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VIENNA— An Austrian court ruled against a U.S. extradition request for a Ukrainian oligarch suspected of paying millions of dollars in bribes to Indian officials Thursday.

BANGUI, Central African Republic— Residents of a squalid refugee camp said Thursday that French soldiers tasked with protecting civilians had sexually abused boys as young as 9 years old.

National BALTIMORE— The refusal of authorities to provide information about the Freddie Gray investigation may be legally appropriate, but many people were finding it hard to be patient when police nothing about the criminal investigation.

LOUISVILLE, Ky.— A first-grader and his brother in kindergarten took two handguns, one of them loaded, on a bus to an elementary school after apparently thinking they were toys. No one was hurt and the firearms were seized.

Texas WEATHERFORD— A North Texas teen has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for fatally shooting his mother and younger sister at their home in 2012. The Weatherford Democrat reports 19-year-old Jake Evans pleaded guilty to two murder counts Thursday in state district court in Weatherford for killing 48-year-old Jami Evans and 15-year-old Mallory Evans in October 2012.

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Krishna Devi Khadka is carried on a stretcher after being rescued from a building that collapsed in Saturday’s earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 30, 2015.

Bringing aid home

SMU student veteran returns to Nepal Jesse Carr Contributing Writer jcarr@smu.edu It was around 3 a.m. when Namita KC’s door burst open as her sister ran screaming into her room. “Namita Namita wake up, there’s been an earthquake,” she said. Namita stumbled into the living room April 25 and quickly turned on the news. The headline read, “7.9 magnitude earthquake hits Nepal.”

“I felt helpless,” Namita said, “We tried calling our parents but could not get a hold of them.”

Namita was born in Bhaktapur, Nepal, just ten miles from the capital city Kathmandu. Initial reports put the death toll in the hundreds, but just four

days after the earthquake the death toll is reported at over 5,000. Tuesday, Nepal’s Prime Minister Sushil Koirala told Reuters that the death toll could rise to 10,000.

An estimated 8 million people have been affected by the quake.

On May 16, Namita will be returning home with her sister Nicky. Their goal is to raise $10,000 in aid to take with them through an account they set up at www. gofundme.com/bhaktapuroutskirts.

Namita came to America in hopes of being a doctor. But after two years of studying at Southern Arkansas Unversity in Magnolia, Arkansas she lost interest in the medical field and joined the Army.

She spent four years in the Army as a logistics specialist, and is now pursuing a bachelor’s degree in accounting at SMU.

As reports of the quake were coming in Namita and her sister tried contacting their parents but to no avail. “We hurriedly tried calling our parents but could not get hold of them, we tried a couple of our relatives and friends but none of them responded. So I put a status on Facebook urging them to contact me if they can,” Namita said.

After six long hours they finally received a phone call from their dad assuring them that everyone was safe and okay. However, terror would strike once more.

“There were more than 90 big and small shocks after the major one. The second shock was about 6.7 on the Richter scale which frightened us all again, and that was almost repetitive of the same scenario, us trying to get hold of them

Headshot of Namita KC.

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education

Longest teaching professor at SMU leads 60-year legacy Genevieve Edgell Contributing Writer gedgell@smu.edu Back in the fall of 1955, SMU’s campus was nearly half its size and cars with names like Buick Skylark had no trouble finding a parking space.

Students buzzed about the new Umphrey Lee Student Center that was set to open in the spring with its gigantic ballroom and

exterior architecture set in SMU’s iconic Georgian theme.

That fall also marked the arrival of a young piano professor, Alfred Mouledous.

Today, the professor has been here longer than any other teacher on campus.

Mouledous, now 86, is teaching in the basement of Meadows, where his door is covered with comic strips, personal notes and newspaper clippings accumulated over the past six decades.

“I think the main things in his life are music, fishing and his shelties,” said Mary Anna Salo, a first-year masters student studying piano performance under Mouledous.

When he isn’t teaching one-on-one lessons, he’s fishing at Lake Ray Hubbard.

Known as an outdoorsman to his friends on campus, Mouledous is known as the professor at the lake.

To the rest of the world, Mouledous is a

highly respected musician and his students come from all over the world to learn from the talented pianist and former member of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

“I don’t know any artist in the world, at any level, that knows their repertoire or that has better ears than he has,” said Samuel S. Holland, Dean of Meadows School of the Arts and a fellow piano professor.

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FOOD

FRIDAY n MAY 1, 2015 fe ature

Kate Weiser Chocolate’s sweet story of success

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Kate Weiser in her namesake shop.

katie miller Contributing Writer kemiller@smu.edu She drove down the highway, her Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder packed to the brim with her belongings, her bed comforter getting sucked through the hole in the soft top she called the vortex after someone cut it two years ago to break into her car.

This is how Kate Weiser made the move from her hometown in Kansas to Dallas in 2009 to be with her now-husband, a move that required her to leave her beloved pastry chef job for the unknown job scene of Dallas.

Fast forward to today and the San Francisco, California Culinary Academy graduate gets out of her baby blue Mini Cooper at Trinity Groves on a rainy Friday morning, her arms clutching Whole Foods bags that contain ingredients for the day’s ice cream recipe testing.

