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Obama appoints Simmons dean Jehadu Abshiro News Writer jabshiro@smu.edu David J. Chard, dean of Simmons School of Education and Human Development, has been appointed as Chair of the National Board for Education Sciences.

Chard was nominated by President Obama and approved by the U.S Senate in 2012 as a member of the board. He was then elected as chair by the board when the previous board chair finished her two-year term.

“I was not expecting it at all,” Chard said.

As chair of the board, his responsibilities include organizing tri-annual board meeting agendas, working with congressional staff and other stakeholders on the Education Sciences Reform Act and institutes budget.

“It’s an honor to be in this position, but this is a very important position because this is our research and development effort for the country,” Chard said.

The 15-member board, part of the U.S. Department of Education, advises the research priorities for the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). The institute manages, monitors and funds education research for the U.S. It also runs

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small and large scale educational innovation, basic social science and psychological studies related to teaching and learning. IES has a budget of $450 billion annually.

“If you believe that education is the driver of a health economy, and it’s the thing that helps people meet their dreams, then being involved in the research and development to improve it is one of the things most people dream to be part of,” he said.

He will be in Washington monthly to meet with congressional and institute staff.

“This type of role you build trust with institute staff congressional staff and outside stake holders,” he said. “When you ask for more money, they believe you’re using that effectively, they trust you’re being honest. Those kinds of things are the things you use in any kind

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of life relationship.”

Chard turned down a job before as Commissioner of Education and Special education because he would have to taken a leave of absence.

“I didn’t want to leave SMU,” he said.” It was a critical time in the building of the school. We’re building a team that was excited about doing something new.”

Chard came to SMU in 2007 as the founding dean of Simmons. He built the faculty, increased funding for the school and developed the curriculum.

“Before David the school really was only being planned,” said Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Paul Ludden.

A goal for Simmons is to have a school that thinks about education differently. Chard emphasizes using a “what works” model rather than “what has always been done” model based on research both as board chair and dean.

“Having David manage that committee will be a positive for education in our country,” Ludden said. “David understands the educational landscape, need for leaders in education and the need for new ideas in education.”

Chard believes there are two parts of education. Building the knowledge and skill of conveying information and the relationship

of people and education.

“The best teachers are those committed to their students and the students feel that,” Chard said.

“Even if you’re not their favorite deliverer of information, if they trust you’re there for the right reasons then students will want to have a relationship with you because you believe in them.”

Chard taught high school math and chemistry in public school in the U.S. and in the Peace Corps in Lesotho, Africa.

“These kids were committed and showing up for class each day,” he said. “Unfortunately there wasn’t any job prospect for them.”

Education becomes more expensive as a student progresses in Africa. There is an underdeveloped economy, leaving students with only the options of going into education, government or clergy.

“I learned public education is very important to the life we have,” Chard said. “Even though we complain about it.”

Chard would ride horseback to rural areas to deliver school supplies to elementary schools.

“I still think about it a lot,” he said.

He taught for a total of 8 years before going to graduate school in

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SMU provides support for veterans Lauren Castle Contributing Writer lcastle@smu.edu One day when walking into class, Brandon Montgomery noticed a student looking at him. The student did a double-take when his fully bearded classmate sat down.

Finally, he turned around asking Montgomery his age. That is when Montgomery knew he would be considered the old guy in his classes.

Like many student veterans at SMU, Montgomery, 30, is older than the typical college student. The SMU senior served in the United States Marine Corps for almost five years.

Coming to SMU for college is an adjustment for veterans.

They are adapting to civilian life along with getting an education.

“You kind of go from incredibly structured in everything you do. From waking up in the morning, to when you work out and eat, and all that stuff, to

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The Black Excellence Ball is held annually at the end of Black History Month.

Black alumni celebrate excellence at annual ball Kian Hervey Contributing Writer khervey@smu.edu The Annual Black Excellence Ball hosted by the Association of Black Students was entirely different from years past. The multicultural group invited its alumni counterpart, SMU Black Alumni, to participate in the capstone Black History Month Event held Saturday in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center Ballroom.

The end result, a ball, history maker reception and scholarship event, was sheer excellence.

“It’s amazing how much history is in this room right now,” Mistress of Ceremonies Casey Ferrand said.

In 1952, Perkins School of Theology admitted SMU’s first African-American students to campus. The five men started integration on campus and graduated from Perkins a few years later, becoming the first faces of color to receive SMU degrees.

One of the five, James Vernon Lyles, traveled back to SMU for the History Maker event. The 85-year-old journeyed all the way from California, inspired by the

university finally acknowledging the integration achieved by Lyles and his four peers.

“Sixty-one years ago, we dressed a little different,” he said, referencing black men on campus during the 1950s. “The only other black people I saw on campus wore a white coat and carried a mop. Look at what we have now.”

More than 11 alumni were honored at the event, ranging from class of ‘71 to ‘06. Three African-American Board of Trustee members were also in

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US prepares tough response to Russia Associated PRess Western powers on Sunday prepared a tough response to Russia’s military advance into Ukraine and warned that Moscow could face economic penalties, diplomatic isolation and bolstered allied defenses in Europe unless it retreats.

The crisis may prove to be a game-changer for President Barack Obama’s national security policy, forcing him to give up his foreign policy shift to Asia and to maintain U.S. troop levels in Europe to limit Russia’s reach.

The ill will and mistrust also could spill over on two other global security fronts — Syria and Iran — where Russia has been a necessary partner with the West.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave no indication that he would heed the West’s warnings. Hundreds of armed men surrounded a Ukrainian military base in Crimea. In Kiev, Ukraine’s capital, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk alerted allies that “we are on the brink of disaster.”

Secretary of State John Kerry said he has consulted with other world leaders, and “every single one of them are prepared to go to the hilt in order to isolate Russia with respect to this invasion.”

He was considering a stop in Kiev during his trip this week to Paris and Rome for discussions on Lebanon and Syria.

In Brussels, NATO’s secretary-general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said Russia’s actions have violated a U.N. charter. He said the alliance was re-evaluating its relationship with Russia.

“There are very serious repercussions that can flow out of this,” Kerry said.

Beyond economic sanctions and visa bans, freezing Russian assets, and trade and investment penalties, Kerry said Moscow risks being booted out of the powerful Group of Eight group of world powers as payback for the military incursion.

Several senators also called for bolstered missile defense systems based in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Russia is “going to be inviting major difficulties for the long term,” said Kerry. “The people of Ukraine will not sit still for this.

They know how to fight.”

Still, it was clear that few in the West were prepared to respond immediately to Putin with military force.

At the Vatican, Pope Francis used his traditional Sunday midday appearance in St. Peter’s Square to urge world leaders to promote dialogue as a way of resolving the crisis in Ukraine.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., discussing the potential of U.S. military strikes against Russian troops in Crimea, said, “I don’t think anyone is advocating for that.”

