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Libya sees deadliest days Misrata saw one of its deadliest days in the almost two months of violence Sunday. Officials say at least 25 people were killed and 71 others critically injured. Residents reported heavy shelling and explosions as government forces promised to leave the city. However, Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kailm in Tripoli said military forces had suspended their operations.
Protests can’t find compromise Protesters in Yemen continue to put pressure on President Ali Abdullah Saleh even after he announced his departure Saturday. In a deal drawn up by the Gulf Cooperation Council, Saleh has agreed to step down within weeks in return for immunity from prosecution. However, demonstrators continue to camp out saying they do not want any negotiation.
Japan searches for bodies The Japanese government is launching a massive search to recover bodies of those killed by the March tsunami and earthquake. Beginning Monday, Japan will send nearly 25,000 soldiers supported by boats, divers, helicopters and planes into the disaster zone to look for the nearly 12,000 still missing.
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The Texas legislature is reviewing a bill that would reinstate deferred adjudication for DWI offenders.
Texas legislature considers DWI deferred adjudication By ASHLEY WITHERS Associate News Editor awithers@smu.edu
John Patton was 22 years old and was on top of the world. A former athlete, Patton had gone to college on a football scholarship and was double majoring at Austin College with plans to attend law school the following year. But on March 23, 2002, a small party with friends changed his life forever. After drinking for a few hours, Patton and a couple of others decided to move the party to his house, just five minutes away. Patton decided to drive under the influence and he ran through a flashing red light and hit an oncoming vehicle.
Chinese crack down on Easter Chinese police detained at least 30 Christians from a Beijing church after they tried to gather for an Easter service in a public plaza on Sunday. Members of the Shouwang church have been trying to meet in the plaza every Sunday since they were evicted from its rented place of worship three weeks ago, but they have been arrested each time. In China, Christians are required to worship in churches run by state-controlled organizations.
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He was knocked unconscious from the impact, but when he awoke, he saw the wreckage. After making sure he wasn’t injured too severely, officials took a sample of his blood to measure his blood alcohol content. “And then the officer said, ‘Mr. Patton, I’m now going to read you your rights. You are being charged with two counts of intoxicated vehicular assault and one count of intoxicated manslaughter,” Patton said. Patton has since served prison time for his offense and now speaks at MADD victim panels for Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) offenders and works as a counselor. The 82nd Texas legislative session is currently reviewing a bill that proposes reinstating deferred adjudication for
DWI offenders. Deferred adjudication for DWIs was done away with in Texas in 1984, but almost three decades later it is making a comeback and causing a heated debate in the Capitol. Deferred adjudication is a form of plea deal, where the defendant would plead “guilty” to the criminal charges in exchange for meeting the requirements set out by the court. As proposed, opting for deferred adjudication would result in supervision, treatment and one year of probation. If completed, the defendant would not receive a formal DWI conviction, but the courts would keep the notation in a person’s record
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The above are preliminary concept renderings of the Moody Coliseum renovations. The total cost of the project is estimated at $40 million.
Foundation gives $20 million for Moody Coliseum renovation By MEREDITH SHAMBURGER Online Editor mshamburge@smu.edu
The Moody Foundation has given SMU $20 million for the expansion and renovation of Moody Coliseum. Plans for the renovation include adding premium and courtside seating, new video boards, scoreboards, sound system, broadcast capabilities, upgraded offices, upgraded locker rooms, upgraded restrooms and a heating and cooling system. The total cost of the project is estimated at $40 million. SMU says in its press release that additional donors will be sought to fill the gap.
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“The Foundation is delighted to be continuing its special relationship with SMU,” Frances Anne MoodyDahlberg (‘91) said, adding, “and we are especially pleased to be a part of the university’s new vision for Moody Coliseum.” SMU has not yet determined a construction start date, but has begun the planning and design phase. “The renovation of Moody Coliseum will enhance a valuable resource that serves as a gathering place convenient to the entire region,” Dr. Turner said. “Programs ranging from academic ceremonies to George W. Bush Presidential Center offerings to athletic events will attract tens of thousands to SMU. We are grateful to the Foundation.”
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Islamic traditions influence American architecture, culture, says speaker By PATRICIA BOH Contributing Writer pboh@smu.edu
Although it seems that Arab presence in America is recent, Dr. Hussein Rashid would argue to the contrary. In his lecture, “Everyday Art: the Islamic Contribution on American Arts,” Rashid argues that America has a long tradition of Islamic influence in art and culture. Rashid’s lecture Thursday afternoon focused around the portrayal and significance of Islam in architecture, graphic art, literary art, television and music. Fatima Hassan Ali, public relations
for Aga Khan Council of Northern Texas, explained that the purpose of these lectures is to “engage” and “educate” non-Muslim audiences about Islamic topics. “[Islamic influences in art] are political statements . . . an expression of multiple identities, of being American and of being Muslim. Being MuslimAmerican is not a disconnect, but rather a long and rich tradition,” Rashid said. In architecture, Rashid pointed out several examples of American buildings that possess Islamic motifs, including churches, temples, movie theaters and even the Twin Towers. Graphic art, specifically graphic
novels, are beginning to mainstream characters of Muslim heritage. Marvel’s X-Men series, known for being progressive in dealing with social issues, now has a set of Muslim characters including an Afghan girl who controls sand. Graphic artist Willow Wilson is gaining notoriety for her graphic novel, Cairo, detailing unrelated stories that become intertwined in the title’s city. Regarding television, Rashid said that CBS’ NCIS in particular portrays Muslim characters in an unusual but effective manner through the character
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New Japanese Association at SMU raises thousands for relief efforts By MEGHAN SIKKEL Contributing Writer msikkel@smu.edu
The newly formed Japanese Association at SMU has raised over $9,000 in relief efforts after the deadly earthquake and tsunami struck Japan last month. The evening of March 11, Isaac Saito received an email from his mother living in Tochigi, Japan, 100 miles from the epicenter of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the island nation earlier that day. In the email, his mother said she thought she was going to die. “Honestly, I’m not a person who is driven by an emergency and acts for someone else who is in trouble,”
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Saito said. “But I’ve concluded that my motivation this time came from concern for the country where I was born and raised and for my loved ones who thought they were going to die.” After the most powerful earthquake in Japan’s recorded history struck his
home country, Saito, a graduate student at SMU, contacted SMU’s six Japanese international students to start a relief group in response to the disaster. Together, he and Yuri Kimura founded the Japanese Association at SMU (JASMU), the university’s first organization created specifically for Japanese students. Co-founder Kimura, a Ph.D. candidate in the Huffington Department of Earth Sciences in Dedman College, was talking to her mother on Skype when the earthquake hit near her parents’ home in Tokyo. “She told me that it was the biggest earthquake she had ever experienced,” Kimura said.
