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Des Moines will be a gathering place for atheists and non-believers Easter weekend.

The American Atheists, one of the largest atheism activist groups in the nation, will be hosting their annual convention Thursday to Sunday in Des Moines.

The convention already has nearly 700 people confirmed to attend, including mem-bers of Iowa State’s Atheist and Agnostic Society.

Hector Avalos, professor of philosophy and religious studies and adviser of the Atheist and Agnostic Society, believes the convention will benefit atheist activism in Iowa in several different ways.

“First, it will give them a moral boost be-cause they may feel rewarded for their helping to put Iowa secularism on the map,” Avalos said. “Second, local secularists will be intro-duced to a national audience and network of atheists around the nation.”

Avalos said the publicity for the confer-ence may help attract more people in Iowa to local secularist groups. He is hopeful that the term “atheist” in Iowa may become a more normal self-description.

“I already know many who are less fear-ful of using that word to identify themselves, though there is a long way to go,” Avalos said.

A conference centered on atheism, partic-

ularly during the Christian holiday of Easter, seems atypical in a state like Iowa. From Avalos’ experiences, Iowa is perceived around the country as a beacon of hope for secular causes.

“The idea that a Midwest farm state has legalized gay mar-riage, when many states with more liberal reputations have not, is certainly one development that attracted the attention of atheists, who tend to sup-port gay marriage,” Avalos said. “The fact that Iowa has defeated many ef-forts to introduce in-telligent design into public education also has generated the perception that Iowans re-ally stand up for science education.”

A v a l o s said athe-i s t s a r o u n d the nation were also at-

Tyler Danielson, former ISU student, died March 13, 2010, in an automobile accident dur-ing Spring Break.

Tyler will be honored with a memory tree-planting ceremony at 3 p.m. Friday near the electronic sign on the north side of Hilton Coliseum.

“Tyler loved going to school at Iowa State, which was an important factor in the deci-sion to plant a tree in his honor,” said Steve Danielson, Tyler’s father.

“We wanted to have a place for us to go when we come back to Ames as a family and gather to remember him,” he said.

Since the aftermath of Tyler’s accident, communication between Tyler’s family and the dean’s office led to the idea of honoring the student through a memorial and scholarship award for students in criminal justice, Tyler’s major.

The Danielson family’s intentions were to have the memorial ceremony before the fall semester of 2010, but through hard work and much communication the decision was made before Winter Break to host the ceremony Friday.

“In trying to establish some sort of an on-going tribute to Tyler and the fact that he was leaning in the direction of Iowa State’s crimi-nal justice foundation, it just seemed to be a good fit to have a lasting legacy in Tyler’s honor through awarding a selected student with a scholarship,” Steve said.

“Hopefully the recipient will have a suc-cessful law enforcement career and be able to carry on what Tyler wasn’t able to do,” Steve said.

“Iowa State has been excellent and out-standing to work with through this process of finding a way to honor our son and his adven-ture at Iowa State,” Steve said.

With 20 dances, 20 choreographers and nearly 500 members from every college on campus, Dub H, the hip-hop dance club, will present its show, “Light Up The Night,” on Saturday.

Different from shows past, the club wanted to bring the dances and theme back to the hip hop roots that so heavily perme-ated the shows nearly a decade ago when the club was formed.

Haley Wakefield, senior in hotel, restau-rant and institution management and senior of the club, has been dancing in Dub H for four years.

“There is not a bad dance in this set,” Wakefield said. “We wanted to bring it back to that sort of ‘Fame,’ that type of flashy, ‘We’re here, we want you to pay attention to us, we’re gonna light up the night.’”

Although she has been a dancer since the age of 4, Wakefield had never danced hip hop until she came to Iowa State and joined Dub H. She became a part of the club and started dancing in the shows.

Wakefield promised a flaming radio back-drop and a “pretty intense” show and said the dances are family-friendly and an overall g o o d time.

Ke e s h a Wormely is in her fifth

s e m e s t e r in Dub H as a

choreographer and loves hav-

ing the chance to see dancers live out what she saw in her head.

Wormely, who choreographed two of the dances in the show, said it’s not just Saturday that will be good.

“I think it’s ev-ery show that we

have,” she said. “You’re go-

ing to get the best of every-t h i n g .

E v e r y b o d y ’ s styles are so differ-ent that it will keep the crowd interested and keep the crowd go-ing through the show. Everybody can ex-pect great things and great performanc-es and it gets better every semester.”

Another choreogra-pher, Demetrius Scott, said Saturday’s show is the biggest of the year for the club.

“It’s kinda like the Super Bowl of the semester for us,” Scott said. “It’s the big dance ev-erybody’s waiting for.”

Steven Flagg is a choreographer for Dub H and in his 12th semester in the club.

Choreographing nearly 20 dances dur-ing his Dub H career, Flagg is choreographing three for this weekend’s show.

“What I find special about Saturday’s show is that this is where all the hard work that I have put in over the semester pays off,” Flagg said. “It’s an awesome feeling to see what started out as thoughts and ideas in my head transform into what people will be seeing this Saturday.”

Flagg said Dub H has become like a family to him.

“For some students, this club has changed lives for the better,” Flagg said. “And it gives everyone that joins an opportunity to branch out and push themselves to try things they normally may never have tried.

“With Dub H, it’s like a family because you feel like you belong to something and everyone supports and cares for one another. Dub H for life.”

Easter Sunday marks a time for Christians everywhere to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, but their faith can be tested when problems like commercialization and other motivations for celebra-tion risk depriving the holiday of its meaning.

Easter tends to see a rise in the number of church attendees. Brian Peck, president of The Rock Christian Students, believes family values can frequently be a contribu-tor to the spike in churchgoers.

“Maybe people especially go because maybe their mom would appreciate that you go at least this one day a year,” Peck said. “It’s kind

a special thing. I think a lot of it is tied to families.”

There is a perception that there are many so-called “twice-a-year Christians,” especially in America.

“People have said that going to church doesn’t

make you a Christian any more than being in a ga-rage makes you a car,” Peck said. “[Church] isn’t de-scribed in scripture as what

Christianity is about.”Michael Patterson, senior in

computer engineering and presi-dent of the Campus Crusade for Christ, agrees attendance and labels aren’t as important as what people get out of going to church.