She fumbles for her keys as she approaches the back entrance to her Kate Weiser Chocolate shop.

“When I first opened I lost my voice for three weeks. I felt

like an over stimulated baby,” Weiser said.

The rapid success of Weiser and her shop, which opened in August 2014, is palpable yet she admits she has “tunnel vision” on the matter, focusing on one day and one obstacle at a time.

When she moved to Dallas, Weiser bounced around from cheese shop to pastry chef position at Nobu until she stumbled upon Chocolate Secrets in Highland Park that was, at that time, looking for a new head chocolatier.

“I had no idea what I was doing,” the chef said, who admits that at 10 years old, she baked her way through an entire dessert cookbook.

After several months of working at Chocolate Secrets and teaching herself the technique involved with creating chocolates, she received a review online that detailed how terrible her chocolates were.

“It was the best thing that ever happened to me,” Weiser said, admitting that she cried a little before returning to the

kitchen. The review forced the novice chocolatier to take her job seriously.

Weiser said she spent a whole year tearing apart everything she was doing and refocusing on her technique in order to make chocolate that other chocolatiers would enjoy.

“Now when something goes wrong I know exactly what happened because I’ve made that mistake before,” she said.

The levelheaded chef stays humble and frugal, remembering her days driving with an umbrella poking out of the vortex of her Spyder in an attempt to stay dry.

“You can’t throw money at things. It’s always good to start with nothing because A. you appreciate it more and B. when something breaks you know how to fix it,” Weiser said.

As each bonbon or candy bar is popped out of its painted mold to reveal a chocolate that should really be considered art, the excess chocolate is re-melted down to be used again.

Weiser says the reason for

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All chocolates are unique flavors and surprising textures.

naming the shop after herself is that the chocolates she creates are art and artwork is always recognized by the artist’s name.

This move also follows in the famous footsteps of her idol, Jacques Torres, who started his career in pastry, much like Weiser, and went on to open his own chocolate shop, Jacques Torres Chocolate in 2000.

Weiser’s art project for this Friday morning was ice cream, a seasonal delicacy at Kate Weiser Chocolate.

“We’re going to make an un-godly amount of ice cream today. That’s what’s going to happen,” Weiser said jokingly to her staff as they arrived.

As Weiser and her assistant chef, Jessica Stampley, discuss the goals for the day, Stampley pulls out a sheet tray of cookie crumble she had been working on the night before. Together the two taste Stampley’s work and decide they need to add more cayenne pepper.

Stampley said that Weiser and herself have very similar ideas when it comes to food

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but they each have different perspectives on how to a achieve each culinary idea.

Throughout the ice creamfilled day, Weiser gives Stampley culinary free reign of the kitchen while she heads to the bank, stops at the store to get such opposites as woodchips and mascarpone, gets dinner with her husband, and returns with a smile and a “do I have something in my teeth?” as she begins greeting her evening crowd.

She stands poised behind the glass half wall of the open kitchen, as she has done nearly everyday since opening, as customers gather to watch her black gloved hands roll gold cocoa butter around chocolate caramel truffles, an action that leaves each chocolate looking more like a work of art.

“It’s hard for me to keep it simple,” Weiser said of her elaborate hand painted chocolates that range in flavors from key lime to mango habanero to sweet potato.

“This stuff is the reason I work here,” front of house staff

and SMU Meadows graduate, Josh Kumler said, pointing to Weiser’s bacon toffee.

“I love texture. I love crunch,” Weiser said, crediting her love of texture, especially fruit and nut combinations, to eating too many peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as a child.

Her unexpectedly delicious flavor combinations originate from her beliefs in good recipes having a balance of acidity, saltiness, and sweetness.

As customers realize that the small blonde transitioning from kitchen to register in her white chef coat is Kate Weiser they seem shocked. This is how Weiser has branded herself.

Weiser believes that, “perception is everything.

Perception is reality,” and has successfully created a chocolate shop from nothing that plays on people’s perceptions, a chocolate shop that showcases the chocolate as art and the chocolatier as an artist.

“I think people think I’m cooler than I am because my face is on the wall,” Weiser said.

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FRIDAY n MAY 1, 2015 NEPAL Continued from page 1

desperately,” said Namita.

It will be an emotional journey for Namita and Nicky to make, however they are eager to return home with aid.

“I felt helpless not being able to do anything besides making a few donations,” Namita said.

Namita will be in Nepal for two weeks while Nicky will remain there a month. They plan on using whatever funds they raise to assist the areas hit the hardest, and Namita will continue to raise money when she returns to the U.S. Namita KC dreamed of being a doctor. She dreamed of helping others and saving lives. Now utilizing skills she learned in the Army she will be helping those she cares for most – her friends and family.

religion

Catholic priest is a father to the SMU community nathan baldwin Contributing Writer nbaldwin@smu.edu The Rev. Arthur Unachukwu, the Chaplain and Director of the SMU Catholic Campus Ministry, received a call this year from a former student who had already graduated and moved away.

