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David Manu, graduate student in food science, carries two tanks of compressed nitrogen to the Food Sciences Building for his modified atmosphere packaging project Tuesday. Photo: Karuna Ang/Iowa State Daily

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Celebrity NewsNotes and events.The Smithsonian wants your favorite video games

Is “Donkey Kong” art? The Smithsonian wants you to help decide.Next month, the Smithsonian American Art Museum will debut the Art of Video Games, an exhibit chronicling what the museum calls the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium.Now, video game fans can vote to help decide some of the games that will be featured. Between now and April 7, the public is invited to vote online.The games exhibited will ap-pear alongside videos, playable games, installations, and other features planned for the exhibit, which will run until September 2012. Justin Bieber debuts ‘mature’ haircut

Justin Bieber fans probably couldn’t “belieb” their eyes when the teen idol trimmed his signature mop top yesterday.“Thinking about getting a haircut....hmmmmmm,” Bieber tweeted shortly before getting snipped. The 16-year-old, who was filming a music video with the band Rascal Flatts when he transformed his tresses, told TMZ he decided to switch up his ‘do because he wanted a “more mature look.”Girl’s rendition of ‘Born This Way’ makes Gaga cry

Have you heard Maria Aragon sing yet? If you haven’t, you should check out the 10-year-old’s rendition of Lady Gaga’s new single “Born This Way.”It’s so good, in fact, that it made Gaga tear up with emotion. She tweeted: “Can’t stop crying watching this. This is why I make music. She is the future.”But the story doesn’t end there. Maria got the chance to chat with the pop star when Gaga called in to Toronto’s Virgin Radio 99.9.A stunned Maria could barely respond, but she did manage to ask Gaga one question: “Where do you get your outfits?”

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Feb. 18Dennis Downs, 53, of Elm Mott, Texas, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and serious assault. (reported at 1:10 p.m.)Richard Watkins, 22, 4912 Mortensen Road unit 431, was arrested and charged with probation violation. (reported at 2 p.m.)William Tushaus reported the theft of a bike. The incident occurred sometime since January. (reported at 2:57 p.m.)Vehicles driven by Bradley Koenigsberg and Jacob Swanson were involved in a property damage collision. (reported at 9:10 p.m.)

Phillip Sears, 2648 Helser Hall, reported the theft of a laptop computer. The incident occurred in a den on 02/17/11. (reported at 9:38 p.m.)Merle Triggs, 23, 2709 Lincoln Way, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxi-cated, interference with official acts and fifth-degree criminal mischief. (reported at 11:11 p.m.)

Feb. 19Officers assisted a 19-year-old resident who was suffering from an alcohol overdose. (reported at 12:08 a.m.)Tyler Feldmann, 21, of Hiawatha, was arrested and charged with public intoxica-

tion. (reported at 12:13 a.m.)Andrea Mallarino, 21, 827 Crystal St., was arrested and charged with public intoxica-tion. (reported at 12:57 a.m.)Brittany Loftin, 27, 440 Seventh St. unit 222, was arrested and charged with public intoxica-tion. (reported at 12:57 a.m.)Kyle Simpson, 18, 4497 Friley Hall, was cited for underage possession of alcohol. (reported at 1:10 a.m.)A 17-year-old was taken into custody for underage pos-session of alcohol. She was referred to Juvenile Court Services. (reported at 1:10 a.m.)TV Schedule

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ISU student participated to advocate unions

Solidarity drives demonstrationWisconsin

Having grown up in a union-sup-porting family, when Brian Guillaume heard about the protests in Madison, Wis., he got in contact with people in Madison and volunteered his week-end to the cause.

As soon as he got out of class Friday, Guillaume, senior in political science, headed to Madison.

“Madison is the epicenter of American politics, at least [in that] whatever happens in Madison is go-ing to happen across the nation, so I wanted to be up there and just see it,” Guillaume said.

Guillaume volunteered as a mar-shall, doing some crowd control and question answering.

He witnessed the rally that fea-tured Jesse Jackson, led chants around the Capitol and participated in the constantly-beating drum cir-cles throughout the weekend.

“It was wild to see that mass of people come together for one thing ... I think that’s what’s cool about it, it goes

beyond parties, it goes beyond politi-cal affiliation, this is something that is in American history,” Guillaume said. “Unions are a part of American history and I’ve seen that growing up, and I just want to make sure that I do my part to help them.”

Guillaume said the solidarity that he witnessed amongst the union work-ers in Madison, who were working to-gether to maintain their basic rights.

With the implications that this legislation has for the future of the na-tion, Guillaume encourages students to get involved with this and similar movements across the country.

“I think college kids need to get more involved more often because, I mean, at Iowa State we educate teach-ers, they’re going to have to make that decision, they’re going to be the next generation of these people fighting these battles,” Guillaume said.

“Whatever side they’re on, this is important to you because it’s our fu-ture. How are middle class and work-ing class people going to be treated 40 years from now? We’re going to be the middle class and working class, that’s

up to us. There’s only gonna be a couple of us that are going to

be super rich, and I think that we need to take

hold of what’s going on.”

Governor accused of blocking activist websiteBy the CNN Wire StaffMADISON, Wis. - A left-leaning website that union supporters used to rally

protesters in Wisconsin was partially blocked as demonstrators gathered in the state Capitol over a controversial budget bill.

The website, defendwisconsin.org, could not be accessed on Monday and into Tuesday morning in the Capitol building, where crowds assembled over pro-

posed legislation that would increase the costs of benefits to public employees and curb their collective-bargaining rights.

Wisconsin Democratic Party press secretary Graeme Zielinski blamed Gov. Scott Walker and Republican lawmakers — who returned to work

Tuesday — for causing the outage.“In a direct assault on the First Amendment, Scott Walker’s admin-

istration is blocking access in the Wisconsin Capitol to opposition web-sites,” Zielinski said.

The governor’s spokesman, Cullen Werwie, responded Tuesday, calling the accusation “a lie.”

“The Department of Administration blocks all new websites shortly after they are created, until they go through a software approval pro-

gram that unblocks them,” Werwie said. “Within 30 minutes of being notified this website was blocked, DOA circumvented the software

and immediately made the website accessible.”He said, “The Democratic Party should spend less time lying

about Gov. Walker and more time trying to get their AWOL state senators back to Wisconsin,” referring to Democratic efforts to prevent a quorum in the Senate.

