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Iowa State Daily, October 2014 Iowa State Daily, 2014 10-30-2014 Iowa State Daily (October 30, 2014) Iowa State Daily Follow this and additional works at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastatedaily_2014-10 Recommended Citation Iowa State Daily, "Iowa State Daily (October 30, 2014)" (2014). Iowa State Daily, October 2014. 22. http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastatedaily_2014-10/22 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State Daily, 2014 at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Iowa State Daily, October 2014 by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014 | Volume 210 | Number 48 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890. Iowa State Daily Students file into the Hoover Hall auditorium on the first day of classes. Iowa State now has its largest-ever enrollment of 34,732. Jenna Reeves/Iowa State Daily Tiffany Herring/Iowa State Daily Many students attended the GSB growth and enrollment open forum to hear and discuss issues dealing with increased enrollment. A panel of administra- A 4.5 percent rise in enrollment in the 2014-2015 school year has led tors were available to answer questions and take note of student concerns, including President Steven Leath. to overcrowding in various places from dining halls to elevators. Students voice concerns about campus problems Issues at hand at GSB open forum By Oscar.Alvarez the Government of the Student The administrators and GSB ence suffers, enrollment suffers, student housing and see if you’ll @iowastatedaily.com Body’s open forum. coordinated the event because and our reputation suffers.” be able to actually get a seat dur- President Steven Leath, Pro- they said they are both still in- Transportation was an issue ing the entire ride,”Dunn said. vost Jonathan Wickert, Vice Presi- terested in creating solutions to that upset many students. Robert Dunn also voiced his concern A student concerned with dent of Business and Finance any problems students feel were Dunn, senior in pre-business, about rental rates on campus. the health center, one concerned Warren Madden, Chief of Staff created by enrollment. challenged the administration to “I lived in Ames before I be- with overcrowding, one con- Miles Lackey and Associate Vice “I’m pleased that so many take a ride on CyRide to see the came a student and the growth cerned with tuition increase and President of Student Affairs Dr. people want to attend ISU. It problems students face. has affected rental rates. The another who considers him- Martino Harmon listened to stu- speaks volumes of the experienc- “I will challenge you specifi- demand for housing has made self homeless all voiced their dents’ concerns about campus es people have had,” Leath said. cally to go on the 1 Red route go- concerns Wednesday night at growth and enrollment. “We know if the student experi- ing out to West Ames which is all GSB p8 Permeable pavers Gradwohl answer building’s celebrates prayers to puddles 50 years By Jace.Dostal to avoid, and you hit that plaza @iowastatedaily.com and it’s dry.” Driveways, patios, walkways of ISU and low slope rooftops are just Courtesy of Iowa Archaeological Society Buildings at Iowa State Uni- a few of the places permeable The ISU Archaeological Lab on its first field trip in 1964. Since then, the founder, David versity are using effective new pavers can be used, Kunard said. labratory Gradwohl, has developed new courses for the anthropology program at Iowa State. ways to reduce the runoff of ex- “We were looking for some- cess rainwater. Sukup, Elings and thing that was lightweight and By Kelly.Schiro South Dakota State Historical So- sertation wasn’t quite finished. the Biorenewables Building are easy to handle, this [permeable @iowastatedaily.com ciety was excavating the area be- Today, he wouldn’t have been using permeable pavers to help pavers] kind of fit the bill,” said fore it was flooded by a reservoir. able to get a job with an incom- rainwater soak into the ground. Gordon Woods, manager of heat- “I went from $1.375 an hour plete dissertation. “The biggest reason we are ing plant maintenance. Field school wasn’t exactly in union wages to $0.75 an hour Social science was blossom- using them [permeable pavers] is Recyclability is one of the ideal, students had to live without and living in a tent camp without ing in the 1960s. There were more that the west side of campus has best features of the new pavers, running water and electricity for electricity and running water,” jobs than qualified people to fill some severe restrictions in storm Kunard said. For every 1,000 weeks. Not to mention working Gradwohl said. “But gee it was them, Gradwohl said. He was water management,” said