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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 2010 SMUDAILYCAMPUS.COM

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ELECTIONS

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Senate addresses McFarlin usage fees By SARAH POTTHARST Associate News Editor spotthar@smu.edu

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Candidates for Student Body Officer positions debate Tuesday in the Hughes-Trigg Commons. From left to right: Derek Hubbard, Kellie Spano, Alex Ehmke, Katie Perkins, Jack Benage, Austin Prentice, Jake Torres, Austin Poynter, Matthew Neman.

SBO candidates duke it out

By MEREDITH SHAMBURGER Editor in Chief mshamburge@smu.edu

While no one was throwing punches, things got a little heated in the Hughes-Trigg Commons area Tuesday evening. Student Body Officer candidates gathered for the Student Body Officers Debate, where they asked and answered questions about their positions and past actions. Moderator Mark McPhail, chair of the corporate communications and public affairs department, asked the candidates two questions about the most important quality in a leader and which leader they felt they best identified with. Candidates then took questions from the audience and from each other. One student asked the candidates which actions from the administration that they disagreed with. Jake Torres, who is running for Student Body President, expressed dissatisfaction with the school’s acceptance of two mustangs from T. Boone Pickens. “I really disagreed with the way they [the administration] treated Peruna,” he said, noting that the administration accepted them “without really asking any of the students.” Torres cited this as an example which “reflects a bigger issue—that is the disconnect with the wishes of the students and the actions taken by the administration.” Presidential candidate Jack Benage

garnered a round of applause when he stated that students should be given more reading days at the end of the semester. “The administration and the President’s Task Force has removed a few of our reading days to try to

voiced opposition to special interest and minority seats when Senate was discussing adding new seats while still attending an ABS meeting. ABS supports adding more special interest seats. Ehmke acknowledged that he did

Get out the Vote Candidates for President Jack Benage Derek Hubbard Kellie Spano Jake Torres Candidates for Vice President Alex Ehmke Austin Prentice Matthew Neman Candidates for Secretary Katie Perkins Austin Poynter avoid students trying to take the extra time, instead of studying, to go party,” he said. “I think that’s something we need to work on—to get those reading days back as all the students shouldn’t be punished because someone else is choosing to misuse their time.” Most of the questioning focused on past legislation and the impact that it had. One student, who was a member of the Association of Black Students, questioned Vice Presidential candidate Alex Ehmke about why he

Election Information Polls close Thursday at 5 p.m. Visit candidate’s Facebook pages for information about their campaigns. Cast your vote at www.smu.edu/elections Results will be posted on The Daily Campus Web site oppose the creation of new seats and voiced opposition to current seats. He said it “wasn’t a malicious attack,” but he felt that Senate could represent everyone without the use of special interest seats. Fellow Vice Presidential candidate Austin Prentice also asked Ehmke why he did not support special interest seats. “Looking out at this crowd right now, you cannot tell me that we are a diverse student body,” Prentice said. “You cannot tell me that having

African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, international senate seats does not add a vital, vital part to the Student Senate.” Prentice described himself as a “strong supporter” of minority and special interest seats. His name appears on the legislation that proposed adding a sexual orientation seat. “When I look out on this group, I don’t see a single person I don’t think I could talk to, who I don’t think I can communicate with, find out what’s concerning them on campus and address that concern,” Ehmke said. “I don’t think there’s any issue that is so complicated or so esoteric to one group on campus that I cannot comprehend it.” Presidential candidate Derek Hubbard noted that he had passed legislation concerning parking signage—and that it had been successfully implemented. Hubbard also worked to see if mirrors could be put up in Binkley Garage. That plan is in development. The same ABS member asked Presidential candidate Jack Benage about unity, saying she had only seen Presidential candidate Jake Torres “actively working” on addressing the issue of unity. “Though I have not been to any Association of Black Students meetings, I do regularly go to EASA Night Market, participate in the ISA Boba Tea sale,” Benage said. “I really

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STUDENT CENTER

Hughes-Trigg art to be made by students By REBECCA MUSGROVE Contributing Writer rmusgrove@smu.edu

This past weekend, during SMU’s Spring Arts Festival, Hughes-Trigg Student Center experienced an increase in traffic and participation not only from students, but parents as well. The staff at Hughes-Trigg hopes to maintain that level of involvement and is working to make sure that students always feel welcome. This year, in addition to the annual Student Art Contest, students also have the option of submitting an idea or sketch for a redesign of the Crossing mural, located to the side of the Commons. Hughes-Trigg will supply all the materials and a prize of $100 to the winning student, or group of students, with the selected sketch to replace the current Dallas skyline. In this way, the students have an opportunity to decide what they want their student center to look like. The Student Art Contest itself, which will be open in the next couple of weeks, is a way to include student contribution. The contest is open to all students for a first prize of $150.

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Submitted art will be displayed in the Commons from April 12-15 for judging by both selected judges and SMU students. The winning piece is then displayed in Hughes-Trigg as a permanent decoration. Rather than decorating the building with miscellaneous sculptures or pictures, the goal of this contest is to create a student center made by its students, according to Hughes-Trigg marketing manager Mariana Sullivan. However, students see HughesTrigg as more than just a building for decoration; the staff at Hughes-Trigg works for services and programs to get students involved and comfortable. Starting this week, the M Lounge will offer 30 to 40 new games, donated by GameStop, to supplement the current selection. All will be brand new, current and popular games to provide more of a variety beyond the existing options. Also in the M Lounge, students can keep up with March Madness and watch every game on the TV sets in HD. The TVs will show all the games, with one always playing on the large screen. As games progress,

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Student fees are always a hot topic during weekly Student Senate meetings, but this week, a new manner in which students will be forced to shell out money was brought to light. Dedman I senator Kellie Spano introduced a piece of legislation that requested the elimination of fees for the usage of McFarlin Auditorium during ticketed events. Students are allowed to hold events in the auditorium free of charge for non-ticketed events, but must pay for events that are ticketed, such as Sing Song and the Step Show. The dilemma with this, Spano said, is that the revenue for the ticketed events go directly to charities, therefore the cost of using the auditorium is paid directly out of student pockets.

