an emphasis on style at the beginning. To start the affair, TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin hauled in a touchdown reception on a trick play. This began his impressive stat line on the day that ended with him throwing for 460 yards and four touchdowns.

“They had my vote,” Rhoads said of TCU’s run for the playoffs. “Very well coached, got good players and played at a high level today.”

Even with the high stat lines and final score, Iowa State did manage to keep it close for the first 30 min-utes, holding TCU’s highly touted offense to only 17

points in the first half. On offense, Iowa State sput-tered time and time again, reaching the end zone only once and capitalizing on a 26-yard Cole Netten field goal.

“ W e p l a y e d a v e r y good defense,” Rhoads said. “They do a nice job of moving their front, and we knew we’d have to counter that to run the ball, pick up

those blocks as well as pass protection. We did not pick them up very well.”

Rhoads said he and his staff tried to make some adjustments at half but to no avail as the Horned Frogs’ defense continued to halt every ISU drive in the second half, including one interception returned for a touchdown.

“We came out in the

second half and started to do some things,” said TCU coach Gary Patterson. “We got an interception for a touchdown then once it started snowballing every-thing started happening the way it needed to. That’s why you play four quarters.”

The 55-3 loss in Fort Worth, Texas, closes out a disappointing and injury-riddled season that began

the first day of practice when lineman Ben Loth went down with a sea-son-ending knee injury. Throughout the season the only players to start every game were center Tom Far-niok, defensive linemen Cory Morrissey and Mitch-ell Meyers as well as offen-sive lineman Daniel Burton.

Moving forward into 2 0 1 5 , R h o a d s s a i d h e

doesn’t anticiapate making any coaching changes and already has a few areas of improvement he’s planning to key in on.

“We’ve got to become a smarter football team,” Rhoads said. “We’ve got to become smarter through being simpler and go out there and do what we can do and do it to the best of our ability.”

Without tight end E.J. Bibbs on the field, it was difficult for the ISU offense to get things moving.

Bibbs, who suffered a leg injury earlier in the season, and had to sit out the week before against

West Virginia. Once again, Bibbs had to watch from the sidelines as his team fell Saturday to TCU (11-1, 8-1 Big 12) 55-3.

With the football team failing to win a conference game this season, and fin-ishing with just two wins overall, its season is offi-cially over.

“Being 0-9 and being 2-10, that’s hard probably for an 18-, 19-, 20-year-old to fully grasp at this point, especially with the emotion that they’re just wrenched w i t h , ” I S U c o a c h P a u l Rhoads said. “It’s not hard

for me to understand and see. We’re a lot closer than we are further away. But a lot has to take place to get over that hump.”

I n t h e i r b o u t w i t h TCU, Rhoads says there were some positives from the game, especially in the first half.

The Cyclones went into halftime trailing 17-3, a score that many before the game predicted would be much worse.

“We were pesky for 30 minutes and pleased with the effort and the response of our guys through that

first 30 minutes,” Rhoads said. “We were worn out in that 30-minute effort, and I think that showed quickly in the second half.”

The second half was when the Horned Frogs proved why they’re one of the nation’s top teams. TCU scored 31 points in the third quarter, and Iowa State just didn’t have an answer.

“I think we just stopped believing that we had a chance to stay with them,” said ISU wide receiver Jarvis West.

By the end of the game, the Cyclones didn’t have

much left . The Horned Frogs finished with 721 to-tal yards of offense, and averaged more than 8 yards each play. They were even able to hold the Cyclones to just 3.2 yards per play, making it difficult for them to find successs.

With TCU’s high pow-ered offense in the third quarter, cornerback Sam R i c h a r d s o n s a i d t h e r e wasn’t much they could do to stop them.

“At that moment I kind of felt the sense of the team, and everybody was just kind of like, ‘Let’s get this over

with,’” Richardson said.Without a bowl game

to prepare for, the Cyclones now will have to turn their attention to next season. Along with his many re-cent recruiting trips, one of Rhoads’ biggest focus for the coming years is simply to keep his players healthy.

