Iowa State Daily

Won’t Dave be happy?

You ran out and bought the album right after you saw them open for Big Head Todd and the Monsters. You’ve seen them on MTV — incessantly — and it seems like all of the radio stations have Cracked Rear View cemented into their CD players. David Letterman can’t seem to get enough of them, or at least their unconventional name.

Well, hold onto your hats because Hootie and the Blowfish are set to rock Hilton Coliseum late this summer when they visit our fair city August 20. The show is set to start at 8 p.m., and tickets went on sale Saturday, June 24 at 10 a.m. All reserved seats are $15.50. They are available at the Iowa State Center Box Office, all Ticketmaster outlets or charge by phone at 233-1888.

Advice from Quark

Any Trekker worth his or her communicator knows that the Ferengi are the greediest, most unscrupulous species in the entire galaxy. But certainly, they must have some good advice when it comes to savvy business, and who better to tell it than everyone’s favorite space station barkeep?

Quark has compiled a list of guiding principles called The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition (as told to Ira Stephen Behr) from Pocket Books that are sure to get entrepreneurs of any species on the track to success.

Some of the one-liners, like, “Never place friendship before profit,” are pretty harsh, even for the most ruthless capitalist, while others, such as, “The riskier the road, the greater the profit,” sound like they’re straight from Donald Trump’s mouth.

Most earthlings won’t be able to use a few of the morsels of advice; “Beware of the Vulcan greed for knowledge” and “Even a blind man can recognize the glow of latinum” are pretty exclusive to 24th century space stations and starships. But they’re entertaining nonetheless.

The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition is published by Pocket Books and is available in July for $6 at bookstores everywhere.

History buff

Stephen C. Coon, an ISU associate professor of journalism and mass communication, is one of 12 recipients of $1,000 grants recently awarded by the State Historical Society of Iowa to research and record important and untold stories of Iowa’s past.

Over 165 researchers submitted proposals for the 24 grants. Eight Iowans are among the recipients.

Those selected for the program are expected to produce a manuscript resulting from their research that is suitable for publishing in one of the State Historical Society of Iowa’s publications, The Annals of Iowa or The Palimpsest.

Coon’s research topic is “Boxcar Babies: An Oral History of Iowa’s Early Latino Population.”