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ADMINISTRATION

Faculty senate updated on GEC revision process

By PRAVEEN SATHIANATHAN Managing Editor psathianat@smu.edu

Wednesday’s faculty senate meeting featured updates from members of the university’s curriculum committee, SMU President R. Gerald Turner, and a presentation to state legislator Dan Branch.

Political science professor Harold Stanley told those present on the status of the review on the university’s curriculum, by giving them a timeline and then informing them of what was to come.

He said the charge was given to the committee, in April

2008, to review, devise and propose changes to the university’s General Education Curriculum.

Soon after “we had weekly meetings, in addition to meeting with other groups during the course of the 2008-09 year to find out what suggestions they had,” Stanley said.

The discussion evoked lots of responses from those in the audience, as there were concerns on the meanings of the GEC components and pillars. Stanley said the committee posted a structure of the draft of the GEC to the SMU community in April 2009.

“They are pretty broad terms and it will be up to the faculty committees to determine what will fit into the pillars,” he said.

“The idea is that 85 percent of the GEC should find a home in the new proposed GEC.” The revision should be posted during the first week of March, and then there will be a Faculty Senate public forum on March 17 and an e-mail vote by members on the new curriculum set for March 18 and 19.

“This is a stumbling box that the university faced before because the foreign language requirement had not been defined,” Stanley said.

He said as things are defined, things will become clearer.

Later a framed resolution of the legislation Texas representative Dan Branch helped pass was presented to him.

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The legislation allowed private universities to be included in the Advance Research Program and thus allowing them to gain access to state funding.

Engineering professor Greg Evans said previously only public universities could access ARP funds. He said as a result SMU could see its state funding increase.

Turner then addressed the room for various points: the university’s quest to become a tier 1 school, the century campaign and university recruiting.

He said there was a lot of discussion around the city

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH

The story of a Dallas activist

By FELICIA LOGAN ContributingWriter flogan@smu.edu

February is Black History Month, which exists to honor the extraordinary, historic events and achievements of African Americans and those of African descent.

In celebration of this year’s gala SMU is hosting several events, one of which is a lecture given by SMU’s own Darwin Payne, professor emeritus of communications. The lecture, “Quest for Justice,” will be Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Texarkana Room of DeGolyer Library. A book signing and reception will immediately follow the lecture.

Mommies in the classroom

By ELENA HARDING Staff Writer eharding@smu.edu

Megan Taylor, 19, is in the second semester of her junior year and is studying psychology. She is taking five classes and lives about ten miles off campus with her fiancé.

Fourteen weeks ago Taylor gave up dyeing her hair, tanning and drinking caffeine because she realized she was pregnant.

“It wasn’t planned. It just kind of happened,” Taylor said. “I wasn’t trying, I just wasn’t doing much preventing either.”

Taylor said she had tried the pill but found it difficult to incorporate into her busy schedule. Although Taylor admitted the timing was bad, she added that she became excited once the initial shock passed. By the time she gives birth, she will be a senior and is determined to finish college while caring for her newborn.

With the support of her family and fiancé, Taylor believes her final

year as a student will be successful.

She takes classes during the day and her fiancé takes night classes at the University of Texas at Dallas, so one of the child’s parents will be available to care for the baby. Additionally, Taylor’s mother moved nearby in order to help out when needed and her father is supportive financially.

Taylor considers herself to be in a good situation compared to others who do not receive the same kind of support.

She said she does not want to use day care, but rather she, her fiancé and her mother will take turns with the baby.

“I don’t go out much. We stay home and do our own thing anyway, so I don’t really think a lot is going to change with my daily life. I’ll probably be tired, but I think that pretty much everything will be the same.”

During her first trimester she had serious morning sickness, throwing up at least once or twice a day, and was constantly exhausted. Taylor said

it started during finals last semester but is finally beginning to improve.

Morning classes have been difficult for her because of morning sickness, but she hopes it will get better now that she is in her second trimester.

While Taylor has decided to remain in school while pregnant, other students at SMU have returned to school later in their life after pregnancy. Julie Stevens is one of them. She has a husband, four children, a full-time job and is a full-time student at SMU. The company she worked for started drastically closing divisions and she thought she was losing job stability.

At this time she decided to return to school to study risk management and insurance. Stevens said balancing her time among her family, work and school is difficult.

“Even though you have all this stuff to do [for school] you still have a spouse and children who have needs too... There’s very little me-time, if any. Pretty much, the only me-time

is in the car on the way to school, or to and from work. I guess what I’m trying to say is: I stay pretty tired.”

Another student who decided to continue her education after she had children is SMU junior Eren O’Brian, an art history major.

O’Brian said she sometimes grapples with her decision to return to school. She said that she believes pursuing an education is a selfish act because it consumes so much of her time – time she could spend with her son.

O’Brian said she is worried that he is missing out on some things. Her son is 16 years old and does not have his source of transportation and if she is too busy, she cannot take him to the places he wants to go.

Like Stevens, O’Brian said making time for her family while working and going to school has proved challenging. Fortunately for Taylor, she will already be well into her senior year by the time her baby makes it way into the world.

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LECTURE

Illustration by Casey Lee/The Daily Campus

A computer, pacifer and babies bottle are some of the items used by student mothers.

Ruth Ann Elmore, coordinator at SMU’s Clements Center for Southwest Studies and one of the lecture sponsors, said the lecture is designed to highlight “Professor Payne’s writing of the book and its importance, and to raise awareness about the book and Elmore Bedford’s contributions to civil rights.”

“We collaborate with other groups on campus, SMU Press, Degolyer Library and Colophon/Friends of the SMU Libraries, in sponsoring various events,” Elmore said.

Payne’s book, “Quest for Justice: Louis A. Bedford and the Struggle for Equal Rights in Texas,” chronicles the

Rape victims have additional options for help

By JESSICA HUSEMAN Online Editor jhuseman@smu.edu

Sexual assault victims in Dallas can now receive effective treatment and counseling, thanks to SMU alumnus Courtney Underwood.

Underwood knows firsthand the difficulty of being a sexual assault victim. She was raped at the age of 15 by the pastor of her church.

Underwood, who went to a religious private school at the time, didn’t feel like she had anywhere to go.

“I didn’t talk to anybody about it for two years,” she said.

