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The 12th annual Norman E. Borlaug Lecture, “Scientific Discovery and the Fight to End Global Hunger,” was presented by the three 2013 World Food Prize joint recipients, Marc Van Montagu, Mary-Dell Chilton and Robert Fraley.
Borlaug, known as the father of the Green Revolution and as the “man who fed the world,” established the World Food Prize back in 1986. The prize recognizes the contributions of scientists to the world food supply and health through better nutrition.
Before the lecture started Monday night, se-lect agriculture students showcased their posters about the research they did while visiting other countries. The laureates went from poster to post-er as each student pre-sented their findings. At the end of the lecture, six students had their posters recognized.
“This interaction be-tween scientists and future scientists working together is special,” said Wendy Wintersteen, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. “The inter-action of the laureates with our students is a real opportunity.”
Van Montagu, Chilton and Fraley, all advocates of genetically modified plants, made innovations in the world of agriculture through their work in mo-lecular biology and plant science. These innova-tions improved crop yields to feed an ever-growing population.
Genetically engi-neered crops can now be resistant to disease and in-sects, tolerate varying cli-mate changes and require less chemical fertilizer.
Van Montagu’s work is marked by his discovery of the Ti plasmid, a large, circular molecule of DNA, while working with the
The movement of fire-wood and wood chips from Iowa could soon be under quarantine as emerald ash borers have been found in Mechanicsville, Iowa, in Cedar County.
This is the fourth out-break of the pest found in Iowa, following infestations in Allamakee, Des Moines and Jefferson counties, all in the last three years. The emerald ash borer is gen-erally spread by the move-ment of firewood, though it can also be spread through landscaping.
The borers are exotic beetles from Asia that is generally half an inch long or smaller. They feed solely on ash trees, which are one of the most abundant tree species in America.
“[The emerald ash borer] is very destructive,” said Mark Shour, entomolo-gist at Iowa State and mem-ber of the Iowa Emerald Ash Borer Team. “It will kill healthy or declining trees. … It takes two to five years to destroy one tree.”
Ash is used in a num-ber of products including: firewood, paper, baseball bats and basket weaving, as well as being a common shade tree in urban areas. Replacing all 38 million ur-ban ash trees in the United States would cost $25 bil-lion, and replacing the 8 bil-lion forest trees would cost $282 billion.
Since its discovery in 2002 in Detroit, the beetle has spread to 22 states and destroyed tens of millions of trees, according to the U.S.
Cancer has affected many lives at Iowa State, including that of Carolyn Clark, whose mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011. Clark is currently a junior in
agronomy.“She had stage 1; it
was ductile infiltrate car-cinoma,” Clark said.
Breast cancer is a type of cancer that typically af-fects women older than 40; however, there are cas-es of younger women re-ceiving such a diagnosis.
In their lifetime, one in eight women are likely to develop breast cancer, one of the most invasive cancers among women.
Clark’s mother was
in her early 40s when she noticed a lump in one of her breasts. The several mammograms she had had over the years missed the cancer.
Women have multiple options when it comes to checking for breast cancer symptoms. For a woman in her 20s, self-breast ex-aminations are the most common according to the American Cancer Society. If changes occur, then it is time to seek a health
care professional for a full examination.
“It was really scary because she discovered it herself,” Clark said.
Once the cancer was discovered, Clark’s moth-er went through both che-motherapy and radiation therapy. Those treatments are very common when the cancer has not spread throughout the body.
Clark, who is the sur-vivorship chairwoman for Colleges Against Cancer,
The ISU Army ROTC program once again has been named No. 1 in the United States in physical fitness.
The program has, for the sec-ond year in a row, achieved the highest average in the nation on the Army Physical Fitness Test.
“Anything that is consistent year after year is hard,” said Lt. Col. Richard Smith, professor and chair-man of military science. “I think that the program we have in place sets our cadets up for success.”
When Army ROTC members finish their third year, they partici-pate in a camp over the summer.
This camp is known as the Leadership Development Assessment Course.
The course works as a stepping stone for their future positions in the Army, determining branches and ranking systems for cadets wanting a career with the army. It consists of leadership development tests and an fitness test.
The physical fitness portion of the assessment course the cadets on how many sit-ups they can do in two minutes, how many push-ups in two minutes and how quickly they can run 2 miles.
The standards for age groups are set with a possible scoreout of 100.
While there is a maximum score of 300, cadets can go above this by exceeding the set standards of the course.
During the summer, 27 ISU juniors took the test. Competing against 274 schools and a total of 5,909 cadets.
Iowa State’s average score was 292.4, 19.4 points higher than the cadet command average for the na-
tion of 273.Smith said the only reason the
program is so successful is because of the cadets’ dedication.
“It’s about the entire program being successful,” Smith said. “They all want to be a part of the program,
to win and to be No. 1.”Iowa State’s cadets prepare for
the assessment course throughout the year with their own physical fit-ness test.
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Army ROTC takes 1st in fitness
Courtesy of Wikimedia CommonsThe emerald ash borers have been found in in Cedar County, Iowa. The outbreak is the state’s fourth in the past three years.