The Capitol internet service, which restricts access to certain websites considered inappropriate for lawmakers, revealed a “blocked page” when users tried to access the site using the building’s wireless system.

Users were able to access the site elsewhere.The outage comes on the heels of a speech by Walker,

who defended the budget proposal and criticized unions for squandering state coffers and impeding fiscal reform.

“We’re broke,” he told reporters Monday. “You really can’t negotiate when you don’t have money to negotiate with.”

Unions have argued that collective bargaining — a pro-cess of negotiations meant to regulate working conditions

— has helped protect wages and health care, enforce workplace safety and

serve as a means to arbitrate employee grievances.

The budget-repair bill, proposed by Walker to address a $137 million shortfall through June 30, would increase con-tributions of state work-ers to their pensions and health insurance benefits. It requires col-lective-bargaining units to conduct annual votes to maintain certification and eliminates unions’ rights to have dues de-ducted from worker paychecks.

Photo: Kelsey Kremer, Iowa State Daily

Photo: Matt Wettengel/Iowa State Daily

What set the protests in motion

Flip the page:Editor in Chief Jessica Opoien writes about her time spent among the protesters in Wisconsin.

OPINION.p6 >>

By Matt.Wettengel iowastatedaily.com

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This includes collecting and accounting for parking fees, removal of snow and trash and the general maintenance and necessary repairs of

the facility.But the revenues and expenditures will be

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AFL-CIO.Sagar also alluded to a new era

of politics, calling on those pres-ent to be inspired by the day’s events as inspiration to make changes at home.

“I hope that there’s energy that comes out of today and that people go back to their communi-ties and realize that they can’t just sit back and let politics as usual work,” Sagar said. “It has to be a level of involvement that maybe

people haven’t been accustomed to or comfortable with. I said de-mocracy is not a spectator sport and I was serious. You gotta be involved.”

As the rallies disbanded, the sun finally broke through the clouds and those present joined in song to the theme of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” led by gui-tarist, Guitar Guy.

“Solidarity forever. Solidarity forever. Solidarity forever,” the crowd sang. “The union makes us strong.”

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cern was the College of Engineering. Its enrollment numbers have gone up since spring 2010, meaning it could potentially have an-other representative on GSB.

It is unclear in the constitution if the number of College of Engineering senators could change mid-session. The questions on the GSB election ballot will clear up this area of concern.

“Consistency is very important in GSB and we want to make it easier for campus organizations to follow,” Stille said.

If the bill passes, the questions will be put forth to students to make the final decision.

Also on the GSB agenda is a bill that would return unused funds for the Cyclone Cinema project to their prior GSB accounts. Approximately $340,000 would be returned to the Investment Account and the Capital Projects Account.

Questions will be asked about the bill at this week’s meeting and senators will vote on it next week.

GSB will vote on whether to add the ballet questions regarding the number of senators for each college during the meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union.

Residence, said the program is “helping students help themselves.”

MAP-Works is produced and marketed by Educational Benchmarking Inc., and it is a series of voluntary surveys students can take to help them recognize where they have resources on campus. Aisenbrey said it is offered to all freshman and first-year students as an assessment tool to help students tran-sition from high school to college.

Iowa State became in-volved after seeing the results Ball State University had with a paper version of the survey.

Englin said Iowa State helped Educational Benchmarking Inc. improve MAP-Works and was involved with the move-ment from paper to a web-based version.

E d u c a t i o n a l Benchmarking Inc. devel-oped a private formula that points students toward help-ful resources, such as advisers, residence hall directors and counselors. The information provided by students is given to administrators only on a need to know basis.

Virginia Arthur, associate director for Residence Halls, said 85 percent of all on-cam-pus students and 50 percent of off-campus students partici-

pated in the fall MAP-Works Survey and “typically the stu-dents who take it have signifi-cantly higher GPAs.”

The on-campus students who took MAP-Works Survey had an average GPA of 2.78, and those who did not had an average GPA of 2.41, Englin said.

The prize Buer won was self-generated by funds from the Department of Residence, ISU Dining and the Academic Success Center.

Englin said that free room and board were not the only prizes available to students for completing the MAP-Works Survey.

Students could also win

coupons for free smoothies on campus by participating.

Buer was chosen through a random drawing. Every stu-dent who participated in the fall MAP-Works Survey was entered, and a random number generator was used to select the winner.

To be eligible, the only re-quirement was that the stu-dent must live on campus. The free room and board prize ap-plies to Buer’s freshman year and the cost of Buer’s resi-dence contract will be credited back to her.

Buer said participating in the MAP-Works Survey helped her realize the impor-tance of how much time she

spends studying, relaxing and sleeping.

She said she knew it was helpful for administration to get feedback from students.

“It seems like people usu-ally delete survey e-mails,” she said, but she learned from her statistics class that having

enough data is important and she “figured 15 minutes isn’t hard to do.”

It was a simple way to earn a year’s worth of free room and board.

“Our students work hard and this is a way to alleviate pressure,” Englin said.

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When he heard about the public hearings taking place in Madison last Tuesday, Damon Terrell, junior in math education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was compelled to get involved.

He read about the hearing through a Facebook post that his dad’s girlfriend posted, which made it out to be something that legislators were keeping quiet from the public, but upon arriving at the Capitol and seeing the esti-mated 700 people who registered to speak, Terrell felt compelled to register himself and give his own two cents.

“Really what I think that this has been about for me ... is people learning the value of listening to each other, of ... learning the im-portance of being right at the end of a conversation over being right at the beginning of a conversa-tion,” Terrell said. “Kind of an idea about recognizing our own limita-tions and then working with each other to overcome those limita-tions, so it’s really been kind of a beautiful moment. A lot of people are coming out here and showing that they can be a force when they feel support. [It’s] kind of a cultur-al shift toward valuing your neigh-bor and what they have to say.”