She was eventually able to get counseling, but that is not the treatment that most victims of sexual assault in Dallas were fortunate enough to receive before Underwood took action.

Prior to Underwood’s efforts,

Dallas had a policy that allowed only Parkland Hospital to perform rape kits on victims of sexual assault. The policy came as a result of a decadeold agreement between the district attorney’s office and Southwestern Medical School, who would financially benefit from the arrangement.

“Parkland does serve a certain demographic, but after someone has been raped, a lot of people just won’t go,” Underwood said.

She said the hours of waiting while not being able to go to the bathroom or change your clothes, and the overall atmosphere of Parkland discourages women from seeking the help they need.

Because of this, Underwood decided to take on city hall and fight for more options for victims of sexual assault. Thanks to her efforts and the

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RELIGION

Ashes demonstrate commitment to fasting, faith

By PATRICIA TRAVER Copy Editor ptraver@smu.edu

Many Christians walked around campus with dark gray smudges on their foreheads after attending one of the Ash Wednesday services held in Perkins Chapel Wednesday.

It was Ash Wednesday, a Christian holiday that marks the beginning of the Christian Lent season, a time when many Christians choose to fast in some way, with an attitude of reverence and prayer, in preparation

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for Easter.

During the Ash Wednesday service, the sign of the cross is marked in ash on the heads of members of the congregation. The ashes traditionally come from the palms used in the previous year’s Palm Sunday.

Reverend Stephen Rankin led a protestant service at 12:05 p.m. in Perkins Chapel, and Father Tony Lackland led a Catholic Mass at 5 p.m. People of all denominations and faiths were welcomed at both services, unified by the symbol of the Christian

cross on their foreheads.

When applying the ashes, congregation members were told to “Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Director of the SMU Catholic Campus Ministry group Frank Santoni said that Ash Wednesday was one of their most attended services on campus. He said that there is “something about the grittiness of ashes” that works so well as “a symbol of penitence.”

Santoni recognizes that walking

around with the ashes on your face in a place where people are concerned about keeping up appearances, as SMU students tend to be, is a very big deal.

SMU Junior Rachel Washington said that she tries to go to Mass every Sunday, but she attended the Ash Wednesday service yesterday because she made a “commitment to God.” “If my friends have special days, I do my best to show up to them,” Washington said. “So why would I not do the same for God?”

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FITNESS

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Wellness triathlon class shares first group-ride

Coca-Cola, interest group duel over heart health campaign

By KRISTY WEBSTER Contributing Writer kwebster@smu.edu

After years of doing calculus problems, a math major may assume that basic algebra will be like riding a bike—it’s a skill that’s never forgotten.

The tri-athletes in the Wellness II Beginning Triathlon class tested this cliché yesterday during a bike-training session.

The ride provided a good opportunity for students to refamiliarize themselves with a long-lost mode of transportation. For many of the aspiring athletes, it had been too long to feel completely comfortable.

The class shared their first, groupride experience and found it be vastly different from the family bike rides of their childhood.

The rookies ended up overlooking a wide variety of things. Senior Becca Mahoney forgot to take the weather into account when she headed to Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports to meet her class, and left her gloves at home. Several times during the hourlong group-ride she could be heard crying, “How could I have forgotten my gloves?”

David Bertrand, the class’s coach, made an example out of another student whose tires were nearly flat.

“She’s almost twice as likely to get a flat,” he explained at the end of

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their ride when they stopped at Bicycle Plus, a bike supply store in Snider Plaza. Bertrand used the opportunity to familiarize the students with their bikes and some riding rules.

Several times during the hour-long groupride she could be heard crying, “How could I have forgotten my gloves?”

The tri-athletes used the trip back to campus to get to know each other better. Their easy conversation was evidence of the group synergy that Bertrand values so highly, which is created by the many rides together in and outside of class.

The bike-training session was one of four with which Bertrand is kick-starting the semester. Other sessions focus on swimming, running and weight training. The sessions are his way of providing the students with a slow start that minimizes anxiety and provides a foundation for excellence on race day.

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Relay for Life: Event Kick-off

10 a.m. to 4 p.m., HughesTrigg West Bridge tables. Relay For Life is 50 days away! Come join us for our Kick Off event!

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Inner Space Caving

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By MARISSA O’CONNOR and HALLE ORGAN

Health & Fitness Co-Editors moconnor@smu.edu, horgan@smu.edu

Although February is commonly known across America for Valentine’s Day, President’s Day and National Black History month, many citizens may not know that February is also American Heart Month.

The Center for Science in the public interest group issued a letter to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute ridiculing the partnership among Coca-Cola Co. and The Heart Truth campaign.

CSPI views Coca Cola Co., the world’s largest beverage company, as “a major contributor to America’s epidemic of overweight and obesity.”

For the past three years, Coca-Cola has partnered with the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute as part of The Heart Truth campaign to raise national awareness of heart disease, which is the number one health risk that women face today.

Coca-Cola is distributing a limitededition Diet Coke packaging series with a large red heart graphic to help advocate for the campaign this February.

But, according to the American Heart Association, obesity is now recognized as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease, which can lead to heart attacks.

Since sugar-sweetened beverages have been proven to cause obesity, the CSPI fails to recognize Coca-Cola Co. as an adequate partner for a health campaign.

Coca-Cola Co., however, in a press release on Feb. 4 stated that they feel the sponsorship helps promote healthy lifestyle choices.

Diet Coke brand director William White said, “With no calories and

great taste, Diet Coke is not only an excellent choice for managing calorie intake, it also provides refreshment and hydration that helps our consumers be their best throughout the day.”

The labels will not be printed on traditional Coca-Cola labels; they will only be printed on Diet Coke.

Furthermore, DietCoke.com will offer daily tips for maintaining a healthy heart throughout the month of February.

For more information on The Heart Truth campaign visit: nhlbi.nih.gov/ educational/hearttruth or dietcoke. com/hearttruth/.

MARIJUANA

California research shows pot can ease muscle spasms, pain

By LISA LEFF

Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The first U.S. clinical trials in more than two decades on the medical benefits of marijuana confirm pot is effective in reducing muscle spasms associated with multiple sclerosis and pain caused by certain neurological injuries or illnesses, according to a report issued Wednesday.

