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JAN. 14, 2013 OPINION SPORTS Students: STYLE Iowa State Manage your Scholarship winners gains third time carefully visit New York City Big 12 win Students Ames Laboratory FIND US ONLINE: iowastatedaily.com Rare earth @iowastatedaily facebook.com/ research iowastatedaily nets lab ONLINE: new grant By Elizabeth.Polsdofer @iowastatedaily.com In an age where cell phones, car radios and fluorescent lighting reign supreme, the world starts to look a bit bare without the aid of rare earth materials to build many modern technologies. STATE GYM IS NOW “You wouldn’t have very much of LEED CERTIFIED anything,” said Alex King, director iowastatedaily.com/news of U.S. Department of Energy Ames Laboratory. King received a phone call on Tuesday informing him that Ames Photo: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily Laboratory had received part of a Branden Sammons, an incoming freshman whose plans to attend Iowa State were put on hold when he was $120 million grant over a period of diagnosed with stage 2 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer last summer, will start classes on Monday. five years to fund the hiring of 60 per- sonnel and purchasing of equipment to advance research in the area of rare earth materials. The grant is part of the U.S. Department of Energy Hubs, or a Finally a Cyclone large series of projects to ensure HAZELWOOD: Branden Sammons has not only Until now. sustainable energy in the future, an- 25 YEARS LATER Freshman delayed experienced cancer firsthand, but he “I’ve been looking forward to this nounced to the public on Wednesday. iowastatedaily.com/news college to fight cancer can now remove it from his list. day for a long time. I always thought The funding will add an addi- Branden, an incoming fresh- I’d be a Cyclone, and it’s slowly, slow- tional 20 percent to U.S. Department By Rachel.Sinn man in software engineering, was ly happening,” Branden said. of Energy Ames Laboratory’s $40 @iowastatedaily.com diagnosed with stage 2 Hodgkin’s Branden moved on campus million annual budget, with King WEATHER: Lymphoma cancer last summer just Sunday and will begin classes on estimating receiving about $8 mil- Cancer is not a word that anyone before he was set to begin his time Monday along with the rest of the lion a year over the five-year period. wants on their life list, but it’s a real- at Iowa State in August 2012, a plan MON CANCER.p3 >> GRANT.p3 >> 10|22 ity for many. that was ultimately put on hold. Philanthropy Adventure TUES 23|33 WED 21|41 Provided by weather.gov GYM: Lied opens following Photo: William Deaton/Iowa State Daily Photo courtesy of Colton Kennedy Jackie Schmidt, sophomore in kinesiology and health, helps second-grader Payton Hand, senior in mechanical engineering, pauses during his climb renovation Hayden Sinclair try to solve a math question and gives tips on spelling for a quick photo. Members of the ISU Mountaineering and Climbing Club climbed Mount Rainier during the 2012-2013 Winter Break. After almost two months of during study time Dec. 5, 2012, at Kate Mitchell Elementary School. renovation, the second and third floor of Lied Recreation Athletic Facility is opening up for student use Monday. Climbing club treks Renovations began at the start Student ministry of Thanksgiving Break, though different areas of the gym have been open throughout the up Mount Rainier process. aids local school By Rachel.Sinn height of 14,410 feet above sea level. Michael Giles, Director of Recreation Services, said that @iowastatedaily.com “I feel like there’s a certain renovations are on schedule. tal help to meet the demands of the amount of intensity that you get Equipment arrived during the ISU’s Salt Company growing population at the school. Winter break compels many mountaineering that doesn’t come past couple days and has been “Students need some help de- students to search for activi- across or that you don’t have avail- moved into the facility. teams up with Kate veloping social skills like how to be ties to occupy their time until able in everyday life,” mountain- -By Daily staff Mitchell Elementary a friend and not play roughly,” said school starts again, but for the ISU eering president and climb leader Autumn Seiler, an instructional Mountaineering and Climbing Kennedy said. By Maia.Zewert coach at Kate Mitchell. “It was really Club, climbing a mountain became Freezing temperatures, acute @iowastatedaily.com around unstructured times, like re- their New Year challenge. mountain sickness and avalanche INSIDE: cess and lunch, that we saw the need.” Colton Kennedy, senior in me- conditions provided for a challeng- Once a week, a number of ISU stu- Seiler said a meeting was called chanical engineering, coordinated ing climb of Mount Rainier for eight News ......................................... 