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SMU raises money for Japan The Japanese Association at SMU will raise funds for victims of the Japan earthquake and tsunami with an upcoming lecture and T-shirt sale. The T-shirts will be sold in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center starting next week. The shirts cost $20 and all funds raised will be given to the American Red Cross. The lecture will take place April 12 at 6 p.m. in Dallas Hall’s McCord Auditorium.
Tokyo water safe again Thursday’s tests in Tokyo showed that radiation levels in the tap water have dropped back down to levels safe for infants. The radiation levels in Japan’s food and water sources have been a concern since last week’s tsunami impacted the country’s nuclear energy plants. However, the Japanese government decided to continue with plans to distribute bottled water to parents in the city. Officials handed out 240,000 bottles of water.
Gaddafi forced to retreat Allied forces broke Muammar Gaddafi’s siege of Misurata after a 12-hour overnight strike. However, according to citizen reports, his snipers continue to terrorize civilians in the city. Gaddafi’s forces continue to hold on to Ajdabiya in eastern Libya.
Syrian protests gain force Demonstrations against the Syrian government in Daraa grew larger Thursday. At least 25 people were killed when the protests turned violent Wednesday and an estimated 20,000 people lined the streets for the funerals of the dead. The protests are said to be the greatest threat to the regime since Hafez al-Assad came to power.
Obama curbs Miranda Rights The Obama administration issued new rules Wednesday allowing investigators to hold domestic-terror suspects longer without reading them their Miranda rights. Previously, investigators could only withhold a reading of one’s rights if there were an imminent public threat. According to an FBI memo, Obama’s new rules will allow investigators to delay reading Miranda rights if they “conclude that continued unwarned interrogation is necessary to collect valuable and timely intelligence not related to any immediate threat.”
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SMU dining chef Elias Acosta prepares a beef tenderloin in the Real Food on Campus kitchen Thursday afternoon in Umphrey Lee. Acosta won a gold medal in the Southwest Region’s Aramark Culinary Excellence competition.
SMU dining chef receives gold medal in challenge By ASHLEY WITHERS Associate News Editor awithers@smu.edu
SMU chef Elias Acosta took the gold medal at last week’s Southwest Region’s Aramark Culinary Excellence (ACE) competition. Acosta will advance as part of the three-person Southwest team that will compete against all other regions in the country in the national finals next month. “This is a great opportunity for me. I am very excited and proud to be
recognized,” Acosta said. The Southwest regional competition asked the higher education chefs to present a meal made from a mystery basket to three judges. Chefs had to prepare one show plate each for the students and judges, as well as a taster plate for each judge. Chefs had exactly three hours to prepare their meals from prep to finish. Each of the competition’s participating chefs was selected because they consistently strive for culinary excellence and focuses on surpassing customers’
expectations with great meals. “SMU Dining is honored to have Elias as part of our team and we are extremely proud to be represented nationally amongst some of the best chefs in the country,” SMU Dining Services Marketing Manager Philip DeMeo said. Acosta’s winning dishes were his pan-seared, pistachio-crusted sea bass and handmade crepes with Grand Marnier goat cheese, both consistent with his passion for French cuisine. Acosta has worked as a chef for
“We don’t want another Virginia Tech.” That’s what SMU Resident Life and Student Housing (RLSH) told junior Daniel Hux as they fired him from his resident assistant job, according to firstyear Rhema McGee. McGee was a close friend of Hux and one of his residents. Hux had questioned why there was a police officer in the meeting. McGee said Hux went on to say the University thought he was going to shoot people. The Daily Campus learned of the incident after the RLSH office distributed flyers at several dorms. The flyers featured a photo of Hux and a warning from the SMU police department that he was not allowed on campus. SMU Police Chief Rick Shafer did not release the specific details of Hux’s expulsion from campus. Shafer would only say that Hux was not a student at the university anymore and that he violated university policy. Hux’s actions “lead us to believe there are safety concerns,” Shafer said. It is unclear when Hux was expelled. SMU Police Department issued a criminal trespass warning for Hux, according to Shafer. This means that Hux will be arrested if he returns to campus. The former R.A. declined to comment on the incident at this time, saying he wanted to consult with his attorney. Hux is a former Marine and had been an R.A. at Hawk Hall. He was also running in the upcoming Student Senate elections as a Dedman II senator candidate. He is disqualified from the race because he is no longer a student.
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One dollar and a free sandwich could be your good deed this Friday. For a second year in a row, Jersey Mike’s Subs has dedicated the month of March to contribute to Wipe out Kids’ Cancer (WOKC). Monday marks the second annual “WOKC Day,” when all 14 Dallas Jersey Mikes will be giving away a free regular sub to those who donate at least $1 to WOKC. This Friday at the Jersey Mike’s on Greenville Avenue, SMU students and faculty will receive a free regular sub by presenting their SMU IDs when donating at least $1. On the same day in Fort Worth, Jersey Mike’s Hulen Street location will also be giving free subs to horn frog students and faculty when they
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donate at least $1. The school that has more students go to the respective sub locations wins a prize. Since Feb. 28, the sub shop has been giving 25 cents of every regular-sized sub and 50 cents of every giant sub sold to WOKC. Dalton Stewart, area director for Jersey Mike’s Subs and owner of the Greenville Avenue location, was involved in starting this fundraiser last year and is eager for the current campaign. “For me, and I think for all the
McGee said Hux wasn’t a safety threat. “Daniel’s not anyone who would shoot anyone,” McGee said. McGee described Hux as a nice, friendly person and a gentleman. “Guns were never an issue,” she said, describing how both she and Hux were blown away by SMU’s accusations. The Daily Campus spoke to a number of Hawk residents as they were entering their dorm hall, although they did not give their names. They said Hux seemed nice and that he didn’t seem like a safety threat. McGee said a lot of little petty things led up to Hux’s firing and that the situation wasn’t handled very well. “I think things were taken to the extreme,” she said. Associate A&E Editor Chase Wade contributed reporting to this story.