“God doesn’t work on some type of point system where those who attend church regularly are ‘good’ Christians and those who attend church only on Christmas and Easter are ‘bad’ Christians,” Patterson said. “That’s just not how it works, and the Bible makes this extremely clear.”

With the commercialization that comes with many Christian holidays, the original mean-ings of these holidays, as well as Christianity in general, are often misunderstood.

Reverend Whit Malone, pas-tor at the Collegiate Presbyterian Church in Ames, thinks that from an outsider’s perspective, it must be confusing.

“Do we worship Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny or Jesus?,” Malone said. “For some it must look like we really just worship ourselves with the amount of money and

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ABOVE: Keesha Wormely, staff member in child care services, teaches some moves to members of Dub H during the rehearsal for Saturday’s performance. Photo: Karuna Ang/Iowa State Daily

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LEFT: A member of Dub H practices Wednesday at Forker Building during a rehearsal for their performance Saturday. Photo: Karuna Ang/Iowa State Daily

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energy we expend on the cul-tural trappings of Christmas and Easter.”

However, Malone doesn’t condemn these perceptions.

He instead sees most of what Christians do as a cul-ture during their holidays as an expression of hunger to believe in and live for some-thing bigger than they are.

Patterson agrees, say-ing Easter can be celebrated however people wish.

“If I want to spend the entire day of Easter think-ing about Jesus, I’m free to do so,” Patterson said. “Similarly, if I want to buy huge amounts of chocolate and spend Easter eating it, I’m also free to do so.”

Patterson said that the commercialization of holi-days is simply a product of the consumerist society that we live in today, and that he’s not personally offended by it at all.

Above all, Malone be-lieves Easter means that love

wins.“Jesus loved even to

death,” Malone said. “His resurrection means

that love is more power-ful than death. And this is not just about the afterlife, though I look forward to that too. Because unconditional love wins in the end, we can risk loving unconditionally here on earth,” Malone said.

“It’s really ... the climax of everything [Jesus] did,” Peck said. “I think that [1 Corinthians 15:12-14] really sums it up. The reality is ... that if Christ wasn’t resur-rected, we’d ultimately be wasting our lives.”

“But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resur-rection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is use-less and so is your faith.” — 1 Corinthians 15:12-14

tracted to Iowa after seeing the visibility of local atheist groups.

One of these groups is Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers, a non-profit social group work-ing to create a community of support for nonbelievers in Iowa, be those atheists, free-thinkers, secular humanists, agnostics and other non-reli-gious people.

One of their most success-ful efforts was a DART bus ad campaign that read “Don’t

believe in God? You are not alone.”

The American Atheists, the group organizing the conven-tion, had their own campaign around the Des Moines metro area to promote the event, which read, “You know it’s a myth. We KNOW you’re right.”

Atheism is a term that of-ten has negative connotations. Avalos said he believes this is due to the same reasons other minority groups are perceived in a negative light.

“Americans are predomi-nantly religious and have been

socialized to think that reli-gion is necessary for good citi-zenship and morals,” Avalos said. “Atheists, therefore, are perceived to lack good morals and as anti-social.”

“People who don’t know atheists personally may also fear what they don’t know just as they do with other minority groups, such as Muslims and immigrants.”

The charge that athe-ists have no morals is the one Avalos hears the most frequently.

He wrote a book in 2005, entitled “Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence,” to refute such a claim.

Avalos said atheists believe moral codes should be based on causes and consequences that can be proven.

He also believes that a mor-al code revolving around God tends to be more chaotic and arbitrary because people can interpret what God wants in a number of different ways.

“Thus, you have Christians who say homosexuality is a sin, and Christians who believe homosexuality is not a sin,” Avalos said.

“You have Christians who believe the death penalty is murder, and Christians who believe the death penalty is not murder. Historically, God-

based morality has never re-sulted in a uniform set of prin-ciples or actions,” he said.

Avalos said the other prob-lem with religion-based mo-rality is some people become convinced that murder is per-missible if they are command-ed by God to do it.

Avalos said atheists would say one should never take someone’s life based on the will of a being whose existence cannot be proven.

“As an atheist, I focus on making the world around me better because I do not live and expend my resources living for an afterlife,” Avalos said.

“As an atheist, my moral-

ity is focused on relationships with real human beings, and not on relationships with be-ings I do not know exist,” he said.

Avalos will speak at the convention on why the con-cept of intelligent design is not considered science.

On top of that, several members of the ISU Atheist and Agnostic Society will be part of a panel discussion dur-ing the convention.

The American Atheists National Convention will be Thursday to Sunday in the Embassy Suites on the River, 101 E. Locust St., in downtown Des Moines.

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A new and improved film program will be available for ISU students beginning in the fall 2011 semester.

The Cinema Project Round Two bill was discussed and voted on at the Government of the Student Body meeting Wednesday night.

The bill proposed a combination of the Student Union Board and Free Friday Flicks film programs into one program.

One of the problems with the existing film programs is that they are not at set lo-cations and times, which can be confusing for students, said Nate Dobbels, speaker of the senate and senior in agricultural and life sciences education.

The new program will be held in Carver 101 each weekend of the academic year with pre-release movies shown twice Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings.

Anthony Maly, former GSB finance director and senior in political science, said another problem with the current programs is that freshmen and incoming students do not know the full extent of the film program at Iowa State.

“It’s very hard for them as students to really realize what’s going on,” Maly said.

The bill requested $80,000 to fund the program. The funding would cover:One-time items:

Projector (8,000 to 10,000 Lumens) Screen Sound equipment Equipment and installation Contingency Year one costs: Room wear and tear Custodial Movie player Movie costs

Dobbels said both SUB and Free Friday Flicks support the program.

“Combining the two resources for one main purpose that will show movies for

free for our students is a good idea,” said Rene Hamilton, president of Free Friday Flicks and senior in aerospace engineering.

Sawyer Baker, liberal arts and sciences senator and sophomore in politi-cal science, asked if this program was be-ing proposed simply because the Cyclone Cinema project failed and GSB was look-ing for a way to spend its money.

Dobbels said GSB is not just looking for a way to spend the money because they have it, but rather they want to spend it be-cause it will offer an alternative entertain-ment option to students.

“It is not just an extension of the first project because the project didn’t fail,” Dobbels said.

