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INSIDE

Look outside the bubble for theatre

Examining the GMO problem

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Meadows deserves attention

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Mustangs face LSU in NIT

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Elections

Student body officer candidates announced STAFF REPORTS Candidates for Student Senate leadership became official last night.

Incumbent Student Body President Ramon Trespalacios will be running for re-election.

He faces competition from Mia Kim. Monica Finnegan, Chase Harker and William O’Connor will each be on the ticket for

Vice President.

Candidates for Senate Secretary are Anna Norkett and Elliott Bouillion.

Look for profiles on the candidates in The Daily Campus throughout the week.

Endorsements by the Editorial Board will be published March 31.

Voting for Student Senate candidates will begin April 2 at midnight and will end April 3 at 5 p.m.

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Analysis

Harlan and Katherine Raymond Crow have donated $5 million to support the building of the Kathy Crow Commons.

Crows donate to Commons Jehadu Abshiro News Writer jabshiro@smu.edu

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Wendy Davis is counting on the women’s vote in running for governor.

Women’s issues could dominate election Associated PRess Women’s pay and health care are taking over the headlines in the Texas governor’s race, and for good reason: Women comprise the majority of voters.

U.S. Census data shows that in the 2012 general election, 4.72 million Texas women cast ballots compared to 3.92 million men. Democrats know that Wendy Davis can’t make it to the governor’s mansion without female supporters turning out in big numbers, and that statistic gives them hope.

Campaigns also believe women are less likely to vote straight-party tickets, taking the time to choose individual candidates and cross party lines. The 2012 election

also saw the largest gender gap in Gallup’s polling history, with President Barack Obama winning among women by 12 percentage points, while Republican Mitt Romney had an 8-point advantage with men.

The Davis campaign was thrilled to see wage discrimination law and equal pay policies take center stage last week, and Planned Parenthood Votes announced its entry into the election scrum to highlight women’s health issues.

With GOP nominee Greg Abbott the hands-down favorite, his campaign must work to maintain the majority of women voters routinely won by

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Harlan and Katherine Raymond Crow of Dallas have committed $5 million toward the construction of the Kathy Crow Commons in SMU’s new Residential Commons complex.

Katherine Crow is a member of the SMU Board of Trustees and an alumna of Cox School of Business.

The Commons, which is scheduled to open in the fall, includes five new residential buildings, a dining commons and a parking center designed to accommodate 1,250 students. The complex is part of a larger SMU initiative to enable all first-year students and sophomores to live on campus.

“This gift from Harlan and Kathy Crow will support a campus home and gathering place for generations of students,” said SMU President R. Gerald Turner in a press release.

The new residential community is made of 11 commons, created from new and existing residential buildings. The Commons will have live-in faculty members who will have offices and teach classes in onsite classrooms.

“We have studied numerous institutions with strong residential communities,” said Vice President

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for Student Affairs Lori White in a press release. “We know the Residential Commons model will strengthen the SMU experience by enhancing student involvement opportunities and creating common bonds and friendships among diverse groups of students.”

The Commons is the largest single financial undertaking for the university and draws inspiration from Duke University, Vanderbilt University, University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania.

“Research shows that multiyear housing on campus has been linked to higher retention rates and a greater sense of camaraderie among students.

Faculty-in-residence will expand opportunities for learning, informal interactions and mentoring,” siad Paul Ludden, SMU provost and vice president for academic affairs.

The Commons are supposed to create a stronger sense of community at SMU. “I think it’s a wonderful thing that a single facet will make a huge change in SMU culture,”Associate Director of Development for Student Affairs Arlene Manthey said. “It’s elevating campus life to a new level with more faculty involvement and more opportunites to learn for students.”

Harlan Crow serves as chairman and CEO of Crow Family Holdings, serves on the board of directors of the American Enterprise Institute, the Southwestern Medical Foundation, the Supreme Court Historical Society, the George W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation and the American Antiquarian Society.

Along with Kathy Crow’s

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Turkey shoots down Syrian warplane

SMU hosts summer camp program

Associated PRess Turkish fighter jets shot down a Syrian warplane Sunday after it violated the country’s airspace, Turkey’s prime minister said, in a move likely to ramp up tensions between two countries already deeply at odds over Syria’s civil war.

A spokesman for Syria’s military confirmed the incident, denouncing it as a “blatant aggression.” The unnamed spokesman quoted on Syrian state TV said the plane was hit while pursuing gunmen near the border, and that the pilot safely ejected from the aircraft.

Turkey, a NATO member that once enjoyed good ties with Syria, has emerged as one of the strongest critics of Syrian President Bashar Assad and is now one of the main backers of the 3-year-old rebellion against him. Hostilities have flared along the border on several occasions, although the exchanges of fire have generally been brief and

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AVery Stefan Contributing Writer astefan@smu.edu This summer, SMU will offer up its main campus and Plano campus to almost 30 different camps and programs in six different categories, providing kids and teenagers in the Dallas and surrounding areas the opportunity to explore their academic, athletic and artistic interests.

Marilyn Swanson, the director of programming for Gifted Students Institute and Pre-college Programs, explained how the programs offer an environment where students can learn more about their interests, and about SMU. “These summer programs provide an opportunity for students to explore life on the SMU campus while studying with SMU professors,” Swanson said.

“Some students find their future field of study or career during their SMU experience.”

The six categories of summer programs and camps include: sports camps/athletic programs,

Meadows School of the Arts summer programs, ID tech camps, summer camps at Lyle School of Engineering, summer camps at Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development and the summer youth program at SMU-in-Plano.

Between each category, the camps differ in age range, cost to participate and duration.

