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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 DRAKE RELAYS: Athletes appear blue oval bound SPORTS.p8A >> THURSDAY April 28, 2011 | Volume206 | Number 147 | 40 cents | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890. ™ iowastatedaily.com facebook.com/iowastatedaily iowastatedaily online Sexual assault ACCESS Ashley Hand, Response Service Coordinator 292-0505 ‘A Crisis Line: 515-292-5378 ACCESS is a 24 hour crisis line, and also offers tem- porary housing, short-term rape counseling, support groups, and advocacy for victims Student culture’Armory Services - ISU Police is the official law Keith enforcement agency for campus and takes part in investigations Robinder, and prosecutions regarding Iowa Assistant Armory State. Dean/ Director Thielen Student Health Center -Thielen offers services for basic of Student health needs and can provide Assistance examinations for concerns about sexual health. 515-294-1020 Student services is a first contact, but not a confiden- tial resource, that helps Thielen students assess their situa- Student tion and points them toward Health different resources available Center to them. Sloss Student Services House Student Services Kipp Van Dyke, Assistant Director for Student Assistance and Outreach Iowa State offers many on campus resources to people affected by sexual assault and violence. Graphic: Emmery Bigbee/Iowa State Daily Judicial That’s a problem,” Rice said. “It’s not Why does it continue to be a Affairs Community works to about sex. It’s about power, and it’s problem? Michelle end assault on campus Statistics about power over an individual.” Boettcher, Sexual assault is more common Most cases of sexual assault go com- Director 44 percent of victims are under of Judicial By Kaleb.Warnock age 18 than is widely recognized. pletely unreported. affairs iowastatedaily.com Most sexual assault advocacy or- According to the Rape, Abuse & 80 percent are under age 30 515-294- ganizations affirm that between one in Incest National Network, better known Every two minutes, someone in the 1021 Rape is a strong word. four and one in six women will be sexu- as RAINN, as many as 60 percent of U.S. is sexually assaulted Investigation and academic Rape is a violent act frequently ally assaulted in their lifetime. sexual assaults are not reported to po- 60 percent of sexual assaults are not prosecution of offenders utilized as a method of terrorism and reported to the police Recent research released by the FBI lice. Most other sources disagree as to through university procedure. psychological torture to convey power and the Story County Sexual Assault exactly how many rapes go unreported, 15 of 16 rapists will never spend a day and control. The damages of rape have in jail Response Team has presented some but they estimate the number of reports occurred throughout history, and little significant results. between 10 and 20 percent. Margaret Approximately 2/3 of assaults are indication of improvement exists, even According to the 2009 Uniform Despite these discrepancies, un- Sloss committed by someone known to the Women's in modern society. victim Crime Report from the FBI, 23 forcible der-reporting of sexual assault is still a The women of the Margaret Sloss rapes were reported in Ames with a to- major problem authorities have when Center Women’s Center have recently brought RAINN.org tal of 24 in Story County. Story County dealing with rape. There are a number Penny Rice, the issue to light on the ISU campus Sexual Assault Response Team report- of reasons as to why sexual assaults go Director through their series of events in April ed that they treated 44 cases of sexual unreported. 515-294- as part of Sexual Assault Awareness assault in 2009. Given her experience, Rice was will- 6104 Month. with its aftereffects all too frequently. Accordingly, the ISU Department of ing to speculate as to why. The Center provides a wide Rape is present even at Iowa “There are individuals in this world Public Safety documented 20 sexual as- “One of the major ones, I think at variety of resources and State, and Penny Rice, director of the who believe that they have the right sault cases in the same year. advocacy for women on campus and assist with Margaret Sloss Women’s Center, deals to violate another individual’s rights. ASSAULT.p3A >> counseling and support. College of Design Iowa Board of Regents Art show showcases studio