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WORLD
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Anti-government protesters clash with riot police in Kiev, Ukraine.
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SMU students volunteering for Habitat for Humanity work on building a house.
Reinelt builds with Habitat Meredith Carey Contributing Writer mbcarey@smu.edu
SMU math professor Douglas Reinelt is the first to admit he spends most of his week behind his desk in Clements Hall or in front of a whiteboard. But nearly every Saturday, you’ll find Reinelt at a Habitat for Humanity construction site, working toward completing another home for a worthy family to add to the over 200 homes he has built with the organization in the past 23 years. “Habitat gets you out of your normal community to serve and help someone else. You get to meet a lot of like-minded, serviceoriented people with good hearts and you get to see what impact the house and the help has on a family,” Reinelt said. Reinelt, faculty advisor to the SMU Habitat for Humanity student volunteer group, explained that SMU students and nearby Highland Park United Methodist Church have paired up to build houses each February for the last 12 years. Continuing the tradition, over 80 SMU students volunteered Saturday on-site to help construct
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Professor Douglas Reinelt
affordable housing for a Dallas low-income family. “The first house we built with SMU was constructed in an empty lot by the Dedman Center and was moved in the middle of the night after it was finished to a more appropriate neighborhood,” Reinelt said. A standard Habitat for Humanity house takes only eight to 10 weeks to complete, according to Reinelt, who served as a truss builder during his early years with the organization. After becoming more and more involved in the organization, which he described as a hand-up rather than a hand-out service
group, Reinelt decided to serve as a house leader. In his current position, he instructs and oversees all volunteers at one specific site until the house is fully completed. Reinelt estimated that he has helped build anywhere from 200 to 300 houses during his time with Habitat for Humanity. “It’s just awesome to work with Professor Reinelt,” said former SMU Habitat for Humanity president and senior Hayley Carpenter. “He is so passionate and inspires students to get involved. You know, building a house seems hard but it is honestly one of the most fun things I’ve ever done. At the end of the day, seeing the part of the roof you finished is really rewarding.” Besides helping students build homes around the Dallas area, Reinelt is working with HPUMC to reach their goal of 100 homes by the time the church celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2016. The church, which has named the outreach “Carpenters for Christ,” has just completed houses 90 and 91 with the help of SMU volunteers. The calculus and differential equations professor said that Habitat gives him an opportunity not only to interact with
community members, but also with current and former students in a different setting. In the past, Reinelt has taken SMU students to Paraguay, El Salvador and Costa Rica with Habitat for Humanity, building houses and interacting with the communities. “It only takes about 10 days to build a house in those countries because the houses are appropriate for that location. They’re smaller, more simple and they fit in with the other homes in the community,” Reinelt said. Reinelt explained Habitat for Humanity does not simply give away homes. Homeowners must put in 250 hours of what the organization calls “sweat equity,” working side by side with the volunteers to build their home from the foundation up. Expected to attend budgeting classes and pay a no-interest mortgage, Habitat for Humanity families learn how to become successful homeowners with the help of the volunteers and the organization. “Habitat allows me to get out into a community I don’t really interact with and serve, doing something hands on that will help a family,” Reinelt said.
Student Life
Deadly protests erupt in Ukraine Associated PRess Amid cries of “Glory to Ukraine!” and with flaming tires lighting up the night sky, thousands of riot police armed with stun grenades and water cannons attacked the sprawling protest camp in the center of Kiev on Tuesday, following a day of street battles that left 18 people dead and hundreds injured. The violence was the deadliest in nearly three months of antigovernment protests that have paralyzed Ukraine’s capital in a struggle over the nation’s identity, and the worst in the country’s post-Soviet history. With the boom of exploding stun grenades and fireworks nearly drowning out his words at times, opposition leader Vitali Klitschko urged the 20,000 protesters to defend the camp on Independence Square that has been the heart of the protests. “We will not go anywhere from here,” Klitschko told the crowd, speaking from a stage in the square as tents and tires burned around him, releasing huge plumes of smoke. “This is an island of freedom and we will defend it,” he said. Many heeded his call. “This looks like a war against one’s own people,” said Dmytro Shulko, 35, who was heading
toward the camp armed with a fire bomb. “But we will defend ourselves.” As police dismantled some of the barricades on the perimeter of the square and tried to push away the protesters, they fought back with rocks, bats and fire bombs. Against the backdrop of a soaring monument to Ukraine’s independence, protesters fed the burning flames with tires, creating walls of fire to prevent police from advancing. A large building the protesters had used as a headquarters caught fire and many struggled to get out. Many of the protesters were bleeding. Speaking over loudspeakers, police urged women and children to leave the square because an “anti-terrorist” operation was underway. The protesters appeared to sense that Ukraine’s political standoff was reaching a critical turning point. Waving Ukrainian and opposition party flags, they shouted “Glory to Ukraine!” and sang the Ukrainian national anthem.