For example, the SMU-inPlano program is comprised of more than 60 one-week workshops covering engaging topics including LEGO camps, science, creative arts and music programs. Students in grades K-12 participates in any number of sessions, the cost ranging from $189 to $825.

Lisa Kays, associate director at Continuing and Professional Education (CAPE), explained that although programs are just a week long for the SMU-in-Plano camp, that length of time focused on one subject allows students to, “dive deep into projects, technologies or subject areas that are small components of their classroom experience during the school year.”

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position on the SMU Board of Trustees, she has served on the boards of SMU’s Tate Lecture Series and the Women’s Economics and Financial Series at Cox School of Business.

“Harlan and I have been highly impressed by the leadership of R. Gerald Turner and others at SMU, and the positive momentum and aspirations of the University are infectious,” Kathy Crow said. “We were pleased to be able to help complete the drive to construct facilities that will enable the University to implement its vision for an enhanced SMU student experience.”

According to Brad Cheves, vice president for development and external affairs, the Crows’ gift fulfills one of the major goals of the Second Century Campaign, funding for the Residential Commons.

“The gifts of donors like the Crows not only assist our university financially, but also will make a lasting impact in SMU history,” said Arin McGovern, a member of the Residential Commons Leadership Corps. “Gifts from people like the Crows will be remembered as a fundamental part of creating identity in the commons system.”

The Crows’ gift counts toward the $1 billion goal of the Second Century Campaign, which has raised $844 million.

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“I am so impressed and amazed by what the program participants create in just a week – fantastic video games and digital films, beautiful works of art and more,” Kays said.

In the past 30 years, over 3,000 students have participated in SMU summer camps and have gone on to 200 plus colleges and universities including SMU to pursue degrees in many different fields.

“Living on campus gives the students opportunities to test their independence in a supervised setting while making lifelong friends,” Swanson said.

“The programs’ greatest accomplishment is to provide young students a safe place to be themselves and help them expand their learning.”

Participants come from a large and diverse geographical area and include students from public and private schools.

“We provide a connection for these students to the university, which we hope may eventually lead to their interest in attending

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A demolished house sits in the mud on Highway 530 in Washington.

Washington mudslide kills Associated PRess Eighteen people were unaccounted for a day after a terrifying wall of mud, trees and debris destroyed as many as 30 houses in rural northwestern Washington state and killed at least three people, authorities said Sunday.

Because of the quicksandlike mud, authorities said it was too dangerous to send rescuers into the stricken area.

Searchers instead flew over

the one-square-mile mudslide in helicopters, looking for signs of life.

Some of the missing may have been able to get out on their own, authorities said.

Authorities were also trying to determine how to get responders on the ground safely, Snohomish County Fire District 21 Chief Travis Hots said.

Officials described the mudslide as “a big wall of

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HEALTH GMO contamination obstructs organic crops and global trade 2

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Eastan Croson Health and Fitness Editor ecroson@smu.edu Genetically modified organisms are starting to cramp organic farmers’ style due to unintended contamination. Growing crops free from GMOs and pesticides pollution are becoming increasingly difficult and costly GMO and nonGMO farmers alike.

American chemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation, Monsanto Company, introduced genetically-modified crops back in 1996. Since then, many companies have sold a variety of genetically-engineered crops that resist Roundup herbicide and fight off harmful pests.

After more than 15 years of using GMOs, farmers continue to see an array of benefits. But resisting herbicide and deterring pests from ruining crops aren’t the results of using GM crops. This technology merges DNA from different species creating unstable combinations of plant, animal, bacterial and viral genes that can’t occur naturally.

Mixed opinions on the environmental and food production impact of GM crops foreshadows the possibility of unintended and unwanted consequences.

The large number of farmers using herbicide on GM crops has become a topic of concern according to a report issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Overuse of this herbicide leads to GM crops developing immunities to the chemicals being used to combat disease and pests, rendering the once effective herbicide useless.

As plants adapt and become more susceptible to natural selection, harvests are bound to be less fruitful.

GMO farmers producing large portions of the overall food supply realize they have a serious problem at hand.

The way in which GMOs are made disrupts the plant’s DNA in potentially harmful ways as well. Numerous organizations believe GMOs are unhealthy and emphasize non-GMO diets.

Animal studies showing organ damage, gastrointestinal and immune system disorders, accelerated aging and infertility.

Human studies have displayed how GM food leaves material behind inside the body.

The phrase “you are what you eat” takes on a whole new meaning and has the potential to cause longterm problems. Genes inserted into GM soy can transfer into the DNA of bacteria living inside the human body. Traces of toxic insecticide produced by GM corn was found in the blood of a decreased woman and her unborn child.

An overwhelming consensus among FDA scientists is that GM foods might result in unpredictable and hard-to-detect allergens, toxins, new diseases and nutritional problems.

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Countless health problems skyrocketed after the introduction of GMOs to the agriculture industry.

In nine years the percentage of Americans with three or more chronic illnesses jumped from 7 percent to 13 percent. Reports of food allergies rapidly increased, and disorders like autism, reproductive disorders and digestive problems have also been on the rise.

Health risks aren’t the only issue surrounding the use of GMOs either.

GMOs reproduce just like other plants — GMOs cross pollinate and their seeds can travel. These seeds are crossing over into non-GMO contaminated gene pools.

According to Food & Water Watch and the Organic Farmer’s, Inc. Agency for Relationship Marketing’s report, more than 30 percent of farmers trying to grow organic crops reported finding or suspecting unintended GMO presence on their farms.

The report based on information given by 268 farmers from 17 U.S. states, was one of the comments taken by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on plans for enhancing coexistence of non-GMO and GM crops during the public comment period.

Farmers growing non-GM crops have to take extensive measures and sometimes spend thousands of dollars in order to protect their crops from contamination of GM crops.