“I’d like to finish with a senior day where we’re all padded up instead of going out in street clothes,” Rhoads said. “If you’re undermanned, you want to go out there and try to find a way to give the kids a chance to win.”

Tiffany Herring/Iowa State DailyRedshirt junior quarterback Sam Richardson is tackled after running the ball against Texas Tech on Nov. 22 at Jack Trice Stadium. The Cyclones fell to the Red Raiders 34-31 and would go on to lose their next two games.

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Tiffany Herring/Iowa State DailySenior running back Aaron Wimberly rushes the ball Nov. 22. The Cyclones were unable to squeak out a win against Texas Tech, losing 34-31, and lost this weekend against TCU by 52 points.

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Oftentimes lauded for gaudy offensive statistics and excellent shooting from the perimeter, it sometimes seems given that the ISU women’s basketball team will put almost 80 points on the scoreboard any night of the week.

Against Stony Brook on Sunday, however, it was anything but.

The home-standing Cyclones came out as they always do, unafraid to hoist up shots left and right throughout the game.

Iowa State made ex-actly half of its 28 first-half shots, putting up 39 points. One problem: The ever-re-liable three-pointer wasn’t falling, as the Cyclones made just 2-of-9 shots from beyond the arc.

Brynn Williamson, who led Iowa State and was tied for sixth in the nation with 3.6 made 3-pointers coming into the day, was held score-less for the game on 0-of-2 shooting.

“I thought defensively they did a great job,” said ISU coach Bill Fennelly. “They face-guarded [Wil-liamson], and we hadn’t seen that … This is the first time that we saw someone absolutely commit. We’ve seen people get up into her.

I mean, they committed to face-guarding her.”

Mix the inefficiency from the three-point line with a generous portion of hot shooting from the Sea-wolves, and the Cyclones found the perfect recipe for disaster.

“They were just hot,” s a i d I S U g u a r d N i k k i Moody. “They came out shooting, and all their shots were going in, and we were

trying our best to get them out [of] the paint, and ev-erything was just falling for them so it was kind of hard for us to get a lead.”

Though Iowa State took a lead into halftime, it was of the small, two-point variety, no doubt unaided by some familiarity of the opponent’s bench.

“They were well-pre-pared, well-coached, had a great plan, they played very

well. They did some things that they hadn’t don’t all season, to their credit … Their staff is very good. [Head coach] Caroline [Mc-Combs] does a great job and Adam [Call], their assistant, used to be at Oklahoma. I told my staff, I told our kids, they’re going to do some things to us that Oklahoma used to do to us.”

Just like trying to make a new dish for the first time,

Iowa State tweaked its ap-proach and altered por-tions to the coaching staff’s liking.

“They made every shot they took in the first half, and we tried to adjust [to zone defense] in the sec-ond half ... and I think that changed our mindset, and our momentum just sky rocketed with all five of us on the floor,” said ISU guard Seanna Johnson.

Fennelly liked the taste he got of his team’s new strategy but just the finish-ing touch was missing.

With under four min-utes to play, Williamson finally broke through by netting a 3-pointer in tran-sition for her only score of the night to extend Iowa State’s lead to five points in the closing possessions of the game.

Sprinkle in an old-fash-ioned 3-point play from Moody and suddenly Iowa State led the game by eight points.

Although Stony Brook responded with a 4-0 run of its own, Moody stepped up again to stave off the comeback attempt with her third triple of the afternoon.

“ K e e p s h o o t i n g , ” Moody said of the team’s mentality going into the second half. “We talk about it in practice all the time — they’re going to fall, so just keep shooting.”

As is the case with any home-cooked cuisine in Hilton Coliseum, the cardi-nal and gold faithful served as the cherry on top for the 74-64 ISU victory. To Fen-nelly, that’s what made the recipe work.

“We don’t give away player of the game very often. If we did, the fans would get it. We don’t win today if it’s not for our fans,” Fennelly said. “Basically the fans were the difference. Stony Brook outplayed us, outcoached us, but we won the game, and we feel good about winning the game,and hopefully we can move on and get better.”

