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SENATE

SBO runoff results announced: Torres, Prentice win By MEREDITH SHAMBURGER Editor in Chief mshamburge@smu.edu

Jake Torres and Austin Prentice were declared the 2010-11 Student Body President and Vice President shortly after the election polls closed Thursday evening. 1,693 students voted in the election. Runoff elections were held after no candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote in the general election. Torres said he was “really excited” and “pumped” about the election results.

Torres credits a “culmination of a bunch of different people” for his victory, saying it was a lot of different groups coming together to support him. Right now, he said, he plans to let the results sink in. He does not have immediate plans for Senate, except to get more students involved. He said the election had brought more attention to Senate and that he hoped that would continue in the future. Torres won by 167 votes with 906 votes to Jake Benage’s 734.

Jake Torres

Austin Prentice

Benage said he sent Torres a text message congratulating him. Although he would have liked to have won, Benage said that he was happy with the results. “I think he’s [Torres] is going to do a great job,” he said. Prentice said he was “ecstatic” at the election results. “I’m really happy to have the opportunity to serve,” he said. Prentice won with 954 votes to Alex Ehmke’s 668--a margin of 286 votes. Prentice credits his friends and supporters for his victory, especially

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those that support special interest seats. He said it was this aspect, where his campaign played to all groups of SMU that was a big factor in his win. “SMU had a win-win situation,” Ehmke said after the results were announced. “Students will have a great president and vice president to lead next year, and I wish Jake and Austin the best.” Torres and Prentice will serve with Student Body Secretary Katie Perkins. The Student Senate Inauguration will take place Tuesday, April 27.

EMERGENCY

The importance of being Greek By LAUREN SMART Chief Copy Editor lsmart@smu.edu

SMU has more than 200-chartered organizations on campus, covering a wide variety of interests, religions, areas of study, social activities and ethnicities. There are more than 6,000 undergraduate students that attend SMU and most find their place on campus through these organizations. Participation in Greek life far outnumbers that of any other student organization. According to reports made last fall by both The Daily Campus and The Daily Mustang, more than 47 percent of females and 34 percent of males are currently members of Greek organizations. Greek life has a large presence on SMU’s campus, which gives members of fraternities and sororities the strengths of both numbers and connections to garner elected positions more easily, as evidenced in last week’s Student Senate elections. “IFC and Panhellenic have enormous impact on elections, just because of sheer size,” Haynes Strader, Interfraternity Council president, said. “I checked the numbers and 2000 students voted in the election. If every IFC member showed up to vote, we’d have more than 50 percent right there.” Strader pointed out that for as long as he could remember, the Student Senate’s president has been Greek.

SMV S!VD"#! S"NAT" Last year’s presidential race between Stephen Reiff and Pi Kappa Alpha Patrick Kobler was the closet race between a non-Greek and a Greek in at least the last 15 years. “I don’t want to discredit Kobler in any way,” Reiff said. “But IFC does have a significant sway in elections and it’s a powerful card to be able to play.” Student Senate is in place to represent The Students Association of SMU, which “is comprised of all the University’s currently enrolled

students,” according to the Senate Web site. Nearly 75 percent of senators are Greek and although many students recognize the inevitably of these numbers, the downside is that it means other organizations aren’t equally represented. “I wish there were more minorities and non-Greeks represented in senate,” junior Mai Lyn Ngo said. “But it can’t really be helped, because so many students go Greek.”

Recently elected Vice President Austin Prentice said that although the support of minority students was a driving factor, he was grateful when IFC began to support him in the runoff campaign. “My big thing with IFC is that I spoke amongst IFC exec and Haynes Strader, the president, he endorsed me following the primaries,” Prentice said. “Haynes sent out an e-mail to all the presidents and hopefully it’s just a downward passing of information, just getting chapters to vote.” IFC’s candidate endorsements are logical: the candidate is chosen that will keep it’s best interests in mind. 2010 vice-presidential candidate and current Chief-of-Staff Alex Ehmke said that he thinks it’s a shame that non-Greeks aren’t even considered. “I don’t blame IFC for wanting to support a Greek candidate,” Ehmke said. “But I think I could’ve bridged the gap between Greeks and nonGreeks.” Secretary Katie Perkins acknowledges that this is the way that the democratic process functions in elections. “Of course it’s more difficult for a non-Greek candidate to run and be successful,” Perkins said. “Greek has a large visible presence on campus. Close to 40 percent is Greek, but 60 percent is not. The challenge for the non-Greek candidate is to reach that 60 percent.”

