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VOLUME 95, ISSUE 69

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PRESIDENT

Turner takes on board position By TAYLOR ADAMS News Editor tadams@smu.edu

SMU President Gerald R. Turner has joined the board of directors of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. Joining seven other new members of the NAICU board on Feb. 3, Turner represents Region VI—which includes Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. Turner is also on the boards of other organizations, such as the United Way of Dallas, the Methodist Hospital Foundation, the Salvation Army of Dallas and three publicly traded companies.

“It’s a privilege for me to serve on the NAICU board and to represent Region VI,” Turner said in a press release. “With the complex issues facing higher education today, it is essential that we take the lead in exploring solutions and speaking with a unified voice.” The NAICU represents private non-profit colleges and universities on policy issues with the federal government, according to a press release. Members of the NAICU include liberal arts colleges, major research universities, church- and

Class divided over techniques By TAYLOR REED Staff Writer treed@smu.edu

Gone are the days of highlighting key phrases in used textbooks, underlining pertinent facts in notes, and doodling hearts and stars on the corners of lecture notes. There is a new way to keep all your class notes and textbooks in order: simply turn on your computer and you’re ready to start your studying. With new technology, such as the newly released iPad, targeting the average college students’ needs, note-taking software and class textbooks are becoming available for direct download to your computer. Is this upcoming transition from the pen and paper to newer technology surprising? Or is it just the next logical step for the information-filled world in which we live? Walking into any college classroom, it is common to find most students with their laptops on desk, ready to document the day’s lecture notes. Some university majors are even encouraging this trend by requiring students to have a laptop to declare a specific major. Alongside the university’s technical evolution, Microsoft Word has developed a new program that allows students to take notes on a screen that looks like a spiral notebook. One feature of this program is that students can audio record their professors’

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POLITICS

Requirements of an American soldier By LAUREN SMART Chief Copy Editor lsmart@smu.edu

In 1993, President Clinton instituted the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which allows homosexuals to serve in the military as long as they are not open about their sexuality. Clinton said that this was a necessary measure to end the “witch hunts” that were taking place as a result of the ban of all gays from the military. He claimed then that this was an “honorable compromise.” General Colin J. Powell who helped draft the document said, “I think we have come up with a solution that we can all live with.” Over a decade and a half later, the policy is being reconsidered. In 1993, the debate was concerned with whether homosexuals should be allowed into the army at all. Today, the debate is whether or not their sexuality must remain a private matter. President Barack Obama, who has always publicly been in favor of gay rights, announced during his State of the Union address that he has the

intention of repealing the DADT act. Two ROTC cadets from SMU, who must remain anonymous, said that when they realized the importance of this current debate, they researched the actual document and determined it was

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In the military, soldiers are not sexual beings. You put on the uniform; you are a soldier. Your uniform takes away your sexuality.

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lectures, subdivide notes by class, and even draw pictures on the notebook itself with the scribble function. Not only is the way students take notes evolving, but the method of reading our textbooks is too. Many new textbooks are available in a downloadable format that downloads directly to your Kindle, laptop or nook. These programs allow you to take notes, highlight quotes, and tag page numbers with a click of a button. With programs such as these, students are shifting toward this new technology for the ease and features that a pen and paper can provide. Jordan Rutledge, an SMU sophomore, is one student who is in for the change. “I use my computer because in class the professors speak so fast it is hard to write down everything they say,” she said. “By having my computer, I can neatly write down everything they say.” Other students, such as SMU sophomore Amanda Snider, prefer the notebook and pen note-taking method for all its simplicity. “I’ve developed my own note-taking style over the years and I really don’t want to change it,” Snider said. “Also, I would feel tempted to check my Facebook or e-mail if I had a computer in class, so this way I can stay focused and on task.”

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in place for a reason. “Having this policy in place keeps unit cohesion, which is necessary in a combat situation,” one cadet said. “It wouldn’t

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HEALTH

SMU jumps up in sexual health report card, Baylor fails By JESSICA HUSEMAN

2.54. “We have a free basket of condoms sitting in front of the health center,” said Megan Knapp, health educator at SMU’s health center. The health center can also test for STD’s any day of the week. Students just need to call and schedule an appointment with any of the physicians, who are available daily,

or the gynecologist, who is available twice a week, said Knapp. “We also have free HIV testing every other week - on the second and fourth Thursdays of every month,” she said. Jordan Rutledge, a sophomore CCPA major, believes that the survey ranked SMU lower than was deserved.