SMU STUDENT SENATE “There’s a real student need to use that auditorium and they can’t afford it,” Spano said. Spano met with McFarlin Auditorium director Alison Tweedy last semester to discuss ways in which the concern can be addressed. Student Senate Secretary Peter Goldschmidt asked Spano if the legislation should also take into account the termination of extraneous

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WHITE HOUSE

How big a deal? Ask VP Joe Biden By LAUREN SMART Chief Copy Editor lsmart@smu.edu

Many Americans were excited Tuesday when President Obama was signing the Health Care bill, but no one more outspokenly than Vice President Joe Biden. How does America know this? Live television tells no lies. Biden dropped what he must have thought to be an inaudible f-bomb when he was hugging the President. Biden’s gaffe was picked up on CNN’s live broadcast, in which he clearly whispers, “This is a big f––king deal.” The Health Care bill is unarguably the most significant legislation that Obama has passed, and the biggest social change instituted by the government in decades. Biden’s statement was not without motive, but some students feel as though he was slightly out of line. “The government, as our leaders, should be held to a higher standard,” sophomore political science and international studies major Max Camp said. “It’s just another example of Biden putting his foot in his mouth.” Student Body President Patrick Kobler also chimed in. “I think it’s almost as big of a disgrace as

passing the healthcare bill,” he said. But not everyone was so quick to judge. Gavanne Davis, a junior chemistry major with minors in both sociology and business argued that politicians are people too. “I think they’re grown men and women, and I think they have real personalities and we should expect that,” she said. “That being said, I think they should stay professional.” “It’s not that big of a deal,” junior political science major Laura Baez said. “I’m sure we’ll hear an apology soon.” Thanks to Biden, the buzz surrounding health care, just got bigger.

LEGAL

White House experts: Health care suit will fail SARAH POTTHARST/The Daily Campus

Submitted art from the Crossing Mural contest will be on display from April 12-15

students can change the displayed bracket as well and stay updated with the scores. All new services and programs provided are in response to student feedback. “It’s all about the students,” Sullivan said. Due to this feedback, Hughes-Trigg, in collaboration with Aramark and Dining Services, was able to open the Market until midnight Monday through Thursday.

This feedback is received through Hughes-Trigg’s annual survey, which is now available on the SMU Web site. Here students can evaluate cleanliness, response time and quality, as well as give suggestions for events, lounge space and other services. “We want students to feel welcome,” Sullivan said, “and that it is really their student center.”

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By ASSOCIATED PRESS The White House says it isn’t worried that 13 state attorneys general are suing to overturn the massive health care overhaul, and many legal experts agree the effort is futile. But the lawsuit, filed in federal court seven minutes after President Barack Obama signed the 10year, $938 billion health care bill, underscores the divisiveness of the issue and the political rancor that has surrounded it.

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Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum led the effort to file the suit that claims Congress doesn’t have the constitutional right to force people to get health coverage. It also says the federal government is violating the Constitution by forcing a mandate on the states without providing resources to pay for it. “To that I say, ‘Bring it on,’” said White House domestic policy chief Melody Barnes, who cited similar suits filed over Social Security and the

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Letter to the editor

• Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The Daily Campus FASHION

Alumna makes career with vacation souvenirs By RACHEL MACKIN Contributing Writer rmackin@smu.edu

Ashley Gilroy knew that when her parents told her that she could travel the world as a reward for graduating a semester early that she was bound to have a few adventures. What she didn’t know was that the souvenirs she brought home from her travels would serve as her launching pad into a successful career in fashion. Gilroy says, “It goes to show that it doesn’t really matter what major you are because you end up doing all kinds of crazy thing when you graduate, especially in this economy!” After graduating SMU in December 2008 the journalism major founded the company, “Bindi”, a fashion line that features kaftans and jewelry. Bindi also represents an Indian jewelry company called “Vipul Arts Jewelry” in the United States. During a vacation in India, she set out to find her boyfriend’s mother a unique piece of jewelry for a 50th birthday present, but the entrepreneur ended up with a lot more than a necklace from a store called “Vipul Arts”. “I went back (to India) three weeks after returning from my first trip with about five thousand dollars. I was begging the owners (of Vipul Arts) to give me more jewelry…I said ‘this is all I have, but this is all I want,’ and I convinced them to give me about $60,000 worth of jewelry,” Ashley said. She admits that, at the time, she had no idea how a business was run, but it has been profitable since the beginning. “I made my money back in the first two weeks,” she said. “I borrowed $5,000 from

Campus Events March 23-27

AIESIC Info Session

5 p.m., Hughes-Trigg Portico A. AIESEC is the world’s largest student run organization providing internship opportunities in over 100 countries.

my parents and paid it back with a week of returning from my second trip to India.” Ashley immediately hired sales representatives to help her expand the company by doing trunk shows all over the United States. Bindi clothes and jewelry are now sold in Texas, New York, California, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Florida. The company also has a website and a Facebook page for publicity. “It really just exploded—I’ve sold at least 600 kaftans in the past month—I keep getting shows in New York, California, and Houston,” she said of her business venture. In July, at a trunk show in Aspen, Colo., Bindi sold a few hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry. Amanda Mervine, a senior journalism major at SMU, went to that show in Aspen, and was hooked on Bindi. “I like the dresses so much because they’re just so comfortable,” said Mervine. “It’s something I could wear to run errands or even wear out on a Thursday night.” Even the stars are wearing Bindi’s Zipul Arts jewelry. Beyonce Knowles and Victoria Beckham have both been photographed wearing it. “It’s the perfect dynamic because college kids can wear Bindi as well as older women,” said Stacey Randol, the public relations and sales representative of the company’s instant success. “It captures the unique Indian look, something that you can’t find everywhere.” Mervine agrees that Bindi’s success is related to the unique style of the clothing and jewelry, but says it should also be attributed to

French Film Festival: ‘Eldorado’

7 p.m. Hughes-Trigg Theater. See “Eldorado” for free as part of SMU French Club’s 14th Annual Film Festival!