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A dryer in the Dedman Center’s laundry room caught fire Monday afternoon.

Dryer catches ablaze By TAYLOR ADAMS News Editor tadams@smu.edu

The Dedman Center for Recreation Sports had a fire Monday shortly after 1 p.m., temporarily canceling classes and causing an evacuation. Staff activated the fire alarm system after a dryer in the Center’s laundry room caught fire. As the damage to the laundry room was

PARK ‘N PONY

RELATIONSHIPS

Show me the money! By ATIYAH EDWARDS Contributing Writer atiyahe@smu.edu

Most students who drive on campus have the same issues. Have you ever walked to your car and been caught by surprise? Were you ever running late to a class and had to park in the closest spot? Are you afraid that you didn’t put enough change in the meter? From 2008-09, 18,820 tickets were written for cars parked on SMU’s campus. The previous year 28,463 tickets were cited. Frequently, SMU students, staff, faculty and visitors receive citations for parking violations from Park ‘N Pony. No one is thrilled to see a piece of paper alongside an envelope trapped under the car’s windshield wipers. There are numerous times when the SMU community notice parking officials walking up and down the aisle, issuing tickets. One may wonder, after all these tickets are paid, where does the money go? Mark Rhodes, director of PNP said the money goes back to SMU. “We’re not in it to make money,” he said. When violators pay their fines,

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the money is spent on SMU services. One of these services is Giddy-Up, a service that picks up people free of charge, during the hours of 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. every day. Rhodes also explained that violators pay for the cost and operations. “People who violate pay for 100percent of enforcement cost and operations,” he said. Warren Seay, a senior majoring in political science, estimated that he has received a minimum of 15 parking tickets during his four years at SMU. According to Seay, when he converted over to commuter status, the tickets increased. “It’s a huge inconvenience, especially considering the fact that parking isn’t good in the first place,” he said. “We never know where the money is going.” Unlike the parking officials in

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minimal, the Center opened within a few hours. Dedman will open today, on regular schedule; all of the equipment is still available. Mica Beckmann, a lifeguard at Dedman, was there when the smell of the flames went through the building. “Everyone at the pool thought it was just a drill and none of us like panicked or anything,” she said. “We didn’t think it was real until we saw and smelled smoke.”

downtown Dallas, PNP employees do not get paid on a quota, according to Rhodes. “The parking officials do not get paid off of a percentage. We monitor the officials regardless of the number of tickets they bring in,” he said. Rhodes looks for two main things from the officials, he wants them to be proactive and diligent. He also said officials look for parking permits if the car is parked in a lot or garage. If the vehicle is parked at a meter, officials look to see if there is any time left. Sometimes warnings are given to violators, he added. In regard to the places that allow free parking for 20 minutes (like the parking spaces between Hughes-Trigg and the Fondren library) parking officials enter the car’s license plate into the Auto Chalk system along with the time they see the car. After the time has passed, the system alerts the official that the car may be over its allotted time. If the car remains in the space, the driver can count on a ticket. PNP brought in an estimated

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Looking for Mr. Right in college is not the only choice for women By MEGAN ACOSTA Contributing Writer mpacosta@smu.edu

Social media likes to tell women that the perfect man is out there. However, on a campus where women outnumber men, that perfect man is sometimes hard to find, especially when coordinating school and a future career. Young girls often make a mental list of characteristics that they want in a guy and are determined to match each of their criteria in a given relationship. However, when college comes around, the fight between ideals and reality begins. “When we are young, we have a fantasized and romantic view of what we want in a man, but sometimes we have to be real,” sophomore business major, Jacky Negrete, said. “There is always a struggle. We shouldn’t have to settle. I think it’s perfectly fine if you don’t find your companion, especially in college. There isn’t a specific age. It’s a matter of compatibility.”