Emerald ash borers return threat to Iowa
Brandi Boyett/Iowa State DailyOctober is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Its icon, the pink ribbon, expresses support for those who have been affected by cancer in the past.
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Signs of breast cancer
■ swelling of all or part of breast
■ skin irritation or dimpling
■ nipple retraction
■ redness or thickening of the nipple or breast skin
■ nipple discharge other than breast milk
Student reflects on mother’s cancer fight
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Courtesy of Lt. Col. Richard SmithAmanda Veen, senior, does the Flexed Arm Hang at the Army Physical Fitness Test last month. The ISU ROTC brought home top honors in fitness for the second year.
Billy Boulden is the new assis-tant dean of students and director of Greek Affairs at Iowa State. Boulden started on July 8 after applying in May.
“My primary responsibility is to provide the overall direction of the greek community,” Boulden said. “So using our strategic plans and goals and advocating for our community, all four coun-cils and our staff to achieve the pe-rimeters that have been established there.”
Boulden came to Iowa State with a lot of experience in the field, which is why Pamela Anthony, dean of stu-dents, said she felt he was good for the position.
“He has experience working with all four councils, which was really important to me,” Anthony said. “He’s also good working with students.”
Boulden has a lot of experience in the greek community, he said. He was the associate director of Greek Affairs at Florida State, the pri-mary adviser for the Interfraternity Council and the National Panhellenic Council at Florida State, taught a greek leadership course, and also did alternative spring break program where he started an international trip to Jamaica, along with other var-ious assignments.
Prior to that, Boulden was the assistant director of student ac-tivities at Longwood University in Virginia, where he worked directly with Interfraternity Council, he was a partner with Greek Initiatives, de-veloped a leadership series for male students and also was in charge of student activities, where he orga-nized campus entertainment such as concerts, movies, etc.
Boulden was also a leadership consultant for Pi Kappa Phi frater-nity. In college, he was part of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, and was also vice president of the chapter. He went on a national philanthropy trip, then proceeded to work on head-
quarters staff after that.“For me to be able to leave a
position I’m happy in and enjoy the work I was doing, I really needed to go somewhere that I could advance my career and provide leadership for a team and office,” Boulden said. “As well as work with a greek community that was thriving.”
Boulden said he wants to take Iowa State from being a great greek community, to being the best greek community in the country. He plans on doing this by recruiting and re-taining a great staff, as well as work-ing well with greek alumni.
“The career staff here is phe-nomenal,” Boulden said. “From Katy Cran, our assistant director, to all of the graduate students that work in our office.”
Anthony is Boulden’s supervi-sor, which means she is respon-sible for evaluating his work, along with making performance appraisal recommendations.
“There are phenomenal people at Iowa State,” Boulden stated. “And I’m just glad to be a part of their lives and a part of the experience.”
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Food safety research slowed by costs
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Ashley Peterson, 19, of Bouton, was arrested and charged with providing false identification information, no driver license and failure to prove security against liability. Harlie Osborne, 19, of Indianola, was arrested and charged with providing false identification information; she was additionally taken into custody on a warrant held by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office at Hayward Avenue and Mortensen Road (reported at 2:45 a.m.).
Ashlee Hammer, 19, 200 Stanton Ave, Unit 603, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Lot G3 (reported at 2:30 p.m.).
Vehicles driven by Dillan Egr and Gene Kurth were involved in a property damage collision at Beach Road and Lincoln Way (reported at 3:55 p.m.).
Taylor Petersen, 20, 304 Lynn Ave., Apt 7, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Lot G3 (reported at 4:30 p.m.).
Sean Hedge, 19, and Andrew Luzum, 19, both of 6326 Frederiksen Court, were cited for underage possession of alcohol at Lot G3 (reported at 4:45 p.m.).
Alex Schooley, 19, 223 Lynn Ave., was cited for underage possession of alcohol and providing false identification information at Lot G3 (reported at 4:58 p.m.).
Katelyn Stahl, 19, 414 Stanton Ave., was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Lot G3 (reported at 5:06 p.m.).
Joshua Lambertz, 20, 1122 Garfield Ave., was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Lot G3 (reported at 5:20 p.m.).
Joseph Siehlmann, 18, and Andrew Deiter, 19, both of Ankeny, were cited for underage possession of alcohol at Lot S8 (reported at 5:30 p.m.).
Travis Pearl, 21, 7414 Frederiksen Court, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Lot G3 (reported at 5:35 p.m.).
Kimberlee Woody, 20, 515 North Hyland Ave., Apt 1, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Lot G2 (reported at 5:54 p.m.).
Kelsey Iben, 19, 205 Beach Ave., Apt 111, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Lot G3 (reported at 6:30 p.m.).
Megan Hogg, 22, of Waukee, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at Lot S4 (reported at 6:20 p.m.).
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.
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An ISU researcher has recently partnered with a local company to develop new ways to improve food safety.
Byron Brehm-Stecher, associate professor in food science and human nutri-tion, has collaborated with the Ames-based Advanced Analytical Technologies to create a cheaper method to perform multi locus vari-able number tandem re-peat analysis. He has part-nered with them before.
“In one of our discus-
sions, they talked about the critical need for a relatively inexpensive, yet robust system for MLVA analysis and how they were well-positioned to fill this need,” Brehm-Stecher said.