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Interview with the ‘Mascot’ By MEREDITH SHAMBURGER Online Editor mshamburge@smu.edu
Peruna has a funny bone, and he’s taken it to Twitter. “The Internet in my stall doesn’t work too well...Why did they name such a bad Wi-Fi network after me??” he wrote on April 4, just a few days after joining the social networking site. Later that week on April 7 he complained about the Student Senate elections. “It’s the last day of elections. I still haven’t received my absentee ballot here at the ranch. I need to talk to President Turner about this.” But if you’re wondering who’s behind @PerunaThePony, The Daily Campus can’t give you a name. The mysterious account launched on April Fools’ Day, and the person behind it isn’t revealing his identity. “Someone very close to Peruna,” is all they would release when contacted for an interview. “I don’t want to reveal anything more than
that so that the page is about Peruna, not the writer behind the screen. Not official though.” @PerunaThePony has slowly gained followers since joining the social networking site. As of Sunday night, he had 54 followers. After asking for an interview, The Daily Campus editors compiled a list of questions and sent them to @PerunaThePony via Google Docs. @PerunaThePony says he joined Twitter because, “After being the mascot for 78 some years, I figured it was time to get into the 21st century.” “After all, aren’t we in the middle of the “Second Century” campaign?” he wrote. “Listen here you whippersnappers: back in MY day the only “tweets” came from the birds that lived on my ranch!” Although @PerunaThePony isn’t talking about his identity, he did offer explanations for some of the mascot’s more infamous stunts, such as killing the Fordham Ram. “Well, there were rumors about a “Death Penalty” flying around, so I
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Politics
• Monday, April 24, 2011
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In Easter message, pope urges diplomacy in Libya By ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI offered an Easter prayer Sunday for diplomacy to prevail over warfare in Libya and for citizens of the Middle East to build a new society based on respect. He also called on Europeans to welcome refugees from North Africa. “In heaven, all is peace and gladness. But, alas, all is not so on earth!” the pope lamented as he delivered the traditional “Urbi et Orbi” message from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to a crowd of more than 100,000 that overflowed from St. Peter’s Square. “In the current conflict in Libya, may diplomacy and dialogue replace arms, and may those who suffer as a result of the conflict be given access to humanitarian aid,” he said. Referring to North Africa and the Middle East, the pope prayed that all citizens, especially young people, would “work to promote the common good and to build a society where poverty is defeated and every political choice is inspired by respect for the human person.” Uprisings, repression and civil warfare have triggered an exodus of people to Italian shores as well as other countries in the region. Europe has been split over whether to accept or deport tens of thousands of migrants, many of them from Libya and elsewhere in northern Africa. Benedict rallied to the side of refugees, urging people of good will to “open their
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Pope Benedict XVI holds his pastoral staff during the “Urbi et Orbi” (Latin for to the City and to the World) message from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, at the end of the Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Sunday. Benedict XVI urged an end to fighting in Libya, using his Easter Sunday message to call for diplomacy and peace in the Middle East.
hearts to welcome them.” “Here, in this world of ours, the Easter alleluia still contrasts with the cries and laments that arise from so many painful situations: deprivation, hunger, disease, war, violence,” said the pontiff, resplendent in gold-colored robes as he sat on a chair and read his speech in Italian. In Cagliari, Sardinia, an Easter lunch of Sardinian cheese, pasta and lamb was served by Caritas, the Catholic charity, to some 20 Tunisians, the Italian news agency ANSA reported from the island. The diners were some of the more than 26,000 Tunisians who have clandestinely
entered Italy since unrest in their homeland in January. Most are waiting for temporary travel documents from Italy they hope will let them reach France, where many have friends and relatives. France has warned the Tunisians they will be sent backed unless they have jobs or savings to support themselves. The dispute between Rome and Paris over the Tunisians’ fate is expected to dominate much of an Italian-French summit in the Italian capital on Tuesday. Appeals for solidarity like Benedict’s are also “words for those who keep the doors closed” to the migrants, Monsignor
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Albert Mario Careggio, bishop of Ventimiglia, an Italian town near the French border, told Sky TG24 TV. In Rome, the drama of society’s unwanted played out in one of the city’s major basilicas, where some 150 Gypsies have taken refuge from city officials who are dismantling illegal Roma trailer settlements. The Gypsies say City Hall will split their families by sending women and children to a shelter in a Rome suburb but not men. A top aide to the pope later went to St. Paul Outside the Walls Basilica to meet with the Gypsies and express Benedict’s “closeness” to them, Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said. Caritas later found a solution to the standoff, arranging the Gypsies’ transfer, men and women alike, to a home run by a volunteer group in hopes it could be a “prelude to a lasting, stable arrangement,” Lombardi said. Earlier in the day, in a sign of Easter solidarity, several dozen Romans brought food, diapers and milk for babies to the improvised refugee camp at the basilica. The 84-year-old Benedict’s voice cracked at times during the Mass, but he ended his two-hour appearance Sunday by reading aloud holiday greetings in 65 languages. Benedict returns to the square in a week to lead a crowd expected to be at least double Easter’s turnout when he beatifies John Paul, putting the Polishborn, long-serving pontiff on the last formal step before eventual sainthood.
