The ISU women’s cross-country team passed on doing its normal pre-meet workout and opted instead to do a more challenging hill workout before the NCAA Midwest Regional meet.

Working through the Midwest Regional didn’t keep the Cyclone women from winning the meet

for a third-straight year.“We didn’t really need to feel perfect this week-

end to be able to accomplish our goals at the region-al meet, so we decided to kind of work through last week,” said senior Meaghan Nelson.

Senior Besty Saina repeated as champion of the meet and was followed by Meaghan Nelson (fourth), freshman Crystal Nelson (16th), junior Samantha Bluske (17th), sophomore Katy Moen

(25th), junior Taylor Petersen (28th) and redshirt freshman Colleen Riley (50th).

But the Cyclone women walked away from the meet not feeling completely satisfied with how they ran.

Associate coach Travis Hartke said that al-though the team didn’t run its best race, it did

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Glittering lanterns and elaborate saris filled the Great Hall of the Memorial Union on Saturday as the ISU Indian Student Association celebrated its premier annual event, Diwali Night.

Voted best international-themed event by the International Student Council last year, Diwali brought dancing, music and food to an enthusias-

tic crowd of ISU students and Ames community members.

Rishali Chaplot, graduate student in apparel, events and hospitality management, is a member of the Indian Student Association and helped plan this year’s celebration.

“This is our biggest event of the entire year,” Chaplot said. “If you ask someone, ‘When are you

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Reagan Metcalf had never given much thought about joining the military.

That all changed when one day he found himself in the waiting room of an Ames recruiter’s office for the armed forces, twiddling his thumbs as he waited for his friend to enlist.

He picked up a magazine from the stack of reading material on the table, hoping to keep himself entertained until he and his friend could leave.

“I started looking through all these Navy Seal magazines and I re-member thinking, ‘Wow, this is frick-in’ cool!’” Metcalf said. “The recruiter eventually came out of his office and said: ‘Hey, why don’t you join?’ He told me to take the test and see how I do. I took the test, ended up scoring really high, and next thing you know, I’m signed up to join the Navy.”

The year was 1994. Metcalf was just any other 20-year-old Iowa State student trying to survive his classes like everyone else.

Within one year, however, he would drop his textbooks and pick up his uniform, climb aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt and set sail for war-torn Iraq.

But before the battleship had even left port, Metcalf witnessed his first gruesome death — an unfortunate mishap involving a young sailor-in-training and the closing steel doors of a weapons elevator.

“It was the most blood-curdling scream I’ve ever heard. And it was only an accident,” Metcalf said. “I just

After hearing recommendations from a military task force, Iowa State recently opened a brand new Veteran’s Resource Center on the third floor of the Memorial Union.

Jathan Chicoine took on the role of Veterans Services Coordinator.

“It’s a real honor and privilege to serve in this way,” Chicoine said.

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Photo: Blake Lanser/Iowa State DailyThe Metcalf Family gathers together in honor of their father and husband for all his work with the United States Armed Forces. In 18 years, Reagan served the United States in four separate deployments to overseas countries.

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The U.S. Department of Energy Ames Laboratory has been working to improve the recycling process for rare earth ma-terials, which are important for energy technology across Iowa and the world.

Many of the things we use or see on a daily basis, such as cellphones, car speak-ers, wind turbines and computer hard drives, use rare earth magnets to function.

Ryan Ott, associate scientist at the Ames Laboratory, is leading the research on this recycling process.

“Rare earths are essential to magnets because they allow us to make strong per-manent magnets,” Ott said. “Rare earth magnets are much stronger than your [iron-based] magnets. ... Because of this, they allow you to reduce size and weight. It’s all about making a strong magnet with the smallest mass.

“We’re taking these materials and we’re essentially demagnetizing them first — we’re crushing them up to a more usable size, and we’re putting them in liquid magnesium,” Ott said. “What the liquid magnesium does is extracts the rare earth elements and leaves behind the iron and boron, and now you have a mag-nesium rare earth alloy, and we cast that.”

Once the liquid magnesium is boiled off scientists have recovered rare earth materials they need.

Being able to obtain rare earth materi-als to make magnets has been especially important lately because there has been a relative shortage to the United States.

Larry Jones, associate scientist at the Ames Laboratory, explained this situation.

“China set upon a course to capture the world market in rare earths because they realized they had a resource that oth-ers didn’t,” Jones said. “The fact that it’s a limited resource is the issue. If China con-sumes all its own rare earths in the things that they make, then where are we going to get rare earths from?”

Organizations have recently been ac-tive looking for new rare earth deposits and opening sites known to have deposits, such as Mountain Pass, California.

Scientists across the country have been trying to solve the problem of the rare earth shortage.

“Because of the situation that exists with China and the ability to get them

[rare earths] in the future, you start turn-ing to issues like, can we recover? Can we recycle? Can we replace?” Jones said. “[Rare earths have] found their way into very high end applications, and you really can’t replace these things.

“Because they’re so difficult to pro-duce, that means they’re difficult to re-cover too.”