Rubio said it would be difficult

to rein in Moscow. He said Putin has “made a cost-benefit analysis. He has weighed the costs of doing what he’s done, and ... clearly he has concluded that the benefits far outweigh the costs. We need to endeavor to change that calculus.”

As a starter, Rubio and fellow GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said the Obama administration should return to plans it abandoned in 2009 to place long-range missile interceptors and radar in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Russia believed the program was aimed at countering its own missiles and undermining its nuclear deterrent. The White House denied that, and has worked instead to place mediumrange interceptors in Poland and Romania — aimed at stopping missiles from Iran and North Korea.

Experts said potential U.S. budget cuts to Army units based in Germany also could be slowed, or scrapped completely, to prevent a catastrophic erosion of stability and democracy from creeping across Europe.

The Pentagon is considering new reductions to Army units in Germany that already have been slashed under Obama. Currently, there are two Army brigades — up to 10,000 soldiers — based in Germany, where armored and infantry units have dug in since World War II. At the end of the Cold War, more than 200,000 American forces were stationed across Europe.

Damon Wilson, an Eastern European scholar, former diplomat and executive vice president of the Washingtonbased Atlantic Council think tank, said the U.S. must be ready to pour its efforts into Ukraine, even at the cost of policies and priorities elsewhere.

“We should be no longer deluded by the fact that Europe is a safe spot of stability and security, and not a security risk for the U.S.,” Wilson said Sunday. He said that if Putin goes unchecked, it could result in war — the second one on NATO’s borders.

The 3-year-old civil war in Syria is already a crisis for neighboring Turkey, a NATO member state. Ukraine is not a NATO member, but it borders four nations that are — Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.

“This is the biggest challenge to Obama’s presidency,” Wilson said.

“This is a pretty tectonic shift in our perception of European security.”

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MS Awareness Week spotlights Dallas-based research Eastan Croson Health and Fitness Editor ecroson@smu.edi Dallas-based research takes center stage Monday to Sunday for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Awareness Week with lifechanging findings revolutionizing diagnosis and treatment for the chronic autoimmune disease, multiple sclerosis.

MS affects more than 2.3 million people worldwide, and at least two to three times more women are diagnosed with the disease than men.

An unpredictable and often disabling disease of the central nervous system interrupts the flow of information from the brain to the body and within the brain itself.

Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis.

The progress, severity and symptoms of MS cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are moving experts closer to a world free of MS. Local MS experts are speaking out about their groundbreaking research and calling for action to support the National MS Society.

Among local researchers advancing toward a cure for MS

is SMU assistant professor and physiologist Scott Davis.

Davis conducts human-based research on SMU’s campus funded by grants from the National MS Society.

His work contributes to profound implications for understanding both the biology of MS and its impact on autonomic nervous system functions in those diagnosed with the disease.

The main focus of Davis’ research is autonomic dysfunction specifically related to thermoregulation and blood pressure control in individuals with MS. Working directly with people living with MS, his research aims to discover why their bodies react differently to factors such as temperature and exercise.

Davis also works to improve treatments available for minimizing disease symptoms in patients.

In addition to Davis’ work, the National MS Society also funds local Researcher Nancy Monson.

Monson is part of University of Texas Southwestern’s Clinical Center for Multiple Sclerosis which is recognized as a National MS Society Partner in Care.

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Dallas researchers speak out about ground-breaking research in support of Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week.

of the foremost comprehensive MS centers in the nation with more than 4,500 patients from North Texas and around the world.

“My ultimate goal is to eliminate this disease and not have MS patients to treat in the future, and our lab is on the cusp of finding the answer,” Monson said.

“Funding for our research is vital to finding a potential vaccination against the disease and cure, so we are thankful for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the community’s support of the upcoming Walk MS and Bike MS: Sam’s Club Round-

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Over the past three years Monson developed a validated pretesting method that diagnoses those living with MS by identifying carriers of the unique antibody gene that causes to the disease.

Monson is also testing disease modifying therapies for MS patients in order to determine which therapies are most effective for a specific patient’s genes.

This research could reduce years of potential testing on treatments minimizing the diseases’ impact by going directly to effective targeted therapies.

Researchers are calling on supporters to take action and help fund life-saving efforts by participating in the organization’s upcoming Walk MS Dallas and Fort Worth and Bike MS Sam’s Club Round-Up Ride events in North Texas.

This MS Awareness Week, every connection counts.

Volunteers, walkers, runners and bikers of all ages are welcome to get involved in one of the three upcoming North Texas Events.

Supporters can help fund lifesaving efforts by registering to participate in the organization’s Walk MS: Fort Worth at Trinity Park March 29 or Walk MS: Dallas at Addison Circle Park and participate in the 1-mile or 5k route to connect locally with people living with MS and others dedicated to finding a cure.

Those looking to get involved can also support the National MS Society for Bike MS: Sam’s Club Round-Up Ride May 3 - 4 for a two-day long journey along the scenic North Texas countryside.

Riders of all skill sets are encouraged to participate in the tour but must be at least 12 years old to attend.

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by Geico invites children between the ages of 5 and 14 to ride at Texas Motor Speedway May 3, where the whole family can make a difference for those impacted by the disease.

The National MS Society addresses challenges faced by each person affected by MS. To achieve this mission, the Society funds cutting-edge research in collaboration with

MS organizations around the world.

In 2012, the Society invested $43 million supporting 350 research projects while providing programs and services that assisted more than one million people.

Leah Weatherl, vice president of development for the National MS Society in North Texas, benefits from new research not only professionally, but also personally.

“As a patient myself, it’s incredibly inspiring to see how far and how quickly research has advanced because of the National MS Society’s funding,” Weatherl said.

“Thanks to the groundbreaking research being conducted here in our own backyard in Dallas, we are confident that we will be able to help people to determine if they are at risk, and to more effectively treat people already living with MS.” For more information about upcoming events or how to help support the National MS Society during National MS Awareness Week connect with National MS Society, Texas on Facebook or visit their website at MStexas.org.

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virtually no structure,” said Montgomery.

Montgomery is the president of the U.S. Military Veterans of SMU student organization.

The main purpose of U.S. MilVets is to help with the transition of veterans going from service to college life.

“It’s a transition because they are older, returning students,” said Rita Kirk, Meadows distinguished professor of communications and director of the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility. “They’ve had a different world experience and so there’s differences in the way that works.

Some of them, not all of them, have issues that they have to deal with because of their time in service, some have post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, and that affects them in various ways.”

SMU and U.S. MilVets seeks to provide a support system to the 108 undergraduate student veterans. Each year, the Maguire Center and the Office of the Provost hold a banquet to honor veterans in the

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Wilson said the White House may have to abandon the policy shift to Asia — its attempt to boost America’s military, diplomatic and economic presence there — to refocus on Russia’s threat.

