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FRIDAY, SEPT. 14 2012

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Hail to the Leath

Installation

Retrospective of presidents1868-83 Adonijah WelchWelch was the first ISU president.

1883-84 Seaman KnappKnapp continued development in agriculture courses. He conducted some of the first experiments in animal husbandry, dairy farming and farm crops.

1885-86 Leigh HuntHunt had several jobs throughout his life including being a newspaper publisher, real estate developer, operator of a gold mine in Korea and a cotton grower in Sudan.

1886-90 William ChamberlainThis fourth president was a strong supporter of the fraternity system.

1891-1902 William BeardshearBeardshear was president of the university when the school colors were adopted as well as when the university became known as the Cyclones.

1903-10 Albert StormsStorms saw the addition of 18 new buildings and lifted the ban on fraternities and sororities.

1912-26 Raymond PearsonPromoted graduate programs and growth in the support of athletics.

1927-36 Raymond HughesHughes had a strong impact on the growth of the university’s research capabilities.

1936-53 Charles FrileyHe guided the university through the Great Depression as well as World War II, in which the university aided in the Manhattan Project.

1953-65 James HiltonHilton is thus far the only president to be a graduate of Iowa State.

1965-86 W. Robert ParksParks developed the College of Design and the university’s main library was named after him and his wife in 1984.

1986-90 Gordon EatonEaton’s time at the university marked a growth in faculty salaries and significant increase in the support for research.

1991-2000 Martin JischkeAs the 13th president, Jischke set records in the amount of private funding that the university received each year.

2001-12 Gregory GeoffroyAfter being president for 10 and a half years, Geoffroy will soon begin to teach chemistry at Iowa State.

2012- Steven LeathThe 15th president assumed leadership on Jan. 16.

The word president implies a lot.It suggests everything from power

to a suit, things that the average per-son does not deal with on a regular ba-sis. The title can make its holder seem separate and distant from the typical individual.

That’s not the case with Steven Leath, Iowa State University’s fif-teenth president, who is anything but separate and distant from his students.

Although President Leath began work during the second semester of last academic school year, Friday is his official installation. The ceremony will be held in Stephens Auditorium at 10:00 a.m. and will include an in-troduction by Erskine Bowles, a close friend of Leath’s.

“An installation provides a presi-dent an actual opportunity to kind of lay out their priorities, their goals, for their tenure as president, both short term objectives as well as long term objectives,” said Miles Lackey, Iowa State’s first Associate Vice President.

“He’s also looking forward to hav-ing the opportunity to tell the Iowa State community just a little bit more about himself.”

Leath was born in Providence, Rhode Island, thirteen months af-ter his older brother, with whom he would always have an especially close relationship.

Both of Leath’s sets of grandpar-ents were immigrants. His father’s parents were from England and his mother’s were from Italy.

“I’m only second generation, so we had, I would say, a very ethnic upbringing,” Leath said, referring to himself and his three other siblings.

At the age of two, the family moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where Leath enjoyed an active childhood. During junior high the family packed up once again and moved to central Pennsylvania.

There he took up outdoor activi-ties such as hunting and fishing, as well as becoming active in school sports like wrestling and track. He also began working part time on local

He’s got character; he has integrity; he’s got an innate desire to serve. ... His personality is just very well suited for being a university president.”

Miles Lackey, first associate vice president at Iowa State

Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State DailyISU President Steven Leath shares his life story during an interview Tuesday at the Knoll. Leath’s formal installation as ISU president is Friday in Stephens Auditorium.

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President presents positive outlook for coming years

Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State DailyThe 15th president of Iowa State, Steven Leath, stands with his dogs, Dixie and Quill, on Tuesday outside of the Knoll.

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Symbols for a president

Academic regaliaThe cap and gown symbolize the aca-demic achievements of the wearer. Two images of the Campanile adorn the front of the red and black gown.

Presidential chainThe chain symbolizes the history and tradi-tions of Iowa State. The chain is bronze and silver and features the Campanile as well as Beardshear Hall.

University maceThe bronze, silver and tiger maple mace sym-bolizes the authority of the president. It shows the Fountain of the Four Seasons and the Campanile.

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Partisan politics spells bad news for everyone

Relentless play in store for Nebraska

There will be a lecture Saturday, Sept. 15, just south of the Campanile on Central Campus.The lecture, “An Evening with Jacobo Morales,” will be at 7 p.m. There is no cost to attend.Jacobo Morales will be present-ing as part of the Puerto Rican Student Association’s Cultural Night. This will run from 7 to 9 p.m. and will include traditional food and dancing. Morales is considered one of the most in-fluential film directors in Puerto Rico’s history.He has had an eclectic career as a playwright, actor, film-maker and writer. His first film, made in 1980, “Dios los Cria,” was selected as one of the 25 most significant films of Latin America. His third film, “Lo que le paso a Santiago,” was nominated in 1989 for an Oscar in the category of best foreign film. Hollywood credits of Morales’ include Woody Allen’s “Bananas,” as well as “Up the Sandbox,” with Barbra Streisand.The Puerto Rican Student Association is a multicultural student organization on Iowa State’s campus. According to the association’s website on the ISU clubs and organizations page, there are approximately 41 members. Their purpose and goals, according to their consti-tution, is to “foment and pres-ent a portion of the Puerto Rican culture to the students of Iowa State University by performing activities or discussions. Also to create union between the Puerto Rican Students at Iowa State University by creating a familiar atmosphere in which they may socialize.“In the case that rain should oc-cur, the lecture will be relocated to the South Ballroom of the Memorial Union.

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Police Blotter: Ames, ISU Police Departments

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

Sept. 10A staff member reported several possible fraudulent purchases from the book-store at the Memorial Union (reported at 2:45 p.m.).

Ellis Cooper, 35, 5615 Lincoln Way, Apt. 5, was arrested and charged with theft and interference with official acts (reported at 7:00 p.m.).

Bryan Cox, 35, 205 1st St., Gilbert, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance, theft and drug paraphernalia (reported at 7:00 p.m.).

Carson Froehlick, 20, 1344 Walton Dr., Unit 201, was arrested and charged with possession of a schedule V substance and drug parapher-nalia (reported at 7:30 p.m.).

Sept. 11An individual reported the theft of an iPhone at the Union Drive Community Center (reported at 1:14 p.m.).

A resident reported the theft of a bike at Frederiksen Court (reported at 6:25 p.m.).

A patron reported the theft of a wallet at Lied Recreation Center (reported at 9:10 p.m.).

Justus Buckels, 19, 705 Meadow Place, was arrested and charged with possession of alcohol under the legal age, disorderly conduct and willful failure to appear (reported at 11:00 p.m.).

Logan Maffett, 21, 2031 Wyngate Dr., was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance (reported at 4:35 p.m.).

Sept. 12A resident reported receiving a harassing telephone call at

Frederiksen Court (reported at 2:15 a.m.).

