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Top Ukrainian opposition figure Yulia Tymoshenko, center, U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey R. Pyatt, left, and EU Ambassador to Ukraine Jan Tombinski during their meeting in Kiev, Ukraine Sunday.

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On Friday, SMU announced the acceptance of a $5 million gift from Nancy Ann and Ray L. Hunt to create a new legal center at the Dedman School of Law. The Hunts’ gift will create the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center, which is named after Nancy Ann Hunter Hunt’s late father. The center will provide services for victims of domestic violence, sex trafficking and other crimes against women. For more information, visit smu.edu.

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Texas abortion law stirs up controversy Lauren Aguirre Online Editor lcaguirre@smu.edu With the passage of the Texas abortion law (SB 2) in July, Texas has become a battleground for the abortion debate across the country.

SB 2 placed restrictions on abortion clinics in Texas. The law bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and requires doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

These provisions, pro-abortion rights activists say, restrict women’s health care choices. SB 2 provisions in conjunction with lower state funding for family planning programs are forcing clinics to close. A majority of patients go to these clinics for primary or preventative health care. Clinic closures present a problem for patients in rural areas, where there may only be one clinic available locally.

“I’m not surprised that Texas would do something like this,” SMU junior Angela Uno said.

“This just supports the stereotype of Texas not being good with reproductive rights.”

However, conservatives argue that the provisions exist to protect

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Planned Parenthood is one of many opponents to the recent Texas abortion law.

women’s health.

“It’s a great step to make sure that women will be taken care of the way that they deserve,” Julie Martin, Mustangs for Life president, said.

Tom Mayo, an associate professor at the SMU Dedman School of Law, believes the law

creates more regulations.

The law requires doctors to have admitting privileges at hospital within 30 miles of their clinic. This requirement was added to ensure that a patient could be easily admitted to a hospital if a complication occurred.

“That turns out to be a

legislative mistake,” said Mayo, who specializes in medical law.

If a patient required hospital care, she could be delivered to the emergency room and admitted to the hospital, Mayo said. No one at the clinic would need admitting

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Student Life

For many students, an internship is a must for finding a job after graduation. Dream Careers, a Chicago-based company connects students to summer internships.

“It’s a very impressive program,” Associate Director of Employee Direction Marva Aimes said.

The full-time internship is provided in over 30 industries including music, communications, business and film. The program has three international locations Barcelona, London and Hong Kong.

“They’ve done a great job with outreach to employers,” Aimes said.

In the past 13 years the program has placed students in 13,000 internships. According

to the Dream Career’s website, they have a 70 percent of participants receive a job offer.

Alice+Olivia, Michael Kors, Quadrant Management, Inc. and Fingerprint Communications are just a handful of the internship opportunities.

The program is open to firstyears, sophomores, juniors and graduating seniors. After students enroll in the city and industry of their choice, they are assigned an internship coordinator. The internship coordinator will grant access to internships available.

Students then will go through a series of phone interviews.

Dream Careers has an internship placement success rate of over 99 percent and guarantees a fullrefund if the student is not placed in an internship.

Although SMU has not officially partnered with Dream Careers, Dream Careers has visited the campus for the last

With an ally claiming presidential powers Sunday and the whereabouts and legitimacy of the nominal president unclear, newly freed opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko may feel her chance to take Ukraine’s leadership has come. But even among protesters who detest President Viktor Yanukovych, Tymoshenko sparks misgivings.

The former prime minister, who was convicted of abuse of office in a case widely seen as political revenge by her arch-foe Yanukovych, is a polarizing figure in a country staggering from political tensions that exploded into violence. Admired and even adored by many for her flair and fiery rhetoric, Tymoshenko is regarded by others as driven by intense ego and tainted with corruption.

Just a day after she left the hospital where she was imprisoned, demonstrators outside the Cabinet of Ministers expressed dismay that she could be Ukraine’s next president. One of them held a placard depicting Tymoshenko taking power from Yanukovych and reading, “People didn’t die for this.”

Ukraine is in a delicate state of uncertainty since Yanukovych and protest leaders signed an agreement to end the conflict that left more than 80 people dead last week in Kiev. Soon after signing it, Yanukovych’s whereabouts are unclear after he left the capital for his support base in eastern Ukraine. Allies are deserting him.

Russia’s next moves in the

crisis were not immediately clear, but Washington warned Moscow not to intervene militarily.

The newly emboldened parliament, now dominated by the opposition, struggled to work out who is in charge of the country and its ailing economy. Fears percolated that some regions might try to break away and seek support from neighboring Russia, particularly the Crimean peninsula where Russia’s Black Sea naval fleet is based.

