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Land Prices at All-Time High Iowastatedaily Not a Time to Worry with Sales of Iowa Farm Holdings at Record Levels by Randi.Reeder at $11.70 Per Bushel Iowa State Daily, January 2012 Iowa State Daily, 2012 1-12-2012 Iowa State Daily (January 12, 2012) Iowa State Daily Follow this and additional works at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastatedaily_2012-01 Recommended Citation Iowa State Daily, "Iowa State Daily (January 12, 2012)" (2012). Iowa State Daily, January 2012. 2. http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastatedaily_2012-01/2 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State Daily, 2012 at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Iowa State Daily, January 2012 by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 THURSDAY, JAN. 12, 2012 SPORTS No. 9 TIgers knock off Cyclones OPINION AMES247 Readjust Poison Control’s Reagan-sized ‘lost’ album drops expectations Farming FIND US ONLINE: iowastatedaily.com @iowastatedaily facebook.com/ Land prices at all-time high iowastatedaily Not a time to worry with sales of Iowa farm holdings at record levels By Randi.Reeder at $11.70 per bushel. With farmers to Iowa State University Extension NLINE @iowastatedaily.com being able to cash in, the expenses of Farm Management Specialist and O : operation go up as well, including the professor of economics Michael Farm land values are currently at land value prices. Duffy. The report came from the 2011 their highest in Iowa’s history. The reported 2011 state average Iowa Land Value Survey. Right now, corn is at $6.25 per for all grades of land was estimated bushel while soybeans are at $6,708 per acre, according LAND.p3 >> RENAISSANCE FUN REVIVED IN DINNER Ames247.com TRAFFICKING FINDS HUMAN CONCERNS iowastatedaily.com/newsz POLICE: Huxley woman Graphic: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily charged in deaths of twin Administration daughters By Morgan Fleener Daily staff writer A Huxley Director eases into Leopold Center woman has been arrested By Maia.Zewert and charged @iowastatedaily.com ™ Find out more: with two read past coverage counts of first-degree The Leopold Center of of Leopold director murder in the Sustainable Agriculture has named online search, go to deaths of two Burkle microbiologist Mark Rasmussen as iowastatedaily.com newborn twin its new director. daughters. Rasmussen currently works in the tacted by the search committee, led Jackie Nichole Burkle, 22, is fac- Office of Research at the U.S. Food by the Vice President for Research ing charges of two counts of first and Drug Administration’s Center for and Economic Development Sharron degree murder, a class A felony, Veterinary Medicine in Laurel, Md. Quisenberry. that is punishable to life in prison for each count if convicted. as a supervisory microbiologist and “[Rasmussen] was nominated by a director of the Division of Animal and member of the search committee be- Police said Burkle told them she killed the twin girls around 7:30 Food Microbiology. cause of his experience with grain and a.m. Friday. “Right now I deal with all the ad- livestock systems,” Quisenberry said. The investigation began after one ministrative duties for the depart- Rasmussen was one of three final- of Burkle’s co-workers expressed ment, facilitating the work of others,” ists, along with Abdullah Jaradat and concern to police about noticing File Photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily Rasmussen said. Thanos Papanicolaou. Burkle had appeared pregnant Rasmussen first heard of the Each candidate came to campus one day and then suddenly Mark Rasmussen gives a presentation on Dec. 5, 2011, at the Curtiss Hall. Rasmussen will be the new director for Iowa State’s Leopold Center of search for the new director of the appeared to not be pregnant Sustainable Agriculture. Leopold Center when he was con- LEOPOLD.p4 >> two days later. The report said Burkle’s co-worker said she was concerned about the location of the child’s whereabouts. According to the complaint and Election Government affidavit filed for the case, Burkle admitted to killing the children and later told authorities they could find the bodies in the Iowa legislature trunk of her vehicle. Burkle was NH primary sets stage arrested Tuesday afternoon. Burkle is currently being held aims to create jobs, at the Story County Jail on for Mitt Romney in SC $500,000 bail for each count. By David.Bartholomew ty-nine percent of the attend- that Mitt Romney was go- focus on education A preliminary hearing has been @iowastatedaily.com set for Jan. 20. ees, Romney beat the second ing to win mostly because By Ashley.Seaton place finisher, Congressman New Hampshire borders @iowastatedaily.com Iowa Caucus winner and Ron Paul, by more than six- Massachusetts and reflex- former Massachusetts Gov. teen percent. ively the former governor is On Monday, the 2012 Iowa Legislative Session began INSIDE: Mitt Romney won the first- “The New Hampshire pri- well known there. That being promptly at 10 a.m. in-the-nation Republican mary put Romney on the path said, it appears that the focus “We should focus on doing all government can do to News ......................................... 