By a vote of 27-4-0, the bill passed.Also on the agenda was an amend-

ed version of the Connecting with Constituents bill.

Spencer Hughes, vice speaker of the senate and open-option freshman, said the amendments were made in order to clarify the purpose and requirements of the bill.

“We wanted to get some structure to this and make sure that it was actually worthwhile going forward,” Hughes said.

The amendments made to the bill included:

Each GSB senator must attend at least one student organization once each month during the months of September through November and January through April.

If a senator cannot attend a meeting during that month, they may attend two meetings during the preceding or follow-ing month to make up for it.

Senators cannot attend a student or-ganization meeting that was previously attended by another senator in order to fulfill the requirement.

Senators must introduce themselves to the organization at the meeting.

Senators must report to the chairper-

son of the Public Relations Committee before attending the student organization meeting.

GSB meetings do not count as a stu-dent organization meeting.

Hughes said the decision to require senators to attend student organization meetings that have not yet been attended is meant to increase interaction between students and GSB.

“We don’t want to see multiple sena-tors going to meetings other senators are going to because we want to connect with as many students as possible,” he said.

The amendment to the bill passed by unanimous consent.

An amendment was made to the amended bill by Erik Manatt, off-campus senator and graduate in materials science and engineering. The amendment stated that students may also attend an event offered by a student organization to fulfill the requirement, if first approved by the speaker of the senate.

The amendment passed.Many senators argued about the feasi-

bility and time requirement of the bill.Eric Harms, off-campus senator and

senior in material engineering, said a bill should not be needed to get senators to go out and connect with students. Senators should already be doing that as part of their duties as elected GSB members.

“It shouldn’t take 68 lines to make you fulfill your duties and do the right thing,” Harms said.

Baker said this bill may lead student organizations to think senators are only attending their meeting because they are required to and not because they want to.

“Groups are going to know that if we contact them, it’s probably because we’re required to,” Baker said.

Sean Morrissey, off-campus senator and senior in environment science, sug-gested having a test run of the program to see how it goes before enacting it as a bill.

“I would rather see a voluntary pilot program, this way we can see what works and what doesn’t work,” Morrissey said. “I think we’re really underestimating the

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Furniture

Designer manifests green conceptFurniture designer

Peter Danko spent a week at Iowa State lecturing on the importance of being environmentally-friendly.

“Everyone says that they want to be green, but no one really does it,” Danko said. “I guess my whole belief is that there are an awful lot of things we can do.”

In his quest to make America more “green”, Danko designs furniture out of mold-ed plywood and other environ-mentally-friendly materials. He challenges himself to make furniture from materials that Obviously Manifest Green, which are materials that can be easily seen to be “green.”

“When people buy things, we buy it because of the emo-tional connection,” Danko said. “My whole thing is about making a style change toward something more environmen-tally friendly.”

Although he is a furniture designer now, Danko originally went to college to become an illustrator. He earned a bach-elor’s degree in fine arts and art history from the University of Maryland,

After college, Danko began carving claws for coat racks in a clothing store.

“That’s how I started woodworking, and I perfectly loved it,” Danko said. “I was really attracted to the smell of the wood and the smell of the woodshop.”

Danko soon became inter-ested in designing chairs. He said his fascination with chairs is due to their complexity.

“You’ve got structure, and then you’ve got of course aes-thetics,” Danko said. “You’ve got economics because, you know, you’ve got to make it.”

Eventually, Danko opened up his own shop near Georgetown University in Washington D.C. While there, he visited a factory that made things out of molded plywood.

“They would make these big sheets of plywood out of this beautiful material, and then they would cut it up into little pieces, and put it to-gether like they put together solid wood chairs,” Danko said. “This kind of plywood is not at all like the kind of plywood you buy at Home Depot or Lowes, this is really fine quality wood.”

Danko decided to start making chairs out of molded plywood. The molded ply-wood is made of thin layers of laminated wood glued together with environmentally-friendly adhesives. He said molded plywood uses resources nine times more efficiently than solid wood.

“Molded plywood is sort of a relatively new medium,” Danko said. “They’ve only been making furniture out of it until, well really, less than a hundred years, and solid wood has been around for thousands of years.”

Architects and interior de-signers are Danko’s main mar-ket. He said he has designs in hotels, schools and dorms.

“I’ve done a lot of university work,” Danko said. “I’d like to do the University of Iowa, but I guess I should show them my work first.”

Although his favorite chairs are the ones he constructs with molded plywood, Danko said his most popular chairs are the ones that he makes with solid plywood and recycled seatbelts.

“I think that the reason [why they’re the most popu-lar] is because people like solid plywood,” Danko said. “They just don’t consider [molded

Furniture designer Peter Danko, who spent a week at Iowa State as a lecturer, stresses the importance of being environmentally friendly, stretching the concept further than most designers. Courtesy photo: Peter Danko

Danko’s unique chair design is made of molded plywood that ‘uses thin layers of laminated wood glued together with environmen-tally-friendly adhesives’ along with recycled seatbelts. Courtesy photo: Peter Danko

Danko’s table designs also uniquely combine form with function. Without losing his design creativity, Danko manages to create green-friendly concepts. Courtesy photo: Peter Danko

plywood].”Danko is currently working

on his NoCO2 design, which is furniture made from automo-bile tires. He is also working on a machine that puts edges on plastic quickly and easily.

In the future, Danko plans on finishing his kitchen, which he has been working on for about a dozen years. He said his kitchen uses 20 percent of the wood used in a normal kitchen and is 30 percent of what a normal kitchen weighs.

“There’s less than half of the material used in a normal kitchen, and everything is recyclable,” Danko said. “It’s just totally different as far as resource consciousness; it’s really different.”

Danko said he believes people will eventually become more sustainable and environ-mentally-friendly. This belief is due to the fact that people today are much more aware of their environmental impact.

“We want everybody to have a higher standard of liv-ing, but we have to change how we use resources,” Danko said. “It just makes sense.”