Monday, Dec. 8, 2014SPORTS 7

ISU volleyball coach Christy Johnson-Lynch said from the time she knew that Hilton Coliseum would play host to an NCAA regional final, her team’s goal was to qualify for it.

The Cyclones came up one match short.

T h e I S U v o l l e y b a l l team (19-10, 10-6 Big 12) fell in the second round of the NCAA tournament to No. 10 Illinois (26-7, 16-4 Big 10), ending its season.

“As disappointed as we were tonight, I could not be more proud of the persever-ance and fight and battle that this team showed,” Johnson-Lynch said.

I l l inois swept Iowa State 3-0 (27-25, 25-18, 25-18) Saturday, stifling a hot ISU team that had won seven of its previous nine matches on the way to a second place finish in the Big 12 and a complete turnaround from an initial 3-5 conference start to the schedule.

The catalyst for Iowa State’s resurgence, the likes of which are rarely seen in any sport so deep into the season, was a schematic shift to a 6-2 attack from the 5-1 attack that the Cyclones had employed for most of the season.

The switch improved the team’s offensive options and led to the incorporation of players like freshman setter Monique Harris, de-fensive specialist Branen Berta and redshirt sopho-more hitter Morgan Kuhrt into prominent roles for the team.

Unselfishness made the transition seamless for Iowa State and the once 11-8 team was reinvigo-rated, sky-rocketing to new heights and surprising ev-eryone, even themselves in the process.

“A little over a month ago, we were not looking very good and I think there were some major doubts that we would even be in a position to play in the tour-nament,” Johnson-Lynch said. “The team, they just kept at it...and we suddenly turned a corner and had a

great last third of the sea-son.”

T h e t e a m s u c c e s s spawned a number of indi-vidual accolades and made all-conference selections out of senior hitter Victo-ria Hurtt and junior libero Caitlin Nolan, who also won the Big 12 Libero of the Year Award.

Standout freshman m i d d l e - b l o c k e r A l e x i s Conaway was named to the Big 12 Honorable Mention team.

The magical run came to an end for the Cyclones against a highly rated Illi-nois team that was playing on its home court when it took on Iowa State in the second round.

The combination of that advantage and the talent of the 10th ranked Fighting Illini was too much for the Cyclones to over-come.

The first set was tight and went right down to the wire, as Illinois took a 24-22 lead before Iowa State won two consecutive do-or-die points.

T h e t e a m s t r a d e d blows again, as the Illini gained another set point opportunity at 25-24, to which the Cyclones coun-tered with a Conaway kill, evening the tally once more at 25-all.

Illinois turned to All-American Jocelynn Birks in the pivotal first stanza, who crushed the final point of the set and Iowa State’s chances at a Sweet 16 berth on its home court.

The next two sets were not highly competitive, as Illinois responded effec-tively to the formidable ISU 6-2 attack.

“We had talked about earlier in practice...what shots would be open and I think right away I found them,” said junior hitter Mackenzie Bigbee. “They kind of adjusted, so I had to make my adjustments too as the game went on.”

Bigbee led the way for Iowa State with eight kills and a .389 hitting percent-age but it was not enough.

The Illini defeated the Cyclones in the battle of adjustments and won each of the next two sets by iden-tical scores of 25-18 to com-plete the sweep.

While the loss marked the end of the season for all ISU players, it also marked the end of the careers of both Hurtt and senior Tay-lor Goetz.

Hurtt finished her last match in an ISU uniform with eight kills, three digs and one block assist. Goetz

did not play against Illi-nois, as her role began to diminish somewhat after the team’s transition to the

6-2 style.Volleyball is not over in

Ames, however, as Hilton Coliseum is the site of an

NCAA regional final. Tournament match-

es will take place Friday through Saturday..

Volleyball’s season ends with NCAAs

Sonny An/The Daily IlliniSenior outside hitter Victoria Hurtt is blocked by an Illinois player during the second round of the NCAA tournament in Champaign, Ill., on Saturday. The Cyclones fell to Illinois 3-0, eliminating the team from the tournament. In Hurtt’s last match as a Cyclone, she had eight kills and three digs.