A vehicle driven by an unknown person collided with a parked car at the Memorial Union ramp (reported at 12:27 p.m.).

An individual reported the theft of medication from a vehicle at Lot B5 (reported at 2:49 p.m.).

A student reported receiving a harassing email message at the Armory (reported at 4:17 p.m.).

Hua Huang, 23, 6232 Frederiksen Court, was arrested and charged with driving under suspension at Haber Road. and University Blvd. (reported at 7:03 p.m.).

Officers checked the welfare of a resident who was experi-encing emotional difficulties at Eaton Hall. The individual was transported to Mary Greeley Medical Center for treatment.

An officer initiated a drug-relat-ed investigation at the Armory (reported at 9:08 p.m.).

Nicholas Adams, 18, 2269 Willow Hall, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance, pos-session of drug paraphernalia and underage possession of alcohol at Willow Hall (reported at 10:52 p.m.).

Brandon Ballard, 19, 2246 Willow Hall, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance at Willow Hall (reported at 10:52 p.m.).

Paul Burd, 18, 2269 Will Hall, was cited for underage pos-session of alcohol at Willow Hall (reported at 10:52 p.m.).

Michael Steoger-Miller, 19, 3500 Grand Ave., Apt. 50, was arrested and charged with possession of a con-trolled substance (reported at 4:30 p.m.).

Friday

Installation ceremony: President Steven Leath When:

10 to 11:30 a.m.What:

Steven Leath will be installed as the 15th ISU president. The ceremony will be followed by a recep-tion in the Stephens Celebrity Cafe.

Where:Stephens Auditorium

Cyclone Cinema:‘Men in Black III’When:

7 p.m.What:

A showing of the film, “Men in Black III” by the Student Union Board. SUB shows a movie every week on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Concessions will be for sale.

Where:101 Carver Hall

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During the worst agricultural drought since 1988, people were worried not about filling up their tanks but, rather, putting food on the table.

An important question arises of why corn is still being used for ethanol produc-tion rather than food.

“Corn ethanol production in the U.S. has grown exponentially,” said Tristan Brown, graduate student in biorenewable resources and technology. “The biorenew-able energy industry is producing more corn ethanol today than ever imagined.”

All the biofuels being produced are corn ethanol. When drought hits, demand increases and corn prices rise.

The federal government passed the Renewable Fuel Standard, which re-quired that by 2022, 50 percent of all ethanol produced comes from a noncorn source. Brown said the fuel standard pro-vides a financial incentive for the different types of biofuel production.

This mandate essentially seeks to gradually replace corn ethanol with biofu-els produced from other biomass sources and reduce the industry’s dependence on corn as the main crop.

Brown said biomass is basically three things: carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.

“What you can do is take the sugars that you would ferment into alcohol into ethanol, or treat them, get rid of the oxygen and get left with hydrogen and carbon,” Brown said.

The extracted elements can then be used to create drop-in biofuels, hydro-carbons produced from biomass. These biofuels can be placed immediately as an alternative fuel for cars without being blended with regular fossil fuel gasoline.

Corn stover, the remaining portion of the corn stock that is left after the corn grain has been harvested, is another pos-sible candidate for constructing renew-able fuels.

Brown said corn stover can be heated to extreme temperatures of 300 to 1,000 C, through a process called pyrolysis. The re-sulting liquid can be treated to remove the oxygen, leaving behind hydrocarbons that can be used to produce drop-in biofuels.

Dermot Hayes, professor of agricul-tural economics, explained that through pyrolysis, stover produces bio-oil and bio-char. Bio-oil can then be turned into buta-nol, which is the drop-in biofuel used in agricultural practices.

The char is added benefit. “Char can be

used to help farmers, because it improves soil moisture capacity,” Hayes said.

Corn is part of everyday life for people living in the Midwest. Beyond the cities, corn fields cover the landscape. One can cruise the countryside for miles on end through oceans of green in the summer and golden brown in the fall.

For many, corn is a source of food, fuel and income; it constitutes a lifestyle. Iowans know this fact to be especially true.

However, Brown said he noticed Americans living on the coasts share a dif-

Unlike Mondays for many other people around campus, the start the week is a highlight for those who frequent Physics Hall. At 3:45 p.m. Mondays, professors, graduate students and undergraduates alike gather at their weekly collo-quium for free coffee and cook-ies and to learn something new and exciting.

The department of physics and astronomy normally has colloquiums in Physics Hall, Room 5.

Preceding these talks is a social time with coffee and cookies for the audience be-ginning at 3:30 p.m. in The Ground State coffee break room on the first floor of the Zaffarano physics addition.

This week’s colloquium,

“Star Cluster Formation and Early Evolution: The Big Picture,” was given by Richard de Grijs, associate direc-tor of the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics of Peking University.

“It’s blue skies research, so it’s basic science,” Grijs said. “I try to understand, in essence, how galaxies get their distribu-tion of stars and get to look the way they look.”

Grijs spent about an hour discussing galaxy formation to an audience of researchers and scientists at Iowa State.

Allowing speakers from around the country and world allows the ISU community to expand their horizons and be aware of the science that is go-ing on outside their respective laboratories.

Massimo Marengo, as-sistant professor of physics

and astronomy, introduced the speaker and is part of the committee that decides who to invite for these colloquium talks.

“Colloquium needs to be something that is understand-able by everybody in the au-dience, but everybody in the audience tends to be scientists or somebody who studies sci-ence, so it’s not exactly the lay-man,” Marengo said. “There is a difference between a collo-quium and a talk for the gen-eral public.”

Topics discussed at recent colloquiums range from the search for new particles at the European Organization for Nuclear Research to long-baseline neutrino experiments and ferromagnetic semicon-ductors to the physics of global warming.

“Today was an astronomer;

we have a lot of condensed matter physicists because we have a large condensed mat-ter group; we have high-energy physicists and so on,” Marengo said, before adding, “We try to be diverse.”

This program is benefi-cial to the selected speakers as well as the audience. Grijs said that speaking at as many events as possible is beneficial for a scientist because it gives them the ability to network with researchers with similar interests.

“I put [this colloquium] on my CV as another talk I gave. It is good to interact with col-leagues because I might see these people again at confer-ences, and they might remem-ber me,” Grijs said. “You have a link to at least get started to potentially collaborate on projects.”

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Illustration: Bolun Li/Iowa State DailyPhysics Hall houses colloquiums on Mondays starting at 3:45 p.m., which feature speakers, coffee and cookies. This week’s seminar, “Star Cluster Formation and Early Evolution: The Big Picture,” was presented by Richard de Grijs.

Hypothetically, say gasoline costs $3 to produce a gallon of gasoline, and $4 for a gallon of ethanol. The price cannot compete at that point because at most ethanol could be sold at $3 a gallon. It’s substitution, and you can only sell biofuel as same amount as gas is selling. Through the mandate, the government basically says “we’ll give you that $1 difference so you’ll never lose money producing biofuels.” Waive the mandate and corn ethanol will no longer be incentivized.