• If 25 percent of U.S. households used 10 fewer plastic bags a month, we would save more than 2.5 billion bags a year.So: after you go grocery shopping, save those bags and use them next time you go.• More than 200 million gallons of gasoline are used every day in the U.S.So: leave your car at your apartment or house and bike in. If you don’t have a bike, jump on one of CyRide’s Cybrid buses.• Americans throw away enough glass in a month to fill an entire sky scraper.So: take your glass bottles to the Ames Resource Recovery Plant. They accept glass items for free.• About half of all rainforests are already gone.So: email assignments to professors and don’t print off all of your syllabi. Recycle your newspapers and try to use a notebook for more than just one class.• A giant “island” of trash floats near Hawaii where few people travel. The island is called Great Pacific Garbage Patch and is made up of mostly plas-tic items broken down to their small-est form. This patch is estimated to be twice the size of Texas.So: recycle your plastic items so they don’t end up in the oceans.

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Campus

Dining halls strive for sustainability

As thousands of students pass through Iowa State’s dining halls each day the only thing on their minds is sat-isfying an appetite. But for those who are responsible for providing that service, they’re thinking about how to get the food and if they can do it in a sustainable way.

Local food: Five years ago Iowa State coordinated a small program with local farms that would provide different kinds of produce to ISU dining halls. Today, $600,000 of ISU’s dining budget goes toward purchas-ing food from those farms. Nancy Levandowski, direc-tor of ISU dining, said they’re still shooting for a higher goal of incorporating locally

grown food into the menus.“Right now 5 to 10 per-

cent of our food comes from local places,” Levandowski said. “But we’d like to get that up to 35 percent.”

The food bought from lo-cal farms ranges from fruits, vegetables, dairy and meat. Some of the local farms in-clude Onion Creek Farms by North Dakota St. and The Berry Patch Farm in Nevada,

but all of the farms are within Iowa’s borders.

Trayless dining: The dining program is also try-ing to be more sustainable in other ways outside of food specifically. Three and a half years ago the idea of going “trayless” was introduced by a group of students. The con-cept was created to attempt to find a way to waste less food. In fall 2009, ISU Dining

made the renovated Season’s Marketplace a completely trayless dining hall. The dif-ference in waste was drastic between Season’s and Union Drive Marketplace.

“The waste was twice as much at Union Drive per per-son than it was at Season’s in 2009,” Levandowski said.

Today, all of the dining halls have gone trayless. She also said that on average, Union Drive Marketplace and Seasons save 2,060 pounds of food per week.

Food donations: While dealing with waste issues has shown to be successful, ISU Dining has also found a way to make use of food that is still edible. If the dining halls have leftover food, it’s taken to Food at First, a soup kitchen located on Kellogg Avenue.

“Food at First offers eight free meals per week as well as a ‘Free Market’ that gives away perishable goods on Monday and Thursday nights,” Levandowski said.

To-Go containers: Chantal Roberts, senior in agronomy and the ISU Dining sustainability coor-dinator, helps come up with other “go green” initiatives. One of these initiatives is the To-Go Container avail-able at dining halls, which came about in a conversation among students.

“Some of the dining halls used to offer disposable con-tainers that students could put food into and eat at a later time,” Roberts said. “The problem was that these dis-posable boxes would build up in the trash at residence halls.”

Roberts, along with oth-ers decided they needed to have a To-Go Container program that was consistent with all three dining centers. They also wanted it to be sustainable.

“We decided to go with a reusable container,” Roberts said. “Students pay $6 for it

Reusable To-Go containers, which cost $6, are a greener alternative to disposable containers. Used containers can be returned to the dining centers and exchanged for clean ones. Photo: Julie Vujnovich/Iowa State Daily

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In our modern, enlightened era we ro-manticize about the strength and truth of science. For many of us, she stands as a

sort of silent arbiter to our reasoning that, like lady justice, is blind to human passions and bias. Being a chemical engineering student and more fully aware of her grand contribu-tions to society than most of the public — as are most engineers — I, of all people, have sat mesmerized by her wonder and depth since my childhood.

But for all her grandeur, she has her limits, and the public seems woefully unaware of what they are and why they exist.

This may seem like an engineer nit-picking, but I assure you that a lack of understand-ing concerning the nature of science may undermine our reasoning at worst, and at best, allow us to be manipulated by those who do understand it. While the contributions of science and her history are studied well and completely in our public schools, precious little time is spent discussing the meaning of the scientific method.

The scientific method is often summed up in a few simple steps: Ask a question, Formulate a hypothesis, Test your hypothesis, Repeat your test, Draw conclusions, Repeat if necessary with a new hypothesis. This method is the benchmark of scientific reasoning. It is meant to stand as the proof of the truth of an idea in relation to the natural world. If the hypothesis fails to predict the results of the experiment many times, we may conclude that it is not true. If the next hypothesis tested ac-curately predicts the result of our experiment, we take it to be true.

This is fine, but what the scientific method has not done is guaranteed the uniqueness of that truth; that is to say, we are not certain that this hypothesis is the only one that explains the results of our experiment. This attribute is far from critical insofar as science is pursued for the sake of understanding the natural world, but the reality and mendacity of our humanity causes this to be a central point of contention in modern societal issues.

In essence, science is a philosophical

sausage grinder. The hypothesis that gets put in the grinder appears in the sausage, proven or disproven. As humans, we choose the ingre-dients of our intellectual sausage. We spice it with political implications and philosophical biases and pump it neatly into the skin of scien-tific study, and then dare to claim it is unbiased science, a reflection of the natural world.

We need only examine myriad core political issues to notice this manipulation of truth. Research may be conducted based on a hypoth-esis chosen not for the sake of understanding our natural world, but for pushing political or social agenda. If the hypothesis formed by the scientists were contrary to a political or social climate it would not receive funding and remain unproven, and therefore untrue. A simple example of this occurs in our views of race. It is common to classify micro-organisms by genotype with the goal of understanding behavioral differences.

This information may then be used to iden-tify a genotype based on an observed behavior rather than genetic testing. Humorously, we might imagine applying such an experiment to humans, but of course it will never occur, because funding such a project would forever label the supposedly impartial scientific in-stitution that undertook the study as racist. The understanding of the nature of our biology has become second in importance to societal qualms and perceptions.

Scientific inquiry into climate change, alternative energy, the origins of life, and bio-logical evolution are all subject to the political climate in which we reside.

Perhaps our generation will have to step forward and demand as much a separation of scientific research and government as our forefathers did of the sate and their religion.

