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IOWA After interviewing candidates and listening to their proposals, K Rambo, current news editor of diversity, will serve as EIC this summer and Alex Connor, depth editor will serve as EIC starting STATE in the fall. DAILY PAGE 2 An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890. THURSDAY 3.29.18 No.127 Vol 217 43° 28° MOM AND POP SHOP WILLA COLVILLE/ IOWA STATE DAILY WILLA COLVILLE/ IOWA STATE DAILY National Mom and Pop Business Owner Day, March 29, recognizes and celebrates small busi- Aunt Maude’s strives to create a welcoming atmosphere for customers. According to the gen- nesses. Pictured above is Brian Gould, the general manager at Aunt Maude’s, a local restaurant eral manager, Gould, Aunt Maude is a fictioious person and has to do with comfort. located on Main Street here in Ames. Day recognizes small businesses BY WILLA.COLVILLE Here in Ames, it is not difficult to find a local and good hospitality when they come [to Aunt @iowastatedaily.com business to support. In downtown alone, there are Maude’s].” over fifty small businesses. From clothing boutiques Like many small businesses, Aunt Maude’s is no The room is dimly lit with the perfect mood light- to restaurants to law firms, Ames has a wide variety stranger to financial difficulties. With the state of ing. Soul and smooth jazz play in the background. of small businesses. our economy constantly changing, business owners The aroma of delicious food such as prime rib and Many Ames businesses boast positive ideals must learn to adapt quickly to changes. In 1991, smoked salmon fills the air. You are gathered for such as excellent service and a personal touch. One the previous owners of Aunt Maude’s were unable a special occasion or maybe a weekly date night. restaurant in particular has been carrying out these to fulfill this need causing the restaurant to go out At the front door, you are greeted by the smiling ideals since 1975. Aunt Maude’s, located on Main of business. face of Brian Gould, the general manager at Aunt Street in historic downtown Ames, was modeled After Aunt Maude’s went out of business, Pat Maude’s. around the founder’s favorite restaurant in Kansas Breen and Bob Cummings, the former owners of City, Missouri. Ames Mexican cafe “O’Malley & McGees,” bought March 29 is National Mom and Pop Business Although Aunt Maude is a person of myth, the restaurant that same year. Owners Day, which acknowledges and celebrates Gould explains that the name represents the casual, “[Breen and Cumming’s] friends and business the approximately 27 million small businesses in personal style they strive to carry out each day. partners talked them into buying Aunt Maude’s America. Small businesses are a vital part of the “Aunt Maude is a fictitious person. [The name] because they thought that Ames needed Aunt United States society and economy. According to has to do with comfort,” Gould said. “The idea of Maude’s to be in the community and a place for the financial analysis company Sageworks, small coming into someone’s home, feeling comfortable businessmen and college students to go to a nice businesses generate more than half of net new jobs with family and friends. We always try to make and, in total, employ 58 million Americans. people feel welcome, surrounded by friends, family MOM&POP PG8 $ JAMESON $ IRISH CAR & GINGER ALE BOMBS 4 7PM-1AM 4 7PM-1AM $ SOUR $ CORNED BEEF & CABBAGE IRISHMAN 7PM-10PM WHILE 4518 Mortensen Rd THURSDAYIrish 4 7PM-1AM 6 SUPPLIES LAST Ames | 515.292.4555 westtownepub.com 120141_WestTowne_Thursday_6x2.indd 1 10/8/15 8:59 AM NEWS 02 NEWS Iowa State Daily Thursday, March 29, 2018 STUDENT LIFE The Daily selects new editors in chief BY TYRUS.PAVICICH Connor’s presentation focused on about the selection. @iowastatedaily.com inclusivity and engagement, with an “I’m sure she’ll do great,” Rambo said. emphasis on the paper’s community “I’m looking forward to helping the Daily The Iowa State Daily publication board CHRIS JORGENSEN/ IOWA STATE DAILY outreach. over the summer.” has selected Alex Connor as the fall Alex Connor, junior in journalism, will serve as editor-in-chief She said that increasing news literacy With a focus on improving Iowa State 2018 and spring 2019 editor-in-chief. starting in the fall. K. Rambo, sophomore in journalism, will through collaborative presentations with Daily’s digital content through regularly serve as editor in chief over the summer. other student media is key to keeping the released videos and podcasts, Rambo K. Rambo and Alex Connor presented community informed, with the added said that he hopes to shift the paper’s to the board Thursday night in hopes to benefit of increasing readership. emphasis from feature stories to allow become the next editor-in-chief. Rambo “I thought a lot about how our out- for more pieces covering a wider scope. was selected as the summer 2018 edi- reach has increased in the past three He went on to explain that an im- tor-in-chief over Jill O’Brien, who also years, but also how we can be better,” portant part of increasing readership is presented that evening. O’Brien is the Connor said. improving the diversity of the Daily’s staff current news editor of student life and “I’m hoping to establish [news literacy to represent more perspectives. lifestyle. education] into orientation, or Destina- “I think diversity is part of the lens “I’ve worked at this organization for tion Iowa State, or just inviting it into the that we need to view how we work,” said the past three years,” Connor said after ongoing process so that you don’t have to Rambo. “I think diversity is part of how the announcement. “I’m really excited take a journalism class to understand how we approach our coverage, how we build to move from a position of reporting to interpret the news.” our staff, and how we go about commu- but also serving as an editor to helping Rambo, who presented with the hope nicating, collaborating, and innovating.” lead, helping to build the organization of becoming the editor-in-chief for the from here.” summer, fall and spring, is still positive CAMPUS Students participate in psychology experiments BY KENDRA.BRIES In the psychology department at Iowa State Uni- didn’t do. And it’s very hard to take it back. Once you’ve when the participant releases a button on the wand, their @iowastatedaily.com versity, there are 191 experiments that are in oper- confessed, that’s like the gold standard, you did it. If you field of vision moves so that they are now facing the tree ation and compiling data this semester. In many of confessed, you’re guilty,” Cutrona said. “But sometimes that was previously to their left. these experiments, the participants are students people confess to things they didn’t do. You know, they’ve However, teleportation comes with many drawbacks. who are currently in a psychology class or com- been up for 24 hours, they’re thirsty, they’re tired, the police Because the participant does not move their body, it is munication studies 101. are telling them something about, ‘well if you just admit hard for their brain to register where they have moved it, we’ll let you go.’” to visually. College students have been used for psychology exper- Professors ask questions inspired by the issues that they “The less people move their bodies, the more disori- iments for over 100 years. In this time psychologists have see or simply by behaviors that they notice in other people. ented they become,” Kelly said, “moving the body seems discovered how the brain processes different situations Students in psychology classes have the option to par- really important to orientation.” and what can be done to improve its processing. ticipate in experiments for points in class. However, the While in the virtual reality environment, the subject “Psychologists started testing their theories in universi- variation between the experiments that are offered allows can move their own body or turn their head to orient ties with college students. It was convenient,” said Carolyn a student to create their own experience and participate themselves, however, they can quite literally run into Cutrona, the chair of the psychology department, when in more of what they are interested in. problems if they move around too much. asked about the history of psychology experiments and There are experiments that look at various parts of As the virtual environment does not have what the college students. “The thought was that there are some the judicial system and how what a person perceives can subject would see in the room that they are in, if there is kind of processes, phenomena, reactions in human beings change.

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