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Iowa State Daily, February 2018 Iowa State Daily, 2018 2-12-2018 Iowa State Daily (February 12, 2018) Iowa State Daily Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastatedaily_2018-02 Recommended Citation Iowa State Daily, "Iowa State Daily (February 12, 2018)" (2018). Iowa State Daily, February 2018. 13. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastatedaily_2018-02/13 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State Daily, 2018 at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Iowa State Daily, February 2018 by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LAS WEEK CHASE STRAW The rst LAS Week kicks o today. Iowa State Wrestling has had many IOWA Stop by Troxel Hall for breakfast changes this season, including from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. today. Chase Straw’s successful move to STATE 157-pounds. DAILY ONLINE PAGE 6 An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890. MONDAY 02.12.2018 No. 98 Vol 217 20° -2° ACCESS DENIED Adopted Iowans vie for original birth certificates BY DANIELLE.GEHR not worthy of handling our own a airs.” @iowastatedaily.com The Iowa Adoptee and Family Coalition is a Facebook group with around 950 people For Michelle Spear, gaining access to her birth from in and out of Iowa who follow it. Some certi cate is about control. of the followers are adoptee rights lawyers and concerned legislators. Many of them are Iowa Spear is the founder of the Iowa Adoptee adoptees themselves. and Family Coalition whose purpose is to give All are in favor of granting adoptees access Iowan adoptees access to their original birth to their birth certi cates. certi cate which law has blocked them from Spear’s cause has been tossed back and doing since the 1940s. forth in the Iowa Legislature since about four e main argument against granting access years ago when Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell, is the names of parents who wanted to remain D-Ames, rst wrote the legislation. is wasn’t anonymous would suddenly be revealed. Spear the rst time the issue was brought to the state said her goal is not to nd anything out. All she level. wants is to be like every other adult in Iowa. Wessel-Kroeschell said a woman contacted “For our goals and our purpose, it has nothing her after she led the bill saying she was glad to do with nding things out for us. It’s that she was bringing the issue back to the state. is we’re adults,” Spear said. “It is our desire to, just woman was a part of a group who tried and like anyone else in the state of Iowa, to have a failed to give adoptees access to their original copy of our original birth certi cate. birth certi cates in the ‘90s. “We feel ... that they’re treating us like sec- is time around, Wessel-Kroeschell is fairly ond-class citizens, so to speak, and that we are con dent they’ll get the legislation through. DENIED PG8 ILLUSTRATION BY PETER LEMKEN/ IOWA STATE DAILY WESTTOWNEPUB.COM 02 NEWS Iowa State Daily Monday, February 12, 2018 Students pursue sustainability Clubs share love of the environment BY PAIGE.ANSON @iowastatedaily.com Sustainable living is not exclusive to people who care solely about environmental issues, according to three Iowa State sustainability advocates. Lia Gomez, Aviana Pingel and Paige Myers are three students involved in campus sustainability orga- nizations that feel living sustainably is for anyone who cares about taking responsibility for one’s impacts on the world, others and themselves. Environmental impacts like waste, water and en- ergy use, are all areas of life that can be made more sustainable for anyone. Myers, a campus and commu- nity engagement intern with the Iowa State campus sustainability initiative, Live Green, said. “Sustainability encompasses a lot of different things,” Myers said, “ It’s an overarching theme of a lot of different themes and facets. It encompasses environmental, social and economic factors.” Maintaining healthy balances and an ability to PAIGE ANSON/ IOWA STATE DAILY COURTESY OF PAIGE MEYERS PAIGE ANSON/ IOWA STATE DAILY recover from unbalances among these factors is a Lia Gomez is co-president of The Green Paige Meyers is a campus and community Aviana PIngel is co-president of the Green- shared goal within the sustainability community on Umbrella and director of sustainability for intern for Live Green at Iowa State. House Group which is a club for residence campus, Myers said. Student Government. hall students. Keeping social ties, saving money and protecting the environment from resource depletion and pollu- sion for environmental issues as well as event man- volved in sustainability groups and attending club tion are a few examples of how people achieve this agement, Myers later