Oct. 22, 2009

If it's Wednesday, that must be ice cream

It's summer for a couple hours every week in Kildee Hall. Members of the Dairy Science Club sell their ice cream, four to five flavors each week, from 10:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Wednesdays (during the academic year) outside Lush Auditorium. Standard flavors are vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, M&M, Reese's, Butterfinger, Snickers and Oreo. There always are a few experimental flavors in the mix, including the current Twix and -- breakaway seller -- mint. Club members start with an ice cream mix purchased from AE Dairy, Des Moines, and build their recipes from that. An 8-ounce cup costs $1; depending on the weather, the club sells 50 to 200 servings each week. Photo by Bob Elbert.

Inside headlines

Senate focuses on budget

Most of the Faculty Senate's Oct. 20 meeting was a discussion of the mid-year budget reversion. The senate's resource policies and allocations council recommends using furloughs, expense cuts and carry-over funds to meet reduced state funding levels.

Dumpster diving, for a good cause

Several dumpsters full of campus garbage will be overturned in an ISU Center parking lot Oct. 29, then sorted by volunteers. The point of the messy exercise: Find out what's being tossed in campus trash cans and assess the potential for more recycling opportunities.

Efficient shopping

ISU Purchasing's CyBuy online system combines ease and speed with competitive pricing from pre-approved vendors.

Announcements

Receptions & open houses

Retirement

Mary Fosse, Oct. 29

Open house

"Studies in Creativity," Oct. 22

Arts & events

Yamato Drummers of Japan

A different drum

The Yamato Drummers of Japan bring the sound of traditional Wadaiko drums to Stephens Auditorium Oct. 25.

Honors & awards

Around campus

Ag pavilion gift

An agriculture pavilion for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences received a $1.5 million pledge from Marvin and Janice Walter of Ames.

Gamers lack focus

A new ISU study has found that high volume action video game players -- those who play around 40 hours per week -- had more difficulty keeping focused on tasks requiring longer, more proactive attention than those who played video games less than a couple of hours a week.

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