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Thousands flee violence in Libya After weeks of protest, the violent Moammar Gadhafi’s regime continues to show no sign of relinquishing power. According to U.N. reports, about 100,000 people have escaped the violence in Libya. The evacuees include Tunisians, Egyptians, Libyans and many from Asian nations. The U.N. voted Saturday on a draft resolution that will punish Gadhafi and attempt to stop the brutality in the country.

EPIC denies funding for Ke$ha By SARAH KRAMER News Editor skramer@smu.edu

Although Ke$ha did not receive Evening Programs Initiatives contributions (EPIC) funding, she will still perform at SMU for Program Council’s spring concert on April 28. EPIC funding is provided to studentinitiated late night programs that promote social activities on or around

campus without the consumption of alcohol. Program Council requested $5,000, the max amount of EPIC funding, but received nothing. “It’s the first [time] it’s every happened. [The vote] was split down the middle,” EPIC Committee Chair Richard Owens said. The EPIC Committee has seven members, comprised of faculty

and students at SMU, who strive to uphold the mission of the Student Affairs Drug and Alcohol Task Force Recommendations. Owens, the eighth member, made the final decision. Because the decision was split, the student advisory board had the final say in funding. According to that group, Ke$ha would promote activities that are

LYLE SCHOOL

By TAYLOR ADAMS Editor-in-Chief tadams@smu.edu

SMU may need to reconsider how many students will come to campus on federal and state-funded scholarships next year, according to President R. Gerald Turner. The SMU Board of Trustees met last week, primarily discussing proposed reductions in need-based financial aid in the state and federal budget cuts. The federal government has recommended lowering Pell

China tightens web control

One anonymous parent in the Boston area is literally paying an arm and a leg for their’s child’s tuition. He posted an ad on Craigslist detailing a person 5 feet 10 inches tall, 200 pounds with “organs in working order.” The writer of the post offered the use of his body for anything legal or medically experimental in exchange for a pay off of $200,000 in student loans. The ad has since been removed from Craigslist.

Correction The Daily Campus apologizes for a mistake made in the Feb. 21, 2011 edition of the paper. In the article “Online ratings of professors influence student decisions,” English professor Dr. Pauline Newton was misquoted. The quote should have read: “There are lots of similar sites (e.g. RateMDs.com) but, again, the information often isn’t too helpful. A lot of people who have left feedback for, say, my doctor, are actually very disgruntled, and so you don’t get very informed or balanced responses. The responses will be two lines long and full of grammar errors and exclamation marks. I also don’t think the site (RateMyProfessors.com) is as popular as it was when it first hit the Internet.”

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against funding her had valid points. “In order to maintain the principles of EPIC and what it was started for, it wasn’t in our best interest to give her money,” Owens said. Swagerty believes the decision was poorly based around one aspect of EPIC’s funding criteria. “In the past, Program Council

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SMU Trustees discuss budget proposals

Protesters have gathered in Mauritania after a call to action was sent out via Facebook. The country’s young people are calling for job creation, economic and political changes and an end to government corruption.

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against EPIC’s goals. Corbin Swagerty, the president of Program Council and a member of EPIC was shocked by the decision. “EPIC has never not given funding strictly based on the content of the art,” he said. “That’s why it’s the first decision of its kind and is very surprising.” Swagerty did not have a vote for this event. A fan of Ke$ha, Owens said those

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China widened the scope of its Internet policy after online calls for protest, like those in the Middle East, began to appear. LinkedIn, one of the only social networking sites previously available in the country, was shut down Friday. U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman’s name was also blocked from online searches in China after he was seen at a protest in Beijing last week.

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grants, which are federal grants for students of high need, by 20 percent. SMU receives about $4 million for Pell grants, which supported 940 of our students this year. With the federal budget proposal under H.R. 1, this would be a reduction close to $800,000. “I was asking them, as they know our congressman and senators, to mention our concern,” Turner said. “Because most people don’t know that we really have a lot of diversity on this campus and

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Seventh grade students, Tegan Specht and Mckayla Boyd, from McMath Middle school in Denton, Texas participate in a design challenge problem inside the Huitt-Zollars pavilion Saturday afternoon. The SMU Lyle School of Engineering brought in 850 North Texas middle school students Saturday for the 11th annual Visioneering program.