Student Senate Elections

12 a.m. through 3/25 at 5 p.m. Make sure you visit smu.edu/elections to vote for the candidate of your choice, so that your voice can be heard.

Gilroy’s approach. “She is very aggressive and just goes after what she wants,” Mervine said. “Her goals are clearly ambitious, and I think that’s definitely an attribute to how successful she has been. She’s made the right connections, she’s good at meeting people--networking, and--putting herself out there.” Gilroy gives much of her credit to the experiences in college. “I think the most powerful tool that SMU has is its networking capabilities,” she said. Gilroy was first introduced to the fashion industry during college with an internship at the magazine, “Glamour.” She made the connection to work for the magazine through a fellow member of her sorority, where she was a strong leader. “I really think I was able to get that internship because of the SMU network and connections within it,” she said. She also believes that studying journalism prepared her with extensive researching skills, which is how she found out how to run a business in the first place. In the beginning, she was traveling to India every three to four weeks to pick new inventory and to help design, where the ability to make quick, yet educated business decisions was imperative. “I was finding things that I knew would be good PR pieces mostly, because my training prepared me for that part,” she said. A few months ago Gilroy relocated to New York City, where she runs her business out of her apartment telecommunicating with her teams of sales representatives across the nation and her designers in Mumbai, India. “I have slowed down, now I still go to India

SMUST: The Pillowman

8 p.m. Meadows Basement B450. Directed by Martin McDonagh, this student-run production will this weekend for free. Come out and support your peers.

SMU Japanese Film Festival 2010

6:30, daily through 3/27, Hughes-Trigg. March 26 (Friday): The Machine Girlsl; March 27 (Saturday): Sukiyaki Western Django

every couple of months,” Gilroy said. “Work is definitely my life, but I love it.” The entrepreneur said she always imagined she would be in editorial right now, but everything just seemed to fall into place with her business. “It was fate,” she said of meeting the designers in India and her sales representatives. “When it happens organically you know it’s right.” To shop the collection of colorful handmade kaftans and jewelry, visit bybindi.com.

Bindi ‘Indie Blues’ kaftan, $78.

Bindi ‘Indian Red’ kaftan, $78.

Vipul Arts gold earrings

Police Reports FEBRUARY 27 11:52 p.m., McElvaney Hall/6000 Bishop Blvd.: A student was referred to the Student Conduct Office for underage drinking. Closed.

FEBRUARY 28 2:08 a.m., Dyer Court Lot/3000 Dyer Court: A student was assaulted by a former student. Open.

FEBRUARY 28

MARCH 1

11:38 p.m., Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports/6000 Airline Rd.: A student reported theft of his IPOD, ear phones and a ten dollar bill. Open.

1:13 a.m., Smith Hall/6020 Hillcrest Avenue: A staff member reported damage to ceiling tiles on the second floor. Open.

11:52 p.m., Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports/6000 Airline Rd.: A student reported theft of his driver’s license. Open.

3:04 a.m., Fondren Library/6414 Hyer Lane. A student was arrested and booked into University Park jail and referred to the Student Conduct Office for possessing controlled substance. sClosed.

Entertainment

The Daily Campus FASHION

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 •

MUSIC

Neiman Marcus and Highland Park Village open new boutiques

Sri Lankans boycott Akon concert, create media frenzy

By SHELBY FOSTER Contributing Writer slfoster@smu.edu

Despite the state of the national economy, the fashion market in Texas is booming. As the industry awakens from its annual winter hibernation, Dallas welcomes two new shopping experiences to the fashion scene. Neiman Marcus announced this month the opening of the CUSP boutique within the NorthPark Center location. CUSP offers a refined variety of contemporary clothing, accessories, shoes and bags that focus on the consumer’s personal interest and style. The boutique is not just another department in the luxury retailer, but a space all its own. CUSP accounts for around 2,000 square feet of the store. The section has been structured in a fresh and innovative way, arranged by trend and straying away from the normal set-up of designer sections. The CUSP boutique appeared on the Dallas fashion scene with a bang. Nicole Richie made a personal appearance to promote her Winter Kate line March 4, already creating hype about the boutique. Other designers available for purchase at CUSP include French Connection, Kite and Butterfly and Parker and Torn. “The new CUSP shops within Neiman Marcus stores create an even more dynamic and exciting shopping experience for our customers,” President and CEO Karen Katz said. “Like Neiman Marcus, CUSP has a highly edited point of view of fashion and the trends that appreciates and inspires our customer’s sense of personal style.” Katz also recognizes that CUSP gives them the opportunity to

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A dress by Winter Kate, Nicole Richie’s new line, which is now available at CUSP. “experiment with new collections and emerging fashion ideas.” The innovative concept of CUSP is not exclusive to Dallas, however. Neiman Marcus is inserting branch versions of the boutique in Atlanta and San Francisco as well. But Highland Park Village is known for harboring the most premiere designer shops in North Texas, and is gearing up for a new addition in the form of red-soled shoes. That’s right – Texas is finally getting a Christian Louboutin boutique.