It isn’t likely scientists will be able to substitute another material for rare earths in making smaller, stronger mag-nets because they’re too unique to replace.

The recycling process the Ames Laboratory has been pursuing could have potential to help the lack of rare earths in the United States.

“Our first stage in the research has

been just understanding the science of the recycling; there’s multiple different grades of rare earth magnets,” Ott said. “The question is, how do you get all these magnets for recycling?”

Companies and organizations inter-ested in studying these magnets and pur-suing their own recycling methods have been harvesting them from older technol-ogy such as computer hard drives, which become outdated fairly quickly.

“The point of what we do is not just to produce rare earth metal, but to pro-duce the highest purity rare earth metal available,” Jones said. “We have a repu-tation of being the one place in the world you can get the highest purity rare earth elements.”

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going to dress up the best?’ it will always be Diwali.”

Diwali is a “festival of lights,” recognized as a na-tional holiday in India as well as other Asian countries. It is traditionally marked by the lighting of small clay lamps, which symbolizes the triumph of good over evil.

The theme for this year’s Diwali Night at Iowa State was “Padharo Mhare Desh,” which

means “welcome to our na-tion.” A series of videos show-casing Indian culture brought laughter and cheers from the audience.

Also adding to the celebra-tion were multiple dance per-formances, a fashion show and a meal featuring traditional Indian fare.

The event’s chief guest was Iowa States dean of students, Pamela Anthony.

Anthony addressed the crowd and emphasized the

value of multiculturalism on campus, saying it can func-tion much like the lanterns of Diwali.

“Diversity can provide di-rection to an unknown place, but it can also provide illumi-nation,” Anthony said. “I be-lieve that an event like this can illuminate the richness of your culture.”

Anthony and Sriram Sundararajan, faculty ad-viser to the Indian Student Association, presented a

check for $2,000 to Sankalp, a student organization that contributes to socioeconomic development projects in India. The money, raised by the Indian Student Association, will benefit things like women empowerment programs, chil-dren’s education and agricul-ture projects in India.

Rashmi Girmal, graduate student in electrical and com-puter engineering, thought the event was able to bring a piece of India to campus.

“It does feel like home,” Girmal said. “We’ve just come this semester and we’ve been badly missing home.”

Naveen Kondru, graduate assistant in biomedical sci-ences, praised Diwali’s ability

to bring people together.“You’ll find all kinds of cul-

tures and people participating in India, in this moment, at this Diwali night,” Kondru said. “That is the fantastic thing about Diwali.”

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Chicoine believes building a veterans re-source center is a huge accomplishment for Iowa State.

Chance Stabb, freshman in agricultural business and a marine corps veteran, said he was shocked this is the first year for the center. For Stabb, the veteran’s center provides him a quiet place to study.

“It’s a quiet place, you know, a lot quieter than the library,” Stabb said. Not only that, but Stabb said the center provides a place for vet-erans to come, talk and be themselves.

“If someone’s having a bad day, we can talk about it because we can relate,” Stabb said. “It’s a pretty relaxed environment, there’s no stress here. ... I can talk to other vets about things I can’t talk to my other friends or family about, because they just don’t get it … but other veterans do, so we’re here for each other.”

The mission of the Veteran’s Resource Center is to strengthen the lives of veterans, military personnel, their families and the community; it provides not only a physical space but also a community for support.

Chicoine said it’s a place where veterans can connect with one another but also a space that can provide opportunities for those who feel “removed” from veterans issues to con-nect in ways that might create deeper empa-thy and understanding.

“It’s more than just a physical space,” Chicoine said. “It’s a space where we can con-solidate information about benefits and re-sources available, but also serve as a point of contact for veterans and family members for navigating a university system.”

Chicoine said one of his goals is to serve as a bridge between “military language” and “university language.” He said that coming from a military setting to a university setting can be overwhelming to a veteran.

In the military, learning is a hand-on expe-rience, which is often times different from the university’s style of classroom learning, pro-viding an area for needed support for veterans.

“I will listen to the needs of our student vet-erans, military personnel and their families, and look at areas we can best support them,” Chicoine said, He also said it takes a collabora-tive effort from all to support veterans.

Chicoine said one of the most important

things the space can provide is a place to con-nect with one another, which will develop “peer-to-peer support.” Building relationships are extremely important to veterans, Chicoine said, because it builds that sense of camarade-rie to which veterans are accustomed.

Stabb said the military is like one big fam-ily, there to support one another. He said the door is always open at the Veteran’s Resource Center, before jokingly saying he wasn’t sure if the door could even shut.

“I’d like to see the [Veteran’s Resource Center] grow and move forward,” Stabb said.

Chicoine said the center is emerging now and will only continue to grow, but right now the most important thing to do is create a space to connect with one another.

“In every culture across the world, there are veterans,” Chicoine said. “They are an es-sential part of culture. ... Veterans really are everywhere: They often become natural lead-ers of families, communities and nations — my question for you, is what’s your connection?”

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stood there, staring, listening to him scream. I was brand new, only been on the ship for a month. We haven’t even left port, and here I am watching a kid die in front of me.”