Kerry square feet of pavers made, 500 in the hot sun or rain during fun.” the first anthropologist hired to Dixon, coordinator of sustainable tires and 1,500 one gallon plastic the days. It never stopped Da- After his freshman summer teach anthropology full-time at design with Facilities Planning containers are removed from vid Gradwohl from digging for Gradwohl took classes in anthro- Iowa State. and Management. landfills. The pavers themselves artifacts. pology and geology. Not only was “I would never have the When Sukup, Elings and the can be recycled and made into Gradwohl, professor emeri- the subject material interesting courage or naivete to do that Biorenewables Building were new pavers. tus of anthropology and found- to him, but the instructors were again,” Gradwohl said. built, off-flow of rainwater in the “That’s a benefit, that they ing director of ISU Archeological passionate about the subjects There was a lot of interest in new and renovated buildings was do have recycled content in lab, was described as absolutely they taught. social sciences and new courses required to be less than it was them,” Dixon said. “We’re trying relentless by his early students. “I always had an interest in had to be created. For Gradwohl, before construction, Dixon said. to specify and use more prod- This year, the ISU Archeo- rocks, minerals and fossils even it was exciting to develop and cre- The new pavers were installed to ucts that have a higher recycled logical Lab celebrates it’s 50 years as a kid,” Gradwohl said. ate courses in the anthropology help meet that goal. content. It’s just less product of existence —if Gradwohl had After graduating, Gradwohl program. Permeable pavers control that’s winding up in a landfill not found a passion in digging for studied in Edinburgh, Scotland “It was the time in which the flow of rainwater into the somewhere.” artifacts, the lab might not have where he studied prehistoric President Robert Parks took over ground, said Mike Kunard, ter- The average price of AZEK been started. archeology of Europe for a year. and he tried to install a program ritory manager of AZEK Building pavers are about $8-$10 per About Gradwohl Upon returning to the U.S., he called ‘the New Humanism,” Products, a company that manu- square foot while the price of “I attended the University of decided to pursue a degree in Gradwohl said. “It brought in factures permeable pavers. standard concrete is $5-$6 per Nebraska, starting out as a fresh- anthropology with a special- new humanities and arts into The average landscape can square foot, Kunard Said. But man I had no idea what I wanted ization in North American and what had been a university of ag- handle a flow rate of about 1 Dixon said the increase in price to do,” Gradwohl said. European archeology at Harvard riculture, engineering and home gallon of water per square foot shouldn’t prevent someone from It was the summer after University. economics.” per minute, Kunard said, but using permeable pavers. his freshman year when he had It was around this time when Developing Classes permeable pavers can handle 5 “That is a first time cost, the found his passion. Gradwohl Gradwohl and his wife were in- Gradwohl said that often gallons of water per square foot long term cost for us not retaining went with a couple of buddies terested in settling back into the times professors with Ph.Ds per minute. the water on site is much higher,” to do fieldwork in South Dakota. midwest for family and to pursue weren’t required to take teacher “I love it,” Dixon said. “I was Dixon said. “The use of perme- “We would live in a tent Gradwohl’s interest in plains certification classes. As a new given a tour over at ABE [Sukup, able pavers pays for themselves camp all summer without run- archeology. Coincidentally there instructor he tried to emulate Elings and the Biorenewables very quickly,” Dixon said. ning water and without electric- was a position open at Iowa State professors he found effective building] a couple weeks ago. It Kunard sees the popularity ity,” Gradwohl said. for a full-time anthropologist. when attending class. was absolutely pouring all morn- of permeable pavers growing. He It was his the first time work- Gradwohl Begins at Iowa “The participatory aspect, ing. We get over there, it stopped said people are becoming more ing at a field site. They explored State I intentionally tried to incorpo- raining, and [on] all of the side- environmentally conscious and prehistoric and early historic Gradwohl was working to rate,” Gradwohl said, “After we walks coming up were various they want to be more responsible Native Americans who had once complete his Ph.D when he was puddles that everyone’s trying for rainwater runoff.

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