“Bringing such a dynamic designer to Highland Park Village is extremely exciting for us,” partner and director of Leasing for the center Stephen Summers said. “Our focus is to provide our clientele with cutting edge and classic, iconic brands…words that are synonymous with Christian Louboutin.” The store, a 1,300 square foot space formerly occupied by Banana Republic, will officially open around the corner from Patrizio in the fall.

Protesters outraged at an upcoming concert by R&B singer Akon hurled stones at a Sri Lankan private broadcaster’s headquarters Monday, injuring four workers and damaging the building. Police spokesman Prishantha Jayakody said several protesters against the Akon concert were taken into custody after throwing rocks at the headquarters of the Majaraja Organization, the broadcaster sponsoring the concert scheduled for April in Colombo. About 200 people suddenly gathered outside the office in the capital Colombo and threw stones at the building, said Shevan Daniel, an employee of Maharaja Organization.

MUSIC

New information comes forward concerning Michael Jackson’s death By ASSOCIATED PRESS

As Michael Jackson lay dying in his bedroom in a rented mansion, his doctor stopped CPR on him and delayed calling paramedics so he could collect drug vials at the scene, according to an employee of the pop star who called 911. Alberto Alvarez, who worked as Jackson’s logistics director, told investigators that after receiving a distress call from another worker June 25, he rushed up the stairs of Jackson’s home and entered a bedroom to find the singer lying on a bed with his arms outstretched and his eyes and mouth open. At his side, Jackson’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, was administering CPR with one hand. “Alberto, Alberto, come quickly,” Murray said, according to a statement obtained by The Associated Press. “He had a reaction, he had a bad reaction.” Two of the star’s children, Prince and Paris, came in the room and cried as they saw Murray trying to save their father. Jackson’s death at age 50 was ruled a homicide caused by an overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol and other sedatives. The possibility that Murray may have tried to hide evidence is likely to be a focus as prosecutors move ahead with their involuntary manslaughter case against him. Alvarez told police he arrived at Jackson’s home around 10:20 a.m. Jackson’s personal assistant Michael Amir Williams, said Jackson was in trouble. Alvarez said he was “frozen and stunned” when he saw Jackson on the bed. Murray then grabbed a few vials with rubber tops and told Alvarez to put them in a bag, Alvarez told investigators.

Alvarez said Murray told him to remove an IV bag from a stand and put it in a blue canvas bag. He did, and noticed the bag had a connector with a milky white substance in it. Alvarez didn’t say what happened to the bags, nor did he identify what was in the vials. Two days after Jackson’s death, under several hours of questioning by police, Murray eventually directed them to a closet in Jackson’s bedroom. In it, they found propofol and other sedatives in a bag. Murray’s lawyer, Ed Chernoff, rejected the notion his client tried to hide drugs. He also noted Alvarez was interviewed twice by police and gave different accounts of what happened in Jackson’s bedroom. During the first interview, Alvarez did not mention being told to tidy away medicine vials. On the day Jackson died, Murray waited until the bags were filled before telling Alvarez to call 911, according to Alvarez’s statement. The documents also detail an odd encounter with Murray after Jackson was declared dead at a nearby hospital. Murray insisted he needed to return to the mansion to get cream that Jackson had “so the world wouldn’t find out about it,” according to the statements, which provide no elaboration. Alvarez and the others who gave the statements, Williams and driver/ bodyguard Faheem Muhammad, could be key witnesses should Murray go to trial. Except for the brief appearances by the nanny and the children, Alvarez and Muhammad were the only others in the room with Murray as he tried to save Jackson before paramedics arrived.

Joel Ryan/ AP Photo Murray, 57, a cardiologist licensed in Nevada, California and Texas, has acknowledged briefly leaving Jackson’s bedside the day he died but maintained from the outset that nothing he gave the singer should have killed him. It wasn’t illegal for him to administer propofol, though whether he followed proper procedures while

Jackson was under the influence is a key part of the case. California Attorney General Jerry Brown’s office has asked a court to suspend Murray’s license pending the outcome of criminal proceedings against him.

Four workers suffered injuries that were not serious, he said. The stones shattered some of the office’s windows and damaged several vehicles parked outside the building. Placards left at the scene read, “Stop Akon’s show.” Some Sri Lankans accuse Akon of desecrating an image of Buddha in a music video. The video “Sexy Chick” features scantily clad women dancing at a pool party with a Buddha statue

visible in the background. Sri Lanka’s ethnic majority Sinhalese are mainly Buddhists. Maharaja Organization has three television and four radio channels and they have come under attack in the past, too. Last year, a group of armed men attacked its studio and transmission compound, tossing hand grenades and spraying the building with gunfire. There was no clear motive for that attack.