Upon returning from his tour in Iraq, Metcalf proposed to his wife, Anna, and in the summer of 1996, they married.

That same year, Metcalf had to leave his wife for his second deployment, this time being sent to Bosnia.

Thousands of miles apart, the two remained close by writing letters to each other every single day.

After another year at sea, Metcalf came home and took a few years off active duty. He put away his uniform and be-came a family man.

His first son, Nathaniel, was born just one month after he returned from Bosnia in 1997.

His first daughter, Kathryn, was born in 2000 and was fol-lowed three years later by his second son, Jacob.

Metcalf also returned to his studies at Iowa State, pick-ing up right where he left off five years earlier.

He had been living the quiet civilian life for six years, looking after his new fam-ily and keeping busy with his studies.

But deep down he couldn’t help but miss his days spent in the military.

He wanted to serve his country again.

“I was missing the military; missing the structure and the organization,” Metcalf said. “I was frustrated with civil-ian work because they make things harder than they are

supposed to be.”In 2003, Metcalf left for

his third deployment, this time being sent to Kosovo — which was then the site of a bloody religious dispute be-tween Muslim Albanians and Christian Serbs.

Metcalf, alongside roughly 800 other soldiers, was sent to Kosovo to control violent riots that were sparked by the senseless killing of a young Albanian boy. Thousands of angry rioters took to the streets, and Metcalf was right in the middle of it all.

“There’s a lot more of them than there are of us,” Metcalf said. “We’re standing in a line, with our non-lethal rounds and our tear gas, facing down crowds of a few thousand peo-ple throwing rocks and sticks at us. It’s scary.”

One year later, Metcalf was back home with his fam-ily again. He had his third son, Liam, in 2005. His sec-ond daughter, Lauryn, born in 2008, is the newest member of his family.

With five children to look after, a loving wife, a job and a college degree finally within reach, Metcalf had a lot of rea-sons to stay home.

“The older you get, the more kids you have, the more responsibilities you have, you realize that you can’t just throw yourself into a war,” Metcalf said.

In 2010, he was called for his fourth and final de-ployment. He was going to Afghanistan — his most dan-gerous assignment yet.

His family went with him as a small picture on the inside of his badge, worn over his heart.

They were always on his

mind.“It was a big deal for me to

make sure that I got home,” Metcalf said.

In Afghanistan, Metcalf was a Platoon Sergeant, which meant he was in charge of a unit of more than 20 men.

The authority he had was new and exciting but also add-ed a lot of stress.

He felt he was responsible for their safety, just like he had felt with his family back home in Iowa.

“Anytime there was in-coming fire, you had to go from wherever you were at and go to a certain area, take a head count of all your guys and make sure they were all right,” Metcalf said.

After spending a year in Afghanistan, Metcalf was home for good. His days serv-ing in active duty military were over. He became a full-time family man.

Today, Metcalf works for the National Guard as a Logistics Specialist at Camp Dodge in Johnston, Iowa, and continues to work towards his bachelor’s degree in history.

He has the heart of a patriot.

“One of my favorite things to do is just stand up at Jack Trice, take my hat off and sing the national anthem along with every body else,” he said

Looking back on his days in the military, Metcalf is filled with pride.

“I’ve helped other coun-tries to be more democratic so they can have more freedoms like we do,” he said. “That’s very important to me, helping to protect my own kids’ future — that’s what its all about.

“That’s why I serve my country.”

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Even though unemployment fell last month to less than 8 percent for the first time since January 2009, it remains at 7.9 percent. The national debt stands at more than $16 trillion.

Unless both houses of Congress come to agree with each other and President Barack Obama by Dec. 31, a “fiscal cliff” looms that would allow the Bush tax cuts to expire, payroll taxes to increase, long-term unem-ployment benefits to end, and defense and domestic spending to suffer to the tune of $55 billion each.

Clearly, the United States is in need of some serious governing, and the Republican Party has to be a part of that governance.

Although Obama won the Electoral College by a vote of 332 to 206 votes and the popular vote by 3.2 million votes and the Democrats’ lead in the Senate is 54-45, the House of Representatives is solidly in Republican hands, 233-194.

The challenges the United States currently faces — and not just the challenges of her individual citizens — require the participation and con-sensus not of one house of Congress or of the president, but of the whole group. Lawmaking, especially law-making as imperative as this, requires the discovery of common ground. Beggars cannot be choosers, it is said, and if we cannot resolve these ongo-ing issues, the United States will have to dress the Statue of Liberty in the rags of a 19th-century match girl.

Yet, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has said since the election: “We Republicans in the House and Senate think we have a voter mandate not to raise taxes,” and he is “not willing to raise taxes to turn off the sequester. Period.” Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, said, seemingly of political compromise: “If there was a mandate in this election, it was a mandate to work together to do what’s in the best interest of our country.” But he has also said: “Raising tax rates is unacceptable.”

Clinging so rigidly to policy, holding specific proposals as dear as articles of ideological faith, fails to account for basic demographic changes in the national electorate that, the results of Tuesday’s elec-tion show, largely favor Democrats. Obama might have won only 39 percent of white voters’ votes, but he took 93 percent of the black vote, 71 percent of the Latino vote, 73 percent of the Asian vote and 60 percent of the youth vote (ages 18-29).