Ukraine is deeply divided between eastern regions that are largely pro-Russian and western areas that widely detest Yanukovych and long for closer ties with the European Union.

Yanukovych set off a wave of protests by shelving an agreement with the EU in November, and the movement quickly expanded its grievances to corruption, human rights abuses and calls for Yanukovych’s resignation.

The parliament on Sunday assigned presidential powers to its new speaker, Tymoshenko ally Oleksandr Turchinov, who said top priorities include saving the economy and “returning to the path of European integration,” according to news agencies.

The latter phrase is certain to displease Moscow, which wants Ukraine to be part of a customs union that would rival the EU and bolster

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four spring semesters. The program doesn’t currently allow students to receive credit to count toward graduation.

“It’s the cost,” Aimes said.

“We don’t want students to pay to intern.”

The downside of the program is that it can cost upwards of $10,000. A $999 deposit is required upfront. The fee includes housing, food, daily transportation and weekend events.

Aimes, who visited the Dream Careers center in Hong Kong spent time at a with about 30 interns.

SMU also has an international internship program along with the study abroad program.

Senior Savannah Stephens, a communication and history double major, studied abroad twice. Once in London for the communication program and

From his naming on the Forbes magazine list of the world’s richest billionaires, to his frequent supposed sightings and magical escapes, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been a larger-than-life drug lord who reached mythical proportions in Mexican “narco” folklore.

He rose from a simple low-level trafficker from Sinaloa, the cradle of Mexico’s opium and marijuana trade, to become the nation’s most powerful and elusive fugitive.

For Mexicans, the capture of Guzman, reported Saturday to have occurred in a joint operation

by Mexican marines and U.S. federal agents in the Sinaloan coastal city of Mazatlan, is somewhat akin to Colombia’s killing of Pablo Escobar — or even the U.S. elimination of Osama

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Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is escorted to a helicopter in handcuffs.

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The ugly truth about body image affects men and women Eastan Croson Health and Fitness Editor ecroson@smu.edu Body image issues are a real problem affecting many people.

This issue isn’t just impacting women, either, as pressures to obtain an ideal appearance continue, men are beginning to succumb to the struggle of body image as well.

Everyone worries about their appearance — in fact, it is relatively normal — but when that worry turns into obsession, a body image problem begins to develop. Worrying about appearance can be unhealthy when it becomes a daily, or even hourly, struggle interfering with relationships, work and school.

Problems arise when fears and insecurities prevent people from enjoying and pursuing a better life. If worrying about appearance creates feelings of depression, anxiety or alienation, there is a possibility of having an issue with body image.

Body image is the way someone perceives their body and assumes others see them in negative light — commonly influenced by family, friends, social pressures and media.

Body image for adolescents with low self-esteem can lead to eating disorders,

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substance abuse and suicidal thoughts. Some common signs of a body image issue are over-exercising, excessively counting calories, constantly weighing oneself and distorted body image.

Additionally, obsessing about weight and dieting can result in much larger issues, including eating disorders. An eating disorder is considered to be any unhealthy relationship with food including fasting, purging, constant or frequent anxiety about eating, or even overeating.

Poor self-esteem and negative thought patterns are commonly experienced when dealing body dissatisfaction.

Losing confidence, self-respect and several other healthcompromising behaviors are also associated with low selfesteem, stemming from poor body image.

The ugly truth about body image issues is shocking, and the facts are often disturbing.

Body dissatisfaction is a real problem affecting a large portion of people, the majority of whom are unaware that there is a body image issue to face.

According to DoSomething. org’s “11 Facts About Body Image,” 91 percent of women are unhappy with their bodies and resort to dieting in order

to achieve an ideal body shape. 58 percent of collegeaged women feel pressure to obtain a particular weight as well.

More than 1/3 of people who admit to “normal dieting” will develop pathological dieting, a precursor to eating disorders.

Pathological dieting is the forming of abnormal eating patterns that grow into unhealthy behaviors. This becomes a life-long struggle with eating.

Nearly 1/4 of people dieting will form a partial or full-on eating disorder.

One out of every three women and one out of every four men are on a diet at any given time, according to the Philadelphia Eating Disorder Examiner by Heidi Dalzell.

This information manifests in a real threat to mental wellbeing and overall wellness of many people.

Of all mental disorders, the one with the highest mortality rate isn’t depression or schizophrenia, it’s eating disorders. Those who are unhappy with their bodies and decide against seeking out healthy methods of losing weight run the risk of developing these disorders. Of those suffering from eating disorders, 95 percent are between the ages of 12 and 25 years old. Only 10

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percent of people with eating disorders look to professionals for help, according to DoSomething.org.

