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More than 20 vandalism cases reported in Ames By Alex.Connor @iowastatedaily.com The Ames Police Department is searching for suspects after receiving reports of more than two dozen vandalism cases early Sunday. Lt. Tom Shelton with Ames Police, said there have been 26 reported vehicles so far. The night shift received the first call regarding the damage at 2:04 a.m. Sunday.
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The streets that received damage include Delaware, Idaho, Phoenix, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Garfield, Somerset, Diamond, Crystal, Southdale, Jewel, Garnet and Florida. Police are currently leaving cards on unreported cars that they believe could have sustained damage due to the vandalisms, Shelton said. Shelton encourages anyone with vehicle damage, particularly from the last 12 hours, to report it to the police at (515) 239-5133.
More than 20 cases of vehicle vandalism were reported in Ames on Sunday. The streets the cars were parked on include Delaware, Idaho, Phoenix, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Garfield, Somerset, Diamond, Crystal, Southdale, Jewell, Garnet and Florida.
Putting it all out there Models discuss posing nude for drawing co-op By Ashley.Green @iowastatedaily.com
The co-op is a professional setting, with the intent to keep models relaxed. Those who participate have little interaction with
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sually, standing in front of a class naked is a tyical nightmare for students — but for some at Iowa State, it’s their chosen day job. This is a figure drawing class. The ISU Biological/Pre-Medical Illustration Club hosts a weekly drawing co-op “in order for students to build their portfolios for medical illustration graduate school,” according to its website. The co-op, located in Room 240 of the College of Design building, is available to ISU students for $3, and faculty and non-students for $5. Live models in the co-op hold a pose for two hours every Thursday. Immediately upon entering the room, the first thing seen is a model bearing it all, likely watching him or herself in a wall-sized mirror. Easels are scattered throughout, and artists are furiously marking their paper. Music is played to lighten the mood, and someone from the BPMI Club stands in throughout the session. It’s highly recommended that students in the College of Design dabble in figure drawing, especially those studying BPMI, like freshman Ingrid Lickiss. The co-op offers extensive practice in proportions, as each model is an entirely different subject from the last. “As somebody who wants to draw a lot of bodies in their life, it’s nice to be able to practice those proportions, gettings things right, just working and shading skin tones, variations and shadows,” Lickiss said. Lickiss not only participates in figure drawing studios, she models for them.
models, who typically don’t talk to the crowd unless they have friends participating. “When you have a mindset, especially biological illustrators, it’s just not awkward,” Lickiss said. “You’re a subject now, like I don’t feel like I’m naked, I feel like I’ve become a subject in a way.” Lickiss was once
told that the best way to take free art classes is to become a model for them. Being a BPMI major, Lickiss interacts with people who have drawn her on a regular basis, including her professors. Most of the time, she’s able to be casual about it, but there are times when things get weird, like after one of her sessions when she and one of the artists took the same walk home. “We just didn’t talk,” Lickiss said. “It was too soon.” Lickiss doesn’t like seeing the artwork afterward, although some models enjoy seeing what they consider to be a different version of themselves. Artists, including a professor, have shown her the finished products, which Lickiss finds “exposing” but she can still see the beauty in the pieces. Not every model has personal ties with the College of Design; William Franke is a freshman in kinesiology and health. Lickiss told Franke, a good friend, about the $20 per hour that models are paid, which was intriguing enough for him to try it out. The idea that college is the time to branch out and try new things cemented Franke’s decision to model. Unlike Lickiss, Franke found the experience to initially be uncomfortable. “It’s your first time standing in front of a bunch of people naked while they
Printing policy to charge students 5 cents per page By Jeanette.VanZomeren @iowastatedaily.com A new printing credit policy that will change the way students are allocated printing credits will be implemented at Iowa State in the fall. All students will have 500 printing credits no matter which printer they use. Students currently have a set limit of printing credits depending on what college they belong to. Students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have 500 printing credits, while students in the College of Design have 1,000 printing credits. Some printers in certain buildings on campus use more credits per page than others. The new policy will “standardize the cost of black and white printing for all students in all departments in the colleges,” said Jim Kurtenbach, interim vice president and chief information officer in information technology services. Kurtenbach has been working with Provost Jonathan Wickert and Student Government to implemen the policy. The standardized printing cost will be 5 cents per page anywhere on campus, amounting to 100 pages that could be printed, “All [the policy] does is revise what used to be called the printing credits, so departments in
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Students are currently allocated different amounts of printing credits depending on their major. A new printing credit policy that will be implemented in the fall will charge students 5 cents per page anywhere on campus.