MLVA is a method of “fingerprinting” indi-vidual strains of an organ-ism based on differences in their DNA. During an outbreak of a food-borne pathogen such as salmo-nella typhimurium, it is important to be able to dis-tinguish different strains of the bacteria from each other.
This helps epidemi-ologists trace the outbreak back to its source, which allows them to inform the consumers and recall prod-ucts that are making people sick.
Ruth MacDonald, pro-fessor and chairwoman of the food science and hu-man nutrition department, said identifying pathogens is vital during an outbreak.
“You can say, ‘this pathogen in these people is the same as the patho-
gen that was found on this equipment in that farm — or on that production line.’ It’s like fingerprints,” MacDonald said.
The current method for this DNA fingerprinting process is pulsed field gel electrophoresis. It is a well-established procedure, but it is time consuming and does not have the advan-tages of MLVA, which can distinguish very closely related microbes from one another.
Brehm-Stecher said MLVA is seen as the succes-sor to the electrophoresis, but one major drawback is that the existing instru-ments for the technique, DNA sequencers, cost more than $100,000.
Because the analysis is expensive, many state labs wait until they have received enough samples from the field to justify an analysis. This can take as long as a month. During that time, people are still getting sick from contami-nated food.
“If a common, low-cost
instrument capable of rap-id data collection and digi-tal data sharing were avail-able, this could unlock the potential for use of MLVA by not only State Health Labs and the CDC, [Centers for Disease Control,] but also by smaller labs, which could feed into the same data sharing networks and act as additional sentries for earlier outbreak report-ing,” Brehm-Stecher said.
Hyun Jung Kim, mo-lecular biologist and post-doctoral research associ-ate at Iowa State, was a key intermediary between Iowa State and Advanced Analytical, Brehm-Stecher said.
Together, they and rep-resentatives of Advanced Analytical presented their research at the American Society for Microbiology’s General Meeting in May.
Their next step is to develop an MLVA system for commercial use. Their market includes the CDC, state health labs, and other government agencies and hospitals.
Billy Boulden
plant disease known as crown gall. This discovery led to the development of the first technology to transfer foreign genes into plants in a stable manner.
Chilton helped make the discovery that the crown gall tumors of plants are caused by the transfer of only a piece of DNA from the Ti plas-mid into the host plant. It then becomes part of the plant’s genome.
Fraley’s work mainly focused on the success of “Roundup Ready” seeds. The seeds were resistant to the herbicide known as Roundup. When the fields were sprayed with Roundup, the Roundup Ready crops remained while the weeds were eliminated.
In the lecture, each laureate presented their thoughts on the future.
By 2050, the world’s population is estimated
to be 9.6 billion. In or-der to support that many people, farmers must grow more for less, com-bating limited farmland and water supplies.
“The future of ag-riculture is both a very bright one and an im-portant one,” Fraley said. “Food security and having the capability to produce food for, what people are saying, 9 [billion] to 10 billion people by 2050 is both a tremendous challenge and a great ca-reer opportunity.”
Being key scientists behind the creation of ge-netically modified crops, the lecture also focused on the benefits of such crops and how they pro-duce higher yields and causing little, if any, harm.
Chilton said her-bicide tolerance makes crops more green, insect control reduces the use of insecticides, genetically modified seeds save farm-ers money and stressed
that no safety problems had been reported since their commercial intro-duction. She also contest-ed that genetically modi-fied food is safe to eat, nonallergenic and would have a small impact on the environment.
“We’re putting a gene in a seed,” Fraley said. “Every farmer knows what to do with a seed. If you can give them a bet-ter seed, you’ve really stepped up their ability to produce yields and that is what’s key.”
At the end of the pre-sentations, ISU President Steven Leath presented each 2013 World Food Prize laureate with an in-dividualized glass plate with their name en-graved on it. Each had on it: “Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an ad-equate food supply,” a quote from Borlaug, en-graved on it.
Also every morning, cadets par-ticipate in an army physical readiness course, also open to non-ROTC students, consisting of morning runs and a variety of different workouts.
Many cadets also take part in extra training outside of the program’s physical training.
“Our kids are good but they work hard for it,” Smith said.
Xavier Bou, senior in marketing and a cadet captain, brought home 378 points — the highest score for his class — on the fitness test and attributes his score and success to the program and the motiva-tion of his fellow cadets.
“I’m very proud of our class; our class pushes each other all the time so that we never get stuck,” Bou said. “We worked really hard to get where we are today and we will continue to train our younger ca-dets to hold that standard.”
City Council candidates address affordable housing
said breast cancer in 20-year-olds is much more common than people think.
“The survival rate, however, is much higher than it used to be,” Clark said.
There are resources available for women who want to be proactive in the fight against breast cancer.
The American Cancer Society rec-ommends women get mammograms on a yearly basis after age 40.
“Make sure that people know to do self-breast examinations and go in for mammograms,” Clark said.
Breast cancer that is not caught ear-ly enough can travel into lymph nodes, and once it hits any lymph nodes, it is able to go throughout the entire body at an alarming rate.
“It is a scary experience, but due to research done by different groups such as Susan B. Komen or the American Cancer Society, there has been leaps and bounds made in the area of breast cancer,” Clark said.
