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Iowa State Daily, April 2014 Iowa State Daily, 2014 4-25-2014 Iowa State Daily (April 25, 2014) Iowa State Daily Follow this and additional works at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastatedaily_2014-04 Recommended Citation Iowa State Daily, "Iowa State Daily (April 25, 2014)" (2014). Iowa State Daily, April 2014. 17. http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastatedaily_2014-04/17 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State Daily, 2014 at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Iowa State Daily, April 2014 by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Friday, April 25, 2014 | Volume 209 | Number 144 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890. GSB Supreme Racing with the sun Court justices, Team PrISUm readies for summer races, preps adviser resign By Katelynn.McCollough solar-powered Phaeton @iowastatedaily.com By Kelly.Schiro All nine members of the Government of the @iowastatedaily.com Student Body Supreme Court, as well as their adviser, resigned from their positions April 24 Team PrISUm hopes to get first place after a bill failed to pass in the GSB Senate dur- in this year’s American Solar Challenge, ing the April 23 meeting. an eight-day race in a course that is The bill would have created an account for more than 1,700 miles — from Austin, the judicial branch to use as funds for branch Texas, to the Twin Cities in Minnesota. initiatives throughout the year. It asked for a This summer, the Formula Sun minimum of $750 to be allocated to the account Grand Prix will serve as a qualifying race each year with a cap of $1200. for the cross country American Solar If the bill — which failed with a 17-11-0 vote Challenge race that will take place later — had passed, the judicial branch would have in the summer. been able to spend the money in the account The Grand Prix takes place ev- without having to first seek approval from the ery year, whereas the American Solar Senate. Challenge falls on the even numbered Currently, the judicial branch must go to years. the Senate for all funding requests, a process In 2012, PrISUm’s car, Hyperion, that one former justice stated as “holding [the placed second in both the Grand Prix as supreme court’s] opinions hostage.” well as the Solar Challenge. “The issue that we look at from the Court’s The team didn’t do as well as it perspective is you cannot have a court that is hoped in the 2013 Formula Sun Grand dependent on the whims of the Senate,” said Prix. Due to a problem with a wheel, it Ryan Peterson, a former justice who had served placed third, only two laps behind the on the GSB Court for six years. team that finished in first place. “We’ve been trying to develop an actual “We’re the only team that has suc- Court structure that can hear student cases and cessfully built and qualified a new car appeal the decisions of the Senate or the execu- for every American Solar Challenge that tive branch.” has been held,” said Todd Wegter, elec- Peterson said that the Court can’t work un- trical director for Team PrISUm and se- der that current structure as it may have to hear nior in computer engineering. a case involving a member of the Senate or the Wegter also said that each car has finance committee. a two-year build cycle and then a two- “For us to rule against the finance commit- year race cycle. tee jeopardizes any possibility that we could Adam Hansen, mechanical direc- receive money in the future,” stated Peterson. tor and junior in industrial technology, Caytlin Hentzel, former chief justice, equated said that the first year is dedicated to the the Court to being treated as a club that must designing and test work, whereas all the approach the Senate for funding. building and assembling is done in the Kelby Wingert/Iowa State Daily The account the Supreme Court was second year. Joseph Regenscheid, junior in materials engineering, sands down the fairing of the new seeking would have been very similar to the This year’s car is called Phaeton, PrISUm solar car Thursday. The team’s new car, Phaeton, will be finished around June. Executive Initiative Account that currently exists named after the Greek sun god’s son. in the GSB bylaws for the executive branch. This Hansen said that it is a smaller, modified is only an experimental vehicle, it must tery pack. account, according to current GSB bylaws, has version of Hyperion. have a chase vehicle that will do what- “The problem is when you get to the a minimum of $1500 and a maximum of $5000. Since Hyperion was such a success, ever the solar car does. race, you leave the realm of science and Hamad Abbas, GSB Senator for the College Wegter said that there hasn’t been too An equipment vehicle tends to be get to the realm of art,” Wegter said. of Liberal Arts and Sciences, voted against the many changes to the electrical system of behind the chase car. For some of the team, the artistry of bill as he felt uncomfortable with the fact that Phaeton. “People on the road with us try and racing is difficult. the judicial branch would not have to justify the One problem with Hyperion was take pictures. It isn’t blocked off at all,” Hansen said that one time there was minimum amount of funding each year and that the frame was too large and the Hansen said. a storm coming, and the team prepared what it would go toward. body was too heavy. Hansen said that The solar car averages about 45 by slowing down to conserve the car’s “I didn’t think the funding they were re- they changed the body from a fiber-glass miles per hour, and Wegter said it can battery. However, another team decided questing was going to solve the problem they body to a carbon fiber body on Phaeton, reach up to 70 miles per hour, though it to drive faster and beat the rain, and that were trying to fix,” Abbas said, who also stated which shaved off more than 100 pounds. would use up extra energy. team had sun the rest of the afternoon. that since the Senate deals with student money, On a typical Grand Prix race day, the “Driving down the highway going After the races are over, the cars they must justify every cent. team would get one hour in the morning 55 in this piece of aluminum and fiber could be stripped down for parts or sent Gabriel Walsh, speaker of the Senate, said to charge the car from the solar rays. The glass that you and some ragtag college off to museums or high schools. Some the funds in the account could be used for “pro- race typically goes from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. kids built, that’s something else,” Wegter parts could be used in designing next fessional development” of the Court in per- During the Grand Prix race, teams said. season’s car, or incomplete cars could be forming its duties. The bill states that Supreme try to make as many laps as possible Drivers are chosen based on weight, rebuilt by high school classes. Court members “periodically visits law school during a three-day, eight-hour race. At seniority and the time and effort they The competition is great, but a lot professors, judges and courts in Story County, the end of the day, they also get another spent on the car. They also have to be of new teams show up without cars just Polk County and other parts of Iowa.” hour of charge time as the car is pow- good drivers. to learn about solar cars, Wegter said. Several members of GSB, including ered by solar energy. The solar car has three pedals, a Wegter and other team members offer President Hillary Kletscher, explained that the During the American Solar standard accelerator and break as well advice to new teams if they ask for it. bill had an uphill battle to pass the Senate on Challenge, the solar car has a lead vehi- as a regenerative break that turns the “You want as many teams to qualify April 23 due to the number of senators present. cle in front and a chase vehicle behind. motor in a rear wheel into a generative as they can because it’s an awesome ex- Hansen said that because the solar car which produces electricity and the bat- perience,” Wegter said. GSB p3 >> Veishea Task Force’s deadline nears Leath releases six-part By Bill.Dyke @iowastatedaily.com plan to resolve security The specially se- By Danielle.Ferguson ments but rather out of the lected Veishea Task Force @iowastatedaily.com Information Technology met Thursday to begin Services budget. discussions regarding President Steven Leath the future of Veishea. announced a six-part plan Part two: Strong passwords Tom Hill, senior vice to revamp computer secu- Students will soon have to president of student af- rity Thursday at the Board of change their NetID — CyMail fairs, is the spokesman Regents meeting. — passwords more regularly, for the organization. Information technology Davis said. Currently there is “It is a very tight staff discovered that hackers no requirement to do so, but timeline,” Hill said. “We breached five departmental Davis said they want to have have to move as swiftly servers on campus.

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