Values should never be aban-doned; their specific implementation, however, can always be adapted to varied circumstances, as can their explanation. Republicans can take a statement of President Thomas Jefferson’s as advice: “In matters of style, swim with the current; in mat-ters of principle, stand like a rock.”

As Americans we usually think of oil, land, cereal grains and manufac-tured goods as pillars of wealth in our

economy, but what are all these goods worth with no way to transport them?

The quality of our infrastructure in the United States is one of the best in the world. Oftentimes we take for granted the blessing that comes easy as we travel to work, school or play. In fact, we are an economic world power because of our ability to travel and transport by rail, water and interstate highways. As Americans we pay taxes to create new roads and expansions of four lane highways around the nation. It is our social responsibility to pay these taxes and reinvest in our nation by creat-ing a better future through transportation.

As individuals, we realize this responsibil-ity for our own personal and family welfare in the communities we live. We have done a great job of maintaining and engineering interstate highways so smooth they create a feeling of rid-ing on air and bridges that are so beautiful they have become tourist attractions.

What about the roads less traveled?Many of the roads used for agricultural

transport in rural areas have a hard time handling the size of modern equipment in the United States. Even the visionary county engineers who built the roads and bridges in the 1930s couldn’t have planned for such mon-strosities steel. We have seen a transformation in agriculture no one could have expected when the county engineers built these roads.

These engineers couldn’t have dreamed of semis loaded with gross weights of grain or livestock weighing more than 90,000 pounds.

Initially, the paths were strictly used for horse and buggy transport. We then transitioned to small tractors and wagons which began to put stress on the gravel and dirt roads, but nothing compared to what we experience today.

When you look around the Corn Belt you are hard pressed to find soil that doesn’t grow cereal grains or provide pasture for cattle. In fact, we have some of the most productive soils in the world right on the campus of Iowa State. It is imperative we keep our position of leadership in producing food for the world by reinvesting in our rural infrastructure to ensure the travel and transport of our livestock and cereal grains will forever be adequate. If we don’t have the infrastructure to transport these commodities the soil that produces such high yields, we lose all value in them.

As we look ahead, this is only going to be-come more of an issue for us as taxpayers. We must continue planning for larger equipment and higher yields. Farmers are investing in technology that creates higher yields through more intensely managed agronomic practices. This will continue to create more grain, putting more pressure on our roads.

There is also an underlying importance maintaining these rural roads as we attract stakeholders that may invest in Iowa busi-nesses. We need economic development in our rural Iowa areas, and if we do not have adequate roads for employees travel to work we will lose out on business and development

across the state. Even so, we must be careful of higher taxes to create these roads that will inhibit entrepreneurs from taking chances and building new businesses which employ our rural Iowans.

Moving forward it is imperative we in-crease the gas tax in Iowa. This will mean the people who are using our roads across the state will be paying for them through the tax. We have not had an increase in the tax since 1989. If our legislators are able to work together to increase the gas tax while reducing property and income taxes, we certainly see a solution in improved transportation across the state. It is projected we will see a $215 million shortfall in the funding needed for our roads this year. The gas tax has seen support in the Iowa House and Senate over the past year. The proposed increase in the gas tax is project to create $176 million per year for our roads and bridges.

Opponents of the gas tax simply state Iowans don’t need more taxation. An increase in the gas tax comes at one of the toughest times for Iowans as we stretch our dollars ev-ery day to pay for daily necessities such as gas.

Even so, this gas tax increase has the potential to bring employers flocking into Iowa attracting new business with our world class rural and urban infrastructure.

In summary, if you haven’t experienced rural Iowa travel on a gravel road in need of maintenance, I encourage you to drive on State Street, which becomes a gravel road leading to our ISU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences teaching farms. You will experience a ride like no other bouncing around on a washboard while dodging potholes as if they are preparing to eat your tires for lunch.

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Do your part to save our planetWhether you believe

in global warming, increased solar irradi-

ance or that the weather is just go-ing through a natural cycle, there is no dispute that planet Earth is getting hotter.

Since the development of the Industrial Revolution, Earth’s av-erage temperature has increased approximately 1.4 F. The hardest hit areas are those closest to the polar regions, such as northern Alaska and eastern Russia, where they have experienced increased average temperatures as much as 40 to 70 F in the last few decades alone. In Montana, the Glacier National Park consists of 27 glaciers, but that number pales in comparison to the 150 glaciers that were once there in 1910.

One of the biggest environ-mental issues of recent years has been the rapidly melting polar ice caps, which is expected to shrink from 2.3 million square miles of ice coverage to about 770,000 square miles in a span of 10 years, and the remaining ice will be con-siderably thinner than it used to be. At this rate, the majority of the region could be ice-free during the summers by the end of 2040.

The climate change is causing environmental issues for people around the world, including areas as close as Alaska and Montana.