Clark’s mother has been cancer free for more than two years now. She continues to be proactive in the fight against breast cancer by getting mam-mograms every six months.
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Department of Agriculture. $206 million have been spent in trying to combat it and prevent it from spread-ing further.
The Iowa Emerald Ash Borer Team plans to do this by “raising awareness, edu-cating the public, encour-aging people not to bring in firewood and to help them protect their ash trees,” Shour said. “One big sign of [the emerald ash borer] is woodpeckers. They re-move the bark and go for the larvae.”
However, the beetle cannot be detected un-til several years after the infestation has begun. The only way to discover if a tree is infected is to
look for the symptoms and then remove the bark from the tree. The Iowa Department of Agriculture, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and ISU Extension are already busy looking for more infestations.
Symptoms include canopy thinning, bark splits and cracks, and epi-cormic sprouting accord-ing to IowaTreePests.com, a site set up by the Iowa Department of Agriculture to educate the public on various pests and to pro-vide resources for combat-ting them.
The emerald ash borer can’t be eradicated simply. It has no natural preda-tors in the United States and pesticides have not yet
been developed to combat it. It only takes one infested tree to declare an outbreak.
“Once one is found, oftentimes we find many more,” Shour said.
The details of the quar-antine in Iowa are still be-ing determined because so many product industries use ash trees. Once in place, the quarantine is unlikely to be lifted for a long time. This quarantine will pre-vent the movement of all unprocessed ash, and per-mission must be obtained from the Iowa Department of Agriculture to move all other ash products.
To diagnose if a tree has been infested, samples can be submitted to the Plant and Insect Diagnostic Clinic at 327 Bessey Hall.
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Courtesy of Wikimedia CommonsThe invasive emerald ash borer beetle has been found in Mechanicsville in Cedar County, Iowa.
DUBUQUE, Iowa — Laura Carstens, planning services manager for the city of Dubuque, says that downtown revitaliza-tion is key to restoring a community.
Carstens pre-sented “Old is the New Green: Preservation + Sustainability” in Dubuque City Council Chambers on Monday.
The event was sponsored by the Ames Smart Growth Alliance, Preservation Iowa, the Ames Historical Society and the Historic Preservation Commission
“Leadership and com-mitment at the top is so im-portant,” Carstens said. “We understand that we need to think beyond our boarders because things are chang-ing. We can’t stay the same and be successful.”
The lecture was the fourth part in a series of public lectures to raise
awareness about the im-portance of historic preser-vation. All lectures are free and open to the public.
“We are going past the buildings into the healthi-ness of the households,” Carstens said.
The Historic Preservation Commission reviews applications for new construction within historic districts and chang-es to the exterior of pro-posed of designated land-marks and structure.
“We had over 1,000,000 square feet of vacant space,” Carstens said. “With this space, we have started working on a plan to create 732 housing units as well as many other things in the plan.”
Dubuque’s sustainabil-ity partnerships were fea-tured in a national league of cities report.
“Downtown revital-ization is the No. 1 eco-nomic development as-set,” Carstens said. “It is the identity of our community. We capitalize on history
and culture.”With degrees in both
environmental studies and environmental planning, Carstens shared insights about the Dubuque ap-proach to historic preserva-tion and sustainability.
“The most impor-tant parts of revitalizing Dubuque are people, plan-ning and partnerships,” Carstens said.
Carstens is a member of the American Planning Association and serves on the board of directors for Preservation Iowa, a statewide nonprofit that advocates for historic preservation.
“We renovated an old fire station into a head start program on the lower floor and a community health center on the ground floor,” Carstens said.
Carstens has been Dubuque’s Planning Service Manager since 1989. In this time period, she has over-seen a major overhaul of Dubuque’s historic pres-ervation code and cre-
ation of a capital improve-ment program for historic preservation.
What Dubuque achieved today through its Sustainable Dubuque model is the direct result of the knowledge and under-standing that sustainability is a balanced approach to long-term life quality ac-cording to the “Sustainable Dubuque” program.
The Historic Preservation Commission also provides information to owners of historic prop-erties, boards, commissions and the Ames City Council on matters affecting his-torically and architectur-ally significant properties, structures and areas.
“Buildings have more uses than to be torn down and put into a landfill,” said Sharon Wirth, chairwoman for the Historic Preservation Commission.
The city of Ames’ Historic Preservation Commission meets at 7 p.m. on the second Monday of each month.
Community preservation leads to sustainability
Dani Berger/Iowa State DailyLaura Carstens speaks about historical preservation and sus-tainability Monday in the Dubuque City Council Chambers.
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All candidates for the upcoming City Council elections were present or represented at the AMOS forum Monday at the Ames United Church of Christ. Candidates were called upon to address their stance on affordable hous-ing in Ames.
AMOS, which stands for A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy, is a nonpartisan community organization that organizes citizens to call on decision-makers to address the concerns of the community.
The Rev. Jonathan Page, of the United Church of Christ, opened the fo-rum by explaining it was designed to inform vot-ers of the stance of City Council candidates on the issue of affordable housing.
“An informed elector-ate is an electorate that votes more frequently and also that votes intelligently on different issues,” Page said.