The level of non-GMO contamination by GM crops is a

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Spring Dance Concert, Bob Hope Theatre, 8 p.m.

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concern for all areas because some foreign buyers of U.S. crops will not accept genetically modified versions of food. Other domestic buyers also want only non-GMO foods.

Widespread of production of GM crops worldwide has given rise to a drastic increase of incidents where low levels of GMOs have been discovered in food and feed trading nations.

Contamination can cause financial loss as well as disrupting trade among nations when buyers reject loads that test positive for GMO presence. This disruption and profit loss is a result of some countries declaring shipments of food and feed as unacceptable if GMO levels are detected while other countries make decisions based on acceptable levels of GMOs for particular commodities.

GMO-contaminated food poses a threat to global trade according to a new study by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Taking soundings from 75 countries, the study found 198 incidents of GMO contamination in global trade between 2002 and 2012.

The FAO’s findings determined a “steep acceleration” after 2009, reporting 138 of the 198 total incidents occurred between 2009 and 2012.

Without any international agreement defining universal, acceptable levels of GMOs, the global trading situation has become over complicated due to varying acceptable GMO levels among countries.

Acceptable GMO levels in exporting countries may differ from permitted levels in importing countries.

The study found that the most incidents were involved with the trade of linseed, rice, maize and papaya originating mainly from the U.S., Canada and China.

These shipments are commonly destroyed or returned to senders if unacceptable GMO levels are discovered — disrupting trade among nations and creating economic losses for organic and non-GMO farmers attempting to

keep crops pure.

“The numbers of incidents are small relative to the millions of tons of food and feed traded every day,” FAO Senior Food Safety Officer and Researcher Renata Clarke said in a news release. “But because of trade disruptions, FAO conducted this survey and is holding a technical consolation to try to start a dialogue between countries on the issue.”

Clarke suggests that the FAO might barely be scratching the surface of what seems to be a growing issue among international trade of food and feed.

“We were surprised to see incidents from every region,” Clarke said. “It seems the more testing and more monitoring they do, the more incidents they find.”

The potential impact of GMO contamination is colossal, threatening the well-being of future generations. Self-propagating and long-lasting, the effects of GMO pollution outlast global warming and nuclear waste according the Institute for Responsible Technology.

Food & Water Watch has called for the USDA to begin tracking and analyzing incidences of contamination and associated economic losses at every level of the supply chain. The group wants the USDA to require GMO crop growers to have buffer zones between GMO and non-GMO crops along with holding biotech seed companies financially accountable for losses associated with contamination.

Other organizations are hard at work ensuring the sustained availability for non-GMO foods and products to consumers. The Non-GMO Project is a nonprofit organization committed to building the supply of non-GMO foods and provides verified non-GMO choices.

The organization’s product verification program is a process and product-based program designed to verify food and products in compliance with the Non-GMO Project’s standards. With core requirements such as traceability, segregation, and testing of highrisk ingredients; this verification process is handled by independent,

third-party technical administrators.

This year, more than half of the states are to consider the requirement of special labels on GMO foods. In a country where 80 percent of the food consumed contains GMOs, U.S. legislators question the effectiveness of policies such as GMO labeling.

The majority of farmers growing GM crops want nothing to do with the labels, and the fight has some state attorneys wondering if these laws will survive court challenges made by food producers. Win or lose, it will cost a pretty penny to defend major food producers.

The European Union has required GMO labeling since April 2004. Overall the American public supports labeling GMO foods, according to a 2013 poll by The New York Times, discovering 93 percent of respondents favored labeling.

The cost of GMO labeling would be a small fraction of the costs in compliance with labeling laws. The real costs would come from having to separate GM ingredients from other foods.

These extra expenses would most likely be passed on to the consumer, Washington’s state budget estimated a cost of $3.4 million over six years for the state to enforce label requirements. Voters considered and rejected the proposed labeling law last year.

Sixty-seven labeling bills have been introduced in 25 states and in a dozen states at least one legislative committee has approved a GMO bill. These labeling measures could come at a big price tag for consumers as well as the states defending label laws in court.

The growing support for nonGMO foods and products is a national movement, and critics and proponents of GMOs are calling for public policy to resolve the issues.

Avid supporters on both sides of the issue continue to complicate an already complex issue. As the problems around genetic engineering unfold, awareness about the risks and rewards of nonGMOs and GMOs is an essential advancement toward a solution.

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Senior wins Weil Award Jehadu Abshiro News Writer jabshiro@smu.edu

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Outgoing Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal, center left, greets supporters.

Algeria holds elections Associated PRess Algeria’s three-week presidential campaign kicked off Sunday with the incumbent president and his chief rival both promising to make this oilrich nation more democratic by amending the constitution.

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who will be running for his fourth five-year term, will be largely sitting out the campaign and relying on deputies to present his case after a stroke last year left the 77-year-old in a wheelchair with trouble speaking.

While six candidates are running for the powerful presidency in the April 17 elections, Bouteflika is the overwhelming favorite with the power of the state

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Republicans, while Davis has the tougher job of convincing women to switch parties.

Davis has made inroads by highlighting the Lilly Ledbetter Act, a law that gives victims of wage discrimination more time to file a lawsuit. Congress passed the act into federal law, and Davis carried the legislation through the Republican-controlled Legislature to make state law consistent, only

behind him. Many political parties are boycotting the contest, calling the election a farce.

The president’s campaign manager, Abdelmalek Sellal, opened the campaign with a speech in the far south, near the border with Mali, reiterating a promise to make the nation more democratic by reforming the constitution.

Bouteflika first promised to reform the constitution in three years ago in the wake of the Arab Spring pro-democracy uprisings in other countries, but has not followed through.

He removed term limits from the constitution in 2008 to allow himself to stay in power.