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ferent perspective.“When I was out east a

few years ago, I noticed some-thing that was really weird at first,” he said. “I drove out to Pennsylvania. The signs were advertising the fact that they didn’t sell ethanol.”

It was the exact opposite. They were boasting, displaying signs saying “We do not blend ethanol” or “No ethanol sold here.”

“If you’re from Iowa, you’ve seen the gas stations here all advertise the fact that they sell ethanol,” Brown said.

Brown said that on the East and West coasts, peo-ple have an impression that ethanol starves people and causes Brazilian rain forest destruction.

Based on research conduct-ed on Iowa State’s campus in Heady Hall in 2008, the theory “Indirect Land Use” hypoth-esized that raising the price of corn here caused the people in Brazil to start growing corn; destroying rain forests for farmland.

“They said that enormous quantities of rain forests were being destroyed because of corn ethanol production,” Brown said. “Just last year, the

same researchers went back, reran their numbers and found that their initial estimates were completely off base. They had overestimated by about five to 10 times.”

The damage had already been done. This research was published in Science, the largest science journal in the world.

Brown said that the media quickly noticed. For the next three years, headlines were published describing how corn ethanol production destroyed rain forests.

“An attempt was made to publish an update in the same journal, but the journal wouldn’t publish it because they didn’t want the negative attention,” Brown said.

The future of renewable fuels lies within a variety of crops, not just corn alone.

“I get this notion that the drought has given ethanol a really bad name because ev-eryone thinks that ethanol has something to do with the drought driving prices up so high,” Brown said. “These signs don’t say ‘We don’t sell corn ethanol here,’” Brown said. “They just say ‘We don’t sell ethanol.’ They don’t specify cellulosic ethanol.”

Honorable and dear President Obama:

Thanks for your inspiring words at Iowa State last Tuesday challenging young people to make a difference in the coming election. I couldn’t agree more. Young people are our future, which is why I’m asking Iowa young folk to help me ask you just when you’re going to answer whether or not you agree with your Attorney General’s requirement that the only way he will aid and assist my wife, Y Woman, is if I perjure myself on a federal immigration form and attest that she and I have cohabited these past 4 years, which we have not because you wouldn’t let us.

Not you, of course, Mr. President, because you didn’t have a clue. Which, with all due respect, is still your fault, Sir, if I may have permission to speak freely and openly. Because you’re the one who hired these dummies, Mr. President, so the buck still stops on your desk, which I tried to tell you over two years ago along with Senator Richard Durbin, who put it succinctly: “The buck stops with his (your) office.” (See mine of 2 August 2010).

Why your incompetent staff has ignored my repeated pleas to settle all this in a quiet and discreet manner is beyond me. Do your people have to go to blockhead school to get so dumb, Mr. President? Or is their blindness just a function of their big egos and inflated talking heads? Beats me. I even wrote repeatedly to your campaign leaders in Chicago urging them to intervene with the knuckleheads lurking around your West Wing. But it was all just pissing into the wind. Nobody home in Chicago or D.C.

So you’re going to get all you’ve been asking for and more, Mr. President, if you force me to the extreme of filing a formal complaint with the Inspector General in the midst of your re-election campaign. I don’t really want to go there, Sir. But I will if you force me. And I’ll seek District Court if not Supreme Court intervention in the immoral if not illegal manner in which your functionaries have bungled the case of my wife, Y Woman, whose only “crime” has been helping out our government at the risk of her life, then and now, even though she’s not a citizen.

Why won’t you help her, Mr. President? Please explain.

Respectfully, Dr. Don Dough

© 2012. Dr. Don Dough. All Rights Reserved.

Friday, 14 September 2012

TO: The Honorable Steven Leath, President, Iowa State UniversityHonorable and dear President Leath,

Congratulations upon your installation as the 15th President of Iowa State University. I hope your tenure will be marked by the following traits:

Innovation -- That Iowa State University will become a virtual engine of innovation in not just the hard sciences but the humanities and social sci-ences as well, partnering with various businesses and non-profits to develop new means of public-private enterprise.

Research -- That Iowa State University will find the ways, means, and will to double or triple its commitment to engage in cutting-edge research in areas of proven expertise.

Critical Thinking -- That above all else in the instruction it imparts, Iowa State University will encourage critical thinking skills in its students, helping them discriminate between the clamor of the latest political contro-versy and incidents of true U.S. Constitutional stature, like respect for one’s freedom of speech.

Because Iowa has emerged as a crucial swing state in the current presidential race, there exists a unique opportunity for Iowa young people to be heard nationally over the next two months. Indeed, that’s why Presi-dent Obama visited your campus and encouraged ISU students to become involved in the campaign. And that’s why I’ve since been running ads in your campus newspaper to enlist their aid in getting President Obama to explain just why he refuses to assist my wife from the intolerable situation in which 25+ years of federal blunders have left her.

Unfortunately, your student journalists have failed to capitalize on this unique opportunity for an exclusive on a story with national implications on two major social issues of the day: immigration and marriage rights. Com-pounding their indifference is their decision to censor the ad I’d planned on running last week, leading me to pull it rather than get embroiled in yet another free speech controversy in Iowa.

As regards my accusation that AG Holder is forcing me to perjure myself as the only means by which he will cooperate with my wife’s receiving Permanent Residency, there are only two possible options: either I’m lying or I’m telling the truth. If I’m lying, then I rightly should be dismissed as some kook or crazy. But if I’m telling the truth, then this Y Woman scandal might well be to Campaign 2012 what Willie Horton was to Campaign 1988--a small, seemingly insignificant story that nonetheless takes on much broader dimensions when viewed through a broader lens, for the controversy strikes at the heart of this administration’s moral credibility.

The ISU community can make a positive contribution to the current national dialogue by asking President Obama to “say it ain’t so.” If he can give some explanation of how his administration has treated my wife over the past 3+ years and why he refuses to intervene on her behalf, then let’s hear it. But if he cannot, then let’s hear why not. And does he indeed sup-port his Attorney General’s requiring me to perjure myself as the only means of resolving my wife’s immigration dilemma? In short, a little bit of innova-tive research by your students could help promote their critical thinking while leading them to providing a national service.

In closing, I pledge my willingness to cooperate fully with your stu-dents should they choose to help secure justice for my wife. But if they want to keep ignoring this story, then so be it. At the same time as he appealed to ISU, President Obama carried the same message to Colorado State Universi-ty and the University of Virginia, and he recently did so again at the University of Iowa. So if you’d rather I take this appeal to young people on some other campus, just let me know.

Congratulations on your installation, and what about free speech at ISU?

-- Dr. Don Dough

© 2012. Don Dough Enterprises. All Rights Reserved.

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Photo: Yanhua Huang/Iowa State DailyDaniel Rediske, senator for Liberal Arts and Sciences, speaks at the Government of the Student Body meeting Wednesday in the Memorial Union. GSB saw a bill for increased transparency between the student body and the senate.

