There were people tailgating at 10 Thursday morning in anticipation of Iowa State’s first football game of the season.

There were signs everywhere: Buses from all over campus were heading toward the game, and, most of all, the student body was a sea of cardinal and gold.

However, just as the game was starting, there was another gathering being held in the Nook of the Memorial Union.

Student organization Time for Peace held a meeting Thursday night, despite the fact that the Cyclones were holding their season opener at Jack Trice Stadium just on the other side of campus.

Gregory Bonett, treasurer of Time for Peace and senior in electrical engineering, Tony Jeffries, ISU alumnus, Nathaniel Logsdon, junior in English, and Anthony Barsic, senior in electrical engineering, were hosting a meeting for Time for Peace.

The club was started by two alumni after the terrorist attacks in New York happened on Sept. 11, 2001.

They started the club on the understanding that the response to the attacks was going to be a military reaction and they wanted to respond in a different way.

Today, they are mainly concentrating on the war in Iraq, with other focuses being a broader peace and nonviolent issues.

“Basically, we are kind of addressing the Iraq war with a sense of urgency, because, I guess, at this point the war has got to end at sometime for sure; there’s no doubt about that,” Bonett said. “It’s extremely unpopular. Even the mainstream media and the mainstream political forces realize that the premise was false.”

Bonett also talked about conflict escalation.

“There’s a potential for a whole new chapter of this with Iran,” he said. “That’s why we’re here; that’s why we are trying to do everything we can to avoid and steer the country away from that.”

Chavis Nissly, junior in history, was on the other side of campus, tailgating.

“I live with two belligerent roommates who made me drink. I caved to peer pressure instead of studying,” Nissly says.

Ellis Hugunin, junior in pre-business and roommate to Nissly, said no good roommate would let a friend study on a day when he could be tailgating.