Obama attends Easter service at historic church By ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and his family attended Easter service Sunday at a Washington church founded in 1863 by freed slaves. The first family entered Shiloh Baptist Church to a round of applause on a sun-splashed day in the nation’s capital as members of a choir dressed in black, white and gold sang “Total Praise.” Obama shook a few hands and hugged some members of the congregation as he and his wife, Michelle, and their daughters, Malia and Sasha, walked to a second-row pew. According to the church’s pastor, Dr. Wallace Charles Smith, 21 freed slaves made it to the nation’s capital from Fredericksburg, Va., to establish a place where they could worship freely and where “they could reach others with the good news of their salvation.” Located about two miles north of the White House, Shiloh Baptist is one of the oldest African-American congregations in the city. In addition to Sunday service, the church situated in the Shaw section of the city operates several community service programs throughout the year, including a child care development center and assistance
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World renown surgeon Ben Carson will be speaking at the last MAPS event of the year from 6 - 8 p.m. in Dedman Life Science 110.
April 29
Calling all acoustic musicians! TREAT is hosting a jam session in the M Lounge just for the amplest side of music. 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY April 27
Join the Tower Center Student Forum in the law quad for an evening of conversation and food, while learning about TCSF in the process. 5 - 8 p.m.
Join the Ballroom Club for their spring dance. This year’s theme is the roaring twenties. 8 p.m. in the Hughes-Trigg ballroom.
THURSDAY April 28
Food Chain: Work life balance is a discussion group that provides support, education, and mentoring for female, minority faculty, staff and students. Hughes-Trigg Atrium C-D 12 p.m.
Criminal Mischief: Owens Fine Art Center/Parking Lot/6100 Bishop Blvd. A police officer reported a damaged gate arm. Open. 3:55 p.m. Criminal Mischief: Off Campus/Turtle Creek Park. Dallas Police Officer contacted SMU PD on identifying several SMU students who had cut down bamboo from a park. Five students were referred to the Student Conduct Office for violation of criminal mischief. Closed.
9:31 p.m. Possession of Marijuana: McElvaney Hall/6000 Bishop Blvd. Three students were referred to the Student Conduct Office for possessing marijuana. Closed.
to low-income families and senior citizens. Smith will observe his 20th anniversary at Shiloh in July. Smith’s sermon, titled “The Resurrection Changes Everything,” drew from the book of John, chapters 15 and 16. Last Easter, the Obamas worshipped at a historically black Methodist church in a different part of the city. In 2009, Obama visited St. John’s Church across Lafayette Square from the White House, the pale yellow place of worship that other presidents have favored over the years. Attending a National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, Obama said his faith has deepened during his two years in the White House and he urged members of Congress to rely on their own faith to build a spirit of civility in Washington. He said that at a time of bitter partisanship, lawmakers must find a way to be open to the ideas of others, while staying true to their core principles. “I pray that God will show me and all of us the limits of our understanding and open our ears and our hearts to our brothers and sisters with different points of view, that such reminders of our shared hopes and our shared dreams and our shared limitations as children of God will reveal a way forward that we can travel together,” the president said.
APRIL 21 8:52 a.m. Failure to Leave Identification: Owens Fine Art Center Parking Lot/6100 Bishop Blvd. A faculty member reported some unknown person struck her rental vehicle and failed to leave contact information. Open. 11:58 a.m. Theft: Shuttles Hall/ Bike Rack/6212 Hillcrest Avenue. A student reported theft of her bicycle. The theft occurred sometime between April 15 - April 21. Open.
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figured they were counting on me to carry it out,� he wrote. “There can be serious consequences if you cheer against the Mustangs, you know.� He says he only kicked Bevo because the mascot “is always drugged up at the games.� “He told me he was clean, but obviously wasn’t at that game so I tried to snap him out of it,� he wrote. “I apologized for it later. He told me that he thinks those Silver Spur guys are slipping stuff in his water trough. Why would they sedate their own mascot!? If any of MY Handlers tried that... well...we all saw what happened to the Fordham ram.� @PerunaThePony also explained how he and his handlers once snuck him into a taxi in Los Angeles before a game against UCLA. While he usually took a limo in “the good ol’ days when you could travel with more than 3.5 ounces of liquid,� that day was an exception. “My driver apparently overslept and got stuck in the crazy LA gridlock before the game, so I had to call a cab to get to the game in time,� he said. “I didn’t want to let my team down. The guy was kind of weird and smelled like air freshener, but I got to the game in time, so I guess all’s well that ends well.� As for Liberty and Justice, the two mustangs donated to SMU by Madeleine Pickens? @PerunaThePony says he feels kind of bad for them. “It must suck to have once been a mustang but then...poor guys... Madeline Pickens found them, chopped off their manhood and trained them into tame little geldings,� he wrote. “A true mustang like me would never let someone put a saddle on them!� To read the entire interview, visit smudailycampus.com.