Igor Grant, a psychiatrist who directs the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at the University of California, San Diego, said five studies funded by the state involved volunteers

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Pulldown Climbing Competition

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who were randomly given real marijuana or placebos to determine if the herb provided relief not seen from traditional medicines.

“There is good evidence now that cannabinoids may be either an adjunct or a first-line treatment,” Grant said at a news conference where he presented the findings.

The California Legislature established the research center in 2000 to examine whether the therapeutic claims of medical marijuana advocates could withstand scientific scrutiny. In 1996, state voters became the first in the nation to pass a law approving pot

use for medical purposes.

Thirteen other states have followed suit, but California is the only one so far to sponsor medical marijuana research.

After 10 years and nearly $9 million, the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research is preparing to wrap up its work next year.

Along with the studies on muscle spasms and pain associated with spinal cord injuries and AIDS, the center also has funded research on how marijuana affects sleep and driving, limb pain due to diabetes, and whether inhaling vaporized cannabis is as effective as smoking it.

A laboratory study supported by the center examined if pot could be helpful in treating migraine headaches and facial pain. In that study, rats given a cannabis-like drug exhibited reduced activity of nerve cells that transmit pain.

State Sen. Mark Leno, a San Francisco Democrat who chairs a budget subcommittee on health and human services and supports medical marijuana, said he doubted there would be more financial support for the center, given California’s ongoing budget crisis.

Police Reports FEBRUARY 11 2:57 p.m., Fondren Library/6414 Hilltop: A non affiliated person was issued a criminal trespass warning.

Closed.

7:50 p.m., Sigma Phi Epsilon/3050 SMU Blvd.: University Park Fire Department responded to an active fire alarm and determined it was caused by burned food. UPFD reset the fire panel and cleared with no further incident. Closed.

FEBRUARY 13 1:05 a.m., Phi Gamma Delta/3064 SMU Blvd.: University Park Fire Department responded to an active fire alarm. The fire panel showed activation caused by a rear entrance pull station.

It was determined no signs of cause for activation. UPFD reset the fire panel and cleared with no further incident.

Closed.

FEBRUARY 13 1:25 a.m., Pi Kappa Alpha /3035 Dyer Street: While conducting a walk through of the house a police officer reported a pool table, a kitchen table and trash containers were turned over.

No damage was caused to the furniture.

Closed.

1:19 a.m., Phi Gamma Delta/3064 SMU Blvd.: A student reported their fraternity flag was taken during a fire alarm. Closed.

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life of Elmore Bedford, a prominent civil rights activist and attorney in Dallas and its first African-American judge.

Payne was commissioned by the Dallas Bar Association to write a memoir detailing Bedford’s life and career, in observance of Black History Month,. Bedford, 83, sat down with Payne and gave the author a first-hand account.

Payne, a lover of biographical and autobiographical books, was eager to oblige the Dallas Bar Association’s request to write the book and give the lecture. Payne said that Bedford still has a law office on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in the southern sector of Dallas, which is where the two men met continually over a two-year period for the research of the book.

Louis A. Bedford was born in Dallas when Jim Crow laws were the order of the day.

“Both his parents were college educated, and his grandfather was a prominent republican,” Payne said.

Bedford graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in Dallas before attending Prairie View A&M, where he received his bachelor’s degree in history. At that time Texas did not allow African-Americans to attend its law schools, so he headed north where there were greater opportunities for African-Americans. He received his law

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Author brings insight

By REBECCA MUSGROVE Staff Writer rmusgrove@smu.edu

As part of the Brown Bag lecture series, the Clements Center for Southwest Studies hosted “The Early Modernist Photography of John Candelario: A Transcultural Aesthetic” by Stephanie Lewthwaite on Wednesday in the DeGolyer Library.

Lewthwaite is a lecturer of Canadian and American Studies at the University of Nottingham and is currently working on a new project: “Mediating Art Worlds: Cross-Cultural Encounters and Hispano Modernism, 1930-1960.”

For this project she is examining the elevation of Spanish culture in Hispano art and Anglo modernism.

As a way of determining the result of Hispano art’s interaction with modernist culture, Lewthwaite turned to the black and white photography of John Candelario.

Born of Mexican/Hispano heritage, John Candelario was raised in New Mexico by his grandfather. His grandfather, who owned a primarily Native American trading post, established connections with the local Native Americans in New Mexico.

After his grandfather’s death, Candelario returned to Santa Fe, which, according to Lewthwaite, had become the center for preservation of Hispano culture. Candelario maintained the connections his grandfather had formed with the Native Americans and later used them to gain access to cultural sites and privileges.

Candelario was a primarily selftaught photographer, beginning his work with a camera pawned at his store.

He formed a friendship with Edward Weston, an American photographer who spent time in Mexico and New Mexico, and the two went on many photographic expeditions across New Mexico.

In the early 1940s, Candelario met Georgia O’Keeffe at her home in Ghost Ranch, who admired his work as well.

She hired him in 1942 to shoot for a brochure of Ghost Ranch.

“O’Keeffe became a source of advice and encouragement,” Lewthwaite said.

“And she used Candelario as a source of information about local culture.”

Candelario also gained access to Georgia O’Keeffe’s circle of modernist friends and connections through his photography showing the “aesthetic purity of the Southwest,” according to Lewthwaite.

Candelario was granted multiple privileges throughout his career, giving him access to Native American ceremonies and structures forbidden to others. This “insider/outsider status,” as Lewthwaite called it, is depicted in many of his photographs, as he uses the people not only as objects of art, but also the subject with an individual personality.

He felt connected to the Native American culture, and experienced nostalgia for the old New Mexico as the world changed around him.

Lewthwaite believes he used black and white photography to put modernity to use in sustaining tradition and to “reclaim the traditional life.”

degree from Brooklyn College Law School.

He returned to Dallas three years later and opened his law office. He still puts in time at his office, after nearing 60 years of business.

Payne said Bedford was very forthcoming and helpful during his research. He recounted at length his protests, marches, sit-ins and picketing. “[Bedford] was really an integral part of the Civil Rights movement in Dallas,” Payne said.

He mentioned several times that Bedford was also “very humble.” Payne told the Dallas Morning News, “In everything he talked about, he downplayed his role. But then you talked to people like Craig Watkins, and you see the impact and influence he had on people’s lives.” (Craig Watkins is currently the district attorney in Dallas, and is the first African-American in the position in Texas.)