Aside from sociopolitical manipula-tion, science is continually used to justify or rationalize particular ethical or moral outlooks whereupon she ought to be silent. Simply put, if something is not experimentally testable, science will have no bearing on it. This seems obvious, but we often hear people suggest that science bears relevance in such things as

societal ethics and morals. Certainly the converse is true: ethics must

be a part of scientific experimentation, but the notion that science should govern ethics, or any other branch of philosophy, is ridiculous. What would it look like to test ethics scientifically?

Let us perform a thought experiment and apply this notion to a simple ethical question: is killing a 5 year old child wrong? Our hypothesis is that it is indeed wrong to murder children 5 years of age. We might begin by getting a large group of children, say 100, that are as similar as possible. Clones would be preferable. We could then shoot them one by one. After each dead child we could look for evidence for the wrong-ness of the activity — I doubt if wrongness can be found under a microscope, but for the sake of argument we will assume it can be observed — and then analyze the results statistically.

We may find that 83 percent of the time shooting a child of 5 years is wrong. We publish our research so that someone somewhere else may repeat our experiment and verify our re-sults. We have now made one solid ethical deci-sion scientifically. Since science may test only one variable at a time; we will have to repeat it on different ages, races, and genders of children to draw accurate ethical conclusions in a broad spectrum of child murder. Sound insane? It is. Yet we hear from some that science should dictate and drive the decisions of our nation.

Science is no substitute for human judg-ment, and by its nature it never will be. Science sits a tier below philosophy and strategy. The questions of our reason and our philosophy will never be encompassed by the scientific method.

Science is truly one of the greatest accom-plishments of the human race. It stands rivaled perhaps only by the written word itself, but as citizens and as thinkers we owe to ourselves to keep our science concerned with the testable and our hypotheses as true and impartial as we may. As informed Americans, we owe it to ourselves to take a critical look at how science is used in the power structure of our nation and how it plays as much a role in shaping our thoughts as it does improving our quality of life.

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Weird Al to parody Lady Gaga song

Editorial

Sometimes, amid the politics and natural disasters and war and risks to life, you have to sit back and laugh.

The ISD Editorial Board would like you to take a moment and relax from the world and your pending cram sessions during Dead Week to enjoy a few laughs.

This particular laugh involves the work of the one and only, Weird Al Yankovic and the utterly strange Lady Gaga.

Lady Gaga has the talent to make any of her appearances into a media spectacle of wonderment that sets people off in inspired and disgusted ways.

Her new hit, “Born This Way,” has been heralded as a coming-out anthem and an inspirational song for anyone daring to be different in a world filled with those not com-fortable with lifestyles dramatically different from their own.

And who knows more about being an absolute oddball and making a spectacle of quirky antics than the maestro of madcap Weird Al?

That’s right folks, Weird Al will be parodying “Born This Way” with his song “Perform This Way,” inspired by Gaga’s red carpet entrances and media events.

But the interesting part of the story lies with Weird Al’s attempts to gain permission from the artist to record the song; a permission he does not need legally, but that he chooses to adhere to out of a personal code.

Initially he contacted Lady Gaga’s people and was asked to submit the song, which was not yet written or recorded. He then took time out of his busy schedule to write the song. He received a requirement from the Gaga camp that she needed to hear the song.

So, Weird Al went ahead and re-corded the song. It was then rejected.

As such, he went ahead and posted the song online with a message at the end for people to make donations to the Human Rights Campaign, which he had intended to donate proceeds from the song to before.

Wednesday, after Weird Al had received Lady Gaga’s rejection, he received a confirmation that the song was OK to go from Gaga’s camp. Apparently Lady Gaga had never even been given the song to hear and knew nothing of it. It was Gaga’s manager that was rejecting it.

With any luck, that manager will get the boot.

Well, long story short — too late — Weird Al will proceed with his new album and the world will get to have another fun look at how silly things can be in the world despite the terror and tragedy from nation to nation.

With all of the loss in the world, it is a happy thought to know some simple, kind of dorky things such as the music of Weird Al are still finding their way to people’s ears and letting in a few laughs amid the difficulties.

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Burn a Koran, end up in jailBy Brandon.Blue iowastatedaily.com

I wrote April 3 about Terry Jones — can’t call him “Pastor,” that would be far too respectful — burning a copy of the Koran

at the Dove World Outreach Center, and the Westboro Baptist Church burning one on Sept. 11 of last year.

Now it seems the trend has hopped the pond.

A former soldier, 32-year-old Andrew Ryan, stole a copy of the Koran from a library and set it on fire in the town center of Carlisle in the U.K., in full view of pedestrians, some of whom were children.

The BBC reported earlier this week:Carlisle Magistrates’ Court sentenced

Ryan to 70 days in prison for his crime.” It was deemed “theatrical bigotry” by the court, which claimed that Ryan “went out to cause maximum publicity and to cause distress.”

Now I understand that Britain’s laws aren’t quite the same as ours, but honestly? Theatrical bigotry? Seventy days in prison?

You fine people for destroying a library book, or you make them replace it, or both. You don’t waste time and money putting them in jail. What Ryan did is simply not a criminal offense. Would he still have gone to jail for two and a half months if he’d just lost the Koran instead of burnt it? What if he’d stolen a Bible

and burnt that?I appreciate and support the freedom of

speech, even speech which is at times unsa-vory, e.g. that of the Westboro Baptist Church. In this sense, I believe that if anyone, Muslim or otherwise persuaded, wants to interrupt a moment of silence to make his or her points in the most immature ways possible, that person is entitled to it.

At the same time, I don’t know if I sup-port Ryan in his outburst, either. Burning a Koran does little to fix a situation. This is an ethical opinion, of course; I feel the right to a freedom of speech should transcend a nation’s constitution.

The fact that men have mouths is, to me, enough that they deserve the right to use them.

As he was pulled from the courtroom in handcuffs, the BBC reports that Ryan did use his, screaming, “What about my country? What about burning poppies?”

New York Daily News reports that Ryan was referring to Emdadur Choudhury, a Muslim extremist fined in March for having lit a poppy on fire on Armistice Day 2010.

Why did Choudhury receive a fine while Ryan was sentenced to jail time? Is the only difference between them that Ryan stole and destroyed a library book? Make sure to return

your library books if you ever go there, I guess.And what about Ryan’s country? At

Armistice Day 2010, Muslim extremists also held signs that said, “British soldiers burn in hell!” and “Allah is our protector and you have no protectors.” The irony of the last sign is likely not lost on Ryan, whose protectors turned on him.