The Government of the Student Body is working to improve communication between themselves and the student body.

The next step forward for GSB was introduced last week by Off-Campus Senator Barry Snell, senior in his-tory, in the form of the “Making GSB Accountable and Transparent” bill.

The bill states all activities of all branches of GSB are to be made available to the public in documentary, audio or video form and that all information avail-able to the public on the Web page be kept up to date.

“Transparency is something we are always trying to improve,” said GSB President Jared Knight, senior in politi-cal science.

For close to a year, the current GSB website has been undergoing a rebuild-ing process; after the 2011 spring semes-ter, the group changed from one website service to another, which allowed its page to mirror Iowa State’s official Web

page.The website service switch also

brought about some problems; links on the website were broken and Ledgemaster, the program the Senate uses to post bills, did not save automati-cally to the group’s website. Many of these issues were being addressed al-ready prior to the presentation of the bill, but currently, the news and events page, the Legman page and the homepage have not been updated.

Another point brought up in the bill was the assignment of a “webmaster” to manage and update the site. Currently the secretary for GSB has been fulfilling this position.

An alternative possibility has been the appointment of the public relations committee or the communications divi-sion of GSB to manage the website.

“We talked about whether or not there should be a webmaster or a web-master/secretary, but we haven’t decided this yet,” said Gage Kensler, GSB speak-er of the senate and senior in political science.

The financial cost of this bill is cur-rently unknown; organizers of the bill are still meeting with IT services and trying to figure out the complete details, includ-ing available space online.

“There really shouldn’t be any cost be-

cause of the bill; most of it is [Microsoft] Word documents, which don’t cost any-thing,” Kensler said.

One idea that has been thrown around to make the organization more accessible but was not mentioned in the bill, was the idea of live-streaming GSB meetings on the Internet.

“We talked last year about putting together live-streaming but did not get it all figured out, but it would be something pretty cool to have,” Knight said.

One issue has been how to implement all of these programs online for students to use, as well as how to make the student body become aware of it.

Knight pointed out a few new ways GSB is planning to enhance awareness among the student body: by writing newsletters, which would be sent out to students, and by pushing for more out-of-office hours, so senators could com-municate with their constituents more regularly.

“All we can do is make sure that we do all that we can do,” Knight said.

The accountable and transparent bill went through GSB’s Rules Committee on Monday and will not be subject to a vote by the senate until further details have been hashed out between GSB and IT services.

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tended college at Penn State, where, according to his Iowa State University biography, he attained a Bachelor of Science degree in plant science. This degree would be followed by two more: a Master’s in plant science from the University of Delaware, and a Doctorate in plant pathology from the University of Illinois. Throughout his academic and professional career, Leath would come to be involved in a lot of research.

Leath’s father was an agri-cultural research scientist as well.

“When we were real little, we would go to his lab and measure the size of fungal col-onies… that’s probably where I got excited about plant pathol-ogy and doing agricultural re-search,” Leath said.

Leath’s expertise with plants is not limited to his re-search however. In fact, his family owns a Christmas tree farm, which they started in 1997. “It’s kind of like therapy sometimes, just to be out in the tree fields on a beautiful spring or fall morning,” he shared.

The tree farm business is now run by Scott, 22, Leath’s youngest son who is currently a senior in college. His oldest son, Eric, 25, works for the U.S. Senate. Leath admits that, as thrilled as he is to have gotten the job at Iowa State, it was dif-ficult to leave his sons behind on the East Coast.

That doesn’t mean that Dr. and Mrs. Leath reside by themselves at the Knoll though. They happily share their residence with Quill and Dixie, their two dogs to whom they enjoy devoting time and attention.

Despite the distance from his sons, Leath is enthusiastic about his new job at ISU, to which he dedicates nearly all of his time. Typically, Leath works all day, either attends a dinner event or has dinner with his wife, Janet, and then returns to work.

He averages six hours of sleep at night.

With such a busy schedule, it’s difficult to get recreational activities in, but Leath enjoys archery, sometimes he even shoots his bow in his garage; and horseback riding, a hobby that he and Janet have bonded over.

Incidentally, he has re-

ceived several injuries from riding, including a severely broken leg and seven broken ribs. Other injuries he has suf-fered include broken fingers and cutting through his knee-cap with a chain saw.

About four years ago, Leath also took up flying airplanes, a hobby he has managed to in-corporate into his job.

“I like to fly. Whenever I get a chance to fly to a meet-ing, I will usually fly myself. It’s one of those few times when you can clear away all of the work things out of your head… It’s very relaxing,” Leath explained.

Leath also enjoys travelling. He’s been to over twenty coun-tries, but has yet to visit Italy. He and Mrs. Leath had a trip planned there last September, but an important job interview in Ames, Iowa caused the trip to be postponed.

Also high on his list of plac-es to visit is also Alaska. “I’ve been pretty blessed, so there’s not a lot of things that I want to do that I haven’t had a chance, but, boy, Alaska would be one, and I would like to go on a big hunting trip with my sons sometime.”

Leath, a self-proclaimed extrovert, also enjoys visiting with Iowa State’s students. Previously, he had held a po-sition at an administrative office where his interactions with students were limited, and he had missed the campus atmosphere.

“I eat a fair bit at [Iowa State’s] dining halls, and sometimes I eat alone because no one will sit with me,” he laughs. “I like hearing things unfiltered.”

Lackey previously worked with Leath in North Carolina.

“He’s just a really good man… He’s got character, he has integrity, he’s got an innate desire to serve and he also en-joys building those meaningful relationships. His personality is just very well suited for be-ing a university president. He just, overall, is a really great person,” shared Lackey.

With such a diverse per-sonality, from his exten-sive education, to speaking Spanish, to the history he en-joys reading; there are many points for students and staff at Iowa State to relate to their president, who promises the students that “they can always remember that [my] number one objective here is [to pro-vide] high quality undergradu-ate education.”

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Our generation is con-stantly bombarded with im-ages and news of violence and destruction, which has led our world to become progres-sively desensitized to the idea of violence.

That is why in 1981, the United Nations established Sept. 21 as International Day of Peace to help foster the idea of world peace, which is the ultimate goal of the United Nations.

International Day of Peace serves as a reminder to work toward peace in all forms. This includes within one’s nation, with other nations, with oth-ers personally, with the envi-ronment and with oneself.

Inspired by the International Day of Peace, a pair of high school art teach-ers in Florida prompted their students in 2005 to make pinwheels and write their

thoughts about peace on them. The project soon became schoolwide and has since been adopted by other schools, communities and organiza-tions across the world.

According to the Pinwheels for Peace website, 3.5 million pinwheels were constructed and displayed around the world on the 2011 International Day of Peace.

This year, the ISU student organization The Lorax Troop has decided to adopt the Pinwheels for Peace project. The Lorax Troop functions as an advocate for world rain for-ests. They participate in infor-mation distribution, aware-ness events, fundraising and political action in the form of protests and petitions.

