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Photo: William Deaton/Iowa State Daily Quarterback Steele Jantz gets tackled during the game against Texas Tech on Saturday at Jack Trice Stadium. The Cyclones lost 24-13.
Jantz gets brunt of loss as offense ‘does not click’ By Jake.Calhoun @iowastatedaily.com While knocking on the door of redemption, Steele Jantz dropped the ball both literally and figuratively. The redshirt senior quarterback went 10-for-20 for a dismal 73 passing yards —
the first game with less than 100 total passing yards by an ISU quarterback since Sept. 25, 2010 (27-0 win against Northern Iowa) — three interceptions and an unprovoked fumble in Iowa State’s 24-13 loss to Texas Tech on Saturday night. “Steele Jantz is not the one to blame for this single loss,” said ISU coach Paul Rhoads after the game. “Obviously, Steele Jantz
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QB stats First quarter: 2-for-4 comp., 3 yards
Second quarter: 2-for-7 comp., 3 yards, 1 INT
Third quarter: 5-for-12 comp., 23 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT
Fourth quarter: 10-for-20 comp., 73 yards, 1 TD, 3 INT, 1 Fumble
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Research explores repairing of DNA Studies could help lead to new medical uses By Danielle.Ferguson @iowastatedaily.com
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Tyrus McGee to receive punishment from athletics By Dean Berhow Goll Daily staff writer ISU basketball player Tyrus McGee will be punished within the team after he was arrested on Sept. 22, the athletic department confirmed in an email to the Daily on Sunday. McGee was charged by Ames police at 8:50 p.m. on Sept. 22 with allegedly providing alcohol to an underage person, a serious misdemeanor. He could face a year in prison or a $2,000 fine. Last year McGee averaged 7.7 points per game in his junior campaign.
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Progressive research on an important protein which repairs DNA is under way at Iowa State. Scott Nelson, assistant professor of biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology, heads the investigation to find this enzyme that appears to repair DNA, sponsored with with help from a National Science Foundation grant The protein, named Mre11/ Rad50, found in many organisms, such as viruses in addition to plants and animals, is used to repair DNA after the DNA structure breaks. Nelson and his team are not studying the protein to be used for direct medical
applications, but said the information found in the molecular structure can benefit many areas of science. “We’re focusing on fundamental understanding on how the protein works on the molecular level, which can be used to identify regions of the protein which might be good sites for design of a drug, but we’re not at that stage,” Nelson said. “Pharmaceutical companies might use the research to help design the drugs.” Nelson has been collaborating with researchers at Duke University Medical School and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The investigators from Duke take mutations in organisms from Nelson’s lab to study how they affect how the repair proteins behave. The research also examines the effect the muta-
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Photo courtesy of The Scripps Institute The protein, named Mre11/Rad50, found in many organisms, such as viruses in addition to plants and animals, is used to repair DNA structure breaks. Scott Nelson heads the investigation to find the enzyme to repair DNA.
Election
Candidates for Iowa House debate debt Libertarian tries
to balance out political field
By Dan.MacKenzie @iowastatedaily.com With the election season in its final month, The local candidates for Iowa House Districts 45 and 46 met in a debate on best way to help students get out of debt and
to promote future job options during a local forum Sunday morning at the Collegiate United Methodist Church. While the mainstream candidates, from the Republican and Democratic parties, gave the tried and true messages, the lone Libertarian candidate stood up in the crowd as a voice that does not get heard very often. The candidate — Eric Cooper, is associate professor of psychology and neuro-
science at Iowa State — said he knows he isn’t going to win the election. “That’s not the role of third parties in American politics,” Cooper explained. “How third parties have been effective is by getting 10 percent of the vote on a regular basis — 10 percent is enough to decide the election between Republicans and Democrats almost always. If a third party can get that ... it forces the major parties to
start adopting their issues. I’m just trying to get them to steal my issues.” Cooper knows what it’s like to fight a tough battle, he ran for Iowa Governor in 2010 and has run for the state house in 2008, 2004 and 2002. This year he is running for Iowa’s 46th District, which encompasses the campus area and greek land. As a libertarian Cooper believes in an extremely limited government, an idea
which he says traces back to Thomas Jefferson. “What Jefferson pointed out is that the purpose of the government, the reason we have one, is that it’s the institution in society that’s allowed to use force — physical violence,” Cooper said. “There are some activities that society needs to have done that require force. The reason we have a government
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