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event:‘Nearly Naked’ students will run on Friday On Friday, the Student Alumni Leadership Council will be hosting the fourth annual Nearly Naked Mile.Andrew Augustine, ambassador and co-chairman for the council, said that students look forward to the race because of how unique it is.“The are able to donate clothing that is in the back of their closet [that] they are not going to wear,” Augustine said. This is because runners strip off excess layers of clothing to donate as they make their way through the race.Although this is an annual event, Augustine said that they are expecting more runners than last year, approximately 700 to 800 people.The race route will also be slightly different. “It’s starting in the front of the alumni center and ending behind,” Augustine said.Participants will receive a $5 voucher, usable at restaurants such as Fighting Burrito and Pizza Pit in Campustown, as well as a Nearly Naked Mile t-shirt.
— Daily Staff
The Republic of Hope, a club at Iowa State, is in its second year as an organization.
The club is devoted to volunteer-ing and fundraising for both local and international causes.
The club organizes many events
during the semester in an effort to raise money for many dif-ferent causes.
Republic of Hope will host a si-lent auction and raf-fle from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday in the Cardinal Room of the Memorial Union.
The feature item up for auction is a training lesson and practice shoot-ing with U.S. Olympic archery team
member, Wes Moeller.Places such as Hickory Park, Hy-
Vee, Panera Bread and Alpha Copies have helped in the fundraising effort by donating gift cards and other items to be raffled at the fundraising event.
Raffle tickets will be sold for $1 and after the purchase of $10 worth of tickets, each additional $1 purchase will earn two tickets.
All proceeds will benefit GiGi’s playhouse, the Fischer Foundation and ACCESS, the local battered women’s shelter.
GiGi’s Playhouse is an organi-zation that helps raise money and awareness for children with Down syndrome.
The Fischer Foundation provides free or low-rent housing to families of military members who have been injured in combat.
The members of Republic of Hope have set a goal of raising at least $1,000 through this event, which all donations will go toward three local
Student organizations
Republic of Hope raises money for local charitiesGoal is to raise $1,000 throughout the eventBy Brian.Day @iowastatedaily.com
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Additional off-campus housing was approved Thursday at the Board of Regents meeting.
A request to add 299 new beds from apartments at 119 Stanton, owned by American Campus Communities, and 204 beds from Jensen Properties in West Ames
was given the go-ahead in a unanimous vote at the recent meeting.
Warren Madden, senior vice president for business and finance, and Pete Englin, director of the Department of Residence, presented the proposal to the Board.
“It was a positive dia-logue. They thanked us for continuing to pay attention to students and their needs and their desires to live in univer-sity-owned or managed prop-erties, and we’ll do our best to make it a great experience,” Englin said.
Englin said he anticipates
the agreements will be signed within the next couple weeks and will then take effect August 1.
On April 1, an update re-vealed that Iowa State was 1,200 bed requests over the Department of Residence’s capacity.
Even with the addi-tional beds to be added to Frederiksen Court, 240 in August and 480 in the spring, demand still outnumbered availability.
Qualifications for the new additions are the same as those of Frederiksen Court. Students must be 19 years of
age or in their second year of college, determined by calen-dar, not by credits taken.
Iowa State University will furnish these new apart-ments in a similar fashion to the way to Frederiksen Court apartments are now furnished.
As far as price for the new apartments goes, the American Campus Communities and Jensen apartments are also compa-rable to those of Frederiksen Court.
A four-bedroom apart-ment at any of the three loca-tions will cost a proposed rate
of $5,257.University Housing and
Dining Operating will fund the August 2013-July 2014 leases.
The Board heard from ISU Faculty Senate President Suzanne Hendrich and Professional and Scientific Council President David Orman regarding faculty sal-ary issues.
“Our engagement in our work, our determination to succeed, the value we place on diversity, and making a difference, our positive at-
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Off-campus housing approvedHousing similar to apartments within Frederiksen Court
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FORMER CYCLONESawait future
Knott and Klein to be drafted this SaturdayBy Dean.Berhow-Goll @iowastatedaily.com
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KLEIN KNOTT
The first round of the 2013 NFL Draft started Thursday at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, but former ISU football players Jake Knott and A.J. Klein haven’t started worrying just yet.