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as the basis for an enhanced penalty for a repeat offense. The bill was also intended to help unclog the Texas court system. With large budget cuts in many areas of government, proponents of the bill say it would ease the backlog of DWI cases. As of January 2011, there were 15,262 DWI cases pending in Dallas County alone. Statewide the number was in the hundreds of thousands. “They need to have a stiffer penalty because we know a lot of repeat offenders are on the roads in Texas,� Executive Director of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) North Texas Mary Kardell said. Representatives from MADD have spent time in Austin lobbying strongly for the bill. However, despite MADD’s stamp of approval, DWI offender Patton does not agree with the proposed law. He believes that deferred adjudication would serve as a free pass for drivers under the influence who get caught for the first time.
“The scary thing about that is my first drinking and driving offense killed someone,� Patton said. Patton isn’t the only one who doesn’t think deferred adjudication is the answer. Texas DWI defense attorneys have been some of the loudest opponents of the bill. They believe that DWI offenders have no incentive to take the deferred adjudication because it does not completely eradicate the charge from their record. “My clients are going to say ‘no thanks,’� Dallas DWI defense attorney John Gioffredi said. “You know, I’ll take my chances with a jury and try to get a ‘not guilty’ so I can have it erased.� The proposed bill also includes statutes for sobriety checkpoints to be set up around the state and for ignition interlock systems to be placed in DWI offenders’ vehicles, even for first-time offenders. The bill is currently pending in the State Senate. “Texas is not playing around when it comes to drinking and driving,� Patton said. “I mean, this is killing people and changing peoples lives forever.�
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Ziva David, a former Mossad agent and expat from Israel. Rashid applauds television shows for discussing what it means to be Muslim-American. “The night news hours is no longer where people get informed... the things that tie people together are primetime watercolor shows,� he said. Some of Rashid’s academic interests lie in the Islamic influence on some types of American music. He explained that Islam has had a presence in America dating back to
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the introduction of slavery. Rashid argues that many of the slaves are suspected to have been Muslim and converted upon arriving in America. Despite the culture change, components of this “cultural memory� present themselves in the music elements of blues, hip hop and R&B. Rashid connects slave spirituals to Koran recitations, noting the similarities in scales, harmony and other musical aspects. This lecture is the second program that Perkins School of Theology has done in coordination with the Aga Khan Council of Northern Texas.
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Members of JASMU have sold 397 T-shirts in an effort to raise funds for those affected by the earthquake in Japan.
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Kimura stayed up all night contacting her family and friends until she knew everyone was OK. “Because I grew up in Japan, earthquakes are a part of my life experience,� Kimura said. “But I never realized that one earthquake could trigger such disasters.� Six years ago, something similar happened to SMU graduate student and JASMU member Noritoshi Hiyama. Hiyama survived a large earthquake in Kobe, Japan that killed over 6,000 people. “It was so terrible that I optimistically thought Japan would never experience a worse one during the remainder of my life,� Hiyama said. Japan’s recent earthquake proved him to be wrong, but it was the tsunami, not the earthquake, that surprised Hiyama the most. “Although a lot of small earthquakes occur in Japan on a daily or weekly basis, most Japanese
people, including me, have never experienced a tsunami,� Hiyama said. “I could not believe it was happening in Japan.� Hiyama joined Saito and Kimura in their relief efforts, becoming the third board member of JASMU. The other two members of the organization are Emi Kodama and Kiyoko Hiyama. Since it was formed, JASMU sold 397 T-shirts designed by Kimura with the concept, “Live with nature and recover from disaster.� The $20 T-shirt displays images of Mount Fuji and a crane as symbols of Japan and a large wave representing the earthquake and tsunami. The organization also raised funds by hosting a charity talk featuring SMU professionals who spoke about what happened in Japan the day of the earthquake. With the entrance fee of the charity talk and the T-shirt sales combined, JASMU has raised a total of $9,117.46 thus far. All of the money raised by the organization will go to the American
Red Cross. The JASMU members admitted they were surprised by the amount of support they received from the SMU and Dallas communities. “To be honest, I couldn’t imagine this much of a warm and generous response in so many ways from the students and faculty,� Saito said. Although the group has already had a great deal of fundraising success, JASMU does not plan to slow its relief efforts anytime soon. “I would like to raise $10,000 in total by the end of this semester,� Kimura said. While they have seen a large amount of concern and aid for Japan in the United States, the JASMU members emphasized that in order for the country to recover from the disaster, our nation’s support cannot dwindle. “What will be required in this situation is a continuing effort,� Saito said. “The impact is too huge for a single country to recover on its own.�
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Opinion
• Monday, April 24, 2011
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EDITORIAL
Student research reveals unheard voice of Tohono O’odham Nation on U.S.-Mexico Border debate COMMENTARY
A contentious issue surrounding the U.S.Mexico border is the building of a border wall or a Jordan Johansen border fence. With inflammatory political rhetoric plaguing the issue, there can be no middle ground. Everyone seems to have an opinion, and even a calm discussion in dorm lounges cannot avoid the suggestion of building a wall. While many politicians, media personalities and journalists have boisterously stated their opinion, there is an unheard voice with deep concerns about the issue. While in southern Arizona over winter break with the Student Leadership Initiative of the Embrey Human Rights Program, I had the opportunity to meet with and interview various actors in the border debate. In particular, my research focused on the effects of the U.S.-Mexico border on the Tohono O’odham Nation. Inhabiting 2.8 million acres, with 75 miles of international border, the Tohono O’odham Nation is a key actor on the border, and it is important
that their voice and their concerns are adequately heard when discussing the border issue. The Tohono O’odham Nation is the only nation on the U.S.-Mexico border that has fully recognized nation members on both sides of the border. The border, created by the Gadsden Purchase and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in the mid-19th century, split the nation and its people in half, which has left approximately 2,000 O’odham citizens living in Mexico, where there is no comparable designated Tohono O’odham reservation. As Verlon Jose, the Chairman of the Legislative Council, conveyed to our group, “We didn’t cross the border; the border crossed us.” While the border split the nation, the two treaties recognized the rights of Indigenous Peoples to maintain land, culture and religion, regardless of political borders. The current U.S. immigration policies violate these treaty obligations, as well as the rights of the O’odham. For the O’odham, the border fence debate is one of the most important issues that has resulted from the increased discussions of the border. The increased government presence on the border since Operation Gatekeeper in the 1980s and 1990s has already limited the O’odham’s ability to freely cross the border.
