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Iowa State University Police car located at 2519 Osborn Dr., Sept. 30, 2024.

Why ISUPD posted fines under stop signs on campus

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
November 19, 2024
Nels Matson runs through the western United States during his cross-country fundraiser for Wounded Warrior Project in honor of fallen Navy SEAL Chris Campbell.

Former Iowa State wrestler runs across America to honor fallen soldier’s dying wish

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
November 14, 2024
A line of student wait to vote at polling location Union Drive Community Center, Nov. 5, 2024.

The Election Day issues that matter to students

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
November 6, 2024
The machine where students place their ballots in, Ames, Iowa, Nov. 5, 2024.

BREAKING: Story County to hand count ballots at multiple precincts after machine failure

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
November 5, 2024
Self-provided photo of Kayla Bergman.

Meet the candidates running for the Story County Soil and Water Conservation District Commissioner Board

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
November 4, 2024
Self-provided photo of Penny Vossler (D).

Meet the candidates running for Iowa House District 48

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
November 4, 2024
Self-provided photo of Ryan Condon (D).

Meet the candidates running for Iowa House District 51

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
November 4, 2024
Self-provided photo of Cynthia Oppedal Paschen (D).

Meet the candidates running for Iowa Senate District 28

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
November 4, 2024
Self-provided photo of Mike Wolfe (D).

Meet the candidates running for Iowa Senate District 26

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
November 4, 2024
Iowa House District 49 Democrat Candidate Beth Wessel-Kroeschell speaks at the Story County Candidate Forum in the Ames Public Library on Oct. 1, 2024.

Meet the candidates running for Iowa House District 49

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
November 4, 2024
A self-provided headshot of Ross Wilburn.

Meet the sole candidate running for Iowa House District 50

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
November 4, 2024
Provided headshots of Democrat Margaret Liston pictured left and Republican Iowa State Sen. Jesse Green pictured right.

Meet the candidates running in Iowa Senate District 24

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
November 3, 2024
Jaylin Noel returns a kickoff against Texas Tech on Nov. 19, 2022

Gridiron Staff Picks: No. 11 Iowa State vs. Texas Tech

Brett Twelmeyer, Pavle Markovic, Cayden Storm, and Ashton Tack
November 1, 2024
BREAKING: Ames PD make arrest after gun threats on Campus Avenue Friday

BREAKING: Ames PD make arrest after gun threats on Campus Avenue Friday

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
October 28, 2024
Ryan Melton (D) (pictured left) and Randy Feenstra (R) (pictured right).

Meet the candidates running in Iowa’s 4th Congressional District

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
October 27, 2024
Entrance to 23Twenty Lincoln apartments on Lincoln Way, Oct. 11, 2024.

ISU student allegedly stabbed two people on the head with butter knife

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
October 21, 2024
Wallace Road is one of the many streets on campus under construction at the beginning of the year.

Road work ahead: Lincoln Way, Airport Road lane closures

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
October 14, 2024
The Political Science Club meeting in fall 2021.

Can everyone play a part in politics? The Political Science Club says yes

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
October 11, 2024
Iowa State Senate Democratic candidates Cindy Oppedal-Paschen for District 26 and Mike Wolfe for district 26 meet for a forum at Ames Public Library, Oct. 8, 2024.

Story County Senate Democratic candidates discuss issues at forum with Republicans absent

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
October 9, 2024
Ames City Hall, Aug 27, 2024.

City of Ames temporarily extending customer service hours for utilities

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
September 23, 2024
Planned Parenthood, Aug. 23, 2024, Ames, IA.

Reactions to Iowa’s six-week abortion ban enforcement

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
September 19, 2024
Mayor John Haila speaks at Ames City Council on Sept. 17, 2024.

Ames City Council discusses the future of downtown Ames

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
September 18, 2024
A road closed ahead sign warns drivers that they are not able to pass through on Morrill road in Ames on Sep. 10, 2024.

Upcoming Ames road closures include 24th Street, Roosevelt Avenue

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
September 16, 2024
Karen Kedrowski delivers 2024 Constitution Day lecture Thursday on the history of presidential debates from 1960 to the present.

Constitution Day lecture explores the history of presidential debates from 1960 to the present

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
September 12, 2024
Ames City Councol members gather at the Aug. 27 Ames City Council meeting in Ames City Hall.