Bedford was allowed to practice law by the Dallas Bar Association, but “race prevented him from membership until 1964,” Payne said The same institution that discriminated against Bedford commissioned his story to be written in his own words. To place icing on the cake, his peers are honoring him during Black History Month. Some may call that poetic justice.

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cooperation of district attorney Craig Watkins, she was able to bring help for sexual assault victims to Presbyterian Hospital.

“I was really passionate about getting the program started at Presby because of the close location to SMU. I wanted victims from SMU to have somewhere close where they could go for help,” Underwood said.

Nurses who have been trained to be Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners will run the program at Presbyterian. This program trains nurses on how to take samples from victims that have the best chance of standing up in court.

“If one thing is wrong or mislabeled on the rape kit, the courts just throw it out and there

is no evidence,” Underwood said.

“SANEs have a much higher rate of accuracy when performing rape kits than physicians, and their kits are much more likely to stand up in court.”

Underwood is also the co-founder of the Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center, which began a 24-hour help hotline in May of last year, and officially opened the doors to a professionally staffed counseling center in August.

Prior to the opening of the DARCC, Dallas was the largest city in the United States without a rape crisis center.

“Dallas has been the worst city in terms of availability of aid to sexual assault victims, but now I really think we are in a position to solve that,” Underwood said.

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about tier 1 status because “Dallas is the only major city without a tier 1 research university.”

“The number one goal [of SMU] is to be the best institution we can be whether in humanities, law or other programs, as we build up our research base.”

Turner said some schools were set up with research in mind, but SMU wasn’t.

“Rice was laid out to be a research institution, but we weren’t,” Turner said. “If $100 million is the magical number for sponsored research we will be there, it will just take time.”

“Next year we will be celebrating our centennial. It will almost be as if we are starting a new campaign,” he said.

Applications to the university were up, according to Turner. Other area schools have been adding more students and SMU will follow suit.

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FASHION INDUSTRY

Designer Alexander McQueen hanged himself in London home

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — A bereaved Alexander McQueen left a note, then hanged himself in his apartment on the eve of his mother’s funeral, a coroner’s inquest said Wednesday, giving the cause of the fashion designer’s death as asphyxiation and hanging.

The inquest has yet to formally deliver a ruling of suicide, but police said there were no suspicious circumstances.

Coroner’s official Lynda Martindill told the inquest at Westminster Coroner’s Court that the body of 40year-old McQueen was found in an armoire at his London apartment on Thursday.

In the dispassionate language of the inquest, she referred to him as “a single man, a fashion designer.”

Days before he died, McQueen had left several messages on the social networking site Twitter revealing his grief at his mother’s recent death.

Police detective inspector Paul Armstrong told the inquest there were no suspicious circumstances. He gave the note found at the scene to coroner Paul Knapman but did not disclose its contents.

After a five-minute hearing, the coroner adjourned the inquest until April 28. Full details of the autopsy also will be available in a few months.

McQueen’s family, who are now free to hold the designer’s funeral, issued a statement through their lawyers appealing to the media to respect their privacy following their “grievous double loss.”

They have not released details of the funeral. In Britain, inquests are held whenever someone dies violently or in unexplained circumstances.

McQueen’s death has cast a shadow over London Fashion Week, which opens on Friday. A spokeswoman said the event would feature a tribute to the designer, whose attention-grabbing designs helped re-energize British fashion after a fallow period following the punk explosion in the 1970s.

“There will be something simple and tasteful,” she said. “The time for memorials will be later in the year.”

She spoke on condition of anonymity because organizers are waiting for McQueen’s family to approve the tribute. Known for his dramatic statement pieces and impeccable tailoring, McQueen dressed celebrities from Cameron Diaz to Lady Gaga and influenced a generation of designers.

He was named British Designer of the Year four times and awarded the title of CBE — Commander of the Order

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I don’t think success was easy for him.

He told me he was driven by his insecurities, and he believed that all successful people were.

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of the British Empire — by Queen Elizabeth II. Unlike many fashionistas, he came from a working-class background. The son of a cab driver, McQueen grew up on a public housing estate in London’s East End, left school at 16 and entered the fashion world the old-fashioned way, as a teenage apprentice to a Saville Row tailor. He later studied at Central St. Martin’s art college in London and was discovered by fashion guru Isabella Blow, who bought his entire graduation collection. She became a friend and mentor; her suicide three years ago shook the designer, who wept openly at her funeral.

McQueen was a private man who avoided the limelight, but his Twitter postings show emotional turmoil after his mother’s death on Feb. 2.

McQueen had posted messages four

days before his death about his “awful week,” and said he had to “somehow pull myself together and finish.”

His mother’s funeral was held the day after McQueen died.

Friends also said he might have felt under pressure to outdo himself at the unveiling of his new collection in Paris next month.

“I don’t think success was easy for him,” friend Plum Sykes wrote in the Sunday Telegraph this week. “He told me he was driven by his insecurities, and he believed that all successful people were.”

McQueen became chief designer at the Givenchy house in 1996, but was best known for his own label, in which Gucci bought a majority stake in 2001. McQueen retained creative control, and became famous for his dramatic and often uncategorizable creations: sculptural cocktail dresses in psychedelic patterns; headwear made of trash; 10-inch (25 centimeter) heels shaped like lobster claws.

His shows were highly theatrical events, incorporating film and historical references and innovative technology — including, at one memorable 2006 show, an appearance by Kate Moss in hologram form.

His outrageous pieces never sold in great numbers, but he became one of fashion’s best-known brands.

He designed the outfit Janet Jackson was wearing when she had her breastbaring “wardrobe malfunction” at the 2004 Super Bowl. Outrageous chanteuse Lady Gaga — dressed in a lacy white ensemble and towering Marie Antoinette-esque wig — paid tribute to McQueen at the Brit music awards on Tuesday.

“Thank you to Lee McQueen,” she said after winning one of three prizes, using the designer’s given name.

Onstage she performed a somber tribute song beside a mannequin wearing those signature lobster-claw shoes.

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AKIRA SUEMORI/The Associated Press

Top Photo, Final preparations are made at the main site for London Fashion Week, in London, Monday, Feb. 15 as the fashion world comes to terms with the death of Alexander McQueen. London Fashion Week starts on Friday Feb. 19.