2x3.5 Revente’

Opinion

• Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Voters should put an end to partisan invective

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ith passage by the House of Representatives last Sunday and President Obama’s signature yesterday, the health care reform bill finally became law, ending months of partisan vitriol. The end of the debate came Nathaniel French none too soon. In the final hours before passage, Representative Randy Neugebauer, a Republican from Lubbock, put a final cherry on top of the sundae of invective we’ve been subjected to for so long. As Bart Stupak, the Michigan Democrat whose opposition to abortion nearly derailed the bill, spoke on the floor, Neugebauer shouted out, “Baby killer.” Texans should be so proud. Of course, Neugebauer later apologized to Stupak and said he was referring to the bill itself and not his colleague from Michigan. Whether or not this is true, his outburst was still shameful; there are lots of complaints to be had with Congress and

its laws, but infanticide is not one of them. Neugebauer’s remark wasn’t an isolated incident; over the past year or so, hate-filled rhetoric has become increasingly prevalent around the country. In the debate over health care reform alone we were treated to armed protesters showing up at town hall meetings, Sarah Palin’s accusations of impending “death panels” and Harry Reid’s dismissal of protesters as “evil-mongers.” Other incidents have marred our civil discourse in the past year. Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina shouted, “You lie” during a speech by Obama to the joint chambers of Congress. Many criticized Samuel Alito for mouthing, “not true” when Obama blasted a Supreme Court decision in his most recent State of the Union, although I give Alito credit for saying it under his breath rather than interrupting the speech as Wilson would have done. I was more disheartened by the way in which Obama took direct aim at the court from the bully pulpit while the justices had to sit there and silently take it. But the award for most offensive comment has to

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oogle and China are at a standoff. Google has tried to circumvent China’s famously oppressive censorship of its site by redirecting millions of Chinese viewers to the uncensored site in Hong Kong. In response, China has cracked down on its Internet users and blocked them from the site. China has made much progress in the past few decades as it has begun to transition to a more vibrant market economy. But many changes need to be made, especially in the arena of human rights. By placing pressure on China to loosen its grip on information, Google is standing up to an abusive government. Everyone who believes in human rights should stand behind the search engine as it fights for intellectual freedom --Nathaniel French Opinion Editor

uring the opening games of the N.C.A.A. Men’s basketball tournament, the three week long tournament to determine the best team in the land, I sat myself in the “M” Lounge to watch the games on the large projector screen that was set specifically for this

occasion. A few others were gathered in there, but as the clock slowly wound down towards the end of the second half of the first games, a small crowd magically appeared to watch the closing seconds of the game. I even noticed some of the workers taking a peak for a few minutes. I was recounting in my head the teams I had selected for my tournament bracket. I had selected Brigham Young to beat out Florida and Villanova over Robert Morris, which were the games playing at the moment. As time wound down, everyone was bracing to see if anyone would make big plays in any of the games that were unfolding. The room would be dead quiet from all the tension building up in the room. When the clutch shots were made, people would jump up for joy or let out gasps of disappointment. Regardless of whoever wins or loses, each game is magical in its own right and makes everyone get up off their seats to prepare for the potential buzzer beater that could send the favorite pick crumbling down. This past week has completely epitomized the phrase “March Madness,” as this tournament has been lovingly referred to. Teams like Georgetown,

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Villanova, Vanderbilt and Kansas fell to the lower-seeded teams that no one expected to see make it this far. Cornell, Northern Iowa, Saint Mary’s and Washington had to overcome good teams to make it this far and, while everyone loves a Cinderella team, anyone who has an N.C.A.A. bracket had it broken thanks to these and other teams. Of the over five million brackets made on ESPN.com, no one has a perfect board. Some, like me, have sections where their team fell from the upper reaches of the bracket, now allowing them to root for Cornell to stun Kentucky or Saint Mary’s to beat Baylor. This tournament has been filled with so many buzzer beaters and overtime games that the faint of heart could not handle this much stress. I love this time of year for all of the craziness and hype that is created by these games. Regardless of if you are an avid basketball fan, or even a sports fan, you have to respect and honor this time of year. Every senior is playing his heart out, hoping to end his sports career with a championship win. You have to root for these players, hope for more buzzer beaters and enjoy watching each player play like he has nothing to lose. Even our president, as he’s signing his health care reform bill. is checking his bracket to see that his pick for the national champion, Kansas, lost to Northern Iowa, crippling his otherwise good bracket.

have a few issues with the editorial board making their recent student body officer endorsements, and they are all given with the utmost respect to the Daily Campus. The first is that the Daily Campus, as a newspaper, could better serve its readers by listing the talking points of all candidates, as opposed to focusing on just one for each position. These couple of weeks are a time to filter through the ubiquitous Facebook groups and campaign posters in search of the one or two things that make a person go “Hey, that’s a great idea. I’d like to see that happen”. From the amount of information I’ve heard about each candidate, they all have very diverse plans for how to improve the experience of an SMU student, and perhaps what might be important to the four people interviewing them could be different from the 5,000 other SMU undergrads. Continuing on that point, though I appreciate the service that Daily Campus writers and editors give to our school, none of them were elected to be the voice of the student body. Though I know they are an independent source in principle and have every right to state their opinion on the issue, they should apply tact in doing so. Though it is not officially an SMU entity, the paper is available everywhere and to everyone on campus. In much the same way as it would seem silly for me to make posters titled “Eric Park’s opinions on Student Body Officers” and put them up all over campus, I believe it is irresponsible for the Daily Campus editorial board to advertise their own opinions (I do acknowledge the irony of this sentence in the context of my opinion article that I intend for students to read). Though I would not attack the editorial board’s unbiased approach to interviewing and endorsing candidates, the fact remains that more than likely the members of the board had personal relationships with candidates or those close to the candidates which, due to human nature, affected their endorsements, whether consciously or unconsciously. This article is a humble suggestion from a student who believes in the power of a studentrun news source but would hope that the Daily Campus in the future would show respect to the candidates and to the student body by advertising the candidates and the issues, not their personal opinions. P.S. To SMU students, if you are planning on voting in the Student Body elections, do it based off of your own knowledge and opinions, not someone else’s.