“I really don’t understand what they are ranking on. I don’t feel SMU should be throwing condoms in the street every Thursday or be yelling with a megaphone up and down the boulevard about free HIV testing,” Rutledge said. “You are a fully capable adult; you don’t need to hold your mom’s hand anymore to go to the doctor.” Rutledge said SMU does more than enough by sending out reminder e-mails about STD and HIV testing and providing on-campus counseling for sexual assault victims. “They let the students make their own personal choices. They allow students to learn from mistakes; we learn best from experience,” she said. Baylor came up with a failing GPA of 1.54. According to Sharon Stern, Baylor Health Center’s medical director, Baylor does not offer condoms in the health center, free or otherwise. “We are a Baptist mission, so we don’t provide anything like that,” Stern said. “We don’t really have an STD testing clinic, but certainly if the doctors here feel like that is indicated

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Trojan Condom’s “Sexual Health Report Card” revealed strong differences between Southern Methodist University and Baylor University, two of Texas’s most notable private universities, in their treatment of the subject of safe sex. SMU is ranked 82 out of 141 colleges and universities surveyed, a large jump from last year’s ranking of 91. On the opposite end of the spectrum is Baylor ranked third to last at 138, making it the lowest ranking school in the state. According to Trojan’s Web site, Sperling’s Bestplaces, the independent firm that conducted the research, analyzed data regarding campus health centers and student opinion polls across 13 separate categories, including condom and contraceptive availability and cost, STD testing availability, cost and locality and availability of sexual awareness programs. Each category was assigned a letter grade, and a cumulative GPA was calculated on a four-point scale. SMU was given a C+, GPA of

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then we will do it.” She continued by explaining that they don’t have HIV testing, but they work very closely with the local health department and can make referrals. The sexual health policies at Baylor are guided by the sexual misconduct policy in the student code of conduct. This policy states that sexuality is a gift from God, and lists the purposes of this gift as “the procreation of human life and the uniting and strengthening of the marital bond in self-giving love.” The policy lists the misuses of the gift as including “sexual abuse, sexual harassment, sexual assault, incest, adultery, fornication and homosexual acts.” This portion of the student code of conduct is enforced through the Judicial Affairs Department at Baylor. Reports of sexual misconduct from residential assistants are the most common way that incidents are reported, said David Murdoch, coordinator of judicial affairs. “There would probably be loss of visitation for a period of time. We ask them to reflect on the incident, and we may ask them to read something and

respond to it. They don’t necessarily have to agree with it. The whole idea is redemption and trying to increase student success,” Murdoch said. Christopher Ehmke, junior mechanical engineering major at Baylor said: “Baylor’s ranking in this sexual-health survey accurately portrays the ignorance of the issue on campus. Sex is a very taboo topic at Baylor. Even if someone did hold a safe-sex presentation or forum, they would not do so without being negatively branded by the student body and the administration.” Ehmke said he feels that when it comes to sex, “Baylor is among the least educated schools in the state.” Rice University, another prominent private university in Texas, came in just above SMU with an overall GPA of 2.66 and a ranking of 67. According to the university’s health center’s Web site, Rice provides STD and HIV testing and will initiate treatment if tests come back positive. The school also provides free condoms, emergency contraception as necessary and sexual health advice to students.

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Business

• Tuesday, February 16, 2010

INVESTMENT ADVICE

WANT TO FIND THE NEXT HOME RUN STOCK?.... Think small

By JP COLEMAN Business Editor jpcolema@smu.edu

Billionaire super investor Warren Buffet wishes he could invest small, but the truth of the matter is, he simply has too much money. Buffet, founder of Berkshire Hathaway has made his reputation by beating the market and taking a value investing approach, buying undervalued companies and reaping profits when his thesis plays out. But unfortunately for him his gains are realistically capped. Buffet, with his massive amounts of capital to invest on behalf of Berkshire Hathaway, is limited to the companies he can put his money. He can only invest in large-cap stocks with capitalizations of billions not millions. And it is the smaller cap stocks that are going to make people millionaires. If you were to invest your money in large companies like Google or Wal-Mart, you wouldn’t expect your money to double in a short time frame. While they may both be good companies, Google would need to add $170 billion in market cap and Wal-Mart

