This week in news

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters at the Olmsted Center at Drake University on Feb. 1. At the time of her speech, Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders were nearly tied at the Iowa Caucus, but would go on to clinch the state later that night. 

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Cruz, Clinton come out on top in Iowa Caucus

Ted Cruz made it look easy, while Hillary Clinton narrowly defeated Bernie Sanders in the closest Democratic caucus in history Monday.

Cruz topped Donald Trump, who look poised to win based off of the Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll, by more than 5,000 votes. The race was called early in the night by 9:30 p.m.

Marco Rubio had a strong third-place showing, coming in just behind Trump. ISU political experts agreed Tuesday at a forum in the Memorial Union that Rubio has some momentum going into New Hampshire next week.

On the Democratic side, the race between Clinton and Sanders went late into the night, as a handful of precincts took awhile to report. By noon Tuesday, the Iowa Democratic Party announced that Clinton received 700.5, while Sanders received 696.82.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee dropped out of the race on caucus night. U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum dropped out of the race Tuesday.

Warren Madden retiring after nearly 50 years

Warren Madden, vice president for business and finance, is retiring after nearly 50 years at Iowa State University.

Leath made the announcement of Madden’s retirement during the first half of the men’s basketball game against West Virginia on Tuesday at Hilton Coliseum. The university president later followed the announcement with a statement on his Twitter account.

Madden’s retirement will be effective June 30, 2016.

Madden received his bachelor of science degree from Iowa State in industrial engineering in 1961, according to the ISU Alumni Association. He then went on to earn an MBA from the University of Chicago before eventually returning to Ames.

-The Daily’s Michaela Ramm contributed to this section.

West Virginia tops Iowa State in Ames

The Cyclones built a 15-point lead during the first 10 minutes of their game against the Mountaineers on Tuesday, but once the game was over, West Virginia had rallied back, beating Iowa State, 81-76.

“This was a tough loss, a frustrating loss,” said ISU coach Steve Prohm. “We played really well, especially in the first half. Foul trouble negated a lot of good things. They figured out how to get back, and we didn’t close the game well. We’ve got to get better than this.”

West Virginia handed Iowa State its second home loss of the season and second loss in a row.

“We just got out-toughed,” said forward Georges Niang. “When it came down to making plays and making toughness plays, they just out-toughed us.”

Legal marijuana sales grow to $5.4 Billion in 2015

The growing market of marijuana in the United States continued to grow this past year — $5.4 billion in legal pot was sold in 2015, up from $4.6 billion in 2014, according to a review released by the ArcView Group.

The New York Times reported Thursday that demand is expected to remain strong this year, with a forecast of $6.7 billion in legal sales in 2016.

“There is still a certain stigma around it,” Brandy Keen, co-founder of Surna, which makes technology for indoor cultivation, told the Times. “This is an industry that came out of the basement. It grew out of closets and basements and hidden facilities in cinder-block buildings.”

By the end of the decade, legal market sales were forecast to be $21.8 billion, according to the report.

Iowa State announces spring enrollment

If you thought campus was crowded last semester, you should be happy with the enrollment number Iowa State announced Thursday morning — although it does break another enrollment record for the spring.

Enrollment for the spring semester reached 33,659 students, down 2,342 from the fall enrollment, which was 36,001 students. The number announced Thursday sets a new record for spring enrollment, up 865 from last year.