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Before the 1960s, women didn’t typically go to college, leaving men as the majority on campus. However, according to Collegboard.com, SMU currently consists of 53 percent women and 47 percent men.

At other universities where similar situations exist, the standards for relationships can become blurred. However, women walking along the SMU Boulevard have a different opinion. “Although numbers show that there are more girls on campus than guys, I don’t think that it’s that

noticeable to students,” freshman, Kenzie Schott, said. “I never really noticed there being a difference. I wasn’t even really looking and I found someone,” Jill Gregory, a senior chemistry major said. Although many students find compatibility with their peers they lack the time to pursue building a relationship, preferring to spend their time on school. Some students feel they have to choose between their relationships or their future careers. For these 21st century students, the pull of having to choose between a relationship or a career can still be felt. “I feel like I should be involved in my school and focus on my school work right now,” sophomore, Anastasiya Kartseva, said. “There is a different level of commitment in learning when you come to college.” Although some students believe that they must choose between having a career or having a relationship, Karen Click, the director of the Women’s Center, suggests, “there is room for a healthy relationship, for both.”

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There is always a struggle. We shouldn’t have to settle. I think it’s perfectly fine if you don’t find your companion, especially in college. Jacky Negrete SMU Sophomore

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“She!s Out of My League” in theaters now

Rebecca Quinn goes a week without a cell phone

Business

• Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Ticker Talk NEW YORK (AP) -- Stronger reports on jobs and the nation’s service industries lifted stocks Monday and pushed the Dow Jones industrial average toward the 11,000 mark. The Dow rose 46 points and moved closer to crossing the psychological benchmark of 11,000 for the first time in 18 months. Growing confidence about the economy hurt demand for Treasurys and drove up interest rates. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note briefly rose to 4 percent, its highest level since June. A DAY ON WALL STREET 11,500

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Campus Events April 6-10

Kappa Delta Chi Founders Week

In celebration of our 23rd Birthday, Kappa Delta Chi Sorority invites you to Founders Week, an event-filled week used to celebrate our long-lived trajectory.

One World, Two Nations

6:30 p.m. Doubletree Hotel (8250 N. Central Expressway). SMU Japanese Club invites you to a lecture and Q&A session by Kevin E. Cox, the Vice President of State and Community Affairs for American Airlines.

All-Campus Worship

8 p.m. Hughes-Trigg Theater. Come join us for a night of praise and worship as all Christian campus ministries unite together under one roof.

The Daily Campus

Music majors experience recession through Meadows’ budget cuts By STEPHEN LU Sports Editor sjlu@smu.edu

Though the recession that has rocked America is on the decline, some SMU students are feeling lingering effects that may alter the future of their education. Recently, some music majors were notified that they would no longer be receiving aid in paying for their accompanists, something they have enjoyed for several years. The Meadows School of the Arts cut down on its budget by no longer paying for some of its students’ accompanists. However, not all music majors were affected. Those that are music performance majors can continue to work with their accompanists without paying for them. The rest, the music education and music therapy majors, no longer get that luxury. Junior Jenny Tressa, a music therapy major, is one of those affected. According to Tressa, music performance majors get to keep their accompanists because they are still required to do juries and perform recitals. Juries and recitals were once required for all music majors, but because of the budget cuts, they are no longer required.

However, some students, like Tressa, are still doing recitals and juries for the practice and experience. But, that experience will now come at a price. “A typical accompanist’s fee depends on the situation, but it’s generally about $20 to $30 an hour,” said Tressa. “Last semester, I had a planned practice with an accompanist once a week for 30 minutes. But now that we have to pay for our accompanists, I can’t have as many hours.” Now, music education and therapy majors have to make a decision about their practices with accompanists.