Jan Flora, of the United Church of Christ, said affordable housing is an issue that comes up continually at AMOS House Meetings when de-termining which issues im-pact the Ames Community. With the enrollment level at Iowa State and an in-crease in the private sector this issue has continued to expand.
AMOS pinpointed specific problems related to affordable housing. These include problems with the allocation of grants, the limits of zoning codes and the related issue of limited transportation. AMOS asked candidates to share their positions on
specific goals related to these issues.
Current zoning and rental codes make it dif-ficult to incorporate large amounts of housing into small available areas.
Mayor Ann Campbell said that when rental poli-cies were put into place they made projections about where the popula-tion of Ames would be at by 2030 and that we have already reached that. She said she believes these pol-icies and codes do need to be looked at again.
Campbell said there is a need for housing on all levels and that the need for affordable housing is effected by university enrollment.
“The impact of the spike in University enroll-ment and the pressure that that puts on the com-munity indeed has more
than just a ripple effect,” Campbell said. “It has a bulldozer effect on afford-able housing.”
Another issue AMOS asked candidates to ad-dress alongside the hous-ing issue was the potential for funding a “Kids Ride Free” CyRide program de-signed to help kids whose families are at all income levels reach after school activities.
Chris Nelson, can-didate for the 4th Ward,
addressed the fact many CyRide busses are already at capacity.
At-large candidate Amber Corrieri expand-ed on this by stating that while there is a $35,000 cost associated with the “Kids Ride Free” program, this cost would not include the fact that more busses, more staff and expanded routes may have to be add-ed to accommodate the program
Candidates also of-
fered their stance on the possibility of an Affordable Housing Commission, making low-income hous-ing a priority for federal funding, inserting a line item into the city budget to provide financial support for low-income housing projects and the creation of a city staff position that would work with nonprofit organizations to secure federal, state and private funding.
While the candidates were asked to express de-finitively if they were for or against these changes, candidate Peter Orazem did not believe it was that easy.
“This is an issue that we can address, but not necessarily in this black and white arena,” he said.
The elections for City Council and the mayor will be Nov. 5.
By [email protected] Candidates at forum
Incumbent Mayor Ann Campbell was present at the AMOS forum along with seven council candidates. Candidates in attendance included:
■ Justin Dodge and Gloria Betcher for 1st Ward
■ Timothy Gartin for 2nd Ward; Peter Orazem for 3rd Ward
■ Incumbent Victoria Szopinski and Chris Nelson for 4th Ward
■ Amber Corrieri for at-large
■ At-large candidate Anne Kinzel had a representative present to speak on her behalf
Jake Miller/Iowa State DailyMary-Dell Chilton, left, Robert Fraley and Marc Van Montagu, all three World Food Prize laureates, answer questions at the Norman E. Borlaug Lecture in the Memorial Union.
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It was 1993, and the country was embroiled in a tumultuous health care reform debate concerning
various proposals by both the Clinton administration and Republicans alike. Robert Dole, then-Senate minority leader and presidential hopeful, along with 23 other Republican senators, co-sponsored a bill introduced by Sen. John Chafee.
In an attempt to provide universal coverage while still creating a counter-balance to President Bill Clinton’s plan, the proposal, among other things, included a mandate that individuals purchase health care insurance. In addition, the bill required insurers to provide “standard benefits” packages and to eliminate discrimination based on pre-existing conditions.
“Hillarycare,” as the former was dubbed, failed miserably without firm backing from the Democratic Party, which was hampered by fractured alternative plans. The Republicans backed off their proposal after routing the opposition in the 1994 elections. However, there was, as there always is, a surreptitious reason for the failure of our efforts to reform health care.
In a strategy memo addressed to Republican politicians, William Kristol argued against any reform for fear that Republicans would never again claim the gavel of the House. As he put it: “On the grounds of national policy alone, the plan should not be amend-ed; it should be erased completely.”
Kristol recognized the political threat posed by a compromise with Clinton’s plan, therefore “it would be a pity if the advancement of otherwise-worthy Republican proposals gave
unintended support to the Democrats’ sky-is-falling rationale.”
The hope for health care reform was killed.
This strategy remarkably fore-shadowed the coming zero-sum politics of the late 1990s and 2000s. It has become commonplace for constituents to gripe and groan about the failure of compromise in Congress in its present nature. Neglected are the background actors of the Grover Norquist sort (similar to Kristol) whose prejudices and craving for power too often stymie the political process.
The underlying character of our current affairs is, to evoke Theodore Draper, a Machiavellian “struggle for power.” Under this context, as Sheldon Wolin put it, “the wholly good man and wholly evil one are rendered superflu-ous.” Kristol’s role in eliminating the Chafee bill makes him partly the latter.
Ironically, it is the basic elements of the Chafee bill that have been the target of current Republican scrutiny. The resistance to the Affordable Care Act, which hinges on the mandates, represents yet another episode of the shifting political tides. The question is begged: Who now plays the role of Kristol? Not a single individual, but many.
The GOP of today is nearly en-gulfed by the “no compromise” strat-egy, at times betraying their traditional positions. The Democratic Party is not blameless either, as the partisan divide is widened everyday.