One of the things that Terrell takes the most pride in has been the children that have voiced their opinions through a megaphone in front of the masses that have sur-

rounded the Capitol.“Even if they don’t have a real,

true sense of what’s going on, the fact that they’re losing their fear of speaking their mind and under-standing that other people have similar interests, reestablishing that the person on the other side of the aisle has the best inter-est of everyone at heart and that there might be different ways to go about that, there might be dif-ferent opinions, ... you might just never agree, but you have to ac-knowledge the humanity of the person across from you and re-spect that.”

The most courageous thing that Terrell witnessed in his time at the Capitol was when the last person to speak about the bill, a 14-year-old girl, testi-fied in favor of it. Terrell’s heart dropped during her testimony, unsure of what response it would evoke, but was relieved when she received as much ap-plause as those who spoke before her against the bill.

“She spoke her mind and it was one of the most courageous things I think I’ve ever seen,” Terrell said. “It’s easy to get up when the rotunda is going to just applaud, but she really took a stand - and I don’t know that I agree with her, that I would even argue anything with a 14 year old, but the fact that they are forming their own opinions and expressing them is awesome to me. And the fact that it was received well, because it is her opinion and she is entitled to it, was very moving.“

Wisconsin student finds hope in displays

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Natalie Robb (left) and Libby Robb (right)Age: 13 and 16From: Madison, Wis.“[We’re] just supporting people like my mom and state workers ... teachers espe-cially.” — Libby

Marcia Connor, Dane County Juvenile Reception Center employeeAge: 61From: Sun Prarie, Wis.“I’m here because I’m angry at Scott Walker for not even recognizing the fact that he’s not allowing the people of Wisconsin to negotiate. I don’t mind paying ... the increased contribution to the retirement fund, I don’t mind the increase to the health insurance premiums, but it makes me very angry that he’s telling us that he won’t even talk to us about it. To take away our rights is very scary. To me, it’s like an autocracy, and I never imagined that something like that would come to Wisconsin; it scares me.”

Bill Heinzelman, retired teacherAge: 63From: Milwaukee, Wis.“I’m a retired teacher and I’m not going to stand by and let the governor take away the rights of the teachers and all public workers to not collectively bargain their contracts. It’s in the United Nations charter on human rights that the workers have the right to organize and bargain, the archbishop of Milwaukee came out and said the workers have the right to organize and bargain. The governor, what he’s done is he’s trumped up this whole thing about the budget crisis, which we have, but he and the Republicans just gave the businesses in Wisconsin a $140 million tax break ... so he’s got money for his friends, but then the workers are supposed to take the brunt of it.”

Elliot Lebrun, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point studentAge: 20From: Stevens Point, Wis.“I’ve got aunts and uncles that are all teachers and untold amounts of family members that work for the state. I just don’t see why people don’t get that our state workers built this country, and they should be known for that. I think this is sparking these kind of events all over the country. We need to not only stand up for the people in our state, but we need to show the rest of the country what they need to do for their union workers.”

Mike Regner

Age: 23From: Madison, Wis.“I’m out here because I’ve got about five or six teachers now in my family, depending on who’s doing what right now, and I’ve sup-ported unions all my life. I think that they’re one of the few things standing between the workers and the rich in this country and I’m out here to support them as long as it takes.”

Sharon Anday, local 504 member and Shelly Anday, AFSCME memberAge: 41 and 35From: Gurnee, Ill., and Madison, Wis.“We’re very upset about losing the opportunity to do collective bargaining and unions.” - Shelly“I think that it’s kind of gotten lost in the whole idea of we need to get rid of collective bargaining so people pay their fair share, because it’s not true. People will pay their fair share, we don’t need to collective bargaining to do that and I feel like that’s kind of gotten lost in the media. I think Walker’s bill is radical and I think that he’s trying to attack the framework of the backbone of America and I’m afraid for what happens if this passes. And this is our core, we grew up in a family of teachers and state workers and this is not okay and I really hope it doesn’t end it.” - Sharon

Photos: Jessica Opoien,Iowa State Daily

The cogs in the protest machine:

By Matt.Wettengel iowastatedaily.com

“Get. In. Or get. Away.”The hushed plea came from the

window of a ground-floor office in the Wisconsin State Capitol as we hovered nearby, peering at the signs plastered to it. It was about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, and temperatures dipped into the low 20s — though it felt much colder.

Nearby, people huddled near a locked door, making phone calls and searching for a way in.

“Get in, or get away.”The voice belonged to a man who had slight-

ly opened the window. I turned to Iowa State Daily photo editor Kelsey Kremer and Daily news editor Matt Wettengel and said, “Let’s go.”

Once we had crawled inside, the man in-structed us to take off our coats so it wouldn’t look like we had just come in, and told us how to get past the security guards we might encoun-ter outside the dark office. None of us were pre-pared for what we saw once we emerged.

Signs protesting Gov. Scott Walker’s “bud-get repair bill” covered the entire rotunda and spread into additional wall space. Some were clever, some were angry, some smacked of desperation. People were arranged in clusters: families, friends and people who had just met.

Groups such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Assistants’ Association and the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees hosted information booths, and an entire wing was dedicated to the food, bedding and toiletry donations that poured in. It was a community.

A call soon sounded from the center of the rotunda. A young man announced there was a group of people outside who had been told it would be midnight before the Capitol would close, but they were now locked out. He re-quested 20 coats and blankets, which he had been given permission to hand out to them.

The man was Damon Terrell, junior at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He told us later that when the group was eventually al-lowed inside, all the coats and blankets were returned to their owners.

That sense of peace and community was echoed within the walls of the Capitol and, later, throughout the square outside; from the signs that read, “Remember, this is a peaceful pro-test,” to the fact that no arrests have been made related to the protests. But make no mistake, the peace was not for lack of passion.

“The biggest thing that irks me is when [Walker] says, ‘It’s a modest request.’ This is modest? Asking for our rights? How could that be modest?” said Silke O’Donnell, child care representative with American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Child Care Providers Together in Madison.

Sunday was O’Donnell’s second night sleep-ing in the Capitol. She fears that if the bill is passed, public employees will no longer have a collective voice. She brought her children to the Capitol because she wants them to learn that they have the right to speak their minds, and that it can be done peacefully; and because she sees the far-reaching implications of taking away collective bargaining rights.