“The student said, ‘I have this boyfriend. And if you like him, then I will keep dating him,’ as if I was her father,” Unachukwu said.

Conversations like these make Unachukwu not just a Catholic priest to the SMU community, but also a father figure to many of the individual students to whom he ministers.

“I become a father to these students,” Unachukwu said.

Catholics are the largest religious group on the SMU campus. The university reported in 2013 that 26 percent of students who identified a religious preference are Catholic. Sixteen percent are Methodist, 40 percent represent other Protestant denominations and 18 percent are from other religions.

Unachukwu leads masses throughout the week at Perkins Chapel and the Neuhoff Catholic Community Student Center. He also provides the Catholic sacraments to students who desire them.

His office is inside the Catholic Center at the corner of University Boulevard and Airline Road. The bulk of his time, however, is spent meeting informally with students. Sophomore engineering management major Marisa Rosa can recall countless times when Unachukwu has stopped his work during the day to invest in the lives of the students in the Catholic Center.

He reached out to sophomore engineering management major Marisa Rosa, who came to SMU with uncertainty about how her faith would transition to college life.

“He will come downstairs where all the students are and he’ll say, ‘Hello, how are you doing? What’s your life like? How can I pray for you?’” Rosa said.

“As a freshman, I didn’t know what my faith was going to look like coming from high school to college,” Rosa said. “He really helped direct me and lead me to where I needed to be.”

The Rev. Dr. Stephen Rankin, the chaplain to the university, has worked alongside Unachukwu as the Office of the Chaplain oversees all campus ministries. Rankin has seen Unachukwu’s passion for the mission that he’s set for SMU. “He is deeply committed to the Christian faith and to his mission as a priest,” Rankin said.

Unachukwu came to SMU before the fall semester of 2013 after being the parochial vicar at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church in McKinney, Texas, but his journey to the Hilltop started much farther away.

He was born in Nigeria and had a dream of coming to the U.S. for his college education. He heard great things from friends and priests about Franciscan University in Ohio. There he found his calling to the priesthood.

“When I was there I found the desire to serve

and to give back,” he said.

Unachukwu then went to Holy Trinity Seminary in Irving, Texas, and St. Mary’s Seminary in Houston, where he graduated in 2011. He returned to Dallas where his mother’s family lives, and became ordained in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas. His first assignment from the bishop was at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church, where he worked primarily with the youth. But 18 months later the bishop reassigned him to SMU, where a new set of challenges awaited him.

“At first I didn’t know what to expect, but I can tell you this is probably one of the most joyful things I’ve done in my life,” Unachukwu said.

Associate Chaplain to the University, Judy Henneberger, noticed right away that Unachukwu came to SMU with a mission.

“Every priest comes with his own unique view,” Henneberger said. “When father Arthur came, that missionary zeal is one of the gifts he brought to this place.”

Unachukwu explained that this mission for the SMU community includes bringing hospitality, forming servant leaders and helping students know Jesus.

To him, hospitality means that the Catholic ministry will welcome anyone with open arms.

“When somebody comes through this door, they are a person and you are the one to embrace them and receive them just as Christ would,” Unachukwu said. Following this idea and being an example for others are characteristics that Unachukwu sees in servant leaders.

“Those who will lead in the community, will lead by their example and not so much by their might,” Unachukwu said.

But Unachukwu emphasized that these first two aspects of his mission cannot be done without students knowing Jesus.

“You really can’t make a community welcoming and loving, and you can’t make servant leaders on their own,” Unachukwu said. “You have to have a principle and foundation, and that is Jesus Christ.”

Unachukwu believes that Catholics representing the largest religious group at SMU is “a great accolade,” but it does not mean that number of students are involved in the ministry.

Unachukwu feels a responsibility specifically to these students who are not active in the Catholic ministry. He said that responsibility is “by reaching out to them and taking what we have here to them on campus so that they will be a part of this mission as well.”

He doesn’t limit his outreach to just Catholics.

Unachukwu loves talking to people, no matter their background.

“Catholic or not, Christian, atheist or whatever, I think that he is so willing to listen to anything that you have to say,” Rosa said.

Unachukwu wants to provide a place for all students to feel compassion and seek knowledge of Christianity.

“We welcome everybody who needs love and anyone who wants to know Jesus Christ,” Unachukwu said. “The door is open. Come on in.”

technology

SMU at the forefront of cyber security education josh yonis Contributing Writer jyonis@smu.edu It was Monday, Feb. 23, and the snow-covered campus was quiet as students and faculty remained at home. A blast of winter weather left students and staff with the day off. As a few faculty members from the SMU Office of Information Technology worked from home, an unknown cyber attacker was executing one of the most advanced phishing campaigns that they had ever seen.

The attacker was likely trying to acquire sensitive information from any of the 15,000 students and faculty in the SMU databases. Despite the limited number of faculty keeping an eye on the system during the snow day, campus security experts quickly handled the attack.

“Instances like that definitely make you aware that you are in the crosshairs of somebody who is waiting for you to slip up,” Information Security Officer George Finney said.