Engineering school welcomes middle school students to SMU campus By TAYLOR ADAMS Editor-in-Chief tadams@smu.edu

Eight hundred and fifty middle school students were in SMU classrooms last Saturday, designing the perfect living room for the year 2030. The competition was the main aspect of Visioneering, a recruiting

event hosted by the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering. The 11th annual event had sixth through eighth-graders in Moody Coliseum by 8:30 a.m. for a rockconcert setting where they were introduced to the campus with examples of how engineering is changing the way of life through ways

such as digital technology. The students were split into small groups, which went to various classrooms throughout campus buildings to compete in designing the perfect living room with all of the ideal technological advances that they

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Dallas’ mayor race heats up, takes on national presence By JESSICA HUSEMAN Politics Editor jhuseman@smu.edu

The race for Dallas’ mayor has taken on a national presence as former Mayor Tom Leppert stepped down from office four months early last week and recently announced his intention to run for U.S. Senate. Leppert is now the fifth person to announce their candidacy for the seat that will soon be vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison. The other four include current Railroad Commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones, former Solicitor General Ted

Cruz, former Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams and former Secretary of State Roger Williams. Lt. Governor David Dewhurst is also contemplating joining the race. If he did so, he would most likely windup the favorite. In a recently released YouTube video called, “Why I’m Running,” Leppert called himself a “true Texas conservative,” who plans to take on overspending, over taxing and overregulation issues. He may also take on a social conservative roll. After the Obama

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ENTERTAINMENT

Playwriting festival takes new staging approach By LAUREN SMART

Arts & Entertainment Editor lsmart@smu.edu

If you picked this article up from the newsstand, then I think you should be aware you are walking around campus with seven emerging playwrights. You might have class with one of them. If you look up from reading this article, you might be watching one walk right by you. Tuesday doesn’t just mark the beginning of a new month, it is also the beginning of the “New Visions, New Voices” playwriting festival. This is year 17 for Meadows’ annual event and due to an abundance of talent the protocol has changed. Previously, this festival would showcase two or three student works, taking the script from its first read-through to full production with costumes, lights and a full cast. But this year, with earlier performance dates and seven unique plays, Gretchen Smith, who serves as the head of theater studies as well as the facilitator of this event, knew she’d have to make some changes. “This wasn’t what we planned when he started the year,” Smith said. “I saw it as a very exciting opportunity from the beginning. It’s a good way to give all seven plays and seven playwrights the chance to be challenged and see their work brought to life.” In order to accomplish this, each play will be produced as a

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SMU students and playwrights, from left, Jessica Andrewartha, Nathaniel French, Micah Figeroua, Joel Heinreich, Meredith Alloway, and Nick Cains each wrote a script that will be featured in the upcoming Meadows School of the Arts New Visions, New Voices playwright festival, starting this Tuesday.

staged reading, with minimal design elements and a talkback after every performance, which the audience will be encouraged to participate in. Several working professionals are also taking part in the process, some as directors of the student work and

some as actors. The casting process was also different than usual, using an ensemble of 25 actors who will all be in two separate shows. The plays range in content from Nick Cain’s play about a young boy

dealing with the question “How to be Black” to Meredith Alloway’s play about an American spy undercover in Berlin who falls in love with a cabaret singer, “Lilli Marlene.” For Nathaniel French’s play “Meltdown,” local director Rene

Moreno has stepped in to participate in the process, as well as local actor and SMU alumnus Michael Federico, who happens to a “New Visions” alum as well. Moreno has found the process to be a good way to get in touch with the young, up-and-coming artists. “The better I understand where they’re coming from, the better I get at understanding where the art form might be headed,” Moreno said. “I learn from them as much, if not more than they do from me.” Moreno and Smith both see the focus of this festival as allowing the playwright, the cast and the audience to really hear the script, in order to see its improvement through both the rehearsal process and the performance dates. “This is the best way to give the students a professional quality experience,” Smith said. “At the end of the process, the script will come out at its best – after a lot of rewrites.” The plays will run over the course of 11 days in the Margo Jones Theatre receiving one or two performances each. This is an opportunity to see your fellow students practice their art form, as well as contribute your feedback at the talkbacks after each show. “I would love to see lots and lots of students come and give feedback,” Smith said.

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Politics

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ABORTION

Sonogram bill speeds through Texas Legislature By JESSICA HUSEMAN Politics Editor jhuseman@smu.edu

Bills that would require pregnant women to be shown sonograms of the fetus prior to abortions are moving quickly through the Texas Legislature. Gov. Rick Perry put the issue on his “emergency list,” allowing the issue to be discussed during the first 60 days of the legislature’s session. A bill authored by Rep. Sid Miller, R-Stephenville, requires a woman to be given the opportunity to see the sonogram and hear the heartbeat of the fetus before an abortion can be performed, while a doctor explains the features of the fetus. This bill advanced through The House State Affairs Committee last Wednesday. A similar bill authored by Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, passed through the Texas Senate last week. Unlike Miller’s bill, this bill exempted victims of incest and rape and women carrying a fetus with abnormalities. Both bills allow women to look away when being shown the sonogram and refuse to hear the heartbeat. “This bill will pass,” Cal Jillson, a political science professor at SMU, said. He said that the only reason it did not pass last year is because it got caught up in the log jam of bills being considered at the end of the session. Jillson said that this bill is part of a long-running Texas Republican goal to get at least one new restriction on abortions passed every session, and that this restriction will pass with ease. “[Republicans] have such a huge