“It’s not about us anymore. It’s not about my

rights or what we’re fighting for. It’s about these kids’ rights, and our grandchildren’s rights, that can’t be taken away. That’s what I’m here fight-ing for,” O’Donnell said.

Some stayed the night simply so others could, too. Debra Dawidziak, 28, of Madison, heard talk that the Capitol would close at night if enough people didn’t show up. In addition to her personal objections to the bill, she knows protesters need to work together to make their voices heard. Mary Jo Walters, mother of two, was there for the same reason.

As a Wisconsinite, I have a personal connec-tion to what’s happening in my home state.

As an American citizen, you do, too.This isn’t just about public employees in

Wisconsin. What happens in the Badger State will set the tone for the nation. Eliminating col-lective bargaining will not save Wisconsin from its deficit — which Walker increased by $120 million for 2011 to 2013, with the tax breaks he signed during a special session.

Walker’s attack on collective bargaining is

not about balancing the budget. How can it be, when according to American Rights at Work and the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, eight states without collective bargaining now face a larger budget shortfall than Wisconsin?

This bill is about breaking unions. It is about taking away workers’ rights to negotiate for safe, fair working conditions — rights that ben-efit non-union employees, too. It is about taking away their voice.

And it’s happening in other states. Collective bargaining rights are on the chopping block in Ohio, New Jersey, California, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, Iowa and elsewhere, despite the fact that 61 percent of Americans would op-pose a law in their state similar to Walker’s pro-posal in Wisconsin, according to a recent USA Today/Gallup poll.

Yesterday, worker solidarity rallies were held in at least 33 states. As the Wobblies say, “An injury to one is an injury to all.”

Scott Walker’s attack on rights is an injury to this nation.

Opinion6 Iowa State Daily

Wednesday, February 23, 2011Editor: RJ Green

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Website blocked by Wis. Wi-Fi

Editorial

A funny thing happened Monday at the Wisconsin Capitol; if you find humor in possible sinister govern-ment conspiracy theories.

Rest assured we haven’t found our Mel Gibson hats — past the next sentence, we’ll stick to informing and leave the theorizing up to you. Like the opinion editor said in Tuesday’s editorial, most people know bullshit when they smell it, and this one really stinks.

The teaching assistants in Wisconsin haven’t just unionized, they’ve gone so far as to launch a web-site: Defend Wisconsin, Against Scott Walker’s Attacks.

They’ve been far more on the ball than we have when it comes to protesting everyone’s grandpa playing hack-n-slash with univer-sity budgets. So on the ball, in fact, that their website became one of the major hubs for people looking to join protests.

The website had been up and run-ning well before Monday, and had seen a hefty amount of traffic.

The website became blocked by the Capitol building’s Wi-Fi network Monday.

Sachin Chheda, chairman of the Milwaukee County Democrats and former employee of the Wisconsin Division of Enterprise Technology, spoke during a Tuesday morning press conference call sponsored by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

“At some point on Monday, per-haps midday, administrators [of the site] learned it was being blocked. I learned of this later, saw it was hap-pening, and saw that it doesn’t sound right. So I asked a colleague in the Capitol to send me a screenshot of what he saw when he tried to open it.”

What’s shown is a Google Chrome error window, listing the Internet protocol address for the Defend Wisconsin website. The text in the search bar indicated the website was blocked internally.

This isn’t a company workplace blocking access to something along the lines of Facebook. U.S. govern-ment employees knowingly and willingly restricted Internet access to a website specifically designed to facilitate citizens’ right to assemble.

Officials were quick to absolve themselves of responsibility.

Carla Vigue, Wisconsin Department of Administration spokesperson, said, “No one at DOA decided to block this website, or took particular action to block this web-site,” and instead pointed the finger toward automated software.

Vigue said the Department of Administration blocks all new web-sites shortly after they are created; but as we said, this one had been up and running for several days.

If our conspiracy theories prove correct, Vigue and her cohorts seem to be in dire need of a history lesson on the First Amendment.

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Last week the U.S. House of Representatives cut $60 billion from this fiscal year’s budget. This action was surrounded by talk of a potential government shutdown when the continuing resolution currently allowing government agencies to spend money expires March 4. That shutdown would be the result of an impasse between the House and the Senate.

That impasse was encouraged by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.

He said that because of the public’s mood demonstrated by last November’s election — one presumably in favor of what the Tea Party have to offer — the re-cent budgetary discussions are an opportunity to meaningfully change the spending habits of the American government.

And they are such an opportu-nity. But the prospect of a stoppage of government services should not be used to extort concessions.

King works for the govern-ment; he has on many occasions proclaimed his patriotism and love for his country. What kind of love is it that pushes him and others to threaten the end of his govern-ment’s existence?

Our government was founded upon an admission that there are indeed problems common to us all. Those problems cannot be solved by business, nor can they be solved by social forces. They require col-lective action coordinated by the U.S. government. The constitu-

tional empowerment to regulate commerce and to make all laws necessary and proper for that pur-pose, as well as the others listed in “Article I, Section 8,” are such pur-poses of government.

I agree that it would be very nice if wasteful spending was eliminated, if taxes were lowered, and if little regulation of business and industry was necessary. But our Constitution allows us to wan-tonly spend on programs we have determined are necessary, to raise taxes and to regulate businesses.

In these budgetary debates, it is important to remember that the whole purpose of having a govern-ment is to solve these issues. Cuts should not be made where they are harmful; government programs fulfill important roles in the lives of many American citizens. The whole object of the federal gov-ernment, James Madison wrote in “Federalist No. 10,” is to secure “the great and aggregate interests” of the American people.

In the same essay, Madison continued in this vein, writing the public good is one of the objects of government; further, that it is nec-essary to protect the public good against the attacks of an interested faction. Those factions are not al-ways minorities, a similarly inter-ested majority can also constitute a faction.

The fact that a majority, how-ever overwhelming, supports a particular measure is no reason to

approve that measure. It may be that, if it is actually given consider-ation, the measure will be found to be necessary. Speaker of the House John Boehner said last week that his party would do no more and no less than what the American people want.

Such an attitude smacks of the pure democracy the government established in our Constitution seeks to avoid. The whole reason for establishing a republic — by which Madison meant “a govern-ment in which the scheme of rep-resentation takes place” — is to avoid the majority factions that exploit government for their own ends.

