Welcome back to “On That Note,” CF’s weekly music exploration, co-hosted by @MeanDean, @cyclones500 and myself.

Our want / need topic got us to thinking about songs with the 5 W's and 1 H of gathering information. Based on the amount of material we are only doing 3 of the 6 for this week and the other 3 will happen down the line.

For this week we are looking songs with (Who-What-When) in the TITLE only.

We will allow titles that have variations of these 3 words (i.e. What's, Whatever, Whose, Whenever etc)


Last Week: On That Note: Laugh Tracks

Anyone had to replace an AC lately? My compressor is starting to fail. Who'd you use and how much? In Central Iowa. TIA.

Looking for some pros and cons of the lots between Jack Trice and Hilton. I have always parked in G6 or G7. I choose tomorrow and see G6 is sold out now.

11/7 vs IUPUI

11/13 vs NC-A&T

11/20 vs Milwaukee

11/24 vs Villanova (PKI)

11/25 P.K.I

11/27 P.K.I

11/30 vs North Dakota

TBD 11/29-12/4 vs St. Johns

12/8 @ Iowa

12/11 vs McNeese St

12/18 vs Western Michigan

12/21 vs Omaha

1/28 @ Mizzou

Retro Awesomeville

@retro_70s
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Iowa State walk-on Jeff Hornacek sporting a great shirt and hair combo

Go!

Iowa-based Lee Enterprises cutting costs and people.
""These reductions are specifically tied to our legacy print business and in areas where we can become more efficient through business transformation."

(URL was too long to include using link tool) https://www.amestrib.com/story/mone...5-million-cuts-print-alden-global/9636601002/

Listening to Casey Kasem’s American Top Forty from this week in 1980 on KIOA. The current “Long Distance Dedication” is from a guy who had just finished his PhD “in Ames, Iowa”, and was about to leave for his first job as a college professor. It was to his wife. The song was Wildflower, by Skylark, from 1973.

Talked about how it wasn’t really “long distance” since they were “in their little apartment”, but his years in grad school were a ten year journey together. To “Cathy” from “Bill”.

Ring a bell, anyone?

80-1 Rich Strike wins the Kentucky Derby.

As we've feared for years, ISU is no longer a member of the AAU. It sounds like it would have been voted out within the coming years, so the university took the less painful step of voluntarily removing itself.

While this is by far the worst thing to happen to ISU in recent memory, it is not necessarily fatal. It is, however, an obvious sign of the university's academic decline. As has been discussed before, ISU's lack of a medical school was a severe drag on its membership, and the research for which ISU is known is discounted in the AAU's ranking methodology. Its funding has been continually slashed by the state legislature. ISU's dramatic slide down other higher education rankings will likely continue at an accelerated pace, while attracting top researchers will be even more difficult than before.

I'd love to hear some discussion, but in my view, the university likely has two alternate paths going forward:

1. Focus on undergraduate education and maintain itself as an affordable destination for strong students. Allow research to slowly take the backseat to undergrad education, but continue to provide world-class research in strong areas only.
2. Focus on returning to world-class, comprehensive university status. Push harder for more funding, drive up donations, and attempt to start a small medical school (there is already great research happening between the veterinary department and other departments) or merge with Des Moines University and bring its facilities to Ames. Use momentum to boost other research areas, and return to AAU within the decade. Expand percentage of post-graduate students to match AAU peers. Push for a return to higher state funding by demonstrating the university's significant (and underrated) value to the state of Iowa.

The second path is incredibly ambitious, and not at all what I would expect the complacent university administration to choose. If successful, however, it could restore the university's reputation for research and strong academics that it has slowly been losing. That said, the largest barrier is state funding. The state of Iowa seems to be set on destroying its once-great university system (and K-12 education, for that matter).

Honestly, I don't know how to feel. This is the worst thing that could have possibly happened to ISU, but it wasn’t unexpected. That said, higher education is changing - and changing dramatically. It may be unrecognizable in a decade or two. Perhaps ISU will be able to thrive as a primarily undergraduate institution. This could be a likely path. On its current trajectory, I do see research beginning to decline as a proportion of the university's activities. Today, this would have a dramatically negative effect on the university's funding and reputation. However, it's impossible to say how much this will matter in a decade or two. It seems higher education is on the precipice of massive change, and I don't claim to know what the future landscape will look like. I also don't know how ISU will choose to position itself in that landscape.