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would need to add $200 billion in size for your money to double, a feat not likely in the coming years. Buffet has even admitted he could make much greater returns if he just had less money. When he invests such large sums, if he were to invest in the small promising companies he would take a controlling stake in the company. And most people aren’t interested in running dozens of small companies at once. But the average investor is at an advantage. You can buy stakes in these up and coming companies and hold the shares while they double or triple. This is certainly not to say that by putting your money in small cap companies you can’t help but strike it rich, in fact just the opposite. By investing in such small companies you run a much greater risk of loosing all your money as the small companies are much more likely to go out of business than their behemoth large cap counterparts. But a small amount of research and you can beat the ‘Oracle of Omaha.’ The idea is to find well-run companies that offer a strong return on equity, and with clean

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balance sheets, which means low to no debt and relatively large amount of cash at their disposal. Begin looking at companies that dominate a niche market that is waiting to explode. An example is Hansen Natural. Nobody had heard of the maker of Monster energy drinks 10 years ago, and it was a meager $53 million company. In 1999 it sported a 26 percent return on equity and almost no debt. 10 years later it is a $3 billion behemoth, that makes for an annual growth rate of 48 percent. Nobody was even looking at this company 10 years ago however, because everyone was obsessed with the dot-com companies. Promptly one year later most of those companies crashed and Hansen Natural thrived. The idea, as preached constantly by Buffet, is to go against the grain. Find the hidden gems where no one is looking and the industry trends set to take off. Take a lesson from Buffet and invest like he does in the places where he wishes he could put his money.

Police Reports FEBRUARY 6 6:26 a.m. Gerald Ford Stadium/5801 Airline Rd. University Park Fire Department responded to an active fire alarm. The fire panel indicated a pull station was activated. UPFD found no signs of the pull station had been tampered with. It was determined the fire panel was malfunctioning and the fire panel would not reset. Design Systems was contacted for repairs. Closed.

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affect me personally, but it could be a distraction from unit cohesion. If just one person is not 100% focused on the mission, people die.” “Joining the military is a choice,” the other cadet said. He went on to say that anyone’s personal or sexual life is not something that needs public disclosure. “You don’t join the army for yourself,” the first said, “you join to serve. It’s for the good of the nation.” But what if you are gay and you want to serve your country? Meet Aaron, a transgender femaleto-male student at SMU. About a year and a half ago, he had plans to join the National Guard. Having

just recently come to terms with his sexuality, Aaron struggled with the prospect of having to give up that part of himself in order to even meet with recruiters. “When you sign the form, you have to sign on to say that you are not committing fraud,” he said, “which I thought I was.” On the other hand, he recognizes the logic that the military employed when writing DADT, as it functions upon the premise that homosexuality is a mental illness or disorder. “Anyone who’s taken logic [understands] there are premises and conclusions,” he said. “In real world application, you have to do something with your conclusion, so to the military this policy is logical.

But in this case, I say examine the premise.” Both sides agree that once you are in the military, your sexuality and personal life do not and should not play a role in carrying out your mission. “You become a tool to the military,” Aaron said. “[The military] is the culture of accomplishing the mission, it doesn’t matter whether you, the soldier, agree with the mission. When you join the military, you basically give up your opinions.” Hannah Goode-Webster, a student and the wife of an attack pilot, said she agrees with the necessity of uniformity, but she worries about the repeal of the policy because of the way that the average soldier views

homosexuals. “Army soldiers are mostly all very conservative and view the military accordingly,” she said. “I can’t see someone who is openly gay, being ‘one of the guys’, especially where [my husband] is.” She said that all of the men who work with her husband are very hardcore, and each member of the unit needs to fit the criteria in order to function as a team for their own safety. “What makes a non-heterosexual person unfit for service?” Aaron asks. “Well, nothing. In the military, soldiers are not sexual beings. You put on the uniform; you are a soldier. Your uniform takes away your sexuality.” For those who are fighting for the

repeal of this policy, allowing gays into the military is not the issue; they are already there. Aaron says the concern is that as a homosexual soldier you are forced to live in fear of losing your career because of who you are. Since both homosexuals and heterosexuals participate in inappropriate behavior, “Sexuality needs to be explicitly addressed - what is appropriate, what isn’t appropriate,” he said. “Soldiers are supposed to be told what to do.” According to the US Department of Defense, over 12,500 soldiers have been discharged from service since 1993 for being gay, 428 in 2009 alone. Aaron may be one of many who attempted to serve in spite of the

policy, only to find themselves faced with the reality that they would be committing fraud. The Soldier’s Creed requires all soldiers to swear “I will always place the mission first…. always maintain my arms, my equipment and myself.” As the debate over DADT heightens, certain military personnel may wonder whether they will continue to remain silent in order to maintain the image of the heterosexual soldier, or perhaps will shed their camouflage to reveal their true selves. While other members of the service hold that the strong, singular image of the military is required to allow them to say in unison: “I am an American soldier.”

