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Front1 1 WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19, 2012 OPINION SPORTS Hockaday Make friends returns to stay afloat after ACL injury FLAVORS Simple wine, complex tastes Track and field FIND US ONLINE: iowastatedaily.com @iowastatedaily facebook.com/ iowastatedaily ONLINE: Uhl REACHING OUT, NOT CREEPING OUT iowastatedaily.com/opinion returns to ISU as CHICAGO TEACHERS DELIVER MESSAGE volunteer iowastatedaily.com/opinion MAKEOVER: coach Scheman File photo: Iowa State Daily After participating in the 2012 Olympics, former ISU track and cross-country runner Lisa Uhl has decided to return to Ames, where she will train under her courtyard former coach, Corey Ihmels, and work as a volunteer assistant coach. renovation By Mark.Specht @iowastatedaily.com Uhl clocked a personal best at the and cross-country runners who were of Iowa for cross-country or track, but plans to be 2012 Olympic Games in London, run- soon to become her teammates. she did receive offers from many in- revealed Lisa Uhl, former ISU national ning 31:12.80 in the 10,000-meter run “Honestly, it was just a feeling,” state schools. champion and U.S. Olympian, has to finish 13th. Uhl said. “I could just picture myself A native of Fort Dodge, Iowa, Uhl By Elizabeth.Polsdofer returned to Ames to be a volunteer When Uhl initially decided to at- being there, spending time there and never won a state cross-country or @iowastatedaily.com coach for Corey Ihmels, while pos- tend Iowa State in 2005, it was be- being happy there.” track title while running for Fort sibly making a dash for the 2016 cause she felt an immediate connec- Coming out of high school, Uhl The Iowa State Center courtyard Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. tion to the university and the track was not recruited by colleges outside UHL.p2 >> will be getting a makeover. On June 6, originally the Iowa Board of Regents approved a $2.55 million project to renovate the courtyard area of the Iowa State Center. Sciences Self-defense Since June, there have been open meetings for members of the ISU community to express what they would like to see out Class trains of the courtyard renovations. Biochar research digs up On the event page for the initial input meetings regarding the students courtyard project, Erin Rosacker wrote: “The project will ad- dress the Iowa State Center’s less soluable soil results on response deteriorating elevated walkways, enhance the courtyard and green By Eric.Debner space areas and improve acces- @iowastatedaily.com sible parking on the west side as to violence part of a long-term master plan.” While no meteorologist or agron- omist can accurately predict when By Emma.Altheide The renovations will allow Iowa the “dry years” will be, scientists and @iowastatedaily.com State to update the courtyard lights to safety codes and install farmers can now take steps to pro- better lighting in the walkways. tect against plant dehydration dur- Two officers from ISU Police Hired to do the renovations is the ing a drought. Biochar, a substance Department are working to instruct Sasaki Associates design team. known for its ability to retain water students and staff how to best re- Sasaki is a firm that focuses on and enrich soil fertility, is on the spond in the event of campus vio- design projects across various mind of researchers at Iowa State. lence. Lt. Elliott Florer and Officer mediums such as architecture, Created from a process called Devon Uric employ a variety of tactics landscape design, interior design pyrolysis, biochar exhibits many in their three-hour course to teach and civil engineering. unique properties that could pro- potentially life-saving techniques. In the 2012 year alone, Sasaki vide aid to combat future dry spells, The class, “Violent Incident was honored with the American the most noteworthy being water re- Response Training,” has been offered Society of Landscape Architects, Award of Excellence for their tention. In a lab study conducted at at Iowa State since late 2010. It is free “One Ohio State Framework Iowa State, researchers discovered and open to anyone interested. Plan” and an ASLA honor award biochar increased the soil’s water “The intent behind Violent for “Dead Sea Development retention by 15 percent. Incident Response Training is to let Zone Detailed Master Plan.” “This year, [water retention is] people know what their options are in On Wednesday, Sasaki will re- huge because of the drought,” said violent incidents,” Florer said. “And veal a concept plan for the court- David Laird, professor of agronomy. it’s not just for campus; this is training yard of the Iowa State Center “If you can improve the soil quality that you can take with you anywhere to the public in the Cardinal and make it so the soil holds water you go, to the supermarket, to the gas Room of the Memorial Union. The revelation of the preferred better, then it will be more robust in station, church, to public events.” concept plan is an open meet- a dry year.” In the class, participants learn ing, so members of the public This remedy is biochar, named how to assess violent situations they are welcome to attend. for its similarity to charcoal. may be involved in and how to re- “The word ‘charcoal’ is gener- spond accordingly. ally used when talking about a fuel, “People have more options than something you can burn,” Laird said. just sitting under their desk or laying INSIDE: “‘Biochar’ is a name we give it when down on the floor,” Florer said. “There we put it into the soil.” are other options for survival.” News ......................................... 2 Laird explained that a feedstock Greg Miers, senior in supply chain Opinion ....................................... 5 Photo: Lyn Bryant/Iowa State Daily or raw material, such as corn stover, management, went through the train- Sports ......................................... 6 Bernardo del Campo, graduate student studying biofuels, discusses is heated to extreme temperatures ing recently and left with an assort- Niche .......................................... 8 the benefits of using biochar for plants, Monday in the Biorenewables where it breaks down into bio-oil ment of lessons. Research Lab. Agricultural byproducts such as con stover can be burned Classifieds ................................. 8 down into biochar, a valuable fertilizer that can improve food production Games ....................................... 9 in areas with poor soil. BIOCHAR.p3 >> SELF-DEFENSE.p3 >> Volume 208 | Number 22 | 40 cents | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890. | A 2010-11 ACP Pacemaker Award winner 3 News 2 | NEWS | Iowa State Daily | Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 Editor: Frances Myers | [email protected] | 515.294.2003 Provided by >>UHL.p1 him and be a volunteer assis- Weather | ISU Meteorology Club tant coach with the ISU cross- Dodge High School, but she country and track teams. did set the school record in “It was an extremely diffi- WED Breezy with west north- the 3,000-meter run (10:16.71) cult decision,” Uhl said of leav- 44|79 west winds at 10 to 20 and was also a member of ing Portland. “It just wasn’t the mph, gusting to 30 mph. the 2004 All-State cross- right fit for me at this time. I country team among other was very successful [at Iowa accomplishments. State], and I was really happy Mostly sunny with THUR ISU track and cross- back here. I really wanted to 44|74 some clouds building country coach, Corey Ihmels, come back to something that in the evening. said that when he and other felt like home. It was really just coaches saw Uhl — who was at a feeling, again.” that time known as Lisa Koll Uhl had her first practice FRI Sunny, but cooler. — at the team’s cross-country with the cross-country team 41|67 camp, they thought she would Monday. She described the be a good fit at Iowa State. practice as “mostly meet-and- They recognized Uhl as greet” for herself, where she someone who had high aca- met with most of the women This day in 1967: demic standards for herself, in on the team, went for a run Hurricane Beulah moved over Brownsville, Texas addition to having potential as with a few team members and fact! and dumped over 12 inches of rain in 24 hours, establishing a record for that location. a runner. began learning her new role as “She was just a good kid,” a volunteer assistant coach. Ihmels said. As a coach, Uhl sees her job Although he believed Uhl as being a personal support to had potential, Ihmels said he the athletes. Ames, ISU Police would be crazy to say he knew “What I would love to do Police Blotter: Departments she would accomplish all that is just make everyone on the she has. team enjoy what they’re doing The information in the log comes from the ISU and City of Ames police departments’ records. All those accused of violating the law are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.