At the least, here in the U.S., the media and important figures noticed and condemned the slaying of U.N. personnel “in response” to Jones’ Koran burning. They begrudgingly accepted that Jones was within his rights after dragging him through the mud, instead of ig-noring him. A stone’s throw over the water and they’ll haul you to court for speaking your mind and demonstrating.

One other thing; while the red of the pop-pies is often noted as an ironic contrast to the red blood spilt in the fields of France and everywhere else since, I’d like to note another ironic contrast: that of the extremism.

While no one appreciates a moment of silence for millions of war dead broken by knuckleheads, I find it fitting that those whose memory they mock died to let them do so; died to let them prove in no uncertain terms the depth of their inanity.

That’s freedom of speech at its finest.

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Burning a book in the U.K., specifically the Koran, seems to be something that can land a person in jail. Though burning a Koran might be questionable as to effectiveness of the message, the resulting jailtime is questionable . Courtesy photo:Thinkstock

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Tennis

Cyclones continue to improve

The ISU tennis team will play its last game of the regu-lar season Saturday afternoon against Nebraska in Lincoln. This will be the final time the Cyclones (10-14, 1-9 Big 12) play a conference meet against the Cornhuskers (18-6, 6-4 Big 12).

“I’ve always thought of the Big 12 as Nebraska being in-cluded,” senior Liza Wischer said.

“It’s going to be weird when they don’t play them next year as a conference match,” she said.

Last weekend, the Huskers lost to No. 25 Texas and Texas A&M in Lincoln.

Both meets were lost by a final score of 5-2, and Wednesday they defeated Colorado by a final score of 7-0 in Boulder.

This will be the last meet for the Cyclones before the Big 12 Championships.

Coach Armando Espinosa said that he is seeing a lot of improvement from his team lately.

“We’re starting to play a little bit better as a group,” Espinosa said. “I think indi-viduals are doing fine, but I think overall we’re getting a little bit more consistent ef-forts throughout the lineup. I think it’s going to be good to get out there and compete and get a little bit more confidence.”

Last weekend, the Cyclones lost to Texas A&M 4-3 and to No. 25 Texas 5-2. Despite the losses, they showed a lot of competitive-ness, but Espinosa thinks that they still need to capitalize on their opportunities.

“I don’t think it’s going to change unless we start win-ning,” Espinosa said. “Against good teams, they’re going to make you pay if you don’t put them away, and that’s exactly what happened against Texas A&M and Texas.”

Last season, the Huskers defeated the Cyclones by a score of 6-1 in Ames.

Wischer had the Cyclones’ only singles victory in that meet.

“If the whole team keeps competing like we have been, and everyone goes out there and gives their best effort, we’re going to have a good shot at taking Nebraska down this coming weekend,” Wischer said. “I think that will be a re-ally big confidence booster for everyone.”

The Cyclones take on Nebraska at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Nebraska Tennis Center in Lincoln.

Team takes on Nebraska for last meet of seasonBy Clint.Cole iowastatedaily.com

Erin Karonis takes a swing during the tennis match against Kansas State on April 3. The Cyclones’ next match is their last game of the regular season, and they face Nebraska in Lincoln. Photo: Yi Yuan/Iowa State Daily

Where: Lincoln, Neb.

When: 1 p.m. Saturday

Notes: Iowa State and Nebraska will compete in their final meet as confer-ence opponents.

Nebraska won last sea-son’s matchup by a score of 6-1 in the meet in Ames.

Nebraska lost two meets last weekend, one to No. 25 Texas and one to Texas A&M.

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Iowa State searches for conference win

To this point, the 2011 soft-ball season has been largely forgettable for Iowa State and Kansas.

The Cyclones (19-20, 1-7 Big 12) and Jayhawks (28-19, 1-13) will square off in Ames this weekend.

Both teams have struggled in the Big 12 and are looking to crawl out of the conference cellar.

The Jayhawks have picked up a single conference victory, topping Texas Tech, 9-5. Since that point, the Jayhawks have lost five straight and are 1-11 in the month of April.

“It has always been good competition between Kansas and us so I’m looking forward to a good game and hopefully coming out with a better out-come than we have lately,” said Cyclone outfielder Heidi Kidwell.

Iowa State’s April has not gone much smoother. The Cyclones’ most recent loss came Wednesday against rival Iowa.

The Hawkeyes pulled out a 4-3 win, but it gave the

Cyclones a perspective on the rest of the year.

“We need to start new like this is a new half of the season,” said second baseman Erin Johnson. “The coaches are always telling us that we can pick up wherever we are and win out the rest of the games if we really want to.”

The Cyclones hold a 3-9 mark thus far in April, but are 0-6 in conference play.

Since back-to-back thrash-ings at the hands of Texas Tech, the team’s defense has improved, allowing four runs per game during a five-game stretch.

Rachel Zabriskie contin-ues to handle a bulk of the work from the mound, making 27 starts this season.

While her ERA, 3.77, and win-loss record, 12-14, have steadily eroded, her ability to guide the defense has kept the games manageable.

Offensively, the Cyclone women have struggled in re-cent weeks to match their de-fensive fire.

The team last scored dou-ble-digit runs April 7 against Minnesota, but have been held

to five or fewer runs in six of seven games since.

“We just need to get our minds set on what we can do and not what we have been do-ing,” Kidwell said.

“We didn’t hit as well as we should have against Iowa and [Thursday] in practice hitting is what we need to focus on,” Kidwell said.

Kansas has been hobbled by its own offensive struggles. Three of its last five losses have come via shutout.

The Jayhawk women have

put up more than five runs only twice in their last 18 outings.

Brittany Hile and Liz Kocon provided much if the Jayhawk power early in the season.

They have 13 and 12 home runs on the season, respec-tively. However, no Kansas hit-ter has more than three home runs in conference play.

Both teams will be looking to the weekend as a chance to improve in the conference. As one-win teams battling amongst perhaps the toughest

softball conference in college, the Jayhawks and Cyclones each have a point to prove and neither wants the denotation as the “cellar dweller.”

“We can definitely win the rest, we’ve shown that we can play with any of the teams,” Johnson said.

“We know we can play with them as long as we come out with confidence,” she said.