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1990. He then taught at Boston University, University of Texas and University of Oregon before coming to SMU. “There are transportable leadership skills,” Chard said. “So many things we do in life related to building relationships with

SMU community.

“When I started working with the veterans five years [ago]… we had about 52 students,” said Veronica Decena, manager of certifications, transcripts, veteran affairs and imaging services at SMU. “We are definitely growing. The atmosphere is definitely growing in a more positive way.”

The transition begins the moment the veterans apply for the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs educational benefits.

To receive benefits, students must complete a lot of paperwork. This can be a daunting task.

To make a college education affordable, SMU chose to participate in the Yellow Ribbon Program, an addendum to the Post-9/11 GI Bill.

The scholarship program, a voluntary partnership with the Veteran’s Association (VA), pays for tuition of veterans who served on or after 9/11.

Currently, there are 45 SMU Yellow Ribbon recipients.

The Office of the University Registrar frequently keeps track of the progress of students receiving VA benefits. With the help of other offices on campus, like the Financial Aid Office and the Altshuler Learning

Enhancement Center, the Registrar strives to make veterans have a successful college career.

“Their retention rate is excellent. Their graduation rate is pretty close to, almost at 100 percent,” Decena said.

Not only do veterans seek support from SMU staff, but also from their fellow classmates.

“Thank you to the support that we have received…Encourage them [students] to befriend a vet. We can sometimes kind of be aloof…but don’t hesitate to befriend us,” Montgomery said.

Kirk believes that SMU students and faculty can help with the transition of student veterans.

To her, being respectful is a necessity due to the fact that less than 1 percent of the U.S. population serves in the military.

According to a 2011 Pew Research Center Report, the percentage is 0.5.

“I think we need to be a little less critical about decisions that they made unless we are willing to put on the uniform ourselves,” Kirk said. “I think also as students just affirming that they have a different point of view, and not only letting them have that but letting them voice that and not feel like you are stifling them.”

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attendance.

Trustee Pastor Richie Butler delivered the keynote address.

“I love SMU. I really do,” Butler said. “It’s been a blessing to me.”

The ‘93 graduate met his wife of 20 years while playing football at SMU post-death penalty era. He recounted stories of being locked in Fondren Library, traveling abroad to participate in SMU-in-Rome and finding inspiration for his personal mission while walking between dorms.

He also recounted being unnecessarily pulled over in his Honda civic by Highland Park police several times and white female classmates walking on the grass instead of sidewalk to avoid him as he passed.

Butler turned his experiences from life on the Hilltop into valuable life lessons all attendees could understand.

“Don’t get caught peoplewatching and forget where you are going,” he said. “You stay in your lane and run your race.”

Reminiscing on a bitter 1989 loss to the University of Houston, Butler reminded guests that

challenges in life don’t let up. The Houston Cougars beat the ponies a vicious 95-21. At practice the next day, Butler’s coach told the team, “It’s a new day.”

Butler promised guests when facing hardship, “the sun will come out tomorrow.”

During the event, alumni addressed a common hardship faced by students — financial aid.

In the past year, Black Alumni have contributed more than $10,000 in scholarship money and the organization announced its new goal of $15,000 for the upcoming year.

“We need to, as alumni, make sure we make ourselves [financially] available to these students,” Brandy Bryan Mickens said while presenting awards. I’m not a pastor but if God has laid it on your heart, let the spirit lead you to your checkbook.”

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, recipient of the Black Alumni Legacy Award, pledged her support to the scholarship fund. The 1976 alumna graduated from SMU with a masters in public affairs.

She later became a politician, serving in the Texas state senate and U.S. House of Representatives.

“I have two houses — that means two light bills, two

mortgages, two everything,” she said. “But I’m going to give a donation to Club 52 because that’s affordable... You can’t do anything better than invest in students and education.”

Surprises of the night included special awards to Butler, ABS exec members Devean Owens and D’Marquis Allen and Coordinator of Multicultural Student Services Melanie Johnson.

James Jones, son of Student Development and Programs Executive Director Jennifer “JJ” Jones, also surprised long-time girlfriend and chair award winner Lauren Driskell with a proposal.

Audience members stood up and cheered as Jones got down on one knee and Driskell said yes.

The night ended with lively music, pictures and pledge cards.

Early estimates of the event’s success revealed alumni raised more than $1,700.

“We have to have our voices heard,” Mickens said. “And the way that SMU hears things is dollars.”

For more information on Black Alumni, visit SMU Alumni Chapters & Groups.

For more information on the Association of Black Students, follow the group on Twitter @SMU_ABS.

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He played down concerns that the new schism between Washington and Moscow will have an effect on the their efforts to end the war in Syria and limit Iran’s nuclear program.

In Syria, Wilson said, Russia relied on a “bankrupt plan” in its failure to convince President

Bashar Assad to embrace peace.

“There’s nothing happening there that’s credible in a positive way,’ he said.

With Iran, the bulk of negotiations already have been between the U.S. and Iran, said Wilson, who described Russia as mostly playing in the background.

Even so, officials said the U.S. and the West would not be able to roll over Russia on any number of global diplomatic or economic fronts.

Russia has made clear it is ready to provide weapons and military equipment to governments across the Mideast that have irked Washington.

Russia’s permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council gives it veto power over major world deliberations.

“The challenge is, we do need to have some kind of working relationship with Russia,” Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Sunday. “And while we can impose these costs and take

these steps, we’ve got to be mindful of the fact that they can impose their own costs on us.”

Kerry appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” ABC’s “This Week” and NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Rubio was NBC, while Graham and Schiff were interviewed on CNN.

people.”

Simmons’s Assistant Dean Michael Mclendon sees Chard’s leadership and drive as infectious.

“Dean Chard is an inspiring leader, and this I have learned firsthand,” Mclendon said.” It has been one of the great privileges of my professional career, in coming to work with David these past two years.”

Chard also believes partnering

with the community is essential.

The Simmons School is actively involved with non-profit and philanthropic organizations, businesses, cities and school systems in helping to improve educational opportunity, equity and outcomes.

“He is a great believer in education and the power of education to transformer to young lives,” Ludden said. “He

believes education in our country needs to be reformed to be more accessible to all members of our society.”

The school works with West Dallas and Vickery Meadows through the Center on Communities and Education that endeavors to close the education gap for lowincome communities.

Both Vickery Meadows and

West Dallas neighborhoods have a large concentration of Central African refugees and Hispanic populations.

“It’s hard to be completely culturally competent,” He said. “You make yourself open to try to understand it. That’s what you try the hardest for.”