work Board passes Seniors prepare request for to unveil ceramic art in exhibit Harkin Institue By Nicole.Wiegand iowastatedaily.com By Paige.Godden iowastatedaily.com Three years of studio work in the basement of the College The Iowa Board of Regents passed of Design has all led up to this a request to establish the Harkin Saturday night for Jenna Weir Institute of Public Policy at Iowa State. and TJ Long, seniors in inte- The proposal made it to the Regents’ grated studio art. desks one week before Wednesday’s The duo will unveil their ex- meeting. tensive work in ceramics at an It is unclear why the papers weren’t Harkin exhibit running Saturday and delivered to the Regents until one week Sunday at Carbon Six Studio in ago. Ames. “I did what I was supposed to do. I sent the papers to Weir said the exhibit is a cul- the Board Office six weeks ago,” said ISU Vice President mination of the work the two and Provost Elizabeth Hoffman. Jenna Weir and TJ Long, seniors in Integrated Studio Arts, finalize plans for their senior thesis exhibit have done during the course Wednesday. The exhibit will run Saturday and Sunday at Carbon Six Studio in Ames. Photo: Nicole Regent Craig Lang said it is “absolutely wrong to con- of the semester in advanced Wiegand/Iowa State Daily sider this institute now ... if the senator was making an ceramics. announcement now that he was retiring, I would change “We had an option where when we both had the idea [to cost-effective option. Teaming doing [the exhibit] until like a my mind.” our only assignment was to hold an exhibit], we decided to up also made finding a space month ago,” Weir said. Since The institute eventually passed with a vote of 6-2. have enough pieces for an ex- work together.” and organizing all aspects of the then, she and Long have been so Regents Greta Johnson and Lang voted “no” and Regent hibit by the end of the year,” she Weir said working on an reception less stressful. said. “TJ and I are friends, so exhibit together was the most “We didn’t really think of SHOW.p4A >> PROPOSAL.p4A >> SpringtimeSpringtime PartyParty Moonlight Madness Sale! Thursday, April 28th, 2011 - 2pm-9pm. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. 2 PAGE 2 | Iowa State Daily | Thursday, April 28, 2011 Weather | Provided by ISU Meteorology Club Daily Snapshot Celebrity News Partly sunny today but Notes and events. Thu 41|64 breezy — northwest winds Roger Ebert finally wins around 20 mph. New Yorker caption contest A big thumbs up to Roger Ebert — the film critic has finally won Fri Sunny with a stiff south- the cartoon-caption contest in east breeze ushering in the New Yorker. 51|72 “I have entered the New Yorker’s some warmer weather. cartoon caption contest almost weekly virtually since it began and have never even been a A chance of rain and thun- finalist,” Ebert said. Sat der in the afternoon. The cartoon depicts a man and 40|62 a woman who have been trek- king through the desert with shopping bags, trying to find where they parked their car. The Midwest weather history: woman appears to be speaking April 29, 1910: The temperature at Kansas City, to the man as they stand under a fun Miss., soared to 95 degrees to establish a record sign with a letter “F” on top. fact for the month of April. Four days earlier the af- “I’m not going to say the word ternoon high in Kansas City was 44 degrees, fol- I’m thinking of,” Ebert wrote as lowing a record cold morning low of 34 degrees. her caption. Ice-T and wife Coco to star in E! reality series Ice-T is keeping it real. The rap- per/actor is set to star alongside Calendar DESIGN: Students present housing projects his wife in an upcoming reality Daniel Eddie, left, and John Nieuwenhuis, both seniors in architecture, show their “New York series for E! Entertainment. Housing” project Wednesday in the Architecture Gallery at the College of Design. Photo: Huiling “Ice Loves Coco” will follow THURSDAY THURSDAY Wu/Iowa State Daily the lives of Ice and his “fitness/ swimsuit model/Internet- sensation buxom and bootyli- John Mellencamp ISU Symphony Orchestra cious wife Coco,” according to a When: When: TV Schedule Get the rest online, at iowastatedaily.com/tv press release from the network, 7 to 10 p.m. 7:30 to 9 p.m. which also claims that the couple have never spent more What: What: THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY than one day apart in their 10- No Better Than This Tchaikovsky- Sym- year marriage.