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

Some, like Jenny, will cut down on the number of practices they have, sacrificing practice time in order to save money. Others, in order to get the maximum amount of practice in, will have to shell out even more money than previously. Either situation is a lose-lose for those students. Still, Tressa is not too upset about the divide between performance majors and the rest. She wishes an alternative

method could have been reached, such as equally cutting down everyone’s hours a little but knows she can do little to change it. “I think the change is fair because we don’t have to do a jury,” she said. “My case is different because I’m choosing to do a recital. However, because they’re required to do so much extra, I believe it is fair. But, it’s still very frustrating.”

Entertainment

The Daily Campus

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 •

FILM

Spring kicks off with a new romantic comedy

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By ELYSSE CARPENTER Contributing Writer elcarpente@smu.edu

She’s out of my league. Or is she? Centering around the relationship of Kirk (Jay Baruchel), a nerdy Philadelphia transportation security guard and Molly (Alive Eve), a blonde head-turner who passes through Kirk’s checkout line. “She’s Out of My League” gives hope to all disgruntled average-Joe’s and shows that even a “perfect 10” can fall for a moderately attractive five. Kirk is still in the dumps about his recent breakup with Marnie (Lindsay Sloane), who still lives with Kirk and his parents (Debra Jo Rupp, Adam LeFevre), when she brings her new boyfriend (Hayes MacArthur) to live with them too. Coming from a Midwestern trailer trash family, Kirk grew up rejected between two un-married, cradlerobbing, egotistical idiots of brothers who always beat him up. His friends even call him a “moodle,” or manpoodle, incapable of ever getting with a girl. Then, one day at the airport, his luck changes. In their meet-cute, Molly accidentally leaves her cell phone in one of the security bins and realizes her mistake on the plane. Using her best friend, and event-planning partner, Patty’s (the hysterical Krysten Ritter) phone, Molly calls her phone and Kirk

answers. Returning to Pittsburgh the next day for work, Molly picks up her phone and invites Kirk and a friend to a hockey game to thank him for

holding onto it. Kirk is shocked when he realizes he’s been asked out by a beautiful, smart, albeit obnoxiously perfect, girl like Molly. His dry, dorky humorous side comes out and Molly loves it. However, Kirk is still in disbelief that a girl as pretty as her would even consider dating a guy like him. When one of the players on the hockey team gets slammed up against the glass, he even looks at Molly and says “Hey.” Yes, this girl is so out of Kirk’s league and it’s hysterical to watch his pathetic demise as he continuously realizes that he’s not good enough for her. Director Jim Field Smith even drives the point home so much so, that on their first one-on-one date at a French restaurant, Kirk wears the same red blazer as the waiters. He is mistaken as one by several diners,

including Molly’s hunk of an ex, Cam (Geoff Stults). Kirk receives another stinger when he returns a sweater to a woman that left it behind. He even gets a tip; yet another stinger. Besides these hilariously scripted moments, “She’s Out of My League” still follows the stages of any beginning relationship from meeting parents to ‘the first time,’ and makes them all comical, leaving the audience with a savory taste about their own first experiences in their relationships. Things are pretty much smooth sailing for Molly and Kirk after the awkwardness in the French restaurant and it’s clear that she is infatuated with his unique charm compared to her shallow exes. However, Kirk has a slight malfunction when he meets her parents, he embarrasses himself. Molly

decides she wants nothing to do with him after he calls her about 20 times in an hour. Relinquishing all hope and realizing he’s lost the only good thing that’s ever happened to him, Kirk goes running back to Marnie, who by now wants him because she saw him with Molly. Kirk’s hilarious bonehead friends and co-workers decide to convince Kirk not to settle for Marnie when he could fight to get Molly back; which

is exactly what he does at the end of the film. Showing her his true, imperfect self and truthfully explaining what went wrong when he met her parents creates the full-circle happy ending in romantic comedies that makes them worth watching. And the fact that the 10 ended up with a five ends the hilarity of the film with a sweet disposition that anything can happen.