colleges used to set their own printing credit quota, and what this does is standardize the cost of printing,” Kurtenbach said, adding that it is quite possible that the term printing credits will go away altogether. Printing credits standardization was one of Student Government President Cole Staudt’s main points when running for presidency. “I’m in the [College of Liberal Arts and Sciences], and there’s been times in my six semesters now that I get halfway through the semester and run out of printing credits because I’m expected to print a lab report or some other materials on a
weekly basis and I just don’t have enough printing credits,” Staudt said. “I think it’s pretty dumb...that we aren’t giving students enough printing credits to make it through the semester.” Members of Student Government also took into consideration what the student body addressed. “It’s a great example of Student Government identifying an issue that is of concern to students and then bringing it up and working with university administration,” Wickert said. Students who will return to Iowa State in the fall can expect an equal printing credit cost all across campus.
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The illustration above shows a depiction of a nude model from the BPMI Figure Drawing co-op by Kurt Esenwein, senior in pre-biological/pre-medical illustration.
draw everything,” Franke said. “It’s definitely a little bit disorienting.” Franke’s worst fear while modeling is to make eye contact with someone or to look into the crowd and see someone he knows. To prevent having his fear become reality, Franke spends the two hours trying not to focus on the crowd, instead choosing to “go away for a while.” Franke is in the pre-physician’s assistant program and will spend most of his time dealing with other people’s bodies in his field. Modeling is a good way for Franke to become more confident with his own body.
“It’s a little ironic if I’m so comfortable with helping other people’s bodies, yet I’m not even comfortable with my own skin,” Franke said. Franke isn’t bothered when he runs into people who have drawn him; he said it’s something that happens quite a bit on campus. It’s only weird when those people try to talk to him about it. In fact, Franke considers that the worst part of the experience. Travis Hattery, graduate student in molecular cellular and developmental biology, had no plans to
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NOvA explores space By Derek.Clayton @iowastatedaily.com The only way for there to ever be enough antimatter in the cosmos as matter would be through the total annihilation of the universe. While this is not the case, it leads to one of the greatest mysteries in the formation of our universe. The answer to why there is more matter than antimatter is unknown, but ISU researchers are on the case, hoping their recent experiments will shed some light on what happened near the beginning of the universe. “The universe, as we understand it today, is completely dominated by matter,” said Mayly Sanchez, associate professor of physics and astronomy. “So something must have happened between the Big Bang and us that made the asymmetry between matter and antimatter happen.” Sanchez and her team believe a certain fundamental particle may be to blame — the neutrino. Neutrinos are numerous, tiny, neutral particles that hardly interact with the environment around them. They have three types: muon, electron and tau. As neutrinos travel, they may turn into another type of neutrino in an event called neutrino oscillation, which Sanchez and her team emphasize in their study. Studying neutrino oscillation is a step toward understanding neutrinos and possibly linking them to the reason for the tip in the balance between matter and
antimatter. This is where the NOvA experiment comes into play. The giant system spans from Fermilab in Chicago to northern Minnesota. A beam of neutrinos is shot out from Fermilab to a detector in Minnesota that stands as the largest plastic structure in the world. The detector has the ability to pick up on signals that inform scientists when neutrino oscillation occurs. “What we do is analyze the data from the detectors to let us understand the properties of neutrinos better,” said Erika Catano, graduate assistant in physics and astronomy who works with Sanchez. The detector is made up of numerous plastic cells arranged in vertical and horizontal positions. The cells are filled with mineral oil and a light-emitting substance known as a scintillator. When particles go through the cells, the scintillator produces light. The light ends up at a photodetector and is converted into a readable electronic signal. Sanchez and her team then analyze the results to uncover the secrets of neutrinos — secrets they hope will reveal some of the earlier processes in the universe. Some scientists believe heavier types of neutrinos once existed, but are no longer present. Unraveling the vast secrets of the universe is no easy task. “To study neutrinos today gives us an answer, or at least a hint as to how things happened in the beginning of the universe,” Sanchez said.