Bryan Manderscheid is a freshman engineering major. He can be reached for comment at bmandersch@smu.edu

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go to Reid, who has been quoted as saying privately during the last presidential election that voters would accept Obama because he is “light-skinned” and speaks “with no Negro dialect.” Oops. Voters shouldn’t stand for this kind of thing anymore. Incivility has become the most pervasive political problem around the country. It infects all branches of government and leads to polarization and posturing. The only way to change the culture of partisanship that’s befallen this country is to stand up to its demagogues. We can no longer elect men and women so insensitive that they’ll stand up and shout at the president while he addresses Congress. It’s that kind of rhetoric—from both parties—that has prevented real progress. Voters in South Carolina, Texas and Reid’s home state of Nevada should take the November elections to show they won’t reward this kind of behavior. Around the country, we must say as one, “Enough is enough.”

he current generation of kindergartners to 12th graders — those born between 1991 and 2004 — has no memory of a time before Google. But although these students are far more tech savvy than their parents and are perpetually connected to the Internet, they know a lot less than they think. As a librarian in the Pasadena, Calif., Unified School District, I teach students research skills. But I’ve just been pinkslipped, along with five other middle school and high school librarians, and only a parcel tax on the city’s May ballot can save the district’s libraries. Closing libraries

is always a bad idea, but for the Google generation, it could be disastrous. In a time when information literacy is increasingly crucial to life and work, not teaching kids how to search for information is like sending them out into the world without knowing how to read. Instead of simply navigating books and the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature — an annual index of magazine and newspaper articles used in the olden days — today’s students sift through an infinite number of options: books, Internet sources, academic databases. Much of the time they opt for Google, which is like being tossed into the ocean without a paddle. An info-literate student can find the right bit of information amid the sea of

irrelevance and misinformation. But any college librarian will tell you that freshman research skills are absolutely abysmal. Before they graduate from high school, students need to be able to understand the phenomenal number of information options at their fingertips, learn how to work with non-Google-style search queries, avoid plagiarism and judge whether the facts before them were culled by an expert in the field or tossed off by a crackpot in the basement. Librarians can show students how to judge a Web site and how to avoid landing on bogus ones. We can also train them to come up with the kind of precision search terms that could save them hours of sorting through a heap of useless hits.

Instead of laying off librarians, we should be studying how children think about information and technology. We need professionals to advocate for teaching information literacy from an early age. We need librarians to love books — to inspire kids to turn off the screen sometimes and get caught up in a story — but we also need them to train students to manipulate search engines and databases, to think about them in a fresh way. Instead of closing library doors, we need to give librarians the time to teach what they know: basic research survival skills that are as important as reading, writing and math. If we don’t teach our kids to take charge of information, they will get swept aside by it.

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Voting Rights Act when those were passed. “If you want to look in the face of a parent whose child now has health care insurance and say we’re repealing that ... go right ahead.” A 14th state, Virginia, did not join the bigger lawsuit, but filed its own, which other states are also considering. McCollum, a Republican running for governor, has been talking about suing to overturn the bill since December. This month he invited other attorneys general to join him. So far South Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Michigan, Utah, Pennsylvania, Alabama, South Dakota, Idaho, Washington, Colorado and Louisiana have agreed. All the attorneys general are Republican except James “Buddy” Caldwell of Louisiana, a Democrat, who said he signed on because Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal asked him to and he felt the effort had merit. The lawsuit, filed in Pensacola, asks a judge to declare the bill unconstitutional because “the Constitution nowhere authorizes the United States to mandate, either directly or under threat of penalty, that all citizens and legal residents have qualifying health care coverage.” Robert Sedler, a constitutional law professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, said the effort isn’t going anywhere. “This is pure, pure political posturing and they have to know it,” he said. But South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley disputed that characterization, saying his state will have to cut education and other programs to make up for increased Medicaid costs under the overhaul. “This isn’t about attorneys general trying to break into the realm of telling what needs to happen with health care reform,” he said. “This is attorneys general saying you went too far with unfunded federal mandates. You exceeded your power under the Constitution.” Not so, said Bruce Jacob, a

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expenses such as security. Spano suggested taking the process one step at a time by focusing on the usage fee first and addressing the extraneous expenses later. “I definitely think that this is attainable,” Spano said. “I think

that there should be no reason to charge the students, especially when they’re giving to a charitable organization, because that’s a wonderful thing.” Student Body President Patrick Kobler says it’s too soon to know if the legislation will be passed. “I think that all depends on who

the next student body president, because the way our system works is that once legislation has passed, it’s up to that person, whether it is a he or a she, to go talk to Dr. White and Dr. Turner to convince them to change,” Kobler said.

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Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter speaks to reporters in his ceremonial office accompanied by other elected state officials in Boise, Idaho on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 on the state’s decision to sue the federal government over health care reform legislation.

constitutional law professor at Stetson University in Florida, who said the suit seems like a political ploy and is unlikely to succeed. “The federal government certainly can compel people to pay taxes, can compel people to join the Army,” he said. Some more states, including Missouri, may join the multistate suit. Still others are looking at other ways to avoid participating, like passing legislation to block requirements in the bill. McCollum predicted his suit would eventually end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. The health care bill “is not lawful,” he said. “It may have passed Congress, but there are three branches of government.” The lawsuit claims the health care bill violates the 10th Amendment, which says the federal government has no authority beyond the powers granted to it under the Constitution, by forcing the states to carry out its provisions but not reimbursing them for the costs. Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, a Democrat, said she strongly disagrees with Attorney General Rob McKenna’s decision to sue, calling the lawsuit an effort to “gut the bill.” “There is no reason why we need

to spend taxpayer money in the state of Washington to join this suit, when it’s going to be litigated no matter what,” she said. The lawsuit also says the states can’t afford the new law. Using Florida as an example, it says the overhaul will add almost 1.3 million people to the state’s Medicaid rolls and cost the state an additional $150 million in 2014, growing to $1 billion a year by 2019. “We simply cannot afford to do the things in this bill that we’re mandated to do,” McCollum said at a press conference after filing the suit. He said the Medicaid expansion in Florida will cost $1.6 billion, including administrative and other costs. Under the bill, starting in six months, health insurance companies would be required to keep young adults as beneficiaries on their parents’ plans until they turn 26, and companies would no longer be allowed to deny coverage to sick children. No Republicans in the U.S. House or Senate voted for the bill, which Justice Department spokesman Charles Miller in Washington said his agency will vigorously defend. “We are confident that this statute is constitutional and we will prevail when we defend it,” he said.