Bottom Left, People look at a note informing customers of the death of British fashion designer Alexander McQueen as flowers are seen outside his shop in central London, Thursday, Feb. 11.

Bottom Right, This June 2003 file photo shows Alexander McQueen posing for photographers after winning the International Award at the 2003 Council of Fashion Design Awards held in New York.

STUART RAMSON/The Associated Press

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VENUES

Dallas theater in business for more than 60 years In face of hard economic times, the Granada Theater is still bringing in audiences due to cheap tickets

By LAURA COOK Associate A&E Editor lecook@smu.edu

Today’s generation is accustomed to capacious music venues; bland arenas, where people seated even 20 rows back would be better off watching the concert at home on TV. The Jonas Brothers and Taylor Swift generation experiences a commercialized version of music, where intimacy and distinctiveness fall by the wayside.

While places like the American Airlines Center are thriving, more local, independently owned venues are still determined to offer the intimate personal music experience that people seem to be forgetting exists.

On the outskirts of Dallas, lies one of the few independent music venues left in the Dallas area: the Granada Theater.

For more than 60 years, the Granada has focused on providing audiences with memorable music events.

Mike Schoder, the theater’s owner for the last five years, continues to add personal touches to Granada, making the theater a unique and special place to hear all types of music.

The Granada Theater opened in 1946 as a movie theater on the happening Greenville Avenue.

In the late 60s and early 70s, the Granada housed many notorious pornographic films, later becoming a dinner and movie theater.

In 1992, the Granada established itself as a music venue.

Over the last 17 years, the Granada has been passed between several owners.

Before Schoder stepped in, the theater was owned by Snuffer’s restaurant, located directly next

The Granada Theater

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There is so much more music being made and waiting to be discovered.

Mike Schoder Owner

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door on Greenville.

Since Schoder has owned Granada, the theater successfully brings in avid music fans that appreciate the work the Granada staff have put in to make the venue a personal and friendly place.

Schoder has always had an interest in music; in the 1990s he opened CD World on Greenville, later opening another in Addison.

He is all about being familiar with music, showing people new music to discover.

Schoder says that when costumers came in, he furthered their knowledge about different bands, saying “oh you like this? Well here – you have to try this.”

In 2000, CD World’s success started to deplete. Schoder blames the revolution of iPods and mixtapes for the drop.

In 2004, he decided to try out music venues. Thus, the New Age at Granada began.

The Granada holds 1,000 people

Upcoming Shows Thursday, 7 p.m.: Kinky Friendman

The country rock singer is known for his satirical lyrics and song titles, including, “Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in Bed.” Kinky Friedman’s most popular work came from his self- titled album, “Kinky Friedman,” which debuted in 1974. He even toured with folk legend, Bob Dylan from 1975-6.

standing, and 650 when chairs are set up.

“The sleepy people sit in chairs placed on the sides, while the energy is in the middle, in front of the stage,” Schoder says.

The theater houses five to seven concerts a month with three to four private parties as well.

Schoder recently put in a $250,000 sound system, along with two huge projector screens, so bands can have cool graphics while performing.

Regardless of the up-to-date mechanics, the Granada’s original décor is still intact.

The wall panels from 1946 are still intact, providing a distinctive authenticity to the venue.

There are four subheadings on the walls, two on each side.

One says, “Fantasy,” in gold script, with a drawing of an astronaut.

Another panel says, “Adventure.”

Schoder also likes to mix in his own personal touches with the historic furnishings.

Friday, 8 p.m.: Dave Mason

You may know this rocker from his involvement with the British group Traffic. Mason wrote the well-known hit, “Feelin’ Alright,” and later left the group to pursue a solo career. Since 1969, Mason has made five albums, including the critically acclaimed, “Alone Together.”

Hanging above the stage is a handmade banner that says, “Love Yourself.” Even the bouncers wear jackets that on the back say “Serenity.”

At a glance, the word looks like “Security.” Schoder believes these special little touches allow him to have a voice, creating a “realm of comfort and care.”

“We are just trying to exercise reminders that the Granada is a resort, a rock n’ roll resort,” Schoder says.

These touches provide Zen and relaxation to a theater whose energy come, concert time is nothing but peaceful.

The Granada’s mission statement is “fun.” The way to achieve this is through kindness and honesty.

The theater thrives on a sense of community. There are 20 employees at the Granada, and they consider themselves a family.

Before each show, the Granada team shares a meal with the band.

“We start preparing for a show around noon, and by nighttime, if the crew is working on an empty stomach, they cannot perform as well, so we feed them. The mind

Sunday, 7 p.m.: The Soundtrack to Our Lives

This Swedish Psychedelic rock group was formed in 1995 and has since found great success in the United States, including touring with Oasis in 2002 and a Grammy nomination in 2003. The band’s music strives to bring spiritual guidance and enlightenment to its listeners.

and body need sustenance,” Schoder says.

Even in these hard economic times, the Granada continues bringing in audiences, mostly because the tickets are a lot cheaper than those sold from big arenas and franchise theaters like The House of Blues.

The fall of Deep Ellum is also considered a reason why people have flocked to Greenville Avenue.

Schoder agrees that Deep Ellum turned into a scary place, saying, “When people start singing from an angry place, the surrounding area becomes angry.”

Schoder also attributes the Granada’s popularity to the large SMU student following.

SMU is located minutes away, and brings in students all the time.

The theater has developed a large dependence on the university.

When electronic group Ratatat preformed last spring, tickets were sold out four days before the concert, and 90 percent were purchased by SMU students.

“It was unbelievable,” Schoder said.

SMU held a Battle of the Bands

on the front lawn last semester, and the winning band gets to open for a band at Granada.

Keeping the connection between SMU and the Granada is very important to Schoder.

The Granada also makes use of the growing obsession of online social networks to spread their popularity.

The theater has an active Facebook fan page and a Twitter account to help reach out to the public.

At 1 p.m. before a concert, both pages show the line up to get the fans pumped for the concert.

The Granada Web site has a live radio that plays music from upcoming bands so listeners can get a heads up on what music they can expect to hear.

Setting itself apart from places like American Airlines Center, which hosts mainstream pop music, Granada tries to expose new cutting edge bands that will both sell tickets and help the band’s fan base.