A barbed wire fence has been constructed that divides the reservation in half, and increased border patrol presence makes passing across the border difficult for tribal members, especially elders. The fence inhibits the travel of the O’odham throughout their tribal lands and the checkpoints compound on these problems. Many of the issues arise from lack of documentation, border patrol harassment, and inconsistent policies of ICE towards the Tohono O’odham. An open border is crucial to the tribe because of their particular historical and cultural circumstances. An open border is fundamental for the travel to sacred sites, which is vital for the preservation of kinship and traditional ceremonies, as well as to maintain culture. It is also fundamental for teaching O’odham children the language and the cultural practices. In addition, the border splits families. Without an open border, family members in Mexico are unable to cross to visit family on the U.S. side. A closed border also prevents member from getting adequate health care. All members of the Tohono O’odham tribe, including Mexican nationals, are entitled to the basic services provided at the reservation clinic overseen by the U.S. government.
Should U.S. turn to Representative Ryan’s budget reform given Obama’s lack of leadership? At the beginning of April, Republican Representative Paul D. Ryan introduced to the country his “Roadmap for America’s Future,” a far-reaching plan to get America out of its debt crisis through a series of austere spending cuts and fundamental tax reform. The proposal was notable for being the first serious and honest attempt to deal with this country’s unsustainable spending habits. A few weeks later, President Obama took the stage at George Washington University to present his alternative. After attacking Ryan and his supporters as nothing more than lightweights and cowards, Obama got around to his own ideas. The welfare state as we know it can be preserved, Obama argued, and we don’t even have to raise middle-class taxes to do it. All we need to do is trim entitlements around the edges, cut waste and abuse and tax the hell out of the rich. At the end of the speech, it was clear that Ryan wasn’t the coward in the room. Obama’s plan is fundamentally dishonest. No amount of trash talk can hide the fact that it just won’t work. Our entitlement system is broken. Within a very short amount of time, programs like Medicare and Social Security will be insolvent. A little tweaking here and there won’t save them; they must be rethought and structurally reformed. There are only two ways to do this. We either drastically reduce expenditures or raise a lot of revenue. One half of Obama’s solution is to make some sizable cuts to government spending—a fine start, but not nearly enough. The other is to continue with the soak-the-rich rhetoric he’s lately been employing with increasing desperation. In this country, the wealthiest Americans pay a hugely disproportionate share of the taxes. In 2004, even after the Bush tax cuts took effect, the richest 10 percent of Americans earned 44 percent of the nation’s income but paid 68 percent of the taxes. The wealthiest 1 percent paid a whopping 37 percent. Whether or not such a progressive tax is fair—a reasonable question that reasonable people can and should discuss—the fact is that there’s only so much you can take. To keep the government at the size Obama wants, everyone—rich, poor, and middle-class—will have to contribute. Everyone’s tax burden will have to increase dramatically. That’s the fundamental question facing Americans today: whether everyone will pay more taxes or receive fewer government services. Ryan and his Republican colleagues have been frank about that choice; Obama has chosen to ignore it. He preferred to tell a popular lie rather than a hard but necessary truth. And he had the audacity to question Ryan’s courage. Although I think it’s generally sound, the Ryan plan raises a number of questions that Americans must grapple with. Almost every proposal it makes will be met with opposition—some of it reflexive and reactionary, some of it compassionate and valid. People are going to disagree as to how we can best meet this crisis; that’s healthy. But it’s time to get serious. For a long time we’ve all had our heads in the sand, but thanks to Ryan everyone—even our leaders in Washington—have begun to own up to the truth. It’s time for a great national conversation about who we are as a people and what role we see our government playing. There needs to be two sides to that conversation. We’ve heard the conservative one. But faced with a historic opportunity to defend the welfare state and offer a progressive vision of spending reform, Obama chose to play the politician. He dithered and avoided the hard choices. He said we could have it all. He came up lacking. It’s time for Obama to make a decision. Either he must step up and become a responsible leader or he must step aside and let Ryan do it. Nathaniel French is a senior theater major. He can be reached for comment at nfrench@smu.edu. 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.
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When discussing the border fence with Pete Delgado, the “Chief of Staff ” for the Chairman of the Nation, he articulated, “We have not agreed to a pedestrian wall/fence: this would split our people in half, which is already happening by an international border.” Verlon Jose confirmed this opinion by saying, “We will never approve a human wall.” Delgado did state that they have put up a vehicle barrier fence intended to decrease the level of drug-smuggling. Since the Tohono O’odham nation is ground zero for the drug wars, the building of these barrier fences shows that the nation is willing to work with authorities to combat serious issues plaguing the region. While the border wall discussion shows no sign of slowing down, it is important to remember the people living along the border that will be directly affected by the building of the wall. We must respect the O’odham’s right to maintain their culture and religion, as well as to keep the promises made in the international treaties. Jordan Johansen is senior history, music and anthropology triple major. She can be reached for comments or questions at jjohansen@smu.edu.