Opinion

• Tuesday, April 6, 2010

The Daily Campus

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s a pudgy middle school boy with glasses, headgear and overactive sweat glands, I was careful about picking my friends and always obeyed the rules so I wouldn’t stand out. There were plenty of Steven R. Thompson kids like me, just trying to slip by. But then there were those who naturally stood out, like Alyse Bedell, a pretty redhead I confessed my love to over Instant Messenger one night, or Will Bowser, the star of the basketball team. Sarah Grether was also on the list of those who stood out, not because she was beautiful or athletic, but because she did the one thing I would never do. With her ripped black jeans, a black T-shirt and spiky dark brown hair, Sarah wasn’t a star pupil. She often argued with teachers and once confessed to me that she was suspended at least seven times in one year. She was a mystery to me. Why would she want to keep putting herself through all that? But as Sarah and I entered high school and eventually became friends, I realized what was behind her rebel antics. Sarah had the guts to fight for what she believed in. In middle school she was ahead of her time, but in high school her inquisitive and challenging nature made her one of the most unique and intelligent people I knew. Sarah and I both found a passion in our high school’s newspaper. For me it was a way to make friends. For Sarah I think it was a way for her to

voice her opinions. As a columnist, Sarah posed important questions on the curriculum, the state legislature and gun laws. These were things most people our age didn’t even know about, much less care about. She cared deeply about politics and aligned with the Libertarian party. While she was out campaigning, I was still trying to figure out who was running. We once worked on a story together about our school district’s budget and its need to eliminate teachers. Sarah understood the problem and its implications right away and helped explain it to me. My teacher said that I needed to put my name first in the byline, because I had done a majority of the writing. But the truth is, I could never have written it without Sarah. My name appeared first and now I’d give anything to change that. I should have stood up and said something. Sarah said she didn’t care, and it was probably true. Because that’s who she was: caring, kind and un-resentful. After our junior year, Sarah came out of the closet. It wasn’t totally surprising, but in a small, conservative town in Michigan, Sarah was one of a few brave high school students who called themselves a lesbian. Her courage inspired me and I think it also opened the minds of many of her friends and colleagues on the school newspaper. On our last night of work at the newspaper, emotion and stress levels were high. Suddenly the electronic beat of Justin Timberlake’s “SexyBack” shot into the room and Sarah started moonwalking across the floor with a whip she had brought in to “whip writers into shape.” We all danced to Sarah’s favorite song. In that instant, there wasn’t

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Addressing the numbers This paper published an article last Wednesday addressing the large athletic department budget deficit and said department’s refusal to release this information. The following day, this paper published a letter written by three faculty members concerning the deficit story. The letter attempted to clarify some points of the article. We wish to address their clarifications here and explain how we arrived at the numbers we reported. To the issue of characterizing budgeted expenses as “losses,” the 2009-10 university budget provides information about the revenue the department took in and how much it spent. In 2008, the department’s revenue less expenses was approximately -$18 million. This means that the department spent $18 million more than it earned. In 2007, the department spent $17 million more than it earned. This document is available on both the Faculty Senate and The Daily Campus Web site. To the issue of including scholarships as part of the deficit: They make up a large part of the deficit and the inclusion of scholarships is the standard way of looking at any athletic department’s expenses. As reporter Steven R. Thompson wrote: The NCAA includes scholarships, or grants-in-aid, as an athletic department expense. So does the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, a national watchdog group seeking to reform college athletics. Experts who have spent years studying the business of college athletics— including Dan Fulks, a Transylvania University accounting professor and research consultant for the NCAA, and Jay Weiner, a sports journalist and author of a recent Knight Commission report—said scholarships should be included when calculating the bottom line for athletic programs. “Grants-in-aid are an expense, indeed,” Weiner said. “Across the Football Bowl Subdivision they account for 16 percent of athletic departments’ costs.” The NCAA included scholarships when considering losses in its 2009 report on Football Bowl Subdivision schools. Thompson’s article even quotes SMU President and co-chair of the Knight Commission R. Gerald Turner as saying that it is fair to count scholarships as an expense. One can argue whether to characterize scholarships as a loss or investment, and we acknowledge that they provide wonderful opportunities for students who might otherwise be unable to attend SMU. We are certainly not advocating that those scholarships be taken away from deserving students. But scholarships are an expense, nonetheless, which adds to the athletic department’s deficit. SMU athletics provide a vital service to the university by attracting and energizing a quality student population. This aspect is not to be brushed aside, because it is true that a school’s athletic program brings students and revenue to the university. As Athletic Director Steve Orsini is quoted in Thompson’s article, “Athletics is like a front porch to a home. You don’t have to have a front porch to have a nice home, but if you’re going to have a front porch, have it look attractive so people will want to check out your home. In this case, having an athletic program that’s attractive to potential students that may want to come to SMU,” Orsini said. “Universities are willing to invest in that aspect to get a return, which is more people wanting to come to your school.” But a deficit is a deficit no matter how you view it. Opinions expressed in each unsigned editorial represent a consensus decision of the editorial board. All other columns on this page reflect the views of individual authors and not necessarily those of the editorial staff.

