Defending Freedoms

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FRIDAY April 8, 2011 | Volume 206 | Number 133 | 40 cents | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890. ™ iowastatedaily.com facebook.com/iowastatedaily iowastatedaily online First Amendment Day Iowa politics House passes education budget bill By Hilary.Bassett iowastatedaily.com The legislature’s education budget bill calling for a $39.9 million cut to the Board of Regents general fund was passed Tuesday by the House and now faces the Senate. Support for the bill in the House largely Defending followed party affiliation, with only two Republicans joining the Democrats in their vote of no. “I voted no for the bill because it does have those cuts to higher education, which I feel is freedoms the wrong direction,” said Rep. Lisa Heddens, D-Ames. Heddens said she’s been communicating with professors, administrators, college stu- Adam Kissel from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, thefire.org, gives a lecture about the First Amendment on college campuses dents, families and, for the first time ever, high Thursday in the Cardinal Room of the Memorial Union. Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily school seniors concerned about the budget cuts. enough,” Kissel said, proceeding with an ex- “People are recognizing, I think more than Iowa State’s speech code ample of how simply calling someone enough ISU policies that violate ever, the cuts that are going on and the impact times after being asked not to can be deemed that it’s going to have on our educational sys- receives red light rating harassment. the freedom of speech tem and the student budget or the family bud- Kissel specified that under according to thefire.org get,” Heddens said. By Matt.Wettengel Iowa State’s policy, anyone Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell, D-Ames, iowastatedaily.com who has ever told a joke about Harassment policies co-sponsored an amendment that would have Two-thirds of public universities, includ- race, ethnicity, sex, pregnancy, brought the Board of Regent’s budget up to last Discrimination and ing Iowa State, have unconstitutional speech color, religion, national origin, harassment year’s spending, which was what they asked codes, said Adam Kissel, vice president of pro- physical or mental disability, for, but that amendment did not pass. Student Disciplinary grams for the Foundation for Individual Rights age, marital status, sexual ori- Regulations: Harassment “One of the things I argued in my amend- in Education. entation, gender identity or and Discriminatory ment was that 57 of the legislators have ben- Kissel presented free speech violations at U.S. veteran status, has vio- Harassment efited from higher education supported by our college campuses throughout the country and lated the university’s harass- MONEY.p3 >> highlighted issues within Iowa State policies ment policy. that restrict university members’ freedom of This policy also states Free Speech Zones speech. that sexual harassment “can Facilities and Grounds Use, The most restricting policies at Iowa State range from unwelcome Activities Environment are the discrimination and harassment poli- sexual flirtations and inap- Internet usage policies cies, Kissel said. Specifically, Kissel focused on propriate put-downs of in- Code of Computer Ethics and the examples list of this policy that is included dividual persons or classes Acceptable Use Policy in the policy. of people, to serious physi- Branstad “Harassment may include, but is not limited cal abuses such as sexual to, threats, physical contact or violence, pranks, assault.” Advertised jokes, epithets, derogatory comments, vandal- “How do you know it’s Commitments to Free rejects ism, or verbal, graphic, or written conduct di- unwelcome until you try?” Expression rected at an individual or individuals because Kissel asked. “The first of their race, ethnicity, sex, pregnancy, color, time you unwelcomely Student Disciplinary Regulations: Student Rights religion, national origin, physical or mental dis- flirt with someone it’s not and Responsibilities emissions ability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, harassment. If they tell Student Disciplinary gender identity, or U.S. veteran status,” the pol- you to cool it and you keep Regulations: Statement of icy states. sticking around ... it’s be- Philosophy “So here’s the thing with the examples list: come a little bit more per- regulations Anything that you do or say can be called harassment if you do it severely and pervasively POLICY.p3 >> By Kaleb.Warnock iowastatedaily.com Gov. Terry Branstad issued an executive order preventing the Iowa Department of Iowa economy Natural Resources from implementing regulations passed the Environmental Protection Agency aimed to limit emissions of diesel electric power generators. Branstad signed Uneven recession recovery likely Executive Order 72 on Monday, aimed to over- ride regulations that would require retrofit- ting generators resulting in high implementa- Evaluations of growth in our overall size in our tion costs. labor force,” said Kerry Koonce, In his executive order, Branstad cited the when Iowa will communications director for Iowa potential problems with the installation of ex- Employment across the state Workforce Development. “I think pensive new catalytic filters that “impose un- recover differ Total nonfarm employment up Financial activities down 600 jobs there is a more optimistic outlook necessary and crippling costs on small Iowa 12,000 Professional and business ser- from individuals as well.” municipal utilities” that would transfer to the By Hilary.Bassett Mining has stayed the same at vices up 5,900 jobs But others aren’t as optimistic consumer and lead to a spike in utility rates. iowastatedaily.com 2,100 jobs Education and health services up about Iowa’s recovery. The National Environmental Standards Construction down 1,100 jobs 700 jobs but down from January “If I do what I consider an opti- for Air Pollutants would apply to generators In the last couple of years, the Manufacturing up 2,400 jobs 2011 mistic projection about recovery, I that employ Rotary Internal Combustion nation has faced a recession that Trade, transportation and utilities Leisure and hospitality up 2,800 don’t see us climbing out to where Engines that utility companies use in order has hit many individuals and fami- up 4,000 jobs jobs we’re posting net job growth from to supply electricity during peak hours when lies hard, but the latest reports Information down 1,200 jobs Other services down 700 jobs our previous peak until maybe the they cannot purchase or produce enough show Americans could now be fac- Government down 200 jobs first quarter of 2013,” said David power to prevent brownouts or blackouts. ing a recovery, albeit very slow. Swenson, associate scientist of NESHAP for RICE is intended to limit the “We know now that it is go- economics. “It’s still a ways out production of ozone and smog that comes ing to get better, there is no doubt there for me, at least two years out, from burning diesel fuel. about it,” said Noga O’Connor, month. “But, if it stayed that way for a year, so they’re more optimistic than I “They’re trying to set a standard so that research associate for the Iowa But those studying the trends for example, that would be basi- am.” they can try to make sure that those kind of Policy Project, a nonpartisan re- warn against using these first two cally the reverse of what happened Swenson said he’s also con- engines have some kind of performance stan- search institute. “It’s really a ques- months to predict any overarching two years ago.” cerned about an uneven recovery dard relative to emissions,” said Brian Trower, tion of how long it’s going to take trends for 2011. While it is generally agreed across Iowa. assistant director of electric services for Ames and, keep in mind, it’s going to be “That’s such a short time pe- that a recovery will take time, “The other thing I worry about Utilities. slow.” riod and we really discouraged us- some say there is still reason to feel here in Iowa is that the growth However, Trower was unsure as to wheth- Since May 2008, Iowa has lost ing too short a time period to figure optimistic. and recovery is really only going er the regulations had merit because many of around 51,000 jobs, but the first out whether we’re on any trends “We are seeing job growth in to happen initially in a few select the generators do not operate full time. two months of 2011 have shown or not,” said Mike Owen, assistant multiple sectors, which is very places,” Swenson said. “The Des “The amount of pollution coming from a growth of about 4,000 jobs each director of the Iowa Policy Project. good and we are also seeing a JOBS.p9 >> POLLUTION.p9>> NEW! 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