Body image issues don’t discriminate either. This is a phenomenon witnessed all over the world. Although these problems are mostly associated with women, researchers wrote in the JAMA Pediatrics journal that adolescent boys and young men are developing body image issues, ranging from drug and supplement use to binge drinking. This study estimated that nearly one in 10 eating disorders occurs in men.

The result of this study suggests that this is a broad issue. Bringing awareness to and thinking about these problems liberally can help stop these issues from occurring.

Among hectic lives and increasing pressures to look a certain way, how does one maintain a healthy perspective? There are many ways to help develop a healthy and positive perception of body image. Focusing on supportive relationships, setting personal goals and taking actions for benefiting mental and physical health are all steps in the right direction.

Identifying a support network can also prevent body image issues. This isn’t just a group of friends and family, it can be one person with whom an open and honest conversation about body image can occur.

Spending time with those who contribute to a more positive perception of self is never a bad idea.

Interactions with our friends and family impact body image for ourselves and others. Positive reinforcement of others’ strengths

determined by characteristics other than body image are useful. Both help create a healthier interaction devoid of judgement.

Taking care of the body and mind is vital. It seems simple, but getting enough sleep and eating right play a huge role in how people feel emotionally.

Moderation is key in all aspects of life, not just diet and exercise. It is common knowledge that drinking too much or abusing drugs only makes problems worse in the long run, so when it comes to partying, moderation is important.

Seeing one’s body as a whole person, and not being overly critical of problem areas can also help build a positive body image. This would also help create a more realistic perception of the body. Not equating thinness or becoming more muscular with happiness, and remembering there is no ideal body, are helpful actions to take.

Finally, deal with the real issues. Being significantly overweight or underweight are typically signs of a much deeper problem. Be realistic about what can be changed and, if help is needed, get it.

There is no shame in looking to an expert for answers about body image.

There are several ways to seek help for body image issues. Reaching out to family and friends is often more helpful than most would think. Making an appointment to talk with a counselor who can work with individuals to develop a plan for developing a healthier body image is also a good idea.

The first step for getting help is acknowledging that the problem exists. Once this is done, behavior can begin to change. Instead of

only identifying unhealthy behaviors related to food, discover that the behaviors may be disguising emotions by considering other personal issues that could be influencing self-esteem.

Challenging distorted thinking is also a helpful way to beat body image issues. It helps to recognize that others see body image differently than what an individual perceives, allowing one’s body image to be viewed as it actually is.

Having a healthy body image is about understanding that fitting other people’s standard of beauty is not what is important. What is important is that people are healthy and happy about their appearance — refusing to let insecurities and anxiety stop one from enjoying life.

SMU Counseling and Psychiatric Services provides confidential psychological and psychiatric evaluation and treatment at the Memorial Health Center on campus.

There is a subtle difference between the idea of what others think about someone and what others actually think someone.

Inconsistency of the perceived norm and the real norm can lead to misleading beliefs and attitudes, particularly when it comes to body image.

Perception about body image is powerful, and ultimately decides how body image will impact an individual. Perception isn’t always like reality either, and more often than not it is very different.

Understanding the difference between the two can help create a more realistic perception of body image.

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at Oxford.

“It was so wonderful, I did it twice,” Stephens said.

Stephens didn’t have the chance to intern internationally because her history major required a lot of credits. However, some of her friends who have graduated had the opportunity to do more.

“It gives you really interesting experiences and you get to do more,” Stephens said.

Erica Robbie, a senior journalism student, interned in London through SMU and studied abroad in Barcelona. In Barcelona, she volunteered as an English teacher in Sant Joan Despi.

“I cannot be more of an advocate for students pushing their boundaries and getting outside their comfort zones,” Robbie said.

bin Laden.

His luxurious life on the run was the stuff of legend. More than once, he was reported to have entered a fancy restaurant, ordered cellphones confiscated, dined lavishly, then picked up everyone’s check.

So apparently untouchable was he, that his young beauty queen wife traveled uncontested by authorities to Los Angeles to give birth to twin girls in 2011.

In recent years, Guzman extended the operations of his Sinaloa cartel to an estimated 50 countries across Latin America, Africa and Europe, even hooking up with one of the most notorious Italian mafias, the ‘Ndrangheta.

“This gives us the dimension of who was ‘El Chapo’ Guzman,” said Jose Reveles, author of

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Russia’s influence. Russia granted Ukraine a $15 billion bailout after Yanukovych backed away from the EU deal.

