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Iowa State Daily, October 2013 Iowa State Daily, 2013 10-24-2013 Iowa State Daily (October 24, 2013) Iowa State Daily Follow this and additional works at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastatedaily_2013-10 Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the Journalism Studies Commons Recommended Citation Iowa State Daily, "Iowa State Daily (October 24, 2013)" (2013). Iowa State Daily, October 2013. 20. http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastatedaily_2013-10/20 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State Daily, 2013 at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Iowa State Daily, October 2013 by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 | Volume 209 | Number 43 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890. New chef cooks up diversity backgrounds helps us be better and ISU Dining prepares in turn helps our students have a new cuisines for better experience,” said Brittney Rutherford, marketing coordinator students on campus for ISU Dining. “Everyone comes from somewhere different and with By Brian.Keck a diverse staff we are better able to @iowastatedaily.com meet the needs of all our students.” ISU Dining tries to create the SU Dining has hired a new best atmosphere for all by hiring Knoll chef, Anastasios “Tasos” chefs with different strengths that IKyprianos. look to benefit different types of Kyprianos will be working at students, said Nancy Keller, direc- the Knoll preparing food for many tor of ISU Dining. functions led by President Steven “We are able to match people Leath. with the position,” Keller said. “[We serve] donors, ambassa- “[Kyprianos] comes to us as some- dors, senators’ private dinners, the one with very well-rounded expe- things that fund scholarships and rience which will be beneficial to programs,” Kyprianos said. us, because when he is not working Kyprianos began working with the president, he will be able to as a university chef at Oakland benefit us in other ways.” University. ISU Dining prides itself as a He then moved to Simpson team to offer the best experiences College to work as their executive to students, Rutherford said. chef before coming to Ames to work “A lot of teamwork goes on here as the Knoll chef. in order to pull off big events. Not Kyprianos, who said he likes to just one entity of ISU dining can do cook with a French-Mediterranean that,” Rutherford said. “We are all Caitlin Ellingson/Iowa State Daily flair, hopes to bring his favorite type ISU Dining, and we are all in this to- Anastasios Kyprianos is the newest addition to ISU Dining as a chef at the Knoll. He prepares of cooking to Iowa State. unique food for events and functions led by ISU President Steven Leath. “Adding chefs from different CHEF p3 >> Drink Pink night supports cancer research By William.Byal ceeds going toward breast can- mugs were sold. take to help.” @iowastatedaily.com cer research. This year, in hopes of a Brunsvold encourages “The proceeds from the higher turnout, Rob Roe, senior student to go out for mug For the past two years mug sales are what’s going to in psychology and manager at night and show their sup- Colleges Against Cancer has the American Cancer Society,” Paddy’s Irish Pub, said a total of port for breast cancer since partnered with and several said Briana Brunsvold, junior 1,600 mugs are going to be avail- it is huge type of cancer bars — including Paddy’s, Sips, in elementary education and able and equally distributed and affects so many people Cy’s Roost and Outlaws — for president of Colleges Against among the bars. today. a “Drink Pink Mug Night” Cancer. “The mugs are super “I know we all truly believe One in eight women event. awesome. They’re bright pink, in the cause, and we’re more will be diagnosed with This year, the bars will start and they have a big ribbon on than willing to support and help breast cancer through- selling the $5 pink mugs at 7 them.” when we can,” Roe said. “This p.m. on Thursday, with all pro- Last year, a total of 1,400 is just our avenue we’re able to PINK p3 >> Professors discuss separation of religious studies, theology By Max.Dible @iowastatedaily.com studies. University, a Catholic The book is set for re- Jesuit school. Separation of church lease in early 2015. “That particular and state is a tenet of “Among religious teacher taught that a cer- American democracy, but studies scholars, some tain answer to religious separating faith from aca- hold it appropriate to set questions was right and demia can be murky in the the discipline of theology others were wrong. Not all field of religious studies, apart from religious stud- schools that teach theol- especially where it inter- ies, because they associ- ogy take this exclusivist sects with theology. ate theology