His chief rival, former Prime

Minister Ali Benflis, opened his campaign in Mascara, birthplace of the legendary Emir Abdelkader who fought the French invaders in the 19th century, also with a promise to create a more democratic state and a new constitution.

Benflis promised a new system where the parliament would have real power with an independent justice system.

The coalition of Islamist and liberal parties boycotting the election has promised to hold a conference on Algeria’s political transition ahead of the election.

There have been scattered protests against a fourth term for Bouteflika, most quickly crushed by security forces.

to see Gov. Rick Perry veto it.

Under current state law, a victim of wage discrimination must file a lawsuit within 180 days of when their salary is set, not when they discover the bias, which could be years later.

After weeks of questioning, Abbott finally came out against the Ledbetter Act, saying he thought existing state and federal equal pay laws were sufficient.

“Republicans made their position abundantly clear to Texas women this week -- they

can’t support and defend the basic decency of equal pay for an equal day’s work,” said Gilberto Hinojosa, chairman of the Texas Democratic Party.

Abbott’s campaign has tried to turn the issue back onto Davis by pointing out her law firm has represented clients accused of wage discrimination, while another firm that she had ties to was the subject of a harassment claim.

“We’ve found out that Senator Davis represents a public entity charged with gender pay

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SMU as college undergraduates,” Kays said. “[The students] can meet a lot of new friends at SMU.” Swanson shared an anonymous quote from a past student participant in the TAG summer program to sum up the ultimate goal of the summer programs offered at SMU: “TAG is a sanctuary where any boy or girl can be himself or herself, where self-esteem is not an issue, and where you are acknowledged not only as a gifted and talented youngster, but also as a human being.”

mud and debris” that blocked about one mile of State Route 530 near the town of Oso, about 55 miles north of Seattle.

It was reported about 60 feet deep in some areas.

Authorities believe the slide was caused by groundwater saturation from recent heavy rainfall.

Several people — including an infant — were critically injured and as many as 30 houses were destroyed. One neighborhood “is not there anymore,” Hots said.

About 20 to 30 people have been displaced, Snohomish County Executive John Lovick said.

The number of missing could change because some people may have been in cars and on roads when the slide hit just before 11 a.m. Saturday, Hots said.

The mud was so thick and deep that searchers turned back late Saturday after attempting to reach an area where voices were heard crying for help.

Rescuers couldn’t hear any signs of life once they got closer, and the decision was made to retreat due to safety concerns, Hots said.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee described the scene as “a square mile of total devastation” after flying over the disaster area Sunday. He assured families that everything was being done to find their missing loved ones.

“There is a full scale, 100 percent aggressive rescue going on right now,” said Inslee, who proclaimed a state of emergency.

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very limited in scope.

Despite protestations from Syria, there was little indication either side wanted the confrontation to escalate.

In a statement, the Turkish military said a Syrian MiG-23 entered Turkey’s airspace near the Hatay border zone after ignoring four warnings to turn back. One of two Turkish F-16s conducting a patrol in the area then fired a missile that struck the Syrian jet, which crashed 1,200 meters (yards) inside Syrian territory near the town of Kassab, the military said.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking at a rally in northwestern Turkey a week ahead of local elections, congratulated the military, and said the strike should serve as a warning against further incursions.

“If you violate our border, our slap will be hard,” he said.

The slide blocked the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River. With the water rising rapidly behind the debris, authorities worried about severe downstream flooding and issued an evacuation notice Saturday.

Snohomish County officials said Sunday that residents could return home during daylight hours, but that they’ll likely re-issue the evacuation order Sunday night.

John Pennington, director of Snohomish County Emergency Management Department, said there were concerns that the water could break downstream, as well as back up and flood areas upstream.

Two people were killed at the scene, and one of the people who had been rescued died at a hospital.

Shari Ireton, a spokeswoman for the Snohomish County sheriff ’s office, said Sunday a total of eight people were injured.

A 6-month-old boy and an 81-year-old man remained in critical condition Sunday morning at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg said two men, ages 37 and 58, were in serious condition, while a 25-yearold woman was upgraded to satisfactory condition.

Bruce Blacker, who lives just west of the slide, doesn’t know the whereabouts of six neighbors.

“It’s a very close knit community,” Blacker said as he waited at an Arlington roadblock before troopers let him through. There were almost 20 homes in the neighborhood that was destroyed,

Senior Kyle Lemons, a student at the Cox School of Business, has been awarded the 2014 Larrie and Bobbi Weil Undergraduate Research Award for his paper “The Shale Revolution and OPEC: Potential Economic Implications of Shale Oil for OPEC and Member Countries.”

The Larrie and Bobbi Weil Undergraduate Research Award is for library research, open to undergraduate students that have worked on a research paper in the preceding year. Papers are nominated by professors and reviewed by a panel of faculty members. Lemons was nominated

by Santanu Roy and the review committee comprised of Russell Martin, Melissa Dowling, and Assistant Dean Mary Hollerich.

The committee noted that Lemons’ paper is well written, supported by various print and online sources and makes use of authoritative statistics from primary sources such as OPEC and the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

“It took a topic that may seem dry as dust into something that was readable,” Martin said. “It was original and unusual.”

The paper focuses on the potential of shale oil production in the US and abroad, its impact on segmented Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) market shares and responses to substantial shale developments.

“The research paper asks a set of very important and original research questions,” Roy said.

“In blending real world data, econometric analysis and economic

discrimination and that she voted to appropriate hundreds of thousands of dollars in outside legal fees to defend a male Fort Worth employee against a gender discrimination lawsuit,” said Matt Hirsch, Abbott’s communications director. “Now we discover that Senator Davis worked for a law firm accused of bullying an alleged sexual harassment victim who filed suit against a client the firm represented.”