The Kiev protest camp at the

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privileges. This requirement is harder to satisfy and serves as nothing more than one more regulation.

“The Texas legislature seems to be all about making it harder on women,” Mayo said.

Hailey Dunn, president of SMU College Republicans, supports this provision.

It’s important for doctors to have admitting privileges because they can stay with their patient should she need to be admitted to a hospital, Dunn said.

Because of the process to obtain admitting privileges, many clinics in Texas have stopped providing abortion services – as

several books on Mexican drug-trafficking.

Given Guzman’s folk hero status, the constant rumors of his presence across borders and time zones, and his ability to bribe local officials to look the other way, it was difficult for some officials not to accord Guzman a grudging respect.

Guillermo Valdes, the former head of Mexico’s National Security and Investigation Center who wrote a book on his country’s drug trade, called Guzman an exceptional leader — a “business genius.”

“I think that ‘El Chapo’ is a person with a leadership capacity and a strategic vision that the other narcos don’t have, and they recognize that,” Valdes told the Spanish newspaper El Pais. “He’s a very intelligent person with a great capacity for listening. With a great ability to seduce people, as well as a large imagination ...

and creativity.”

The U.S. government offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to his arrest.

The Mexican government was offering a reward of 30 million pesos, or about $2.3 million.

There were many reported near misses, including a supposed appearance in Baja California in 2012, days before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in the region.

There is some disagreement over Guzman’s actual birth date, but the U.S. State Department puts it at Dec. 25, 1954, making him 59 years old. Interpol lists him as 56. The U.S. government lists him at 5-foot-8 and 165 pounds, but others say he is about 5-foot-6, hence his nickname “El Chapo,” or “Shorty.”

To many Mexicans, guessing Guzman’s whereabouts had become a popular and macabre parlor game — a kind of cartel

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“Where’s Waldo?” Mexican security officials, meanwhile, conducted numerous searches in vain, contributing to the mystique of bad man as wily trickster — and burnishing his reputation as a folk antihero.

Many other Mexicans not seduced by Guzman’s outlaw image still believed that the Sinaloa cartel was a “businesslike” operation that didn’t prey upon innocents as much as other cartels like the Knights Templar, famous for its extensive extortion racket in the state of Michoacan; or the Zetas gang, which has terrorized regular people with extortion, kidnapping, human trafficking, and which has a penchant for killing that seems, at times, to be unmoored from any sort of human scruples.

Yet it was Guzman’s decision to move into territory controlled by those other groups that led to some of the most bloody

fighting in the last three years in states that had until then been relatively peaceful.

The fight to stay at the top came at a tremendous personal cost for Guzman. Year after year, friends, family and associates were killed by drug-world rivals or in shootouts with police and the military, or arrested and sometimes extradited to the United States.

The prize was unfathomable wealth, and an empire that extended into hundreds of U.S. cities and into lucrative drug markets in Europe and Asia.

His influence, it seemed, was everywhere: In February of last year, the Chicago Crime Commission declared Guzman to be “Public Enemy No. 1,” for the drugs he was believed to be pumping into the crimeridden metropolis, even though he probably never set foot in the place.

center of the anti-Yanukovych movement filled with more and more dedicated demonstrators Sunday, setting up new tents.

Demonstrators posed with an APC and two water cannon that protesters seized during last week’s clashes and carried flowers to memorialize the dead, some of

whom were killed by snipers.

Tymoshenko, the blondbraided and controversial heroine of the 2004 Orange Revolution, increasingly appears to have the upper hand in the political battle, winning the backing Sunday of a leading Russian lawmaker and congratulations

from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. senators on her release.

Although her spokeswoman, Maria Soroka, said it’s too early to discuss whether she will run for president in early elections called for May 25, Tymoshenko is possessed of adamant

determination. Even from a wheelchair because of a back problem that was aggravated in 2 1/2 years of imprisonment, she was a powerful speaker Saturday to a crowd of tens of thousands at the protest camp.

“She knows how to do it. She is our hero,” said Ludmilla Petrova,

one of those at the square the next day.

Other demonstrators objected.

“She is just as corrupt as Yanukovych,” said 28-year-old Boris Budinok. “We need new faces in Ukrainian politics. The old ones brought us to where we are now.”

many as 12 have closed their doors. Funding cuts to public family planning services in Texas have also contributed to these closures.

In 2011, the Texas Legislature cut two-thirds of the Department of State Health Services Family Planning program in an effort to shut down Planned Parenthood clinics for providing abortion.

This funding cut prevented about 140,000 women from receiving health care in 2013.