The rhetoric, too, has changed. Politicians to the extremes of either side no longer say they oppose just certain provisions of an opposition’s bill; they instead oppose the bill outright.
But this nonetheless reiterates the point — the condition of power requires a contrast of “them vs. us.”
It is not too difficult to notice the pandering, either. For instance, both presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush used stimulus policies to revive the economy. Yet, when President
Barack Obama issues a stimulus pack-age, GOP leaders cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war. The same can be said, in a relative way, of the Affordable Care Act, of which Democrat’s would say inches uncomfortably close to Republican policies (a market-oriented approach).
Noting the hypocrisy is of course nothing new, but it nevertheless un-derscores the ongoing struggle to paint the other side as the villain. This is the rawness of politics — the dirty play that came to define Machiavelli’s work.
Under the guise of political rallies and pseudo-events at the World War II memorial, the House Republicans again stand poised as Machiavellian actors attempting to usurp power — or perhaps take advantage of it. Recklessly utilizing the dual threats of a debt default and the government shutdown, the GOP has adopted the “evil” means to the ends. They certain-ly recognize, as did Kristol, the political threat posed by the Affordable Care Act, and they intend to stamp it out.
Going back further, moderate Republicans embraced the tea party influx of 2010 as a means by which they could overthrow the Democratic majority. In an effort to retain power and win the voters, the party had to differentiate itself from Obama and abandon some of its own positions, even at the expense of the well being of Americans (embracing auster-ity, the 2011 debt ceiling crisis, the “Sequester”, etc.). As a result, the moderates no longer control their own party.
What we now face are politicians on both sides of the aisle willing to block and repeal anything they don’t like, and patiently wait until the next election cycle affords them the oppor-tunity to again seize power.
Perhaps Dole’s reflection on the early 1990s provides an anecdote: “You give up some things and you get some things. If you get 70 percent, that’s OK. You don’t, just put a big ‘No’ sign on your desk.”
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Leah Stasieluk/Iowa State DailyColumnist Michael Glawe sees history repeat itself as present-day politicians refuse compromise on health care act, a mirror image of the 1990s’ Democratic obstinacy. We now face are politicians on both sides of the aisle willing to block anything they don’t like.
Well, here we are in a fine mess.Congress has gone rogue and
can’t pass a “continuing resolu-tion” that would keep funding the government at last year’s levels. The Legislature should actually pass a real budget for this year, but Congress is so dysfunctional that its members rarely can get their act together and pass a budget.
Many of my students have been asking me what consequences the shutdown has on their lives. More significantly they wonder about the potential of a default of the financial obligations of the federal government. That could come if the borrow author-ity of the government, in other words the “debt ceiling,” is not increased.
The federal government sells treasury bonds to investors and then uses those funds to operate the many government programs. The federal government has always borrowed with the exception of a few extraordinary years. Today, China and other foreign nations as well as American investors and mutual funds buy those bonds
because they pay a nice interest rate and were considered a very safe in-vestment. Safe, that is, until this train wreck in Washington.
A “default” happens when a debtor — the U.S. government in this case — does not meet his legal obliga-tion according to the contract. In other words, it has not made a scheduled payment. That would have huge rever-berations throughout the global, and therefore the U.S., economy. It could hit students hardest in terms of get-ting short-term jobs — think the Mall, retail stores, etc. — because consumer demand would evaporate as people hang on to their money.
A bigger financial crisis, such as continued uncertainty about the debt of the United States, will lead to a contraction of the economy, fear and loathing in the business community, and job stagnation which could deeply affect graduating students.
Already one of my students talked to me about her dad being furloughed from his federal U.S. Department of Agriculture job. There are probably hundreds of students in the same situ-ation. Moreover, probably hundreds of thousands of Americans working for government subcontractors are being
furloughed as well, and they are not even being reported because they are technically not “federal employees.” For families with students in college, that loss of income — especially if pro-longed — could be catastrophic given the costs of college.
College students also benefit from many government programs, especial-ly student scholarships and student loans. A government shutdown or default could result in financial aid not being processed.
Another concern is food stamps. It is surprising how many college students, who generally are quite low income and often have families, need this assistance to make ends meet.
Finally, we have many veterans re-turning to college and some disabled vets. The payments by Veteran’s Affairs to those students could also suffer from the malfunction in Washington.
As I always say, we are actu-ally not aware on a day-to-day basis of how much we benefit from so many programs that are designed to improve our opportunities and make us happier and more successful. A government shutdown clarifies that and perhaps makes us appreciate our government more.
Students could feel effects of shutdownSteffen Schmidt is university professor of political science.
Iowa has always prided itself on academic excellence. We live in a state which, historical-ly, has been the place for education initiatives to blossom and educational professionals to thrive. Iowa, after all, is the birthplace of the Iowa Test of Basic skills and the ACT college assessment — both nationally recognized assessment tests. And in the 1980s and 1990s, our Midwest state led the country in reading and math scores, for several grades.
But that is no longer the case.According to a report from the National
Assessment of Educational Progress in 2009, Iowa’s scores fell from “top in the nation to average.” The achievement disparity between students with and without disabilities was actually the largest in the nation — and only 29 percent of Iowa students, according to the study, were enrolled in Algebra I or any other higher level math course. Only three states recorded lower math enrollment figures.