However, if the representa-tives of the electorate fulfill their role, they do not give in to the prevailing popular passions. The “scheme of representation” serves as a medium through which views are passed. By not entertaining or considering alternative options, a politician is not acting politically. He is acting according to a plat-form; a set of principles which, once decided upon, cannot be changed.

It is dangerous for represen-tatives to be too dependent upon their constituents. And while those who voted in favor of a poli-tician must be appeased by him, he represents those who voted against him just as much as those who voted for him.

George W. Bush, in his role as

president, even represented Sen. Al Gore, D-Tenn., and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to the rest of the world. President Barack Obama does the same for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

Their role as a medium allows representatives “to refine and en-large the public views.” By taking into account a variety of conflict-ing interests and by attempting to reconcile them as legislation is made, it becomes more likely measures that are good for the whole group will be decided upon. Through these considerations of opposing interests, the represen-tatives will be able to “discern the true interest of their country.”

It is not in the interest of the U.S., or her people, for the gov-ernment to cease functioning for however long an amount of time. One of the reasons is, clearly, the fact government services would be suspended. But an even more dis-turbing part of a government shut-down due to a budgetary impasse is what it indicates for the practice of politics in America.

It indicates, namely, that the political systems designed to con-tain the abuses of faction have failed to ensure people will not put the government and the pub-lic power behind it at the service of their own private ends. The Constitution establishes a govern-ment that puts private interests at the service of public needs, not the other way around.

Republican theatrics stifle progressBy Michael.Belding iowastatedaily.com

House of Representatives

Flashing cameras, makeup and hair artists, and a long, white runway; all of these components and many others make Fashion Week something to highlight in the calendar multiple times of the year. This past week marked the highlight of winter for many fashionistas. During the course of the last few days, a whole new world of fashion has been revealed through the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on Feb. 10 to 17 in New York City.

With most runway shows starting at 9 a.m. and not ending until 9 p.m., more than 100 designers claimed a spot in the schedule.

Acclaimed designers such as Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors and DKNY have presented or will present their new spring and/or summer lines. While viewers look forward to the classic designers’ works, there are always fresh innovators to be watching for. LUBLU Kira Plastinina is one of those designers that you should keep a close eye on for new ideas.

The fashion designers today are starting at much younger ages. Plastinina began designing when she was only 14 years old, and has already shown her line at a couple Fashion Weeks by age 18. Coming into this most recent Fashion Week, she has shown an air of confidence that started with completely redoing her line from a “girly, wanna-be prom queen” style to a sophisticated, stylish “it-girl” brand.

“I want to design clothes that can keep up with my hectic lifestyle, and I create each collection by envisaging exactly how I would look in every single garment.” Plastinina said when discussing her new line.

Her new styles for this week show a flirty, fun look that can be played down for a day on the go. And changed drasti-cally to instantly be ready for a night out with the girls or a night to just show what you’ve got.

Plastinina, born and raised in Russia, is the daughter of Russian dairy and juice “king” Sergei Plastinin. He broke into the business around the time when the Berlin Wall fell and has been successful ever since. When Kira was born June 1, 1992, no one knew what she would accomplish by the time she was 18. As she attended the Anglo-American school in her hometown of Moscow, she stayed busy designing her own clothes without any formal instruction.

Using princesses as her first inspiration, Plastinina began to open up stores all over the world with her father’s help. The first store in the United States opened in the winter of 2008.

However, when the economy crashed

in the fall of 2008, so did the stores. All of Kira’s stores were closed by the fall of 2008. Her newer line, LUBLU, came back with a bang and a less “princessy” style in January 2009 by opening on Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles. This is still currently the only store in the United States open, much to the dismay of many of her fans.

Her clothing has been described as a cross between H&M and Forever 21, with prices ranging from around $30 to $50 depending on what item you have to have.

She now attends a fashion institute in Milan to further her abilities, which will only benefit her and everyone who wears her clothing in the future.

With the close of Fashion Week approaching, designers are already expected to start working on new styles for the new season.

What you have been left with is better: The opportunity to create your own styles influenced by these brilliant

designers. It’s time to invent your own look here on our campus.

For more information on Kira Plastinina or her new line visit her web pages: www.lublukiraplastinina.com or www.kiraplastinina.com

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FASHION POLICE

Too many places Black and brown...don’t do it.

Everywhere Okay, there are puddles EVERY-WHERE. We should not see TOMS this much this time of year.

Everywhere TOMS! I love them, but for the summer. They wern’t made for wet weather, SNOW, or puddles! Save them for the summer!

Design Career Fair (MU)

People walked in to the College of Design Career Fair with horrendous outfits. From fifth year architects walking around sporting their Express shirts over slim fitting jeans, to the girls who looked like they just walked off the set of Gossip Girl, you’re not being “”creative”” or whatever you think you’re being. This is a career fair, odd as that may seem.”

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Art Walk: College of Engineering

When: Noon to 1 p.m. WednesdayWhere: Meet at Howe HallFree for all studentsNacy Giard, educator of visual learning, takes students on an art tour around the College of Engineering.

Blue Moon Dueling Piano Bar

When: 8 p.m. ThursdayWhere: West Des MoinesMusic provided by Marcus Toner, Todd Cutshaw and Dean Madonia, Come for great live music, food, and drink specials.Admission: Free

Des Moines Art Center

When: 6:30 p.m. ThursdayWhere: Des Moines Art CenterJoin Director Jeff Fleming for a discussion of this exhibition. Admission: Free

Dance Social

When: 7:30 to 9:45 p.m. FridayWhere: 196 ForkerHosted by ISU Ballroom Dance. Free for all students. Dress is casual but indoor shoes or socks most be worn in studio.

Comedy Improv

When: 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. SaturdayWhere: Workspace, Memorial Union$30 for students

Men’s Basketball When: 12:45 p.m. SaturdayWhere: Hilton Coliseum Iowa State vs. Nebraska

For those of you who haven’t found Overstock.com yet, head over to this site for basically anything you’re craving at the moment for a lot less than what you would pay for in the store. Shopping, bedding, watches, outdoor supplies are just some of the many categories you’re able to browse for your design on a dime item. The best part? Shipping is only $2.95 for your entire order, no matter what you order.