The loss of ice is a huge threat for animals such as the polar bears, which depend on the ice as part of their survival. The white, cuddly bears of the north rely on the ice surfaces for hunting, breeding and creating dens. A reduction in ice ultimately means a reduction in their habitat and could mean further endanger-ment to their species. In addition, seals, walrus and whales in that area have also been changing their

feeding and migration patterns to adapt to the climate changes.

But the excess water from the melting has to go somewhere. The melting ice has caused the overall sea levels to rise by as much as 6 to 8 inches. That is enough to poten-tially cause more frequent severe storms and increased flooding in some coastal areas. It is possible Hurricane Sandy’s severity is re-lated to the recent climate change.

While the direct causes of the increased temperatures are not yet definitive, it is believed humans have created a huge effect on global warming by the 2.3 tril-lion tons of carbon dioxide being emitted into the atmosphere. Every day, people burn fossil fuels to power their vehicles or provide electricity to their homes and many are not aware of the impacts they’re making on the planet.

There are plenty of ways to re-duce your carbon footprint, which is the amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere due to the consumption of fossil fuels by an individual.

You can buy a reusable water bottle instead of buying pack-ages of plastic water bottles. Tap water is just as good as bottled water, especially if you buy some sort of filtration system. If you do buy bottled water or any type of beverage that comes in a bottle or can, be sure to recycle them. The same is true for cardboard, paper and other objects. Check the labels on anything you throw away and recycle what you can.

Fluorescent light bulbs use approximately 75 percent less energy than a regular incandes-cent light bulb. While they might be more expensive to purchase, in

the long run they will reduce your energy bill and are better for the environment.

Unplug any electronic device you aren’t using. This may seem like a hassle, but many devices have a standby mode that draws out power from the outlet even if it’s not turned on. An easy way to do this is to buy a power strip that you can flip the switch and turn off everything completely.

Do not drive if you can help it. Driving has a huge impact on the environment, and it’s better for everyone if you can walk, ride a bike or take public transportation to your destination. This is impor-tant for those living on campus who are easily within walking distance of class or can utilize CyRide, which is available to most parts of Ames.

Use cold water when possible. Maybe not for showers, but most loads of laundry can be run using

cold water. It takes quite a bit of energy to heat up water for every cycle that runs on a warm or hot setting, and by using cold water, you can save a lot of energy, which lowers your bill in the long run.

These are just a few ways to reduce your carbon footprint, and whether you believe in global warming or not, you cannot deny these suggestions are better for the environment. The efforts we make now will not only benefit you but will improve the lives for many future generations and countless species of animals, such as the polar bear, whose survival is linked to the actions we take to-day. So everyone needs to do their part and help save our planet.

By Caitlin.Ellingson@iowastatedaily.com

Caitlin Ellingson is a junior in journalism and mass communication and environ-mental studies from Milo, Iowa.

Andrew Lauver is a senior in agricultural studies from Lake City, Iowa.

Illustration: Bolun Li/Iowa State DailyPolar bears are one of several species threatened by global warming melting the polar ice caps. Columnist Caitlin Ellingson offers several suggestions on how to use less energy and save the environment.

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The Sigma Kappa sorority chapter at Iowa State hosted their annual Ultra Violet Fashion Show and Silent Auction at the Alumni Center Friday night.

As student musicians Jordan Garvey and The Real Quaid kept the atmosphere alive, a series of student designers’ work and clothing from lo-cal boutique Ayden Lee and accessories from Lyla’s Boutique hit the runway.

The semi-formal philanthropic event raised money benefitting the Sigma Kappa Foundation. All pro-ceeds go toward Alzheimer’s Research, the Maine Sea Coast Mission, and Gerontology.

Student designers had a variety of reasons to submit their work to the show’s judged component.

“It’s a really cool cause,” said Gracie Bojorquez, junior in apparel, merchan-dising and design. “My grandpa had Alzheimer’s and recently passed away so I’m really happy I can do what I love to help fundraise for further research.”

The student designers were judged by four industry professionals includ-ing one ISU faculty member, Elena Karpova, associate professor in apparel, events and hospitality management.

“I think it is a great opportunity and

exposure for our students,” Karpova said. “I wish there were more design-ers in our program that would get in-volved in this show. I was very proud of the quality and designs of our students work shown tonight, and I think it not only supports a great cause but also a great addition to their resumes and portfolios.”

Through the judging process, Annie Probst, junior in apparel, merchandis-ing and design, took home the first place award with a long purple ruffled dress, and ISU alumna of the apparel design program Brandt Schumacher’s light cocktail dress won the people’s choice award through a text message survey.

Though the night was one of glam-our and fashion, even the musicians believed in the greater power of the phil-anthropic event.

Jamie Leistikow, junior in apparel, merchandising and design, was the Ultra Violet Campaign chairwoman and the one who made this whole event possible.

“This event is something that has al-ways been of interest to me,” Leistikow said. “It was such a blast last year that I thought I could put on a really great show this year to make it even better. I love the band and the excitement of the models walking down the runway.

“It is just so much fun as the crowd gets into it as we raise money towards the foundation.”