While some feel the Golden Age of music is long gone, Schoder insists that is not true.

“There is so much more music being made and waiting to be discovered,” Schoder said.

The 60s were a time of rock, the 70s were a time for disco, the 80s were a decade of garage metal, the 90s launched alternative rock, and the the 21st century is a kaleidoscope of genres.

Electronic, Hip Hop, Blues, Pop, Rock and Country are all styles that continue to grow in popularity.

Even though pop icons continue to grace TV screens and commercial venues, the underground music scene is growing just as rapidly.

Granada will continue to be a catalyst for lesser-known bands, providing an intimate venue for audiences to truly have a connection with the band and the music.

“Granada is just like a family resort, with a large band in the corner,” Schoder said.

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h, ABC’s “The Bachelor.”

It is the talk of the female population at SMU as Dallas native Jake has narrowed his selection down to the final two women. In fact, both “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” have always drawn a lot of attention since their premiers in 2002 and 2003, respectively. The two shows draw a steady average of 10 million views per episode, Logan Masters making them two of the most watched shows in prime time.

Currently on the 14th “Bachelor season,” with five seasons of “The Bachelorette” completed, the shows have an astounding track record of one marriage. Despite their incapability to produce true love, the shows live on and continue to strangely captivate their hopeful viewers. But the one thing even more disturbing than their pathetic attempts at matchmaking is the shows’ shocking social agenda filled with racism, gender norm stagnation, and corrupted portrayals of relationships.

With a combined total of 19 seasons under their belts, neither “The Bachelor” nor “The Bachelorette” have featured a minority lead star. Nor have there ever been socially proportionate amounts of minorities featured as “contestants.” Not only does it appear that ABC does not promote interracial dating, it definitely seems to have a severe racial bias in casting.

Further, “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” seem to perpetuate gender stereotypes in the workplace. For example, the men chosen always hold high-profile, high-earning occupations such as entrepreneurs, doctors, vice presidents/managers, athletes, global financers, etc. The women have equally stereotypical jobs: models, dance teachers, fitness this-or-thats, make-up artists, interior designers, etc.

Perhaps Anne Sweeney, president of the Disney-ABC Television Group, refuses to recognize or cast other equally successful women.

However, most shocking of all are the mixed signals presented to society both through the premise of the shows and the fascination of their viewers. Both series clearly support and eagerly endorse the juggling of multiple relationships simultaneously. I find this very odd.

Why are 10 million viewers (mostly women) so engrossed by this perverted reality? When has it ever been okay for a man to choose his wife by dating 25 attractive women concurrently? The simple act of watching the show must demand some form of acceptance of this type of behavior, which has extremely frightening social implications.

Obviously, our culture’s obsession with these shows sends mixed signals to the dating norms of society. Cheaters and “players” are scorned by society in every facet of social life except when it comes to our television, where they are praised. The cultural acceptance of “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” definitely threatens our society’s respect and reverence towards monogamy. Clearly the situations are extremely different, but why is there so much controversy surrounding Tiger Woods when Jake has been dating even more women? It just seems contradictory.

Regardless, I am a female between 18 and 34, and therefore I am willing to subscribe to the uncomforting realities of the show--but with a sense of awareness.

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n Tuesday, I went to the Libertarian Gubernatorial Debate, which was held right in Hughes-Trigg. It was something everyone should have attended, whether they are libertarians or not, because it provided an interesting Trey Treviño window of opportunity to see exactly how politics work.

Of course, the best way to know for sure where a politician stands “on the issues” is to look at a list of his decisions, what he’s voted for, and basically what he’s done in office, but for the newbies just entering the fray, the debate is a chance to let voters see them in action and get a feel for who they are and where they stand. Even for the seasoned veterans, debates are an opportunity to let the people see them and form an opinion as to their character, for good or ill.

It really did make a difference—for me at least—to actually see the candidates live, in person, discussing the issues and what their own plans for the future are.

I am very aware of the difference between watching someone on a screen and seeing them in person.

Some are naturally more photogenic than others, and a person who seems better on TV may not be the same person if you watch her live. Legendary director and acting teacher Constantin Stanislavki said that there exists a stage presence in some that could make them appear more appealing than others on stage but that was imperceptible under normal circumstances. However, I couldn’t very well have a sit-down chat with the candidates, so this was better than nothing.

In this live environment, some candidates were obviously better than others. Lucky for me, because this is an opinion piece, I can stop pretending to be unbiased and offer you my opinion. By far the best candidate was Jeff Daiell.

All the candidates, to an extent, had the same sorts of policies (they are all Libertarians, after all). They did, however, differ on methods to go about carrying

out these policies, and Daiell’s plans were the most satisfying. For example, in the opening statements, before any question was even asked, he said he wanted to limit police spending to violence, theft, and fraud, with a low priority on prohibition-type law enforcement. How simple is that? All the money we’re spending on keeping alcohol out of the hands of minors (which is really parents’ responsibility anyway) could be used elsewhere.

Another thing about Daiell that I liked was how he did not thank his opponents for coming or his family for being there that night in what would have clearly been a calculated move to get sympathy (yes, Steve Nichols and Ed Tidwell, I’m looking at you).

That kind of politician-y thing only irks me, and in no way indicates that these people know how to be effective statesmen. As a matter of fact, part of Daiell’s appeal is his--no offense intended--grumpy old man demeanor, which gives one the impression that he’s not going to beat around the bush; he’s just going to tell it like it is and make a plan to fix it, which is exactly what he did.

Of course, some of the other candidates told it like it is as well--in a manner of speaking. I’m speaking, of course, about Katherine Youngblood-Lass, who was rather explicit in saying that the most important thing we could do was preserve our liberty, because liberty is just about the most important thing we have, and that it is absolutely essential that we liberty our liberty with a healthy dose of liberty thrown in for good measure, otherwise there can be no liberty for anyone.

Okay, so she didn’t actually say that, but she was close, and she did say that liberty was “selling well these days.” Plus, she complained about our corrupt federal educational system, and how children who go to school are not being taught to love Texas or America or liberty for that matter.

Do with that tidbit what you will, but I know whom I’m voting for.

Trey Treviño is a sophomore CTV major. He can be reached for comment at ttrevino@smu.edu.