Ames City Council approve $16.6 million in bond sales to fund indoor aquatic center, awards electric vehicle contract

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
September 10, 2024
Former President Donald Trump stands at the podium of the 2023 Iowa GOP Lincoln Dinner on July 28, 2023.

Here’s how to watch the presidential debate between Trump and Harris on Tuesday

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
September 9, 2024
Karen Kedrowski pictured while discussing her resolution to support student voting.

Karen Kedrowski to present Constitution Day lecture at the Memorial Union Thursday

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
September 8, 2024
Panelists Ed Mezvinsky, Jonathan R. Yarowsky, Jeff Ubois and moderator Kathie Obradovich during the Watergate lecture series, Great Hall Memorial Union, Sept. 5, 2024.

Impeachment, presidential immunity and Watergate: Panel discussion held Thursday in the MU explores the implications of Nixon’s Watergate scandal 50 years later

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
September 5, 2024
Ward 2 Representative Tim Gartin meets for City Council at Ames City Hall on Apr. 9, 2024.

Ames City Council votes to take action on delayed Schainker Plaza

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
September 4, 2024
Memorial Union on July 10, 2024.

Memorial Union to host panel discussion on the implications of the Watergate scandal 50 years later

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
September 2, 2024
Student Government Senate discusses new business items during their Aug. 28 meeting to be voted on during the following meeting.

StuGov confirms chief of staff, announces new website

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
August 28, 2024
Trevor Deering and Justin Fallon, both freshman in mechanical engineering, sit next to the fans in their dorm window in Roberts Residence Hall, Aug. 26, 2024.

‘It’s just cooler outside’: Students in residence halls without A/C endure 113 degree heat index

Ashton Tack, Politics Editor
August 26, 2024
Student speaker at the ISU Students for Gaza demonstration in front of Parks Library, May 1, 2024.

‘We are all Palestinians’: Free Palestine demonstration held outside Parks Library

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
May 1, 2024
Riley Gaines, April 17, 2024, Iowa State Howe Hall.

Riley Gaines shares pro-single-sex spaces message at university lecture series

Ashton Tack
April 17, 2024
Members of the Faculty Senate raise their hands for a vote during the meeting in the Memorial Union Sun Room on March 19, 2024.

ISUPD chief answers questions from Faculty Senate

Ashton Tack
April 9, 2024
Meet the two slates running for IRHA president and vice president

Meet the two slates running for IRHA president and vice president

Ashton Tack and Abhiraj Agarwal
April 8, 2024
Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich talks about his bestselling books during his Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science in the Memorial Union Great Hall on Wednesday, March 27, 2024.

Two-time presidential candidate John Kasich lectures on socially responsible innovation

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
March 27, 2024
ISUPD Assistant Chief Carrie Jacobs reads through Color of Love's revised list of demands during the ISUPD Advisory Board meeting in the Armory on Monday, March 25, 2024.

Color of Love issues updated demands for ISUPD during advisory board meeting

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
March 25, 2024
2016 Republican presidential candidate John Kasich speaks during a town hall in the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union.

Former Ohio governor and two-time presidential candidate to speak at MU

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
March 20, 2024
Blake Delaney works behind the bar at the Ames Vinyl Grind.

Vinyl Grind offers a local spot for music and coffee lovers

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
March 4, 2024
Posters displaying the "Green Wall" and three facets of sustainability at Sustainapalooza, Feb. 27, 2024.

[Photo] “Our green promise, our sustainable future”: Sustainapalooza 2024

February 27, 2024
Ames Repair Cafe

[Photo] Sustainapalooza hosts ISU Repair Cafe

Ben DeMarais, Student Life Editor
February 27, 2024
Posters displaying the "Green Wall" and three facets of sustainability at Sustainapalooza, Feb. 27, 2024.

“Our green promise, our sustainable future”: Sustainapalooza 2024

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
February 27, 2024
Posters displaying the "Green Wall" and three facets of sustainability at Sustainapalooza, Feb. 27, 2024.

Ames residents Terry Potter and Christa Andersen attending Sustainapalooza Feb. 27, 2024.