with defense approach,” Eslinger said. Hector Avalos, profes- of traditions about God, “Such an approach vio- Courtesy of Antonia Hutzell sor of philosophy and reli- especially by Christians,” lates the promise of free- A participant in the LIFE program plays along with an Xbox Kinect. This program is de- gious studies, defined the Clifford writes. dom of conscience of the signed to keep older adults on their feet and on their way to living a healthier lifestyle. discipline. Proponents of keep- First Amendment ... and is “Religious studies ing the two disciplines a support for a particular centers on the study of the separate believe religious religious view point over role of religion in culture,” studies is a discipline that others.” Avalos said. “It is a descrip- should study religion from The opinions of Video game program tive, not a prescriptive en- an outsider’s perspective, Eslinger and Avalos, how- terprise. In other words, a Clifford said. ever, are not shared by scholar of religious studies “They envision theol- everyone. attempts to describe dif- ogy as being done by insid- “[Some] scholars ar- keeps adults moving ferent religious beliefs that ers, who are practitioners gue that since most re- exist in our world, and not of a particular religion … ligions are oriented to prescribe what religious who have a ‘confessional community-forming ex- By Antonia.Hutzell aging.” beliefs people should commitment’ to the reli- periences of a transcen- @iowastatedaily.com The three professors wanted to follow.” gious convictions of the dent reality-deity, the- reach out to the older adults in retire- Theology is a point of church to which they are ology is integral to the Three ISU professors are working ment community centers, churches, contention both in how it affiliated,” Clifford writes study of religion,” Clifford to teach older adults how to live a more wellness centers and congregate meal relates to religious stud- in her book. writes. active lifestyle. sites in rural areas that did not have the ies, and whether it has a Avalos said he be- Avalos acknowledged Sarah Francis, assistant professor resources available to them for exercise place as an academic pur- lieves the separation of the relationship between of food science and human nutrition; and bring the program to them. suit in a public university religious studies and the- theology and religious Jennifer Margrett, associate professor of “With the Kinect, you can have at all. ology needs to be taken a studies, adding a caveat. human development and family stud- multiple people playing. At a site with “Theology, in its more step further. “I do think that reli- ies; and Warren Franke, professor of ki- 10 participants, you may have two peo- literal sense, is discourse “Personally, I don’t gious studies can study nesiology, developed the LIFE — Living ple playing but the rest of the people about God or the study think that theology is the theology of different well through Intergenerational Fitness can shadow play. That way everyone of God,” Avalos said. “It a legitimate academic religions, but it does not and Exercise — program that teaches can participate,” Franke said. presupposes that there enterprise because there center on establishing any older adults how to be active through As a result of the first pilot program, is a god and that human are no objective meth- theology to be true or nor- the use of video games. the LIFE program created a website that beings can discover the ods to verify any claims mative,” Avalos said. The LIFE program is led by young contains practical tips and exercises nature and actions of about the entity called Eslinger echoed this adult volunteers who show the older that are available for anyone to use. God in the world,” Avalos ‘God,’” Avalos said. “It has sentiment as well. adults how to use the Kinect for Xbox “The point is to increase the level said. no place in a public uni- “In my classes, my gaming system to play games. They also of activity above what they would nor- Anne Clifford, as- versity due to constitu- goal is to try to understand lead them in interactive games such as mally do in a way that is fun,” Franke sociate professor of phi- tional issues regarding the the worldview and beliefs crosswords and storytelling. said. losophy and religious separation of religion and from the perspective of “The goal is to increase physical ac- Ciara McCarty, junior in kinesiol- studies, explains in her state.” the believers, not to judge tivity in older adults, as well as offering ogy and health, volunteered at a LIFE pending book, “Creation Brian Eslinger, lec- them as right or wrong,” benefits to the younger adults,” Francis program site and said it was a great Theology and the Natural turer in the department of Eslinger said.

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