Chard, who grew up in a small Michigan town, tried to help his

three children be culturally aware by travel and immersing them in other cultures.

According to Ludden, Chards views on research, education and culture reflects on well on SMU and it’s Simmons graduates.

“It says SMU is a place that attracts and provide opportunities for great thought leaders to move our society,” Ludden said.

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A balanced attack beats UCF Behind the scenes of SMU’s intramural referees Matthew Costa Contributing Writer mcosta@smu.edu

The SMU Mustangs men’s Basketball team (23-6, 12-4 in American Athletic Conference) doesn’t need much more to solidify itself as a lock to get in the NCAA tournament later this month, but a loss against lowly UCF Saturday afternoon might have kept the team out.

In front of a soldout Moody Coliseum, the Mustangs did not allow that to happen, defeating the Knights 70-55 on the back of their stifling defense and big shots by the team’s playmakers.

Early in the second half, neither team was able to get off to a hot start, until sophomore Nic Moore sent the already raucous crowd into a frenzy with back-toback threes that extended the lead to 45-27 with less than 14 minutes to play.

“I liked him,” said Head Coach Larry Brown about his point guard’s game. “He played the way he always plays. He competes.”

Much of the game was still a battle for the No. 23 team in the nation, who was able to hold UCF to 37.5 percent shooting for the game, including 4-of-19 from beyond the three-point line, but had its own shot problems in the second half.

“We just hung around, but we could never get that separation,” UCF Head Coach Donnie Jones said. “Nic Moore made the difference with two threes he hit.”

Despite Moore’s short outburst in the middle of the frame, the team’s leading scorer was held to just four field goals on 11 total shots, but was picked up by the game’s high-scorer, forward Markus Kennedy and his 18 points.

In all, four Mustangs reached double-digit scores while only two Knights did the same, including UCF’s season leader in points, rebounds and assists, guard Isaiah Sykes.

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SMU guard Nick Russell posted 15 points against UCF Saturday.

“He adds a presence offensively,” said SMU senior guard Nick Russell about the man who finished with 18 for the Knights.

Sykes was able to get his shots to fall in the second half, going a perfect 5-for-5, but was held in check in the first 20 minutes of action, converting just 22 percent of his attempts then.

The first half was a bit of an up-and-down affair for the Mustangs.

After building its lead to as much as 14 after nine minutes of play, SMU began to allow the Knights back in the game with sloppy shots and fouls. Both Moore and Kennedy were taken out of the game early with a pair of fouls for each.

UCF got the score as close as 25-21 after a three-pointer by Kasey Wilson with 4:07 remaining in the half, but SMU settled itself and finished the half strong.

Led by Russell’s 10, the Mustangs went on a 9-2 run to finish the first 20 minutes, aided by a Cannen Cunningham 3-point play with 2:17 to go that epitomized SMU’s hustle in the first half.

Despite falling to the ground, Sykes was able to recover and steal the ball from Cunningham before coughing it up himself, leading to the SMU center’s run with a 34-23 halftime lead.

The play epitomized much of the hustle that the Mustangs put on display in order to grab their 70-55 victory, but will need much more in every facet in order to upset the defending national champions at Moody Wednesday.

A win against Louisville may prove to be more than a landmark victory for a program on the rise.

It could possibly be the stepping stone for a serious run at the final four.

A whistle sounds in the Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports, which means it’s time for Jermaine Mulley to go to work.

A collegiate basketball player at Southwestern Assembly of God University, the Perkins School of Theology graduate student admits to have gotten heated at referees, yelling at supposed missed calls.

But now, Mulley is the referee.

As a SMU Intramurals referee, Mulley is seeing a different side of the sport he loves.

In his first semester refereeing intramural basketball games, the Masters of Divinity student has gotten more out of his job than the exercise he expected.

“Coming from being a player and of being fearful, like ‘Oh shoot, am I good enough to do this?’ and now feeling that exact feeling before each game as a referee, the best part of the job is seeing the transition from being a player and being nervous and now knowing that the ref has always been nervous too,” Mulley said.

Mulley, who has been playing basketball since he was 7-years-old, said he loves the social aspect of intramurals and being able to get connected with undergraduates who have a passion for sports.

“As referees and players, we’re doing the same thing: facing our fears trying to do and be our best,” Mulley said.

Intramurals, run through the Department of Recreational Sports, offers

over 30 different activities, from individual, doubles and team sports throughout the year.

Teams are made up of men, women, fraternities, sororities, residence halls, campus organizations and independent friend groups.

For basketball, sand volleyball and court volleyball referee Rochelle Lauer, intramurals provide a community for sports lovers to make new friends and spend time with their teammates.

“It is a great opportunity for students and staff to enjoy playing the sports they love while building relationships with the people on their team,” Lauer said. “Without the referees in the picture, these things would not be possible.”

Lauer, a junior mechanical engineering and pre-med student, has been refereeing at the Dedman Center for two years.

Her first basketball game still sticks in her mind, when she was in charge of the toss for the jump ball at the beginning of the game.

“I was nervous that it was going to be horrible and, sure enough, it was.

The ball stayed perfectly in between the two players but it went way to the outside of them.

They both had to take a pretty substantial side step before going up for the jump,” Lauer said.

“That was pretty embarrassing and I’m sure everyone was thinking, ‘What the heck just happened?’”

Lauer’s embarrassment has subsided since her first day on the court as a referee and her appreciation for her job has only grown.

“I love all the people and

friends I have met so far through this job and it is always a huge plus when you get to work in an enjoyable and fun environment,” Lauer said. “I am glad I can play a small role in helping SMU have a fun and enjoyable experience of connecting people and building a stronger community.”

While intramurals are a fun way for students to be active and get more involved on campus, the games can bring out the aggressive sides of players and fans — who then usually take their anger out on the student referees.

Mulley says the hardest part for him is seeing himself as a collegiate player in the frustrated eyes of intramural players who don’t agree with his calls.

“When I was a player, I see now that I missed a lot of calls too, thinking the referee was wrong,” Mulley said. “I get it, I yelled at the ref too.

Now being on the other side, I just want to say to players, ‘Do you really know how prideful you’re being?’

It’s hard seeing a reflection of myself in the players.”

As much as Mulley hopes players understand the calls from his side, he also sees the benefits to intramurals as a stress reliever.

“Intramurals are very important. SMU operates like an Ivy League academically and the workload is so intense.

Intramurals give students a chance to have some therapeutic time of release,” Mulley said.

Mulley and Lauer all agree that the community of sports-driven students, who use intramurals to release stress, to exercise and to get involved, make their jobs totally worth it.

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5th annual Patriot Cup a success Lady Mustangs fall Christopher Saul Contributing Writer csaul@smu.edu SMU dominates Texas A & M Universityfor the second year in a row.