Open letter to President Bush CONTRIBUTOR
Parting words from senior journalist and Daily Campus editor ONLINE EDITOR
The best decision of my college career was joining the staff of this newspaper. It started with an email in Meredith Shamburger September 2007, asking then-News Editor Steve Thompson if I could write for this esteemed college paper. I espoused my many fine attributes, not realizing that my competition was far less stiff than I was imagining it to be. I thought there’d be dozens of writers waiting to get in the door (more like 15 altogether, and most of them didn’t write a single story). But since that time, I’ve come to realize a lot of things. Among them is the fact that college journalists are amazing. Like our readers, we’ve got term papers and tests and reading assignments. But we’ve also got that interview with President Turner at 11 a.m., and then that story about Peruna for Wedne—HOLY CRAP! FONDREN SCIENCE HAS FLOODED! College journalists have to juggle school and work—work that is often unpredictable and causes them to sometimes skip class (not that I ever did this; I was a *cough* model student *cough*). We’re often on a firstname basis with many of the school’s administrators, but we can’t be afraid to challenge them on the important issues. We’ve got a responsibility to inform our readers about what’s going on at SMU, even if they scorn us for not exactly writing stories favorable to the university or mock us for the many typos we print.
It’s an underappreciated job, which may explain why we’re always continuously understaffed. So as I prepare to end my four years at SMU, I want to say thanks. Thanks to our readers who continually demanded excellence. Thanks to the readers who read what we printed and then used their freedom of speech to write us back. Thanks to those readers who only picked up a copy of the paper so that you could do the crossword puzzle in your math class. Thanks to all of the people I have worked with at this amazing place. Together we’ve built a damned good newspaper. And because I’ve invested way too much of myself in this place, here’s some advice for future staffers: Sometimes you just have to say no. You can’t be a people-pleaser in this business. It doesn’t work. You can’t print every story that someone sends your way. You can’t hire everyone that applies for a job. If it’s a badly written article, send it back for further work. Set the bar high and you’ll produce a better paper. Professors and advisors are great, but you’re the one putting this paper together. Go to them for advice, listen to what they say, but don’t be afraid to disagree if you’ve got a different perspective (as long as it’s an intelligent one, mind you). They’re here to help, not make all the decisions. Familiarize yourself with the Student Press Law Center. Seriously, if you’re a college journalist who doesn’t know what the SPLC does, then I’d suggest some personal introspection. Demand transparency. SMU is a private university, which means they get to conceal a lot of information that public universities don’t (such as Board
of Trustee meetings). Students deserve to know what their university is doing behind closed doors. Those doors may not always be opened, but at least the rest of the campus will realize what their university isn’t telling them. Don’t become the University bulletin board. This was the conclusion of the best editorial I’ve ever read, which was a brief on censorship in 1936 by this very paper: “Our elders have said, with regard to censorship, that it is the only feasible plan as we youngsters go berzerk at the slightest provocation. We run amuck just to be running amuck, they say, and drag family skeletons out of the closet and shake them until the poor bones rattle. We probe and pry and peek and make general nuisances of ourselves. The relationship between the university administration and the university newspaper, say our elders, should be the same as that between a publisher and an editor. The difference lies here: The publisher of a newspaper has the interests of that paper at heart, whereas the administration of a university has not the paper’s interests, but its own as its first consideration. A newspaper under the censoring blue-pencil of a university is likely to suffer curtailment. Good publicity for the university would naturally be put before all else regardless of truth. Inevitably the newspaper would degenerate into nothing but a university bulletin.” Meredith Shamburger has served as online editor, editor in chief, news editor and staff writer of The Daily Campus. She is a senior majoring in journalism. She can be reached for comments or questions at mshamburge@smu.edu.
Dear Mr. President, SMU loves you! During the 2000 election my family and I lived in Aleksander Bologna Palm Beach, Fla. and participated in the famous re-vote. Needless to say, we voted for you both times during the election. This means that my family has proudly voted for you a total of three times for president. I came to SMU knowing that such an influential person would certainly have an impact on the learning environment I would be involved in. Your decisions as president have shaped this country and generation for the past decade, and the value of your expertise and vision in your future policy institute is going to be a priceless asset for students. And I’m not alone in this belief; most students in my dorm either have your picture on their wall or a copy of “Decision Points” on their desk. I know of countless students who waited six hours in line at Borders to meet you when they heard you were signing books. All of us watch your library construction with the knowledge that in two years SMU will exclusively host the Bush Library and all of its amazing benefits that it will bring. But we have one problem with you Mr. President; we want to see more of you. We hear rumors of your presence on campus and wish that we were lucky enough to run into you. Forget Ke$ha or 36 Mafia, you are the real “Rock Star” around here, and you should really flaunt it. So please Mr. President, stop by some of our classes, have a surprise book signing at Dallas Hall and maybe I’m dreaming but you could come to one of our football games next year. Kyle Padron is going to take us all the way in 2011. Sincerely, Your friends at SMU Aleksander Bologna is a first year political science major. He can be reached for comments or questions at abologna@smu.edu.