The phishing campaign in February is just one of about 50 million attacks targeted at SMU in the last 12 months. That doesn’t include the additional 30 to 40 million spam and phishing emails blocked per month. However, some attacks are sophisticated enough to slip through the cracks, resulting in about 100 compromised student and faculty accounts per year.

Unlike larger corporations, SMU’s Office

of Information Technology does not have the technology to identify the cyber attackers or learn what exactly they’re after. They only know when they block an attempted attack. Finney said that there is a spectrum of attackers, ranging from cyber activists, who are only looking to make a statement, to organized criminals, who are attempting to steal intellectual property. According to cyber security experts and media reports, the attackers on the higher level of that spectrum are after information such as Social Security numbers and other information that could be used towards identity theft, patents and classified research.

Cyber vulnerability is not limited to just college campuses. Senior White House officials announced April 25 that President Barack Obama’s email was hacked in a 2014 breach of the White House’s unclassified computer system.

“It’s shocking,” sophomore computer science major Erik Gabrielsen said. “It makes having a cyber security program more important, and creates more awareness.”

SMU is a big target for cyber attackers because it holds the personal information of approximately 15,000 students, faculty, and staff, and operates as a high-performance computing center with loads of data running through the pipes.

“You have to run to stand still, and sprint to get ahead,” Finney said.

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Holland calls Mouledous the grandfather or grandteacher of Dallas’s piano teachers since the professor is responsible for instructing generations of pianists.

However, with such a reputation both in Dallas and on campus, Mouledous remains humble.

“He doesn’t have an ego and with the training and skill set he has, you can say he’d be totally justified and that is mind blowing. He is really something else,” said Salo.

Students call Moueldous’ teaching approach exceptionally empowering and that is what sets him apart from other piano professors, that and his old school communication style. He doesn’t use email and he can be reached by leaving notes on his office door and by calling his home’s landline.

This doesn’t keep him from staying involved with his students. Calling him a sweetheart, Salo said Mouledous is always available for his students, even offering lessons during holiday breaks and over the summer.

Holland and Gillian Perry, another student of Mouledous, both agree that Mouledous takes a different approach with his students than most musical professors.

Perry, a first-year undergraduate studying music composition, said that the professor’s enthusiasm for the music and his students makes her want to do better for him, not just herself. Perry said it is different with other professors who yell or get upset during lessons.

It is very common for music teachers to tear down their students in order to build them back up, Holland said.

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“Most artistic teachers think it’s important they do that because unless they’re strong enough to survive, they’re not going to make it,” Holland said. “But Mouledous’ not that way, his approach is one of helping people be the best they can be.”

Mouledous’ own career began at the Eastman School of Music in New York. He later studied in Paris as a Fulbright Scholar and under the legendary Walter Giesenking in Saarbrücken, Germany.

It was at Giesenking’s master classes that Mouledous met his good friend and fellow SMU piano professor, Joaquin Achúcarro who still travels internationally to perform piano.

“In Saarbrücken, sometimes we would stay in a hostel and of the seven people in the room, asleep, two were awake talking about piano,” Achúcarro said.

Referring to themselves as piano addicts, Achúcarro talks about Mouledous as a dreamer.

Achúcarro said many of the people they met while studying piano didn’t make it like himself and Moueldous. Achúcarro said Moueldous, however, made it – having played with renowned conductors and in big orchestras.

Salo said she was amazed when she discovered Mouledous’ past with the legendary Giesenking. The direct connection to the legendary pianist makes her feel like Mouledous is pulling straight from the past during their lessons.

Mouledous remains a highly talented pianist who keeps his students on their toes… or fingers.

“I think its because he knows the material so well and he might also forget that we students aren’t quite as brilliant as he is,” Salo said.

How much longer does Mouledous plan to teach?

“Well another sixty years, I expect,” the professor said.

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Members of the School of Music at SMU pose for the 1961 Rotunda Yearbook. Alfred Mouledous is the first person on the left in the bottom row.

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OPINION

FRIDAY n MAY 1, 2015

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Protestors marching through downtown Baltimore calling for swift justice in the case of Freddie Gray.

Misinterpretations of the recent Baltimore protests Here we are, yet again, discussing race relations in the United States due to another life unjustifiably being taken away at the hands of the police. Here we are, yet again, seeing cops walk free (or at worst receive a slap on the wrist – paid leave or desk duty) from situations that would leave any other citizen in prison.

This is the same force of people that leaves one demographic feeling protected in their presence, while the other demographic feels threatened.

When will it end? It seems like every other day, a police officer, security guard, or self-appointed protector of who-knows-what is killing an unarmed black person.

These crimes committed by the police are then swept under the rug when officers recite the same script consisting of, “I saw them reach for something” or “I thought I saw a weapon” or “something was pointing at me” or “I was threatened”.

After all the crime is committed, some citizens will STILL defend them saying, “Cops are human, too!”

While this sentiment could be argued, this one can’t: cops have chosen an occupation where they should be held in a higher position of scrutiny in respect to the law. At all times.

Mainstream media has painted a certain image of Baltimore by looping the same clips of a handful of looters and vandals.