I do know what the current landscape looks like, however, and in this landscape, the above second path (or some variation on it) may be the university's only chance at reclaiming its status as a prestigious research university.

EDIT:
Sorry, I wasn't being dramatic enough. This is the worst thing to happen to this university. Ever. Not only that, it’s bad for the state of Iowa.

ISU Administration: take whatever cash you can spare and work out a merger with Des Moines University. Ask major donors for support; this is the moment you've needed it most. Move their facilities to Ames so the AAU considers the medical research attributable to ISU. Develop an MD program while maintaining the DO program à la Michigan State. Collaborate with other sciences departments on medical research. Do it within two years. The university has been compromised and there's very little time to undo the damage. Play the AAU's game before you can't play any game at all.

Iowans: Vote and save your education system. Your legislature is too effective at defunding education and scaring off talented researchers (see legislature’s repeated attempts to eliminate tenure). Best of luck to those of you who live in Iowa and want to educate your kids there.

Any news on the progress of Howard Brown? He is from KC and played QB in high-school. Is an intriguing recruit for defensive line but have not heard much about his development.
Thanks.

No idea how this one escaped my attention. Releases 6/24

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I think you guys are really going to enjoy this new series with Xavier Hutchison. Here's the first episode, then the boys will be kicking me out.

So grateful for @cyclones500 for this one, too! It was inspired by @CoachHines3 's bizarre bird story.

What are your stories of odd animal-related incidents inside the home?

When my brother @Jeremy and I were young, we had a hamster. I think it was more that Jeremy had a hamster, but I digress. At one point, it got out, as hamsters always do. Our house at the time was built in 1921 or so, and had all kinds of old duct work for it to crawl through... which it did... until it got to the furnace and chewed through some crucial wiring.

That hamster accomplished two things that day:

1. When the HVAC man came to check it out, he found out that we needed a new furnace - which wasn't a bad thing, because apparently our old one had just started pumping out carbon monoxide .
2. Since they were getting a new furnace, we got central air for the first time ever in that house.

Thanks, Hammy.

What are yours?

Thanks so much to @cyclones500 for this thread! Here goes:

Types of food you like in one form, but dislike in another way? Or maybe foods you like/dislike as part of specific dishes)?

I have a girlfriend who loves cookies, but hates cookie dough (which I find to be a horrifying belief, personally). I love bruschetta and salsa, but am not a big tomato fan (including red sauces on pasta).

What are yours?

Let’s say Alabama goes non-scholarship in football because the NIL collective pays all players more than room board and tuition. Based on less Mens scholarships can Alabama drop an equivalent number of Womens scholarships? That would allow the AD to spend even more money on football. Talk about unintended consequences. As stupid as NIL is being implemented can anyone say it won’t happen?

Carr is in. This event is in coralville, right?

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i wanted to take time away from the yuppies over on the premium side and bring attention to an issue i faced last night.

took a potty break last night around 7:30 pm and flushed the terlet and walked away. All is kosher at this point.

30 mins later my wife runs upstairs to tell me she just pissed on a bird in our terlet-- im like wtf? shes freaked out and I continue to rock the child we created together, to sleep. I went down stairs and to my surprise there is a big ass black starling dead in our terlet.

i was thinking it must've dropped down into the pipes from outside. maybe was trying to make a nest or something and somehow got in the pipes and all the way down to where our downstairs terlet is. when I flushed it mustve saw an opportunity to escape and hauled balls for the light until the bowl filled back up and it ultimately perished by drowning. it must have flapped its wings a bit because my wife sat down (was in the dark and did not look in the bowl before sitting down) she said she sat in something super wet which caused her to go wtf and stood up and looked. FWIW i always pee with the seat up so my backside was covered.

thanks for coming to my ted talk.

TDLR; starling fell into pipe on roof. came up into the toilet. wife sat down. pissed on bird that drowned in the water.

I would like to see Congress do the right thing in regards to sports, but a first step would be to vote down baseball's antitrust exemption (the Supreme Court has said it is up to Congress to do this).

With Bally apparently going to a subscription streaming service, OU is moving to ESPN+ for its final 3 years in the Big 12.

This will be nice for ISU fans who are already ESPN+ subscribers, when it comes to WBB and Olympic sport contests played in Norman.

They basically fired their AD because he wasn't willing to actively promote pay for play. Pretty interesting.

I'm adding 4 new season tickets and I believe we will be able to select the seats sometime this month. Does anyone know when in May that typically happens? I don't want to accidentally miss the date.