Neither player has been projected to be selected in the first or second
rounds. But judging from what Todd
McShay said at the NFL C o m b i n e , they were both most l i k e l y day-three prospects,
which would land them in rounds four
t h r o u g h seven.
W i t h S a t u r d a y b e i n g the most
likely day either former
Cyclone will be drafted, they both
plan to play a relaxing 18 holes of golf.
“I plan to be golfing unless I get yelled at too much,” Knott said jokingly. “That’ll be the slowest day in my mind.”
Since the NFL Combine in Indianapolis on Feb. 20, Knott and Klein have both been busy with team workouts.
Klein was back at Athlete Performance Institute in Pensacola, Fla., working out, then headed home for a brief stint before Iowa State’s Pro Day
on March 26. Then, on Wednesday, Klein was in-
vited to the NFLPA Rookie Debut in New York City, which he attended with his representation agency, XAM Sports with Tim Vallentyn and Scott Smith.
Knott visited the Kansas City Chiefs and worked out on April 5, performing in position drills for multiple defensive coordinators and representatives.
As is cus-t o m a r y in those s i t u a -tions, no team re-ally told K n o t t where they are looking at him in terms of draft stock in order to keep as much infor-mation confi-dential as pos-sible until draft night.
“A lot of the teams ask to re-main confidential because they don’t want teams trading up. So, it’s interest-ing to look at it from that point of view,” Knott said.
The fact that Knott worked out with the Chiefs — his favorite team growing up — made it a little more exciting. But, he’s treating his potential NFL career just as he conducted himself at Iowa State.
“You know me,” Knott said. “[I will
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Knott visited the Kansas City Chiefs and worked out with them on April 5. However, come this Saturday before the final draft announcement, both he and Klein plan to play a relaxing round of golf.
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On Wednesday, Klein was invited to the NFLPA Rookie Debut in New York City, which he went to with his representatives. Now, he is spending time with his family before day 3 of the NFL Draft.
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Police Blotter: Ames, ISU Police Departments
The information in the log comes from the ISU and City of Ames police departments’ records. All those accused of violating the law are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
April 16Jackie Ament, 19, 2432 Wilson Hall, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Wilson Hall (reported at 1:21 a.m.).An individual reported the theft of a backpack and other items from her vehicle at Frederiksen Court (reported at 9:30 a.m.).The following were cited for underage possession of alco-hol: Daniel Osoba, 20, 3356 Friley Hall; Richard Steineck, 20, 3006 Buchanan Hall; and Steven Jones, 20, 3349 Friley Hall at Friley Hall (reported at 8:52 p.m.).A resident reported the theft of a phone and an iPod at Wilson Hall. The iPod was subsequently located (reported at 9:47 p.m.).Jordan Pommrehn, 22, 4912 Mortensen Road, Apt 1224, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated at Lincoln Way and Wilmoth Avenue (reported at 11:58 p.m.).
April 17Thomas Krause, 19, and Nicholas Statsick, 19, both of 127 Maple Hall, were arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance and underage possession of alcohol at Maple Hall (reported at 12:10 a.m.).
Officers assisted a 19-year-old male who had consumed too much alcohol at Willow Hall (reported at 1:41 a.m.).Melissa Kroksh, 19, 6318 Larch Hall, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Larch Hall (reported at 10:22 p.m.).The following were cited for underage possession of alcohol: Erin Deters, 19, 1309 Larch Hall; Katherine Van Der Woude, 19, 1309 Larch Hall; and Jace Klein, 19, 2206 Willow Hall at Larch Hall (re-ported at 10:36 p.m.).Sadie Winter, 19, 825 Maple Hall, and Madelyn Mullally, 19, 4262 Willow Hall, were cited for underage possession of al-cohol at the 200 block of Welch Avenue (reported at 11:09 p.m.).Jonathan Helak, 18, of West Des Moines, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Knapp Street and Sheldon Avenue (reported at 11:44 p.m.).Mitchel Steffes, 23, 207 S. Hyland Ave., was arrested and charged with nuisance party regulations at South Hyland Avenue (reported at 10:25 p.m.).Justin Stewart, 20, 616 Billy Sunday Road, was arrested and charged with underage pos-session of alcohol at Stanton Avenue (reported at 8:34 p.m.).