Isn’t it great that the media now has a scapegoat to shift their attention away from the real issue at hand – decades of systemic oppression? Isn’t it great that white people, the same people who transformed the peaceful protests into riots by taunting the protesters and calling them racial slurs, now have another way to veil their closet racism?

By referring to black people that are filled with justifiable anger as animals and “thugs” (2015’s rendition of the N-word) because they took down their local CVS. When Fox News interviewed Baltimore Councilman Nick Mosby, he tried to speak on the larger issue at hand, but all Fox News could focus on was a liquor store being looted. The demonstrators have been told to remain calm, act rational.

Where were these remarks when riots due to sporting events – events with no truly life altering effects – have taken place?

Peaceful protests are meant to win over sympathy from privileged members of society in hopes that they will help, because they are the only ones who can help.

But what do you do when the privileged refuse to help? The only option is to try taking down the same systems that have continually oppressed you throughout history: the political, economic, legal, real estate systems, and so on.

Why should these people remain peaceful in wake of the police’s complete abandonment of all thoughts

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jay Chary Contributing Writer

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related to peace? Things can be replaced, lives cannot.

People have been praising the “Hero Mom”, Toya Graham, for the videos that have surfaced of her disciplining her child for participating in the protests.

That is where everyone closed the case. A meager attempt to justify the anger about the riots with no recognition of why they are rioting. She has come out and spoken on the video, and she herself has said that she does not want her son to end up like Freddie Gray.

The video that so many people are praising her for is really a video of a black mom’s sheer terror of her son becoming yet another statistic on police violence against black people and adamancy to protect him at all costs. Not because she’s upset about their local CVS, too. THIS is where you close the case.

There are other people trying to disenfranchise the rationale of the protests by bringing up Gray’s arrest record. There are certainly SMU students with arrest records ranging from public intoxication to possession of drug paraphernalia to driving under the influence.

If one of these students with a history of arrests were shot and killed by the police or taken into police custody and had their spine broken, thus causing their death, how different do you think this conversation would be?

Finally, it is necessary to directly address a point made in the original writing: “It doesn’t take being a black man to understand the emotions that these protesters – violent or otherwise – are feeling; it only takes being a human.”

Actually, it does.

No one, unless they are a black person in the United States, will completely understand the emotions that are possessed by these protesters. This statement completely undermines every bit of struggle and strife that this group of people has had to undergo throughout the course of their lives.

Yes, it is essential for non-black people to stand with them as they face this event of adversity, but do not marginalize them in regards to an issue that deals with their own race.

Chary is majoring in advertising.

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I’ve only ever known SMU. My family has a love for this school, Peruna is my only mascot, my 9-year-old sister is a future Mustang and I bleed red and blue (lol literally). When I transferred in my sophomore year, I was ecstatic to form my own memories and make my own way at the best school on earth.

And it seems these years have flown by way too quickly. It’s already time for graduation, and I’m not sure what I’m feeling.

What happens when we graduate from this amazing place we have called home for the past couple of years? How do we deal with some of our best friends not being next door or our roommates five minutes away? And how in the world am I supposed to be an adult when I’m not ready to leave this bubble I’ve made my home?

Southern Methodist University has given me countless opportunities to grow as a student and human being. In what other world would a 21-year-old be trusted and put in charge of planning a concert?

Or be in charge of a newspaper or news show? Or raise thousands of dollars for cancer? Or experience Selma on the 50th anniversary?

Or have the time of my life doing

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study abroad?

Sometimes, we get wrapped up in the stress of school and projects and finals that we forget how blessed we are to not only receive an education, but receive an education where our educators believe in all of our potential.

This school is something special, and I know everyone says that about their school, but SMU definitely is different.

It brings leaders and overachievers together in this setting where amazing professors change and challenge the way you think and guide you to be the best you can be. They form us into good, active citizens who are aware of issues, and literally make us into world changers. They reassure you that you are succeeding (or failing) and make sure to remind you that this is only temporary, your stress

is only temporary, your time here is only temporary and nothing is permanent.

Although I am dwelling on change that is bound to happen, I am forever indebted to this place that has shaped and formed me into who I am today.

The place that has blessed me with a world-class education (literally), friends who are my family and my heart, made me a better journalist, a traveler, and a stronger, better, more aware human being.

It’s kind of crazy that this amazing place will no longer be my every day life in just a short amount of time. My friends and I will have careers in different cities and we’ll meet up for dinner when one of us is in town, but we won’t be right down the street. We’ll be moving onto a new chapter in this book of our lives, and things will continue to change.

Sometimes, it’s good to go away from something you’ve known your whole life. But it’s hard to leave something that’s blessed you so much.

Esaili is majoring in journalism and minoring in human rights.

boxing

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Floyd Mayweather Jr., left, and Manny Pacquiao pose with a WBC belt during a press conference.

Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, why the match will go to the American After five years of waiting, the world will finally see Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao square off at the MGM Garden Arena in Las Vegas. A contest that many dub the “Fight of the Century” will air May 2 and only one thing is certain: both boxers are earning millions after the bout.