The fifth annual Patriot Cup was held in Ford Stadium Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

This lacrosse tournament hosted Division I school Dartmouth and Sacred Heart, as well as MCLA clubs including Lone Star Alliance members SMU, TCU, Texas A&M and Texas Tech.

The event is held to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project.

SMU performed well in their matchup, defeating the Texas A&M Aggies 20-8.

The game was decided immediately after the first whistle, according to senior midfielder Cole Sisto.

“We knew we were the better team. Once the first goal went in, we knew we had it in the bag.”

Sisto, along with attackmen Matt Murphy, Schuyler Grey and Connor Wasson let shots pour down on Aggie goalie Chase Stanford, who was under fire most of the night.

Much like the other contests SMU has been in this year, the offense possessed the ball for so long that the defense was rarely tested.

The Mustang goalies Adam Connolly and Bennett Riefstahl

spent most of the time watching the game as spectators, which is why the few times the Aggies attacked they were met with success. The defense was heavily penalized, which led to a bevy of Aggie man-up goals.

“The defense needs to start playing with their heads a little bit,” SMU head coach Karl Lynch said. “That was way too many penalties.”

The Mustangs remain undefeated with a 6-0 record going into the second half of the season.

The second half wont be nearly the cakewalk the first half has been.

For spring sreak, the Mustangs are taking a working vacation in California, where they will play No. 13 Cal State Poly San Luis Obispo, Chico State and Santa Clara.

Later in the season, the Mustangs will match up against Texas State and Texas Christian, and will liekly play the Texas Longhorns in the LSA conference playoffs.

The noon game, between Division I schools Dartmouth College and Sacred Heart University was a bit more exciting than the SMU Texas A&M matchup, but ended with a decisive 14-10 score in Dartmouth’s favor.

Coming into the contest in Dallas, both teams had dropped their first two games.

The teams are considered two of the weakest in NCAA Division I, according to laxpower.com, and were hungry for a win.

Dartmouth drew first blood: scoring twice in the opening minutes to assert themselves on the field.

Sacred Heart, who showed up mentally a couple of minutes late to the game, managed to retort with a Jerome Rigor goal immediately after Cam Lee scored his first on the day for the Big Green of Dartmouth.

As the end of the first half drew near, the Sacred Heart Pioneers were down 4-3, but scored in rapid succession with less than a minute left to go in ahead at the half.

Dartmouth’s scoring machine went into overdrive in the fourth quarter, as Sacred Heart got more desperate to even the score and send the game into overtime.

This allowed Dartmouth to counterattack effectively and put themselves ahead by the final whistle.

The final game of the evening was the Texas Tech, Texas Christian matchup.

The Red Raiders started quickly out of the gate.

They scored twice in quick succession against a hazy TCU defense, which was still trying to find its footing after the first faceoff.

“We came out in the first quarter real sloppy,” TCU

attackman Campbell Puckett said. “No one had their head in the game.”

When the half ended, the Red Raiders were in a 4-4 tie with TCU. The TCU defense, especially the play of the first-year goalie Austin Birch kept the Red Raiders from running away with game in the first half while the attack regrouped.

The second half may as well have been another game entirely; Puckett, Dean Dillenburg and Christian Wendlant led an unrelenting chorus of shots on goal, which eventually overwhelmed Tech goalkeeper and mustache aficionado Burnett Jameson, who conceded six goals in the second half.

“We mixed up a couple of things at the attack, moved some guys around to try some different matchups,” Horned Frogs Head Coach Cosey Carlisle said after the game. “Our guys really stepped it up in the third quarter and were able to keep the pedal to the metal through the rest of the game.”

The Horned Frogs’ defense did not concede a single goal in the second half of play.

Coming out of the weekend, TCU and the Mustangs are the strongest contenders for the LSA North title, and will play one another Friday, April 4 at Texas Christian.

to South Florida Matthew Costa Contributing Writer mcosta@smu.edu Entering Saturday’s matchup with the University of South Florida Bulls, the SMU women’s basketball team (16-12, 7-10 in American Athletic Conference) was trying to forget a stinging 81-48 loss to the nation’s No.1 team, UConn Tuesday by beating a conference opponent for the eighth time.

What they had instead was a hangover that lasted through the first half and ultimately decided the Mustangs’ 72-51 loss in Tampa, Fla. Before the Mustangs were even off the plane, they found themselves down 9-0 after an Inga Orekhova 3-pointer with just two minutes in. The early start fueled an onslaught by the Bulls offense, all while SMU couldn’t seem to get the lid off the basket, shooting just 29 percent for the game.

SMU trailed by as much as 24 through the first 20 minutes of action, but was able to stop the bleeding prior to the first half ’s

end thanks in large part to senior Keena Mays.

The guard from Arlington, Texas, finished with a team-high 22 points, but shot only 8-of-22 in her attempt to get her group back into the game. Besides Mays, Akil Simpson was the only other player to reach double-digit points with 11 to go along with her team-high seven rebounds.

Even though they were in a hole for the majority of the game, the Mustangs were able to fight back to get within seven at 45-38 after Mays converted back-toback layups midway through the second half.

From that point on though, SMU was held in check, scoring just 13 to USF’s 27.

The Bulls were led by sophomore guard Courtney Williams’ 26 points and 11 rebounds that proved to be too much for the Mustangs in the defeat.

Despite the disappointing loss, SMU can still end the regular season on a high note, as it hosts the UCF Knights Monday night in the friendly confines of Moody Coliseum.

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‘Daily Campus’ police reports reported missing Readers may have noticed The Daily Campus has been missing a previously integral part of our coverage: daily crime reports that used to alert the SMU community to criminal activity and police investigations happening in residence halls, Greek houses and other campus buildings and common areas.

The format in which the SMU Police Department is now reporting criminal activity has changed significantly. Where online reports used to include a brief, detailed description of the crime — including specifics on the act itself — SMU PD now only offers the date and estimated time of the offense and the report date, a general classification (i.e. Criminal Mischief or Fire Alarm), a location, a case number and the resulting disposition, (such as Inactive or Conduct Referral).

The Daily Campus has chosen to no longer publish crime reports because of these changes and the impracticalities these changes impose. Without any context of what the “criminal mischief ” was or why a crime was said to occur, there seems no reason for the paper to use valuable, already limited space to report bare-bones crime information that gives very little information to the SMU community.

The Daily Campus’ intentions in publishing the more detailed criminal reports was to provide SMU students, faculty and staff with information on criminal activity that, in part, may have allowed a person with more information on the crime to step forward, or to prevent their own victimization. If a bike was reported missing and a student’s roommate suddenly had one matching the exact description, he or she might come forward. If there were a series of laptops stolen in Dedman Center, students would

know to not leave their laptop in their backpack unattended until the perpetrator was caught. Reporting only a “theft” without any details as to what was stolen doesn’t have that same effect.