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majority that they can pass anything they want,” Jillson said. “They want to pass this and they will.” Proponents of the bills argue that requiring sonograms would allow women to make a more educated decision when choosing to have an abortion. “Women deserve and women want more information so they can make an informed decision,” John Seago, legislative associate and North Texas regional director of Texas Right to Life said. Opponents of the bill say that women already have this information because the vast majority of clinics already perform sonograms. The bills simply serve to “coerce” women into deciding against abortions, not educate them said Holly Morgan, director of media relations and communications at North Texas Planned Parenthood. “The bill serves no medical purpose,” Morgan said. “Its purpose is to not improve the care a patient receives, it is intended to shame a patient into changing her mind about something that she has already thoughtfully made.” Morgan also takes issue with the language surrounding the provision that women can opt out of being given the information. “While a woman can opt out of seeing the image or hearing the heartbeat, there are limited exceptions for opting not to hear the description of the sonogram image,” she said. “Most women will be forced to listen.” But Seago said that the kind of bullying Morgan complains about happens on the other side, too.

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Bills currently being considered in the Texas Legislature would require pregnant women to receive and be shown a sonogram of their unborn child, listen to its heartbeat and hear a description of the fetus. The bills will resume discussion this week.

“Other states will do a sonogram and tell the mother, ‘you don’t want to see this, it will make your decision harder.’ Well that’s bullying, too,” Morgan said. Morgan explained that this kind of intervention had broader implications, saying that it is an example of “legislators telling doctors how to do their job.” Seago said the government dictating care isn’t always a bad thing, and cited Texas’ Health and Safety code as an example. “Our government has already decided that our people are worth protecting by putting restrictions on doctors,” Seago said. While the process for getting these provisions through the Texas Legislature has been fast, the potential

Relay for Life Kickoff 10 a.m. at Hughes-Trigg Student Center Commons. The all-day event will announce this year’s theme for Relay for Life:

legal battles following this passage will definitely not be. Jillson said that legal action against the bill is likely, though he does not believe it will be successful. He points out that because the bill provides women with the option to look away when being shown the sonogram and the option to refuse to listen to the heartbeat, the courts would probably allow it to stand. Historically, Jillson said, courts have been OK with restrictions to abortions short of denying services to rape or incest victims, or in instances in which the mother’s life was in danger. This bill is no exception, and those trying to prove that it is an unnecessary intervention between doctor and patient will have a hard

Women’s Symposium 11 a.m. in Hughes-Trigg. Author Julie Powell will be speaking at the day-long event. Workshops will focus on the theme of “Happiness.”

time doing so. Jillson added that in anything but abortion, government intervention of this size probably wouldn’t stand a chance. “It’s a small-government state as long you are behaving according to some fairly traditional social standards,” Jillson said. “Otherwise, we want you behaving like your mama should have taught you to.” An abortion is one of the things that “your mama” probably should have advised you against, Jillson said. “This legislation is a large government intervention in a small government, low tax, deregulatory, leave-me-alone kind of state,” Jillson said. The House bill will come back to the floor early this week. Should it pass, the authors of the bill and the authors of the previously passed Senate bill will meet to work out the differences. Seago said he expects the process to take three to four weeks. Rep. Dan Branch and Sen. John Carona, the legislators that represent the SMU area, were both contacted over a period of two weeks about their stance on this bill. At the time of press, neither had responded. If the legislature passes the final measures of the bill, it will join 21 other states that have sonogram requirements. Three of those states are currently in legal battles. For more commentary on this issue, and to vote in a poll on abortion, visit The Daily Campus’ political blog at www.politically-inclined.com.

Visiting Professor Lecture

6 p.m. in DeGolyer Library. Dr. Isam Shihada, visiting professor, speaks on the status of women in the Arab world.

By-the-Numbers

Abortion Breakdown for 2007 • For every 1,000 Texas women between the ages of 15 and 44, 15.3 had an abortion. • For every 1,000 live births in Texas, there were 191 abortions. • 60 percent of Texas women having abortions were between the ages of 20 and 29. Just 0.2 percent were under 15. • About 10,500 of the abortions were performed on women ages 15 to 19. • The overwhelming majority of abortions — 71.3 percent — occurred when the gestational age was under 8 weeks. • 38 percent of abortions were performed on Hispanic women, 34.1 percent on white women and 23.3 on black women. • Nearly 80 percent of women who had abortions were unmarried; 20 percent were married. • 38 percent of women having abortions had never had a child; 4.6 percent had four or more previous live births. • 57 percent of women had never had a previous abortion; 5.5 percent had experienced three or more previous abortions.