Alexandra Day, former campus outreach intern for Planned Parenthood, believes the funding cut was unnecessary. Only private funding pays for abortion services, not public money, Day said.

“Many people think Planned Parenthood only provides abortion and that’s just not true,”

Day said. “Over 90 percent of their services are primary and preventative health care.”

According to Planned Parenthood’s 2012-2013 Annual Report, only 3 percent of Planned Parenthood’s 2012 services were abortions. Forty-one percent of services were STD testing and treatment, 34 percent were providing contraception and 10 percent were cancer screenings and prevention.

“Many people are without care and health benefits,” Danielle Palomo, SMU Women’s Interest Network president, said. People who live in rural areas may have to drive long distances to get to an open clinic, Palomo said.

Another hotly debated provision of the law is the ban on abortions after 20 weeks. The

basis for this provision, as stated in the law, is that “medical evidence recognizes that an unborn child is capable of experiencing pain by not later than 20 weeks after fertilization.”

“It’s a beautiful step that we’re protecting children after 20 weeks gestation, when there’s science beyond a shadow of a doubt that they can feel pain,” Martin said.

The developmental stage of fetal pain perception is still being debated in the scientific community, and evidence of this development is limited. While some scientific studies support the assertion that a fetus can feel pain at 20 weeks, others reveal that that ability to feel pain begins later in development.

According to a study in the “Journal of the American

Medical Association,” “evidence regarding the capacity for fetal pain…indicates that fetal perception of pain is unlikely before the third trimester.” This would put the development of fetal pain perception at 24 weeks, instead of 20.

Day believes the 20-week abortion ban is unnecessary.

“The amount of abortions that actually occur after 20 weeks is incredibly small,” Day said. “The problem with the law is [politicians] are legislating under the assumption that those abortions are a matter of choice, when in reality they are often due to maternal health concerns.”

The law does allow abortions after 20 weeks if it is needed to prevent the mother’s death or

a “substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.” However, the law also clearly states that this allowance does not include cases in which the mother’s psychological condition is a concern.

“It’s so clear especially as science develops that [a fetus] is its own person,” Martin said.

“It’s a unique human being that will never be repeated again and I believe that…it deserves our dignity and our respect.”

“The decision [to have an abortion] should always be left between a woman and her doctor,” Day said. “A bunch of politicians simply cannot understand all of the factors that go into such a personal health decision.”

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Find balance in parenting demetrio teniente Sports Editor dteniente@smu.edu As someone who works with children, I understand wanting to give kids the ability to make their own decisions. I understand how important having choices is for the development of children.

However, there are times as a parent when you need to step in and take control — exercise that veto power and slap down some very questionable decisions.

I don’t have any children of my own, so its not entirely fair that I preach about parenthood. As a child care coordinator at UTD Calier, I work with about 20 to 30 4- and 5-year-olds every day. Not only do I get to see these kids grow up, but I also get to see how the parenting styles of their moms and dads affect them.

There are so many children that act out for attention, but when you look at their household dynamic, you find out that at least one parent is basically non-existent. Not because they skipped out on their family, but because their careers keep them away from their kids.

When those parents do get to see their children, they feel guilty about not spending enough time with them and let the kids do what they want, giving them everything.

That does nothing but make our jobs as teachers harder. These kids are so used to getting their way that they always expect it.

Not all the parents are bad. You see a few that seem to get it and it

shows in their kids. In most cases, the kids that give you the least amount of stress during the day have the most awesome parents.

The best sign of how awesome a kid has it at home is how quickly they leave. Those that have a nonexistent parent are more reluctant to leave school. While those with awesome parents run into their parent’s arms every single day because they can’t wait to go home.

As far as I can tell, parenting is hard. There is no clear-cut way to parent, but there are instances where something should tell you to step up and take some action.

On Saturday, I was eating outside of a Twisted Root, when I noticed a young boy playing bean bags with his brother. He looked to be 8 or 9 years old. I was troubled by his appearance. He had a design shaved into his hair that resembled the arrow on the head of “Avatar: The Last Air Bender.” He also was wearing a large T-shirt, that said something to the effect of, “SWAG SWAG SWAG.” Despite my personal disposition, I didn’t see anything wrong with those two things.

What I did have an issue with was that he also had both of his ears pierced and was wearing two gigantic diamond studs. He looked absolutely ridiculous — think “Malibu’s Most Wanted,” but an 8-year-old.

You can’t give kids 100 percent freedom from the beginning. It has to be given gradually. They have to make smaller mistakes and learn before they are given bigger responsibility over their choices. At 8 years old, no kid is going to know what is in his best interest. They should be able to make smaller decisions on their own, but ear piercings? I don’t think so.