Say it ain’t snow CLOCKWISE FROM RIGHT: Orlando Rojas loads up on snowballs on the main quad. Umbrella weilding passerbys were getting pelted by the mass of snowball fighters. Snowmen popped up all over campus as students enjoyed the day off. Jimmy Chase and Brendan Ahren participate in the snowball fight on the main quad. The Dallas Hall quad was filled with students enjoying the day off from classes.

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TURNER: selected to NAICU CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

Hispanic serving institutions, single-sex colleges, art institutions, two-year colleges and schools of law, medicine, business, engineering and other professions. The board sets the organization’s agenda on federal higher education policy. It also encourages support of

NAICU priorities and initiatives and oversees the association’s financial administration. “President Turner was selected by his peers because of his expertise in the field, proven leadership and commitment to America’s college students,” NAICU President David L. Warren said in a press release.

Since 1976, NAICU has reflected “the diversity of private, nonprofit higher education in the United States,” according to the release. It has more than 1,000 member institutions and associations—these institutions enroll nine of every 10 students attending private institutions in this country.

NOTE-TAKING: A changing art form CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

While there are some students on campus who would like to use computers in the classrooms, their majors make it difficult to do so, because taking notes on a computer could be a disadvantage to their learning. Madeline Smith, an SMU first year, believes that note-taking apart from the pencil and paper would be difficult.

“I would love to be able to take notes on my computer, but engineering majors can’t really do that,” she said. “We have equations and math problems that computers don’t have the programs to write out efficiently. It is just easier to write them out with a pencil and paper.” So what is the next logical step in this technology march? Will technology catch up and allow students to transfer their own unique note-taking style to

their computer, or will new programs evolve for engineering and math majors’ needs? It is not to hard to imagine a semester without fighting in line at the bookstore, trading in your old books and wincing at the cost of your new ones. You will simply click on a few links and download them direct to your laptop.

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Notification process could improve

he Dallas-Forth Worth area received a record-setting amount of snow last week—and the aftermath isn’t pretty. Tree branches have fallen around campus. Snow has become sullied with dirt. There’s not enough snow to build a proper snowman anymore. It’s in this aftermath that EdBoard examines the events of last week: Wednesday night we went to sleep with hopes that the snow would soon arrive. Imagine our excitement when we awoke early in the morning and saw white flakes falling from the sky. Did SMU close? No. The university decided to remain open and monitor the weather. The university, in fact, stayed open long past other area schools and decided to close early at 3 p.m. SMU posted an announcement on its homepage around 1:30 p.m., but it did not send out an e-mail alert or tweet until about half an hour later. Many students found out about the school closing through their professors instead of the actual school. Friday classes were suspended until noon as of Thursday night and Friday morning. The university decided to cancel all classes around 10:30 a.m. This time an e-mail was sent out at about the time information was posted on the SMU homepage. SMU could have done a better job during last week’s snowstorm. Thursday’s lag time between posting a notice on the homepage and sending out an e-mail was far too long. Not all students check the homepage, but most do check their e-mail before they leave for class. If a student has a long commute, the 30-minute lag could have led to unnecessary time spent on the road with heavy snowfall. Friday’s notification that all classes were cancelled could have been sent out sooner—12.5 inches of snow had been dumped on the Dallas-Forth Worth area between Wednesday morning and Thursday night. Snow doesn’t just go away; it takes time to melt, and that morning it was clear that the snow wasn’t going to be gone by noon. Other area schools and universities had already deemed Friday a snow day when SMU still planned to open at noon. Although not in the inclement weather policy this year, SMU could have also used its text message notification system to alert students of the school closures. More prevalent in students’ lives than e-mail, a mass text message would have let students know in a timely, organized manner that the university was going to close because of the snow. This would not have been hard to do, as the university could have just sent a simple message saying “SMU is closing at 3 p.m. today due to inclement weather.” We hope that in the future SMU will improve its communication with students regarding school closings. While the university did manage to get its message out, the system can be improved. In the meantime, please watch out for tree limbs and areas where SMU is working to clean up the aftermath of last week’s snowstorm.