EDITORIAL BOARD Meredith Shamburger Praveen Sathianathan Taylor Adams

Sarah Pottharst Stephen Lu Lisa Collins

Jessica Huseman Nathaniel French

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the pressure of college admissions, graduation or the future. It was just a group of friends dancing in the moment. Almost three years later, the memories of my friend Sarah are fresh. They all came rushing back when I heard a month ago that Sarah had died. Sarah was driving home on Feb. 26 when she hit a patch of black ice and lost control of her car, colliding into oncoming traffic. She was pronounced dead at the scene. It was a freak accident that could have happened to anyone. The next day at lunch I sat staring at my cheeseburger and all I could think about was Sarah – her squinty smile, her infectious cackle and her brilliant mind. I wanted to stand up and tell the whole restaurant what a great person the world had just lost. It didn’t seem fair. It wasn’t until that moment that I realized what a profound impact Sarah Grether had made on my life. She taught me the importance of standing up for what I believed in and made me less ignorant about homosexuality. She was the one I turned to when I needed articles edited or critiqued, and she was always honest. Sarah is no longer a mystery to me. I know now that she wasn’t a troublemaker in middle school, just passionate about life. A few weeks ago, I sat down on my bed, scrolled to “SexyBack” in my iTunes library and listened to the song in Sarah’s memory. I know she wouldn’t want it any other way. Steven R. Thompson is a junior journalism major. He can be reached for comment at sthompson@smu.edu.

A week without a phone COLUMNIST

End American blame game COLUMNIST

oday, technologies like the Internet and the cell phone have allowed people to become closer to each other worldwide. At the same time, however, these technologies have led to a degree of Claire Sanderson separation from reality and personal responsibility. The ease of credit cards, online banking and automatic bill pay has made our financial world seem almost invisible. We measure our worth according to numbers on a computer screen. We live our lives letting those numbers vacillate and we pray we stay in the green. We have let the important aspects of banking and personal financial responsibility all disappear onto the World Wide Web. However, once those numbers become negative, we immediately blame the technology and the people behind it. It could not be our own fault, because we didn’t do anything other than watch the numbers go up and down. The lack of agency, or ability to act, has been removed with the ease of online banking and thus people have lost personal responsibility for their finances. We place blame on others, whether it be the bank, the gas company, our bosses or our close friends and family—anyone but ourselves. The lack of responsibility and the shifting of blame is also seen on the political level. The actions of Congress that affect our personal lives take place behind closed doors in Washington D.C. The decisions of the government are made away from the people who elected leaders to represent them. When Congress offers policies other than what its constituents want, the American people begin to place blame on everyone but themselves. In the United States, we have a democratic republic, meaning that we democratically elect people to represent us. We elect those we feel will represent our values the best. We trust them to keep our interests in mind while serving and expect them to follow the rule of law. While those we have elected are in Washington D.C. carrying out their duties, we sit back and relax at home. Very few Americans question what the Senate is doing from day to day, yet when something happens that upsets them, the blame game begins. After the health care reform bill passed two Sundays ago, Americans questioned their representatives’ loyalties. They blamed those who elected Obama and