Teniente is a junior majoring in journalism.

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matthew costa Contributing Writer mcosta@smu.edu The youth of America is stupid. There is no sense in ignoring it. Each and every day students at SMU do something they immediately regret, whether it be burning a pot of water or waiting until the last second to start on a 10-page research paper.

So how should the youth take it when the highest lady in the free world refers to this entire group as knuckleheads?

They should take it as an

Violence disrupts Ukraine’s future The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Friday, Feb. 21: The flaming and bloody images from Kiev’s Independence Square are profoundly disturbing.

As is the mounting death toll as anti-government demonstrators clash with Ukraine’s increasingly despotic regime.

After 25 citizens were reported dead earlier this week, a truce apparently was called, but lasted barely a few hours. More citizens and police perished in the battles Thursday. Rooftop snipers were seen picking off protesters. A wounded young medic tweeted her impending death.

European diplomats pressed for talks to ease the conflict and on Thursday announced sanctions against Ukrainian officials.

President Barack Obama sternly urged the Ukrainian government to back off and “show restraint.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who’d be happy to reknit the scattered nations of the Soviet empire, reportedly sent in Russian special forces to help the locals quell the rebellion and must have known that his marauding Cossacks assaulted those vocal musical pests, Pussy Riot, in Sochi.

Putin and Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yanukovych, blame “extremists” for the

violence, a contention that seems disingenuous at best, given the swift fury that has rained down on Independence Square and the perplexing inability of the regime to negotiate. Opponents have seized government buildings in other regions of Ukraine, and have called unceasingly for Yanukovych’s resignation.

This latest drama began last fall when Ukraine, on the verge of signing a trade pact with the European Union, was lured by the promise of $15 billion in loans back to the Kremlin’s orbit. It’s shades of the cold war as hot Russian blood stands up to apparent Western civility.

But it’s also more perilous than that. Some have mentioned that the tremors in Ukraine foretell a Yugoslavia-style breakup; others see a reverse domino effect, as former Soviet states are hauled back in by Putin’s octopus arms.

Like the massive populist uprisings in Egypt, Thailand, Venezuela and other countries, and like the unresolved and horrendous civil upheavals in Syria, the Central African Republic, Iraq and elsewhere, Ukraine represents another destabilized and distracting danger zone.

All require careful, measured and thorough responses, a delicate use of diplomacy and a confident sense that democracy is a hard-won and worthy goal.

No one can really dispute the failings of Obamacare since its passing, but the intent is a good one. Offering some form of affordable health insurance seems like a given in the best country on the face of the planet, so what is the negativity surrounding Michelle Obama’s comments?

Recently on Fox News, several conservative reporters disputed Obama’s message, saying that her late night appearance went too far.

“That was just ridiculous for her to make that statement about all young people when the White House needs young people to enroll in Obamacare in order for it to be successful,” said Ashley Pratte of the Young American’s Foundation. “She tried to be humorous but yet it took a very, very sharp tone at young people, which is saying, ‘Hey, we need to tell you what’s best for you.’”

Michelle Obama’s message

may have come off a bit sharp to more sensitive ears, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t on the money.

People in their late-teens and early-20s need direction. They need to be given this sort of option that should be utilized through either the government or through their parents’ health coverage.

The politics of the Obama administration haven’t yielded the greatest results through its first six years in power, but it’s hard to dispute the intent, especially some of the causes the first lady has championed in that time.

Young people aren’t going to get any smarter in terms of daily actions – they aren’t supposed to.

So good on Michelle Obama for calling them out when it seems that no one else will.

Costa is a senior majoring in journalism.

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“I would bet, my friend, as much as I hate to admit it, that right now – this is why we have campaigns – but right now, if the election were tomorrow, Hillary Clinton would most likely be the President of the United States.”

—Senator John McCain, disagreeing with Rep. Michele Bachmann’s belief that America is not ready for a woman president

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Men, Women earn second place at AAC Championship Klein put together a secondplace finish in the 1-meter dive (376.60) and the 3-meter dive (379.90).

Samuel Snow Associate Sports Editor ssnow@smu.edu men’s

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The SMU men’s swimming and diving team finished second place out of four at the inaugural American Athletic Conference Championship.

They finished with a score of 768 points.

The winner of the event was Louisville, the host, with 1,072.5 points. Finishing behind the Mustangs was UConn (683.5 points) and Cincinnati (525 points).

Junior diver Devin Burnett led the way for SMU, as he claimed all three of SMU’s individual titles. He won the platform dive with a 399.65 on the event’s fourth and final day.