“World peace is just an-other way of protecting the planet, which is the ultimate goal of The Lorax Troop,” said Sofia Pinero, sophomore in pre-biological and pre-medi-cal illustration and co-founder of The Lorax Troop.

The Lorax Troop will be distributing pinwheels in front of the library from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 21. Members will be educating students about the International Day

of Peace and prompting them to write their peace resolution on a pinwheel to be stuck in the ground.

As defined by Pinero, a peace resolution is “what you, as a person, want to do to make this world a more peaceful place.”

The pinwheels will be stuck in the ground in the col-lective shape of a peace sign, honoring the International Day of Peace. The pinwheels will be made out of recycled plastic sacks ironed methodi-cally to craft fabric. According to Pinero, the sacks are being donated by The Lorax Troop members, as well as ones found around campus and by any volunteers.

In order to have the pin-wheels assembled and ready for peace resolutions, The Lorax Troop is having a work-shop from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, in room 3219 of the Memorial Union.

They are encouraging any-one who would like to help construct pinwheels to come. For more information, visit The Lorax Troop’s Facebook page or contact them by email at [email protected].

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Photo: Rebecca Chamberlin/Iowa State DailyThe Lorax Troop, an ISU student club, is planning to offer the Pinwheels for Peace project on campus. Students may write personal resolutions for world peace on provided pinwheels.

By Rebecca.Chamberlain @iowastatedaily.com

The air is getting cooler and the leaves on central cam-pus are slowly turning from green to orange.

The chill in the air means it is time to take inventory of your scarves and sweat-ers from last year. However, sometimes a change in style accompanies the change in weather. If you find that your old sweaters are outdated or simply do not fit the way you

remember, and you are ready to throw them out — don’t. Instead, find some scissors and reuse your old sweater as an accessory to your fall wardrobe.

You can use the bottom part of the sweater to create a homemade infinity scarf. Cut across the chest just below the sleeves; it will form a tube, which can be wrapped around as a scarf.

You can use the same old sweater to make long gloves that will match the infinity

scarf. Remove the sleeves from

the sweater and pull them over your arms. Next, decide how long you wish the gloves to be and cut both sleeves to fit your preference, making sure both are the same length.

Using gloves that you al-ready have, or a cheap pair that matches the sweater, stitch one end of the sweater to the wrist of the glove. Now you have a set of inexpensive and unique accessories to start of the new season.

The falling leaves provide a natural stencil for a fun and sustainable craft.

Pick up leaves of different shapes and sizes and place them under a sheet of old newspaper. Next, use fall col-ors like brown, dark green, or-ange and yellow to color over the leaves.

The background you have created can be used for a vari-ety of purposes.

One idea is to cut out the leaf shapes and hang them around your dorm room as a fall decoration.

Bookmarks can also be made using the print and a thin, sturdy material, such as the box of a frozen pizza or mi-crowave dinner.

It is important the material is thin so that a book can close easily over it.

Cut the colored paper into the bookmark shape and glue it to the sturdy material, then cut around the shape.

These bookmarks make great, affordable gifts for friends as well, as many bookmarks can be produced quickly without using a lot of material.

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Lorax Troop spins recycled plastics into peace symbols

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Partisan politics spells bad news for everyone

Voters should pick candidates based on ideals, not party affiliation

Graphic courtesy of ThinkstockThe United States is split into partisan factions, and the masses tend to follow the party rules. But columnist Ian Timberlake believes our politics are our own and we should vote according to our ideals, not a party’s ideals.

Editorial

Wednesday, the Iowa Board of Regents created another episode in the saga of tuition set-asides.

For those of you unfamiliar with the issue, an open secret came into public view this spring. Iowa’s Regents universities to assign a certain percentage of tuition paid by students to financial aid received by other students. In essence, the prac-tice amounts to charging everyone a higher rate to subsizidize the educa-tion of other students.

The regents’ proposal is that the state of Iowa would, next year, ap-propriate $39.5 million to ease Iowa’s public universities out of the program (last year, about $144 million was re-served from tuition at the three public universities). Funding would increase yearly to fully get rid of the program, and tuition would be reduced “by a rate commensurate with the amount of additional state” appropriations.

There is, however, a looming ques-tion. What if the legislature refuses?

Complaints abound that the state should not subsidize private goods, even higher education. But now is an opportune time for the legislature to assert its authority over higher educa-tion and guide it toward public ends. Especially at public schools and es-pecially at land-grant schools such as Iowa State, education is about more than sudents’ private benefits.

Strings are always attached to gifts of money; why can the state legislature not mandate that, with its additional appropriations, Iowa’s public universities develop a more public outlook? Such was Rep. Justin S. Morrill’s intention when he devised his plan for the land-grant colleges.

The genius of his idea was that, rather than giving something for nothing, land-grant colleges provide both the kind of education neces-sary to put large numbers of ordi-nary Americans to work and grow the economy, and to serve the civic world. If the state is going to pay, the state should benefit. The state should ensure that people are receiving both training for the world of work and are equipped with the knowledge and perspective necessary to make educated political decisions that will serve the public’s, not themselves.

Eliminating set-asides and replac-ing them with state funding presents an opportunity to confront the sim-mering debate that we have danced around for years: What kinds of edu-cation should government support?

Either way, however, no real solu-tion will materialize until there is a public debate — including a legislative debate, from subcommittee to the full House and Senate, among all legisla-tors, regardless of party and experi-ence — about the nature of public higher education. Until then, every appropriation is a stop-gap measure that fails to build any kind of future.

Incidentally, it is through educa-tion that the future is secured.

I find the dejection found in Shannon Lange’s column last Friday, “Graphic novels can be se-rious literature,” astounding. Not only does she seemingly not regard manga, Marvel and DC comics as legitimate stories, she has the gall to strongly suggest that the only good “graphic novels” are about historic events (“Maus”), adapta-tions of previous works (“Hamlet”) or political commentary (“V for Vendetta”).

Lange, what about “Astonishing X-Men,” writ-ten by cult icon Joss Whedon? Or how about the little-known “Wandering Son,” published by Fantagraphic Books, about two seventh graders who don’t associ-ate with their respective genders and, in fact, cross-dress so they can be closer to the gender they as-sociate with? Are these not literary by Lange’s standards or is she just unfairly grouping everything she hasn’t read into one convenient

category for the sake of the article?What defines comics as literary

works isn’t their art. Of course, it isn’t their art and people don’t think of comics as just pretty artwork. They consider comics or graphic novels or manga as literary works when the writing is good and the art serves as a mode of storytelling. “Astonishing X-Men” and “Wandering Son” are critically acclaimed because they have some of the most brilliant writing seen in any literature, not just comics.

So there are some comics that are just created as a way to spend time. (I’m looking at you, Superman.) The definition of a comic and a graphic novel and manga, then, is defined by the mode of publication rather than, as Lange suggests, the format of the story.