Statistics taken directly from The Texas Tribune

Meadows Concert

8:30 p.m. in Caruth Auditorium. Concert presented by the Meadows Jazz Quartet organized by student Derek Hawkes.

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TRACK & FIELD

SMU loses tight game at Marshall, 64-62 despite Dia’s double double

Du Toit and Lindh lead Mustangs to fourth place finish in Houston

By NICOLE JACOBSEN

By EJ HOLLAND

Despite coming within two points of Marshall University with seven seconds left in regulation play, the SMU men’s basketball team suffered a 62-60 loss to the Thundering Herd Saturday night on the road. Robert Nyakundi, who finished with 11 points, two assists and one steal on the night, nailed the threepointer that put his team in position to win, but the Mustangs (17-11, 8-6 Conference USA) were unable to get a final shot off before the buzzer. Instead, freshman point guard Jeremiah Samarrippas was called for a foul, sending Marshall’s Damier Pitts to the line and putting the Thundering Herd back up by four. A foul was then called on the home team’s DeAndre Kane as Samarrippas made two free throws of his own but SMU’s final effort came too late. Marshall (20-9, 8-6 C-USA) trailed by three with less than ten minutes to play but a 9-0 scoring run put the home team in the lead for the remainder of the game, sending SMU, who was previously just one game out of first place in C-USA standings, to sixth place. SMU led at the break 29-26 with senior Papa Dia scoring 12 of his 21 points and six of his 12 rebounds in the first half. Dia would go on to finish the night with a game-high 21 points, securing his 13th double double of the season and 26th of his career. Dia, a contender for Conference USA Player of the Year, ranks first in the league in field goal percentage, third in rebounds and fourth in scoring. Looking for their second consecutive win, SMU came out of the half weak, allowing Marshall’s Johnny Thomas to hit a lay up off a Mustangs turnover and put the

The SMU track and field team posted their best performance since joining Conference USA in 2006 at the Conference USA Indoor Championships this weekend, earning a fourth place finish with a total of 69 points. The Mustangs competed on Friday at the University of Houston and picked up a win in the distance medley relay. SMU finished with a time of 11:37.87 finish, topping second place by more than 15 seconds. The team consisted of Mary Alenbratt (1200m) Egheosa Osawemwenze (400m), Lovisa Lindh (800m) and Silje Fjortoft (1600m).

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SMU forward Jusin Haynes goes for a layup against Tulsa guard Bryson Pope during play Feb. 19 inside Moody Coliseum. SMU lost to Marshall University Saturday, 64-62.

Thundering Herd on top 32-29. The Mustangs answered back, sparking a 10-2 run after a timeout, to gain their largest lead of the game, but Marshall came back with a 10-2 rally of their own to regain the lead. As a team, SMU out-shot Marshall in field goal, three-point and free throw percentage, while also scoring 36 points in the paint compared to only 28 from the Thundering Herd. Marshall won on the boards, though pulling down 27 rebounds compared to SMU’s 22 and generating 19 points off SMU turnovers. Samarrippas completed the night scoring 11 points with six assists. Pitt scored a team-high of 19 points for his team. Kane added 13

while Tirrell Baines had 12, as the Thundering Herd went on to clinch their fifth consecutive victory; the longest winning stretch the team has recorded since joining C-USA in 2005-2006. The Mustangs and Marshall are now in a two-way tie for sixth place and remain two games out of the No. 1 spot in league play. With two games left in the regular season, SMU travels to Orlando, Fla. to play against the University of Central Florida on Wednesday. The Mustangs will return to Moody Coliseum for their final home game on Wednesday when they host the University of Texas at El Paso Miners at 2 p.m.

Sport of kings played out at SMU Contributing Writer astefan@smu.edu

Any member of the SMU community could probably name at least five varsity or club sports offered at the school; however, most students likely would not mention polo. Many students and professors are unaware that in the fall of 2009, a horse polo team began the chartering process to become an official club sport at SMU. The proposal for the team started with Enrique Ituarte, a current sophomore. After graduation, Ituarte asked Culver Military Academy Coach Tom Goodspeed to accompany him to Texas and help instigate a polo team at SMU, as he wanted to continue the sport beyond high school. “I love the sport so much and I knew more people [at SMU] who loved it as much as I did,” Ituarte said. When the team was initially proposed, almost two dozen students were interested in membership. Ituarte is now the captain of the men’s team, and Goodspeed is the coach of both the women’s and men’s teams. The captain of the women’s team and current junior, Pam Flanagan, knew both Ituarte and Goodspeed from her days at Culver and provided further support for the initiation of a polo team. Each team is comprised of multiple experienced riders, though only three players from each team would be in the arena at a time during a game. Ituarte, Audie von Gontard, Bobby Isakson, August Scherer and Pablo Diaz make up the men’s team, while Flanagan, Chloe Carabasi, Zara Walsh, Kelsea West, Olivia Flores and Rachel Conover all participate on the women’s team. Although the team is very new, it has already done very well. In a recent tournament, Fall Fandango, the women’s team placed third out of 12 teams. The growing success comes as no surprise, as in addition to a team of top tier riders, the coach is a wellknown and respected figure in the world of polo.