decided to leave her position as a meetings is a great first step, Pingel said. goal, according to Aviana Pingel, a co-president of CA to apply for the intern position with Live Green. “With a lot of them, it’s not a huge commitment. the Iowa State residence halls student sustainability “On campus I struggled in finding people who You can just absorb information and leave. Also we club, The GreenHouse Group. were willing to change their lifestyles for sustainabil- have fun. The point of TGU is to engage people more Self care is another facet that can be included ity. But [I’ve found] that clubs and organizations, and in sustainability. We want to engage people in the among these factors, said Gomez, co-president of The going to [sustainability] events, can be great for find- stuff they want to do [socially, environmentally or Green Umbrella and the director of sustainability in ing people like you that have those goals,” Myers said. economically],” Pingel said. Student Government. Pingel’s interest in understanding sustainability Like Pingel, Gomez developed her interest in sus- The importance in maintaining these balances began in her childhood backyard in a suburb outside tainability after witnessing examples of how people comes from the benefits they bring to others and the of St. Louis. impact and interact with the environment and other individual, Gomez said. “We had these woods in our backyard, and I would people. “[People being sustainable] comes full circle, to explore [there] with my two sisters...we would go out The first examples for her came from her grand- benefit themselves. It doesn’t have to be an environ- there and see the younger parts of the forest... Once mother, a nurse living on the border of Mexico, mental aspect. Being sustainable goes far beyond they knocked down the forest, when I was 12 or 13, Gomez said. that,” Gomez said. there weren’t really any animals. So I was like, O.K. “She worked in [a] delivery room where babies As for how these students came to care about their now I see what happens,” Pingel said. were born with a variety of [illnesses]... and some- balances and impacts, their experiences leading to From teeming with life to silent, the loss of her how the conversation always came back to water,” sustainability advocacy differ. backyard getaway was a moment that stuck with Gomez said. Raised in Boone, Iowa, Myers’s background in Pingel as she went on to complete environmental Hearing that water quality could alter lives as a sustainability comes from her high school experience courses in high school. little kid was hard to wrap her mind around, Gomez attending the World Food Prize Iowa Youth Institute With more knowledge about how else the world said. at Iowa State. changes when natural systems are disturbed, Pingel In high school, however, she began to grasp more After a few years attending the event as a global decided that understanding the impacts of people fully the impacts, and causes, of poor water quality. youth participant, Myers said, she discovered her in- on the environment was something she wanted to “[A professor in high school helped me complete terest in global environmental and agricultural issues, pursue in college; inspiring her choice to double a] water quality analysis on treated human waste such as food insecurity and sustainability. major in environmental science and global resource water...and seeing the effect that the treated water Aided by the context the World Food Prize systems, Pingel said. had on the environment... I fell in love with my re- Institute gave her on food scarcity and sustainable Today, along with advocating for sustainable living search. From sophomore to senior year, that was my practices, and with desires to travel internationally, she in The GreenHouse Group, Pingel also participates baby. Water quality and the environment, and seeing was then inspired to major at ISU in global resource in The Green Umbrella (TGU). how they worked together and affected each other,” systems and agriculture and society, with a minor in For sustainability-curious students who want to Gomez said. Spanish, Myers said. learn more about how they can balance their social, Because of these interests, and a growing pas- economic and environmental impacts, getting in- Iowa State to host annual ISCORE conference BY TALON.DELANEY Every year, educational leaders and experts from rial Union. Attendance is free, breakfast and lunch and Unafraid Community Activists,” chronicles the @iowastatedaily.com across the country meet to facilitate systemic will be provided and registration is open on the experiences of undocumented activists in the U.S. changes for racial and ethnic justice at post-sec- ISCORE website registry.

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