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When you hear consignment store you may think of used, dingy, old, second-hand, or out-dated. However, your opinion will soon change when you see Miss Meyer’s consignment store in downtown Ames. Instead you will think of fun, fresh, bright, cute and “what a great deal.”

These gently used items have just the right touch to bring your wardrobe back to life after this long, cold winter. Miss Meyer’s features items that have been carefully treated, as well as jewelry and accessories

by a few local designers. Here are just a few of the great options Miss Meyer’s has to offer.

This dress to the right, has been gently used and is originally from Forever 21, when you see it you will want it right on the spot, and you can, for only $14.50. It has a sassy sweet-heart styled neckline along with flirty ruffles hitting just above the knee. It would be great for a night out, or paired with a bright colored cardigan and worn to work or class. The necklace paired with it is from a local designer Encore Jewelry

and can add some sparkle to any occasion for $55.

Vida bright purple suede heels, will add a skip to anyone’s step retailing for only $16.50. The shoes will add some pop to any outfit trans-forming it from ordinary to extraordinary. You will be the envy of all of your friends, especially when they find out what a great deal you got on them.

Miss Meyer’s scarves are a great accessory to transition from winter to spring. They come in an array of colors, prints

and prices ranging from $4 to $25.

When it’s not quite warm enough to just wear a v-neck add a little more color to your outfit and accessorize with a

scarf.

The metallic clutch — below — is a great vintage find. The brand is Lodis and it retails for $32.50. It’s the perfect carry-all clutch holding all of your most valuable items and also looking cute while doing it.

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Versatile. Practical. Affordable.

Quick, think. What is the first thing that migrates into your mind when you see these three words? Is it “pretty”? Probably not, but there is a good chance it may be “boring.”

Unfortunately, there are myths out there that state the style-savvy must shell out to have expensive taste or else surrender to a simpler fashion. With the pocket books we college students currently carry, there is no way we can continually cash out on anything costly. Nevertheless, there is no need to be negative – we have a penny-pinching solution: hand-made shoe clips.

Shoe clips can run from $10 to $200 so why not do it yourself at a fraction of the cost? In only five steps, you can have an accessory that will last indefinitely. Get funky with polka-dotted prints, sassy with turquoise tulle, or add an extra sparkle with sequins for a customized creation.Place them on your shoes — pumps, flats, boot straps, ankle straps — purses, sweaters and sashes. Clip them in your hair or even on a piece of jewelry. Great for gifts for your grandmas and gal-pals, these clips will put an extra spring in everyone’s step.

There is beauty in building your own creation.

BY CLARISSA STOLLISD STYLE WRITER

Step One: Trace your design on the fabric. We recommend using a pen that will not bleed. Cut out at least nine layers. Depending on the stencil size, you may need up to 20.

Helpful hint: Do not worry about perfection, the large quantities of layers will ensure minimal mess-ups will not be noticeable.

Step Two:Collect and pile the layers of fabric on top of each other.

Helpful hint: If by chance your pen bled through on any of cut out layers, position them towards the bottom of the pile. The ink will then be under the open blossom and not seen.

Step Three: Sew together the center with several stitches.

Step Four:Fold the flower in half and sew together on the fabric crease. Fold the flower and sew again in the opposite direction. Once finished, you will see a cross-like section of stitches. This will prompt the peony to blossom.

Helpful hint: If you are not a spectacular seamstress, we recommend putting a glob of glue from your glue gun over the cross stitch to prevent breakage.

Step Five:Put another glob of glue on the surface of the shoe clip. Position your fabric flower onto the glue and press firmly to secure. Let it dry.

Step Six:Use your fingers to fluff the fabric foliage.

What you will need:

Needle and thread.Glue gun and glue sticks.Shoe clips. These may be difficult to detect. We found badge clips at Hobby Lobby for $1.47 instead.Fabric of your choice. We opted for a peach warp lame also found at Hobby Lobby in the bargain bin for less than $3.Floral stencil. Create your own or use a template. We used one found on the Martha Stewart Wedding website. Estimated time: several hours.Level of difficulty: medium.Level of creativity: endless.

Consignment store chicBY EMILY GEGNERISD STYLE WRITER

Pretty your pumps with handmade peony shoe clips

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ISU track and field sprinters Ian Warner

and Amara Sama are continuing to develop day in and day out, and the results are begin-ning to show.

Last week at the Iowa State

Classic, Warner tied his personal best time in the 60-meter dash with a time of 6.72 seconds. Meanwhile, Warner’s training partner Sama placed eighth in the same event.

Although Sama hasn’t been quite on par with Warner’s success, both of them are an in-tegral part of the team, said coach Corey Ihmels.

“I think those two have really come together

and matured,” Ihmels said. “They have become the

backbone of the sprints

group and are the consummate team players.”Sprints coach Nate Wiens agreed with Ihmels

sentiments.“They’re exactly what you want out of short sprint-

ers,” Wiens said. “They listen, they adapt, they train well together, and they do all of the other little things they need to.”

Ihmels believes Warner wouldn’t be where he is without the help of Sama.

“Obviously Amara is trailing a little bit in the results category,” Ihmels said. “But you can say Ian’s not doing what he is doing without the help of Amara.”

On the other hand, Sama feels he is improving due to Warner’s tutelage.

“He’s helped me a ton,” Sama said. “In practice he can help me with my form if I’m not doing something right, and I kind of mimic his style.”

When Warner received the high praise from his teammate, he remained humble, and said that he wouldn’t be where he is without Sama.

“It goes both ways,” Warner said. “He helps me with my starts because he’s a better starter than me. And I’ve definitely improved because of him.”

While they continue to bond on and off the track, it wasn’t so long ago that Warner was in an entirely differ-ent country. Although, not that different as his home-town is Markham, Ontario — a suburb of Toronto.

Whether or not his hometown Canadian sensibili-ties helped attribute to his overall relaxed demeanor or not remains unseen — but the local Midwest culture definitely played a hand in his recruitment to Iowa State.

“The people here are real laid back, and that’s one of the reasons why I chose to come here,” Warner said. “Like when I went to New York — it was just too big and everyone was going too fast.”

