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Opinion Flavors Life-capable planets Learn how to keep weight off may be more common as the weather gets colder than you’d think p4 >> p6 >> TUESDAY October 12, 2010 | Volume 206 | Number 36 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890. Student death Automobile collision takes life of ISU sophomore By Kaitlin.York Kruger’s vehicle crossed the cen- which time the semi overturned. sentative for ASCE, the American sophomore in computer engineering. iowastatedaily.com ter line and collided with a semi truck Iowa State Patrol said Kruger and Society of Civil Engineers student “This was very saddening and shock- hauling cattle at 6:10 p.m. on U.S. Lodermeier had each been wearing organization. ing for all of us.” Samuel Kruger, 20, sophomore in Highway 59 north of 480th Street in his seatbelt at the time of the collision. “I believe that he was also active The visitation was Monday at civil engineering, died Friday in an O’Brien County. Kruger was involved in E2020, in Hope4Africa, as well as doing vid- Jurrens Funeral Home of Sibley. automobile collision. Lucas Lodermeier, who was driv- a scholarship program and class for eo projects for different groups and The memorial service will be at He was pronounced dead at the ing the semi, attempted to brake and undergraduate engineering students. helping the College of Engineering 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Tabernacle scene. steer left and went into the ditch, at He was also a sophomore repre- with video work,” said Todd Lyon, Baptist Church in George. Activism Disease Flu vaccines offered at clinics around campus Flu vaccine clinics begin Tuesday at Iowa State and will continue through the end of October. Schedule: Tuesday from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Vet Med Building Wednesdays in October from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at Thielen Student Health Center Saturdays in October from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at Thielen Student Health Center According to the Thielen website, flu clinics are getting an early start due to the “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation that every- one six months or older get vaccinated as soon as the vaccine is available.” The injectable vaccines cost $20 and the flu mist costs $25. Charges go on students’ U-bills. Daily Staff Students protest and march to Beardshear Hall on Monday to end Iowa State’s use of coal to power the university. More than 7,000 events in more than 180 countries took place on 10/10/10 in support of a healthier environment. Photo: Bryan Langfeldt/Iowa State Daily Agriculture Vilsack, farmers Students speak up meet to discuss Beyond Coal campaign pushes for improvement of power plant’s sustainability sustainability By Tessa.Callender Coalition and Greenpeace starting at the heart of the Ames The Beyond Coal campaign, By Whitney.Sager iowastatedaily.com to carry out the Beyond Coal community — the ISU campus. a campaign created by the Sierra iowastatedaily.com campaign. Powering campus for more Student Coalition, began at Iowa ActivUs, formerly known The campaign is a nation- than 115 years, the ISU Power State in the fall of 2009 to create Farmers from around the globe are coming to Ames as Students for Iowa Public wide effort aimed at making Plant — located just northwest awareness “that the university for two reasons: sustainability and biodiversity. Interest Research Group, is a colleges and universities leaders of Lied Recreation Athletic still relies on ‘dirty’ energy and The Global Farmer Town Hall meeting will take student-led environmental and in sustainability, intending to re- Center on Beach Road — pro- has been slow to embrace clean place at 10. a.m. Tuesday in the Alliant Energy-Lee Liu social justice organization on place polluting coal plants with vides 70 percent of the univer- energy,” said Anna Waddick, se- Auditorium in Howe Hall. campus that is teaming up with cleaner energy options. sity’s energy and burns 148,965 nor in art and design and presi- U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will the Sierra Club, Sierra Student The ISU organizations are tons of coal per year. ACTIVUS.p12>> present opening remarks for the event and will be on hand to answer questions regarding sustainability and biodiversity. Protestors aim to educate students A panel of farmers will discuss the importance of sustainability in agriculture and share their efforts to about the real Christopher Columbus promote biodiversity. Experts will also be on hand to provide reasons By Abby.Barefoot and invited others to join the as to why these topics are important to the field of iowastatedaily.com protest to help educate students agriculture. on the full story of Christopher Alexander Rinkus, project coordinator with Protesters lined the sidewalk Columbus. CropLife International, said the meeting is a way to let and chants of, “History text- According to the paper- farmers know of the importance of sustainability and books are outdated, Columbus work distributed to students, biodiversity in agriculture on a global scale. is overrated,” filled the silence Columbus was responsible for outside Parks Library. slaughtering, enslaving and ex- BIODIVERSITY.p3>> Monday showed Columbus ploiting native inhabitants when Day on the calendar, but for the he arrived to the Americas. He people protesting Monday af- also pushed away an entire cul- ternoon, the national holiday is ture and forced European cul- Dexter Rassavong, senior in accounting, holds up signs asking Ames students to rethink Columbus Day on Monday outside Parks Library in celebrating the wrong person. ture onto the local population. the Free Speech Zone. Rassavong was calling for a reconsideration of More than 20 students Columbus Day. Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily handed out leaflets, led chants HOLIDAY.p3 >> Council to vote Architecture on state grant for renovations Design draws inspiration on trip By Kayla.Schantz iowastatedaily.com By Jacob.Stewart The Ames City Council will vote Tuesday on iowastatedaily.com whether or not to accept a grant that will be used for the construction, renovation and improvement of the city’s Seventy-six College of Design and architecture stu- Emergency Operations Center. dents recently returned from a trip to Kansas City, Mo. The grant, which will be administered through the From Sept. 30 to Oct. 1, sophomore students visited — Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management among other historic and architecturally important sites Division, was awarded to the city in September. If the — the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Nelson- council approves the grant, there will be $600,000 that Atkins Museum of Art and the Kansas City Central will be used for renovation and reuse of space within Library. City Hall to improve the police department. The city Adam Hermann, sophomore in architecture, attended will provide an additional $600,000 for the project. the trip and had a great time exploring the beautiful muse- Goals of the plan include improvement of the city’s ums and learned a lot from the trip. emergency management and preparedness, which “We evaluated and sketched landscape details of the have been critical issues within the city government museum’s grounds and how the landscape connected to since the floods in August. the surrounding museum,” Hermann said. “We also went The council will also be discussing requests for ISU inside where they had Egyptian and European artifacts Homecoming activities set on Oct. 29, including the such as a mummy and a mounted knight.” closure of certain streets during the greek houses’ lawn Architecture students take field trips each year, and this year’s trip took them to Kansas City. The trips get further away from campus as students progress display performances, the allocation of $1,500 for the TRIP.p3 >> through the program. Courtesy photo: Jacob Stewart pancake feed and the Central Campus fireworks. 2 PAGE 2 | Iowa State Daily | Tuesday, October 12, 2010 Weather | Provided by ISU Meteorology Club Daily Snapshot Mostly cloudy with a Tue chance of rain in the late 46|78 afternoon and evening. Wed Sunny and cooler. Winds out of the northeast still 41|65 strong at 10 to 15 mph. Sunny with winds switch- Thu ing to the east and calm- 44|67 ing further to 5 to 10 mph. 1925: Widespread, early-season snows fell in the fun northeastern U.S., with as much as 2 feet in New fact Hampshire and Vermont. The heavy snow blocked roads and canceled football games. Calendar TUESDAY TUESDAY Brown Bag Lunch: OUT Open house: Special for lunch Collections When: When: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. 4 to 5:30 p.m. What: What: ALPHA SIGMA KAPPA: Sisterhood event Bring a lunch or dine The open house will Ashley Swank, junior in agronomy, talks to Catherine Ford, senior in chemical engineering, during the “Big Sister, Little Sister” event in. Faculty, staff and showcase a collection hosted by Alpha Sigma Kappa on Sunday at Curtiss Hall.