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n March 8, 1983, while speaking to the National Evangelical Association convention in Orlando, Ronald Reagan, in one of the most controversial moments of his presidency, referred to the Soviet Union Nathan Mitzner as an “Evil Empire.” Many condemned the reference as a needless ratcheting-up of Cold War rhetoric. Others hailed it as a stark but justifiable portrayal of a country that repressed its own citizens and threatened the stability of all peaceloving nations. Less than a decade later, the Soviet Union fell apart, its reign of terror relegated to the trash heap of history. A generation later, it is becoming increasingly apparent that a new and potentially greater threat is lurking. Like the Soviet Union, it subjugates and censors the rights and freedoms of its citizens through a harsh and unyielding social, political, and legal infrastructure. While not (yet) equivalent to the Soviets in terms of military might, it uses its ever-increasing economic leverage--which the Soviets never possessed--to lie, cheat, and violate international agreements it has joined. While there are those who do not consider this country anywhere near the threat to world peace and stability that the Soviets were for nearly half a century, those that underestimate its capacity for bringing about world mischief and, yes, evil, do so at their own risk. My reference is, of course, to China. Many will disagree with my equation of the Chinese to the Soviets. After all, our children have never practiced safety drills in school, hiding under their desks at the sound of an alarm for fear of a Chinese nuclear attack. Therein, perhaps, lies the reason that the threat from China has been severely underplayed by past administrations, Republican as well as Democratic. But the fact that we do not fear immediate annihilation should not cloud what is becoming increasingly obvious: China, far from merely constituting a hard-nosed economic competitor, is an escalating threat not only to America but also, like the Soviets, to nations all over the world. How does China compare with the Soviet Union in the ubiquitous elements required for evil empire designation? First, it suppresses the rights, freedoms, and dignity of its own people. Here again, this is often downplayed. Many believe that because China has adopted its own version of capitalism, which the Soviets, in keeping with Marxist-Leninist philosophy, refused to do, that its economic forward thinking is accompanied by equivalent social, political, and personal freedoms. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Chinese government is no less adept at denying its citizens’ human rights as was the Soviet Union’s. As the recent quarrel between Google and the Chinese government highlighted, Chinese censorship very much restricts the information that its citizens can access. Remember, China is a Communist, totalitarian state, as the Soviet Union was. Those who dissent from the party line are likewise subject to swift and severe punishment. While the right to a fair trial is guaranteed by the Chinese constitution, punishment for political crimes is invariably swift, certain, and anything but fair. As of late, Chinese dissidents have seen an increased government crackdown on their activities. Instead of being exiled to the Gulag, they are either jailed, sent to re-education camps or worse. A recent case involving a prominent, wellknown human rights lawyer named Gao Zhisheng, who has gone missing since September after being detained by the authorities, is an apt illustration. Despite queries from the US government and human rights organizations, his whereabouts remain unknown. When asked about the case last week, a Chinese police officer pompously stated, “He is where he deserves to be.”