Davis is perhaps best known for her filibuster against new abortion restrictions that have

he said.

“I’m hoping for the best,” Blacker said.

The American Red Cross set up at the hospital, and evacuation shelters were created at Post Middle School in Arlington and the Darrington Community Center.

Search-and-rescue help came from around the region, including the Washington State Patrol and the Army Corps of Engineers. More than 100 were at the scene.

The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for Snohomish County through Sunday afternoon.

People who live in the North Fork’s flood plain, from the small communities of Oso to Stanwood, were urged Saturday to flee to higher ground. Even though the evacuation had been lifted Sunday morning, Inslee urged residents to remain alert.

Dane Williams, 30, who lives a few miles from the mudslide, spent Saturday night at a Red Cross shelter at an Arlington school.

He said he saw a few “pretty distraught” people at the shelter who didn’t know the fate of loved ones who live in the stricken area.

“It makes me want to cry, just looking at them,” Williams said Sunday.

Transportation officials said they didn’t know how long the two-lane rural road would be closed.

Snohomish County authorities said the area has a history of unstable land.

He said a slide also happened there in 2006.

“This slide came out of nowhere,” Pennington said.

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theory to answer good, well-posed and interesting questions, Kyle’s paper accomplishes the ideal that all good economists try to achieve.”

Lemons chose the topic because the vastness of shale oil in geography and reserve size has the potential to change OPEC’s strategy and operating conditions. According to Lemons, for the last several decades, OPEC has reaped the benefits of declining Non-OPEC reserves and relatively stagnant Non-OPEC oil production growth.

“I wrote the paper because I was interested in the topic, but also to (hopefully) shed more light on an issue that had previously been lightly researched at best,” he said.

U.S. Energy Information Administration projected that by 2040 shale oil production will constitute 8 million barrels of oil per day, roughly the equivalent of adding another United States to the global oil supply mix.

Lemons developed his own models to fill in gaps where published statistics were not readily available, and used the available data, his own models and game theory to make predictions on how OPEC might react to various shale oil market scenarios.

“I was very fortunate to have the assistance of my faculty sponsors, Dr. Santanu Roy and Professor Bruce Bullock, as well as help from other members of the SMU

forced about a third of the state’s abortion clinics to close. But this is one issue that she and Abbott both appear happy to avoid for the time being.

Abbott, who is Catholic, opposes abortion in all instances except where the life of the mother is in danger. While this makes him popular with the anti-abortion base of the Republican Party, some polling shows that most Texans support abortion rights.

Planned Parenthood Votes, the group’s political advocacy arm, announced it would campaign to make women’s access to affordable health care, contraception and abortion critical issues in the

Economics Department and selfproclaimed writing savant Sammy Metzger,” Lemons said.

Lemons grew up in the PermianBasin region of West Texas where he saw first-hand what the impact of shale development on communities and businesses.

“What drew me to the topic was what effect shale oil could have in the broader scheme of things,” he said. “A dramatic increase in global oil production would have several implications, but, if there’s one organization or country that would appear to be particularly vulnerable, it would be OPEC.” Lemons is double majoring in economics and real estate finance with a concentration in energy management. After graduation, he and his roommate plan on starting a hydraulic tubing testing business in West Texas.

His research and paper is part of his work for Departmental Distinction in Economics and the Mayer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Roy is Lemons’ faculty sponsor for his departmental distinction research paper. Lemons’ research project followed up a course on the Theory of Industrial Structure, taken with Roy. “It is always very satisfying when a course motivates a student to go on and do interesting economic research,” Roy said. “But it is even more satisfying to interact with that student during the process of research and to observe his or her mind mature intellectually and learn the joy of discovery. There is no greater reward for a professor.”

Lemons will receive his award at the April Honors Convocation and the paper will be digitized and available through the Digital Repository. A print version will be deposited in the DeGolyer Library.

Texas general election. The group helped a Democrat win in Virginia by highlighting the Republican candidate’s opposition to abortion.

The Davis campaign, though, has tread this topic carefully, aware of another important segment of the electorate, Catholic Hispanics.

Hispanics are a growing force in Texas politics, and Catholic bishops adamantly oppose abortion, giving Republicans an ally.

The one group of voters that probably won’t get much attention this year is white men.

The Gallup tracking poll shows that 61 percent of them reliably vote Republican.

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MONDAY n MARCH 24, 2014 Celebrity

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Sports aren’t all that deserve a crowd

Danielle Deraleau Contributing Writer dderaleau@smu.edu

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The April cover of Vogue features rapper Kanye West and his fiance Kim Kardashian of reality TV fame.

Fame for the sake of fame

Myca Williamson Associate A&E Editor mwilliamson@smu.edu You must be hiding in a cave if you are unaware of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian on the April cover of Vogue. Despite Vogue’s recent reference to them as the world’s most talked about pair, the new “power couple” is not worthy of gracing the cover of such a prominent publication.

Kardashian is the infamous sex tape vixen. Her fame by

promiscuity has suggested to young girls that fame is attainable simply by engaging in sexual escapades. In recent years, more young girls seem to express a desire to have fame and fortune. The majority don’t express a desire to actually obtain a diploma, degree and career and leave a positive legacy. They would rather have quick access to fame and attention. Marry an athlete. Become a reality television personality. Get pregnant by a rapper. These are the avenues that Kardashian encourages teen girls to take for the easy way to fame. Not only is she one of the most tweeted about celebrities, but Kardashian also earns almost $100,000 an episode on her hit reality series “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” The series is dedicated to following Kardashian and her family’s so-called “glamorous” dayto-day experiences. While the first season may have been interesting

(for the first two episodes, maybe), there’s no reason why the show should still be running almost seven years later. There’s not much else to keep up with.