The long distance from his hometown also makes it difficult for his family to come see him perform. Warner said his mom made the trip once to see him, but he was injured, which prevented her from watch-ing him run.

Meanwhile, Sama’s hometown family and friends are just down Interstate-35 in Des Moines.

“It’s nice [being so close to home],” Sama said. “My dad came to see me race once, and it’s always good to have friends from high school come up.”

Due to Warner’s injury troubles last year, they didn’t compete together on the outdoor 4x100-meter relay team that Ihmels believes can be strong this upcoming outdoor season.

“They’re going to be running together outdoors in the 4x1 and hopefully they’ll make some noise on the national level,” Ihmels said. “Amara is gonna surprise some people down the road when we get to outdoors.”

But, in the end they’re both competitors focused on the present. They both believe they have a lot to prove at next weekend’s Big 12 Championships.

“We want it [payback] from everyone,” Sama said. “Last year [at the Big 12’s] we were at the bottom rung, me and him [Warner]. We want payback on everyone.”

Warner agreed.“Yeah, literally, it was everyone else than I-State 1-2

at the bottom,” Warner said. “We want to get back at ev-eryone and scratch them off the list one-by-one.”

Track and field

Record highlights downtown dominance

At the end of this college basketball season, if you ask any coach, player or fan of the sport what streak defined the season, the 90-game win streak by the University of Connecticut women will be the most common response.

That streak may define this season, but a record bro-ken Monday night at Hilton Coliseum may define the ISU program’s last 16 seasons.

Just a couple minutes into the Iowa State v. Texas game Monday, senior guard Kelsey Bolte drained the 260th three-pointer of her career to give Iowa State a new NCAA re-cord for consecutive games with a 3-point field goal made.

“I don’t think any of us were really thinking about it we

Women’s basketball

All-time 3-point leaders at Iowa State: T1. Heather Ezell 2006 to 2009 287 T1. Megan Taylor 1998 to 2001 287 3. Stacy Freese 1998 to 2000 274 4. Kelsey Bolte 2008 to present 261 5. Megan Ronhovde 2004 to 2007 241 6. Allison Lacey 2007 to 2010 240 7. Lindsey Wilson 2000 to 2003 214 8. Lyndsey Medders 2004 to 2007 205 9. Tara Gunderson 1994 to 1997 198 10. Tracy Gahan 1999 to 2002 182

Longest streak for consecutive games with a 3-point field goal made at any four-year university is by the NAIA Corban University men’s team out of Salem, Ore. Their record, which is active, stands at 812 games. On Jan. 7 they became the only four-year university to go 800 consecutive games with a 3-pointer, a streak that has lasted the last 24 years.UNLV holds the NCAA Division I men’s record for most consecu-tive games scoring a 3-point goal. Since the 3-point field goal was adopted by the NCAA in 1986-87, UNLV has converted at least one 3-pointer in all 799 games they’ve played.

Other 3-point streaks:

Sprinter Amara Sama runs the 60-meter dash prelims during Saturday’s session of the Iowa State Classic at Lied Rec Center. Photo: Rebekka Brown/Iowa State Daily

Duo poised for paybackWarner, Sama lead Cyclone sprinters

ISU senior Kelsey Bolte launches a 3-point shot in the second half of the game against Cal State Northridge. Iowa State set the record for most consecutive games with a 3-point basket scored Monday with 511. File photo: Dan Tracy/Iowa State Daily

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For the majority of the season, the second half has been a time for the Longhorns to relax. Their double-digit first-half leads proved to be insurmountable.

But after Nebraska dis-mantled the Longhorns in the final 20 minutes Saturday, they were not going to let it happen Tuesday.

With a nine-point lead in their hands, the Longhorns were not satisfied as they came out of the gate running to beat

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Men’s basketballSwimming and diving

Prepared for big finaleEmily Wiltsie, freshman on the Cyclone swim team, competes against Kristin Strecker, freshman on the Nebraska swim team, during the 200-yard breaststroke event Jan. 29 at Beyer Hall. File photo: David Derong/Iowa State Daily

The ISU swimming and diving team will wrap up their season at the Big 12 Championships on Feb. 23 to 26 in Austin, Texas.

“We always have a his-tory of swimming our best performance [at the Big 12 Championships],” said coach

Duane Sorenson.This will be the final

meet for the seniors on the team. With experience on their side from past Big 12 Championships, this set of se-niors is looking to have a relax-ing, yet competitive, final go.

“They know this their last opportunity to swim on a com-petitive team,” Sorenson said.

A meet like the Big 12 Championships can be intimi-

Teams will finish season at Big 12 ChampionshipsBy Nate.Ryan iowastatedaily.com

dating if one hasn’t com-peted in it before.

“Coming into this meet experience is big,” said diving coach Jeff Warrick. “[The seniors] are sea-soned with being in the

The Cyclones finished the season with a 5-5 dual meet record.Sophomore Dani Harris led the team earning 21 event victories. Senior Jeli Nixt can earn All-Big 12 honors in the 100-yard breaststroke for the fourth time in a row.

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Longhorns refuse to let up steam, defeat CyclonesBy Dan Hurwitz Daily Texan staffFINAL.p15 >>

Iowa State 76-53.

“We had been kind of slow in the second of half. And this game we said we aren’t go-ing to let it happen,” said Texas sophomore Jordan Hamilton, who finished with a game-high 20 points.

“We were going to con-tinue to keep playing hard and keep the foot on the pedal.”

Cyclones coach Fred Hoiberg reminded his team at halftime that Texas led by seven at halftime against Nebraska and still lost.

“The first five minutes [of the second half ] were going to determine the outcome of that game,” Hoiberg said.

Texas took quick shots coming down floor and hit six of eight field goals in the first four minutes of the second stanza. Back-to-back treys by Hamilton towards the end of the run gave the Longhorns a 19-point lead. They later led by as much as 29.

“Jordan came out and sparks were flying. He was taking shots from every-where,” said forward Tristan Thompson. “He couldn’t be touched. It was real good for us getting the run started for our team and help pull away.”

On the defensive end, the Longhorns ran a full-court press for the majority of the second half. Dogus Balbay managed to get a hand on sev-eral passes throughout the 16 minutes he played in the second.