the liberal Congressmen who voted for these reforms. They blamed the thousands of uninsured Americans for being the problem behind this flawed legislation. The only ones they didn’t blame were themselves. In 2008, well before his election, Obama began touting his idea of health care reform. Nearly two years later, he finally persuaded enough representatives to reach the 216 votes needed in the House to pass the bill. When he put his signature on the legislation, people across the country rose up against their representatives for not voting as their constituents wished. However, where were these angry people months and years ago, when the idea was still just an idea and not a law? I’m not talking about the Tea Party participants who have been strongly against the health care reform movement from the beginning. I’m talking about the newly upset citizens who should have taken part in the activities offered to them by the groundbreaking opposition the Tea Party offered—for the Tea Party is not blaming others. It is still acting, still pursuing its representatives and asking for change. Unfortunately, many of the newest dissenters did not act. Had more of these disgruntled Americans taken action at the polls in November of 2008, this may have been avoided. If last summer they had joined the ranks of hundreds at the town hall meetings across the country, it could have been avoided. If they had written letters to their representatives or spoken out against the bill louder and in all forms of media in the public sphere, then maybe their representatives would have known their constituents were strongly opposed to this legislation. So what can be done now? For all the upset and disappointed Americans, the answer is simple: Stop blaming others for your own lack of action. Each and every concerned American must vote in his upcoming local elections and make a difference in the composition of Congress. Americans must use the agency made available to them in the Constitution and take action to ensure their representatives know what they want. Americans must stop blaming others for what is going wrong in their life, take responsibility for their actions or lack thereof and work hard to fix their own mistakes. Then America will truly be a democratic republic, not a nation of blame. Claire Sanderson is a junior CCPA and political science double major. She can be reached for comment at csanderson@mail.smu.edu.

here is something strangely freeing and yet immensely frightening about being out of contact with the outside world. It may be a cliché observation, but it is difficult to deny Rebecca Quinn the overwhelming metamorphosis society has undergone in the last decade under the spell of technology. Today, not a day passes in which I do not send at least a dozen text messages. And yet 10 years ago, I had no idea what a text message was. Yes, I did have AOL Instant Messenger like every plugged-in middle schooler, but I did not have a cell phone. Calls from friends came in on the family line which, to my thirteen-year-old horror, was often answered by my parents. In the past week, however, I have been forced to part with both old and new technology; my parents finally killed our landline (rest in peace, childhood phone number) and, after a series of accidental falls, my cell phone is also out of commission. This string of events left me in a strange technological purgatory, with no way to make or receive calls and no way to answer texts. This misfortune proved to be taxing yet nevertheless interesting. You see, I had forgotten what it was like to go to the store and not be within a moment’s reach of everyone in my address book. To leave the house and let go of ties to the home base, if just for a few minutes. The frustrating experience of having a broken cell phone actually turned out to be a fairly refreshing one, in which I was able to make a few precious moments of my weekend truly my own, with no chance of interference or interruption. It seems unfair that I most often complain about always being on someone else’s schedule— class, meetings, work, appointments—but that I allow myself to be harassed in my free time by marrying myself to my cell phone. Indeed, a brief divorce from that device might have made for the most relaxing weekend of my semester. Although I do not mean to start a leave-thecell-at-home revolution and I do intend to have my phone repaired, I intend to explore and share the fruits of my experience. The way I see it, if we all mustered up a little more courage, giving up our cell phones might become a trendy relaxation ritual akin to soothing soaks in the tub or hot room yoga. But what about those who protest, saying they simply cannot give it up for even a moment? The reality is that unless we are doctors on-call or parents of first-time drivers, there is no reason we should feel obliged to be reachable one hundred percent of the time. And who knows? Perhaps with our cell phones safely resting on our kitchen counters there will be less distracted driving on the road, something all of us, especially Oprah, would be happy about. Rebecca Quinn is a junior art history, Spanish and French triple major. She can be reached for comment at rquinn@smu.edu.

News

The Daily Campus

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 •

PARK ‘N PONY: where all the

money actually goes CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

$500,000 from violators during 2008-09. Rhodes believes the decline in citations is the result of people understanding the procedure of parking on campus. “People are finally getting it,” he said. Students, faculty and staff have a better perspective of the system. Even

though the number of parking tickets decreased, ticket prices will increase $5-10 in the fall of 2010. Many students argue that the lack of parking on campus is the cause of their last-minute illegal parking. Rhodes said, “The plan is starting April 15, 2010 – July 14, 2014, more garages and lots will be built and taken down.”