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Women secure victory after slow first half

Blake Lanser/Iowa State DailySenior guard Nikki Moody guards Stony Brook during their match up Sunday. The Cyclones defeated the Seawolves with a final score of 74-64. During the second half, the Cyclones adjusted their zone defense and changed their mindset, which along with a late scoring run, gave Iowa State the win.

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grounds.“These aren’t typical

coming-out-of-high-school college students,” Smith said. “They have different challenges, different per-spectives.”

K o t s s a i d t h a t t h e designation will allow the Veterans Center to better advertise the benefits that are available to veterans. He has been working on ideas for Home Base Iowa to help draw veterans to Story County, which may even-tually become a certified Home Base Iowa commu-nity. These ideas include re-location grants and courses that would help veterans prepare for job interviews.

“It appears that veter-ans, once they receive their diploma, coupled with that military experience that they bring, are often in bet-

ter positions to get jobs,” Chicoine said.

Kots said that veter-ans in the workforce can be more disciplined and able to follow directions.

One service the Veter-ans Center offers is assis-tance with military benefits, which meets a requirement under the Financial Con-siderations category for certification. Chicoine said that there are complexities surrounding these benefits which can cause uncer-tainty.

The center joined with education coordinators from Camp Dodge, a mili-tary installation in Iowa, and the finance office Dec. 3 to answer questions from veterans and ROTC cadets who are in the National Guard about accessing state and federal assistance.

C h i c o i n e s a i d t h a t there can be discrepancies

between military credits that transfer in as credit and those that actually fill requirements. As part of the Mindfulness of Service Member Transitions re-quirement, a team is being developed within each col-lege at Iowa State to ensure consistency in acceptance of these credits.

Smith said that Chi-coine has done a lot to bring together a community of veterans at the Veterans Center who understand the diverse experiences that each other have gone through.

Having the Veterans Center meets a requirement under On-Campus Veteran Resources for certification.

“To have some place where they can all come together is remarkable,” Smith said.

C h i c o i n e s a i d t h a t camaraderie is consistent

across this community.“Simply by providing

a space or opportunities to come together, those circles of support emerge organically,” he said. “We take care of one another. Any time you can have op-portunities for people to connect around a shared experience that makes a big difference. There’s a lot of lessons learned, a lot of taking care of one another, taking care of your brothers and sisters.”

It is a close-knit com-munity with a lot of resourc-es, Kots said.

The Veteran Center located at 3578 Memorial Union. However, it is grow-ing and looking for a space larger than the current of-fice, lounge and study area.

“It’s neat that that’s ac-cepted as part of the cam-pus culture that we have so many veterans,” Smith said.

hired an additional 150 stu-dents. These workers will also be in the halls help-ing students move to less crowded testing centers.

Students are encour-aged to check the lines be-fore choosing a testing cen-ter by utilizing the webcams on the website testcenter.iastate.edu as well as the Twitter account @ISUTest-Center.

There is also a Face-book page that students can get updates called “ISU Testing Center”.

Melissa Gofforth, GSB director of academic affairs and senior in management and marketing, noticed that a large number students were complaining about long wait times on various social media platforms and knew it was time for chang-es to be made.

“There was a time when a lot of the yaks [on social media platform Yik Yak] were all about the testing

center line waits,” Gofforth said. “I shared that with the provost’s team to share the reality of what students are saying and the rawness of their posts.”

The task of expanding the testing centers took a team that was dedicated to solving the problem for the future, not just Finals Week problem.

Wickert said there are plans to open a third perma-nent testing center so lines will be a thing of the past.

“We’re always looking for ways to improve and GSB did a great job identify-ing that the testing centers were a problem,” Wickert said. “I think we’ve come up with a good plan. We’re thinking beyond Finals Week. What all students will see is significant im-provement in the spring semester.”

