IOWA STATE DAILY 10.09.2017 No. 035 Vol 213 65°
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COURTESY OF BOARD OF REGENTS Pictured: Sonny Ramaswamy.
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ON CAMPUS BY DANIELLE.GEHR @iowastatedaily.com
UNTHINKABLE ISU defeats No. 3 Oklahoma on the road, 38-31 BY BRIAN.MOZEY @iowastatedaily.com
Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield had one more chance to tie this football game up with 1:27 left in the fourth quarter. It was fourth-and-4 at the Oklahoma 42-yard line.
Mayfield had a lot of time in the pocket, but couldn’t find a target, so he raced out of the pocket chased by a couple of Iowa State defensive linemen. Once the Cyclones got closer, Mayfield threw a dart to wide receiver Marquise Brown, which
was broken up by a couple Iowa State secondary players. The ball dropped onto the field and it was over. Iowa State had done the unthinkable. Coach Matt Campbell gave one of the biggest fist pumps throughout the entire season after that failed fourth down conversion and the Iowa State bench erupted into a thunderous cheer. The 80,000 Sooners fans packed into Memorial Stadium expecting to see
a dominating performance by Oklahoma went silent. All you could hear was a small section by the Iowa State bench filled with family and fans of Iowa State filling the entire stadium. Iowa State defeated No. 3 Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, with a 38-31 final score. “ISU hit Oklahoma in the mouth,” said senior wide receiver Allen Lazard, according to Randy Peterson from the Des Moines
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COURTESY OF CAITLYN EPES/OU DAILY Iowa State running back David Montgomery had one touchdown in the Cyclones’ 38-31 victory over Oklahoma in Norman on Saturday, Oct. 7.
FOOTBALL BY GARRETT.KROEGER @iowastatedaily.com
Fan reacts to Oklahoma upset When the buses carrying the Iowa State football team came into sight, Cyclone fans who were huddled near the Bergstrom Complex to welcome back the victorious Cyclones following their 38-31 win over the No. 3 Oklahoma Sooners erupted in cheers.
Iowa State players departed one-by-one off the buses and fans started to shout, ‘Joel Lanning, I love you!’ and ‘Allen (Lazard) what a touchdown! You’re the man!’ Then fans lined up in a single file line to receive high fives from the likes of Lanning. While everyone in attendance had smiles from cheek to cheek, earlier in the day, Roger Roland, a Des Moines resident and 1978 ISU graduate, did not think the Cyclones were going to pull off the upset. “Right before the play, I told my wife, ‘please come down with it, Lazard,’” Roland said. “I knew they were going to throw it to him. That is something [Iowa State] does in that situation. But then, when they had the review, I thought, ‘surely they aren’t going to do this and talk about this for the rest of our lives that they took that touchdown away.’” Roland felt good about Lazard’s touchdown catch. But as an Iowa State fan, he has seen a lot of heartbreak, he said. So, he was preparing for the worst. When the referees confirmed the touchdown reception, Roland creeped further to the edge of his seat at home.
“I was trying to figure out if the Cyclones could actually hang on or not,” Roland said. “Or if this was going to be like one of those games where your heart was going to be broken.” Roland’s heart was not broken. His heart was thrilled. In fact, when the game clock struck all zeros, he was trying to think who to call to ask, ‘ Can you believe it?’ Despite experiencing a rollercoaster of emotions, Roland was happy he got to watch the game in real time. As a lifelong Cyclone fan, Roland has been a season ticket holder since he graduated. Hearing that, one would assume that he was in attendance for the Oklahoma State 2011 upset. But, he wasn’t. “I actually missed it,” Roland said chuckling. “The only one I’ve missed in a 100,000 years.” The reason? He has had a tradition of attending the Iowa high school state playoffs with one of his friends. And on that night was West Des Moines Valley versus Bettendorf in the 4A Championship game in Cedar Falls. Roland did not think Iowa State could beat Oklahoma State. However, he told his friend not to tell him what was going on between the Cyclones and the Cowboys because Roland taped it and was planning
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The Board of Regents announced the name of the first finalist for Iowa State president to visit campus, Sonny Ramaswamy, the director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
Ramasamy will visit Ames Monday for an on-campus interview and an open forum from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union. Anyone can attend the open forum or view the live stream at www.presidentsearch.iastate.edu. Open forums will be held Monday through Thursday. Each candidate’s name will be released 24 hours before their campus visit. The Board of Regents will make a final decision on who Iowa State’s next president will be on October 23. Ramaswamy’s curriculum vitae said he has led departments ranging from 40 to 700 person staffs and managed budgets ranging from $5 million to $1.6 billion at academic departments, university agriculture research programs, a college and federal government agencies. As director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Ramaswany oversees 400 permanent and contractual employees with a budget of $1.6 billion. He has worked at several landgrant universities in New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, Kansas, Indiana and Oregon. In Ramaswamy ’s current and previous positions, according to his vitae, he was able to obtain additional funding for his organizations from federal and state governments despite budgets being cut. Ramaswamy received a bachelor’s and master’s in Entomology from the University of Agriculture Sciences in Bangalore, India and a doctorate in the same subject from Rutgers University in New Jersey. He became a tenured professor at Mississippi State University in 1992 and the graduate coordinator in 1994. He then moved on to Kansas State University where he became a university distinguished professor and head. In 2006, he was made the associate dean of Purdue University. Then he moved on to be the dean and Reub Long professor director at Oregon State University in 2009.
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