On Saturday, SMU picked up where they left off as Lindh earned C-USA’s Freshman of the Meet honor after winning the 800-meter run with a 2:11.26 finish. Sophomore Simone Du Toit also earned a victory in her individual event. Du Toit dominated the shot put event with a 16.84 meter throw. In other throwing events, Ayla Gill placed second in the weight throw with an 18.28-meter toss and Helena Perez earned a third place finish in the shot put with a 14.28-meter throw. Sophomore Lisa Egarter finished second overall in the pentathlon, placing second in three of the five events. Egarter also placed seventh in the individual high jump, finishing behind

teammate Viktoria Leks who tied for third with a 1.72 meter jump. Alenbratt and Fjortoft continued their impressive performances as both runners finished in the top 10 in the one mile run. Alenbratt placed third with a 4:53.29 finish and Fjortoft placed ninth with a 5:02.84 finish. Sophomore Klara Bodinson raced to a 9:45.65 time in the 3000 meter run to finish sixth while junior Monika Korra finished ninth in the 5000-meter with a time of 17:44.3. Junior Amber Evans led SMU in the sprinting category with an eighth place finish in the 200-meter dash. SMU will travel to South Bend, Ind. to take part in the Notre Dame Last Chance Meet on March 5.

SWIMMING

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By AVERY STEFAN

Goodspeed won the Polo Magazine Award for “Arena Player of the Year” in 1995, and became one of eight players to hold the highest arena handicap in the world of nine goals; he also carried a five-goal handicap at the height of his outdoor polo career. In arena polo, three team members from each team are in the dirt arena at a time, and essentially try to score goals on either designated end of the arena by hitting a small, leathercovered, inflated white ball with a long-handled mallet. The game is split into four periods of play, called chukkers, which are seven and a half minutes long.

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Eventually [SMU polo] could be a varsity sport; it just has to continue getting the support that it’s getting now.

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—Pam Flanagan Women’s Captain

As opposed to hunter jumpers, polo is a team sport that incorporates many elements and requires a lot of added skill and thought. Carabasi, a freshman, joined the team because although she loved riding horses, she missed the group aspect that polo offers. “Polo gives you the best of both worlds: horses, but with a team,” Carabasi said. Walsh, a freshman, added, “I really like the adrenaline rush, because it’s a really fast game. You have to be really skillful and there are a lot of tactics. [Polo] is quite complicated, which makes it interesting. You have to think fast on your feet.” The horses have to be trained specifically to be polo ponies, and a lot of times they have to be a certain size, typically thoroughbred quarter horses. “You want speed and agility mainly. The best polo horses are fast, but can stop on a dime, turn around, and go just as fast the other way in seconds,” Flanagan explained.

West, a junior who was recruited from SMU’s varsity equestrian team by Flanagan, commented, “[Polo is] a lot more aggressive [than riding], which is something I had to get used to.” The SMU polo season runs from November through April, and the Collegiate Regional National championship tournaments are in March and April. On average, practice is held three times a week for three hours at a time at Las Colinas Equestrian Center, a facility just 15 minutes away from campus. The generous contributions of a student’s family, and others in support of the SMU polo team, have enabled the team to progress quickly through the chartering program and acquire a string of 11 polo ponies. The extra measures added to care for and house the horses make polo one of the most expensive sports. What with SMU’s demographics, the mustang mascot, and the popularity of polo in the Dallas area, Flanagan found it “surprising that it took so long for SMU to get a team.” Polo dates back to at least the fifth century B.C.E., when it was played in Persia as a training tactic for battle. Since then, polo has traveled across the world through royalty and celebs, and finally to anyone who is curious to try out the sport. Goodspeed revealed that “every once in a while people will come for a few times and just learn about polo. If someone’s interested in learning, they can come and help during the week a little bit and get a lesson in return.” Those interested in playing pay a fee to help defray expenses for the horses. The program still has a lot of potential to grow, and according to Flanagan, “eventually [SMU polo] could be a varsity sport; it just has to continue getting the support that it’s getting now.” For now, the hopes of the polo team are to make their success and existence known to the university, and “[to] get the school involved,” Ituarte said.