Clinton Gross, 20, 119 Stanton Ave., Apt. 623, was arrested and charged with underage pos-session of alcohol at Stanton Avenue (reported at 8:34 p.m.).Kyle Fink, 20, 1006 Main St., of Cedar Falls, was arrested and charged with underage pos-session of alcohol at Stanton Avenue (reported at 8:34 p.m.).Indira Alic, 21, 119 Stanton Ave., Apt. 621, was arrested and charged with nuisance party regulations at Stanton Avenue (reported at 8:34 p.m.).Iirma Alic, 21, 119 Stanton Ave., Apt. 621, was arrested and charged with nuisance party regulations at Stanton Avenue (reported at 8:34 p.m.).Robert Dolph, 27, was arrested and charged with a concealed weapon and possession of drug paraphernalia at Lincoln Way (reported at 12:49 p.m.).Kyle Barnett-McLaughlin, 25, 4713 Toronto St., was arrested and charged with contempt of court at Toronto Street (reported at 5:59 a.m.).Jacob Waugh, 19, 412 S. Governor St., of Iowa City, was arrested and charged with public intoxication, criminal mischief and simple assault at Toronto Street (reported at 5:09 a.m.).
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charities.Along with that, they would
like to get their name out and raise more awareness about their club.
“Basically we are also try-ing to get the word out about our group and get more people to involved,” said Sami Good, sophomore in event manage-ment. “We are lacking num-bers, so we are trying to get more people to become part of the club.”
Each member of the Republic of Hope chooses a
charity they would like to work with to raise funds for based on a personal connection with the charity.
The club officially has 18 members, six of whom are ex-tremely active.
Students may join the club for many different reasons; however, many of them have one thing in common: a pas-sion for charity.
Michael Misra, the presi-dent of Republic of Hope, hopes that the club will give students a new opportunity to help a good cause, while also learning new things along the way.
“The goals of the club are to provide worthwhile orga-nizations and charities with financial backing, along with giving students the opportu-nity to volunteer and also learn a little about the organizations they’re sponsoring,” Misra said.
Emily Conell, a sophomore in event management, has been a member of the Republic
of Hope since the beginning of this semester.
Conell said that she heard about the club through a friend and joined because the club seemed to mix her interest in charity and event planning perfectly.
“It was two things that I’m kind of interested in, so I went to a meeting and I liked it, so I stayed,” Conell said.
Republic of Hope holds weekly meetings at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays in room 2213 of the Memorial Union.
The group also has a Facebook page.
titudes and our deep connections that we have with others … [are] core to our university’s prog-ress,” Hendrich said.
Hendrich informed the Board of the three main things on faculty minds: how to maintain and enhance quality of student education expe-riences as student numbers exceed growth in faculty numbers, how to maintain and enhance the faculty capabilities as scholars in a time of decline in federal research funding and how to make Iowa a better place.
“We know the work we do is of immense value to students, to our academic fields and to the state of Iowa,” Hendrich said.
“The tangible support of your advocacy for faculty salary increases helps us, and Iowa, to
thrive.”Orman delivered on behalf of the
Professional and Scientific Council staff saying that they help make Iowa a better place by pro-viding ISU students with the best experience possible. The Council staff said that they also bringing in millions of dollars in research and in grants.
“Our effort to be the best has been hampered in recent years by federal and state budget crises and priorities. Inadequate funding has put a lot of downward pressure on ISU salaries,” Orman said.
It is unknown if the salary was approved, be-cause the Board went into closed session shortly following presentations.
Hendrich was unable to be contacted for comment.
File photo: Suit Yee/Iowa State DailyThe Board of Regents meets on March 13 in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union. The Board recently approved the addition of new spaces for off-campus housing for next school year.