In dealing with the global community, China is as threatening as were the Soviets, with one major distinction: the weapon of choice is economic rather than military. Make no mistake: There is nothing wrong with China exercising its enhanced economic prowess to its advantage-provided that it does so in compliance with international trade agreements to which it is a signatory. But that is often not the case. China’s massive trade imbalance with most of the world, most notably with the United States, is due, in large part, to its commission of unfair trading practices. In 2001, China became a signatory nation to the World Trade Organization (WTO), obligating it to abide by that body’s rules and regulations. Among those agreements, China was supposed to open domestic markets to imports and allow its currency to either fluctuate in world markets or maintain its value in accordance with its economic strength and output. China has repeatedly violated its WTO commitments. First, it denies equal access to American imports, often closing or severely restricting its market to benefit its own manufacturers. Second, the Chinese government has consistently kept its currency, the renminbi, at an artificially low level to give it an unfair advantage in selling its exports. Economists estimate that China’s currency is undervalued by between 25 and 40 percent. The perception is that China’s huge trade surplus with the US can be attributed to its significantly lower cost of labor, a perfectly legitimate consideration. The reality, however, is that that difference is merely one factor accounting for the imbalance. China’s undervalued currency, in violation of WTO rules, makes its goods artificially less expensive to US consumers while our exports are inversely more costly to Chinese consumers. The result has been years and now decades of huge American trade deficits and lost jobs. So, while the Soviets were not averse to cheating against us with regard to military and arms control treaties, the Chinese have refined this “skill” into an art form. The United States, as it did with the Soviet Union, needs to forcefully lay down the law to the Chinese government, which no administration, Democrat or Republican, has been willing to do. While we might not be able to change China’s government’s deplorable behavior toward its own people, it is incumbent upon our leaders to forcefully challenge Chinese violations of economic agreements, and to forcefully speak out and condemn actions which we consider to be morally reprehensible, be they human rights violations, cheating on treaty obligations or cyber attacks against other nations. Secretary of State Clinton should be commended for her speech several weeks ago in London condemning China’s Internet censorship and violations of human rights. But talk must be accompanied by meaningful action. If China continues to restrict its markets to American goods and keeps its currency devalued, we need to answer in kind in order to level the playing field. Otherwise, many more years of an ever-widening trade imbalance and lost jobs are inevitable. Perhaps of greater significance, unless we make clear to the Chinese that violations of trade agreements and other international obligations will not be tolerated, they undoubtedly will continue this unwelcome pattern and, if not now, then in the not-too-distant future, will flex their economic and military might to the point that no one will be able to deny that they have indeed become the new evil empire.

Nathan Mitzner is a junior risk management insurance major. He can be reached for comment at nmitzner@smu.edu.

COLUMNIST

s the looming “death” of print news cause for

panic? Yes, according to New York Times columnist David Carr, it is. Just over a year ago he argued, “With newspapers entering Rebecca Quinn bankruptcy even as their audience grows, the threat is not just to the companies that own them, but also to the news itself.” Carr’s doomsday prediction implicitly refers to the unconventional coverage provided by individual contributors at the likes of Twitter, BlogSpot, and all the other sources that allow anyone with a keyboard and a high-speed connection the pretense of journalistic ethics. Avid readers and top publishers alike would have us believe that this shift in our understanding of what is and is not a credible source is catastrophic. Readers beware, they warn, the apocalypse of information as we know it is raining down from the digital heavens. While it is reasonable to be wary, it is unreasonable to panic. The danger of these sources is that the process of discerning fact from opinion has become near unmanageable; tweets and blog entries are laden with heavy, scoffing reports on those stories and persons deemed undesirable by the individual contributor and gleeful praise for those of whom he or she approves. Previously trusted sources such as newspapers and magazines are sadly closing up shop due to shrinking advertising revenues and too much content walking out of the virtual back door at no cost to the reader. However, to accept the argument that it has now become more difficult to separate fact from opinion, one must subscribe to the popular yet unlikely theory that the folks in the “blogosphere” are inherently more biased, opinionated, and, frankly, human, than those who contribute to more renowned news sources such as the previously mentioned Times. Journalistic training, integrity, and experience—along with sometimes-cushy retainers and salaries—ought to ensure that professional contributors leave bias out of the equation when providing us with the information so vital to our day-to-day existences. Unfortunately, this is almost never the case. The truth is that evaluating sources has not become difficult on the eve of print media’s supposed “death”—it has always been difficult. To heedfully separate opinion from fact is a practice taught by every respectable high school English teacher, whose students know that strong bias is most cleverly and artfully hidden in eloquence. Any source that goes beyond listing facts and crosses into evaluating those facts carries with it a level of bias. The principal change in post-print news coverage will instead be that the inevitable marriage between opinion and fact has finally been made public. Rather than naively pretending that there is such a thing as unbiased coverage, we will openly accept coverage whose bias is obvious and tangible. The oligarchic demigods at the world’s most well-respected news sources, whose final word was once considered all but infallible, have lost footing in the collective psyche. Instead of lamenting the opinion-padded coverage offered by those who blog and tweet, we might sigh in relief at the emergence of honesty in a bias-burdened world, where pretending that respectable news sources give spin-free coverage can be likened to an adult believing that Christmas presents still come from Santa Claus. We ought to rejoice in the knowledge that bias is no longer slyly hidden between the authoritative black and white type of the newspapers we read but rather shines as bright and as flashy as the Internet allows. Truly, sifting through biased information has become as straightforward as evaluating the speech of an opinionated uncle at the dinner table. For better or for worse, news coverage has gone democratic. Rebecca Quinn is a junior art history, Spanish, and French triple major. She can be reached for comment at rquinn@smu.edu.