SMU men and women fare well at Conference USA Championships By JENNIFER BUNTZ Associate Sports Editor jbuntz@smu.edu

The SMU men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams traveled to Houston for the Conference USA championships this past week. The men came in second and the women came in third. Sophomore Mindaugas Sadauskas of the men’s team set a record when he won the 100-yard freestyle in 43.04 seconds. Tom Cole, a senior and captain of the team, won awards in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:54.54, which also allowed him to set a new meet record. He won an NCAA B qualifying time and was best in the field by more than four seconds. Sadauskas also contributed to the first place 400-yard freestyle relay team with David Larsson, Giedrisus Andriunatis and Blaz Korosec with a

time of 2:56.37. Freshman Braeden Newton had an impressive performance for his first C-USA championship meet and took third in the 200-yard back stroke. Mitchell Thompson beat his opponent by 27 seconds in the 1650 yard freestyle with a time of 15:12.78. This also nominated him for NCAA B consideration. As for the women, they had the top two finishes in the 200-yard backstroke. Therese Svendsen got first with a time of 1:53.82 and Deanna Matthews came in second with a time of 1:59.03. Both women were awarded NCAA B consideration for their times. For the 1650-yard freestyle, freshman Alice McCall got first and was awarded NCAA B qualifying time with a time of 16:36.83. This was enough to beat her opponent by eight seconds. Another freshman Nina Rangelova

came in second in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 50.10 that also gave her NCAA B consideration. Junior Raminta Dvariskyte set a meet record in the 200-yard breaststroke with an NCAA B qualifying time of 2:13.88. Denisa Smolenova gave the Mustangs another impressive first place in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:59.53, and also earned NCAA B consideration. In the diving category, Audra Egenolf also won points for the Mustangs with a score of 291.60. In the 400-yard freestyle relay Rangelova, Emily Vavourakis, Genny Konicke and Monika Babok had a time of 3:19.88 and won the relay, also with an NCAA B qualifying time. The American Short Course Championships are next on the schedule for the swimming and diving teams in Austin starting Thursday.

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Administration announced that it would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Leppert tweeted his disagreement, saying, “Another mistake from Obama on DOMA. We need leaders in Washington to stand for the principle of marriage between one man and one woman.” Three major candidates have now thrown themselves in the ring to replace Leppert as Dallas’ mayor, and they faced off in their first debate on Thursday at Methodist Hospital’s Hitt Auditorium in Oak Cliff. The debate began with only David

Kunkle, the former police chief, and Mike Rawlings, the current Dallas Park Board president and former homeless czar. Ron Natinsky, a current city council member, walked in about halfway through the hourlong debate saying he was held back at another event. Kunkle hoped to set himself apart from the other two candidates early on, saying that the new Dallas mayor should not be chosen by the wealthy few, alluding to Natinsky’s popularity with North Dallas businessmen and Mike Rawling’s similar situation as the former Pizza Hut Chief. He said that Dallas’ current

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situation called for “a different mayor with a different type of background,” and that it is “not the time for a CEO to be mayor but someone who understands city government.” Rawlings responded by saying that he had a “heart for the city” and that his business background gave him the ability to spur development in the city. Natinsky pushed his small business background as a way to relate to those in the audience. All agreed that even though Dallas is facing difficult financial times, they would not be in favor of raising property taxes.

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had a strong partnership with EPIC Committee because we have a similar mission on campus,” he said. According to Swagerty, Program Council’s spring concert featuring Ke$ha is a great opportunity to provide a free option for students to socialize on campus without the consumption of alcohol. Program Council hopes there will still be a free alternative to the event. However, because Ke$ha is expensive and did not receive funding, students may have to pay a small amount. “There may be an option [for students] to pay more for better seats,” Swagerty said. In the past, EPIC Committee has funded events such as Dream Week, R2B2, talent shows and dances on campus. Artists who have received EPIC funding within the last two years included a local comedian and rapper. Both contained positive lyrics unrelated to drugs and alcohol. “The show is going to go on with or without EPIC funding,” Owens said. “There is no way in the world I would ask Ke$ha to censor her lyrics—nor

believe should be around when they are 30. Each group was led by a teacher from their schools and a mentor, a “seasoned engineer” from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The goal was to have students “engineer the living room of tomorrow and create a safer, healthier life.” One group of seventh graders sat

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Most of them, they’ve never met an engineer until this age...They know about doctors, they know about teachers—they often don’t know about this profession. —Tammi Richards,

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around two tables in a classroom in the J. Lindsay Embrey Engineering Building, drawing out their ideal den. These eight students started out with plans to control all of the devices from one controller. Another group had plans for a machine to clip the toenails of one who is sleeping on the couch. One group had walls that were taken over by a TV of some kind (similar

to Fahrenheit 451). Among the middle schoolers were 85 teachers, 75 SMU engineering and 85 corporate mentors. Tammi Richards, associate dean for the engineering school, has managed this even for the past six years. “We plant seeds at an early age,” she said. “If you don’t keep the math and science going, they opt out of it.” Students are also exposed to engineering professionals as their mentors and as presenters at the technology expo following the design contest. “Most of them, they’ve never met an engineer until this age,” she said. “They know about doctors, they know about teachers—they often don’t know about this profession.” Each team was graded on six different criteria: Teamwork, creativity, visionary, adaptability, engineering excellence and simplicity. Six awards were given in these areas, each receiving various prizes. Jackson Middle School of the Jackson Technology Center in Garland took the “Elegant Simplicity in Engineering Award.” Each of these winners received a medal that would be a chance for a $5,000 scholarship from the Pettinger Foundation, if he or she decides to pursue engineering in college.