Finally, in 2010, two-thirds of Iowa high school students failed to meet the require-ments for the ACT — the test that educators in our state were the first to develop and implement. This means that only one-third of our graduating students actually proved themselves to be prepared for college.
“Over the last two decades, Iowa has stagnated educationally,” said former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at the 2011 Iowa Education Summit. “Many nations and states are now out-performing Iowa.” Duncan cited several reasons for this shift in education dominance, with lowered standards for college readiness and educator ineffective-ness as two of the most important.
So far during his term, Gov. Terry Branstad has enabled several education reforms that hold teachers to higher standards, as well as changing the way they are evaluated and paid. But Iowa needs more. We need a comprehen-sive, statewide education standard for teach-ers to follow and students to be tested on.
Branstad said in his September address to the Iowa Board of Education, that because Iowa was the last state to implement national standards for its education system, it has fallen behind in a big way. What we need are standards — and we need them to be high.
On July 29, 2010, Iowa adopted the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a program created to get each state on the “same page” with education. Common Core standards are designed to build off of current state standards and clearly spell out the con-cepts and ideas students should be learning at specific grade levels, from kindergarten to graduation. Iowa will fully adopt these stan-dards during the 2014-15 school year.
The problem is, Branstad will likely face opposition in promoting these standards dur-ing the coming year. Republicans and some Democrats prefer to maintain the more local-ized control of education systems; across the nation, tea party supporters and more conser-vative congress members have fought against the Common Core curriculum, claiming that it equalizes every public classroom in America. But what’s wrong with that?
If each classroom has the freedom to implement the curriculum they wish, while still meeting the Common Core testing stan-dards, there is no reason to oppose the new program. Based on the data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, lacking a set of central guidelines is causing more harm than good to Iowa students and Iowa’s educa-tion reputation.
Branstad needs our support in his efforts to improve Iowa. These problems can — and should — be addressed in order to return Iowa to its place at the top of the nation’s education system.
Iowa needs statewide standards for stu-dents, from mathematics to reading, and they need to be high. Without offering some sort of central plan for teachers to follow, and a set of expectations for students to learn, Iowa has no hope of once again becoming an education leader.
Whether it is Common Core or another initiative taken to improve education results, Iowa needs to get its education system back under control — and quickly — before we slip further behind the rest of the nation in educa-tion quality.
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Olivia Meyer finally found a fight. After a year as a member of the ISU Boxing Club, Meyer and her coach Jon Swanson finally found another female boxer for her to compete against in the ring.
Meyer, the only female boxer in the club, had no experience in boxing as a freshman when she arrived ar Iowa State last year. After discovering the club at Destination Iowa State, she de-cided to give it a shot.
Meyer spent the year in ex-
tensive training, but had no luck last spring in finding a match against a female boxer in her weight class.
At long last, Meyer earned her first fight this year on Sept. 28 against Damarise Rodriguez, a member of the Muscatine County Boxing Club. The match was held in Omaha, Neb., at Victory Boxing Club, where Meyer earned her first official victory.
Meyer entered the match with some nerves, but focused on staying calm throughout the fight.
“I had heard that Demarise had a couple of fights on her, so it made me nervous, but I just got in there,” Meyer said. “A lot of people in their first fights like to lose their cool and their tech-nique kind of gives out.
“You just have to remain
cool and calm throughout the entire match and feed off the opponent.”
The men on the team have had to eliminate any and all fears of entering the ring with a female in order to help prepare Meyer for her matches.
“The guys didn’t want to hit her at first and weren’t used to working with a woman,” Swanson said. “So eventually they had to realize that she was going to get into the ring with a woman who was going to come after her.”
After entering the ring with Meyer, the men soon understood they had another problem to worry about beside just hitting a woman. Potentially a bigger problem.
“None of the guys wanted to hit a girl, but now it was go-ing to be a girl’s going to beat you
up,” Swanson said. “To a guy, one thing is you don’t want to hit a girl, but getting beat up by a girl might be worse.”
When sparring with Meyer for the first time, many of the men didn’t know what to expect. They had to learn to adjust to her level of fighting.
“You have to gauge how ag-gressive to be when getting into the ring with her the first couple of times,” said Cody Campbell, senior and club president. “It’s gotten to the point where she’s pretty good and she’s comfort-able where you can just work your moves at a pace that you want.”
Meyer has refused to back down from any challenges pre-sented to her and has no fears as to whom she fights against.
“You’re stepping up to the
challenge of me, so I’m going to accept this challenge and take you on,” Meyer said. “I don’t care what gender you are, what age you are, or what your background is as long as you get in there and give it all you got.”
Meyer has been provided the opportunity to train and spar in every practice with all male boxers.
“I have an advantage over other female competitors be-cause I am boxing with all males, most who are experienced and who teach me a lot of their tech-niques,” Meyer said.
As far as respect goes, the rest of the members of the club and Swanson view Meyer as just another boxer — one of them.
Meyer’s next match has been scheduled for Oct. 19 against an unknown boxer from Muscatine.