“[Balbay] does such a good job in the backcourt,” said Texas coach Rick Barnes. “There at the start of the sec-ond half, it seemed like he had his hands on everything.”

At times the pressure al-lowed the Cyclones to run down the floor for an easy layup, but it also gave them trouble.

“We were careless with the ball,” Hoiberg said. “As a result, we didn’t get back in transition.”

Texas shot 53 percent from the field in the second half af-ter shooting 40 percent in the first. The Longhorns did not make a field goal in the final 5:11 of the opening period.

Gary Johnson recorded 14 points, including his first three-pointer of the season, and 12 rebounds for his fourth double-double of the season. Thompson also had a double-double consisting of 17 points and 14 rebounds.

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Diante Garrett during the game against Missouri on Saturday at Hilton Coliseum. File photo: Zhenru Zhang/Iowa State Daily

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Team takes win after final-round surgeWomen’s golf

The ISU women’s golf team took first place at the Central District Invitational after a final-round surge.

The tournament in Florida hosted 15 teams, 11 of which were ranked in the top 50 nationally.

The No. 16 Cyclones were in third after the first two rounds Monday. With a team total of 585 they were one stroke behind second-place Texas A&M, who was one stroke behind first-place LSU. The final round was played

Tuesday, and Iowa State came out strong and never looked back. The Cyclones carded a 283 on the last 18 to easily se-cure first place, nine strokes ahead of LSU.

Texas A&M finished third with an 881. TCU took fourth with an 887, and Michigan State finished rounded out the top five with an 888.

Iowa State was led by se-

nior Laurence Herman, who tied for third with a 76, 71 and 69, totaling a 216. Victoria Stefansen and Punpaka Phuntumabamrung both tied for seventh with a total score of 218. Everyone on the team fin-ished in the top 25 individually.

The first-place finish comes one week after the Cyclones gave the top-ranked team in the country, Alabama,

a good scare last weekend, eventually getting edged out by five strokes.

The Cyclones should ex-pect another boost in their na-tional ranking after this win in only their second tournament in the spring season. They are the top ranked team in the Big 12 conference. The University of Texas is the No. 2 team in the conference, ranked No. 23

nationally.They are back in ac-

tion March 6 to 7 for the SunTrust Gator Invitational in Gainesville, Fla.

Performance should boost national rankingBy Dan. Martin iowastatedaily.com

were just thinking about the game, thinking about what we had to do and the details we had to cover,” Bolte said.

“We got it though we’re really happy about it and we beat Texas so we’re really happy.”

The new record, which surpasses the 510-game streak of Canisius College, which ended Feb. 18, has spanned 511 games. Those include the final three games of coach Theresa Becker’s tenure in 1994-1995 and all 508 games Bill Fennelly has coached over his 16-year

career at Iowa State. The Cyclones have now made 3,856 3-pointers in Fennelly’s time on the bench.

“It’s kind of one of those quirky little records that I think what it says is it’s a re-cord that took a long time to achieve and there’s a lot of people that made a lot of shots,” Fennelly said.

T h e C y c l o n e s made only 5 of 21 3-point attempts in the game but still came out v i c t o r i o u s

over coach Gail Goestenkors’ Texas squad 66-57 in overtime.

“It’s an amazing feat,” Goestenkors said about the streak.

“Iowa State’s always done a great job hitting the threes and they’ve got so many play-ers that can hit them so you can’t just shut down one

person.”The previous record hold-

er, Canisius College, saw its streak finally come to an end at 510 last Friday when they went 0-for-12 from 3-point range in a 66-56 loss to Iona College.

“As the game wound down, I knew,” said Canisius coach Terry Zeh in a phone interview Monday afternoon.

“I didn’t do anything to try and extend [the record]. We were going to being shooting 3s anyways.”

Prior to their loss, Zeh said the record was rarely ever dis-cussed amongst his team, but

that changed after Friday.“Now that it’s been broken

I actually pay more attention,” Zeh said.

“I don’t for any one min-ute not want to see Iowa State break the record and keep it going for a crazy amount of games.

“It’s been such a big part of ISU basketball and how they play so I think for them it means so much more,” Zeh said.

The Cyclones will try to continue their 3-point streak and move their win-streak to two as they travel to play Kansas at 7 p.m. Saturday in Manhattan, Kan.

meet and I think they’re going to come in and put it all together.”

The se-niors also have the task of helping the freshmen how to pre-pare for the biggest event of the year.

“We use the seniors to explain what the meet is going to be like and to just calm their nerves down,” Sorenson said.

Going into the champion-ships, the topic of nerves often comes up, but the more experi-enced Cyclones aren’t feeling as much pressure.

“I’ve been feeling very re-laxed and excited about this meet,” said junior diver Sarah Nelson. “It’s best to feel re-laxed, but also excited and ready to compete.”

Senior Jenny Vondenkamp is also feeling that relaxation set in for her final meet.

“It’s my fourth time around,” Vondenkamp said. “I think the excitement will still be there, but it will be more relaxing. We always talk about being confident in yourself.”

Sorenson said he will be looking forward to seeing the breaststroke events at this year’s championships.

“They’ve always been our strongest races,” Sorenson said. “Point-wise, those are the events we think we can really do well in.”

Competition begins at 6 p.m. Wednesday and contin-ues the next three days with preliminaries at 10 a.m. and finals at 6 p.m.

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Bolte Fennelly Zeh

final

1 — Iowa State 868

2 — LSU 877

Big 12 ChampionshipsWhere: Austin, Texas

When: Feb. 23 to 26

Notes: Iowa State will take on the rest of the confer-ence in the season-ending Big 12 Championships.

The competition will be the final collegiate competi-tion for ISU seniors such as Jeli Nixt and Jenny Vondenkamp.

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[303] Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution

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[1672] Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in

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[1792] Joseph Haydn’s 94th Symphony in G, premieres

[1870] Mississippi is readmitted to U.S.

[1917] February revolution begins in Russia

[1974] Patty Hearst, daughter of publisher Randolph

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[1988] Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights and

play up to 18 night games

[1998] Tornadoes in Florida kills at least 31

[2010] A car bomb explodes in a courthouse located

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