Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on GSB’s proposal to rent and renovate what was formerly Varsity Theater. The second part will focus on the outstanding issues that left the senate delaying the vote for another week — to Wednesday night’s meeting.
Ian Ringgenberg, graduate student in interdisciplinary...
To the editor,
Attached is a letter that will be read at a prayer meeting in Grinnell on Monday evening. I share it with the thought you might want to publish it to give some comfort to students at ISU.
Tom Lacina, father of Jon Lacina
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February 7, 2010
Thoughts from the father, mother and brother of Jon...
For about 32 minutes of last Saturday’s game against No. 9 Kansas State, the Cyclones showed they are capable of playing with the top teams in the Big 12 conference. The other seven minutes, however, were a different story. Iowa State saw the Wildcats go on a 17-2 run to put the game just out of reach.
Iowa State is back at the drawing board thi...
In 1916, Charles Mayser introduced wrestling to the campus of Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Much like the crops that were cultivated at the small land-grant school, Mayser grew his program from the ground up. He would eventually pass his team on to other coaches, who would oversee the team’s transformation from a sprout...
Cy’s Roost, 121 Welch Ave., will be the subject of a City Council motion to approve a six-month probationary liquor license.
The Ames Police Department has recommended the council consider this six-month license as a result of the 34 alcohol-related citations issued from Jan. 26, 2009, to Jan. 26, 2010. Violations included 17 cases of minor...
Lied Recreation Athletic Center is 20 years old now, and the forces that brought it into existence are all but forgotten. Regardless, this befuddling gray area created between student services and athletics rears its ugly head every time a student hopes to play basketball during the same night as a track meet or from 2–6 p.m. every weekday when L...
The ISU gymnastics team faced several challenges Friday during and after the quad-meet at Pittsburgh. The team finished second to Pittsburgh 195.175-195.125, and topped Rutgers (189.300) and SUNY-Brockport (188.350).
The team started out with 48.550 on floor exercise, a lower than normal score compared to last week’s season-high 49.175. The...
While Americans are spending just 9.6 percent of their income on food — an all-time low — the USDA’s Economic Research Service reports that 49 percent of the total food budget of Americans goes to purchasing food away from home, which is an all-time high.
Not surprisingly, the bulk of these away-from-home food dollars are spent at fast-foo...