His three victories earned him the title of the 2014 American Athletic Conference Diver of the Meet.

Burnett also won the 1-meter dive with a score of 386.8, and he emerged victorious in the 3-meter dive with a score of 389.45.

Sophomore diver Parker Meinecke finished a spot behind Burnett with 322.25 points in the platform dive.

With the divers putting up great scores all four days, Jim Stillson was named the 2014 Men’s Diving Coach of the Year.

Other standout performers in the event include senior captain Nicolai Hansen in swimming, junior diver Hayden Hodges and first-year diver Bryce Klein.

Hansen finished third in the 200-yard individual medley (1:47.06), fourth in the 100yard breaststroke (54.34) and fourth in the 200-yard breaststroke (1:58.58).

Hodges had a third-place finish in the 1-meter dive (346.95), finished third in the 3-meter dive (357.85) and placed second in the platform dive (322.25).

The SMU women’s swimming and diving team gathered runner-up honors at the inaugural American Athletic Conference championship. The Mustangs finished the four-day event with a 624.5 score.

Finishing ahead of the Mustangs were the Louisville Cardinals, the host.

Behind SMU in the standings was Rutgers at third, UConn at fourth, Cincinnati at fifth and Houston at sixth.

In the first day of the event, the SMU women’s swimming and diving team took runners up in both the 800-yard freestyle and the 200-yard medley relay.

SMU’s 200-yard freestyle relay team winning the event highlighted day two of the event. The team of senior Monika Babok, juniors Isabella Arcila and Nathalie Lindborg, and first-year Marne Erasmus finished with a time of 1:29.83, a pool record.

Senior Nina Rangelova finished second in the 500-yard freestyle with a personal-best time of 4:43.97.

Day three of the event featured Erasmus winning the 100-yard butterfly with a 51.73, a pool record and new school standard.

The final day was highlighted by first-year Tara-Lynn Nicholas taking home the championship in the 200-yard breaststroke with a pool-record 2:10.10. That time narrowly beat Rachel Nicol, her teammate.

Nicol, a junior, finished the event with a 2:10.33.

Next up for the women’s swimming and diving team is the NCAA Championship that is scheduled to take place March 20 to March 22 in Minneapolis.

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SMU guard Ryan Manuel (1) pressures Connecticut guard/forward Lasan Kromah (20) during the second half of SMU’s 74-65 win in an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014, in Dallas.

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The Mustangs had three players in double digits as they easily handled No.21 UConn Sunday for a 64-55 victory.

The Huskies won their last four games and 10 of their last 12.

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players score in double figures: Ryan Boatright and Shabazz Napier both had 15 points while Niels Giffey had 11.

Boatright and Giffey combined for four of UConn’s six three-pointers.

SMU now sits at 22-6 overall and 11-4 in AAC play.

Their 22 wins marks the fifth highest win total in program history and the most total wins for an SMU team since the 1999-00 season.

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show signs of a rally, Russell was there to answer from the three point range.

He finished the night with a career high in three-pointers made, three, and the sixth time this season he has hit multiple threes.

Once again, Moore was a constant source of offense; his 15 points and five assists paced the Mustangs offense and kept a distance between SMU and UConn.

The Mustang defense was as stingy as always, limiting the Huskies to 16 buckets and 30 percent shooting from the floor.

The Huskies also had three

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4-0 all-time against the Huskies and secured a season sweep with Sunday’s victory.

Nic Moore and Nick Russell led the way for the Mustangs; combining for 30 points and nine assists.

Moore and Russell were two of the three Mustangs to score in double digits as Markus Kennedy turned in another solid performance — finishing with 13 points and seven rebounds.

Russell had 15 points, two rebounds and four assists.

However, his biggest contribution was his lethality from the three point range.

Every time UConn began to

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G-Eazy made ‘Things Happen’ on tour at Trees in Dallas Friday zain haidar A&E Writer zhaidar@smu.edu Rapper G-Eazy kicked off his “These Things Happen” tour Friday at Trees in Deep Ellum.

Let’s forget for a few moments that I had to get cashback at the 7-11 to park at the venue. Let’s forget that the buff, oiled-up bouncer got sharpie on my suit when he oh-so-patronizingly put thick black X’s on my hands. We can even forget the obnoxious audience—smoking indoors and all doing the same ridiculous dance.

I trudged up the stairs, an old soul in a young world, and tried my best to get into the “artist only” room—but without a blunt in my hand or cough syrup, entrance was highly unlikely. No, no, instead I stood outside the room the entire show – looking down as “Super Duper” Kyle, Tory Lanez, Rockie Fresh and finally Gerald “G-Eazy” Gillum took the stage to the cries of every 18-year-old at the show.

