Iowa State Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Reginald Stewart plays on his limited edition New York Series tenor saxophone in his office Feb. 5. Stewart’s family comes from New Orleans, where his dad played drums and uncle payed sax — so it was only natural when Stewart became interested in music and started playing the saxophone.In current years the saxophone has been a way for Stewart to unplug from the world and decompress but as an undergraduate, Stewart was active on the jazz/funk/hip-hop fusion scene and got to perform with quite a few artists, his favorite being Dizzy Gillespie.The horn that Stewart currently plays was made just before September 11 and was gifted to him by his wife. Shortly after 9/11, the production of this horn was halted, making it a very rare instrument which Stewart says reminds him that the United States should always remain the land of opportunity and that both hope and despair can be present in the same space.