T h e t e a m h a s a l s o discussed alleviating wait times by scheduling test times in the testing cen-ters for the spring just like

they are scheduled for stu-dents who take their finals in classrooms.

“If we could schedule the final exams in the test-ing center like you do other final exams, [lines] would not be an issue,” said Arne Hallam, associate dean of finance and operations. “Because people can pick whenever works best for them personally, everybody seems to show up during the middle of the week in the middle of the day.”

The team has a busy month ahead of them as they will be working to put in place more testing cen-ter policies for the spring semester.

“Our task in the next month is to put together some policies that we can implement for next semes-ter,” said Tom Brumm, ISU Testing Center direc-tor. “We’ve got to put some things in place so we can tell instructors what they should put in the syllabus, like if their final exam would

be scheduled in the testing center.”

The team is anticipat-ing a successful Finals Week and is prepared to keep the week that way for years to come.

“I was just extremely impressed with the collabo-ration with everyone,” Gof-forth said. “The provost’s of-fice has been so gung ho on getting this fixed and doing it the right way. I’m really positive this Finals Week is going to go really well.”

before 3:45 p.m. The line stretched halfway to Curtis Hall for most of the evening and didn’t dissipate until 6 p.m., when the tour ended.

Iowa State’s First Lady Janet Leath held an open house at The Knoll, the president’s residence.

“We’re having fun,” Leath said. “I’m glad people are coming to visit.”

Every inch of the house was decorated in the tradi-tional red, green and gold. The Christmas tree in the living room, where some students and the First Lady sat together to talk and her personal Snow Village, cov-ering a 13-foot table, were

the highlights of the house-hold.

Leath said the decorat-ing required about a week and a half of work. She said it took “a lot of hours and the students helped.”

Sarah Park, junior in interior design, had been to the Knoll before WinterFest and she said she had fun each time she attended.

“Each occasion [has been] absolutely wonder-ful,” Park said. “It is very welcoming, beautifully decorated…overall just a very enjoyable experience.”

She said her favorite part was the Knoll’s tradi-tional, and delicious, drink — Mrs. Park’s famous hot chocolate.

Leath said she was proud that “we have con-tinued that tradition of serving [it] at the Knoll for WinterFest.”

Two other WinterFest highlights included the tree-lighting ceremony on the steps of Beardshear Hall and the eighth annual Andy Albright Jingle Jog immedi-ately following. At 5:15 p.m., Shy of a Dozen men’s en-semble led the group gath-ered at the steps in Christ-mas carols and merriment until 5:30 p.m., when the tree-lighting kicked off the jog around campus.

Fitten said WinterFest was a, “rare opportunity to get a relief from the study-ing that’s been going on

before Dead Week.”Other events for the

evening included horse-drawn carriage rides around the Memorial Union and different group-hosted ac-tivities inside the union, including: Frisbee spin-art, a letter writing service project, cookie decorat-ing, photo snow globes, an art sale, DIY holiday orna-ments, bowling, billiards and bingo.

“I think it’s excellent,” Fitten said of the event. “We had a great turnout this evening [with a] lot of fun events happening with the entire community and we hope this is a tradition that will last for a long, long time.”

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Horoscopes by Linda Black

Aries - 7(March 21-April 19) For the next few months during

Jupiter’s retrograde, reaffirm your commitment to the game. Concentrate on the finer details of an enthusiasm. Practice your skills and learn new tricks.

Taurus - 7(April 20-May 20)Don’t dip into savings. Let your imagination

flower with ideas for home improvement. Make charts, drawings and plans. It’s amazing what a coat of paint will do. Freshen your space.

Gemini - 9(May 21-June 20) Review and revise communications for

greater effect. Study, research and edit what you’ve written. Publish after Jupiter stations direct. Work closely with your partner, and get the benefit of another view.

Cancer - 7(June 21-July 22) Send in those coupons and rebate requests.

Make do with what you have. Save as much as you can. Over the next few months with Jupiter retrograde (until 4/8/15), review and revise financial matters.