My plan had been to interview Gillum before his performance and ask him hard-hitting questions like, “Who are your musical influences” and maybe even, “If you could be an animal, which would you be?” But hiphop had a different plan for me Friday night—a plan that involved standing uncomfortably around leagues of people going crazy over mediocre performances.

I’ll start with Kyle. Sure, what he lacked in lyricism and intelligible wordplay, Kyle made up for in pure energy and hyper dance moves (he was either dancing or having a seizure in a vertical position). I’ll give Kyle a decent grade for his performance because he got the audience going.

The next three hours were a blur of overused airhorns, lousy DJs spinning overdone tracks in

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Pioneer Plaza features 53 bronze sculptures depicting a cattle drive through Shawnee Trail.

Outside the bubble: art sculptures decorate Dallas jehadu abshiro News Writer jabshiro@smu.edu

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G-Eazy performing at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City April 13, 2013.

between acts, and fans bumping into me as they tried to get into the VIP room to get their T-shirts, hats and breasts signed. After Tory Lanez and Rockie Fresh got off the stage, we waited with buzzing anticipation for G-Eazy – it was almost time to see G-Eazy. Wow! I couldn’t wait. I mean, this was a guy I didn’t even know existed until I was put on assignment to cover his show—what a thrill.

Above all else, the performance made me consider important philosophical questions, such as – “Did I really wake up in a new Bugatti?” and “How can I get my own hype man?”

G-Eazy had several things to say throughout his performance—

such as “I appreciate every single one of y’all” and “What the f**k is up, Dallas?” We’re truly dealing with a wordsmith here, ladies and gentlemen.

On a positive note, G-Eazy performed several songs off his unreleased, highly anticipated album “These Things Happen” and older fan favorites like “Lady Killers” and “All I could do.” For all my criticism, G-Eazy knows how to hypnotize an audience with his sock-hop meets block party style and tour design.

Layer on top of that I found myself attracted to him.

Reviewing music is confusing.

Who knew something so Eazy could be so hard?

The Dallas Museum of Art, Meadows Museum of Art, AT&T Performing Art Center, Nasher Sculpture Center, etc.

Dallas has many venues to observe traditional art.

Occasionally, public art, street art and street performers are forgotten art forms in Dallas. This week’s piece covers five of the most notable public sculptures in Downtown Dallas.

A girl, about 10, weaves in and out of bronze sculptures at the Pioneer Plaza in front of the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center –– 53 bronze sculptures to be exact. Since everything is bigger in Texas, the pieces are about 25 percent larger than life. The piece, conceived by Trammell Crow and designed by Robert Summers, is made up of 50 1,200 pound longhorns and the three cowboys: The Trail Boss, The Cutter and The Vaquero. The group of cattle and cowboys depict a cattle drive through the Shawnee Trail. The Vaquero’s spurs actually spin,

which is far more entertaining than it should be. There is even a giant bronze insect to accompany the giant Trail Boss sculpture.

If someone has ever visited Dallas City Hall, they probably noticed the two red polyester spheres floating in a pool of water in front the building.

The piece, creatively named Floating Sculpture, is anchored to the bottom of the reflecting pool on swivel mounts to allow some movement. The reflective sculpture, originally displayed in Central Park, New York City, was created by French artist Marta Pan. Floating Sculpture came to Texas after Mary Marcus arranged the piece to be loaned out to the Dallas Parks and Recreation Department in 1974.

The piece never returned to New York because it was dedicated in 1978 to the current location.

A hop and a skip over, The Dallas Piece, created by Henry Moore, is also located in front of Dallas City Hall. The massive organic sculpture contrasts with the geometric lines of city hall. The three bronze pieces are positioned in a triangle and

visitors can walk through the sculpture. At the right time of day, the sculptures would be a great place to take some photos.

Most people have heard of the Sodom and Gomorrah story but most people tend forget the accompanying story of Lot’s wife. In a few words, she turned and looked toward the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and then she turned into a pillar of salt.

Mark Macken decided to sculpt Lot’s wife’s stock-still form in a bronze. The Stemmons and Crow donated it to the City of Dallas.

The 47-year-old sculpture, located at the Stone Place Mall Garden walkway between Elm Street and Main Street stands on a concrete slab.

Last but not least, Eduardo Chillida’s De Musica is located at Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. Two COR-TEN® steel cylinders with branchlike arms seem to be reaching toward each other. The 73-ton piece was Chillida’s first major American public work and was specifically designed for the Myerson center.

Coming up: Part 2: Dallas’ Graffiti.