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ids today think varsity sweaters are just props from the TV show “Happy Days.” That’s not a statement about sartorial change so much as an observation as to how the multiple varsity letter winner is fast becoming an extinct species.

It’s largely a function of sports specialization-high school, middle and even grade school kids focusing on a single sport to maximize their chance at the big time. This approach is ruining the vintage concept of the well-rounded student athlete. And the movement now has a new poster child.

David Sills is a seventh-grade wunderkind athlete from Delaware. So bright is his future that the University of Southern California has offered him the opportunity to be a Trojan. If he stays on track, he’ll graduate in 2018.

Sills already has a personal quarterback coach, Steve Clarkson, who has worked with Ben Roethlisberger, Matt Leinart and current Trojans QB Matt Barkley. Clarkson reached out for newly hired USC coach Lane Kiffin, who checked out YouTube video of Sills’ performance. Impressed, he called the soonto-be Pride of Bear, Del., and made a (verbal, nonbinding) scholarship offer.

Sills accepted. And suddenly, while he was out celebrating with an ice cream sundae at Friendly’s, his name was scrolling across the Bottom Line on ESPN. I hope Sills stays healthy, succeeds in his athletics and academics, and even goes pro should be choose to do so. But right now, he’s only 13. And he already has the weight of the world upon his shoulders. It seems like an inordinate amount of pressure to put on a kid who won’t be able to drive himself to a game for years. Sills’ father, also named David, told me last week that his son is ready to handle the expectations that come with such a high-profile commitment.

“He really doesn’t react very poorly to pressure. I mean, he doesn’t feel it at all. People have always told him that he’s really good at playing quarterback, and it kind of just rolls off his back,” the elder Sills said. “It never has bothered him in the past and I don’t expect it will bother him in the future. Right now, the only difference between what he was last week and this week is he’s got a little bit of media attention.”

More than a little media attention, actually.

Delaware’s “News Journal” newspaper called the commitment “out of line” and used Sills to make the case for restricting NCAA coaches from even talking to kids younger than 17. Sills’ name made the topic list on ESPN’s most popular talk show, “Pardon the Interruption.” Appearing on another ESPN show, Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan called it a case of “bad parenting.”

Maybe I shouldn’t judge the senior Sills’ decision. But I can comment on what it says for all of our kids. By putting David on a pedestal at his young age, it makes him a role model at a time when teens should be relishing the opportunity to play multiple team sports for the only time in their lives.

At age 47, I can attest to the difficulty in rounding up 21 other guys to play football, 17 individuals for some baseball, or 9 guys for some hoops. But instead of encouraging kids to go try everything, we’re letting the David Sillses among us write off other sports before they’re even close to signing a letter of intent. Let alone a pro contract.

To an extent, even the elder David Sills agreed with me: “Whether it’s good, bad or indifferent, kids are focusing on certain sports earlier nowadays than they did when we were young. You kind of look at kids that are going to the Olympics right now. We’re going to look at them as heroes, and they are.”

He continued: “There’s pitfalls any way you go. If you play three sports and you don’t focus on one, you may never reach your potential in one. If you play one sport and you don’t reach your potential in that particular sport, then you didn’t have the opportunity to play others. It goes both ways.”

Maybe so. But the fact remains: Olympians and All-Pros are the exception, not the rule. And no matter how dedicated single-sport athletes become, chances are they’ll join the already overwhelming percentage of high schoolers that don’t play in college. Maybe if they’re among the most fortunate of athletes, they’ll become one of the millions of college players who don’t advance to the professional level.

The NCAA advertisements that roll around each March Madness have it right: “There are over 380,000 student athletes, and most of us go pro in something other than sports.” And even those athletes are the standouts. The question is, who should the rest of the students emulate?

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Irving mayor rooting against Cowboys

By CAROLINE WELLS Contributing Writer cwells@smu.edu

For the Dallas Cowboy fans who are getting excited about the possibility that the Cowboys could take part in Super Bowl XLV next year, the mayor of Irving has something to say that fans won’t appreciate.

Herbert Gears, the mayor of Irving, is openly rooting against the beloved Dallas Cowboys, because he believes that two out-of-town teams will bring in more money to hotels and restaurants in the area. If rooting against the Cowboys is not controversial enough, Gears also said he would welcome Philadelphia in the big game. “I don’t want the Dallas Cowboys in the Super Bowl; I need somebody from Philadelphia, who will stay in a hotel in Irving,” said Gears. The Philadelphia Eagles are the fiercest rivals of the Dallas Cowboys in the eastern division of the National Football Conference.

If the Dallas Cowboys made it to the big game, it would be the first home Super Bowl in history. Gears said he is an avid Cowboy supporter, but his comments may not ring true to Dallas fans. Alison Cline,18, of Dallas said that, “Money has become a priority over tradition and pride. It makes a huge fan like me devastated to see that our leaders have lost sight of what should be more important.”

Dallas Cowboy fans are not the only ones upset by Gears’ comments. Emily Seeds, 20, of Dallas, does not consider herself a Cowboys fan, but was not pleased with Gears comments. “If the Cowboys were in the Super Bowl, it would bring the city of Dallas together.

Whatever the outcome, the city would be united for the game,” said Seeds. She continued to say that if the Cowboys were in the big game the environment around the city would experience great improvements, and that is something that even the non-sports fans would appreciate for a lifetime. The fact

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The SMU men’s basketball team is back on track towards achieving a winning record after a 67-57 win over Rice University Wednesday at Moody Coliseum. The win also

marks the first time SMU has won five games in league play since joining Conference USA in the 2006-07 season.

“We’re fortunate to win,” said SMU head coach Matt Doherty. “It’s a fine line who wins and who loses and we’re thrilled to come out of here

with a win.”

After a pair of losses to conference foes Houston and the University of Texas at El Paso, the win over the Owls put SMU back on the map at 12-13 overall and 5-6 in league play.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Mustangs looking for strong finish with only five games remaining

By DORI SHOCKLEY Staff Writer dshockley@smu.edu

After another split weekend, this time on the home court, the SMU

women’s basketball team will embark on their final road trip of the regular season today.