Leo - 6(July 23-Aug. 22)Practice to achieve mastery over the next

few months. Personal growth and discovery allows new capacities. Let go of old practices and habits that no longer serve. Prepare taxes early this year.

Virgo - 7(Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Re-examine your personal

priorities. Take time for peaceful contemplation and introspection. Spirituality and ritual comfort. Embrace healthy lifestyle practices. Tend your garden.

Libra - 7 (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Refine your style over the next four months.

Now that Jupiter’s retrograde (until 4/8/15), it’s easier to collect old debts. Get nostalgic with friends, and enjoy old photos and memories. Remember a dream.

Scorpio - 8(Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Refine your plans for fame and fortune.

Revive an old dream. Quietly and secretly review your action plan, and prepare to launch after 4/8/15. You have what you need. Get your ducks in a row.

Sagittarius - 7(Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Learn quickly. Figure a clever way to earn

more. You’re pushed to grow. Review and refine the itinerary over the next four months with Jupiter retrograde. Reconsider your educational plans.

Capricorn - 8(Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Make sure you know what’s required. Don’t

make assumptions. Confer with your team. For about four months with Jupiter retrograde, review and revise financial matters. Get your numbers in order.

Aquarius - 9(Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Invent new possibilities in a

partnership. Review and revise your collaboration over the next four months. Choose someone who believes you can win. It’s like having magical powers.

Pisces - 7(Feb. 19-March 20) You’re especially brilliant at your work

now. For about four months with Jupiter retrograde, old methods work best to advance your agenda. Secure your holdings and nurture work relationships.

Today’s Birthday(12/8/14)Step into the spotlight this year, with Saturn in your sign (after 12/23). New home beginnings occupy you after 3/20. Community action takes priority after 4/4. Jupiter’s retrograde in Leo today encourages moderation and tranquility (until 4/8). Enjoy an entertaining phase of exploration and adventure, until 8/2015. Give love to projects of truth, justice and spirituality. Redefine freedom.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Sudoku by the Mepham Group

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk

LEVEL:1 2 3 4

1 “__ Mia!”: ABBA musical6 Bit of baby talk10 Defensive trench14 So all can hear15 Apple MP3 player16 Makes mistakes17 Secretary of state before Hillary Clinton20 Approx. landing hours21 To be, to Caesar22 Golf shoe feature23 Theater level25 Changes for the better26 Score symbol that usually has a stem31 Shirt with a band’s logo, maybe32 __ shower: pre-wedding event33 Correct a pencil mistake35 Throw in the first chips36 Dude37 Swabbing tools41 New England fish44 Flagged down46 Word repeated before “black sheep”49 Digit-shaped sponge cakes51 Performed better than53 __ close to

schedule54 Shenanigan55 Cowpoke’s pal57 Target practice supply61 Spot between a rock and a hard place ... or a hint to the ends of 17-, 26- and 49-Across64 Backsplash mate-rial65 Truth or __?: party game66 Tied up in knots67 Aegean and Irish68 Fr. holy women69 Polishes text

1 Self-defense spray2 More often than not3 “__ Lisa”4 Saturated hillside hazards5 Kerfuffle6 Fuel for semis7 “Dawn of the Planet of the __”8 Sleep lightly9 Wood-shaping tool10 Travis or Haggard of country music11 Point in the proper direction12 Pinball player’s place13 Dangerous fly

18 Not prohibited19 High points24 South American tuber25 “One thing __ time”26 Management deg.27 Coffee vessel28 Obedience school command29 Far from cool30 Gold, in Granada34 Moved to a new country36 Hunk’s physique38 Encouragement for a flamenco dancer39 Part of mph40 ‘60s radical gp.42 Mouse sound43 “Far out, man!”44 Bhagavad-Gita student, likely45 “I’ll take that as __”46 Blows one’s own horn47 Em, to Dorothy48 Leader of the Huns50 Strong points52 Cuts into cubes55 Exam for high school jrs.56 Suffix with million58 Knee-showing skirt59 Lion’s share60 Vending machine bills62 QB’s gains63 Had a bite

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