Sports
Monday, April 25, 2011 •
MEN’S TENNIS
WOMEN’S TENNIS
Owls down Mustangs, 4-1 By JENNIFER BUNTZ Associate Sports Editor jbuntz@smu.edu
The SMU men’s tennis team traveled to Tulsa, Okla. this past weekend to compete in the C-USA tournament at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center. The first round was played on Friday afternoon where SMU defeated UAB 4-0. This win improved the Mustangs’ record to 17-8 on the season. First up was doubles play with Tobias Flood and Joseph Hattrup at line one who defeated Tom Puetz and David Zimmerman of UAB 8-4. Adham el-Effendi and Darren Walsh were at line two against Chris Helliar and Danny Manlow. They edged past UAB’s duo 8-6. Last of the court was nationally ranked Gaston Cuadranti and Artem
Baradach, they were the only loss for the Mustangs in doubles play and they fell 8-5 to Lucas Dirube and Daniel Moser. Thanks to the two earlier wins in doubles play, SMU took the doubles point and made the score 1-0 going into singles play. David Costa, Cuadranti and Mischa Nowicki all put on strong performances in singles play to make the final score 4-0 and suspended play due to the four wins. After the quarterfinal win, the Mustangs advanced to the semifinals which were played Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m. They were set to play the winner of the Rice/Tulane match, and Rice won. The doubles play was switched up just a little bit for this match, el-Effendi paired with Walsh to defeat the Owl’s
pairing of Christian Saravia and Michael Nuesslein 8-4. Cuadranti and Baradach also took home a win and sealed the doubles point for the Mustangs after their win over Peter Frank and Sam Garforth-Bies 8-5. During singles play the tables were turned; Rice picked up four straight wins to advance to the finals. Flood fell to Nuesslein 6-0, 6 -2 and Nowicki lost to Garforth-Bies 6-4, 6-1. Walsh and Baradach faced three setters against their opponents, and were both defeated. No. 47 Baradach was upset by No. 108 Harry Fowler. This match was SMU’s last of the season, and made their final season record 17-9. The team member’s final matches will be determined upon qualifying in the NCAA championships at Stanford at the end of May.
WOMEN’S GOLF
Three Mustangs finish in top 20 By JOHN BONADELLE Staff Writer jbonadelle@smu.edu
The SMU women’s golf team finished the Conference USA Championship tournament with a sixth place finish with a total of 913 strokes. Although the Mustangs placed sixth overall, they were only a mere nine strokes behind first place tournament winner UTEP. Individually, the Mustangs put forth an impressive showing by having three top 20 finishers. The Mustangs highest finisher, freshman Amy Ruengmateekhun, finished the tournament tied for 10th. She finished the tournament on day three by shooting four over par with a 76 which lowered her score to 227 overall. The other top 20 finishers were Maria Elena Villamil and Felicia Espericueta.
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Vilamil finished in the top 15 with a 13th place finish and Espericueta wrapped up the championship tournament by placing 18th overall. The Mustangs as a team finished the first 18 holes tied for the lead in the entire tournament by shooting 302 on the first day. Although they enjoyed the initial day one success, SMU saw their lead slowly dwindle as other teams cut down their lead on the second day. By the end of day two, the Mustangs had fallen to third place and found themselves chasing nationally ranked Tulane and eventual tournament champion UTEP. Although losing their initial lead, the Mustangs still managed to finish sixth and return to the Hilltop after a successful tournament showing and 2011 campaign.
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Sudoku
By Michael Mepham
SMU falls to Tulsa in final, 4-3 By EJ HOLLAND Sports Editor eholland@smu.edu
After ending the regular season on a high note with a victory over Wichita State, the No. 33 SMU women’s tennis team traveled to Orlando, Fla. to take part in the Conference USA Championship. The Mustangs were dealt the two seed and earned a first round bye before taking down East Carolina and Marshall to advance to the final against Tulsa. Against the seventh seeded East Carolina, the Mustangs found early success in doubles competition, as they claimed the point after two straight wins. SMU juniors Marta Lesniak and Aleksandra Malyarchikova got things started for the Mustangs as they blanked Natalie Collins and Petra Vogel, 8-0. Heather Steinbauer and Edyta Cieplucha sealed the doubles point and gave SMU the early 1-0 advantage after they defeated Neena Wanko and Manon Bissat, 8-2. The Mustangs saw similar success in singles play, taking three straight matches to secure a 4-0 victory over the Pirates. No. 9 Lesniak earned her 17th consecutive singles victory as she made quick work of Jessica Cook 6-1, 6-1. Steinbauer was next off the courts after she dominated Wanko 6-0, 6-1, while her doubles partner Cieplucha trounced Collins 7-5, 6-1 to propel SMU into the semifinal round SMU moved on to face third seeded No. 52 Marshall and once again set the tone by winning two straight matches to capture the doubles point. Lesniak and Malyarchikova were first off courts as they took down the Marshall pair of Michaela Kissel and Dominika Zapranza, 8-2. Steinbauer and Cieplucha clinched the doubles point and gave SMU the early 1-0 lead after they beat
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Catherine Kellner and Maria Voscekova, 8-5 In singles play, the Mustangs took three out of four matches to solidify a finals date with the number one overall seed in the tournament, No. 22 Tulsa. No. 125 Malyarchikova was also first off the courts in singles play after she made quick work of Kellner 6-2, 6-2. Kara Kucin got the Thundering Herd right back in the thick of things with her 6-1, 6-4 victory over Ashley Turpin, making the score 2-1. Steinbauer extended the SMU lead when she took down Kristina Koprcina 6-2, 6-4 while No. 9 Lesniak gave the Mustangs the 4-1 victory after her hard fought 7-6 (10-8), 6-1 win over No. 53 Kissel. SMU failed to win the doubles point for the first time all tournament in the final against the number one overall seed, Tulsa. Steinbauer and Cieplucha were defeated by the Tulsa pair of Ewa Szatkowska and Anastasia Erofeeva 8-4, while Hatamova and Turpin were downed by Bonny Davidson and Sam Vickers 8-4.
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Lesniak and Malyarchikova gave SMU their only win in doubles action as they drubbed Alexandra Kichoutkin and Jo-Anne Szatkowska, 8-2. In singles play, the Golden Hurricane did just enough to capture the title as things came down to the wire in Orlando. No. 9 Lesniak and Cieplucha gave the Mustangs two early victories as they took down No. 108 Kichoutkin and Erofeeva, respectively. Tulsa went ahead 3-2 after Farley made quick work of Steinbauer 6-2, 6-1 and Vickers dismantled Hatamova 6-4, 6-1. The Mustangs kept their title hopes alive as they knotted the score up at three a piece when No. 125 Malyarchikova made a thrilling comeback to claim victory over Ewa Szatkowska 2-6, 6-2, 6-2. However, Tulsa’s Jo-Anne Szatkowska made a come back of her own as she defeated Turpin in dramatic fashion 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 to give the Golden Hurricanes the 4-3 victory and their fourth Conference USA title in the last five years.