do care about student organizations and do participate. But I’m only one person; I can only be in so many places at one time.” Torres asked fellow Presidential candidate Kellie Spano (who has written articles for The Daily Campus) how she planned to implement one of her goals: having scholarships increase with inflation and rising tuition costs. Spano responded by saying this could be accomplished by tapping into the rainy day fund, redoing the irrigation system on the Main Quad or fundraising. She emphasized that there were many ways money could be found if SMU reduced its water and energy consumption. Benage asked Spano about the “sudden influx” of legislation from her in recent weeks, wondering why it hadn’t been more spread out. Spano replied saying that it had not been a sudden influx and that she had been working on legislation since last semester. One student asked Ehmke why

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he sponsored a piece of legislation that would have allowed anonymous submissions of legislation in Senate. Ehmke responded by saying he was trying to bring consistency to the rules of senate, since the bylaws allow for a secret vote. Ehmke would prefer there be no secret votes or secret legislation, but says that one cannot be present in the constitution without the other. Vice Presidential candidate Matthew Neman declined to direct a question to one of his fellow

candidates, saying he’d rather have the time go to students so they could ask a question. Later he expressed his desire to run, saying that he was frustrated with legislation getting passed but not implemented. Secretary candidates Katie Perkins and Austin Poynter both asked each other questions. Poynter wanted to know what Perkins would do to help SMU students. Poynter has not passed any legislation during his time in Senate.

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Sports

• Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The Daily Campus

MEN’S TENNIS

MARCH MADNESS

SMU ready for rivalry match

Didn’t see that coming: Mid-major schools wreck the big dance

By STEPHEN LU Sports Editor sjlu@smu.edu

The SMU men’s tennis team defeated Oral Roberts University last Friday for their second win in a row. The match against the Lions was the second meeting between the two teams this season. In their last matchup, which took place Jan. 16, the Mustangs beat Oral Roberts 4-0. Things have not changed much since then. SMU’s No. 1 doubles team, which consists of juniors Darren Walsh and Adham el-Effendi, is currently ranked No. 29 in the nation. They defeated Oral Robert’s No. 1 doubles team in quick fashion, 8-1. To make it an even more impressive feat, the Lions’ duo of Igor Sobolta and Mikhail Trukshanin were undefeated prior to the match, winning all three of their matches. “I’m really excited about our No. 1 doubles team,” head coach Carl Neufeld said in an interview with

smumustangs.com. “It’s good to see them improve and beat a team that came in previously undefeated.” After claiming the doubles point by sweeping all three matches, the Mustangs were almost as dominant in singles play. Junior Artem Baradach, ranked No. 57 in the nation, won his match in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1. Walsh played strongly in singles as well as doubles. Playing at No. 2 singles, the junior defeated Dmitry Suslov in straight sets, 6-1, 6-1, for his fifth consecutive victory. Freshman Tobias Flood was the only SMU player to concede a point, dropping a hard fought match to Trukshanin at No. 3 singles, 6-3, 7-5. The Mustangs face a tougher opponent in No. 42 TCU tonight. The Horned Frogs are 6-5 on the season, but have dropped three of their last four matches. The match will be played at 5 p.m. at Turpin Tennis Center.

NCAA Bracket Sweet Sixteen Northern Iowa

Kentucky

Michigan State

Cornell

Tennessee

Washington

Ohio State

West Virginia

Syracuse

Duke

Butler

Purdue

Xavier

Baylor

Kansas State

Saint Mary

Paul returns, Hornets defeat Dallas 115-99 By BRETT MARTEL Associated Press

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Dallas Stars’ Stephane Robidas and goalie Marty Turco defend the goal against Phoenix Coyotes’ Martin Hanzal.

Coyotes beat Stars for 9th straight win By ASSOCIATED PRESS

DALLAS (AP) — Another shootout, another win for the Phoenix Coyotes. Adrian Aucoin scored in the fourth round of the tiebreaker and the Coyotes matched a franchise record with their ninth straight victory, 3-2 over the Dallas Stars on Sunday night. The Coyotes improved to 12-4 in shootouts this season and have won eight straight tiebreakers, five during the ninegame streak. “For a team that not supposed to have a lot of skill, we’re finding ways to win, especially in a shootout,” Phoenix goalie Jason LaBarbera said. “We just have so much confidence in this room right now and I think that’s the big difference. The confidence right now is unreal and you just want to compete hard for the guy next to you and it’s working well.” The Winnipeg Jets, who moved to Phoenix in 1996, also won nine in a row from March 8-27, 1985. Closing in on its first playoff berth since 2002, Phoenix has 97 points to match Chicago for the most in the Western Conference. The Coyotes are the biggest surprise in the league, moving past San Jose to take over the top spot in the Pacific Division. Brad Richards scored in the first round for Dallas, but the Stars’ next three shooters failed to convert against LaBarbera. Radim beat Marty Turco on the backhand in the third round, and Aucoin was successful for the fifth time in five shootout attempts this season to give the Coyotes the extra point. “He’s our closer,” Coyotes coach Dave Tippett said of Aucoin. Aucoin takes a basic approach in shootouts. “I just go there and shoot it,” Aucoin said. “I dont want to deke or lose the puck.” Petr Prucha and Vrbata had power-play goals for Phoenix. LaBarbera made 30 saves. He got the assignment after Ilya Bryzgalov stopped 34 shots on Saturday night when Phoenix beat Chicago 5-4 in a shootout. The Coyotes should have been dragging after arriving in Dallas during a rare snowstorm at 3 a.m. Sunday, but they had enough left to prevail in another tiebreaker.