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In 2010, an average of 85 people in the United States died of gun violence each day. As individuals who are on a college
campus and in other public spaces on a daily basis, I believe most of us are well aware of the threat of a gun in the wrong person’s hand and the damage that it can cause.
Last week 45 senators seemed to have ei-ther ignored or forgotten these facts. Forty-one republicans and four democrats made up the team that defeated a bill to expand background checks for gun buyers. This piece of legislation was the best hope for gun control as a result of the Newtown massacre back in December.
This means that this horrendous event — one that had the entire nation sitting on the edge of its seat within minutes of the story breaking — did not cause any change in our country.
Albert Einstein said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.” Mass killings continue to happen, yet legislators continue to do nothing.
The defeated legislation proposed expand-ing background checks for gun buyers. Believe it or not, the National Rifle Association actu-ally supported this at one time, but because it was proposed by Obama and his fellow demo-crats they can no longer support it. To this association — and other lobby groups — party
politics comes before the general well-being of the American public. We can, and should, be outraged.
The arguments these 45 senators came up with were simply atrocious. They used any excuse they could think of, from a raise in taxes, to a slippery slope, to fear of a national gun reg-istry (the failed bill actually prohibited this).
Obama said the senators who made these arguments “willfully lied.”
Gabrielle Giffords, a Congresswoman representing Arizona from 2007 to 2012, was a victim of a shooting rampage in 2011. She now focuses on gun violence. She wrote an editorial for the New York Times last week detailing her disappointment in the Senate. Giffords shared her personal experience and made it clear that if Congress continues to uphold the interests of lobbying groups instead of the safety of our communities, then the citizens will make sure we get a Congress who cares about our com-
munities. Simple as that.Obama also commented that this is not
the last we will hear about this issue by saying, “Sooner or later, we are going to get this right. The memories of these children demand it, and so do the American people.”
According to an ABC/Washington Post Poll between April 11-14, approximately 86 percent of Americans supported laws that require background checks for potential gun buyers.
If this issue does not disappear in America’s short-term memory and this level of public support continues, we might actually be able to make things change.
If you have any opinion, one way or the other, take some time and do some research so you actually know what you are talking about. After that, find your representative or senator and let them know exactly what you think, whether you are in the majority or the minor-ity. They respond to you.
We decide if they have a job or not, so they will consider your input. This is what it takes to make change happen. You are more than capable of being part of that change, you just have to choose to be.
President Obama’s reac-tion to the failure of the “compromise amendment”
on background checks for gun sales was one of the first glimpses of anger we’ve actually seen from him in his two terms in office. And it was for good reason; the compromise amendment should have passed in the Senate. With flying colors.
In case you missed it, this “compromise amendment” was a bipartisan measure that would have required background checks for the sale of guns at gun shows and in online transactions. This requirement really isn’t anything new; background checks are already required when purchas-ing a gun from a sporting goods store or a local Wal-Mart. The process is simple: When purchas-ing a gun, the store is required to run the buyer’s name through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, a net-work of several federal databases that check criminal records.
The process itself takes, at most, a few minutes.
The proposed amendment — brought to the table by two senators, democrat Joe Manchin and republican Pat Toomey — was intended to merely cover the loop-holes, requiring all transactions involving the purchasing of guns — both public and private — to include this simple check.
This amendment was surpris-ingly moderate and had nothing to do with removing assault weapons from circulation. It truly was a bi-partisan idea, meant only to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. And in a poll conducted by both the Washington Post and ABC News, nine out of 10 Americans supported it.
It’s important to note that in addition to the more than 90 percent of Americans in support of universal background checks, 91 percent of all gun-owning households and 85 percent of households with members of the National Rifle Association also supported the compromise.
On April 17, the Senate held a vote. The amendment needed only 60 votes to overcome a filibuster in the Senate, but it fell short with 54 votes. This means that 46 United States senators voted against compromise, a compromise designed not to strip us of our rights or remove assault weapons from the market, but to help ensure that trustworthy and responsible individuals are able to obtain deadly weapons.
So why, if 90 percent of Americans were united in sup-porting universal background checks, did the compromise amendment fail?