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By Jamie LautenISD Style writer

50 shades of orangeNot ready to throw away all your orange

apparel now that Halloween is over? Don’t fret — there is still room in your winter wardrobe for the eye-catching color.

Last spring, Pantone’s color of the year, Tangerine Tango, first debuted, and the deep orange hue seemed to pop up almost everywhere. The color was combined with many pastel tones for the warmer months. As fall continues, Pantone forecasts that orange will be combined with warmer col-ors to keep us cozy.

When it comes to orange, simplicity is

key, and you don’t want to overdo it and end up looking like a giant walking pumpkin. An easy way to avoid this is to use orange as an accessory. Carrot infinity scarfs and apricot mittens will keep you warm as tem-peratures begin to fall and can brighten up any piece of outerwear.

The never fail statement accessories can rock orange, too, with a necklace from Francesca’s, being both bold and classic.

Another way to accessorize with orange is wearing the color as a waist belt. Try a super skinny orange belt from ASOS over any plain sweater to revamp the staple piece.

One great thing about orange is that,

like gray, it has 50 shades, if not more. The wide array of color choices makes it easy to avoid looking like cartoon characters, be they Nemo or even Garfield.

Take another look at Francesca’s dress, for example. The asymmetrical and flirty dress, in a color only described as burnt orange, or a deeper variation of the color, is a perfect example of how orange can have many distinctions. Rich, bold colors are always good go-tos for the winter months.

We’re expecting orange to make a splash this spring. Pantone has picked a variation of the color in its spring palette called nectarine. No matter which shade you pick, you can’t go wrong with orange.

By Anna MackinISD Style writer

Photos courtesy of Alex Egeland Photography

Photos courtesy of Francesca’s Collections

Fashion show raises money for Alzheimer’s

Photo: Jonathan Krueger/Iowa State DailyUT running back Johnathan Gray breaks an attempted tackle by ISU defensive back Deon Broomfield Saturday at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas. Gray notched 10 carries in the game, helping the Longhorns reach a total of 222 rushing yards in the 33-7 win against the Cyclones.

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AUSTIN, Texas — Tackling: Coaches preach it; players practice it; games can be decided by it.

Missed tackles had no place in the ISU football team’s defensive game plan heading into its matchup against No. 19 Texas.

However, the team watched them play a critical role in allowing the Longhorns to jump out to a 20-0 lead in the eventual 33-7 loss.

“They kind of plagued the defense the whole day,” said junior linebacker Jeremiah George. “We didn’t make the most of every opportunity.”

Even though missed tackles are not an official stat in college football, the 609 total offensive yards by the Longhorns (8-2, 5-2 Big 12) could re-flect how they affected the Cyclones (5-5, 2-5) defensively.

The defense overall had a sour day, having allowed UT quarterback David Ash to go 25-of-31 for 364 yards

and two touchdowns. Ash completed his first 11 passes to start the game before missing wide-open Marquise Goodwin in the second quarter.

“He was reading the defense well; he was putting the ball right on the money,” said ISU safety Durrell Givens of Ash. “It’s always good when you’re trying to complete your passes.”

Ash’s proficiency was not just a product of his reads at the line of scrimmage, but defensive tackle Jake McDonough said it also had to do with the lack of pressure the ISU defensive line was able to apply.

Along with missed tackles, ISU coach Paul Rhoads said his team gave up too many creases and open holes for the UT rushing attack to flourish.

“A lot of nine-plus runs were just a result of running; they weren’t a result of missed tackles,” Rhoads said.

Three different running backs — Joe Bergeron, Johnathan Gray and Malcolm Brown — notched at least 10 carries each and combined for 191 of

Texas’ 222 rushing yards.Rhoads went on to say one of the

more disappointing aspects of his de-fense’s performance came from more technical facets.

“Where contact had already oc-curred, guys [were] coming from the side and working to try to strip the ball out as opposed to getting in front of the ball carrier and taking him towards the goal line,” Rhoads said.

Those “strip-and-rip” techniques used by the ISU defenders went for naught as they were unable to cause a turnover for the second time this season.

“It’s always better to get turnovers,” Givens said. “It always helped the of-fense and the defense; so when we don’t get them, it’s almost as if we lose an aspect of the game.”

Iowa State has now lost four of its last five games after starting the sea-son 4-1 for the first time since 2002.

The Cyclones have two more chances — at Kansas (Nov. 17) and vs.

West Virginia (Nov. 23) — to notch one more win to become bowl-eligible for the third time in four seasons.

“I think it helps us more than it hurts us,” George said of losses like this. “It makes you that much hungrier to go back to work.”

Missed tackles halt CyclonesBy Jake.Calhoun @iowastatedaily.com

Wrestling

Thirty-two Cyclone wres-tlers, 11 top-five finishes and three champions.

The ISU wrestling team started its season with a successful day Saturday at the Harold Nichols Cyclone Open.

More than 250 wrestlers competed from more than 10 different schools around the country in Iowa State’s only home tournament of the season.

“I feel pretty good,”

said ISU head coach Kevin Jackson. “I mean I think there were some good things that we’ve seen out of a lot of our kids. There are some things that we definitely need to im-prove on out of a few of them.

