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Anticipation filled the air as LANE4 Property Group revealed its newest plans for Campustown at the city’s pub-lic input meeting Wednesday night.

Students, faculty and Ames community members nearly filled the Maintenance Shop at the Memorial Union to hear the newest plans for the area around Welch Avenue and Lincoln Way.

LANE4, Iowa State and the city of Ames are working to-gether to create a family- and student-friendly area in the Ames community.

Hunter Harris, LANE4 director of development, re-vealed the new developments in store for the Campustown area.

Ideas discussed included a small grocery or drug store, a higher-end restaurant, a hotel and a high-tech movie theater that might be used as class-rooms during the day.

Harris stressed the impor-tance of students submitting their input.

LANE4 has made multiple trips to the Ames area, meet-ing with student focus groups throughout the summer to find out what students want.

Although the consensus

President Barack Obama told a gath-ering in a Des Moines home Wednesday that after nearly a decade of bad policies, the country has a big hole to climb out of.

He argued the country is on the right track, but acknowledged that college graduates and the generation coming of age will face the toughest economy of any generation since the Great Depression.

President Obama met with about 80 people in the backyard of a middle class Beaverdale neighborhood at the home

of Jeff Clubb and Sandy Hatfield-Clubb. Guests included family members of the Clubbs, Drake University athletes, city council members, friends and neighbors.

Gov. Chet Culver was also there; he and his family greeted the president along with other Iowa politicians and officials when Air Force One arrived Tuesday night.

The president put a strong emphasis on what has been or needs to be done to boost the nation’s education system. He cited the goal of helping young people by expanding the federal student loan program and allowing people to stay on their parents’ health insurance plan up to age 26, and said building back strength in long-term economy requires bringing education back to the top in the United States.

“We’ve got to make tough choices

if we’re going solve some of these long-term problems we’ve been putting off,” Obama said. “That means putting aside some of the politics as usual, and it also means sometimes telling folks things they don’t want to hear,” which he ac-knowledged is difficult in an election season.

Obama said the U.S. drop in student rankings on science and math perfor-mance and the drop in number of college graduates need to be reversed. Too many schools are failing, and students who work hard should be able to afford a col-

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Research attempts to pinpoint cause of drug-resistance

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The ISU research team lead by Edward Yu may have found a key to figuring out the problem of bacterial resistance.

Yu, associate professor of physics and astronomy, and his research team identi-fied the structure which allows bacteria to resist drugs.

Bacterial resistance is when a micro-organism is able to survive the exposure to antibiotics.

For the past 60 years, antibiotics have played a critical role in the fight against diseases, although 70 percent of bac-teria that cause infections are at least resistant to at least one of the drugs commonly used to treat it.

“We are trying to understand resistance in bacteria, the basic knowledge and structure,” Yu said.

The team found the exact structure of the protein of CusA — one of three parts of the pumps responsible for re-moving toxins in bacteria.

The researchers then compared and identified the dif-ferences to understand the mechanism that removes heavy-metal toxins from cells.

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Government of the Student Body hears plans, allots funding to groups

Hunter Harris, LANE4 director of development, and Owen Buckley, president of LANE4, came to speak about the Campustown Renovation Project at the weekly Government of the Student Body meeting.

Harris said they are do-ing everything to “better the student experience.” They have expressed that they are always open to new input and have been around campus and the community trying to gain insight on what is needed and how people feel about Campustown.

Harris said they hope to retain Campustown’s identity and build on what it has.

“[We] hope to keep the character of Campustown,” Buckley said. “Local tenants’ businesses are their life and blood, it differentiates from

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