Potpourri
This band is known for the 1987 album Appetite for Destruction.
Who is Guns N’ Roses?
This legal defense argues that the defendant lacked the mental capacity to understand the crime.
What is insanity or the insanity defense?
In 2025, this NFL star and this pop superstar made headlines for getting engaged, sparking massive media coverage.
Who are Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift?
The year the institution now known as Iowa State University was founded.
What is 1858?
This person has conducted extensive research on homicide and is giving a lecture on true crime this week.
Who is Dr. Matthew DeLisi?
Stealing a candy bar from a store is an example of this type of deviance.
What is criminal deviance?
This doctrine allows a person to defend themselves if they reasonably believe they are in imminent danger of harm.
What is self-defense?
This viral incident at a concert in July 2025 involved a CEO and an HR executive being caught on the jumbotron in an intimate moment.
What is the Coldplay concert?
In addition to rice crispy treats and cherry pies, ISU is is also associated with this food item, found in the dairy section of the grocery store.
What is Maytag blue cheese?
This person often says, “Are you asking me or telling me?”
Who is Shawn Smith?
The line “Enter night, exit light” is from a song by this 80s metal band.
Who is Metallica?
In criminal law, a crime requires both a guilty act and a guilty mind, also known by these Latin terms.
What are actus reus and mens rea?
This band appeared in the new Gap commercial, making headlines when their dance in the ad became a viral TikTok trend.
Who is Katsey?
Before Cy the Carinal, Iowa State had other mascots. This one's career ended after less than one year at the hands of a butcher.
Who is "Stormy Weather"? (a goat)
This person frequently refers to the D.A.R.E. program in multiple classes.
Who is Dr. Jeff Bouffard?
In the early 1960s, this infamous American serial killer lived with his family in what is now Frederiksen Court at Iowa State University.
Who is Jeffrey Dahmer?
This case limited racial quotas in university admissions.
What is Regents v. Bakke?
This artist became the first woman to headline Coachella twice by 2025.
Who is Beyoncé?
Iowa State University is one of eight campuses in the US to have this on campus.
What is a cemetery?
This ISU faculty member and University of Tennessee alum has conducted extensive research on psychopathy and its relation to criminal behavior.
Who is Dr. Andrew Hochstetler?
This “Prince of Darkness” lead singer’s wild stage antics, including biting the head off a bat, made him an icon of rebellion.
Who is Ozzy Osbourne?
This amendment guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This actor stars in Sinners (2025), a Ryan Coogler directed horror film.
Who is Michael B. Jordan?
The campanile was built to serve this purpose.
What is to memorialize a man's deceased wife?
Wife: Margaret MacDonald Station, the first Dean of Women at Iowa State
This person focused on cultural influences on demographic processes during their postdoctoral work at the University of Michigan.
Who is Dr. Shawn Dorius?