“But all in all, it’s a good way to start the season.”

Junior Cole Shafer (197 pounds) and sophomores Mikey England (174) and Michael Moreno (165) were Iowa State’s three champs in their respective weight classes.

ISU pins 11 top-five finishes at Cyclone OpenBy Maddy.Arnold @iowastatedaily.com

To honor the recently late former coach Darrell K. Royal, the UT offense ran its first play from scrimmage out of the wishbone — a formation invented by Royal in 1968 — having previously an-nounced that it would do so.The play, however, was a flea flicker pass from David Ash to Greg Daniels for a 47-yard completion.“I was kind of worried that it was an-nounced on national news, but it worked anyways and it was a fun play,” Ash said. “I didn’t know what the wishbone [was] before that.”

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Photo: Blake Lanser/Iowa State DailyMichael Moreno wrestles his way to the 165-pound title Saturday at the Cyclone Open.

“I knew this was a tournament where I wanted to come out and really work on the stuff I know I’m good at,” Moreno said. “I had a rough year last year; I had a big chip on my shoulder.”

The Cyclone Open was the first time Iowa State competed since its disappointing sea-son last year. The Cyclones won four of their 17 dual meets in the 2011-12 season while also finishing 35th at the NCAA Championships, a program-worst.

ISU freshmen Gabe Moreno and John Meeks made their collegiate debut wrestling unattached. Moreno finished fourth at 149 pounds while Meeks came in second at 133.

Whether or not Meeks, who lost to fourth-ranked Joe Colon of Northern Iowa in the

133-pound finals, will redshirt this season has yet to be determined.

“I think [Meeks] showed he could com-pete at the national level; the kid he lost to was ranked fourth in the country,” Jackson said. “He’s capable.”

Iowa State hopes to use its momentum from the Cyclone Open for the rest of the regular season.

“It lets us know what we need to work on,” England said. “It gives some guys a confidence boost going into the season. Maybe motivate them a little bit; maybe just let them know where they’re at.”

Jackson said he wants to use the Cyclone Open as a learning experience before the rest of the season, with the team’s next match ap-proaching in the dual meet against Virginia’s

Old Dominion University on Nov. 25.“It gives us more information to go back in

on Monday and prepare for Old Dominion,”

Jackson said. “It told us where are condition level is at; what we need to improve technically and tactically.”

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■ 125 pounds Ryak Finch (RSo.) — third

■ 133 pounds John Meeks (Fr., unattached) — second

■ 141 pounds Luke Goettl (RSo.) — third

■ 149 pounds Gabriel Moreno (Fr., unatt.) — fourth

■ 157 pounds Logan Molina (RFr.) — fourth

■ 165 pounds Michael Moreno (RSo.) — first Lelund Weatherspoon (Fr., unatt.) — third

■ 174 pounds Mikey England (RSo.) — first Tanner Weatherman (RFr.) — second

■ 197 pounds Cole Shafer (RJr.) — first

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By Dylan.Montz @iowastatedaily.com

Photo: Shane Tully/Iowa State DailyChelsea Poppens shoots a free throw during Sunday’s game against Wetern Illinois at Hilton Coliseum. Despite a bloody nose, Poppens tallied 15 rebounds, four assists and 23 points, helping her reach her 1,000th career point.

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Not even a bloody nose was enough to stop Chelsea Poppens from leading her team to a season-opening win, becoming the 23rd player in ISU women’s basketball history to amass 1,000 career points in the process.

The Cyclones (1-0) defeated Western Illinois (0-1) 84-65 on Sunday afternoon at Hilton Coliseum for their first official win of the season.

Poppens got the bloody nose at the midpoint of the second half, but it was nothing that forced her to leave the game.

“She never wants to come out of the game,” said ISU coach Bill Fennelly, who is now 18-0 in season openers at Iowa State. “When she got the blood, the official said to me, ‘Coach, are you taking her out?’ and I said, ‘Are you crazy?’”

Poppens, who hadn’t even realized she was bleeding right away, did not let that get in the way of her picking up her first double-double of the sea-son with 23 points and 15 rebounds. She also played for 36 minutes on Sunday and recorded three fouls with none coming in the first half.

Poppens said she is attempting to play smart but still aggressive in her final season.

“I’m just trying not to make silly fouls,” Poppens said. “In the first half,

I tried not to take any charges but in the second half, obviously, I didn’t do so well at that.”

In the first half, Iowa State al-lowed Western Illinois to shoot 53.6 percent in field goals and 46.2 percent from 3-point range to take a halftime lead of 40-38. In the second half, the ISU defense was able to hold the Leathernecks to 40 percent on field goals and 30 percent from 3.

“That’s kind of what we talked about at halftime: just coming out with more energy [and] not throw-ing the ball away as much because we weren’t playing good defense,” Poppens said. “They were getting good shots on offense, and we were just giving it to them. Offensively, we just kept turning the ball over. We just worked on being more patient.”

The turning point for Iowa State came with 7:48 left in the second half when guard Nicole Blaskowsky made a 3-pointer from the right corner in transition to put the Cyclones up 66-58.