The Mustangs are headed to Tulsa, Okla. to play the Golden Hurricane

on Thursday at 7 p.m. They will then have two days of rest before flying to Huntington, W. Va. to play against

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The Air Force Thunderbirds perform a flyover of Cowboys Stadium before the NBA All-Star basketball game Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010, in Arlington, Texas.

that the mayor of Irving would rather have money than a sense of unity is disheartening to Seeds.

Gears’ point in making his comments was that hotels and restaurants would make more money from two out-of-town teams. Not so fast, say his detractors. According to The Dallas Cowboy Fan club the Cowboys have set an NFL attendance record dating back to 1990. The team played 160 games at home and on the road in front of sold-out stadiums.

The Cowboys do not have a problem drawing a crowd. An out-of-town team would probably not draw a larger number of people than the Cowboys.

Each team in the Super Bowl is allotted only 17.5 percent of the tickets. Given the national fan base of the Cowboys, travel revenues would be down less than Gears anticipates.

Furthermore, corporations are big Super Bowl spenders, and Dallas would likely have more corporate, as well as individual, big spenders than

teams from many NFL markets.

J. R. Page, Director of Sales and Merchandizing for the Crowne Plaza Hotel, agrees that out-of-town teams would not be any better for business.

Prior to the opening of the Cowboys’ Stadium, the Crowne Plaza Hotel, which is 2.3 miles away from the stadium, was only 15 percent booked on key holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s day. But since the stadium opened it has been a different story. The entire hotel is booked on Sundays for Cowboys’ home games. Mr. Page said that if the Cowboys were indeed in the Super Bowl the hotel would still be sold out, and it would make no difference at all in revenue.

D Magazine, KDFW and dozens of blogger’s have criticized Gears’ comments. Gears has been called “politically agile” by the New York Times, and is working to defuse the situation by prioritizing other issues over the city of Irving.

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02/16/10

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60 Writer Bagnold et al.

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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.

44 Common poolside chair 45 Bridle part 48 Ball field protector 49 Peruvian of old 51 Former Ford cars 52 DeMille film, say 53 Enhanced milkshake 54 Entr’__: intermission 55 Mon., on Tues.

58 Four quarters

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Sports

• Thursday, February 18, 2010

The Daily Campus

ROMPOLA: last few games critical for MUSTANGS: team goes undefeated

Conference USA postseason seeding

against Rice University for the season

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Marshall University. “[Thursday] we play one of the hottest teams in the conference...they are very, very good on their home court,” said head coach Rhonda Rompola.

Out of the past 30 match-ups between Tulsa and SMU, the Mustangs have won 20. SMU is also ranked higher than Tulsa in the Conference USA standings; as of Feb. 16, SMU was ranked No. 5 and Tulsa was ranked No. 11. SMU has a Conference USA record of 6-5, Tulsa has a record of 3-8. However, earlier this season Tulsa was able to beat Houston by three points. The Mustangs fell to Houston Sunday

afternoon with a final score of 73-67.

Rompola anticipates Tulsa will put on a lot of pressure with zone defense.

“We’re going to have to knock down some outside shots, we’re going to have to be patient…we struggle sometimes with pressure,” Rompola said.

No matter the outcome of Thursday’s game, the women will return to SMU late that evening, and then they will head to Marshall for their game on Sunday at 11 a.m.

“My biggest concern is taking care of business Thursday, then coming back and being able to rest our legs as much before Sunday,” Rompola said.

This is also the first time these

teams will meet during the 200910 season. The Herd is ranked just below SMU in the No. 6 spot with a C-USA record of 6-6.

After their final road trip of the season, the Mustangs only have three more games left in their regular season. They will host UCF, Southern Miss and Tulsa all before the start of the C-USA tournament kick-off on March 8 in Tulsa, Okla.

After the Mustangs have dropped from their previous high standing within C-USA, it is now crucial that they get some wins over the next five games.

“There is no room for anybody to have an off game,” Rompola said.

It wasn’t easy, but the Mustangs knocked off Rice (8-17, 1-10) for the second time this season. In their first meeting, the Owls reached their season scoring average — the only team to do that against SMU this season.

Tonight, however, Rice became the tenth team in 11 C-USA games that SMU has held below its scoring average.

In a game that almost came down to the wire, the Owls were scoreless for what was almost the final four minutes, until the they hit a final shot with seven seconds left.

The game started with the teams splitting the lead several times before Rice pulled ahead near the 16-minute mark.

They kept the lead through the first ten minutes of the opening half, but Papa Dia finally put the Mustangs back on top with just fewer than nine minutes left.

Dia, with 10 points and seven rebounds, was just three rebounds away from his eighth double-double of the season. Wednesday was the first time SMU had four players score in double figures in conference play this season.

Robert Nyakundi and Mouhammad Faye posted 11 and 15 points, respectively.

“We’re not in a quick fix situation,” Doherty said about the improvements he is seeing among his players. “This program has been under water for a long time and I think people would admit that. I want to build for sustained success and there’s some things still in the infrastructure that need to be fixed.”

SMU held Rice’s two leading scorers, Tamir Jackson and Arsalan Kazemi, to a combined two points in the first half.Jackson finished the night with three points, 8.3 points under his average. Kazemi, a 6-foot7-inch freshman from Iran, was held to only two points, 9.3 points under his average.

“I didn’t think we were great tonight, but I thought we were good,” Doherty said. “I didn’t think our defense was

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SMU guard Derek Williams going for a layup Wednesday against Rice at Moody Coliseum.

great but we managed to win.”

The Mustangs turned the final corner with a three-point shot from Williams to put the Mustangs on top 60-55. They did not surrender the lead.Williams, with 20 points on the night, had his 10th game of scoring 20 points or more, making him the 18th Mustang in history to score 800 career points in a two-year span.

“Derek is obviously so important to our team – probably the most valuable player,” Doherty said. “I need him to be energetic. Teams that have that energy are more successful and recently that

energy has come from me and I need it to come from our players.”

Despite the win, SMU is still in the lower half of league standings, but they still are ahead of East Carolina, Tulane and Rice.The Mustangs start a twogame road trip, starting with defending conference champion Memphis (19-7, 8-2) on Saturday. SMU will return to Moody Coliseum on Feb. 27 to take on the University of Houston.

“There’s 24 days starting [today] till the end of the conference tournament,” Doherty said. “I think now we put the pedal down.”