Tiger Cubs Pack 751 from Richardson visits The Daily Campus office in the Hughes Trigg on Sunday to learn how a newspaper is made.

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that these are students whose total family income is less than $40,000.” Turner believes the discussion on budget was more important this time than other times. “Sometimes it’s easy just to hear, ‘well, there are going to be budget cuts,’ but when it comes down to what it means, you know, right here that it means a million in need-based support and federal if that goes through.” A state proposal may impose a 40 percent cut on the Texas Tuition Equalization Grants (TEG), a needbased grant for Texas students. SMU receives about $6 million from the TEG for nearly 1,500 students. “What we did was give out all of this information and for every trustee that was a Texas resident, ‘here’s your legislator, here’s your senator, would you write or call them?’” Turner said. Turner mentioned that a group of students is going to Austin on Wednesday to see the legislators

and speak with them on the issue. The majority of these six students are on a grant. “There are legislators who came to SMU on a TEG,” Turner said. Dr. Lori White, vice president of student affairs, presented the results of Greek recruitment to the Board along with programs available for students who didn’t end up joining an organization. “There are certain things on campus that can take the place of any of those organizations,” Turner said, listing timeconsuming activities such as theatre, engineering groups or a job. “What we try to do is say, ‘here, if that doesn’t work, here are other things to check on.’” White also reported to the Board that the number of alcohol and drug violations went down from the fall of 2009 to the fall of 2010. A main presentation is given to each of the Board of Trustees meetings. This February’s meeting welcomed Dean James Quick, associate vice president for research, who said that sponsor research has improved over the last 10 years. Turner mentioned that the state

legislature will make its decisions on proposed cutbacks by early June, but that Congress should make its decisions March 4, which is another extension from the previous date of Sept. 30, 2010. They then have to pass a continuing resolution to keep the budget spending the way it is currently budgeted or pass the proposals for budget cutbacks. “It could be done March 4, but I’ll bet they’ll extend again and it will be April 1 or so before we know,” Turner said. “And the Pell grants—we’re recruiting people for next year and now, you know, and we’ve got continuing students on Pell. So what you normally do when there’s a cutback, is you maintain the same level of support for your continuing, but you just have less support for your incoming.” The unknown future for these budgets is why Turner urged the trustees to take action as soon as possible. “The longer they wait to let us know, the more difficult it is, because you have to scramble to put some things together, like financial aid packages for high-need students,” Turner said.

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Arts & Entertainment

• Monday, February 28, 2011

DANCE

The Daily Campus COMEDY

Heroine Addiction to headline at SMU By CHASE WADE Assoc. A&E Edior cdwade@smu.edu

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Dancer Emily Perry performs in the dress rehearsal for the Brown Bag Dance Series Saturday in the Owen Arts Center. Brown Bag is a twice-annual event that focuses on and features student-choreographed dances ranging from modern dance to ballet to jazz numbers. The event encourages its patrons to bring their own lunches and enjoy an hour of riveting dance. As one of the dance department’s premiere events, the event is usually heavily attended and rarely forgotten. Performances run Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 12 p.m. and Tuesday and Thursday at 12:30 p.m. during this upcoming week in the Bob Hope Lobby of the Owens Arts Center.

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“Lilli Marlene” Playwright: Meredith Alloway Director: Sara Romersberger, faculty member Date(s): March 1 and 4 at 8 p.m.

“The Rough Beast” Playwright: Joel Heinrich Director: Cameron Cobb, SMU alumnus, Kitchen Dog Theater Date(s): March 2 and 5 at 8 p.m.

“Meltdown” Playwright: Nathaniel French Director: Rene Moreno, local professional Date(s): March 3 at 2 p.m. and March 5 at 8 p.m.

“The Happy Place” Playwright: Audrey Gab Director: Pam Myers-Morgan, Echo Theatre founder Date(s): March 6 at 2 p.m. and March 10 at 8 p.m.

“Tissu” Playwright: Micah Figeroua Director: Aneesha Kudtarkar, BFA ‘12 Date: March 8 at 8 p.m.

“Ready to Start” Playwright: Jessica Andrewartha Director: Alia Tavakolian, BFA ‘12 Date: March 9 at 8 p.m.

“How to be Black” Playwright: Nick Cains Director: Gus Deardoff, BFA ‘11 Date: March 11 at 8 p.m.