“What can you say about this group that hasn’t already been said?” said Tippett, fired by the Stars after last season. “Every night I say I’m concerned about this or that, and they just keep coming up with big efforts. To get in here last night at 3 o’clock...and get very little sleep, and the emotional hard game we played last night, we played very well.” Rookie Jamie Benn and Loui Eriksson had goals, and Turco stopped 33 shots for the Stars, 3-6-2 since the Olympic break. Dallas has 76 points with 10 games left and is in danger of missing the playoffs for the second straight season. That hasn’t happened since 1987 and ‘88 when the franchise was in Minnesota. “Give our guys lots of credit,” Stars coach Marc Crawford said. “No quit in them. They kept fighting. They battled hard. We got a point out of it, but at the same time, those things just crush you.” The Coyotes took a 2-1 lead into the third period before Eriksson tied it on a deflection at 7:11. “We got it back in the third, but we need all the points we can get and we lost one today,” Eriksson said. LaBarbera made a sprawling glove save on Benn with 3 minutes left in regulation to keep the score even at 2. Turco had posted consecutive shutouts against the Coyotes, stopping 82 consecutive shots against them before Prucha’s power-play goal with 0.9 seconds left in the first period. Vrbata set up Prucha’s goal, then scored himself on Phoenix’s second power play of the night, striking from the left circle at 2:23 of the second period for a 2-0 edge. Dallas was energized when Benn went in on a breakaway and batted his own rebound past LaBarbera at 3:45 of the second period. NOTES: Dallas is 5-10 in shootouts this season. ... Eriksson had gone seven games without a goal before scoring his 26th to take over the team lead. ... The Stars ended a six-game homestand 2-2-2. ... Stars C Mike Modano missed his fourth straight game following an appendectomy. ... The Coyotes were without C Robert Lang (lower body). ... Dallas had 16 successful penaltykills before Prucha’s goal. ... Turco returned after Kari Lehtonen started the previous three games. ... The Stars scored 15 goals in their previous three games.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Chris Paul played for the first time in 25 games, and Marcus Thornton scored 28 points to help the Hornets to a 115-99 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Monday night. Returning from a left knee injury, Paul started but was limited to 21 minutes and had 11 points. He helped New Orleans pull away in the fourth quarter, but rookie Darren Collison ran the floor when the Hornets had a remarkable run of 23 straight points from late in the second quarter until early in the third to take a lead they would not relinquish. David West had 25 points and 10 assists, Morris Peterson had a season-high 20 points and Collison scored 16 for the Hornets. Jason Terry scored 24 for Dallas, which squandered a 16-point firstquarter lead. After shooting only 32 percent in the first quarter (7 of 22), the Hornets went 38 of 61 (62 percent) from the field during the rest of the game. The Hornets led 60-45 after their 23-0 run. The closest Dallas got after that was when Jason Terry hit a 3 to make it 73-66 with 3:06 to go in the third period. Peterson responded with a 3, and soon after, West hit a couple of jumpers and had a steal to set up Collison’s fast-break dunk to put the Hornets up 82-70 heading into the fourth quarter. Darius Songaila opened the fourth quarter with a jumper from the top of the key and Paul scored his first points on a baseline fade with 11:05 remaining in the game. Paul later added three 3-pointers as the Hornets built a lead as large as 21. Dallas still finished shooting 52 percent (42 of 81), but was hurt by porous defense and 20 turnovers, which the Hornets converted into 35 points. Dirk Nowitzki scored 16 points for the Mavericks, while Shawn Marion added 14 and Caron Butler 12. Paul’s return energized the crowd during pregame introductions, but the Hornets struggled out of the gate. Marion’s steal and fast-break dunk capped an early 17-2 run that staked Dallas to a 19-5 lead. Dallas shot 67 percent (14 of 21) in the first quarter, including 4 of 5 from 3-point range, and the first of Terry’s two 3s in the quarter stretched the Mavericks’ lead 27-11. His second 3 made it 32-16. The Hornets responded with a stunning second quarter, with Collison, who had eight assists, the most by a Hornets reserve this season. An 11-2 run early in the second

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Dallas Mavericks guard Jason Terry shoots in front of New Orleans Hornets guard Morris Peterson in the second half of a game in New Orleans, Monday, March 22, 2010.

quarter, capped by West’s jump hook over Nowitzki, got the Hornets back in it at 36-30. Dallas built its lead back to 11 on Butler’s jumper, which made it 43-32. That’s when New Orleans took over, outscoring the Mavs 22-2 during the rest of the period to vault into the lead. Peterson, who had 14 points in the first half, started the run with a layup and a 3 from the corner. After Rodrigue Beaubois hit a tough layup for Dallas, West came back with six

straight points on a reverse layup and two jumpers. Collison followed with a jumper and a putback of Thornton’s fast-break miss. Songaila scored on a heady bounce pass from James Posey on an inbound play. Then Thornton hit a fast-break layup to cap a 15-0 Hornets run to close the period, giving New Orleans a 52-45 halftime lead. The Hornets then opened the second half on an 8-0 run highlighted by Thornton’s two 3-pointers.