3 primary in New Hampshire to getting the nomination,” of the primary was mostly on help Iowans create jobs and grow our economy,” said Opinion ....................................... 6 on Tuesday night in a fashion said James McCormick, who was going to finish sec- Senate Majority Leader Michael Gronstal in his opening Sports ....................................... 10 that can only help his case to Chair of the Department of ond to Romney, which in this speech to the legislative body. Ames247 .................................. 12 become the Republican Party Political Science. case was Ron Paul who also Gronstal also said that he has three main priorities Classifieds ............................... 13 presidential nominee. The majority of political finished third last week in the for this session: “One, help Iowa businesses create jobs Games ...................................... 15 Garnering almost a hun- pundits and professors all dred thousand votes, or thir- agreed before the primary ROMNEY.p4 >> IOWA.p4 >> Volume 207 | Number 79 | 40 cents | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890. | A 2010-11 ACP Pacemaker Award winner Disco Bowl Thursday 2 games with shoes for $8! Specials (9pm-1am) • 3 for the price of 2 Laser Tag & half priced games (6pm-midnight) • 2fer Pizzas (9pm-1am) • 2fer Domestic Draws (9pm-1am) 1320 Dickinson Ave. 515.598.BOWL (2695) perfectgamesinc.com PAGE 2 | Iowa State Daily | Thursday, January 12, 2012 Weather | Provided by weather.gov Celebrity News Daily Snapshot THU A 20 percent chance of Notes and events. 6|17 snow. Cloudy, with a high Pitt, Jolie pay visit near 17. to White House A big slice of Hollywood came to the White House Wednesday Mostly sunny, with a high when President Barack Obama FRI near 23. Wind chill values greeted Brad Pitt and Angelina 13|23 Jolie in the Oval Office. as low as -10. For a brief moment, the White House press corps was trans- formed into a pack of paparazzi as the star couple was spotted SAT Mostly cloudy, with a high through the Oval Office win- dows during a previously unan- 18|34 near 34. nounced visit with the president. A senior White House official later told CNN that Pitt and Jolie were in Washington to screen a This day in 1888: new movie Jolie directed about The infamous “Schoolchildren’s Blizzard” struck Bosnian war crimes, “In the the middle of the country from Montana and Land of Blood and Honey.” fact! Wyoming to as far south as Texas and eastward to Minnesota and Wisconsin. Deputy White House Press Secretary Jamie Smith told CNN that Obama spoke with Jolie “about her work to raise the pro- file of preventing mass atrocities and combating sexual violence Calendar against women.” Photo: Emily Harmon/Iowa State Daily Jeff Probst directing again for feature film ARCHITECTURE: Integrating conditions Find out what’s going on, and share your event with the Jeff Probst is looking for a few rest of campus on our website, at iowastatedaily.com. Jill Maltby, sophomore in architecture, works on a project with the help of Tony Gonzalez, good men and women — not also a sophomore in architecture, on Wednesday at the College of Design. to compete on “Survivor,” but to star in a film he’s directing. THURSDAY The reality TV show host is cur- rently casting for a movie called The information in the log comes from the ISU and City “Kiss Me,” a feature film he Ames, ISU Police of Ames police departments’ records. Reception: Women Cyclone Cinema: plans to begin shooting in Los Departments All those accused of violating the law are innocent until Impacting ISU calendar “50/50” Angeles next month. He has Police Blotter: proven guilty in a court of law. When: already lined up John Corbett When: (“Sex and the City”, “My Big Fat Dec.31 released on citation (reported (reported at 12:47 a.m.). 3:30 p.m. 7 p.m. Greek Wedding”) to play one at 2:07 a.m.). A bike found in Lot S5 was Sarah Yancey, 20, 7434 What: What: role, and 20-year-old Irish actress Joshua Reis, 22, 3012 Frederiksen Court, was ar- Sarah Bolger (“In America”) to placed into secure storage The 2012 Women Inspired by a true (reported at 5:34 p.m.). Woodland Ave., was arrested rested and charged with public play the lead. and charged with public in- intoxication at Lincoln Way and Impacting ISU story, a comedy Boqi Liu, 22, 3709 Tripp St. unit centered on a The film is described as a com- toxication on the 2700 block of Welch Avenue; she was trans- calendar will be un- ing of age story that follows a 218, was arrested and charged Lincoln Way; he was transport- ported to the Story County veiled.
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