Can Heroine Addiction actually be funny? If it’s up to the four fearless females of the Dallasbased improv troupe of the same name, then yes. The troupe, which consists of saleswoman Jenny Clifton, high school teacher Lynsey Hale, telecommunication worker Dawn Douglas and talent agent Christa Haberstock, was formed in 2009 when the group of women met at a novice improv class at the popular Dallas improv club “Ad Libs.” “Lynsey, Jenny, and myself all started at a level one class,” Christina Haberstock, one of the groups founders, said. “We progressed in levels though the classes and then the idea for an all female improv troupe came up, and we all though it was a great idea.” With the subtitle that reads, “Heroine Addiction: Because women aren’t funny,” the group is first in line to poke fun at their all women troupe. “We are all just females with issues,” Haberstock said. “During the day, we all have jobs, but at

night, it’s like we are superheroes.” The four funny women will be hosting a show for SMU’s Women Center on Wednesday in HughesTrigg Student Center. The show, which follows a workshop the women are hosting earlier that afternoon, is promised to be a good time. “We are going to bring the happy,” Haberstock said. “We’ll bring it hard.” Even though the group may be the perfect platform for the empowerment of women, Haberstock claims that, that isn’t the group’s prime purpose. “We never went in this to empower women, we just want to be funny,” Haberstock said. “Anyone who knows improv can expect a good laugh, and that’s all we want, to make people laugh.” While the group is slated to perform at SMU on Wednesday, it didn’t account for Haberstock’s, a native Canadian, interesting couple of weeks. “There is this little group, called the INF, that asked me to leave America” Haberstock said. “I left voluntarily, and now I’m in a scramble to get back to Dallas for the show.” While Haberstock was in Montana at the time of the interview, the talent agent was able to make it back to

Dallas for the Heroine Addiction’s show at Ad Libs on Friday. She assures that she is fully legal now. Starting in the improv comedy business is never easy, however, Habestock shares advice for those who are looking to get in on the act. “Mainly, to be successful on the improv circuit, you have to have skill and you have to know the right people,” Haberstock said. “We all worked really hard and were able to network with the right people at the right time.” As the group’s popularity rises, especially in the Dallas scene, the women are branching their comedic abilities out. Currently, Heroine Addiction is working on a cookbook, titled “Recipes for a funner life,” that will be sold at the show. The book features recipes paired with a variety of improv games. Heroine Addiction’s show at SMU starts at 8:30 p.m. While everyone there should expect a good laugh, Haberstock begs to differ. “They say the most conflicted people are the funniest,” Haberstock said. “I have to say, the four of us are all very well adjusted. Maybe we’re not funny at all.”

THEATER

‘Creditors’ is tense, intimate By LAUREN SMART A&E Editor lsmart@smu.edu

It’s as if the audience is there: a fly on the wall in one of the tensest situations that August Strindberg imagined. “Creditors” is the story of a tangled love triangle in which all three members feel as if the other owes them a debt, and from the moment the play opens the desperation that penetrates the air implies that someone will pay. Broken Gears Project Theatre took a new space in a small house in Oak Lawn this season, and has been very cleverly choosing shows that use their space effectively. Their latest production of Steven Young’s adaptation of Strindberg’s 1889 show, seems to place the audience inside the fourth wall of the hotel room in which the uncomfortable events unfold between Tekla (Meridith Morton) and her first and second husbands. When the play opens, Adolph (Evan Fuller), Tekla’s second husband, and Gustav (Elias Taylorson) have become friends over the course of several days and Adolph has confessed his insecurities about his wife, of which Gustav seems to be omniscient though he claims that he has never met Tekla. Whether Gustav is friend or foe is unclear and he incites anger in Adolph

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Meridith Morton and Evan Fuller star in Broken Gears Project Theatre’s adaptation of August Strindberg’s 1889 play “Creditors” on stage through Thursday.

toward his wife that encourages him to confront her. Director Rene Moreno has crafted a play with performances that capture the brutality of each character’s personal anguish weaving the play together in a way that doesn’t misplace a single pause or movement. Morton is menacing as Tekla, yet her performance also captures a trembling delicacy that emerges when she finds herself in danger of physical violence. Fuller’s sickly Adolph is the perfect prey for both Tekla and Gustav – capturing both the physical ailments and mental insecurities of his character. And Taylorson as the third member

of the small cast makes the transitions between friend, foe and at one point monster without losing the humanity of Gustav. In a theater season that lost valuable rehearsal time due to the ice, which in turn caused companies to turn out shaky productions, Broken Gears has a show that is powerful and intimate. “Creditors” runs through Thursday, with performances every night at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 for most nights, but Tuesday will be the last occurrence of their Ten-Buck Tuesdays – when, you guessed it, tickets are only $10. For more information, visit brokengearstheatre.com.