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Jersey Mike’s to give out free subs By TAYLOR ADAMS
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Junior Daniel Hux, and R.A. in Hawk Hall, was expelled from campus after violating a university policy.
other owners I can speak for, it was something very humbling and special to be helpful for,” he said. “Last year we put this deal together and I got a chance to, all of us collectively, got a chance to be apart of something really neat.” The fundraiser last year earned over $50,000, which went toward four pediatric cancer research trials in 2011 at Children’s Medical Center Dallas and Cook Children’s Medical Center For Worth. “The formula we put together was basically us giving for a month, then we have a final day when we have the community stand with us in giving,” Stewart said. They all have the chance “to raise money for an organization that does really amazing things for these kids. And it is really something amazing to be part of.”
Online sensation hits Hilltop By ASHLEY WITHERS Associate News Editor awithers@smu.edu
She made over $40K in just one week and her original song jumped the iTunes chart to number 19. Not many 13 year-olds can say that. Rebecca Black and her song “Friday” have taken the world by storm. Black released the song last Monday and it didn’t take long before the video went viral. Her music video has currently received over 44 million views on YouTube and even major television networks, like ABC, have come knocking on her door. Her surge in popularity has been attributed to a Tosh.0 blog post entitled, “Songwriting Isn’t for Everyone.” While the song’s lyrics (“Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday/ Today is
Friday, Friday”) have critics cringing, it hasn’t slowed the arrival of the popular song to the Hilltop. SMU students have quickly caught onto the trend. “I’m not sure that anyone actually likes the song, but they like the jokes that come out of it and that’s enough to keep everyone singing it all day and buying it on iTunes,” sophomore Kathryn Bentley said. Though some students enjoy the song as a guilty pleasure, others have a more passionate negative response. “She hurts my soul. I hope her career goes up in flames,” sophomore Michael Hamel said. “Although I am waiting for the follow up song. I am dying to know what comes after Sunday. She never told us.”
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‘Dinosaurs Unearthed’ exhibit travels to Dallas museum By KATHARINA MARINO Contributing Writer khmarino@smu.edu
After debuting in Dallas in October, the internationally travelling exhibit will leave the Dallas Museum of Nature and Science May 1. The exhibit is home to 14 animated robots, three articulated life-sized skeletons and over 30 other fossil specimens dating back to the Cretaceous period. “Dinosaurs Unearthed” was designed to spark interest in history and science through the discoveries of earth scientists, paleontologists and archaeologists. It allows people to see the dinosaurs as real creatures that once walked the earth, according to Communications Manager Jennifer Whitus. Along with the dinosaur robots and fossil specimens, the exhibit offers several other activities. Within the exhibit, interactive stations allow the public to learn how to distinguish between normal rocks and fossilized bones and another explaining why certain dinosaurs have holes in their skulls. The Dinosaur Defense station has a team of dinosaur experts there to answer questions and show the public actual defense mechanisms such as claws and teeth.
There is also a Dino Dig area that allows children to play paleontologist-in-the-field and discover the dinosaur fossils that are within. The exhibit shows a large variety of both popular dinosaurs along with species not as well known. “The well-known favorites, like Stegosaurus, T. rex and Triceratops are there, but we also wanted to give visitors a chance to learn about some lesserknown dinosaurs like Omeisaurus, Gasosaurus, Metricanthisaurus and Parasaurolophus,” Whitus said. Dinosaurs Unearthed is unique from the aspect that it is the first exhibit in the world to feature life-sized models of feather dinosaurs. It used to be thought that all dinosaurs were reptile-like with scaly, leather-like skin. Contrary to that belief, it has been found that in some dinosaurs, from the time of hatching to juvenile stage, had a coat of scales and a layer of hairlike feathers meant to help regulate heat such as the Tyrannosaurus Rex, according to the exhibit website. Louis Jacobs, SMU professor of paleontology, feels that the exhibit presents the material in a way that meshes the reality and general public’s idea of how dinosaurs were and how fossil remains are discovered.
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Dallas Museum of Nature and Science’s Dinosaurs Unearthed exhibit features animated robots, life-size skeletons and dinosaur fossil specimens. The exhibit will close May 1.
After viewing the exhibit, people have the opportunity to walk over the adjacent building and go down to the basement to see the museum’s paleontology labs where they can see the processes
of preparing fossils for research and display. Admission to the exhibit is $5 for non-members and $3 for members in addition to the regular museum admission fee.