The first half of the two game series will begin at 4 p.m. Friday at the Southwest Athletic Complex in Ames.

Where: Southwest Athletic Complex

When: 4 p.m. Friday, noon Sunday

Notes: Both teams are searching for just their second conference win this season.

Kansas has scored more than five runs only twice in the last 18 games it has played.

Iowa State is 3-9 in April.

Kansas(28-19, 1-13)

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Outfield Heidi Kidwell hits the ball during the softball game against Oklahoma State on March 26 at the ISU Sports Complex. Photo: Zhenru Zhang/Iowa State Daily

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to competition this week-end in Iowa City.

“We’re getting to that point in that season where we’re starting to back off a little bit, so if we can catch the weather there it should be alright,” said throws coach Grant Wall.

Wall will get his first chance this outdoor sea-son to see the six throw-ers — Danielle Frere, Hayli Bozarth, Mike Zika, Zack Richards and Laishema Hampton — who are red-shirting this outdoor sea-son, compete unattached at the meet.

The meet’s sponsor, Musco Lighting, which is headquartered in Oskaloosa, provides the lighting at the Francis X. Cretzmeyer Track.

Wall is looking forward to both the well-lit environ-ment and the opportunity to be closer to Ames than is usually possible in the out-door season.

“They’re putting on a great meet, and I’m just glad we’re in Iowa for a weekend,” Wall said.

Field events at the Musco Twilight are set for a 2 p.m. start while track events are scheduled to get underway at 3:30 p.m.

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1 Victims of a storied loser6 Dough dispensers10 Björn Ulvaeus’s group14 Humiliate15 Takeout choice16 Procrastinator’s word17 Mall map phrase19 “King __”20 Forcibly expel21 Like all kidding?22 Nova Scotia hrs.25 Ken, for one26 Key with all white notes27 Unlike decaf, facetiously29 Making into cubes31 Tempt32 Jolly Roger sidekick33 Pampering place36 “The Chosen” author37 Not here38 See 38-Down39 GWB, for one40 Net addition?41 Type of cleansing acid42 Galley tool43 Trapper’s quest44 Where the House of Grimaldi reigns45 Northwest Passage ocean47 Old Russian council48 Oversee a museum50 Subtle taste52 Jerry Rice’s 208 is an NFL record53 They beg to differ

54 Shoe annoyance56 Muckraker Jacob57 Hirschfeld drawing61 One may be assumed62 All-inclusive63 Very unpopular64 Tonsil drs.65 Horse halter66 Like non-oyster months, traditionally

1 Enunciate2 “The Wire” network3 Rivière contents4 Rebekah’s firstborn5 Convicts’ level on a prison ship?6 Playwright Fugard7 Deceptive swap that literally resulted in 5-, 11-, 24- and 41-Down8 Shopping place9 “Sprechen __ Deutsch?”10 Invites across the threshold11 Narrow passage where catcalls are heard?12 Aptly named auto body adhesive13 Management target18 Diminish slowly21 Grenoble gal pal22 Syria’s most populous city23 Title for Salma Hayek24 Creative user of worn-out clothes?26 __-deucy28 Creator, in Caracas30 Big-screen format

34 Compared at the mall, say35 Fancy accessories37 “__ Ask of You”: “Phantom” duet38 With 38-Across, large pol. arenas40 Big celebration41 Evict a “Wizard of Oz” actor?43 Cuts for agts.44 “Hardball” network46 Picks up48 __ diem49 North, once51 Balearic island54 It’s taken on some hikes55 Bibliography abbr.57 Corvine sound58 Salt Lake athlete59 Court matter60 Slate workers, for short

Yesterday’s solution

Daily Crossword : edited by Wayne Robert Williams

Aries: You’re Learning FastDaily Horoscope : by Nancy Black and Stephanie ClementsDaily Sudoku

Today’s solution:

Level: medium

INSTRUCTIONS: Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every number 1 to 9. For strate-gies on solving Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

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Today’s Birthday (04/22/11). Answers come to you when you’re not looking for them. Meditate. Breathe in; breathe out. Think outside of yourself. In your career, focus on providing good service and contributing to others. You’ll be surprised with new assignments.

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

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Today has its ups and downs. Learn to enjoy every second of the good and the bad. Be present. You’re attracting the attention of an important person. Wait to make a final decision.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- No time for procrastination -- do that later. You have hidden resources. Take advantage of them. Use your impulsiveness to your favor, but don’t burn any bridges. New data fits.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Spending time reviewing the budget brings power. Discover that positive outweighs negative, and consider future investments. Don’t finance another’s whim. Romance comes later.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Listen to your partners, and get expert opinions before taking decisions. Be receptive to what they see, as this widens your view, even if you don’t see it their way now.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- The pace has picked up at work, and your focus is on productivity. Keep jamming, and discover your own high ideals. An amazing breakthrough in love surprises.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Love blossoms and things seem to ease up. Messes can lead to improvements. Let a change occur naturally. Someone close to you gets great news. Celebrate with them.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Stay close to your family and loved ones. Work at home if you can, but make sure to get enough rest. Stick to practicalities, and take care of yourself.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- For the next couple of days you have a golden voice. Don’t be afraid to ask for what you want. Generate harmony at home. Speak up for your heart’s desires.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Entering an intense shopping phase, but don’t go into debt. Inner harmony infuses your efforts. Be on the lookout for a brilliant insight.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- You’re looking good and feeling fine. Keep shifting things around as conditions move in your favor. Let children inspire. Begin writing or recording.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 6 -- It’s okay to question everything, and you don’t have to find the answer. The fun is in the asking. Try not to take things too seriously. Visualize with creativity.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Your friends really come through for the next couple of days. Tempers might fly, but at the end of the day, love prevails. If you were considering throwing a party, today’s good.

Dear Free condom wednesdays, it would be nice if you started carrying XL sizes ...

just saying

That beautiful girl studying in Howe is my girlfriend, she is

awesome

Watching a girl being dragged into a police

van while slowly slurring the words “police brutality” =

epic veishea weekend

Our relationship and our break up were

two best things that happen to me

To the couple I saw making out on cyride this morning, its 9 am

on a Monday. You should’ve stayed in

bed

The Bird is the Word... Just Saying

My excuse for everything last week?

It’s Veishea...