With a pot of $250 million, the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight is one of the most anticipated clashes in sports history.

A Filipino world champion professional boxer coming in with a 57 wins 5 losses 2 draws and 38 knockouts, Pacquiao bursts in to the ring with a southpaw style that exploits odd angles and relentless offense.

The undefeated American professional career with ten world titles coming in at a 47-0 record, Mayweather’s orthodox style and quick ducking and weaving earned him a spot next to boxing’s greatest.

Mayweather and Pacquiao represent the greatest fighters in their respective styles. And while boxing enthusiasts are split between the two, polls and bids place Pacquiao as an underdog.

But don’t be eager in rooting for Mayweather because last time people called Pacquiao the underdog was against Oscar De La Hoya. A towering 4 inches taller than Pacquiao, De La Hoya much like many watching expected the Olympic gold medalist to absolutely pummel “the little guy.” There was a pummeling, but it was Pacquiao who unleashed a fury of punches against De La Hoya and eventually won the match.

If the victory over De La Hoya

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doesn’t prove his fearlessness in the ring, Pacquiao’s destructive performance against Chris Algieri will make you a believer. Algieri came into the fight having won all 20 of his professional matches – sound familiar? Yet Pacquiao showed no mercy in bringing the American kick boxer down.

“I can say he’s a difficult opponent but I’m comfortable and confident. My killer instinct is back.

I’m different from the 47 opponents he’s fought before. I’m faster than any of them. He will experience his first loss,” said Manny Pacquiao on Mayweather.

Mayweather is one of the smartest and most tactical boxers of our time. His undefeated record occurred not due to luck or chance, but because Mayweather boxes like playing chess: waiting for the right time and opening to strike.

Match after match, Mayweather completely dismantles his opponents. In any game you can see how clever and clear-headed Mayweather crushes the boxers he faces.

Pacquiao’s southpaw style is nothing new to the orthodox boxer. Mayweather also faced and thrashed 8 boxers who fought with

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a southpaw style.

Mayweather said, “I’ve always got the remedy to solve the problem and come out on top. I don’t know if he can make adjustments.

I’ve always been able to make adjustments.”

ESPN’s Igor Guryashkin praises that Mayweather is the most accurate puncher in boxing.

Armed with five more inches of reach, Mayweather forces Pacquiao to fight in close quarters then sneak his famous and accurate punches into the bout.

Mayweather vs. Pacquiao is boxing’s visual representation of what happens when a unstoppable force meets an immovable object.

Mayweather’s record proves his versatility in the ring and ability to adapt to an opponent’s style midfight. But Pacquiao’s unorthodox southpaw and unforgiving punches may be enough to have a step on his opponent.

Numerous questions circle in the ring. Can the American weather the Filipino’s barrages? Can the underdog pack a punch against the hardened, undefeated boxer? Both contenders are deadly fighters and both have something to prove.

There’s only one way to find out who will come out as victorious and who will be the boxer that was.

No matter what the outcome, both fighters walk away richer with what most people only dream of earning in their entire lifetime.

It’ll certainly be a close fight, but my money’s on Floyd Mayweather Jr., the undefeated, five-division world champion.

Chong is majoring in finance and economics.

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Friday NBA – Game six between Atlanta Hawks and Brooklyn Nets.

MLS – FC Dallas squares off against Houston Dynamo on the first of three games in this years Texas Derby- the battle for El Capitan.

MLB – The Texas Rangers will begin a three game series with division Oakland Athletics.

NFL– Day two of the NFL Draft.

Saturday NFL– Day three of the NFL Draft.

Girls on the Field: How Ultimate Frisbee is Challenging Athletic Gender Divisions Hannah Brimelow Contributing Sports Writer hbrimelow@mail.smu.edu On bright green grass and under the perfect Texas blue sky, 20 collegians charge from end-zone to end-zone, stopping to throw a plastic Frisbee to open teammates.

Six minutes into the second half, the field echoes with the pounding of feet and excited yells of commands and names.

Suddenly, a different voice crashes through and all the players lurch to a stop.

“Back up!

No way!

No!” Annzi Christie, the only female player on the field, squares off against a 6 foot 2 inch player from the opposing team.

Her long, black ponytail ripples backward with each shake of her head and her lean muscles flex as she defends her space.

The rules of the game dictate that the players, rather than referees, must call their own fouls, turnovers or

out-of-bound plays.

As she squares her petite frame against the young man’s, the men applaud her tenacity and adamancy while the SMU coach nods his approval from the sideline.

Within a few minutes the opposing player takes a few grudging steps backward, increasing the distance between him and Christie to what she deems acceptable.

Just as quickly as she paused, Christie recommences the game with a quick flick of her wrist that sends the disc into the open arms of her SMU teammate in the end-zone.

Christie is just one of many women who play Ultimate Frisbee in college, local and national leagues.

According to The New York Times, Ultimate Frisbee has become one of the fastest growing sports in the world in the past 10 years and women’s participation was crucial to its development in over 42 countries.

USA Ultimate, the association

that governs the sport, reports a 163 percent increase in members since 2003.

