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NEWS Briefs World MEXICO CITY — Injured and bleeding, mothers grasping infants in their arms fled from a maternity hospital shattered by a powerful gas explosion Thursday, and rescuers began smashing sledgehammers through fallen concrete hunting for others who might be trapped. TOKYO — A deadline of sunset Thursday for a possible prisoner swap purportedly set by the Islamic State group holding a Japanese journalist and a Jordanian military pilot passed with no sign of whether the two men were still alive.
National PHILADELPHIA— Better messaging, not changes in policy, is the key to winning elections again, House Democrats said Thursday as they huddled in Philadelphia to talk strategy. And the message, they said, must focus relentlessly on middle class paychecks. COMPTON, Calif.— A lawyer for Marion “Suge” Knight says the Death Row Records founder was driving a vehicle that struck two men, killing one, in Compton, California.
Texas GUSTINE — Members of the school board in the North Texas town of Gustine heard from concerned parents after about two dozen elementary school students had to pull their pants down after feces were found on a gym floor. ARLINGTON — R.J. Hunter hit seven 3-pointers and finished with 32 points and Georgia State came back midway through the second half to beat Texas-Arlington 88-74.
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Members of the Pike house (left) and the FIJI house (right) ended their intramural game Tuesday night with an all out brawl in the Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports.
One student injured after heated intramural game Tuesday night CHRISTINA COX Assignments Editor clcox@smu.edu Things got heated on the basketball court Tuesday night when an intramural game between two fraternities, Pi Kappa Alpha (Pike) and Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI), left one SMU student on the ground, reeling from being kicked in the face. The game was a close one in the Dedman Center of Lifetime Sports, but Pike pulled out the win 28-27. After the final buzzer sounded, members of Pike stormed the basketball court after one member pushed a FIJI to the ground. As shown in a video, submitted by “Tyler” via email to Barstool Sports, a Pike ran up to the FIJI and kicked him in the side of the head. Players attempted to restrain the Pike, who is a junior studying economics and markets
and cultures. A senior journalism major, who did not wish to be named, said that teams storm the games often, especially during Greek games. But that it usually does not get this out of hand. According to the SMU Campus Police Logs, the students say the Pike was given a “conduct referral” for the alleged assault. Several witnesses, unaffiliated with either fraternity, told The Daily Campus the name of the junior but will not go on record for fear of backlash of other SMU students. They say they are afraid of making Pikes angry and fear backlash on social media sites like Yik Yak and Facebook. The Daily Campus received an email Thursday at 5:29 p.m. from Adam L. Seidel, a Dallas-based criminal defense and family law attorney stating: “Any unfounded allegations of misconduct published by your news organization would be severally damaging, resulting in all
available legal remedies being asserted on behalf of [my client]. Please do not mention my client, nor publish any libelous allegations about him.” The subject of Seidel’s email was the student’s name. “Any unfounded allegations of misconduct published by your news organization would be severally damaging, resulting in all available legal remedies being asserted on behalf of [my client]. Please do not mention my client, nor publish any libelous allegations about him,” Seidel said in the email sent at 5:29 p.m. SMU’s Campus Police Logs do not provide names in their reports. They only state the incident report number, date and time reported, date and time occurred and general location dispatch. Because of FERPA laws, this is the only information SMU PD is required to provide to the public. The Daily Campus reached out to SMU Police Chief Richard Shafer, but he has not responded. We will continue to follow this story as more information becomes available.
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Meadows professor takes home national prize
Christopherson begins work with SMU, OE2C
Jeremiah jensen Contributing Writer jdjenson@smu.edu Professor Jim Hart, director of the Arts Entrepreneurship program at SMU, grabbed the gold and a cash prize of $750 in the recent USASBE Spark! competition for his effective entrepreneurial classroom exercises. Hart is a graduate of the SMU theatre program. He has been teaching at SMU for about two and half years after coming back from Olan Norway where he had started a theatre conservatory. To win the competition, Hart entered an exercise focused on producing customer centered products and services. “It’s important, if you want to profit, that your audience, wants what you are offering,” Hart said. The exercise he uses to drive home this idea for students and that won him the award is called “speed dating market feedback.” “The idea is that each individual has a concept,” Hart said. “They [the participants] are in two rows…each person is sitting in front of someone, and there is a total of six minutes between the two people. In my three minutes, I pitch my idea to you as quickly as I can, and
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James Hart, director of arts entrepreneurship program in Meadows School of the Arts.
you give me feedback…in an hour class you get nine to 10 points of market feedback.” Hart said that he believes having a background in arts entrepreneurship can make students more profitable out in the real world because they can think “entrepreneurially,” for themselves, or, “intrapreneurally,” as a contributing member of any company they may find themselves working for. “What I found is about a
90 percent success rate [for customer centered ideas],” Hart said. “When you know who you are creating for specifically…there is a much higher likelihood that that person is going to be interested in what you are offering.” When asked what advice he would give to studnets Hart said: “ “I encourage them [students] to build it in their dorm room, if you can. Start now,” Hart said.
The Operational Excellence for the 2nd Century Campaign (OE2C) has recommended that Christopherson Business Travel serve as SMU’s new Travel Management Company (TMC) in attempt to increase savings and efficiency throughout the university. “The new travel software solution, Concur, requires integration with a TMC and the committee felt Christopherson was the best provider to issue airline tickets, book hotels and rental cars, and provide live assistance for travel booking and itinerary changes,” the OE2C website stated. The company has more than 60 years of experience working with business travel and is one of 23 Concur Preferred Partners. The Travel Committee reviewed responses from each company and invited faculty and staff to attend finalist presentations in December, as The Daily Campus reported. Staff feedback from these presentations were vital in making a final decision, according to the OE2C website.
Athletics travel will continue to fulfill its contract with Anthony Travel Inc. and then explore travel opportunities through Christopherson. The implementation is scheduled for completion in June 2015. Updates will continue to be posted on the OE2C website. SMU, through its OE2C campaign, is seeking ways to become more efficient, increase productivity, reallocate sources from administration to academics, and slow the growth of tuition rates, which have been rising on campuses across the country. The university hired Bain & Company in early 2014 to help. The managing and consulting firm works with institutions, like SMU, to decrease excess costs and restructure operations in order to create sustainable changes and services. SMU officials working with the Bain team said that some of the changes to how the University operates could result in a savings of up to $40 million.