There are some truly dis-appointing answers here, but
perhaps most obvious is the NRA’s influence on politicians and inter-ference with their political duty.
In Iowa, a state which has historically focused very little on the regulation of guns and preven-tion of gun violence — and which has typically been against arms regulation of any kind — a whop-ping 88 percent of the population agreed on the need for universal background checks. That means that almost nine out of every 10 people, according to the Des Moines Register, feel that back-ground checks are completely necessary.
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, however, chose to vote against the Manchin-Toomey amendment on April 17. Perhaps it’s important to mention that Senator Grassley re-ceived over $78,000 in donations and independent expenditures from the NRA in his 2010 election, the third-highest amount of any NRA funding recipient in the country. But while Grassley might
receive a top rating from the NRA, he should have been working for an ‘A’ rating from his constituents rather than a special-interest bully.
“Ultimately, you outnum-ber those who argued the other way,” said President Obama, in his blatantly disgusted response to the decision from the White House Rose Garden. “But they’re better organized. They’re better financed. They’ve been at it longer. … So to change Washington, you, the American people, are going to have to sustain some passion about this. And, when necessary, you’ve got to send the right people to Washington.”
Perhaps this is what we, the American people, must take away from the disappointing decision of April 17. We, the 90 percent of Americans who voted to make a change in our country, to make it safer, and to honor the victims of gun violence, need to be vocal about the inaction of our government.
Requiring universal back-ground checks might have been a very small action to take in the memory of Newtown and the thousands of other deaths caused by gun violence in this country, but at least we were able to reach a proposal that offered compromise. How dare we let a special interest
group infiltrate our political sys-tem and influence our politicians? How dare we let them muffle our united voices?
We must tell our congress members how we feel — and be as vocal in our support of universal background checks as those 10 percent in loud opposition. We must come together to show the NRA and other special inter-est groups that the voices of 90 percent of Americans cannot be ignored — and that we are not giving up yet; in fact, advocates for universal background checks are regrouping and continuing to draft legislation with the po-tential to make our country safer. Organizing For Action, for ex-ample, is working at the grassroots level to encourage new compro-mise, along with both democrats and republicans who supported the compromise amendment.
Our job is to not only support new background check legisla-tion, but advocate for it, by calling, tweeting, and petitioning our congressmen. This is not over yet. We must make our voices heard.
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Elaine Godfrey is a sophomore in journalism and mass communication and global resource systems from Burlington, Iowa.
Hannah Dankbar is a senior in political science and Spanish from Johnston, Iowa.
As we all know by now, three people were killed and several others injured by two bombs placed at the Boston Marathon finish line by the Tsarnaev brothers on April 15. And in typical American fashion, we freaked out.
Bostonians fled the city, and what looked like nothing less than the initial assault on Fallujah, Iraq, every local, state and federal agent with a gun and a badge descended upon the city. Boston was under siege all right, but less by the bombers and more by the cops.
Of course, bombings and killings and terrorism are all horrible things, and we have a right to be mad, sad and all sorts of upset about them when those things happen. We wouldn’t be human if we weren’t, after all. However what was a local problem — that is, local to Boston, Massachusetts — be-came a sudden national crisis.
There are many reasons for that, many or most of them caused by mass media, naturally, but it’s led to renewed cries of the old slogan “If you see something, say something,” and other post-9/11 Homeland Security “1984”-type warnings from Big Brother.
Yes, if you see a bomb or terrorists planting a bomb, call the cops. Please. But if it’s just a bag sitting in the corner, maybe exercise a little common sense before you dial 9-1-1.
On Monday, someone reported a “suspicious package” sitting outside Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City. Now, while Cyclones might not mind Kinnick Stadium being blown up (with no one inside or injured, of course), the local bomb squad — and pretty much every cop in the area — swarmed Herkey’s hideout, surrounded the package and discovered ... a box of tea, ginger and a greeting card.