Ana Lívia Agostinho, a professor of linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil, spoke at the Memorial Union Wednesday on the re-emergence of Afro-Creole languages in the Portuguese islands of São Tomé and Príncipe.

Lecture by linguistics professor details efforts to protect Afro-Creole languages

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
February 21, 2024
“Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850s-1950s," authors Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell with Kelly Winfrey at a lecture February 12, 2024.

Memorial Union lecture showcases photographic history of men in love

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
February 12, 2024
Ames City Council Member Tim Gartin speaks during City Council Meeting, Nov. 28, 2023.

Final department presentations wrap up Ames City Council’s week of budget meetings

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
February 8, 2024
Color of Love organized protestors Endi Montalvo-Martinez (left) and Emiliano Alvarado (right).

Stories from students of color at a predominantly white institution

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
February 8, 2024
Iowa State sophomore Lyric Sellers speaks during the Color of Love "Townhall Meeting" at the Student Innovation Center on Feb. 6, 2024.

Color of Love town hall meeting discusses ISUPD violence and campus safety

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
February 6, 2024
Students from across campus come to show support to Dariq Myles demanding the firing of ISUPD officer Frankie Contreras on Feb. 1, 2024 by Park's Library.

Students protest ISUPD’s decision on officer-student incident

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
February 1, 2024
Buttons for George Washington Carver Day and other events sit in a basket at the Multicultural Student Affairs office on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, in Iowa State’s Student Services Building in Ames.

Memorial Union to host second annual George Washington Carver Day of Recognition

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
January 31, 2024
Joy Nyamu and Tarminta Sonkailey represent the African Students Association at the 2024 Multicultural Club Fair in the MU on Jan. 30, 2024.

Memorial Union, Student Government host Iowa State’s first multicultural club fair

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
January 30, 2024
The fair will feature 20 clubs and resources, including Al Éxito Collegiate, The Pride Alliance and Sloss House.

The MU Great Hall to host first multicultural club fair

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
January 22, 2024
The 2024 MLK Committee leads the song, "We Shall Overcome," at the Ames/ Story County Community Celebration for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at Ames City Hall on Jan. 15, 2024.

Equity, justice and unity: City of Ames hosts Martin Luther King Jr. legacy celebration

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
January 15, 2024
Native American storyteller and fancy fancer, Larry Yazzie, performs in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. Yazzie is a member of the Meskwaki Nation. Located near Tama, it is the only federally recognized tribe in Iowa.

Meskwaki members bring native storytelling and dance to the MU

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
November 30, 2023
Asia Samson performs to attendees of the Spoken Word Night at the Maintenance Shop Memorial Union, Nov. 14, 2023.

Spoken word night features poetry, stories from Asia Samson

Ashton Tack, Diversity reporter
November 14, 2023
Air Force Lt. Col. Eric Lopez talking with the crowd at the Gold Star Hall Ceremony event in the Memorial Union's Great Hall on Nov. 6, 2023.

Iowa State honors three alumni at 2023 Gold Star Hall Ceremony

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
November 6, 2023
Iowa State partnership hires specialized skills support coordinator

Iowa State partnership hires specialized skills support coordinator

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
November 5, 2023
The Alternative Response for Community Health (ARCH) Dodge Durango has basic medical supplies to treat medical needs, food, water and other aid.

New alternative response program connects Ames residents to mental health resources

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
October 26, 2023
A bulletin board in Kristin Stuchis’ class at Marshalltown High School, which highlights the achievements of the MUJERES group.

Partnership between Iowa State and Marshalltown High School highlights Latina/o/x voices

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
October 3, 2023
Kai Roberts, a producer, artist and mental health speaker for Active Minds, talks about his mental health in college during his keynote speech "Escape: Overcoming Anxiety and Intrusive Thoughts" at the Mental Health Expo at the Memorial Union on Sept. 25, 2023.

“You are not alone”: Story County Mental Health Expo presents resources for students, community

Ashton Tack, Diversity Reporter
September 25, 2023
The metals removed by the magnets are collected and recycled as scrap metal. Bill Schmitt says the current load of metals is at 90% capacity.

League of Women Voters push for alternatives to trash burning

Ashton Tack, Reporter
March 20, 2023
The control room operator monitors the camera feeds at the plant, checking for issues with the system such as fires from cell phones and batteries.

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