To those Westbound on University Blvd. to Northbound Stange

Rd,: That’s not a yield sign.

“Dear Roommate-who-hates-snakes, My python has been loose

in our apartment for

could sleep better if you didn’t know...”

Really, concert security, you

threatened me with jail

bit excessive, don’t you think?

To my roommate who is still puking from

saturday night: You are a champ because the amount of alcohol you consumed that night is probably enough to kill

a horse.

I don’t walk on water, I walk on whiskey

Just Sayin

Between reconvering from VEISHEA and

spring fever, all I see is failure ahead of me.

Just Sayin

... FINALLY.. my last semester at ISU ...

NO FINALS! ... bye bye Cyclones! ...

Since when did talking loudly on your cell

phone become socially acceptable?

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Today in History

[1793] President Washington attends opening of Rickett’s, 1st circus in U.S.

[1955] Congress orders all U.S. coins bear motto “In God We Trust”

[1976] Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor

[1989] Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter, Rickey Henderson

[1992] Gas explodes in sewer, kills 200 in Guadalajara Mexico

[2000] Elian Gonzalez is snatched by a SWAT team from his Florida relatives to return him to his father in Cuba

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Iowa State is a mildly diverse campus. Sure, there are a lot of international kids, many stu-dents from Minnesota and Illinois.

However, predominantly students come from middle-income white families from rural Iowa.

Students who do not match these charac-teristics often either go unnoticed, forgotten or unembraced for their differences.

Heidi Kang, sophomore in political science, is an Asian American student from Council Bluffs.

“We moved from Korea when I was about 5, to Los Angeles, and stayed with family,” Kang said.

The house was packed with about 13 total relatives and stayed with them until her parents could get on their feet in a brand new country.

A year later they moved away to Council Bluffs. The transition was difficult for Kang. Fitting into American culture and learning English was the hard part.

“It took me three years to learn English; my parents and I would practice having conver-sations at home in English so everyone could learn,” Kang said.

“It was hard though. I didn’t look like the oth-er kids, and there weren’t many Asians where I grew up,” she said.

Kang still speaks fluent Korean and Japanese and still participates in Korean cultural practic-es with her family.

“We celebrate Korean New Years — which is very similar to the Chinese New Years — eat Korean food, have dead ancestor ceremonies and wear traditional dresses [called] ‘hanboks’ [for certain celebrations],” Kang said. “We also celebrate two birthdays: one by the lunar calen-dar and one regular one.”

Although Kang has had a relatively smooth transition from Korea to America, she said Iowa State has been challenging.

“I get mistaken for an international student all the time. I wish people wouldn’t judge Asians on campus so much,” Kang said. “Instead of try-

ing to understand the back-ground and culture of students, people just automatically think everyone is just from China; there are other Asian countries out there.”

Kang also said she wishes the multicultural groups on Iowa State’s campus had a more active presence in student life.

“I used to be really self-conscious about be-ing Asian in a predominantly white community, and I used to be embarrassed about it,” Kang said.

Kang said now she is proud of her Korean heritage and embraces her culture.

“I started embracing it more when I got to college, but I wish people would stop judging based on stereotypes,” Kang said. “And I wish people would realize not many people get the chance to come to America.”

“Students can offer a hand to those visiting here instead of judging them, and it would make their experience that much better.”

There is little Asian American presence on campus, Kang said; even with the Asian Pacific American Awareness week, there still isn’t a noticeable involvement or population on Iowa State’s campus.

“I’m proud that we have a whole week here dedicated to us, and a whole month nationally [in May]. But I feel like people don’t really know about it or care,” Kang said. “It’s not every day you get a whole week dedicated to your culture. We should be proud.”

Kang feels disconnected from the Asian community on campus, and said it’s a struggle being a minority on campus.

“Trying to fit in with the majority of students on campus is hard, and then at the same time be-ing aware and proud of where I’ve come from is important,” Kang said.

Kang said the disconnection can be fixed by students if they embrace their heritage.

This way more people will come out about their culture and people will want to know more about each other instead of just judging based on stereotypes.

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time that this is going to take.”Trevor Brown, Campustown senator and

junior in construction engineering, said sena-tors should not be a part of GSB if they cannot find the time to attend one student organization each month.

“If you can’t give the time for one meeting a month or two meetings a month and none the next, do you really have the time to represent GSB to the best of your ability?” Brown said. “Do you really have the time to represent your con-stituents to the best of your ability?”

Dobbels said it would be “ridiculous” to fail the bill because it would be showing GSB sena-tors’ constituents that they failed to do their job in representing them.

“We need people who have time for GSB. We need people who have time for their constitu-ents,” Dobbels said.

After more than two and one half hours of debate, the bill passed by a vote of 22-8-0.

Several GSB senator seats and committee positions were also filled at the meeting.

Those positions included:College of Business Senator — Emily Walker,

senior in financeSpecial Student Fee and Tuition Committee

Senator — Eric Harms, off-campus senator and senior in material engineering

University Affairs Committee members:1. Jacob Swanson, Inter-Residence Hall

Association senator and sophomore in public service and administration in agriculture

2. Molly Bryant, Panhellenic senator and

freshman in psychology3. Jordan Hutchens, engineering senator

and junior in construction engineering4. Sam Jurgena, Inter-Residence Hall

Association senator and freshman in political science

5. Adam Guenther, Inter-Residence Hall Association senator and sophomore in animal science

6. Erica Gonnerman, design senator and freshman in pre-architecture

7. Kris Michalson, veterinary medicine and first-year veterinary medicine

Public Relations Committee members:1. Austin Ballhagen, off-campus senator and

senior in journalism and mass communication2. Rajin Olson, engineering senator and se-

nior in civil engineering3. Tia Foss, human sciences senator and

freshman in child, adult and family services4. Ayushman Kumar, Frederiksen Court

senator and freshman in industrial engineering5. Diane Fru, Inter-Residence Hall

Association and freshman in psychology6. Andrew Edson, agriculture and life scienc-

es senator and junior in agricultural business7. Hana Yoon, off-campus senator and junior

in biologyFinance Committee members:1. Daniel Rediske, liberal arts and scienc-

es senator and sophomore in pre-computer science

2. Scott Connell, engineering senator and ju-nior in computer engineering

3. Samuel Epley, liberal arts and sciences senator and sophomore in economics

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