SMU Chief of Police Richard Shafer explained that SMU PD “wanted to get more in line” with how information was presented in the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, which requires all universities and colleges that take part in federal financial aid programs to maintain record of and publicly disclose all criminal information on and near the campus. SMU PD is now following the most basic of Clery Act requirements — however, the Clery Act provides the format as the absolute base level of disclosure and does not disallow universities from disclosing additional information.

Shafer did not give further explanation of why the crime logs have been diminished rather than edited to fit requirements without losing their previous level of detail. As the Editorial Board of the independent newspaper for this campus, we do not believe the new way of reporting information is adequate for keeping students informed on their community’s goings-on, and will not continue to publish reports in their current form.

As always, we commend the SMU Office of Police and Risk Management for their timely crime alerts sent to students via email on more significant criminal activity.

Shafer has also offered that we may call and ask for additional details on certain crime log entries. This is near-impossible for us to do due to time constraints, but students who may want or need more information should speak to SMU PD about the possibility of obtaining such.

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zain haidar Contributing Writer zhaidar@smu.edu Has the ship been emptied or do the Tea Partiers have more cargo to unload into the bay?

Coming up on the 2014 midterm elections, this remains the main question for GOP faithfuls in contested districts. For the Democrats, it’s a little less clear, but one thing is certain: the Republican base has a unity problem.

Sitting Republicans are facing Tea Party challengers. Tea Party candidates have done well in the past – barring mention of those who embarrassed the GOP and probably all of Washington D.C. such as Christine O’ Donnell and Todd Akin.

And now with the Tea Party’s darling Ted Cruz in a position of fame and newfound power, contesting candidates may have a distinct advantage in the fractured party. Senator Cruz is essentially bankrolling candidates to oppose Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as well as Senators Pat Roberts and Thad Cochran. Cochran himself claims to know little about the Tea Party.

Is ignorance bliss or will it be the old guard’s downfall in the midterms?

Through the Madison Project

(a PAC propping up grassroots conservatives for the midterms), Cruz delivered a fundraising letter urging voters to bring flesh blood to the party – specifically “conservatives who won’t run from a fight!” In the eyes of the Tea Party, this means anybody who isn’t in their ranks.

The Republicans need a net gain of six seats to take back the Senate – a goal within reach but complicated by infighting and a values crisis.

Democrats need 17 more seats in the House to establish a majority, but even with a fractured GOP this type of victory is unlikely with a country frustrated over Obamacare.

By the same token, Republicans have taken flak for the shutdown – which took place in October when Sen. Cruz and like-minded members of Congress refused to approve the budget as a result of their opposition to Obamacare. Public sentiment turned on the Republicans and their favorability sunk by 10 percentage points while the shutdown took place, according to Gallup.

But this goes beyond politics and comes right onto our doorsteps. If Republicans take the Senate and Democrats fail to take the house – a likely possibility – President Obama will be a lame duck for over a year.

We’ve gotten used to the trite jokes about “change you can Xerox,” but nobody in the White House will be laughing if the president gets pushed into a congressional corner.

It may be inevitable that the Tea Party flourishes while the GOP old guard scrambles for control. Then we’ll be asking ourselves if the tea is bitter or sweet.

Oscar nod meaningful for Cambodians elizabeth becker Los Angeles Times Being nominated for an Oscar is always a big deal, lifting someone’s career or a movie’s fortunes at the box office. In Cambodia, an Oscar nomination is proving to be a big deal for an entire nation, crystallizing how important reviving the arts has been for a country devastated by decades of war, genocide and corruption.

One of the movies nominated for best foreign film this year is “The Missing Picture,” by Cambodia’s master filmmaker Rithy Panh. His movie tells the story of the unspeakable horrors perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge and its leader, Pol Pot, who turned Cambodia into a mass labor camp. Panh’s parents and brother were among the nearly 2 million people killed by the regime in less than four years.

Panh’s survival was remarkable. It is as if Anne Frank had lived through the Holocaust and been able to tell her own story in a film as writer and director. In “The Missing Picture,” Panh uses clay figures set against archival films and photographs. Poignant, unexpected, Cambodian.

This nomination made history: the first time a Cambodian film has been nominated for an Oscar. It also broke open a breathing space for Cambodians fighting to recover their democracy.

The new year began with Cambodian police opening fire on unarmed garment workers, who were demonstrating to be paid $160 a month. By the end of the day, police had killed five people and injured many more. For good measure, the authoritarian government of Hun Sen put a ban on all demonstrations. Politics were getting ugly once again.

Then Hollywood intervened.

News of the historic Oscar nomination was everywhere.

Social media lit up. Cambodians were elated, sending messages thanking the film’s director for lifting their spirits and saying they could finally be proud after years of “darkness and despair.”

Darkness doesn’t begin to describe Cambodia’s slow recovery from the Khmer Rouge, the battle for control over Cambodia and the fatal compromise that allowed Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge

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This undated photo released by Bophana Center shows a scene of “The Missing Picture” directed by Cambodian film director Rithy Panh. For the past two and a half decades, Panh has made movies that he considers his duty as a survivor of a genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime, and his debt to the dead.

officer, to share power even though he lost the election in 1993.

In the two decades since, other nations have donated billions of dollars for Cambodia’s reconstruction, rebuilding infrastructure, schools and agriculture and underwriting a civil society.

Led by China and South Korea, countries have made massive investments in Cambodia’s industry, natural resources and tourism.

Separately, with a minuscule amount of money and far less fanfare, other foreign philanthropists and artists set about to revive the legendary arts of Cambodia.

The impact of the economic aid and investment is obvious.

Cambodia enjoys an impressive 7 percent growth rate.

Yet it hasn’t helped the vast majority of Cambodians; 1 of 3 Cambodians lives on less than $1 a day. Most of the new wealth went to the country’s leaders, who through blatant corruption and tight control of the nation’s resources have become multimillionaires, enriching a close circle of families and friends. They have held on to power by rigging elections, buying off rivals and using the full force of the police and military to eliminate dissent and democracy.

Or at least that was the case until last year, when opposition groups of all varieties _ political parties, unions, human rights

defenders and civil society _ united for the first time.

In recent months, they have massed by the hundreds of thousands to protest the latest election fraud and ask for reasonable wages. The government isn’t rolling over, but the opposition has been invigorated.

Feeding this new confidence and reminding Cambodians of their extraordinary cultural heritage is the renaissance of Cambodian arts. This, after all, is the country that built the extraordinary temples of Angkor, with their divine sculptures of gods and sensual angels. Anyone who has visited Angkor or seen a Cambodian ballet understands how central the arts are to the country’s identity.

After several decades of uneven but vital support, Cambodian ballet troupes are again touring the world.

