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Dallas, SMU say ‘hello’ to Larry Brown BILLY EMBODY Contributing Writer bembody@smu.edu SMU’s new men’s basketball coach Larry Brown was introduced today with more than 200 people in attendance in front of Moody Coliseum. The Hall of Fame coach comes to SMU as the only coach to win both an NBA Championship and a NCAA title. “I just think being a college coach, you’re really a teacher and that’s something I really love to do,” Brown said about coming back to college coaching. Brown believes in what SMU has to offer with the new renovations, the campus, being in Dallas and the fertile recruiting grounds of Texas. Head football coach June Jones and Brown became texting buddies over the last month, which Brown is still
picking up how to do. Brown wants to get right into recruiting the Texas area, which SMU has neglected in previous years. “Just walking around this campus, if we can get a kid here, I can’t imagine him wanting to go anywhere else,” Brown said about recruiting players to SMU. Brown’s contract is rumored to be a five-year deal at $1.75 million a year, but terms were not officially released. Brown said after the introduction that two, maybe three of his assistants have signed their deals to be Mustangs. He feels SMU is the best combination of academics, a great city and great university that he envisioned coaching when he began his career. “I never realized at 71, that this opportunity would present itself,” Brown said. Former SMU coach Matt
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Legendary basketball coach, Larry Brown, was welcomed to the hilltop with a grand spectacle that included overhead planes.
Doherty, current Kansas coach Bill Self, ESPN analyst Fran Fraschilla and current members of the board of trustees were in attendance. SMU athletic director Steve Orsini said the process was very deliberate, but in the end
SMU got who they wanted. “It took us 71 days to get June Jones. I’ve refined the process down to 37 days and I feel we got the June Jones of basketball,” Orsini said. “We never were rejected. We made one offer and
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we got one acceptance.” Brown is eager to get to work and spoke to his players this morning with Doherty in the room about how his coach left his sophomore year in college and how tough it was. Coach Brown
plans to run an up tempo style of game with an in your face manto-man defense. The coaching staff is expected to be announced later this week Orsini said and we will have more on that when it is announced.
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Young jeweler shines at SMU with unique line CLARA LEMON Contributing Writer clemon@smu.edu
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Newly elected student body President Alex Mace swears in VP Zane Cavender and Secretary Katherine Ladner.
99th Student Senate inaugurates officers RAHFIN FARUK News Editor rfaruk@smu.edu After a tough election season, recently elected student body officers and student senators gathered in Hughes-Trigg Commons for the 99th inauguration of SMU Student Senate. Elected representatives, committee chairs and the
comptroller were sworn in. The event celebrated the achievements of this year’s Student Senate. “I thank outgoing student body officers for all their efforts,” SMU President R. Gerald Turner said. The Student Senate passed legislation this year that will improve student-university relations and the campus experience. “We accomplished incredible
feats. We rearranged library hours, will start offering free flu shots to students next year and simplified the syllabi process during registration,” Austin Prentice, the current student body president, said. Student Senate also made greater efforts to reach out to the SMU community with a town hall meeting sponsored by the student
While many students plan to get their first real jobs once they leave college, some have already started down their career path before even leaving high school. One of these ambitious students is 18-year-old Taylor Miller, a first-year student at SMU who began her own jewelry company at the age of nine, called Hazen Jewelry. Already a nationally established business, Hazen Jewelry is sold in boutiques and specialty stores worldwide.
Miller’s line is sold at such stores like For Heaven’s Sake in Snider Plaza. Miller first discovered jewelry making when she was 9 years old, and inspired by her grandmother’s costume jewelry collection, she reconstructed a pearl necklace from scratch. She enrolled in a class right away, and later that year, Hazen Jewelry was launched. Six months later, she won the Mississippi Museum of Art’s young artist of the year award after presenting her jewelry at the Oxford Floral trunk show. “She’s awesome, and one of the most stylish people I know,” Sarah Anne Guenard, a friend of Miller’s said. Miller began by handcrafting each piece of jewelry to be sold
by the company, working from home and designing and creating each collection by herself. As high school approached, she found it difficult to manage her time between school and her business. College to be no different in terms of time management. “It was extremely difficult but definitely worth it,” Miller said. Now that she is in college she plans to relocate her resources to Dallas so she can run her business while attending school. “I think Dallas will be an even greater place to run my business,” she adds. To read her blog, All That Glistens, go to www. hazenjewelry.com.
CORRECTION
An article in the April 9 edition of The Daily Campus, “SMU student panel awards $775,000 behind closed doors,” incorrectly reported two facts. The story, which reported that the Student Senate Finance Comittee holds secret meetings each year where it decides how to allocate hundreds of thousands of dollars, incorrectly stated that these meetings are held at the start of each semester. They’re actually held mid-semester. The story also incorrectly reported that students had to purchase tickets to see Gavin DeGraw in March. The tickets were free. The Daily Campus regrets these errors. However, we stand by the original story.
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