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10:30 Biathlon - Women’s 10 km Pursuit

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Friday’s Puzzle Solved

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32 Trailer park resident, for short 36 Slugger Sammy 37 Forms an increasingly smaller circle around, with “on” 38 Coll. dorm VIPs 40 Prepared to say 26-Across 41 Seeks help from 43 Cuba or Aruba: Abbr.

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Mustangs edged by Cougars in Houston By NICOLE JACOBSEN Senior Staff Writer njacobse@smu.edu

After a tough fight, the University of Houston defeated the SMU men’s basketball team, 66-60, Saturday in Houston. This is SMU’s second consecutive loss and puts them at 11-13 overall and 4-6 in Conference USA play, bumping them to ninth place in league standings. “I was really proud of our guys,” head coach Matt Doherty said in the post-game radio interview. “After the UTEP game I was real down, but after this game I’m upbeat because I felt like we played well.” SMU gained a four point lead midway through the first half, but Houston’s success from the free throw line put the Cougars up by five at halftime. Led by Kelvin Lewis with 29 points, the Cougars’ record improved to 13-11 overall and 5-5 in C-USA. In their history with the Mustangs, they are now 42-22 alltime. Lewis, who made seven of his 16 attempted three-point shots, put Houston up by 11 points in the second half, but SMU stormed back behind senior Derek Williams, junior Papa Dia and senior Mouhammad Faye. This evened the gap with just over one minute remaining. However, Houston’s 18-for-20 performance from the charity stripe sealed the win with four successful shots from Lewis and Aubrey Coleman. Coleman, the nation’s leading scorer with an average of 26 points per game, was held to just 16 points. SMU out-rebounded the Cougars, but according to Doherty, the team failed to take care of the ball, which cost them the game. Despite back-to-back losses, the Mustangs have still won five of their last eight games. Williams, who continues to lead the team in scoring, had 24 points and seven rebounds

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SMU guard Alisha Filmore on defense against Rice Friday night at Moody Coliseum. SMU won the game 73-54.

SMU splits weekend against Houston foes By STEPHEN LU Sports Editor sjlu@smu.edu

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SMU center Papa Dia attempts to block a shot from an opposing UTEP player Feb 10 at Moody Coliseum.

against the Cougars and is third in the league in scoring, averaging 16.9 points per game. Faye contributed 10 points to the score and Dia just missed his eighth double-double of the season with nine points and 10 rebounds. “[Williams] is very adept at controlling the ball, [knowing] when to push and who to go to,” Houston head coach Tom Penders told The Dallas Morning News. “He’s an exceptional point guard and that is

the key.” Freshman Rodney Clinkscales, a 6-foot-1-inch guard from Zion, Illinois, also had a strong showing against Houston, posting eight points and one assist. Clinkscales also led the team with two 3-pointers for the night. The Mustangs return to Moody Coliseum on Wednesday evening to host the Rice Owls (7-16 overall, 1-9 conference). Tip off is scheduled for 7 p.m.

The SMU women’s basketball team (16-8, 6-5 conference) had an opportunity to sweep their rivals from Houston and gain ground in the conference this past weekend, but were foiled by the University of Houston (13-11, 7-4 conference) on Sunday, forcing the Mustangs to settle for the split. The weekend started out strong for the Mustangs, when they defeated Rice University (11-13, 5-6 conference), 7354, on Friday, Jan. 12. Seniors Brittany Gilliam and Alice Severin led the way for SMU; Gilliam recorded 24 points while Severin had her first double-double of the season with 10 points and 12 rebounds. The Owls managed to keep the score close for much of the first half, but their defense was eventually overpowered by the Mustangs and with five minutes remaining, SMU tore through the Owls for a 12-3 run that put the Mustangs in the lead going into the locker room, 31-17. SMU managed to stretch the lead to 19 points at the start of the second half, 37-18, for their largest lead. At that point, the Mustangs seemed to let down their guard and the Owls tried to take advantage, cutting the lead down to nine points twice in the game. Fortunately, the Mustangs were