2 dents leave campus to volunteer their with members of the Kate Mitchell the expedition to climb Mount ISU students, who reached the sum- Opinion .......................................4 time at Kate Mitchell Elementary community. One member in atten- Rainier, located in Washington mit Jan. 3. Sports ......................................... 6 School. dance was Troy Nesbitt, a pastor National Park. The journey took “It’s not something that you do Style .......................................... 7 The volunteer program started at Cornerstone Church in Ames. six days to complete with 20-plus and necessarily have a whole lot of Classifieds ................................. 8 three years ago when some in the dis- hours of slow and precise climbing Games ....................................... 9 trict noticed a need for supplemen- SALT.p2 >> to reach the summit, which is at a CLIMB.p3 >> Volume 208 | Number 76 | 40 cents | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890. | A 2010-11 ACP Pacemaker Award winner 2 News 2 | NEWS | Iowa State Daily | Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 Editor: Frances Myers | [email protected] | 515.294.2003 Invention Ames, ISU Police Police Blotter: Departments 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. Funding from patent royalties declines year and they probably will saw 106 disclosures. help us be able to get over the Dec. 6 harassment (reported at By Mike.Randleman 12:45 p.m.). @iowastatedaily.com go down for a while because It is also noted in the re- hurdles, those years that are Courtney Danzer, 22, 320 we will have one major pat- port that patents issued in the down.” Stanton Ave. Apt. 106, was Dec. 8 A nationwide problem is ent that will expire and go off- 2012 fiscal year went down Innovation and research arrested and charged with Christopher Hinderks, 25, of surfacing within universities, patent in June 2013. So those from 25 to 16 in comparison are not things that will cease public intoxication in the 200 Webster City, was arrested block of Chamberlain Place including at Iowa State. funds will not be coming in with 2011. at an institution that prides and charged for public intox- (reported at 2:02 a.m.). Royalties from patents are any longer.” While these statistics itself on its cutting-edge capa- ication at Hayward Avenue declining, due to an array of To combat potential de- indicate diminished re- bilities and its impact and Hunt Street (reported at The following were cited circumstances. This, in turn, on industry. for underage possession 12:30 a.m.). creases in funding from royal- sults, the gap is not of alcohol in Lot 63: Justin results in diminished funds ties, continued research and insurmountable by Omer Capraz, 25, 119 North Messer, 18, 303 Maple Hall, for research for inventors as innovation is required to cre- and there are le- Hyland Ave., Apt. 11, was Neil Erdahl, 19, 4362 Larch well as the universities and ate products and ideas that gitimate sources of arrested and charged with Hall, David Erdahl, 19, 4362 operating while intoxicated organizations that sponsor will hold both economic and optimism. Larch Hall (reported at 12:46 at Mortensen Road and them. intrinsic value. Lovejoy said a.m.). Seagrave Boulevard (re- A main component to this In a most recent annual that, while there is Officers assisted a 21-year- ported at 2:47 a.m.). situation is the constant expi- report conducted by Lisa likely to be a tem- old female who was expe- Kolbe Stenoien, 19, of ration of revenue-generating Lorenzen, director of the ISU porary downturn i n riencing medical difficulties Barrington, Ill., was cited patents, and the replacement Research Foundation, in June royalties, the research foun- at Thielen Student Health for underage possession of Center, she was transported of these patents going forward. of 2012, it is noted that patent dation is capable of weather- alcohol at Gray Avenue and to Mary Greeley Medical The outlook for Iowa State filings through ISU Research ing the storm to continue to Lincoln Way (reported at 2:17 Center (reported at 9:52 is not completely grim, how- Foundation, an organization assist in funding for uni- a.m.).