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State
SMU helps prepare KIPP students for college Fort Hood tears down site of 2009 massacre
Leah Johnson Assignments Desk Editor leahj@smu.edu Every summer, SMU students volunteer their time to help rising junior and senior high school students in the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) prepare for college success. KIPP students participate in a five-week program where they live on the SMU campus, take two college-level courses with University faculty, earn college credit and live the life of a college kid. In addition, students experience volunteerism with community service projects on weekends. By the end of the program, KIPP students are expected to know what it takes for a successful transition into college life. Joe Carreon, who is the coordinator for student success in the office of the provost, said KIPP at SMU began in the summer of 2013 “In 2013, SMU invited eight students to be KIPP at SMU participants. We hope to increase that number slightly. [This] summer, SMU will welcome its second KIPP at SMU cohort. SMU partnered with KIPP because both entities wanted to do more in addressing the college persistence challenges facing low-
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Students participating in the KIPP at SMU program pose for a photo.
income families and first-generation college students,” Carreon said. The SMU admission team is currently reviewing applications and in March, KIPP at SMU should know if any of the seniors who participated in the program last summer are admitted. In May, Carreón said he will know which former participants are attending SMU. KIPP is a national network of free, open-enrollment, collegepreparatory public charter schools that prepares students in underserved
communities for success in college and in life. There are currently 141 KIPP schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia serving 50,000 students. More than 86 percent of KIPP’s students are from lowincome families and eligible for the federal free or reduced-price meals program, and 95 percent are African American or Latino. Nationally, more than 90 percent of KIPP middle school students have graduated high school and more than 80 percent of KIPP alumni have gone on
to college. Two SMU students are hired to serve as program directors and provide supervision and programming throughout the students’ stay. Incentives includes a $1,200 stipend, a single room in a residence hall, up to three credit hours of tuition for summer I or summer II. This year, the program runs from July 5 to Aug 5. Applications are due Thursday. Contact Joe Carreon for more information.
A Texas Army post has razed the building where a former psychiatrist carried out one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history, with plans to put up trees and a memorial in its place. Fort Hood officials said Tuesday that they’ve torn down Building 42003, the site of a 2009 massacre that left 13 people dead and more than 30 wounded. The building was part of a processing center complex for soldiers deploying and returning from combat. On Nov. 5, 2009, then-Maj. Nidal Hasan carried two weapons inside, shouted “Allahu Akbar!” — “God is great” in Arabic — and opened fire on soldiers waiting for vaccines and paperwork. As soldiers and civilians tried to take cover, Hasan walked through the building, targeting anyone in a green Army uniform. He left pools of blood and spent ammunition in his wake. He was eventually confronted outside the building by Fort Hood police officers, who shot him and paralyzed him from the waist down.
Hasan was convicted in August of charges related to the massacre and sentenced to death. He is on death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., while his case goes through a review at Fort Hood before it enters a series of mandatory appeals. The building was sealed off for nearly four years until post officials announced in November that they would demolish it. Fort Hood officials, who declined to be interviewed, plan to place trees, a gazebo and a memorial plaque at the site. Not all victims and their relatives agree with them. Kathy Platoni, an Army reservist who saw her friend, Capt. John Gaffaney, bleed to death, was one of the people who called on Fort Hood to keep the building standing as a reminder of what happened. Platoni found out about the demolition Tuesday in a mass email from the post.
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