An estimated 30,000 people, of both genders, play for USA Ultimate leagues each year.

“While there are significantly fewer female players than male players, most people who play say that the community aspect of Ultimate is a large part of why they play,” said Peri Kurshan, the president of the association’s board of directors.

SMU’s team, like most college teams, is co-ed.

Traditionally, men and women’s sports have been divided based of the physical differences between the genders.

Men are bigger, stronger and more aggressive, thanks to the seven to eight times more testosterone they naturally have.

Women’s sports are expected to be played with minimal physical contact and frequently, like softball for example, have modified equipment and field sizes to accommodate the feminine body.

“It’s one of the few sports whose top tier of play makes no distinction between the two gender divisions. The men’s and women’s divisions are showcased equally in all U.P.A. championship events,” said Kursham.

Ultimate Frisbee centers on the transfer of the disc from players on the same team into an end-zone.

In two, 20 minute halves, the players stretch, jump and grab at the disc as it sails through the air.

The teams, each of which is allowed to have seven players on the field at a time, are quick to swap off their offensive and defensives line at each turnover.

The dynamic between the players is essential to success of the team, according to Clay Moore, a senior member of the SMU club Ultimate Frisbee team, also known as EVO. “It has to do with how your team works,” said Moore. “If you don’t have good team chemistry, you don’t have a good team. It is as simple as that. You can have

the best players, but if you are unable to build off each other and rely on each other, then you can’t move the disc [to the endzone] that well.”

Moore said that because there is not a specific body type for the sport, anyone can play and be successful.

“Being 6-foot 4-inches and 215-pounds, I am just as likely to play the sport as my 5-foot 3-inch, 110-pound teammate,” Moore said.

This unique attraction fosters a sense of pride in younger female players, like Emma Hulbert, a high school sophomore who visited the SMU campus from Chapel Hill, N. C. “The Ultimate team at my high school is co-ed and I’m just as good as the really sporty guys,” Hulbert said. “I wouldn’t be happy on an all-girl team because I might not be as challenged.

That’s what I like about the sport. It doesn’t matter that I’m a girl. It just matters that I throw hard and make good plays with the rest of my team.”

Top Ten

MLB – The Texas Rangers will play game two of a three game series with division Oakland Athletics.

Women’s Track and Field– The Mustangs head to Austin to participate in the Longhorn Invitational. It is their last meet of the regular season.

Boxing- The fight everyone has been waiting for: Manny Pacquiao vs Floyd Mayweather.

No. 3 Jet, Mavs Sweep the Los Angeles Lakers in 2011 This the eighth installment of a ten story series and the 3rd place finisher in The Daily Campus’ Top Ten most exciting moments in DFW sports history (since 2000).

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Demetrio Teniente Sports Editor @Demo36 When I think about it, 2011 was a fantastic year. I just graduated high school, I was (foolishly) in love, and I was about to start my journey at SMU.

Sunday MLB – TheTexas Rangers will play the last game of a three game series with division Oakland Athletics.

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Mavericks guard Jason Terry was big for Dallas in the 2011 playoffs.

But most of all, it was the year the Mavericks went on their magical playoff run. And the most satisfying moment of all (aside from the championship) was the semifinals versus the Lakers.

For years, LA and San Antonio were the most dominant teams in the West. So sweeping the Lakers was kind of symbolicpassing of the torch if you will.

And what made it even more awesome (if it’s even possible) is Jason Terry and Peja Stojakovic combining for 15 three pointers

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It was a shooting clinic, as Rick Carlisle had that offense humming- much like this season pre-Rondo.

If you were at all frustrated

by Dallas’ first round exit this season – simply look back at 2011.

It was a simpler time, Dirk wasn’t showing his age, and Jet was taking off and landing into our hearts, not on them.

Ah, to be 18, watching the playoffs again.

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“The Avengers: Age of Ultron” is the second installment in this infamous Marvel series.

‘The Avengers: Age of Ultron’ meets high expectations riley coven Arts and Entertainment Writer rcoven@smu.edu The next installment in the Marvel franchise is finally here, and it couldn’t have come sooner.

Another entry into the increasingly successful super hero saga is Joss Whedon’s “The Avengers: Age of Ultron,” the next showing in the series of intertwined films that begun all the way back in 2008 with Jon Favreau’s “Iron Man.” Since then we’ve been treated to film’s about Iron Man, Thor,

the Incredible Hulk, Captain America, and more, eventually culminating in their assembly for Joss Whedon’s “The Avengers.”

Now the sequel has been released after long awaited anticipation from comic book fanatics and casual moviegoers alike. And it was worth the wait.

The film follows our heroes as they try to track down the infamous tesseract scepter, a device with unlimited power, and in doing so, accidentally create an artificially intelligent machine, hell-bent on the destruction of

the human race. Not exactly how things were supposed to go for them. Luckily for us however, it created Ultron, the most formidable villain the Avengers have had to face yet.

With seemingly no end to his terror in sight, the evil Ultron was able to fill the theater with a sense of dread and foreboding, despite the knowledge that the Avengers would most likely succeed in the end. What hinders most super hero movies is the inability to create real fear for the characters.