The truth is, Kardashian is very strategic and is deemed a modern entrepreneur by some. She’s aligned herself with some of Hollywood’s finest, making her famous by association. From fashion designers, to athletes, to pop stars, she is one of the most talked about celebrities simply because of the people she knows, which is an insult to hard workers like Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour who actually climbed the ranks of an organization to gain fame in an industry.

And West is the overconfident, belligerent rapper with a lack of respect for all things unrelated to himself or his diva fiance Kardashian. I can’t help but be bothered by his constant reference to

himself as “Yeezus.” His pompous attitude goes as far as confusing his fame with divinity. Not only is his comparison immature and absurd, it’s also blatantly disrespectful. Three letters away from Jesus, his new nickname supposedly symbolizes his savior role in the rap industry.

However, I think it’s an outright insult to many who uphold the name Jesus as sacred. While his lyrics are uncontested and revered as some of the greatest in the industry, his antics seem overt and ostentatious.

Like his fiance, West does things for attention, not in the name of hip-hop. His recent obsession with leather and couture clothing has made him one of the most soughtafter rappers in Hollywood. But worthy of the coveted Vogue cover?

I don’t think so.

Williamson is a sophomore majoring in journalism.

Firing Line

There are few things more stressful than trying to find a parking spot right before you need to be in Meadows to warm up for your orchestra concert. I realized this last Wednesday, when I was in the passenger side of a car that had a driver trying to do just that.

“Oh my god,” he said as he circled around again. “This is so stupid.”

We pulled up to the side of Meadows that usually has parking for Meadows events, such as large orchestra concerts. We hadn’t even gotten close to the entrance when the guy standing by the guardrail started shaking his head.

My friend rolled down the window. “I can’t park here even if I’m performing?” he asked.

“Nope,” the guy said.

“Basketball game only.”

We ended up having to park down by Highland Park Middle School sort of near the campus and walk (but mostly run) down the street and back to Meadows.

I get that sports are big. I understand. Sports are fun. It’s great to go be a part of a large crowd and support a team that you feel passionately about playing a sport that you enjoy watching. It’s exciting. The athletes work hard, and they definitely deserve all the recognition and attendance their events get.

But something I’ve learned

The art of bringing in collaborators for personal work As both an actor and director in the Theatre Department’s New Visions, New Voices spring playwrights festival, I have seen the process of working with the senior student playwright on a new script over four weeks play out. As the actors and directors bring a script to the stage, strong characters, plot gaps, engaging storyline conflicts and incomplete character relationships are exposed to the playwright so that he or she gains real-time feedback to amend and expand upon the base edits that have already been made to the play.

This process of writing, working, revising and working again — repeatedly, over the course of several weeks, after months of first drafts to begin with — is a tedious but incredibly insightful practice that can be applied to many other assignments and life practices. The system of trial and error within a group environment rather than only within the individual and receiving feedback from a others all committed to the work in such an integral way allows for a dynamic far more conducive to incredibly productive and, overall, successful work.

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from being a part of the arts school is that all of these students work incredibly hard too. People in music have pieces to learn, practicing to do, and an incredible amount of rehearsals to attend before they put on a concert. Theatre students have lines to memorize, stage directions to figure out and a lot of rehearsals as well. And do you even know what dance students go through?

Like athletes, arts students work hard.

SMU’s support of our students shouldn’t just be limited to sporting events. While it’s great that we support them as much as we do, imagine if we gave something even close to that support to all of the other events that happen on campus. We get emails all the time about basketball and football.

I get multiple emails about one single sporting event. I only ever see emails about Meadows events maybe once a week. And then when those events do happen, if they just so happen to coincide with a game, good luck finding a place to park and get in.

We should be as proud of our arts students as we are of our athletics students. We should support our arts students like we support our athletics students. And, at the very least, arts students and the people going to see them should have somewhere to park too.

I’ve seen some amazing events in Meadows that still had empty seats that should have been filled.

Even if you’ve never been to a Meadows event before, there’s really nothing stopping you. If you’re looking for something to do, why not marvel at some of the talent that our school has and be proud of that?

Not many voters know or care about midterm elections. In fact, voter turnout in the 2010 midterm election was about two-thirds what it was in the 2008 presidential election. This trend will most likely continue in this year’s mid-terms.

This lower turnout is unfortunate, considering how crucial mid-term elections are.

Often, midterm elections decide the new balance of power in Congress. The 2010 midterm election took congressional control away from the Democrats, with Republicans winning a majority in the House. Democrats maintained control of the Senate, but lost six seats to the Republicans. Why does this matter? Without Democratic control of Congress, President Obama had a much harder time getting his policies passed.

Republicans used their upperhand in the House to attack Obamacare. The House called 48 votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act over the course of three years.

If the GOP wins a majority in both

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houses of Congress in the 2014 midterm election, it’s likely a repeal of Obamacare will be passed.

Currently, the Democrats are down in the House races. According to Freedom’s Lighthouse, it’s possible the Republicans may win back the Senate. This could spell trouble for the Democrats. While a repeal of Obamacare may not be signed into law by the president, a GOP majority in Congress could allow Republicans to push more conservative policies through.

Maybe the Republicans will even come up with their own health care plan.

In the interest of full disclosure, I’m rooting for the Democrats. I’m tired of the constant attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. While there has been some bumps in the road, several provisions of the law are very beneficial to Americans. Yes, a few things need to be fixed with the marketplace, but it’s hard to argue why the provisions that do work are a bad thing.

However, at this point, predicting the outcome of the midterms is a guessing game. We’re still over nine months away from the election. Many things could happen in between now and then.

Who knows what policy issue or political scandal will pop up?

Public opinion is always subject to change. We’ll just have to see how the months ahead unfold.

