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Column battle: Choose your side in the debate on immigration to the U.S. OPINION.p4 >> TUESDAY January 11, 2011 | Volume 206 | Number 77 | 40 cents | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890. ™ iowastatedaily.com facebook.com/iowastatedaily iowastatedaily online Flavors CyRide Council seeks ways to lower 2011 fuel costs By Kayla.Schantz iowastatedaily.com With fuel prices expected to increase, the city of Ames is looking for ways to minimize fuel prices for CyRide in 2011. The Ames City Council will be discussing a proposal to use fuel contracts to purchase fuel for CyRide, in which CyRide would agree to buy enough fuel for a two-month period at a predetermined price. Currently, CyRide purchases fuel every seven to 14 days and pays market price for the thousands of gallons of fuel. Under the pro- posed fuel contracts, the fuel expenditures would be more stable, which could reduce CyRide fuel costs. CyRide would enter into a maximum of five fuel contracts of two months each during the year. This would account for 70 percent of the total CyRide fuel expenses. The remaining 30 percent of the fuel would be bought on the market at a fixed rate, plus a markup or deduct on the market rate. If the proposal passes, the contracts would Microwaved and fast food are often attributed as causes for an increasingly overweight American population. Try coming up with your own healthy creations instead to avoid excess calories and sodium. Photo: Rebekka Brown/Iowa State Daily be made with companies who propose the lowest fuel price. The Ames City Council will vote on the proposal at 7 p.m. Tuesday night in council Go beyond microwaving chambers at City Hall, 515 Clark Ave. Jobs Cooking food from tant meal of the day. It’s typically More food tips: skipped and even if it isn’t, it still flavors.ameseats.com rarely gets the respect it deserves. scratch can save >> FLAVORS pg.10 Instead of hitting the snooze but- Ames market money, calories ton twice and grabbing a cereal bar as you rush out the door, wake By Caitlyn Diimig this year is to lose weight, then fried chicken, try roasting or grill- up early and treat yourself to a big expands with AmesEats Flavors Writer you should make your New Years ing chicken. Skip out on fries and breakfast. Make yourself whole resolution to cook more the way have fresh vegetables and fruit as wheat French toast. Kids in the The microwave was invented grandma did. Your first step should a side. Go for fresh, as canned and 1960s used maple syrup, so I guess WebFilings circa 1946. And although many be to delete your favorite pizza and frozen don’t contain as many vi- you can too. But use sparingly. Or consider it a godsend and a time Chinese restaurants from your tamins. Don’t forget a tall glass of try making yourself an egg burrito. By Paige.Godden iowastatedaily.com saver, our waste lines aren’t thank- phone contacts. skim milk to wash all your healthy Scramble eggs and place them in ing us. Microwaving frozen foods If you’re craving a pizza, they’re food down. a tortilla with melted cheese and WebFilings, a company that claims it of- have become the go-to for many easy to make at home. Plus, you For lunch, don’t rush to the salsa. Give yourself extra points fers the first and only end-to-end solution for family dinners. Unfortunately, fro- usually skip the grease and save nearest deli. Make your own if it’s homemade salsa — a great external financial reporting, will be bringing zen foods contain unwanted extra money. You can make your own sandwich, but skip the PB&J and tasting homemade salsa is easy jobs to Ames. The company will be based out calories and sodium. dough or buy a whole-wheat, pre- get creative. Try an open-faced to make and can be used in lots of of Los Altos, Calif., and Ames. Back in the 1960s, when mi- made pizza crust. Skip out on sandwich on toasted bread of meals or as a snack. Dice up some The company received a grant from the crowave technology hadn’t yet store-bought pizza sauce as it’s your choice with goat cheese and tomatoes, green chilies, add corn, Iowa Department of Economic Development. been perfected, our waistlines loaded with sodium. Make your slices of tomato. Or, take the left- black beans and as much cumin Dan Culhane, president and CEO of were much tinier. According to own instead, using tomato paste over chicken from last night’s spice as you like. the Ames Chamber of Commerce, said the National Center for Health and seasonings. Top with part- dinner and make a chicken salad. Don’t just make this New WebFilings and the city had to work together Statistics, men and women on av- skim mozzarella and fresh veggies Limit your dressing and add fruit. Year’s about losing weight; make to get the grant. erage weigh 25 pounds more now of your choice. Bonus points if the Grapes and strawberries go well it about getting back to the basics. “The way it works is the company makes than they did in 1960. veggies come from your own gar- with chicken. Your waistline and taste buds will the application, but the city has to sponsor it. If your New Year’s resolution den. Instead of buying fast food Breakfast is the most impor- thank you. You and I couldn’t just go into the state house for money, there has to be some check and bal- ance. The city has to say this is a company in our community that is sponsored by the city of Politics Internet Ames,” Culhane said. According to the news release, “This newly approved funding package expands upon pre- vious grant and loan support that WebFilings Republicans has received from the State of Iowa and the Student fees fund Ames community; as well as employee train- ing grants that are administered through Des at odds over Moines Area Community College.” Web speed boost LOS ALTOS.p3 >> discrimination 100 new access points will increase connectivity Marketing By Tyler.Kingkade iowastatedaily.com By Karen.Jennings The Pigford and Cobbell class ac- iowastatedaily.com Students join tion settlements were passed in legis- lation that would provide funding to New wireless access points are in the settle African-American farmers’ and process of being added in efforts to speed StumbleUpon Native Americans’ lawsuits against up the campus’ wireless Internet services. the federal government for past The addition of 100 new access competition discrimination. points will allow for faster Internet us- Thousands of farmers in the cases Grassley age for more devices and improve exist- By Tessa.Callendar were denied to have their cases heard. ing service for high-traffic areas. These iowastatedaily.com It passed the Senate in the previous session and the efforts are part of a response to the cam- House passed it Nov. 30 to move on to President Barack pus’s growing dependence on wireless StumbleUpon, a discovery engine created Obama. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it communication. in 2001 and now with more than 12 million us- “closing the door on an old injustice,” adding, “We rec- New wireless access points will be ers, finds “the best of the web” by catering its ognize that there are other discrimination cases that installed beginning over Spring Break, Campus wireless results to each individual and loads Web pages remain to be resolved, including women, Hispanic and said Jennifer Lohrbach, senior systems unlikely to have been found using a regular IT is adding 100 new Native American farmers. It is my hope these cases will analyst for Information Technology and wireless access points search engine. come to a similarly just conclusion.” leader of the project. across campus at “StumbleUpon is a great source of enter- Rep. Steve King, R-I.A. offered an amendment to Approximately 100 buildings on cam- a cost of $350,541. tainment and information,” said Katie Gray, halt funding for the Pigford settlement, but was blocked pus offer wireless access in one or more There are 100 marketing communications manager for by the Rules Committee. King said it’s ripe with fraud, rooms, according to Inside Iowa State’s buildings on campus StumbleUpon. and spoke of the lawsuit being equivalent of their “40 website. that offer wireless, “Whether you’re looking for a quick break and the project will acres and a mule,” referencing to the Civil War era prac- Some wireless spots on campus in- increase wireless or to do deep research, StumbleUpon will open tice of providing essentials to some former slaves. clude Central Campus, the Memorial coverage on campus your eyes to new topics, ideas and media.” On the floor of the House, he used the example of a Union and the lawn between Parks by 15 percent.