To oversimplify the process, comics are typically published chapter by chapter; graphic novels are typically published volume

by volume; and manga are simply comics from Japan, published in a variety of ways in their native country but usually just volume by volume in the United States. This, again, really is the preference of the reader, but I believe the defini-tion I’ve laid out here provides something much more concrete. Because “Astonishing X-Men,” at the very least, is considered a comic book, but it’s written much more like a graphic novel.

Again, I’ll return to “Astonishing X-Men” as an example for the second to last paragraph. There’s the writer, Joss Whedon, and the artist, John Cassaday. But it’s both critically acclaimed and a great story with a different artist and writer. Another example is “Death Note,” regarded as one of the greatest manga out there. But it’s written by Tsugumi Ohba and drawn by Takeshi Obata. So is more credit due when it’s just one person writing and illustrat-

ing? Absolutely not. The credit is due when the creative work is good by a consensus, both in the writing and the artistry.

The writer-artist relationship (and this is true in at least Japan for manga) is that the writer will write a basic storyboard — where the character should be, what he or she should be doing, what the background should look like and any other details the writer specifi-cally wants — and hands that off to the illustrator, who will make that come to life. So are the illustrators not conveying what the writers want? Again, absolutely not.

So are comics literary works? Yes. But, as with any other literary work, it’s determined by the qual-ity of writing. Not by the qualifier that book stores use to organize their material.

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Letter to the editor

Literature defined by content, not form

Presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama have all spoken counter to partisan politics. Historically, most politicians, whether

bidding for office or long-time seat holders speak at least somewhat of across-the-aisle appeal. Partisan politics divides the nation and stupefy the commons.

Politicians are people-pleasers; while that may not be their job title or a component of their list of responsibili-ties, we all know that the electorate is highly capable at pleasing potential voters. Paul Ryan recently said: “We are looking for bipartisan solutions, not partisan rheto-ric.” Whether or not a politician actually enacts across-the-aisle policy making is one thing, but it doesn’t take a wallflower to figure out why he or she might try to appeal to an opposing party.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said: “Our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny President Obama a second term.” It seems bipartisan rhetoric is leaping out the window.

The greatest mistake you can make in politics is hold-ing a certain belief because it conforms with the ideology of the party with which you vote. Straight-ticket voters are only checking the “ignorant” box on the ballot — and in Iowa, we do have a box that allows you to vote entirely for one party. As a citizen and a voter, you should know your own personal ideology and choose a politician who parallels that closest to your own.

Democrats aren’t supposed to be pro-gun-control because their party stands that way, just as Republicans aren’t supposed to be pro-life because that is their party’s stance. The question is, do you hold these stances because that is the party you support? Or do you wholly believe in the issue regardless of party?

A lot of what I speak out for or against ends up getting me labeled a “hard liberal” or “fanatical right,” when in fact I just so happen to support women’s right to control their reproductive cycle as well as the belief more citi-zens should conceal carry.

My ideology is exactly that: my own. The droves of Obama “Forward” clubites and the teeming Romney pseudo elitists are no better or worse than the mullet man in the casino betting red because it’s “his” color.

Partisan politics will never go away; don’t think I’m saying otherwise. But more citizens need to actually look at what a candidate stands for as opposed to what the party stands for. Assess the candidates character and leadership potential and make a decision based on his or her moral capacity to do what is right for the nation as a whole.

Obama is not my ideal president, but he knows when a decision is right for the country, even when it is un-popular. Good politics is not necessarily popular politics.

He bailed out the banks, a decision he didn’t want to have to make, saying: “If there’s one thing that has unified Democrats and Republicans, it’s that we all hated the bank bailout. I hated it. You hated it. It was about as popu-lar as a root canal.” But analysts from the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve agree it was necessary in preventing a major economic collapse thanks to circular bank loaning brought forth by the Bush administration.

As far as the health care law is concerned, even Fox News wrote the president’s plan will reduce the deficit in the following years: “Republicans have insisted that ‘Obamacare’ will actually raise deficits — by ‘trillions,’ according to presidential candidate Mitt Romney. But that’s not so, the Congressional Budget Office said. ... It did estimate that Republican legislation to repeal the overhaul — passed recently by the House — would itself increase the deficit by $109 billion from 2013 to 2022.” We are essentially the last first world nation to adopt universal health care.

Shocking.Both of these instances are cases where unpopular

decisions were made but were a benefit to the nation. Instances of politicians making people-pleasing deci-sions are rampant. This is why I said runaway partisan-ship stupefies the commons. It’s no different than the mother who gives candy to her child every time it cries.

I am voting for a re-election of Obama. Difficult decision making and intelligence are my key reasons, and he has already shown those traits. He uses facts and numbers to make his political decisions, not partisan ide-ology, unlike the current Republican Party (note Mitch McConnell above).

Thomas Jefferson said: “I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.” In this, Jefferson made a valuable distinction between policy and ideology.

Politics is invested in your submission. Seek human-ism and dispel politics that challenges natural-born rights. As the voting booths are built, avoid the “ignorant” box and break yourself from the arbitrary figments of the imagination, or “mind-forged-manacles” of straight-ticket voting.

Ian Timberlake is a senior in aerospace engineering from Chicago, Ill.

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Uhl to rejoin Ihmels, crew

Former Cyclone Lisa Uhl an-nounced Thursday she will be returning to Ames to join former coach Corey Ihmels as a volun-teer assistant coach.Uhl said she would also con-tinue training under Ihmels.An article on RunnersWeb.com says Uhl had been thinking about a change in her future.“I think I’ve felt like I’ve needed to make a change for a little bit now,” Uhl told Race Results Weekly over a phone call. “But I wanted to makes sure I gave Jerry and Shalane (Flanagan) and the rest of the group a sig-nificant amount of time to make sure that it just wasn’t me being homesick.”Ihmels said he is very excited to have Uhl, one of the most prominent ISU athletes, back.“We couldn’t be more excited to have Lisa back in Ames and as part of our track and field and cross country staff here at Iowa State,” Ihmels wrote in an email to Race Results Weekly on Wednesday night.For more on the story of Uhl and her move back to Ames, check back with the iowastatedaily.com for updates.

By Stephen Koenigsfeld Daily staff writer

It takes a lot more than just a big match from a team’s best player to upset the No. 1 team in the country. However, if preparation, mindset and in-game performance all come to-gether, Iowa State will have a chance to do that against Nebraska this weekend in Ames.

Currently ranked No. 25, the Cyclones have never beaten a No. 1 team during coach Christy Johnson-Lynch’s seven-plus years with the program, but she said in order to do so,

her team must hope its opponent isn’t at 100 percent.

“You have to hope they’re off their game a little bit, and you have to play not perfectly, but you have to play pretty relentless,” Johnson-Lynch said, of playing Nebraska on Saturday. “So we’re going to have to flip it from what we did this weekend.”

So far this season, Iowa State has had several matches where it had chances to close it out but couldn’t seal the deal.