near perfect from the free throw line to seal the game. The Mustangs carried their momentum into the first half of their game against the University of Houston on Sunday, Feb. 14, but were unable to sustain their intensity and eventually lost, 73-67, Senior Jillian Samuels led the way for SMU, hitting three of four 3-pointers early for the Mustangs to stake out a 24-9 lead. However, the momentum slowly shifted towards the Cougars as they whittled away the lead. By the end of the first half, the Mustangs still retained possession of the lead, but it had been cut down to just five, 39-35. In the first half, SMU shot 50.0 percent from the field and 44.4 percent from behind the three-point arc. That percentage went down dramatically in the second half, as the Mustangs shot only 27.3 percent from the field and 20.0 percent from behind the arc. The Mustangs out-rebounded the Cougars, 48-42, with sophomore Christine Elliot leading the way with a seasonhigh 17 rebounds. However, SMU negated that advantage by turning the ball over 17 times, compared to just 11 for the Cougars. The team will depart for their last road trip of the season next weekend, going first to Tulsa to play the Golden Hurricane and then to Huntington, West Virginia to play the Marshall University’s Thundering Herd.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Undefeated sophomores leading the way for SMU By STEPHEN LU Sports Editor sjlu@smu.edu

The No. 30 SMU women’s tennis team improved to 9-1 on the season, after sweeping rival Tulane and Oklahoma State in Dallas over the weekend. Both matches were moved to an alternate location after the city received 12 inches of snow on Friday. The Mustangs made short work of the Green Wave on Friday, Feb. 12 at the Brookhaven Country Club, 6-0. The Mustangs won all six singles matches and five of them were won in straight sets. Freshman Shahzoda Hatamova, playing in the No. 2 position, was the first to claim victory,

rolling over Tulane’s Elizabeth Hamlin while dropping only three games (6-1, 6-2). No. 47 Marta Lesniak faced a tough opponent in Mariam Kurdadze, who was a 2009 C-USA All-Freshman team member. Zurdadze pushed Lesniak hard in the first set, and the Mustangs needed a tie-breaker to win. However, the second set was much easier and Lesniak claimed her seventh victory of the season (7-6 (5), 6-3). The Mustangs faced a much tougher challenge on Sunday, Feb. 14 when they played host to No. 73 Oklahoma State at the Bent Tree Country Club. However, SMU managed to prevail in a tight match, 4-3. The match started with singles

play and at first, the match seemed well in hand. Both Lesniak and fellow sophomore Aleksandra Malyarchikova improved their singles records to 8-0 on the season. However, OSU, down 3-1 after four matches, stormed back to win the next two, to tie the score at 3-3. The match then went to doubles to determine the winner. Although the doubles tandem of Lesniak and Malyarchikova was defeated, 8-5, the other two doubles teams picked up the slack. Freshman Edyta Cieplucha and senior Pavi Francis scored a victory off their opponents (8-3), while Hatamova and senior Casey Kennedy clinched the victory for SMU in their match (8-5).

MEN’S TENNIS

Mustangs claim victory despite cold, snow SMU improves overall record to 5-3 By BRITTANY LEVINE Associate Sports Editor blevine@smu.edu

Over the weekend, SMU men’s tennis improved their record to 5-3 when they defeated Conference USA opponent, University of Southern Mississippi, in a 6-1 win. The Mustangs were supposed to play a match against Lamar University on Thursday, Feb. 11, but were forced to re-schedule the match due to weather. But the match against the Golden Eagles still took place despite the foot of snow that surrounded the courts at

Turpin Tennis Center. The Mustangs won what is being called the first “Snow Bowl”. Head coach Carl Neufeld said in an interview with smumustangs.com, “Most teams wouldn’t have tried to play in these conditions, but our staff did a great job of getting the courts ready for play and our players battled through the conditions to beat a very good Southern Miss team.” SMU took two of three in doubles matches to take the point and the momentum early on in the match. That momentum carried into the singles matches, where the Mustangs

took five of six. In the No.1 spot, SMU junior Artem Baradach defeated Southern Miss’ Patricio Alvarado in three sets (3-6, 6-3, 6-4) which improved his overall record to 4-2. Alvarado came into the match ranked the No. 11 singles player in the Southern region. Freshman Pablo Perez-Espanaola also won his match (6-4, 6-4) and is now 6-1 in singles matches for the season. On the season, the Mustangs are now ranked No. 68 in the nation, up one spot from last week. The match against Lamar has been re-scheduled to March 28.