Due to the new Presidential George Bush Library, classroom additions, parking and other renovations, SMU will spend a minimum of $150 million in financial expenses. Parking officials will continue to issue citations to violators and they must pay. The key is learning how to park smart.

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Thursday’s Puzzle Solved

38 Co. with brown uniforms 39 Nose-dive 40 Trattoria dessert 43 Crime family member 44 Medium with much talk 45 Prefix with natal 47 Walking in the shallows 48 Protected by shots, perhaps

49 Family nickname 51 F-series camera maker 55 Bug-eyed 56 Practice on canvas 57 Bourbon et al.: Abbr. 58 Pontiac in a ’60s hit song 60 “Casablanca” pianist

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• Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Sports

The Daily Campus WOMEN’S TENNIS

Mustangs keep on racking up wins

Cieplucha wins first match as nationally ranked player By STEPHEN LU Sports Editor sjlu@smu.edu

It is becoming a routine for the No. 28 SMU women’s tennis team to come out of the weekend with an additional two wins. They did it again against the University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Central Florida. The match against UTEP took place at Turpin Tennis Center on Friday, April 2. The Mustangs swept their Conference USA foes, 4-0, all in singles. No. 34 Marta Lesniak and No. 117 Aleksandra Malyarchikova both swept their singles matches at No. 1 and No. 2 singles, respectively. Freshmen Katerina Vankova and Shahzoda Hatamova also won in

straight sets, with Hatamova not dropping a single game en route to a 6-0, 6-0 victory. The Mustangs were supposed to play a second match later that day against Prairie View A&M but due to inclement weather, the match was cancelled. SMU’s second match of the weekend was against another C-USA opponent, UCF, on Sunday, April 4. The Mustangs handled the Knights easily; winning the match, 6-1, with the only point UCF earned coming in No. 6 singles. Despite a loss in No. 1 doubles, which was comprised of Lesniak and Malyarchikova, the Mustangs still managed to clinch the doubles

point behind the strong play of No. 2 and No. 3 doubles. No. 2 doubles was Hatamova and senior Pavi Francis, while No. 3 doubles was Edyta Cieplucha and senior Casey Kennedy. In singles, Lesniak dropped her first set and was forced to rally in the second and third to claim her 20th victory in singles this season. Malyarchikova won in straight sets, though her opponent almost came back in the second. And Cieplucha, who emerged in the rankings at No. 123, won her first match as a ranked player, 6-3, 6-3. SMU’s final match of the season will be at noon on Saturday, April 10 against Rice University at home.

TRACK AND FIELD

SMU’s Du Toit and Leks continue success at Texas Relays Mustangs claim two top-five finishes By BRITTANY LEVINE Associate Sports Editor blevine@smu.edu

With two top-five finishes and three top-10 finishes, the Mustang’s track and field team had an impressive showing at this past weekend’s Texas Relays in Austin. On Friday, sophomore Simone Du Toit won the discus with a throw of 53.61m. She is now third in the discus event in National Collegiate Atheletic Association’s season standings. She beat her previous season-best throw, 51.13m, which she earned at the recent Bobby Lane Invitational. Her results at the Invitational earned her a coConference USA Athlete of the Week honor last week. Also on Friday, sophomore Victoria Leks had her

outdoor season-best mark of 1.71m. Her score is only three-hundredths of a meter better than her Bobby Lane Invitational mark. On Saturday, Du Toit’s throw of 16.00m gave her a fifth place finish in the shot put. With a time of 4:41.20, freshman Klara Bodinson came in tenth place in the 1500meter run. The Mustangs’ distance medley relay team finished in fifth place with a time of 11:33.57. Next up, SMU will head to Walnut, Calif. for the Mt. Sac Relays that begin on April 15. At last year’s event, Du Toit and Leks both had impressive showings. Du Toit cleared 16 meters for the first time in her career, while Leks cleared 1.80 meters in the high jump for the first time in her career.