Aguirre is a sophomore majoring in political science and journalism.

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“The Wizard of Oz” is on stage now at the Music Hall at Fair Park.

jehadu abshiro News Writer jabshiro@smu.edu The 2013-2014 Dallas theater season is in full swing and several plays are all taking place within minutes of the Hilltop.

Follow Dorothy and her gang down the yellow brick road at the Music Hall at Fair Park for “The Wizard of Oz.” The new production contains all the classics along with new songs by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

The play runs from March 18-30.

Tickets cost $25- $90.

Another play coming to Dallas is “Gideon’s Knot.” The play begins in a 5th grade classroom, a

mother and her son’s teacher have a uncomfortable conversation about Gideon and who he was as a child.

Over the course of the play, the women try to find an explanation for his behavior and suicide. The play, by Johnna Adams, runs from March 28 to April 26 at the Kitchen Dog Theater. Tickets are $30 for opening nights and $20 after April 4.

It’s a historical night at the Cleveland Opera Company and world-famous Tito Morelli is to perform in “Otello.” The slapstick comedy, “Lend me a Tenor,” is directed by Carol M. Rice and revolves around Morelli accidentally taking a double dose of tranquilizers. Written by Ken

Ludwig, the play follows the chaos and coverups that occur after Morelli is thought to be dead.

The play runs until Saturday at the Pocket Sandwich Theatre. Tickets are $10-$20.

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“Am I Blue,” directed by Becca Rothstein, comes back to SMU 40 years after its premiere.

The play, by theatre graduate and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Beth Henley, tells the story of two troubled teens from different walks of life coming together and sharing their story on a rainy night in 1968 in the New Orleans French Quarter. Admission is free and the play is located in Room B150 of Meadows.

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‘Noah’ film receives judgement AssociateD Press Actor Russell Crowe and the makers of the big-budget film “Noah” attended Pope Francis’ general audience Wednesday but didn’t get what they most wanted: a papal meeting and photo-op.

Crowe had lobbied hard for a papal thumbs up for his film and the ensuing publicity a Francis blessing would bring. The film has been banned in much of the Muslim world because of its depiction of the prophet, while U.S. conservatives have complained it took liberties with the Biblical account of the flood.

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said the request from Noah’s producers for a private audience was immediately turned down.

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Associated Press, Lombardi said there was similarly no scheduled “meet and greet” after Wednesday’s general audience, when VIPs can often get a quick word with the pope.

“They could have been at the audience like anyone else,” Lombardi said. Wednesday’s audience drew an estimated crowd of 80,000.

Francis is loath to lend such blessings for publicity. Given his sensitivities to the Muslim world — and his upcoming trip to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories — it would seem natural that he would decline any public endorsement of a film that might offend Muslim viewers.

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But in an email to AP, Paramount merely said the delegation “went to hear” Francis’ address at the audience.

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Guided by Associate Professor and Head of Theatre Studies Gretchen Smith, New Visions, New Voices features full-length plays written by nine senior playwriting students and directed by guest artists, alumni, faculty and current students.

“I am so excited about the directors,” Smith said. “We have alums directing, along with junior theatre students and three directors who are working in professional theatres in Dallas. Everything has fallen into place and we have really amazing plays.”

Students in the theatre division under the emphasis of theatre studies have the opportunity to take four semesters of playwriting under Professor Smith.

“Playwriting has become one of the classes that I appreciate the most,” senior theatre major Sarah Hamilton said. “It’s good to write because it makes you more articulate and it makes you think and be more specific.”

This year’s festival features the work of senior playwrights Claire Carson, Carson McCain, Stephen Gardner, Tom Valentine Gelo, Andrew Gonzalez, Sarah Hamilton, Kristen Kelso, Jacob Stewart and Teddy Warren.

“We have the wonderful support and knowledge of a professor like Dr. Smith,” senior theatre major Gelo said. “It is

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New Visions, New Voices features nine student plays this year.

really inspiring to see your work take root in a group of talented theatre artists like the actors and directors we’ve been assigned.

It’s amazing to have access to a talent pool like that as an outlet for your writing.”

Playing in the Greer Garson Theatre through Saturday, the festival incorporates both undergraduate and graduate theatre students in the theatre division.

“I think readings are just as important if not more important than big productions,” said senior

playwright Kelso. “They are what is going to get you in the door.”

Over the 20 years that New Visions, New Voices has been at SMU, there have been 79 plays.

“The New Visions, New Voices process has confirmed for me a passion for new work by upcoming playwrights,” said senior playwright McCain. “As a director and an actor, I hope to participate in developing scripts at stages like these reading, and in workshops, and new play festivals.”

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“At a time when it is hard to break through the 24-hour media cycle, this is one way to do it and to do it in a way that is positive and self-effacing,” said Jeanne Zaino, political science professor at Iona College.

Details about de Blasio’s appearance have largely been kept under wraps. But the mayor, a Democrat, is expected to forgo

enlisting the help of a Broadway cast like Bloomberg did, instead opting for a no-frills performance featuring a few celebrity friends.

This year’s show, which will be held in a Manhattan hotel ballroom in front of a crowd of journalists and politicians, is entitled “Robin Hood: Men in Tights.” It pokes fun at de Blasio’s efforts to combat income inequality by portraying him as a vigilante trying to steal from the rich to give to the poor.

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SMU welcomes LSU for 2nd round NIT matchup Billy Embody Staff Sports Writer wembody@smu.edu The SMU Mustangs rebounded from the tough news of not making the NCAA Tournament with a win over UC-Irvine Wednesday in the first round of the NIT at Moody Coliseum.

The Mustangs’ next challenge is LSU, who comes into Moody Coliseum for tonight’s matchup, after upsetting San Francisco in their first round matchup.