Most people assume that the

leads aren’t going to be killed or hurt in any way that’s going to damage their future and this leads to a sense of complacency within the audience. Joss Whedon was able to sidestep this with smart writing and by creating dangerous situations that the Avengers genuinely struggle with. With that danger flowing throughout the film, it made the climax all the more powerful. Giving us the implication that the Avengers could actually be harmed made them vulnerable and we believed that just maybe Ultron might

actually win.

What really stood out about the film however, as always, were the performances. The cast is absolutely stacked with talent and it helps separate the film from every other super hero movie that gets made so frequently. Robert Downey Jr. was especially quick witted and sarcastically charming as Iron Man, which molded perfectly to contradict the stout and strait-laced manner of Captain America. The two kept the action moving and the dialogue strong throughout the film, just like the

first movie. It was a good bridge between the two as Whedon was able to maneuver the story with new characters as well as breach more in depth with those we were already familiar with.

When movies have enormous casts, especially with so many talented actors and actresses, it can be difficult to juggle the numbers and make sure all those on screen have ample stories and backgrounds. Whedon seems to be made to handle such a task as he does it so effortlessly, again and again.

DIGITAL

Music streaming applications take over the industry Natalia Bru Contributing Writer nbru@smu.edu Tap, slide, play. A blogger, a music professor and a student all have one thing in common– their constant need for instant music.

With today’s music streaming applications, this is possible.

“People can browse their music according to mood or what they’re doing and how it’s available on any type of technology people can listen on the go,” music blogger Isabella Roque said.

Music Apps, such as Spotify, Soundcloud and Tidal have taken over and will continue to grow as technology improves and the need for instant gratification grows. These applications allow users to listen to music on the go, as long as they have a working device with reception or Wi-Fi. Thomas Tunks, music expert and SMU professor, said that music streaming has made an impact throughout his teaching career.

“I think it’s great. I remember in historical perspective, I used to take vinyl’s to class to show examples,” Tunks said.

Music streaming apps are commonly known for allowing

users to listen to music without needing to download or pay for the work. Spotify is known for its ability to stream artists’ music, make playlists and browse public playlists based on one’s mood.

Spotify is also one of the most downloaded apps in the music streaming market. Other apps such as SoundCloud, Pandora and Tidal do not have as many options for streaming.

“With Spotify, anyone and everyone can listen. It’s so easy,” Tunks said. “It’s incredibly convenient and effective. Five bucks a month rather than $140 for a textbook? Streaming has revolutionized how I teach.”

Tunks relies heavily on apps like Spotify to teach his class, The Art of Listening, for homework assignments and for demonstrations to show different orchestral themes and variations of various pieces.

Like Tunks, music bloggers rely on these streaming applications to showcase their recent playlists and content on their websites.

Roque is also Staywired.org’s founder. She explained that music streaming was her way of getting hooked onto an artist before supporting them and maybe seeing them later on in concert.

“With programs like Spotify, it pays artists and it becomes easier for the smaller artists to get exposed without having to go through CD release,” Roque said.

Recently, Jay-Z launched the newest streaming application, Tidal. Tidal was supposed to be a break through streaming service, providing artists with 75 perent of the money generated through the application. Jay-Z had support for the application with huge artists such as Kanye West, Chris Martin from Coldplay, Madonna and Pharell Williams.

When the service was finally up for use on the market, Jay-Z was shocked to see the outcome.

Statistics from Business Insider show that the app was at No. 664 on the charts, in comparison to Spotify’s hot spot at No. 17.

Users biggest problem with Tidal was the price, as users pay over $20 a month for a service that has all the basics Spotify has. Spotify has a special student discount that allows users to pay $5 a month for premium quality, commercial free music.

“I don’t like that there’s also not a free option… not everyone is as fortunate as these artists to be able to pay this fee every

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Spotify is one of the many streaming apps rising in popularity.

month. If they’re trying to make a change, it’s not helping,” Roque said.

Even for an average music enthusiast, music streaming is most ideal for those who are always changing their recently changed songs. For SMU sophomore music listener Michael Davide, music is something that keeps him focused in between his studies.

Davide made the switch over to Spotify Premium last month.

“It’s just so efficient and cheaper. It also makes your library more accessible,”

Davide said.

Most music listeners prefer streaming to downloading music, purchasing a vinyl or buying a single from iTunes.

“In order for somebody to become a fan, to like the music, you wont want to buy the CD … you need to listen by streaming by discovering the artists, fall in love, you listen to all their stuff, and that will incline the listener to buy a CD or go see them in concert,” Roque said. “By the end of the day, you will help them make money through Spotify.”

With all the features these

applications have, it leaves many wondering what’s in store for the future of music when it comes to streaming. Tunks believes music streaming will only become better in its quality as they improve glitches over time.

Roque thinks streaming will go beyond improvements.

“I think music streaming will take over,” Roque said. “Big labels in general will not be as important as they are… we start seeing that independent artists will be able to share music with their followers through these programs.”

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