Last weekend, the Cyclones (5-4) found themselves at match

point more than once against Iowa and Syracuse. But more often than not, the team couldn’t finish it off. Johnson-Lynch said they will have to be a completely different team in or-der to have a shot at the Huskers.

“We have to completely flip our

Top-ranked HuskersBy Cory.Weaver @iowastatedaily.com

Cyclones get ‘relentless’ with play for Nebraska

Iowa State is 1-80 all-time against its former Big 12 foe Nebraska. That lone victory came in 2009 in Lincoln, when the Cyclones won in five sets.Seniors Rachel Hockaday and Jamie Straube both played in the match, with Hockaday recording a team-leading 18 kills. Keeping a statistic like that out of mind could be tough for the team with the single digit in the win column.But Straube, a native of Tecumseh, Neb., said it’s not as much keeping it out of her head as much as it is how it is approached.“I don’t really think about that,” Straube said. “Volleyball is so cool; any team can beat any team at any time, so that’s what makes it kind of exciting.”

ISU vs. Nebraska

File photo: Adam Ring/Iowa State Daily Head coach Christy Johnson-Lynch talks to the Cardinal team during a timeout in the intrasquad scrimmage Aug. 18 at Hilton Coliseum. The Cardinal team won all four sets that were played. The team’s next match is against No. 1 Nebraska on Saturday at Hilton Coliseum.

You can’t take a break, can’t fall asleep for a play; because a really good team will expose that.”

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Football

ISU coach Paul Rhoads told his team he doesn’t want to put a ceiling on what it can do.

The fourth-year coach of the ISU football team said he wants his players to improve every time they step onto the field, whether it be for prac-tice or for a game.

“The statement ... that ‘you get your most improve-ment from week one to week two,’ I think is a bunch of hogwash,” Rhoads said. “I think you have an opportu-nity to improve every week, and some weeks you’re going

to have bigger games. That’s what we seek every time we step on the practice field.”

With Western Illinois from the Football Championship Subdivision coming Saturday night to Jack Trice Stadium, senior linebacker Jake Knott is

making sure his team isn’t overlooking the Cyclones’ upcoming opponent.

“Football is a game of inches, and sometimes they’re not going to go your way,” Knott said. “It doesn’t matter how talented they are

or what league they play in, anybody can beat anybody, and you’ve got to be extreme-ly focused to get past that.”

One thing Rhoads stressed was turnovers.

Last week in Iowa State’s 9-6 win against Iowa in

Kinnick Stadium, Iowa State turned the ball over four times, three of which came inside the Hawkeyes’ 11-yard line.

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ISU doesn’t plan to overlook Western Illinois

File photo: Randi Reeder/ Iowa State DailyDefensive end Rony Nelson and linebacker Jake Knott celebrate in the season opener against Tulsa. The Cyclones head 2–0 into Saturday’s game against Western Illinois.

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Cross-country

The ISU cross-country teams are ready to host their lone home meet of the 2012 season.

This Saturday marks the annual Iowa Intercollegiate meet that will take place at the ISU Cross-Country Course.

“We are going to use this as a workout meet to take the next step in our season,” said associate coach Travis Hartke. “This will be the first meet of the season for a lot of our run-

ners — we are a young team on both sides [men’s and women’s], so it gives people race experience.”

The women’s 5,000-meter race is scheduled to start at 10 a.m., with the men’s 8,000-meter race is expected to start at 10:30 a.m.

Schools competing against the Cyclones include Des Moines Area Community College, Grand View, Indian Hills, Iowa Lakes, Missouri, Marshalltown Community College, North Iowa Area Community College, UW-Lacrosse, Wartburg and Waldorf.

A season ago, the women’s squad dominated the Iowa Intercollegiate meet with Maddy Becker claim-

ing the women’s title, finishing the 4,000-meter course in 18:56.

On the men’s side, Besu Shannon-Tamrat won the 8,000-meter race in a time of 26:35.

The Cyclone women earned the top-16 spots of the results while the men collected the top-11 spots. Both the men and women won the team title as well.

Redshirt sophomore Josh Heitkamp expects another com-manding performance.

“Our team’s expectations are to win; anything less would be con-sidered a failure,” Heitkamp said.

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� Josh Heitkamp competed in the Iowa Intercollegiate unattached on the 8,000-meter course last season, scoring a time of 27:28.90.

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The ISU soccer team travels to Brookings, S.D., on Friday to face South Dakota State before returning home in time to face UW-Milwaukee on Sunday afternoon. The two opponents own a combined re-cord of 2-7-2.

The Cyclones (5-3) defeat-ed South Dakota State (1-4-1) by a score of 1-0 last season in Ames and are tied with the Jackrabbits 2-2-1 in the all-time series.

The Jackrabbits have struggled to generate offense so far this season, having only scored four goals through their first six games.

Compare that to the Cyclones, who have netted 17 goals through eight games this season, and an offensive ad-vantage begins to make itself apparent.

“There’s something about them, whenever we play them, it’s like this battle,” said ISU junior Erin Green of South Dakota State. “It’s a team that we should be beating by a larg-

er amount, but it always comes down to the small things. I’m excited to play them.”

Iowa State faced UW-Milwaukee (1-3-1) for the first time in program history last season, falling to the

Panthers 2-0.Milwaukee is currently

riding a three-game losing streak, leaving the Cyclones feeling hopeful for revenge this time around.

This weekend’s games are

the final nonconference games leading up to the Big 12 sched-ule for the Cyclones, who kick off conference play against Texas on Sept. 21.

“They’re two games that we want to put away, just to

gain confidence going into conference,” said ISU coach Wendy Dillinger.

Players and coaches realize the importance of the noncon-ference schedule, not only to help the Cyclones’ record, but also to prepare them for the in-tensity of Big 12 play.

“These are definitely im-portant games,” said ISU se-nior Kelsey Calvert. “We don’t overlook anything. The big picture is: we look towards conference, but these games help us so much more.”

This weekend features a rare away-home split for the Cyclones, something that does not show up on the schedule often. Although this will create a more unusual travel situa-tion for the Cyclones, they are more than pleased to be able to face Milwaukee in Ames as opposed to on the road Sunday.

The Cyclones have lost three games so far this sea-son, two of which have come against nationally ranked op-ponents. The three teams that have defeated the Cyclones own a combined record of 23-0.

The team is approaching the halfway point of its regular season and has assessed what needs to happen in the second half in order for the Cyclones to succeed leading up to the Big 12 tournament.

“The most important thing for us is to come out with a total 90 [minutes], where we come out hard from the start, we put everything together that our coaching staff has given us,” Calvert said.

The Cyclones are set to face South Dakota State at 6 p.m. Friday and Milwaukee at 1 p.m. Sunday.

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For the second year in a row, the Huntsville Havoc will partner with the Cyclone Hockey team to hold one of its free agent camps in Ames.