“They’re really long and athletic and well-coached,” SMU Head Coach Larry Brown said.

“If they played as good as they’re capable of playing, they can beat anybody.”

With two stellar forwards in Jordan Mickey and Johnny O’Bryant III, SMU will have one of their biggest challenges of the year.

Mickey and O’Bryant are averaging 12.7 points and 7.9 rebounds per game and 15.4 points and 7.7 rebounds per game respectively.

“I think their front line is as good as any front line in the country,” Brown said. “We don’t focus on who we’re playing against, we just focus on our game.”

If SMU can get O’Bryant into foul trouble, SMU will be able to pound away inside and will be able

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SMU’s Cannen Cunningham (15) looks to pass the ball surrounded by the UCIrvine guard Chris McNealy (5) and forward Will Davis II (3) March 19, 2014.

to dominate the paint like the team has done so well this season.

SMU was happy to get the win over UC-Irvine, especially after the snub from the tournament and while the team came out a little slow, the biggest challenge was getting the team mentally ready, but the team responded well.

“As a coaching staff, our whole emphasis that week was trying to get the guys back up because obviously the kids were disappointed, but we had a lot of neat people come by and talk to the team. Their message was pretty good,” Brown said.

“We had a great opportunity.

I thought we responded well.

The fans were really great and

that really helped, but obviously we have a great challenge tomorrow night.”

Cannen Cunningham, Ben Moore and Markus Kennedy combined for 37 points and 16 rebounds in the team’s win over UC-Irvine, but their play will have to elevate even more against the Tigers.

SMU’s point guard Nic Moore did a nice job facilitating SMU’s offense in the last game, especially in the second half. Moore had one turnover and recorded eight assists.

LSU comes in with a 20-13 record on the season. The game is sold out and will be televised on ESPN at 8 p.m. CT.

The Mustangs closed out the 2014 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship with a 20th-place team finish and six All-American honors.

“I am proud of our team’s performance this weekend,” Head Coach Steve Collins said.

“We had great leadership from our seniors and have set a high standard for the future.”

On day one of the championship, the 400-yard medley relay team of Nina Rangelova, Isabella Arcila, Rachel Nicol and Marne Erasmus finished in 11th place, but set a school record with a time of 3:31.66 and all four were named All-American.

On night two of the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship, first-year

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100 breast under a minute,” Collins said.

SMU’s 200-yard medley relay team of Rangelova, Monika Babok, Arcila and Nicol finished with a time of 1:38.77 in prelims, while the 800-yard freestyle relay team of Rangelova, Arcila, Nathalie Lindborg and Ursa Bezan finished the prelims with a time of 7:11.41.

“Our relay teams, although they did not score, were great and showed great character,” Collins said.

Under Collins, SMU has amassed 581 All-American honors under. With the 2014 honors, Rangelova has seven total, while Arcila has five, Nicol one and Erasmus two.

“Our team goal has been to finish in the top 25 at the NCAA Championships,” Collins added. “It is exciting to have six swimmers returning from this NCAA Championship team.”

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Erasmus led the SMU women’s swimming and diving team with a third place finish and All-American honors in the 100-yard butterfly- breaking her own school record with a 51.10.

“Marne’s third place was awesome and she led the race most of the way finishing with another school record,” Collins said.

Erasmus was narrowly beaten by fellow American conference member Kelsi Worrell of Louisville who turned in a time of 51.09.

Tara-Lynn Nicholas also earned All-American honors (her first) with an eighth place finish in the championship final of the 100-yard breaststrokesetting a new school standard in the event’s prelims with a time of 59.55.

“Tara’s school record in the morning was SMU’s first

SMU concluded its first meet of the 2014 outdoor season with three first place finishes on day two of the TCU Horned Frog Invitational Friday at the Lowdown Track Field Complex in Fort Worth, Texas.

Senior Lisa Egarter earned one of the three first place finishes recorded by SMU, with a high jump of 1.68 meters.

Junior Stephanie Kalu finished the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.15 seconds for the Mustangs second first place finish.

Sophomore Lucija Cvitanovic rounded off the trio of first place finishers with her throw of 47.9 meters in the javelin competition.

Senior Helena Perez finished third in the shot put with a throw of 15.69 meter while junior Rayann Chin threw for 14.72

meters for a fourth place finish.

First-year Tochi Nlemchi recorded a throw of 14.65 to finish in fifth.

In addition to her first-place finish in the 100-meter dash Kalu also placed second in the 200-meter dash with a time of 23.21 seconds.

With Karoline Skatteboe finishing fourth (4:43.03) and Shanoah Souza finishing fifth (4:44.89) the Mustangs recorded two top-10 finishes in the 1,500 meter run.

As impressive as SMU was in the 1,500-meter run, the Mustangs were even more dominant in the 3,000-meter run with five top-10 finishes — firstyear Tova Magnusson led SMU with a second place finish with a time of 9:53.03.

The Mustangs hope to build on their success in Fort Worth when the team travels to Austin, Texas for the Texas Relays to be held from Wednesday to Saturday.

Samuel Snow Associate Sports Editor ssnow@smu.edu The SMU women’s tennis team continued to struggle as they fell to No. 24 University of Houston 5-2 Saturday. With the latest loss, the Mustangs fell to 6-10 overall and 3-2 in the conference.

Dasha Sharapova was able to grab her second straight victory. She emerged victorious over Houston sophomore Maria Cardenas 6-1, 3-6, 6-4.

Anna Kate Anderson beat Houston sophomore Rocio Martin in three sets, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2.

However, Houston proved too much for SMU as they took thes one, two, four, and five singles matches.

After this, the Mustangs take on the University of Texas Arlington Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Arlington, Texas.

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