While the ISU offense start-ed 0-for-10 from 3-point range, Christofferson said it went 11-for-19 after that and shooting the ball well just seemed contagious.

“We kind of had a stop on defense and once one person hits, everybody kind of gets that energy and passes it around and everybody keeps hitting,” Christofferson said.

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The first artist signed to the Beatles’ Apple Records label was singer-songwriter James Taylor.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Today is an 8 -- Spend a reasonable amount. There’s more work coming in. Catch up on reading now, and study new developments. Ask the older people to share what they know.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Today is a 7 -- Believe in your team. For the next week, you can make extra cash. Create the framework. Accept criticism and ask probing questions. Friends help. Assume responsibility and add imagination.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Today is a 9 -- Wheel and deal. Ask for too much. You’re entering a two-day innovation phase. Important people are impressed. Ask intelligent questions. Show respect.

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Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Today is an 8 -- Team projects go well. Leave nothing to chance. Play by the rules.

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Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)Today is an 8 -- Travel conditions look good until tomorrow, and you can really move forward. Share your dreams, and boost each other’s spirits.

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what it needed to do to get to nationals.

This was paramount, he said, despite the runners not feeling their best because they didn’t do their normal pre-meet workout.

“Leaving regionals, we were kind of disappointed be-cause we know we didn’t feel the best and didn’t race to our full ability but then again we would rather have it be [at re-gionals] than [at nationals],” Bluske said.

The ISU men’s team came

into the Midwest Regional with a chance of making it to nationals, but its season came to an end after finishing eighth overall.

Hartke saw the men’s team in fourth place through 8 kilo-meters, but said the runners “fell apart” during the last leg of the race.

Sophomore Edward Kemboi finished 21st over-all, coming one place short of qualifying for the national meet as an individual.

Junior Mohammed Hrezi finished right after Kemboi in 22nd place.

“Early on, especially at [the Wisconsin Adidas Invita-tional] we did what we needed to do to put ourselves in posi-tion to get an at-large bid for nationals, then [at regionals] we just didn’t get it done,” said senior Charlie Paul. “Just a lack of execution really.”

The Cyclone women will race for the national champi-onship on Nov. 17 in Louisville, Ky. The team will leave for Louisville on Nov. 14.

“We’ve been talking about nationals all year and now it’s finally here,” Nelson said. “It’s definitely time to get excited.”

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Boy Scouting

The words of the “Boy Scout Oath” echoed off the walls of Howe Hall’s atrium as nearly 500 Boy Scouts recited them in unison.

Members of Alpha Phi Omega, co-ed service frater-nity on campus, played host to the third annual Merit Badge University on Saturday.

The event helps Boy Scouts all across Iowa further their progress through the Scouting ranks by earning merit Scout badges.

Upon arriving at Iowa State, the Scouts were eager to begin their day. The unmis-takable looks of curiosity and excitement were stamped on all of their faces.

Members of Alpha Phi Omega had a big day planned for them to learn a lot of new skills and gain the knowledge needed to proceed to the next Scouting rank, some even to Eagle.

Scouts could choose from several different badges they could earn for that day, in-cluding: animal science, truck transportation, robotics, medi-cine and many more.

The Scouts were split into

groups based on the badges they chose to earn for that day and then were escorted all over campus.

Once inside their respec-tive classrooms, the Scouts were engaged in several fun and hands on activities that taught about the merit badge’s topic.

The Boy Scouts are very important to members of Alpha Phi Omega because their fraternity was founded on the principles of Scouting.

Wendy Van Winkle, senior in mechanical engineering and president of Alpha Phi Omega, was excited to host all of the Scouts again this year.

“Working with youth is one of my favorite things to do,” Winkle said. “It’s cool that we can all come together and put on an event of this magnitude.”

The members of Alpha Phi Omega began planning this year’s Merit Badge University the day after last year’s event had finished and were excited to see all the Scouts enjoying themselves.

“It really is the people be-hind the scenes who have put in the long extra hours who deserve credit,” said Paige Mattes, junior in chemical engineering and merit badge

coordinator.A lot of planning and prepa-

ration has to go into this event, Van Winkle said, in order en-sure things run smoothly and all the Scouts have a good time.

“It’s a lot of late nights, but it’s nice to see all of our hard work pay off,” Van Winkle said.

Mattes was most excited to see “the enthusiasm the Boy Scouts bring to campus during the day.”

“The Scouts have an op-portunity to become knowl-edgeable in subjects they have a good chance of pursuing in the future as a career, possi-bly even back at Iowa State,” Mattes explained.

As the coordinator of Merit Badge University, Mattes had been busy for weeks working to finalize all the plans.

“Working on different tasks has been a balancing act, but the feeling of accomplishment at the end of the day makes all of the struggles and triumphs worth it,” Mattes said.

“It really is the people be-hind the scenes who have put in the long extra hours who deserve credit,” Mattes said, praising the time her commit-tees and fellow members of Alpha Phi Omega have put into the event.

Service fraternity plays host to Merit Badge UniversityBy Lindsay.Hostert @iowastatedaily.com

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