Cambodian music, vocal and instrumental, is being recovered and heard alongside modern pop music.

Artists in silver or rattan, as well as silk weavers, painters, photographers and potters, are working in the Cambodian idiom again, adapting to more global forms as they work. All this was displayed last spring when New York hosted the “Season of Cambodia” celebrating the country’s traditional and modern living arts.

And then there is film.

In a sign of how much was destroyed by war and the

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Khmer Rouge, Rithy Panh is the godfather of modern Cambodian film at the age of 49.

His predecessors are all dead. As a refugee and student in Paris, he won support from the French movie industry, and his return to Cambodia has nurtured his country’s industry.

When his film “The Missing Image” won a major prize at Cannes, he said the award was important for the country as whole. “It means that we are alive. It means that we can express our feelings. It means that the Khmer Rouge didn’t destroy our imagination; they couldn’t destroy it.”

And he added, “When you preserve your heritage, when you can preserve your memory, you build social cohesion.”

The acclaim over Panh’s Oscar nomination erupted at the peak of Cambodia’s political standoff, contrasting the two sides of Cambodia’s soul. In modern times Cambodia has suffered under some of the worst political leaders. By contrast, the arts are fueling society’s recovery, reminding Cambodians who they are and where they have come from.

As one social media posting put it, “We are proud of him for Cambodia.”

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SMU hip-hop club offers a community to dancers jehadu abshiro News Writer jabshiro@smu.edu Sophomore Sandy Ellis was a 2013 Mustang Coral leader when someone asked her if SMU had a hip-hop club. She had asked the same question the year before. Ellis figured it was about time for SMU to have a hip-hop crew.

By the time the Oct. 6 Family Weekend Talent Show came around, Ellis, with four others, put together a Disney hip-hop routine that intertwined songs such as “Little Mermaid’s” “Under the Sea” and the “Lion King’s” “Krol Lew” with Drake’s “Started from the Bottom” and Jay-z’s “Crown.”

The red Mickey Mouse shirt clad group of five placed second in the talent show.

That’s when fellow SMU student Uche Ndubizu saw them. He asked Ellis and Zoe Filutowski to collaborate and they choreographed a 15-minute routine.

About six weeks later, Ellis, Filutowski and Ndubizu, along with a group dancers, were opening for B.o.B at the Nov. 14 Program Council concert.

“Best experience of my life,” Ellis said. “Getting that close with the crew and dancing with the professional equipment and the crowd’s energy was incredible.”

Toward the end of November 2013, the hip-hop crew was getting ready to start the next semester open for anyone who was interested in joining. Now, halfway through the spring semester, Co-Presidents Ellis and Filutowski have submitted an application to begin the charting process for the club. Their Facebook group has more than 90 members and the club has held two meetings.

Their goal is to create a recognized club where the SMU community can come together, learn, dance and have stress-free fun with no prerequisites.

“I wanted to create a place where everyone had an opportunity to dance,” Ellis said.

“The performing arts majors here are audition based and there are so many people that miss the arts that aren’t [performing arts] majors.”

Ellis and Filutowski emphasis that the club is opened to dancers

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at all skill levels.

“I think when people see their friends in the videos from our classes, friends who don’t normally dance, they think, ‘Well if they’re doing it, I can,’” Filutowski said. “That’s exactly what we want to encourage.

People who wouldn’t normally dance, to dance.”

Neither Ellis nor Filutowski are dance majors. They both noticed lack of hip-hop dancing on campus.

“Although I didn’t come to school for it, dance has been, and will always be a part of me,” Filutowski said.

Dance has been part of her life since she was 4-years-old when she began dance lessons.

Filutowski began competitively dancing at age 8. She competed for 10 years in contemporary, lyrical, jazz, musical theater and tap.

“Dancing is one of my true loves,” she said. “I can’t go very long without it. Every time I listen to a song, I see choreography.”

Ellis, a journalism and public relations major, started dance lessons when she was 3-years-old.

“I’ve been bouncing up and down to sounds since my parents could hold me up to stand,” Ellis said.

The group has been meeting once a week Tuesdays in Studio 2 at the Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports. They have been focusing

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on the basics of hip-hop: footwork, body movement, isolation and musicality.

“It’s just a fun way to learn some moves,” Ellis said.

For now the group doesn’t plan on competing anywhere.

“It’s another place for people to get involved and it’s active,” sophomore Jessica Cho said. “It seems just like a bunch of kids that like to dance.”

The first meeting the group had 12 attendees and at the second one they had 16. In one week, their open Facebook group managed to increase by 65 members. Ellis and Filutowski post videos of each routine along with the meeting details.

“So far participation has been great,” Filutowski said.

“More than we could have dreamed of.”

During the club meetings, structured as an open, commitment-free workshop, the group warms up and learns a combination choreographed

by Ellis and Filutowski.

“We joke that we partly started it because people were always asking us how to dance when we went out,” Ellis said.

For Ellis, dance means more than a night out.

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SMU film students began pre-production of feature film “Legacy,” a psychological thriller set to be released May 2015.

“Producing a film is like one big obstacle course with the absolute best prize at the end,” first-time feature film Director Rachel Wilson said.

For the past several months, director/producer duo Rachel Wilson, senior, and Geenah Krisht, junior, have been hard at work for the production of their up-and-coming feature film, “Legacy.” Filming is scheduled to begin May 19 and will last only two weeks.

The film is meant to be a psychological thriller about Mary, a girl just out of college who returns home right as her mother is being released from prison.

The film will uncover the legacy that Mary left behind in her hometown, as well as touching on themes like relationships and the accuracy of memory. There is a shocking plot twist the duo was reluctant to disclose; fans will just have to wait and see for themselves.

“Everybody thinks that film is just point and shoot, and it’s absolutely not,” Wilson said.

One of the jobs as director and producer is to scout-out locations for when they begin filming, which is what Wilson and Krisht have been doing for the past couple weeks. Casting Director Amanda Presmyk along with Wilson and Krisht will be casting actors for the film at the end of

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March, which will include SMU students as well as professional actors in the Dallas area.

Wilson and Krisht agreed that this is definitely the biggest project either of them has ever worked on. What started out as a small film-making opportunity has evolved into a mass production, and the two are certainly not giving up—neither are the other students who are a part of the crew; including their editor, SMU junior Jackson McMartin.

“It’s just a really unique experience for college students to have to actually be able to make a full-length feature film,” McMartin said.

However, with 15-plus college students working together to achieve the same goal, there are bound to be some challenges along the way.

“You really have to learn to work with a lot of clashing personalities,” Krisht said.

“But we work through it and have totally learned to move past it.”

So far, the only other challenge they’ve faced is fundraising their goal of $30,000 on their Indiegogo site. They hope that with being aggressive on social media and offering perks to each person for his or her donation, they’ll be able to reach that amount within the next few weeks.