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With all four losses this season coming in at an average of less than one touchdown, it is easy to see how the ISU football team thinks its 1-4 record could just as easily be flipped the other direction.
Both ISU defensive starters Luke Knott and Jacques Washington played every single defensive snap against No. 20 Texas Tech on Oct. 12 in a 42-35 losing effort. Each of them were on the field for 101 defen-sive snaps. How many of them cost Iowa State the game? How many plays through the first five games have cost them?
“You take back two or three plays, and our record is flipped pretty much,” Knott said. “But you’ve got to have an every down fo-cus. If the person could’ve been a step quicker there, or a step quicker here, then that changes the whole
course of the game.”Iowa State has found
ways to stay in the ball game, forcing turnovers and winning the special teams battle. In the lat-est game against the Red Raiders, the team was out-gained by more than double in offense yardage at 666 to 311. But they won the turn-over battle 3-0, and Jarvis West took a kickoff back for a 95-yard touchdown.
“It’s one of the things I talked to the team about yesterday, why good things are on the horizon,” said ISU coach Paul Rhoads. “You don’t play as good of special teams as we’re play-ing right now, you don’t have the turnover margin that we have right now, score more points as an of-fensive football team and not going to have things go your way.”
Against Texas Tech, the ISU defense forced three turnovers with two fumble recoveries in the second quarter and a Jeremiah George interception in the fourth quarter. From those turnovers, they pro-duced a pair of rushing touchdowns.
“[If] they fumble a punt, we get another turn-over and put us on the 20-
yard line,” said ISU running back Jeff Woody. “Just to make sure we capitalize on the things we need to capi-talize on when opportuni-ties present themselves, we have to take them.”
Whatever the problem is, Iowa State’s only defini-tive answer can be to keep grinding away, starting with the daunting task of stop-ping the No. 1 scoring of-
fense in the country with Baylor, who is ranked No. 2 in passing and No. 4 in rushing.
“As long as our kids keep fighting and giving the effort they are, allowing the improvement to take place that I see, we’re going to keep being in ball games and sooner or later we’re going to end up on top,” Rhoads said.
Brain Achenbach/Iowa State DailyISU redshirt senior defensive back Jacques Washington tackles Texas running back Malcolm Brown during the Cyclones 31-30 loss to the Longhorns on Oct. 3 at Jack Trice Stadium. The Cyclones will take on No. 12-ranked Baylor at 6 p.m. Saturday.
Jonathan Krueger/ Iowa State DailyOlivia Meyer is the only female member of the boxing club. Because women don’t often box, finding competition at other schools is rather difficult. She won her first college fight on Sept. 28.
Cyclones succeed in turnover battles, sees ‘good things on the horizon’
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Joi Mahon, ISU alum-na and owner of Dress Forms Design Studio, was named the 2013 Teacher of the Year by one of the largest independent fash-ion sewing events in the nation.
Traveling across the country to design for cli-ents, Mahon has perfected the number of measure-ments to have the best fitting garments. She has taken her skills to the class-room, teaching a number of classes and recently teamed up with Baby Lock USA Sewing Machines to teach fit at many sewing events.
With the sponsorship of Baby Lock, Mahon con-tinues to flourish and es-tablish herself as one of the
best educators in fit. With years of experience and ad-vice, Mahon speaks to the topic of fit differently than most designers.
“People aren’t address-ing what [a] body looks like prior to working on gar-ment,” Mahon said.
Recently, Mahon was awarded Teacher of the Year at the American Sewing Expo.
“She says things that make the technique mem-orable,” said Nancy Faught, one of Mahon’s students. “One of the things that makes her unique is her personality and the abso-lute love of teaching, and more importantly her love for her students.”
Voted on by attendees, Mahon’s award honors her talent for educating in the apparel field.
“That is a rare com-
bination of talent. Joi’s classes are fun and yet stu-dents will learn effortlessly, maybe not even realizing they are learning,” Faught said about Mahon’s teach-ing talent.
After receiving her award, Mahon developed a nationwide fashion de-sign competition. The American Sewing Expo Designer Joi 1/2 Scale Challenge consists of a
yearlong design challenge alongside the designer for the first 100 registrants. Winners and prizes will be awarded at next year’s American Sewing Expo.
Graduating top of her class at Iowa State, estab-lishing herself in the indus-try and continuing to grow as an educator and design-er, Mahon speaks highly of developmental time in her sewing career.
Mahon began her ca-reer in a sixth grade gar-ment construction class and continued perfecting her skills, working for a tailor at age 14 to gain an understanding of different body types.
“It was a very valuable experience where a lot was learned,” Mahon said of her time with the tailor.
Studying apparel, merchandising and design
at Iowa State, Mahon cred-its her success to spending weekend nights perfecting her skills.
“I was that designer who worked on Friday nights while everyone else
was out partying,” Mahon said.
Mahon quickly began her career following col-lege by starting her own business, Dress Forms Design Studio.
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Alumna named Teacher of the Year at national sewing expoBy [email protected]
Courtesy of Joi MahonJoi Mahon, owner of Dress Forms Design Studio, was chosen as the 2013 Teacher of the Year at the American Sewing Expo.
I was that designer who worked on Friday nights while everyone else was out partying.”
Joi Mahon