The Huntsville Havoc, a Southern Professional Hockey team, will hold an evaluation camp for aspiring players to try out to make it to the team’s main training camp Friday and Saturday.

The hockey team will play the Huntsville prospects in order for the prospects to have a chance to showcase their skills, as well as for the Cyclones to have an opportunity to prepare for the upcoming season.

The Cyclones will be playing against some “pretty darn good players,” said coach Al Murdoch.

Murdoch said he is planning on playing nearly 30 different players during the weekend.

This will give Murdoch and the rest of the Cyclone coaching staff a good chance to evaluate their play-ers while they are playing against top-notch competition.

“It’s always good to evaluate tal-ent,” Murdoch said.

Along with getting prepared for the season and evaluating players, members of the team have voiced other goals for the exhibition games.

“It’s always good to play higher caliber teams; it’s a different style of hockey,” said Justin Wilkinson, senior defenseman and alternate captain. “We hope to learn a couple of things.”

Murdoch is excited to see the fan turnout for the games this year. He

was pleased with the turnout last year and looks forward to seeing the fans again.

“I think we’ll have a pretty good crowd,” Murdoch said.

The games will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Ames/ISU Ice Arena.

For the fans who cannot make it to the game, it will be streamed live online on the America One Network.

There will be a link on the Cyclone Hockey Web page that will direct fans to the site.

Senior forward and alternate captain Derek Kohles said he is ready to get back on the ice.

“Just getting on the ice again and getting the season going,” Kohles said of what he is looking forward to. “It’s been a long time.”

By Robert.Hein Daily correspondent

File photo: Iowa State DailyThen-sophomore midfielder Erin Green chases the ball down against Texas Tech on Oct. 21, 2011, at the ISU Soccer Complex. Now a junior and up against South Dakota State this weekend, Green hopes to take advantage of the “small things” during competition.

Defensive advantage kicks it upFriday: 6 p.m. at South Dakota StateAll-time series: Tied 2-2-1Last season: ISU 1–0 SDSUSunday: 1 p.m. vs. MilwaukeeAll-time series: Milwaukee leads 1–0Last season: ISU 0–2 Milwaukee

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Players skate out to wreak ‘Havoc’

File photo: Iowa State DailyDefenseman Justin Wilkinson aims for the goal during a Feb. 25 game against Waldorf College at the Ames/ISU Ice Arena. The team’s 2012–13 season opener is this weekend in Ames.

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mindset from this past week-end and start playing defense and getting after it,” Johnson-Lynch said.

Beside the change in men-tality, the team has found an-other significant weakness it must improve before Saturday: blocking. With Tenisha Matlock and Jamie Straube up front, Johnson-Lynch expect-ed the team’s blocking to be much better than it has been this season.

So far, the Cyclones are blocking just 1.57 balls per set while their opponents are blocking 2.39. The team has been putting more of a focus on blocking recently, how-ever, and senior setter Alison Landwehr said it’s going to be a difference maker come

Saturday.“We just need to be touch-

ing a lot of balls against them because they’re big and play-ing defense; otherwise they can get going and start going off,” Landwehr said.

When preparing for the best team in the country, a team that knocked off No. 1 UCLA earlier this season, it not only involves physical skills but mental preparation as well.

Johnson-Lynch said Nebraska’s outside hitters could quite possibly be first-team All-Americans.

Combined with having an experienced setter and tal-ented middles, one thing that makes the Cornhuskers so good is their ability to attack from all angles. Straube said

that means the Cyclones will have to stay mentally sound throughout the entire match to compete to the best of their ability.

“There’s probably not just one or two people we can key on throughout the match like we have the past couple of games, so just mentally you have to be focused the whole time because you have so many things coming at you,” Straube said. “You can’t take a break, can’t fall asleep for a play; be-cause a really good team will expose that.”

Nebraska and Iowa State square off at 1 p.m. Saturday at Hilton Coliseum. Neither team will have had a match since the previous weekend, making both fresh to go in this Husker-Cyclone showdown.

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games losing the turnover battle and you’re just not going to keep doing that,” Rhoads said. “Correctable mistakes, already looked at them and have a better understand why. Of the four, I think one is a great play by their defense. The fumble on Shontrelle [Johnson], it’s a full-speed violent collision.”

The correctable mistakes Rhoads referred to stem from the play of quarterback Steele Jantz. Two interceptions and a fumbled ex-change were overlooked by a quarterback rat-ing of 121 and an emotional win at Kinnick.

“The interceptions, we’ve got to handle, we’ve got to do a better job of and then the ex-change is one,” Rhoads said. “The thing that ex-cites me coming out of that is Steele Jantz un-derstands that and will work to improve that.”

This will be one of the few games Iowa State goes into as the favored team to win. In Rhoads’ career as the ISU coach, he has won

20 games despite being favored in just eight.After a record-setting day at Jack Trice

when 54,931 fans filled the stadium for the season-opening record, Rhoads still expects his “Cyclone Nation” to come and support the team.

Last year, Iowa State started the season 3-0 en route to a bow bid. If the Cyclones can win Saturday night against Western Illinois, only three more wins will be needed to get a bowl bid as opposed to four, which is a bigger gap than it seems playing in the Big 12.

“Huge,” Rhoads said referring to the 3-0 start at stake. “You look at years one through three and the two bowl seasons and what we did in nonleague. It goes a long way especially when you see what kind of competition we play week in and week out in the Big 12 for overall season success. So to have this oppor-tunity to be fight for 3-0, we’re excited.”

Kickoff is slated for 7 p.m.

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“Individually, I would like to be in the top seven.”

Even with the upcoming home meet, preparation dur-ing the week hasn’t changed.

“[Tuesday] was a pre-meet workout, so we practiced at race pace,” Heitkamp said. “Otherwise, no one is dropping mileage since this is a smaller meet.”

The Iowa Intercollegiate will be a gage of where the

team is in terms of fitness and is also an opportunity for run-ners to focus on the mental aspects involved in a collegiate race.

“Individually, I want to be mentally composed and be as ready to race as I can,” said redshirt sophomore Maggie Gannon. “This meet is valu-able for us to develop for the Roy Griak Invitational in Minnesota in two weeks.”

With expectations of suc-cess set high for the Cyclones,

the ultimate goal for the weekend is not totally about winning.

“The most important thing for us is getting used to keeping the spread between our first and fifth runners a short dis-tance,” Gannon said. “This was our Achilles’ heel last season, and in order to win nationals, we need to run as a pack.”

Saturday will be another stepping-stone toward the team’s goal of winning a na-tional title.

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Photo: Brandi Boyett/ Iowa State DailyThe women’s cross-country team practices for the upcoming season Aug. 20 on campus. The team’s next meet is the Iowa Intercollegiate this coming weekend.

Photo: Randi Reeder/Iowa State DailySteele Jantz looks for an open player downfield during Saturday’s Cy-Hawk game. Iowa State defeated Iowa 9-6 at Kinnick Stadium.