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Arts & Entertainment
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CELEBRITY
‘Jumping the Broom’ actors talk upcoming film By CHASE WADE Assoc. A&E Editor cdwade@smu
With a star-studded cast, “Jumping the Broom� follows the meeting of two very different families at a wedding in Martha’s Vineyard. Referring to the old tradition of jumping over a broom when a couple is married, the film stars actors Paula Patton and Laz Alonso. Playing Sabrina Watson, the story’s bride, Patton discusses how she really feels about her character in “Jumping the Broom.� “Sabrina Watson is a romantic. She falls in love easily,� Patton said. “I called her a lovebug. When you first meet her in the film, she’s made some wrong decisions about men and has entered into things too quickly. Then, she calls on God to help guide her to find the right man for her. Then, she literally runs into Jason Taylor who becomes the man she’s going to
marry.� Patton, whose most recent film includes the Oscar-nominated movie “Precious,� claims that doing such a high-profile film has changed her career. “Being part of that film gave me more hope and belief in the fact that we could have more art in movies today,� Patton said. “Cinema has become such a capitalistic venture. It’s all about the bottom line and how much money we’re going to make. ‘Precious’ was a labor of love, a true piece of art. It went on to do incredible things and win all these awards. It gave me space in film as an art form. Other than that, it just blessed me with more opportunities to work.� Paula’s costar, Laz Alonso, has recently seen his career rise as well. Starring in the highest grossing film of all time, “Avatar,� Alonso talks about working with the film’s famous
director James Cameron. “Working with James Cameron elevated my work ethic tremendously,� Alonso said. “I feel like every film I leave from, I leave with something that I didn’t show up with. When I left ‘Avatar,’ I learned that my attention to detail was much, much greater than it was prior to working on the film.� With a majority of the film’s actors being of African-American descent, “Jumping the Broom� has a primary focus on a minority culture. Both actors remember what Hollywood was like for a minority actor. “When I moved to L.A. in 2001, it was the year when the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton were having talks with different studios and television networks about the lack of minorities on their channels and television shows,� Alonso said. “You see now, Lawrence Fishburne heading his own show, Forest Whitaker heading his own show, and Terrence Howard
heading his own show. So, times have significantly changed in the positive for African-Americans and minorities in general in television.� Patton claims that after reading the script for “Jumping the Broom,� she ‘thought it was a wonderful, romantic comedy.’ The actress relays what she thinks is important about the movie. “What’s great about this film is that we’re not making judgment on anybody,� Patton said. “We’re just trying to say that we are all flawed, but our goal should be to strive to be better people.� Alonso, who was prone to liking movies like “Boomerang� and “Coming to America,� when he was a kid, claims that those type of films are what inspired him to join the cast of “Jumping the Broom.� “As guys, we like the action film. We like to always talk about the real macho blockbuster, shoot ‘em up movies, but the movies that stand
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Actors Paula Patton, Laz Alonso and Dallas Pastor, Bishop T.D. Jakes star in ‘Jumping the Broom.’
out in my head were the romantic comedies,� Alonso said. “Those films that are forever classics, those are the ones that inspired me as a kid and brought my family together to watch
a movie that made us laugh and cry and believe in love.� “Jumping the Broom� opens in theatres nationwide May 6.
THEATER
‘EASTER’: poignant play By LAUREN SMART A&E Editor lsmart@smu.edu
There is an appropriate stiffness to John Arnone’s white set that has taken over the Undermain Theatre’s basement stage for the current production of “Easter.� One of August Strindberg’s lesser produced plays, this solemn adaptation, by Michael Myer, captures the haunting formalities present in the themes of betrayal, suffering and mercy. This timely production (opening just one week before Easter) is the story of the Heyst family, still paying for the sins of their imprisoned father. Elis (David Goodwin) the stalwart son, is engaged to marry Kristina (Shannon Kearns-Simmons), whom he is unsure he can trust. But then again, who can you trust
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in this world of criminals? The line between desolate reality and unwarranted anxiety is blurred, as Director Katherine Owens allows the family’s distorted, guilty psyche to play out in the seen omnipresence of the characters. Arnone’s set is made of white, translucent screens through which we can see Fru Heyst (Laura Jorgenson) as she works in the kitchen and upon which the shadow of Lindquist (Bruce DuBose), the family’s creditor is shown when Elis speaks of him. It is this amalgamation of all the production elements that make this play an interesting, astute mounting of Strindberg. When Elis’ young sister Eleonara, in a poetic performance by Booker T. Washington student Fiona Robberson, arrives home from the insane asylum in a surprisingly calm state, a sense of dread
overwhelms the play. Will she revert to her mental illness? Is she truly better? Add these questions to the already troublesome relationship of Kristina and Elis, the crime the family has inherited, plus Fru Heyst’s inability to confront the issues and the atmosphere is suffocating. When DuBose arrives on the scene as the ‘ogre’ of a man Lindquist, Goodwin allows his pride and his pathos to collide, making the climax that much more moving. The acting in this play is exceptional, from Dan Schmoker’s adorable portrayal of Elis’ student Benjamin to Jorgenson’s fretful, yet tender Fru Heyst. Owens’ has crafted a play that allows the somber atmosphere to fully seep in, giving the conclusion that much more power. “Easter� runs through May 14. Visit undermain.org for more information.