Whew, thank God. Crisis averted! But wait, there’s more: The same day, the Ames Police shut down the down-town post office for yet another bomb threat. Apparently postal workers were freaked out about a backpack sitting in the lobby of the post office. After all, what are the odds of that happening in a college town — or really any town for that matter? So after just a few minutes of the bag left suspiciously unattended, the would-be bomb was called in, the post office closed down, and the entire block cordoned off.
The police said later they wouldn’t have bothered so much two weeks ago.
We can only assume this is because the police would have rightly exercised common sense. But that begs the ques-tion: Why has common sense gone away just because a couple idiots plant bombs 1,300 miles away from here?
Facebook was awash with “this makes me proud to be an American!” posts after the remaining Tsarnaev brother was captured and cheerful mobs filled the streets of Boston cheer-ing and celebrating. But was there that much to celebrate?
We claim we’re strong, but we gave in to the terrorism: We let the incident scare us into fleeing our homes, reporting every person with brown skin or a backpack to the cops for being terrorists and reporting every unattended box and bag to the bomb squad. We let the Tsarnaev brothers change everything about how we live our lives, even if just for a few days. We let the Tsarnaev brothers remove our common sense, too.
Yes, if you see something, say some-thing. But don’t be an idiot, either.
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Courtesy photoEven though nearly all Americans agreed that background checks were necessary for all gun purchases, a bipartisan bill made by a democrat and a republican proposing such a law was not passed in the Senate.
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Cyclones pull in sixth-best in national attendanceIowa State pulled in the sixth-best attendance in the nation for its wrestling dual meets, accord-ing to Amateur Wrestling News.Iowa State averaged 2,455 people in attendance at its five home duals, falling 21 short of fifth-place Minnesota. Its highest attendance came during the Beauty and the Beast meet on Feb. 8, when the Cyclones beat Northern Iowa 23-12 in front of a crowd consisting of 3,866.In-state rival Iowa turned the top-ranked attendance for the seventh-straight year. The Hawkeyes averaged 8,764, which is more than 2,000 ahead of the second-place team, Penn State.
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DES MOINES — The Iowa State women’s 4x1,600-meter relay team accomplished a feat it had never achieved before: a victory at the Drake Relays.
In Thursday’s race anchored by senior Ejiro Okoro, who ran a 4.43-second 1,600-meter leg, the re-lay team was able to pull away and race to a convincing win with a time of 19:16.69.
“Basically, I knew I had the lead and I just had to be consistent to maintain the lead,” Okoro said. “Everyone just did their best and we all pulled through. It was a good job, well done.”
Fifth-year senior Dani Stack started the race and put her team-mates in a good position before hand-ing the baton to Maggie Gannon, who raced to the front of the competition for the early lead.
“For me personally, this is some-thing that I’ve wanted since my fresh-man year,” Stack said. “Especially with the season that I’ve been having. I was injured. Being at home on the Drake field is more than I could have imagined; this is by far my most excit-ing moment.”
Running third for the Cyclones was freshman Crystal Nelson, who stretched Iowa State’s lead even further.
Nelson, running in the Drake Relays for the first time, set the stage for Okoro.
“I remember coach saying before the race started, if you take the lead what are you going to do? And I said I’m going to keep the lead,” Nelson said with a laugh. “I’m more com-fortable with the 5k distance events and running a [4x1,600] got me re-ally nervous but I didn’t want to let these ladies down. It was definitely an
experience.”Winning this event for the first
time at the Drake Relays comes as a surprise to most, considering the women’s long-distance program Coach Corey Ihmels has instilled at Iowa State.
This Cyclone relay team is not surprised by the result.
“We are better in the mid-distance side than we have been in a while and it’s always been frustrating us be-cause of our distance program for the women in cross-country and long distances in track,” Gannon said. “I think this year we knew that we are all much better runners this year than the last year.”
Photo: Jonathan Krueger/Iowa State DailyFreshman Crystal Nelson, senior Ejiro Okoro, redshirt sophomore Margaret Gannon and redshirt senior Dani Stack prepare for their victory lap after winning the 4x1,600 relay on Thursday at Drake Stadium during the Drake Relays.
ISU claims victory during Drake RelaysBy Isaac.Copley @iowastatedaily.com
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