Adversity clearly has been no match to the production crew’s passion and dedication. In fact, it’s what made Wilson and Krisht want to work even harder.

“It went from something just for experience, to something we’re actually really passionate about,” Wilson said. “Now we just want to prove that we can do it.”

Growing up, Wilson always loved watching movies even on hot summer days and knew that she would go into film-making someday.

Krisht on the other hand came into her first year at SMU majoring in journalism with hopes of becoming pre-med.

After taking one introductory film class, she fell in love and instantly added film and media arts as her second major. Although coming from different backgrounds, one thing’s certain now that the two share an undying passion for film-making.

Krisht, from Little Rock, Ark., is currently double majoring in film and media arts and journalism. Along with being the vice president of production for Student Filmmakers Association (SFA), Krisht is also president of Program Council, and is associate producer at Dreamfly Productions for “Inside the Huddle,” a weekly-televised talk show with the Dallas Cowboys.

When asked what she wants out of this experience, Krisht replied: “I hope we [Meadows film school] can make a name for ourselves on this campus.”

Wilson, from Tulsa, Okla., is also majoring in film and media arts and will graduate from SMU in May of 2014. She plans to work in Los Angeles after assisting with the post-production of “Legacy.”

On campus, Wilson is also involved in SFA, Engaged Learning and has starred in two student theatre productions.

“If you can make it to the end [of the obstacle course] alive, you’ve made a movie,” Wilson said.

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Caveman diet creates trend Chloe dinsdale Contributing Writer cdinsdale@smu.edu

The Paleo diet has become the latest lifestyle diet. No, not fad diet, lifestyle diet. The Paleo diet is not a diet that will fade out because of iffy results; this lifestyle brings a new meaning to health and well-being by feeding the body the fruits of the earth. Many people have gone Paleo, not only for the fitness and weight loss factor, but also for the healthy benefits it brings to one’s lifestyle.

Founder of the Paleo movement, Loren Cordian, assures that the Paleo diet will optimize health, minimize risk of chronic disease and aid in weight loss.

The name of the Paleo diet came from the term “Paleolithic” which refers to prehistoric times when the cavemen who walked the earth ate its natural ingredients. Their diet consisted of protein from animals that fed off grass, fish, fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts and seeds of the earth. Never in their diet were processed foods present, which in today’s society is the root of many health issues like obesity and some cancers.

Cordain said the key to the Paleo diet is “If a caveman didn’t eat [it], neither should you!”

Even though the diet has a stricter list of foods to eat, one can still get foods they enjoy by following the 80:20 rule which allows three nonPaleo meals a week. Fortunately, for those people eating Paleo because they can’t consume gluten or have restrictions because of things like Celiac disease, they can still enjoy foods that they could’ve eaten before their switch.

Bailey Sorensen, a college student who exercises the Paleo diet because of health complications, said, “Her body demands this diet.”

She doesn’t get to have cheat meals.

Lucky for her, most of America is making health accommodations

for her lifestyle and many Paleo believers blog and make cookbooks.

Many grocery stores offer Paleofriendly ingredients to make foods like pancakes, brownies and even ice cream. Better yet, there are even Paleo restaurants popping up all over the map.

Sorensen, a marathon runner, said the ingredients she consumes feed her energy and help shed fat because the items are not processed, meaning they are easier to metabolize and help her body reach maximum potential. Daniel Weinberg, a professional Mixed Martial Arts fighter, agrees with Sorensen. He said that the diet helps him to “physically perform his best and reach the weight needed to fight.” He said the weight sheds right off with his inclusion of “high fat, moderate protein and low carbs.”

Surprisingly, calorie counting is not part of the Paleo diet. As long as one sticks to the primal diet plan, the calories don’t matter. The food intake is so nutritious that the body can easily process the chemicals and ingredients and metabolize the food quickly. Because of this, many people feel hungrier. Luckily, since calories don’t matter in this diet, one can keep feeding the body, creating lots of energy and happiness. Weinberg mentions that he “feels as if he has more energy and happiness” by eating Paleo.

Another Paleo practitioner, Samuel Clark, provides some advice for people wanting to switch their eating habits.

“Work hard, plan ahead and seek out places that support this diet,” he said. Being from Dallas, Clark mentioned that places like HG Suply Co., Origin Kitchen + Bar, Green Grocers and Trader Joe’s are just a few places that he can shop for his Paleo ingredients.

Clark also likes to cook. He took a nutrition course that helped teach him about managing the diet. Many gyms, like Crossfit, are beginning to inform their members of this diet because of its benefits to the body.

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Origin Kitchen + Bar is located near campus on McKinney Avenue. Origin lovers crowd the restaurant Saturday and Sunday mornings through the afternoon to get a table for the venue’s popular brunch menu.

Origin Kitchen + Bar reopens with new menu options Laurie snyder Contributing Writer lsnyder@smu.edu Owners of Origin Kitchen + Bar, Jessica Meyers and Russell Aldredge, opened their restaurant in December after renovating the site of their original takeaway café Origin Natural Food and revamping the menu.

“Russell and I first decided to open Origin Natural Food out of a void we felt in the Dallas market for clean, well-sourced meals in a convenient manner. After opening and operating Origin Natural Food for a few months, we realized that we had so much

more to offer with our location as well as menu options. We were very limited in what we could make because of the packaged food as well as off site kitchen,” Meyers said.

Origin has since evolved into a full-service restaurant, bringing the kitchen on-site and offering a full bar.

Their first concept only offered Paleo options. Post-remodel, the menu has expanded to accommodate all diets or no diet at all.

“We offer craft seasonal cuisine which means that we make everything in house and allow what is in season to drive the menu. We have

opened the menu beyond just Paleo to offer a wider variety to the marketplace.

Someone who is strictly Paleo can still come in and enjoy that, but now we can offer something for everyone.

Let’s face it, not everyone wants to eat that way and even the healthiest eaters want to go out and enjoy a cheat meal now and then,” Meyers said.

Sourced by local vendors, and using organic, sustainable ingredients when possible, even the cocktails at Origin are handcrafted from top-notch ingredients and homemade infusions. They brew Cultivar coffee, serve beer from Deep

Ellum Brewing Co., and offer fresh baked confections like gluten free maple glazed donuts.

Describing her favorite dishes from the new menu, Meyers said, “Our Wild Caught Skate Wing is my favorite.

It’s different than anything I’ve seen on any menus in Dallas and it’s just a light, beautiful dish. If I’m craving meat, then I love the Grass Fed Hanger Steak with broccolini and onion rings.”

With spring in full swing, patrons can sit outside and brunch on their creme brulee French toast or a seasonal hash bowl with a fresh-squeezed mimosa in-hand.